[PantherPrincess]

The whole point of why people think Blood Spike is overtuned is not the damage it does at lower levels or builds that use it because its there.

Its the fact that someone who builds skill and luck and good vit (duelists) AT LEVEL 60 will always have the capacity to do ludicrous damage without much risk at all and use swords and axes which have better scaling than tomes and hybrid casting weapons.

Also the ultimate counter to literally every skill/spell thats overtuned is always "Just build resistance for it" is not a good enough argument because literally every skill/spell in the game can be countered with that argument its just that some spells have less counters than others -- Blood Spike being a huge offender.

If all that seems like nonsense then yes- "Just build ice and water resistance lul"

I named more than just elemental resist as an option but you seem to have skipped over that. Silence is a big thing in-game among many other tactics you can take (like ST or so on). The average duelist has very little sanctity to average, nowhere near mage status wall levels. I also named pretty much the risks of "spamming" (??? you can't since it has a CD) which you ignored as well or just failed to notice which are digging your own grave faster because it consumes 5% of your HP per use and hitting a double resist. I also put up a screenshot of a level 45 build with 60 scaled skill and 50 scaled vit using it since it does "ludicrous" damage but you didn't really bother with that as well. Quite frankly, yes, elemental resists are the most effective way to go to countering magical damage, arguing that something is "overtuned" because you refuse to do so is your problem. I'm not gonna go into a battle with a mage or any build that uses magical damage and expect to receive soft blows when I have no elemental resistances or magical defenses in general.When something has a clear connection like idk elemental magical damage and elemental resists that seems like a clear road path to me. One among many that is. And I don't know about you but Tomes scale just as great as Swords and Axes so I'm rather lost on where you're getting this from. A spell shouldn't have to be nerfed because you don't feel like slapping on a CoMC with a scarf and an umbrella to name a small example of how easy it is. Or use silence and add an etacof if you can to make it even worse. Or circle ring. Or Leviathan's Amulet. Hell there are even Youkai that absorb ice and water damage. The complaints for the damage are rather far stretched and overblown when you can see in two screenshots, one not even being mine and a higher level, that it doesn't even reach absurd levels.