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Season 8 doesn’t offer much in the way of new content we have alot of weapons getting base damage increases with some nerfs to evade rapier, this may change the meta slightly we will be seeing more hatchet use in the hive of gorgons with worm mainly being untouched, greatsword was already struggling to find a place in pve meta so with nerfs to serenity we wont be seeing much greatsword play in PvE for the near future. There are some nerfs to distained infliction and one with the shield along with duration of skewer weaken this will change the meta slightly of perma extending debuffs with two SnS , I think this will still be the play but will likely need to be mindful of reapplying rends periodically.

Old crown is a better alternative to attuned leather pants offering more protection with enchanted ward and the gems, if youre struggling for refreshing or want to try min max a couple more attribute points you can look at attuned pants but i would run these 99% of the time.

Comes from the PvP Track

I think this has use in high risk situations like in large mob packs or risky bosses , outside of that It doesnt out value other options.

Comes Randomly from Mutation Crates

Whats New ?

New Artifacts

Not going to be used really in pve , some use case for pvp builds

Comes from the Season Pass

This could possibly be a replacement for distained infliction for some builds like evade rapier but its hard to tell at this point

Not going to be used really in pve it just doesnt out value anything else it can maybe be used for sns spear buildsover grey wizard hat , some use case for pvp builds
Comes from the Season Pass

Meme & pvp weapon


Comes Randomly from OPR Crates

New Potions

Maybe okay in some risky situations to help the team but unlikely to be used outside of specific scenarios

Comes Randomly from Mutation Crates

I dont see these being useful anywhere

Comes from the PvP Track

New Gems

Very few use cases since it is easy to disease cap anything and you would prefer protection gems over reducing disease.

In armor this is not going to be good outiside of few tank situations mainly in pvp since it is armor so is essentially fortify instead of abs like a normal gem , with the armor penetration tis hard to say if it out values damage boosting gems but would work well vs mobs and bosses with high base damage.

New Perks

Decent for pvp

Decent for pvp and some speed running situations

Kinda useless

Kinda useless

I struggle to see where this can fit in a team comp outside of maybe pug runs where your’'e struggling to hit rend cap you could have this on a offhand spear with sin for example.

Decent option for VDP or featherweight

Maybe okay for pvp

Kinsa Useless