I just logged into Diablo 3 ROS for the first time in a few weeks, and after the 2-6-10 patch, my wizard character was suddenly TERRIBLE! I heavily relied on the burn/ignite affect of the firebird’s finery from having several fire-based attack mods. My main attack is spectral blades with ignite rune, and along with several other fire-based skill mods, that was a significant portion of the damage I dealt to allow me to fight in the higher levels. My entire character has been built around my current build, and suddenly I was doing very little damage. I had to drop FIVE levels to be competitive again. I looked to see what changed, and it looks like firebird’s finery burn/ignite feature is now restricted to using the disintegrate attack. In order to use that, I would have to change EVERYTHING with my character, which took YEARS to get the perfect mods to use spectral blades and my other mods on my armor and weapons. My character of years is now rendered pretty useless. Why was such a drastic change made to restrict the burning/ignite feature to ONLY stem from using disintegrate now? I am furious, as all the work I put into this character are now useless with this one change. Changing the amount of damage from burn/ignite is one thing, but adding that ONLY disintegrate triggers that affect is crazy! Please, please, please, return the trigger of ignite/burn to just having several types of fire-based damage applied to enemies so I can continue to use my character. As otherwise, I am not going to spend several months and ENDLESS hours completely re-working my wizard character build from almost scratch. Otherwise, I guess I am done playing Diablo if such drastic changes are going to made on the fly that can so easily render a character build obsolete. - Randall Arnold
You wanr back to the old iteration? OMG…well, to each their own, I guess. Let me give you some pointers to make your character usable:
For starters… switch Aquila Cuirass in your cube to Hergbrash and replace Hydra with Teleport. Change Disintegrate rune to Chaos Nexus and then replace Arcane Dynamo with either Conflagrate, Elemental Exposure, Unwavering Will or Galvanizing Ward. As for the legendary gems, forget Simplicity and Pain Enhancer, use Bane of the Trapped and Esoteric.
That’s by no means optimized but slapped together… anyhow, try it because you will see a significant difference in power that way. You should be able to permachannel Disintegrate and move around with Teleport (now for free!!). Then just hit ignited enemies mit Spectral Blades and everything melts at once.
Years ?
For 790 Paragon, bad Gear and highest Augment at 53 ?
Dude.
Just be glad that the Chages where made and look up some Guides on YT
If this is made in “Years” …
Thats pretty much what the Rest of us get after the first ~4 Hours in a new Season !
And you talk frome Years …
Here …
At least I´m a nice A**
Watch it and get Good
Good Loot ; Have Fun
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