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Is it me, or does everyone use Judgement Ion?

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-11-20 09:52 in Player Questions

 

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Pal's got all T4s, and Ion's the best all-purpose damage Judgement of the bunch. The forgiving nature of it's chaining makes it easy to fire and hit everything nearby, which means you can use it on Incarnate leagues with /shield users/AoE heavy players who run ahead of the group and scatter the spawn.

Void's great for the -damage, but outside of AV or tough fights it's not as reliably useful as straight damage on a league of mostly +3s. I've only found Cryo to be useful if you want to do damage to fires in Steel Canyon. Pyronic's great, but the damage is similar to Ion but requires you to be the first one to the spawn in order to get the most out of the judgement.

Ion also seems to fit a lot more character concepts that aren't straight elemental. Lightning from the heavens works well with magical characters or those doing the gods' work.

The Paladin
Steel Canyon, Virtue
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@Paladin

 

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I have void on 3 characters.

 

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I use Void on my Brute - it's PBAoE and he's always in the thick of things,
so it's perfect for him...

My Blasters use Ion. It's ranged, it's autohit (iirc), and it looks really cool.

I only have a small handful of Incarnates, so I haven't dabbled with any of the
other Judgement choices.


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