Now that we have 5 out of 7 classes with new sets, I thought it would be a good time to see how everyone’s personally finding the classic team’s implementation of these new sets. Here’s my lowdown:
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Monk: I think PoJ introduced a playstyle that Monk sorely needed but the implementation would have worked with updating Sunwuko + support legendaries. As such, I’m inclined to just run TR with Sunwuko and save myself some storage space.
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Crusader: AoV started off great but the last minute changes making HF stronger has dissuaded me from wanting to play the set. The 2pc buff needs to affect both HF and FotH… I wanted a FotH set and whilst I know it’s still good for speeds, it would be nice if a FotH pushing build was also viable. The 4pc DR mechanic I don’t like the look of… but then I don’t like stacking mechanisms
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Wizard: Typhons was the set I was looking forward to the most but the ongoing nerfing of the Hydra legendaries undermined the set buffs they added. I’ll probably still play Wiz in S20 but I’m not sure how much I’ll enjoy it. They needed to give more Hydras.
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Barb: This should have been a primary skills set with added Overpower, Revenge and Ancient Spear support. Working in shouts was a good move IMHO but the 4pc should have been based on shouts giving the DR and thus the 6pc would be free to buff the skills listed above.
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WD: Leveraging off mana regen was actually something I was looking forward to but they did away with that at the last minute too. I’m probably looking forward to this set the most but feel that it needs to a) make Voo’s Juicer viable again and b) they need to add in a DR option that doesn’t require Sacred Harvester and Lakumbas. Coils of the First Spider needs a rework.
Summary… the new sets are only partially doing it for me. Most of them I wouldn’t want to gear up with at season start… they’re just too narrowly focused on one or two skills. My hopes for the DH and Necro new sets:
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DH: 2pc adds an interesting mechanic. 4pc grants a non-stacking DR that’s not frustrating to enable (WD set is a good example of how the 4pc DR should work), and the 6pc supports multiple skills like Chakram, EA and Strafe
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Necro: my most hated class simply because the pet set is too spammy and doesn’t support Revive, Inarius is too underpowered now, and the other two sets are very Corpse Lance oriented. The DR for most sets also require stacking. Thus I hope the new set makes skills like Death Nova, Bone Spear, Bone Spirit spammable and doesn’t have DR that’s stacking.