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Adoption of Addiction-related Aspects, Tibault's & Condemnation Combo! Let's take a look at the Rogue's main keywords
Still the Twisting Blades meta, increased importance of Poison Imbuement
Tibault's Will and Condemnation combo showing powerful damage
The core meta of the Season 2 Rogue is still Twisting Blades. Depending on the build or situation, the last attribute of Twisting Blades is chosen as either 'Enhanced Twisting Blades' or 'Advanced Twisting Blades'. For reference, Enhanced Twisting Blades can gain a Daze effect, so it is used when crowd control effects are lacking, and Advanced Twisting Blades is used when cooldown reduction is needed.
Prior to the opening of the season, various patches related to unique items and skills related to the Bow Rogue were implemented, but it seems insufficient to expect as much performance as the Twisting Blades Rogue yet. However, Bow Rogues can still enjoy high-level content with settings that utilize the Vampire Powers and newly added Aspects.
The core of the Season 2 Rogue's damage dealing is to focus on poison damage. As existing major damage-related stats such as Vulnerable damage have been nerfed and the value of poison damage-related options has increased, skills and Aspects related to this are being used.
In the case of skills, the value of Poison Imbuement has become very high. Therefore, taking the popular build Twisting Blades Rogue as an example, they master Poison Imbuement along with the core skill Twisting Blades. In addition, the value of item options such as poison damage and damage reduction to poisoned enemies has also increased.
In addition to Poison Imbuement, Plaguebringer's Offensive Aspect and Blighted Aspect are also used to deal additional poison damage. Plaguebringer's Offensive Aspect has the effect of automatically imbuing poison when casting Puncture 3 times. Puncture is a basic skill that is easily selected in most Rogue builds, and can additionally obtain Vulnerable and Energy recovery effects depending on the attribute.
Blighted Aspect has the effect of creating a poison pool with a certain probability. Also, if you stand on the pool, the cooldown of Poison Imbuement is reset and the number of uses lasts infinitely. Therefore, it can be said that it is the most suitable Offensive Aspect for the current meta where Poison Imbuement has become the main skill.
There are no changes to the Rogue's main defensive Aspects. Might and Disobedience are still used as core defensive Aspects. In particular, the value of these defensive Aspects has increased this season.
This is because builds using various Unique items have been researched as Unique items have been revamped and target farming through new bosses has become possible, and defensive options that may be lacking in these settings can be supplemented with these Aspects. Therefore, farming defensive Aspects with better stats is an important season.
For offensive Aspects, those that can enhance core skills are mainly used. For example, in the case of the most popular Twisting Blades build, the Bladedancer's Aspect is selected to increase the damage of Twisting Blades.
Also, as poison damage has increased, the value of Plaguebringer's Offensive Aspect and Blighted Aspect has increased as mentioned above. For reference, since both Aspects can only be extracted from Legendary items, it is recommended to collect items with these effects well.
One notable point is that they use common Aspects of Misery and Trickshot Aspects related to crowd control effects. The Aspect of Misery has the effect of spreading to other enemies with a certain probability if an attack hits an enemy affected by crowd control. Through this, they inflict crowd control effects on more enemies and also take item options such as 'increased damage to enemies affected by crowd control status effects'.
Trickshot Aspect has the effect of making enemies Dazed (crowd control effect) with a certain probability when dealing direct damage to Vulnerable enemies. Currently, it is easy to secure Vulnerable with synergies of Vampire Powers such as 'Accursed Touch + Prey on the Weak' and the attributes of Puncture, so you can easily make a large number of enemies Dazed.
Therefore, you can naturally expect synergy with the Aspect of Misery when using Trickshot Aspect. However, if you use the Aspect of Misery without using Trickshot Aspect, you can secure a separate crowd control effect through the Daze effect of Enhanced Twisting Blades, the Daze effect of Smoke Grenade, etc.
The combination of using Tibault's Will (hereinafter Tibault) and Condemnation together is also attracting attention. After equipping the two items, you can obtain Combo Points exceeding the existing maximum of 3 points when using Combo Points as a class specialization. Since you can obtain high Combo Points, you can naturally expect higher damage.
In addition, the effect of Condemnation to obtain the maximum Combo Points with a certain probability is added, so you can acquire high Combo Points at once. It's a bug-like play, but no related patches have been implemented among users for several weeks.
However, since you use Tibault, you can only secure 'damage reduction from close enemies' as a defensive option, and the number of Aspects you can use is also reduced, so there is a disadvantage that your body becomes weaker.
Therefore, you must solve this by using defensive Aspects on other parts or using Disobedience on a necklace that can obtain Aspect bonus effects. (The best solution is to pray that Harlequin Crest will drop from Duriel.)
Before the season opened, the Vampire Power related to Ultimates, Anticipation, and the unique item Eyes in the Dark revamp showed the possibility of the Death Trap build (Death Trap build). However, about a month after the season opened, the Death Trap build is not receiving as much attention as expected.
In order to maximize the Eyes in the Dark options, you must use both Poison Trap and Death Trap, but in the current meta where Poison Imbuement is essential, there is a drawback that the composition is too tight to use all of these skills. If you compose without Poison Imbuement, the single-target damage is too weak and the Ultimate dependency is too high.
In other words, you can secure enough damage with Poison Imbuement alone, and the single-target damage is weak, and it has not been completely supplemented yet, so research has not progressed as much as expected.
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2023-11-14