Summary thoughts
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top level: lots of these things are "buffs" in that the base gem is
better without an enchant but often WORSE when you had the enchant.
this doesn't apply to all builds but i anticipate "average" top end
damage going down a LITTLE while "average" qol going up significantly.

before any big "final reaction takes" we need to remember that we are
NOT seeing the transfigured gems and there is a lot of potential there.

also, quality stacking has big implications here that we're likely missing

also remember, that 20% quality gems will be rarer at league start
21/20 transfigured gems will be VERY rare for weeks after league start

QoL up, power ceiling down

Awakened Gems stonks way up, rip divergent melee splash

also, lose glove + boot + belt enchants. some of these were VERY nice to have
specifically, many top side trees NEEDED the stun avoid on boots to feel
comfortable while mapping

Lab Running significantly changed: possibly better average returns but lower high end for running high volume





Animate guardian: more life is really good, him dying is worse thing
Arc: nice buff, good qol and even better for ignite (still lower damage though)
Bane: still bad
Blade Vortex: harder to get crit, but potentially high damage ceiling
Bodyswap: possibly insane potential
Boneshatter: nicer before alternate quality, might be better overall need to pob
Burning Arrow: ignite might be playable again, probably not great though
Crackling Lance: INSANE potential
Cobra Lash: much better qol, potentially playable with ailments not sure
Decoy/Rejuv totem: Black Zenith/Flamewood probably huge buff
Detonate Dead: easier to fish for bigger ignite corpse
Divine Ire: really nice QoL buff, overall much more DPS
Elemental Weakness/Flammability: huge ignite buff
Explosive Arrow: single target buff
Immortal Call: 20% cdr really really nice...left click for lazy SC players
All warcries: build in 40% cdr huge qol buff
Lightning Conduit: potentially 52% more damage pretty sick
Lighting strike: :(
Manabond: kinda sick actually
BAMA: ROLL TIDE BOYS
Penance Brand: TLDR
Pestilent Strike: that's a lot of duration, gotta run the numbers

Zombies: GUTTED AND SENT TO ENGLAND SO SIMON PEGG COULD SHOOT THEM IN THE FACE WITH A SHOTGUN .... maybe a Siegebreaker angle?
However: Falling Zombies with Montregul's might be a thing

Reap: kind cracked, nice more damage

Righteous Fire: looks like they killed league start RF :((((( rip Pohx and Void, scaling different, clear potentially better, can't as easily scale Fire Trap for single target any longer. end game RF potentially buffed however

"20:52 void241: So I simulated RF changes in PoB. Endgame RF dps 1.8m -> 800k. Clear dps is 600k Deadge I dont think im touching that with a 2-meter stick"

Shova Nova: can get to 85% max shock with new quality...insane with LC?

Siege Ballista: lots of attack speed, might be something

Steel Skills: they really just want you to impale with them and STOP doing other things

Stormblast mines: utility increased damage taken angle might be something

Spark: lost 39% proj speed, huge low end nerf yikers

Maw of Mischief: probably kinda cracked with new 20% more life!!

Volatile Dead: someone remind me to play this

Vortex: :((((((((

Culling Strike Support: amazing mapping QoL

chieftain explodey with totem kinda cool!

Not being able to flip gems = huge GCP shakeup
Ignite huge winner overall (curse duration -> replica emberwake stonks)

Frost Blades probably got some soft hits making it rough to league start
Boneshatter still ok

Cold DoT: losing instant Vortex going to make it MUCH less enjoyable to play

EB stonks probably go up, lots of RMR nerfs

SRS VERY light nerf due to losing 38% more damage multiplier (after scaling) but nice QoL buff, build is fine!
  - low end scaling, barely nerfed at all wont tell the difference
  - high end scaling...likely look to drop unleash and effectively get MORE damage because we can use another support gem
    - also looking for more cast speed because of this as well (duration too?)
	- ashes probably pretty sick here


Frostblink Ignite: great soft buffs through curses, potentially much more damage by scaling faster ignites

Accumulator Wand & Simplex amulet looking pretty nice

Ashes is a big ????