Major change to 'Shadow Power' skill

[Cevilo]

gross.. I hope they find more of an even middle than that. but the whole night stalker build seems like a valid point.

Nightstalker + Shadow power + Rapid fire? stack your crit % and crit damage. I feel a build coming on... haha

[yovargas]

The new Demon Hunter preview from ign says the Shadow Power increases attack rate. I very much hope that this is true and the skill calculator is wrong and it's not just a case of the video being out of date.

[z00t]

The new Demon Hunter preview from ign says the Shadow Power increases attack rate. I very much hope that this is true and the skill calculator is wrong and it's not just a case of the video being out of date.

I hope so too, but I suspect that what we see in the skill calc is the most up-to-date :P.

Blizzard hasn't said they have any plans for another beta patch (at least one which includes balance changes). What we see now could indeed be what we're rolling with for release. :O

[galzohar]

Yes, increased attack speed was the old version. New version giving life steal. Change makes sense, since before the change every DH build I had would be designed around spending as much discipline as possible on shadow power. And if every build I make uses a certain skill, Blizzard tend to nerf it

[MrSmith]

still i absolutely dont get it why they change it to that. before, it looked and felt coherent, cool and useful. now, it SUCKS BIG TIME. i mean WTF like every single monks skill heals more (20% of your dam.for 3 sec...wow....) as i suppose we will have around 10-50k life by doing much much less damge (maybe 5k?) this will just suck. its boring,useless and meh. really, id rather just drink a potion ^^
why was it so bad to have attack speed increased? cant they come up with something nice and useful?

[Karpalo]

AS increase was the easy way out. Discipline skills are meant to be defensive utility skills by blizzards own definition. Refresh on cooldown massive dps steroid hardly fits that idea.

Now it's pretty much same as barbarians ignore pain ability. 65% damage reduce is best rune shadow power has to offer in the new version.

[MrSmith]

Its also VERY sad that it lasts only for 3 sec.... the skill effect looks awesome imho but now only for 3 sec really sucks :(
and just lifesteal is boring as hell :( i really hoped that it would be some REAL awesome skill but no :(

[Kingu]

REAL awesome, like what for example?

[MrSmith]

idk, it looks as awesome as the skilleffect of "archon" is (but archons visuals are odd)