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Some of us had to cop months of his garbage. He lied and trolled his way through these forums, all for nothing more then trying to get Barbs nerfed.
Not to mention the ultimate credibility killer…hanging his hat as the messiah of thought and feelings based on what one person said…that same person has now been permanently banned as a cheat. Game over!
Yet here we are, still in support of his favorite class, despite his attitude and behavior previously towards us.
Not really new as such…long-time lurker is more accurate. I don’t care much for politics though. Too bad posting literally anything gets this kind of person after you.
I suppose it’s the same everywhere, really.
Welcome to the internet 
In all seriousness though, so people have done GR150…Good! It makes absolutely no difference to my game play.
I’ve been having a blast this season. Even playing in groups for a change with some RL mates that have come back to the game after a long absence. I am loving the variety that the new DH set offers, and it’s made a nice change from WW/Rend, even though I’ve already started collecting some of the pieces for it to level up later.
I like it a lot more on console than PC, due to some issues with my mouse arm. It would help me greatly if we could strafe in-place like we can on PS4, but I don’t expect that change to be made. I used a similar tactic with the WW/Rend build.
My concern is that the build itself will be destroyed as collateral damage when they try to fix the interaction they’re talking about. It’s happened before with other builds. The bug they’re talking about doesn’t even produce enough of a difference to be responsible for those clears, but now that’s all they will hear.
…by the way, wasn’t this the set people were saying sucked? Funny how quickly that opinion flipped.
The first iteration of the set on the PTR was weak. The second PTR iteration is what went live.
P.S. I would never risk my account by “mass flagging”, as this violates the CoC; however, I will flag a post that I feel breaks the CoC or is trolling.
Interestingly I still find it a lot squishier than it should be, and I have to take care of my surroundings a lot more, which is a downside to the season theme as sometimes it’s hard to see if it’s yours or an enemies affix on the ground. Had a few deaths to that lol
I think it was to start with, when they made the change halfway through the PTR is made the gameplay a lot smoother, then people started getting creative with some of the options available.
One of the things I do like compared to Rend, there are weapon/quiver options available for you to play around with, and try out different combos.
That I think is what came about after they fixed the Momentum stack issue.
That’s my biggest gripe with the theme. That and the horn. 3 in the morning spacing out and that horn goes off, damn near killed me IRL.
How many accounts do you use to flag though?
Not just that build but others as well. Unintentional side effects and all that.
I nearly spat my drink across my desk…thanks for that
Actually the horn doesn’t really bother me that much, I mean sure, it’s annoying.
Byt when you’ve got a three man group consisting of two GoD DH’s, and a WW/Rend Barb, there is already a lot happening on the screen, seeing whats on the ground, or flying towards you becomes nearly impossible at times.
And when the screen goes dark 
Not sure who that that was a good idea.
It is my understanding that using multiple accounts to mass flag a post violates the CoC, thereby risking all accounts. I am pretty sure that it would be silly for anyone to do that as Blizzard keeps track of who hits the flag button, according to MissCheetah. If you look at your profile json (yours but not others), it tracks the IP address and your physical location of your computer/phone as we interact on the forum.
Go into your Activity page, remove anything after your name-number and then add “.json” to the end of your name-realm like this:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/u/MicroRNA-1507.json
This fact is often ignored by people who think mass flagging happens. Moreover, if someone is forum suspended, it goes through a review by a forum moderator, who have to deem it as violating the forum rules, resulting in a sanction.
For me personally, it takes something pretty egregious for me to flag a post.
I want to be fair to all parties, Micro included, and say I don’t think the friction between him and the Barb community has anything to do with real life politics. I don’t know anything about his political leanings. As for me, I’m an outspoken far, far, far, far leftist, and when I see right-leaning politics, I call them out. But again, I don’t think real-life politics has anything to do with what’s going on in this thread; if you have a different take, that’s cool–I don’t think you’re going to get much friction here.
It’s possible that were Micro and I to compare real-world politics, which matter far more to me than views on a game, we might closely align. That would be cool. Again, I don’t know, because I don’t know him in real life, and I don’t like to assume things about the lives people lead outside of these forums.
An excellent summary of the friction between Micro and the greater Barb community (or perhaps the vocal minority of the community, but I doubt it). I’m guessing he would argue it stems from different ideas about “balance,” but his points about balance have been perforated in the past, both by fellow forum-goers and by Blizzard, and his attempts at using alts to swing public opinion have, to date, failed.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I think D3 is more fun now than ever. I don’t play it much these days because I’ve played it since 2012, and I’m generally bored with the endless grind of Paragon, gear, and GR tiers. What little time I have to play games, I spend on Doom Eternal (an absolute masterpiece of a game), though the majority of my time is spent on curating and helping the community and working on my doctorate.
