If the rumors of that I’ve seen out of China are true, Blizzard is hard-pressed to meet their deadline for Diablo 4 in June. That it looks like it will have to get delayed unless miracles happen. So they are probably pulling from all over the company to try and get that deadline done.
This means we will likely continue to get a token effort over here until then. The absolute bare minimum and attention. Just enough to say they haven’t already put the game on maintenance mode.
Not to mention Blizzard’s stacking system of employee assessment which certainly leaves the crew at a low morale. One of the original wow developers who was on the classic team just left over it. The company’s a bit of a mess because of poor executive decisions in their apathy towards the employees. It’s all come downhill and hit us. And will continue to hit us.
I don’t think much else is happening in this patch. No gem or rune stacking. No /playerx. No stash in tabs. We get mediocre runewords. I could be wrong but these are highly unlikely. I wouldn’t even expect ladder to non ladder runewords being craftable. I’ve been pestemistic about everything in this game since the big lie about the 2.4 runewords being non ladder craftable.
So they can say they did.
And maybe, just maybe, they make a minor tweak if many people are upset with something.
They will ofcourse do what they intended, but in a way people think they were heard…atleast those on reddit, official forum knows better.
I just don’t understand why release the RW without the melee changes required to make them viable??? Testing the RW only confirmed what we already knew:
Quintuplet melee helms: Decent, although ‘Hearth’ and ‘Cure’ aren’t going to see any play. Bulwark great
Metamorphosis: Pretty good, but switching forms for buffs is incredibly annoying.
Mosaic: Fine needs ignore defense, maybe 300-350% ED, really MA just needs massive buffs and QoL changes to be even close to viable
Hustle armor: Bad, needs low level vigor. I’d rather run treachery at this point. Ko too expensive.
Hustle Weap: GG prebuff stick for all melee builds. Really disgusting. I doubt whoever made this RW knows how BoS works. Just saw the name and thought “yeah makes sense.” Makes fanatacism unnecessary. Destroys end game weapon market. Needs to just be removed entirely.