C’mon devs, please consider last minute change to Hustle Weapon for buffing Fant Aura to 3-5!
I hate constant pre buffs for melee.
It is annoying and really bad gameplay design. Glad they changed hustle. That opens the possibility for future patches that actually do something.
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Good luck with any changes in future patches… This was the last one before d4 release…
prebuff meta is dogwater
encouraging it is embarrassing
imagine every tp casting CTA and then Hustle or actually having to carry hustle in your inventory so you can actually drag and drop weapon swap your BO sticks.
imagine wanting a runeword just to carry around to prebuff your other runewords every few minutes… ugggg
garbo d2 would be dead game
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General problem with pretty much any game. Since they spend hours and hours on the game, dedicated gamers will quickly know much more about game mechanics than the devs who actually have to do other stuff than play the game.
The next problem is that said devs don’t know which players they should listen to. So chances are even a loud enough clueless minority might influence the devs into the “wrong” direction.
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You can choose to play that way, i simply wouldn’t. I’d have my hustle on swap, just like i do my cta now, and i’d be fine not using cta in place of hustle.
You can already do massive amounts of prebuffing more than just CTA. Why draw the line at hustle?
Telling them to change hustle wep from what it was to what it is only tells them that melee is fine as it is.
Ww used to not be affected by cold, decrepify, etc. Now it is. It’s effectiveness is now locked behind cannot be frozen and ias stack like everything else now. Sure was nice when it wasnt. All you needed to whirlwind effectively before was an elite 200 to 300 ed sword that had 2 shaels in it. Now you need gear compromises like treachery or hustle armor runeword when peace is so much better early on. Also so many 2 handed weapons like bonehew, ik maul, hone sundan yari used to hit 4 frame. Now its 5. A straight up global 20% damage nerf. Ik set used to be good for budget, hitting 6k whirl with relative ease.
Fireclaw bear was never what I would call OP, but you could use a six shaeled phaseblade or grim scythe and hit 4 frames. Now it’s trash.
Frenzy has gotten some slight buffs due to how dual wielding ias works now. Then they go ahead and add a synergy for increased duration, on a class that usually spends 50 points automatically (bo, weapon mastery, 1 point wonders like leap, nat res, etc). Why not just add it to an existing synergy? The main skill takes 20 plus 20 taunt and 20 doubleswing not even counting berserk. A barb without battle orders is like a paladin without holy shield.
Leap attack is ok for ladder start. A step in the right direction.
Zerk getting bo instead of shout for damage was an example of a good buff in the right direction. Shout makes no sense on a skill that deletes defense and zerkers max bo anyways. Shout should synergize with conc instead of bash tbh.
Throwbarb mechanics. Its still not great but it is better.
Werewolf is better now in some ways.
Grim ward gets physical damage reduce, which is cool, but still has targets flee on a class that has to invidually chase them down. Lol. Sort of like how lacerator would be amazing if only it didnt have targets flee mod.
If they dont know what to do, they could simply add skill ias to existing passives like weapon mastery.
Depending on the scaling they could add skill ias to increased speed. Something like
Lvl 1 20%
Lvl 2 28%
Lvl 3 34%
Lvl 4 38%
Lvl 5 40%
Lvl 6 41%
Lvl 7 41%
Lvl 8 42%
and so on.
Oh noes it helps the grief might as well just leave it the way it is
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Pubstar go watch macro’s video on the enchant sorc demon machine.
Its over for melee. These devs and this toxic community simply want to keep melee in trash tier.
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Ill have to check it out. It sounds like they buffed bow enchant to apply fire mastery twice, once from self cast once from attacking.
Yeah looks like chant bow sorc unironically is the best bow build and the best fire build in the game now
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you seem to assume i dont draw the line at CTA. it’s terrible gameplay and mechanic, and devalues barbarian.
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Now it works like melee finally. If Hand of Justice shot Explosive arrows and had pierce 
what changed? nobody is going to use hustle on swap to prebuf on an enchant demon machine sorc…
omg im glad they killed the level 9 bos. game would have turned to trash.
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Nobody is going to play bowzon or melee now anyways so what’s your point? Thats whats so hilarious about the hustle nerfs
Ranged attack for sorc enchant will apply fire mastery twice like melee does
So imagine exploding arrow that costs zero mana and has 100% chance to pierce and deals like 25k damage on splash.
Edit : i was thinking about building a bowazon. I’ll probably just build the best bow build in the game instead. Only a 1 in 540 chance of dropping ravenclaw from normal mephisto
i literally have the most knowledge of enchant sorc in the entire game.
nobody is going to weapon swap constantly for prolonged periods of time trying to proc bos at a 5% chance and lasts only 2 minutes and doing single target damage instead of explosion aoe. literally a dps loss. CTA is better.
im so glad they killed hustle as a prebuff.
Apparently you didnt, since chant bow sorc just got a global 4x damage buff
explain
Old enchant applied fire mastery once from enchant.
During melee attack from sorc, fire mastery would apply again.
During ranged attack, fire mastery would not apply again (to enchant on exploding arrow splash).
After patch 2.6, it will now apply.
Instead of 7k exploding arrow enchant, it’ll be closer to 20 to 25k.
Unironically the best bow build in the game is now chant exploding arrow bow sorc.
Enough points left over to spec into tk/es and you dont even need resists so she’s even tankier than bowazon too.
Sounds perfectly balanced.
That old bos lvl 9 however, waay too overpowered, amirite diablo2forum cabal?? 
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At this point lets just have hellfire proc from torches 100% on strike and do 30k damage. Then melee will be fixed!
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