UnNerf Firewall

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Please consider changing firewall stats. The firewall sorcerer was one of the best characters in the game for getting keys. Currently it has been over nerfed to where firewall doesn’t even last a few second and the damage is so weak it takes forever for it to kill anything in its path. I understand that the firewall was overpowered, but you didn’t have to be “so drastic” to where it doesn’t do any damage at all.

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I dont understand why, firewall is strong enough.

I did recently playthrough and was using it and its doing fine dmg.

Maybe i would change direction of wall by 90 degrees.

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I played in PTR 2.4 and in offline mode, updates have been made. I’m not sure if you seen the updates online. Not suppose to be, untill later this month. The firewall has been nerfed beyond use and the timer reduced. I agree that the firewall was over powered, like I said. But now, just another useless skill to train.

Now playing blizzard and lightning skills. But most of the immune monster in hell are immune to cold and lightning in lvl 78 area’s. Which will make keying in some area’s take even longer.

Forget the chaos runs as well.

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I was too, are you talking about some new very recent non documented change?

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are you guys talking fully synergised, single element, or, for example, orb wall or similar?
Big distinction in expected damage output from firewall…

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I think this is where the problem is. What is considered to be a usable skill is widely different.

Hop on a D2 planner, Max out fire wall, fire mastery and Warmth synergy. Compare that damage to some skills that are generally agreed as useable.

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When there are two immunes, it’s difficult to play the game in one mastery. Unless you’re one of those people who play in groups.

Firewall has been nerfed and the timer for firewall has changed in 2.4.

Now your build will be Blizard/Nova which does work very well in Chaos, with cold/fire immunes. But making Keying for “destruction” very hard. Unless you prefer to stick with paly hammer, and he is useless until you can afford enigma, early game or use Telestaff.

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Before Sorc gets ANY more buffs, there must be 100 buffs for x other builds/classes.

I am not even starting the entire whirlwind, melee in general thing.
But if you want to buff firewall, I would hold against that the fire bow skills of the
amazon are muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch worse.

I understand, that the sorc has several GG or OP skills, and you want more super
strong ones…but 95% of all players will start ladder with sorc.

That being said, sorc probably should be nerfed tremendously, like - 25% to all skill damage since she has free teleport AND does super strong damage.

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I did not play PTR and I searched for changes in 2.4, but I did not find anything firewall-related. What has been actually changed and how? I am asking this because an hour ago I used the d2.maxroll planner for checking different skill distributions for my lvl84 Soso, but if Firewall will be truly nerfed, I might reconsidering the respec to do AFTER 2.4 and not today.

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Nerfs are never the answer. Buff classes to the level of a sorc, don’t nerf sorcs to the sorry state of other classes.

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Or just make it a wider meteor impact pool of flame.

Like.

Leve 1:

  OOO
OOOOOOO
  OOO

Level 10:

  OOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOO
  OOOOOOO

Level 20:

  OOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
  OOOOOOOOOO

Level 30+

  OOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
  OOOOOOOOOOOO

…and just don’t make it a mile wide at higher levels, just slightly wider, and three thicker.

It’s going to be “abused” regardless, nobody uses it as a wall, everyone struggles to cast it sideways to intersect with monster movement.

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what exactly is different than 2.3? i see no patch notes changes for firewall other that it no longer shares cooldowns with other skills, this concerns me greatly as firewall was heavily hit in 2.3 when they made it no longer stack. i thought the not sharing cooldowns would be an effective buff, but if its getting with with another nerf is is greatly concerning… what has changed in 2.4?

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I have a feeling it was just a misunderstanding in the PTR notes. Firewall - while its damage is quite big - does not have many synergies and it is not that easy to use than Blizzard or FOrb. The difficulty for placing it at the right spot validates its high damage. I think it is good as is now.

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