The Harold change itself is perfect. It spawns on top of you, very nice change.
What I don’t agree with is allowing the monsters to also drop the sunder. This makes the chase go to zero, and go pre rotw where sunders are as common as ort runes. We also create a dynamic where playing by yourself is more rewarding. People are now teaming up and farming TZ, splitting loot and having a good time. If regular monsters drop sunders.. well.. why should I team with friends or want to team with someone whenever I can just get it in p1 and solo until I get bored and then leave?
The change to uber ancients is welcome, this should be a very hard task to defeat. Maybe even buff it further, more health, more abilities, more immunities.
Eth weapons losing Durability is good, we aren’t mercenaries.
I wanted to see a fire build being made so we can test apocalypse build out.
In its current state, the decked out Warlock is now the same as an Orb sorc in full tals.
Overall, most changes are good, but some need to be revised.
That is my thought and feedback trying out the level 80 and 30 warlock.
Thanks
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I’ve said it a bunch of times: make the latent sunders drop easily, make the materials to upgrade them harder to come by. This would mean changing the upgrade recipe of course and a new item, or making the statues the material and having those drop from heralds. That would keep the chase aspect while keeping it reasonable to get a basic one.
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Agreed make them spawn as often as old sunders then
maybe 1 of all 5 WSS+latent = renewed latent. Secondly 2x renewed of the same type+Token of absolution should craft a renewed of that type 3x renewed of different types+Token should craft a random latent
I agree with everything you just mentioned about the Herald topic. To add, people who bot in this game will be able to easily farm them since any monster can drop them. The market would be flooded with them losing any and all value. My grind would probably be done at that point.
Sunder Captchas Nao whenever a HR or sunder drops, you are given a captcha and have 30 seconds to solve it or the game deletes it.
played the ptr , first game , second herald killed dropped me a cold sunder.
Ive done quite a few full game clears in the current live and only found 1 latent sunder.
Strongly agree. The hunt for Sunder has been the most fun I’ve had playing this game. It’s been great!
Letting any monster outside of TZ find them opens it up to the bots!! They will be worthless within a couple weeks 
PvM already gets over saturated with items within weeks because of Bots… this Sunder Hunt was the only thing keeping me playing late into the ladder. Don’t kill late game PvM please. You had a great thing going with this
The complaints I am hearing so far have addressed your concern with the economy, not with the actual game. “market would be flooded” or “They will be worthless in a couple weeks”. That serves your need as a farmer/trader but limits the 60-70% casuals to a Jah like drop currently. Everything in D2 can drop anywhere. Sunders should drop anywhere but like other d2 items, have higher chance in certain places..ie TZ. Give me an argument that isn’t related to the economy.
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there isnt
we are not playing the market
market is irrelevant
the only relevant thing is “feeling of reward”
good drops should be rare enough to feel awsome when fiding them
good drops should be common enough to NOT feel like a waste of time
Will the same thing happen to Warlocks in Diablo 4? Don’t treat players like fools.
When too many people complain blizzard changes to game to pander to the masses. This has been a problem with blizzard since D3. They need to grow a backbone and learn when to say no. The hearalds changes are good, sunder drop changes are terrible. Nobody needs or wants 100 sunder charms, and with the herald changes, they would be easier to find anyways. This is way to hard of a buff to the drop rates.
This… make heralds drop the upgrade mats at the current sunder drop rate, make latents pre-rotw drop rates…. This creates a dynamic of allowing people to play their builds and people willing to put in the effort the option to buff those builds sky high.
But what do I know… Only been playing d2 since .08 pretty streadily.
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they should change increase any monster can drop to any monster can drop with upped percentages per herald kill
i just got 2 sunders within 20 minutes.
Super OP guys spawning on top of you and 1 shotting you then not dropping anything when you kill them is the game you want? Weird
I think sunders should be pretty rare as it’s a really powerful end game item.
If sunders drop everywhere and drop rates are too high, heralds just become a nuisance.
ONLY Heralds should be able to drop sunder, or make Heralds drop way more loot, scaling with herald tier. Incentivise herald hunting somehow.
Disagree need a change, and should be able to do /players command online as well
Haha yeah I read something about that. I was just being sarcastic but it kinda reminded me of some times in poe1 where you just randomly get one shot by a random mob or the super op archnemesis that was harder than a pinnacle boss and never dropped anything good. Heralds were starting to feel that way
Stroll down memory lane for me. The D2 mod I played the most back in the day was Brother Laz’s MedianXL, and one update he made to it introduced “witches” that teleported on top of the character and then one-shotted you 
I stopped playing it after that 