And lets not forget its reduced the useful healer setups further. No point running PoE and/or Pillager with the changes as they are after this latest patch. Leaves us with SPC/PA as the alternate to RoJo. Really wish they would bring out some more useful healer sets that were buff based and not resource regen, dps talk about stale meta, but healers have been in that position for many more patches now. And subclassing offers the least to healers of all the roles because you need to balance buffs and healing, so I don't see too many healers selecting three healing lines because that will be just useless in group content.

francesinhalover wrote: »

arcanist beam being direct dmg now does bring thoughts.

At first everyone running deadly on arcanist will have to swap to another set.

how much dmg has been lost or potential dmg?

no synergy with gravelord anymore also.

Does aoe dmg cp still affect beam? Does single target affect it now?

Also the fact it isn't dot dmg anymore means one might not slot dot cp anymore and that will nerf the dmg a bit of the other dot skills further.

Plus only hits 6 targets. Wonder if it will still be the most popular spammable, because i know there's people that don't read patch notes.

Deadly will still work, it affects channeled abilities like jabs already, AoE cp will still work. GLS and Rapid Rot no longer buff it. Probably meta to run shock banner now.