I was referring solely to the interactions between players, and how they go after one another, not to debate a position or argument, but to attack the character of the person. IRL Politics is another issue I refuse to discuss, as are religion and history. The ground is too fertile for pointless anger and positioning, and too many people will be too eager to try to establish the dominance that they should know by now they will never have over me. Should…but don’t. Or…whatever…choose not to. Doesn’t change the outcome.
My original point was that people do not debate position or point; they attack credibility or outright slander each other, because it’s easier than establishing a defensible position on a topic. That is an admission of weakness in my eyes, but we already know that changes nothing. So I do the only thing I can: I say my piece and walk away.
Not exactly.
During the PTR patch 2.6.7, Blizzard nerfed both wizards and thorns necromancers. The top worldwide non-season wizard clear was GR 148 (rank #2 GR 146) and thorns necromancer was GR 147 (rank #2 GR143). They also made a new build ww/rend where the lamentation belt had a new 150%-200% rend damage modifier. The prior version of lamentation lacked this damage modifier in its entirety.
During the PTR, a 10K paragon player in the first few days cleared GR 140 with suboptimal gear and greater rift. A few of us predicted that if the build went live as is, the top worldwide potential was GR 144-146. I was one of those. I presented numbers to back up my hypothesis using the PTR leaderboard data. As you can imagine, this was an unpopular opinion and there was much animosity expressed to anyone who held that view.
I advocated for the rend damage buff being a flat 100%. Needless to say, the majority felt that the GR 144-146 prediction was way too high. During Blizzcon, it was discovered much to everyone’s chagrin including my own, that Blizzard decided not to buff the lamentation belt at all that went live in patch 2.6.7. In patch 2.6.7a, they buffed the belt to 100-150% rend damage modifier. As of today, the ww/rend build has cleared GR 148 with a weaker version of the lamentation belt that was tested on the PTR. My supposed “lie” was a prediction about a build where my thought of the top worldwide clear was GR 144-146 that was considered outrageous. The real data proved that the ww/rend build was even stronger than I predicted.
You can read what I posted about the rend damage modifier here that gives some numbers and my thoughts at that time.
The fact of the matter is I consider balance between classes good game design and dislike the idea of an OP class where the other classes are weak in comparison. There also is a widespread misperception that I main a wizard. This is not true. My 3 main classes are DH (31%) = WD (29%) > Barb (12%). I support the nerf to WD that cleared GR 150 in non-season and also a nerf to DH GoD build. I take an unbiased and consistent approach to my ideas on balance. I do not play favorites when I analyze the leaderboard data.
https://us.diablo3.com/en/profile/MicroRNA-1507/career
I do not discuss politics on a video game forum as I consider it inappropriate and not in accordance with the forum guidelines.
The Forum Code of Conduct Description starts with:
“Welcome to the Blizzard Forums! These forums are here to provide you with a friendly environment where you can discuss ideas, give game play advice, role-play, and converse about any other aspects of Blizzard games with other players. Community forums are at their best when participants treat their fellow posters with respect and courtesy. Therefore, we ask that you conduct yourself in a civilized manner when participating in these forums.”
This is why my “sentence structure” sometimes is weird as I try to make sure that if I disagree with someone, I discuss the merits of their arguments and not the person. I do my best never to attack forum members personally or use an insulting pejorative.
I play this game since release and i’m still at 1.5k paragon. Maybe i should put rubies on my helm.
I can highly recommend giving the GoD set a go, even in non-season. It makes for quite an interesting change, with plenty of options for variation.
It does look fun, but . . . Doom Eternal is too good. Every play through is unique and rewarding in a way that I have never quite felt with a game–not even its prequel. I’ve barely touched the multiplayer, but the campaign is so good.
Y’all, if you haven’t played the newer Dooms, you’re missing out.
I’m also too busy working on my dissertation, article revisions, and engaging in some limited activism.
Oh noes!!! It appears we have lost Free to the Doom 
I’m not saying I’ve clocked 110+ hours with Doom Eternal since it released, but . . .
I think you just did…
There is so much wrong with this I don’t know where to start. You continue to push your “data” as facts even after being told by mutiple people, including a blizzard mod, that they are not only wrong but blatantly so. Blizzard will do as they see fit with correct data and the rest of us will have to deal with it. Pushing for nerfs just because it fits your idea of what you want in the game means nothing. The only thing you accomplish is pissing people off. And maybe that’s your kink but honestly don’t you think you would have a better time in game and on the forums if you had less animosity towards you?
Seriously man, it’s easier to just flag his posts, ignore it, and go on with your day. Your brain will thank you for the less damage it’s receiving.