Survey! Do you like 2.6 patchnotes?

General Discussion
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Curious to gather some data considering everything I see on the forums and Reddit

https://strawpoll.com/polls/QrgebbaYrZp

Also share why you voted that way

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update: after 200 voters

Very disappointed: 39

Disappointed: 58

Meh: 38

Pleased: 37

Very pleased: 28

If we rank them from -2 to +2

The reception of this patch stands at : -0.5

3 Likes
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Voted “pleased” No terrible changes (fix shockwave druid to be a build please). I liked the changes to Assassin, however without being able to test martial arts it is hard to say.(Also fixing MA shouldn’t be through a specific mid/late game RW imo :P)

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Some very appreciated fixes, but i really hoped for stash stacking and loot filter :confused:

3 Likes
4

Lack of QoL
No melee buff
Nerfed hustle weapon
-very disappointed

16 Likes
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Yes I love that they addressed mid game/late game melee options.

Ma sin claws
Druid helm
Any early melee build with hustle armor and weapon.

1 Like
6

Terrible patch…the only thing they did was kill the bear druid

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Hustle weapon was very promising as melee Spirit and CTA alternative, all it needed was change to +1 to BoS.

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I am still waiting for QOL items like rune/gem stacking, more char slots, etc. But as a gameplay only patch, I do like what 2.6 has in it. But as always we need to test it out with our own hands using our own char builds to see if Blizz got things right.

edited: straw poll not working, says to reload the page when I try to vote, which I would vote pleased… interesting results at the moment, but broken poll

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dont care for this patch other than fixed andy tz bug

still want my 50 char slots and stacking for gems, runes,keys, craft materials

even a charm inv…2X4 + 3X3 is bleh to loot

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It won’t let me vote. I get “An error occured. Please reload the page and try again.” (I’ve tried refreshing several times.)

I would have voted Disappointing.

Reasons:

  • Patch plasters over the problems with the martial arts skill tree and makes fixing those skills harder in the future because it will have to be done (if it is done at all) in a way that doesn’t interfere with how Mosaic functions.
  • Frozen Orb ES build suffering because people were upset about Blizzard build during the early/mid season.
  • I sympathize with people who play Druids who have had Werebear ruined compared to D2 LOD, briefly had a new way to play that form, and now have it taken away from them.

The patch also didn’t do anything for some of the frequent QOL requests (e.g. stackable runes & gems).

Now, here are positives I will acknowledge:

  • I have zero problems with the 5 elemental helm runewords. They seem decent for their intended purposes. Cure could actually be interesting on a Prayer Insight mercenary for extra life regen and addressing one of the weaknesses of Energy Shield (poison).
  • I think offline Terror Zones are good, and most of the zone changes are positive.
  • The Hustle weapon change looks okay. I appreciate they didn’t add an item that would have only been useful for prebuffing and nothing else. I’m withholding comment on the Hustle ‘armor’ until we can test/confirm if they mean torso/helm/shield when they say “any armor item” or if they really mean “body armor.”
  • They fixed the -%resistant/+% damage issues with Assassin traps and martial arts charge-ups.
  • They fixed some aura bugs.
  • They fixed Strafe.
  • They buffed ranged Enchant.
  • They addressed the awkwardness around Terror Zones and quest bugging / not quest bugging Hell Andariel.

Most of those are just pretty minor on my personal list of what I care about compared to the 3 issues noted at the top. But because of them I would not have voted Very Disappointing.

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Did you just make a disguised patch-hate thread when there is already a patch-hate thread, and you can post your complaints in the Blizzard patch thread?

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100% agree , instead of runewords they could buff melee weapon bases + add damage reduction for armor bases, and fix armor so when you runing your game would read your armor value + fix attack rating.

And what we got ?? new rune words to start farming hell where 90% of unique items are still trash ??? thx you blizzard for a poor patch. 1 guy made a complete mod by himself while you guys cant deliver manage to add what ppl asking for years!

6 Likes
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yeah why blizz not hire the modder, i remember when DotA still under WarCraft 3 blizard, the map maker now work in valve dota ( if i am right?) , and now the map grow massive evolving to a game itself leaving wc3 farrrr behind…

btw how long this pool will last? curious how it ends

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disappointed

i think the changes are nice but they are shy and are missing a lot of QoL the community craves

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Even though i liked most of the changes i voted disapointed. Due to the changes overall just being underwhelming. Too little too late, kind of situation.

They added some descent rune words, the rest felt more suited as a little mid season hotfix. This patch was basically some new descent runewords and nothing else relevant.

They did not touch into any of the significant things big parts of the community have been waiting for. Not a single relevant change.

  • No overhaul and fix of melee in general.
  • No loot filter.
  • No gem/rune stacking.
  • No significant buffing of bunch of underused skills.
  • No serious buffing of all the unused rare end-game uniques so they are viable.

And the list go on…

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The fact you even consider an neutral and unbiased can go in any direction “do you like the new patch?” as a disguised hatred complaints thread.

Should tell you enough about how underwhelming this seasons notes was.

Future patches and the game will not become better without serious constructive feedback, so stop fanboying and answer the topic, answer the poll and give your serious feedback like everyone else.

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I already voiced my complaints in the announcement thread.
Here, I am complaining about Sekscalibure’s habit of making polls with specific results in mind. His goal isn’t to have an unbiased result, he just wants to get complaints about the patch.

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Well. It seem like you have a habit following him writing a bunch of off-topic nonsense. Don’t know which one is worse. If you disagree with someone and can’t hold to threads topics, go to other threads.

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when i voted there’s 15 person that voted very pleased…
so sad that people can be very pleased with this update that only have a few good things.

TZ zones on offline
sin traps get effect from -% resistances gear
some fixes to bonus and auras

the rest it’s just trash

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Nope hustle nerf is trash.