I'm still upset about the creation/inclusion of Transendence.

Bouncemaster Zac·Jan 2, 2018·1 votes·272 views

The community complained for an entire season about the overabundance of CDR after item updates via class reworks, frequently stating "it's hard not to go over the CDR cap when picking an otherwise optimal build." The Gameplay/Balance team evidently interpreted that to mean "we wanna keep going over the cdr cap but we also wanna get MORE DAMAGE out of it." This is majorly symptomatic of not only the neverending damage creep, but also of the Gameplay/Balance team's years-running habit of addressing anything but the problem. This one even felt willfully malicious, saying "oh we heard what you're upset about, we just don't care." It's frustrating.

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TerchioJan 3, 20181 votes

I think it's an overblown problem, myself. If the item has high CDR, it usually has generally high utility as well. If you want high utility, you can grab Transcendence and get some power out of the overdrawn CDR, and grab an Ultimate Hat or Manaflow Band as well, depending on what suits you (one of them probably will). If you don't overdraw, you probably had a higher damage/defensive build, and can go another direction, possibly another tree.

Overall, the Sorcery tree is screaming to be power on a build focused on utility, and Inspiration somewhat follows suit. Those trees have the majority of your CC-based effects, the mobility, and the resource management. While it's possible to max on other builds, Sorcery also makes a more than adequate burst caster build with things like Scorch, Gathering Storm, and the keystones Summon Aery and Arcane Comet, and then Transcendence for agile casting while packing a punch. Juggs are possible to max with item 3071 or item 3078 , but generally build damage and speed with maybe 1-2 10% CDR items on them. They're also in a weird spot.

If Sorcery was a gimmicky tree, I'd probably agree. however, it's almost been given baseline status, so I'm kinda okay with where CDR is at for the moment. I haven't actually maxed in a good while, despite picking some gimmicky CDR-infused items from time to time.