Bulwark is only an option if you can’t find tals in nm. These are offsets to sunder charm nerfs. They need to up the rune requirements to like PUL or UM and make them actually useful in hell where you actually use sunders. I suggest having a bonus to elemental like +15%. Or adds to physical damage modifier on Bulwark.
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I kinda agree it’s borderline power creep, and does make the mid game much easier.
I think they should go more at 2.4 with buffing sets and underused builds or melee more, but I get they have limited time. It probably come down to people and time so new rune words are the low hanging fruit
So I thought about this after seeing this post. If these helms are real which I think they are I realized they’re all about giving players a way to use their sunder charms and balance out the negative from them. And I thought about it as a whole.
These trash devs, really made runewords, to lessen the negative effects of the sunder charms in the earlier portion of the game, because they had to intoduce sunder charms, instead of balancing classes, which they only realized there were class imbalanced AFTER releasing mediocre TZ to deal with the lame 99 grind. These devs sure know how to double down on their bad idea. Simply amazing effort and the brightest minds were chosen to work on D2R, instead of D4.
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For druid, i would prefer Wisdom over any of these.
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I guess I should wait for PTR for people to decide if previously-nonviable builds will now be viable. 
I like to hunt bases for niche builds so this could be cool if the new runewords mean I can go looking for bases with skills other than the usual.
Probably … there are some nasties smart guys out there ^^
And i forgot to specify “SS druid” in my post … i don’t play summon / elemental 
If this runewords is all they can offer in current patch, this is sad. There are tons of problems they should solve before doing such useless runewords. Smells like game gonna b dead soon.
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It seems like there are going to be new runewords announced each day by the four different streamers, so we haven’t heard all of it yet.
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Im rly scarry for the game’s future. Diablo 1-2 is my love since 1995 year. Hope they dont fail. 
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Not everyone plays Zoom zoom with every character. Some builds take their time and play through fully. These could offer a new choice for someone doing a playthrough.
For the rest, our choice is to zoom a character through as fast as we can and use the regular ol meta.
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np take 2 or 3 day whatever 1to 60 is only 10 % of the experience to go 99 maybe less no matter the time that take
My 2 cents.
Stupid. Lazy. Useless.
We need other options for Teleport, rune/gold storage optimization and so many other things that would be useful
Runewords < quality of life 
Another runeword announced by Dbrunski: Metamorphosis
Really sick one!
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And with that statement D2R is officially on life support.
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It is actually about 3.3% only;-)
I have only one wish. Enjoying this game much as a new player, but Merc AI is horrible beyond imagination. They really can’t solve that after so many years???
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you mean a garbage one that have nothing to do with d2
D4 druid coming too d2 
a other broken item because the dev fail fix the core issue of the bear druid
a other grief add too the game
compare too fix the probleme too the core and fix the bear druid ias table . let throw broken item too the game , d3 philosophy , incompetence at its best too balance the game
metamorphosis looks sick indeed, but shapeshifters still cant tele & low aoe skills, chasing enemy that runeaway and have to wait animation to finish is so sad, so skip for me, back to sorc.
This is 100% correct. Runewords are slowly overtaking items and, the ones shown in the cycle are way too efficient just like spirit, insight etc. We don’t need more of this. Completely devaluing all of the items it competes with that are uniques or rares makes this game worse, not better.
The cycle needs to be nerfed a bit, there is too much res/sorb for what they are. They’re basically a single res Kiras for a single element and u can make literally all of them before you find a kiras in value because shael io are so cheap. If these had a max resist of 45 to their respective element, and 5-8% sorb, they would still be used 100% and a go to runeword because of how cheap they are.
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thank for the update this just show how useless these helmet are
compare to fix bigger issue with the game . dev work is just a lack of knowlege with the game, and you have the streamer shell $$$ pushing this , terrible
You’re welcome;-)
Agree 100%. And I am still learning, can’t imagine how experienced players are disappointed.
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