Nerfing is not the solution. If you nerf grief, the best will still be grief, there aren’t any other items that fill that slot. The same is true for many other items.
The problem is that many items are completely useless or too niche to use well. What the proper solution would be instead is to start buffing/reworking items that are completely useless to have new uses or be better. Same goes for underused class skills to create more variety. Nerfing doesn’t really do anything other than making the game worse to play because the itemization is almost TOO diverse, causing many items to be completely useless.
nerfing items in d2 is one of the biggest sins you can do in this game. yea nerf all these strong items and then what about people who already managed to find & create them? clearly OP did not play classic d2 when it moved from 1.08 to 1.09. every single nerfed rare/unique originally from 1.08 like 08 valks and imp shanks instantly became items only the uber rich could afford and your solution is now everybody else has a harder time to create something that is even weaker than before? retarded af.
the only acceptable solution is buffing useless & weak items. blizz has successfully done that on multiple occasions with classic d2 & d3 without upsetting players.
Hi, how these nerfs come into the game technically ? Would existing items see their stats change from the moment the nerf patch is up? Or existing items remain unchanged and only new ones are affected.
Item nerfs happened in the early ages of D2 but I wasn’t there. Might ne either way but the impact is different.
Also nowadays people don’t accept to loose anything they take for granted so Blizzard would be kind of forced to compensate affected gamers.
Anyway the discussion is open; IMO the « Spirit » of D2 is less about balance than freedom and crazyness. There could be a global tweacking on items, skills, monsters and overall difficulty. Make it like a New Deal, before everyone is bored. win or loose I would prefer that rather than a couple item nerf. They would keep D2R 1.14 intact of course and new stuff in new realm.