Especially since other YouTubers know more about the game, and all of them disagree with Llama?
Honestly, Rhykker can be a bit of a fan boy when it comes to Diablo and design choices, but even he is confused by the changes to the PTR.
It seriously seems like MrLlama is the only dude in the world who wanted these changes, but he’s the lead dev, so it doesn’t matter.
Mr Llama seems to know very little about Diablo especially from a gameplay and mechanics perspective. So his comments on changes around gameplay and mechanics isn’t really relevant. However for some reason it’s taken as word of what needs to be done. Not sure how we fix this situation because 2.4 looks like a complete flop. There is no excitement around 2.4 and has mediocre changes that are puzzling.
Think I’ll skip playing this game and enjoy other games while the Devs figure out how to implement something fun, new and powerful. Why even do a 2.4 ladder if everything in it is boring and uneventful? It makes no sense! They need to buff Sets, Uniques, new Runewords and skills so they are actually impactful. Give us some new S tier builds please and thanks. Otherwise it’s a snoozefest and there are just other games to play.
out of the youtubers i seen i would rather it be him or cooley
Blizz really hyping the patch then failing to do anything the least bit substantive has completely destroyed any hype for the patch or ladder, lol.
They could have just made no changes at all, announced a ladder, and more people would have played.
I’d trust Coooley or Dbrunski, but Llama just does what better players tell him to do, and has no real gauge on what is powerful and what isn’t.
i pass on brunski having seen his content and few video of his
I can’t stress how disappointed and bummed out I am about 2.4. I “WAS” looking forward to positive changes but they are scared for some reason to do it.
Dear Devs, it’s okay if you make powerful items and new builds that are S tier and compete with Hammerdins/Blizz/Java etc. I write this as I’m playing my other game and was waiting for 2.4 but now I’m throwing in the towel because you did too with no impactful changes.
The mistake that I see Blizzard make in balance changes is that they often are too dramatic in changes. If something is too powerful then it makes sense to nerf it; however, too often they nuke a build completely rather than taking a surgical scalpel to make a build strong and in competitive balance with other builds.
All of the most played, most balanced games in the world exist in a state of constant flux, where they buff, nerf, and introduce meta defining changes every single patch.
The devs clearly stated, multiple times, they were going for the “Live Service” sort of game. At this point, it just doesn’t seem like they know what “Live Service” actually entails. And I really don’t think Blizzard is trying to put that much effort into D2R.
Disagree the changes aren’t anywhere close to dramatic or powerful enough.
Wrong, we want powerful!! We want some game changing new S tier powerful items and builds. We want powerful new Sets, Uniques, Runewords and builds to compete with the current powerful ones.
The Devs are really far off the mark and these baby steps need to be amped up a huge amount. Give us some Runewords to compete with Grief, Enigma etc… Buff Sets again and give us powerful Uniques like we had in 1.08. Then take some of these skill buff and buff them again by a massive amount so we have new builds as good as the other S tier buids.
The funny thing is that they have bizarre, massive changes at times, and tiny little miniscule changes other times.
You guys want new items? Here are 5 new RW’s that do nothing, and a couple old ones that do nothing.
Throw barb sucks? Here’s an inconsequential increase to stack size. Take it and be happy filthy barb players!
Oh, wait a minute, our lead dev (that Llama kid on YouTube) said this one build is OP… NERF EVERYTHING RELATING TO IT! ALL OF THE AURAS! EVEN THE COLD AURA THAT DIDN’T DO ANY DAMAGE AT ALL EVEN WHEN BARBS DUAL WIELDED DOOM! EVERYONE! QUICK! DO WHAT LLAMA SAYS! GOGOGO!
Yea the Aura changes are puzzling since Holy Fire or Dragondins are a C tier build at best. They aren’t good. Then Holy Freeze which is NEVER used and an F tier build that is gutter trash got nerfed 
Then the Hydra damage change 
It could of been buffed even more not reverted!! Jesus…sigh…
Exactly boring!!! Why even bother?
Exactly. Just make it unlimited and create some NEW powerful throw items.
One would expect as much, based on their claims of “shaking the meta” and “live service” gaming, lol.
Holy Fire was more than just lama againts that buff power boost…you must of missed the thread on the forum…i was also againts the power buff it had pre-partial revert as well as many others
holy freeze case doesn’t matter…they need to rework holy freeze dmg to begin with and reduce the power of slow in pvp b4 they consider doing anything meaningfull with it…so even if they removed the aura range boost from holy freeze it was insignificant to begin with since the pulse dmg was so low
where do they post about changes that are going into 2.4… surely isn’t here… where it should be.
i’m so confused about how devs release info now, it’s always somewhere else. i don’t understand.
which youtuber do i have to watch this week? /facepalm.
I know! They don’t care about interacting with their playerbase. It’s insane, but they’ve basically allowed YouTubers to becomes their community liaisons, and one of them is their lead dev.
The Holy Fire backlash didn’t happen until Llama released his feedback video. None of the threads claiming it was OP would have existed without Llama hyperbole.
i’ve never been able to watch the llama, the first video i ever watched of his was a 10 things about diablo 2 you didn’t know, i only didn’t know 1 out of the 10… needless to say i wasn’t very impressed by his video.
Lol! That was the only video I started to watch of his too, and as I skipped through the “thigns I should know” I realized, none of them were anything but obvious, and he didn’t even explain why anyone should know them. He clearly didn’t understand the game he was talking about.
Mrllama is a noob…he just force fed everyone on YouTube with his countless d2 videos long after most of us quit. Would much rather stand behind someone like Cooley…
Yeah, Coooley’s the man.
you would be surprise…anyway…its now in-line with holy shock dmg(dual dream) + has more range…and it also reduce enemy fire resistances which holy shock gear doesn’t for MAX range…not limited to conviction 12 yards range
for that 10 things video i dont think i seen that one but lemme check date on that and its content…
edit: 5 years old dated video XD thought its not exactly titled “10 things”
youtube searched “MrLlamaSC 10 things” but no video titled 10 things shown up…but something alike to what you described did