Even if the BoS 9 didnt make any weapon better than grief, hustle still expanded the melee experience. It allowed every weapon in the game to be useable because of the ias bonuses. Finding a bone snap wouldnt have felt bad because hustle would allow you to use it all the way to hell.
Now, lol, hustle is straight poo and so is that bone snap.
Respectfully dissagree. Melee just SUCK in this game and even if you add 10lvl Fana to THIS weapon it will still SUCK!
With lvl 15 fana Iâd have an act 5 merc dual wielding that on a bowazon and leave your Tal sorc in the dust
NO
Tely + DMG + Sunder + Static >>>
Sorry
Well. I think that is now finally giving the melee char a privilege comparable to sorceress teleport.
As a guy that makes fury druid every season, I really hope that is the caseâŚ
You donât know much about bowazons
The point of this thread is to ensure Hustle weapon is in a good spot. I understand melee is struggling, but that is beyond the scope of this discussion. Please keep this constructive.
Sure but the original point of this weapon was to make it a prebuff for melee.
Everyone complained about prebuffing because they realized it was too cumbersome to juggle hustle and cta or whatever else they think they need to have on swap, so the devs nerfed it tk appease the whiners.
Harmony is still a better bow than this so its still a prebuff weapon.
Passion is still a better weapon than this. So is oath and honestly so is black because black has crushing blow.
Hustle was never designed to be something you wanted to actually use on your main weapon set. And now the fanaticism aura may make it a more attractive option for mercenaries and not actually the melee builds it was designed to be used by.
A lvl 1 fanat is too small for it to matter for bowzons or melee because mercenaries are slow and never catch up to you if you run around like you should as a melee player. Which means the great ias buff that the lvl 9 bos gave will be active like 50% of the time if you still prebuff swap hustle and run one on your mercenary for that laughable lvl 1 fanaticism aura.
So now we have this rw thats a mediocre prebuff and a still mediocre main swap weapon that no melee or bowzon will actively use on the main swap given the already existing alternatives.
The only way to make this rw useable as a midgame runeword is if the fanaticism aura was a higher level, simply to ensure that the radius isnât god awful.
Thats why they should:
make melee equivalent of Spirit and melee would still be far ahread from casters, but semi âviableâ
add prebuff BoS which would make many weapons/builds viable and melee would still⌠<<<< dogs sh1t <<<< casters. âViableâ.
this rdm medicore RW doesnt make any sense:
This seems to be a duplicate of this thread.
No it wasnât. The intent of the hustle runeword is stated in the patch notes as follows. From DIABLO II: RESURRECTED PTR 2.6 | HAS ENDED
So they add a fanaticism aura that does nothing for mobility.
Stop looking at what the devs say and look what they do.
And if this is suppose to be an early mobility option then why does it require a ko rune when now a harmony, which also requires a ko, provides a better movement speed buff?
Burst of Speed
Run/Walk Speed +23% at level 1. Try again.
Try making a Harmony in a 4 socket Conquest Sword. You might be disappointed with the results.
Agreed. The main problem is the radius is too limited to be useful at 7.3 yards, and needs to be expanded to a workable radius for minions and mercs.
So then you admit its a prebuff weapon because the only way that melee are going to use hustle as it is is to swap and proc the BoS 
And my point still stands, harmony provides a better speed bonus than a lvl 1 bos and still costs a ko.
Never said anything like that at all. Make Hustle in a sword. I guarantee you it gives better results than trying to make Harmony in a sword.
See hereâs your problem: youâve never actually played a melee build from start to end game, SSF have you?
Every melee build is going to run black flails on their main hand still and if they ever make a hustle it will still be to swap ctc the burst of speed and still use their black flails, strength/bonesnap/ whatever has crushing blow.
They might make a hustle for their mercenary, but if youâre towards the end of nightmare starting hell, a lawbringer would be better. And at this point youâre going to start farming hell countess where that KO rune has the most reliable chance of dropping. And at this point youâre better off farming countess for mal and pul for an oath.
So do you see? Hustle as it is is largely useless for melee. If the fanaticism was a higher level then it might be a good option on a merc for a while. To be a good mobility option for melee the Ko needs to be changed to something like a SOL rune. As it stands the KO rune is too expensive for an âearly mobilityâ option when you can already make a harmony in a bow (no idea why youâre pretending i dont know its a bow runeword) which also provides a faster speed bonus then a lvl 1 BoS does now.
5% CtC 1lvl BoS is not very helpful from mobility perspective 
Youâre being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. Youâre purposely misinterpreting the things I do say while ignoring other things I do say to create a false narrative. Thereâs no point talking sense into you anymore.
I never said melee builds donât deserve some kind of buffs. How many times do I have to repeat this?
I mean, youâre doing just that trying to throw âgotchasâ at me.
You could also answer my question? Have you ever played a melee character from start to end SSF?
This iteration of hustle has pretty much no use on a melee playthrough unless you just happen to get luckily enough to find a bunch of ko runes that you have enough to make a hustle over wealth, lawbringer, or even harmony (if you really cared about mobility as a melee player).
You see, melee has so many dam problems that mobility is the least of their concerns. What is a problem for them is the fact that 90% of the weapons in the game are so slow they are unusable. The old hustle alleviated that problem!
Yes, zealot and fendazon. Your point?
And now itâs nerfed because it was a dumb change. Bye.