Skill gem balence

skill gem balance is a several hour difference in regards to the time in which i can complete the campaign,

self casting being far superior to all the minions builds i have suffered through this league, as a rule if you are not going to make a build viable for the game systems you have put in place, do not implement that skill gem

minions are unplayable, as they suffer from requiring way to many passives and are very slow, deal less damage and gently follow behind mobs without doing any damage to them.... as well as having about 20-50 unique disadvantages, this has to be fixed. Also they do not offer enough of a meat shield except for the 4-5 skele warriors which the removal of has created a hole in all minion builds.

in general largely popular builds should be carefully looked at each and every league so that a large number of your player base in not left feeling lackluster. if per chance there is a member of your team who doesn't like minions because they aren't the player playing them, then you have two options, remove them from the game, or increase their speed, and damage ect, so that they are viable and competitive with other skill gems,

if it isn't a viable skill gem you are just letting your players waste the time they are putting into the game in order to figure out, the skills gems aren't balanced at all and having to switch.

this is a large problem i'm seeing in the game currently where there are just WAY to few viable builds in the game currently in, thus giving the player of toon after toon feeling lack luster and feeling like they are wasting their time trying to find decent builds that can handle top tier mapping / end game content, and this process on our end takes a whole lot of time.

testing out skill gem after skill gem and not finding a good one, then hitting twitch and seeing people one shotting content as opposed to other skill gems taking 10+ hits to kill something, does not feel good at all.

this is being amplified by ascendancy balance, where some builds seem to only have been tested on certain ascendancies, and if you found a build that is good on the ascendancy it was designed around it does not feel good on any other ascendancy.

leveling an ascendancy up to test out a move that sounds cool, only to find out that it is so unbelievably trash that i'm left scratching my head, does not feel good.

i would highly suggest taking time to ensure that the next league is phenomenal, otherwise your players base will assume dawn of the hunt quality leagues are standard and vanish.

you can make The Lord of the Rings, or.... you can make the Hobbit, but no one watches the Hobbit..... no one....