There is no chance that legacy of dreams or nightmares set can compete at all with the meta sets, This causes almost everyone to be a copy paste of each other… boost the Gem and ring set to encourage players to try different builds, this also puts more replayability into the game as we would be testing a crap ton of combinations.
I like big buffs and I cannot lie.
Seriously: LoN/D gets its buffs from regular gear that has support buffs. If anything its that gear is what should be buffed. I’d rather see balance than just wildly buffing first this thing then that. That just leads to power escalation when the real goal is ‘play your way’.
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Don’t tell me that you have never bothered to check leader boards, even once.
For context LoN is a Set of jewelry and LoD is a gem; you can mix and match any power you wish but you ought to figure out which setup can make sacrifices. Everyone copy each other, because you are bound to LoD, Stricken and BotT gems at every possible setup; restricted utility has nothing to do with its power. For having more utility from additional gem, you will have to figure if it worth losing two jewelry powers, but that would make you evaluate some choices.
And as a side effect we’ll have LoD WoL Monks and LoD nova Necros buffed for no apparent reason as if they don’t dominate top of the leader boards every Season.
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Simply buffing LoD and LoN will just shift all the current tier rankings for LoD/LoN builds up. It won’t change the order they’re ranked in nor introduce anything new to the tier list.
What we need is for skills with no support legendaries buffing their damage in a competitive way to get some decent support.
For example, take my LoD electrocute wizard Fiorina (see my profile, can’t paste link due to forum pasting bug). Electrocute is so poorly supported damage wise. They could easily add a decent damage buff to Velvet Camaral and Myken’s Ball of Hate and my build might stand a chance at being on the tier list as a consideration to other builds.
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true i didnt consider that, as well as other classes. I just know demonhunter is not there with either the set or gem, Maxing out at like gr 85-90 in 10mins with good ancients that actually help the skills im using. but GoD Hunger arrow burns those in like 1:20, yes a big factor is the vehicle of GoD is so fast. I now see tho other classes killing it with these rings or gem, So it is more of an item’s need balance through nerf/buff depending. But thats a massive amount of work.
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Yeah, DH doesn’t have a decent Lod/LoN build except Rapid fire, which doesn’t match up to the powerful sets.
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Yep, it will be a massive amount of work to balance support legendaries around both class sets and LoD/LoN… but that was the corner the devs put themselves into when they started using damage multipliers on legendary affixes.
Also keep in mind that each seasonal theme will change the ranking of builds some more.
This theme for example is super powerful for Necromancers. Their weapon affixes can be stacked on top of each other for some huge damage buffs. Other classes, not so much. I’m personally not a fan of balancing around a particular theme… non-season should be what the game is balanced around.
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tell me youve never played the game without telling me,
just so you know most of the most powerful builds including this season ARE LOD
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I think its power only reveal itself when you utilize MfD- Grim, Calamity is optional. Also I think Leonine bow is essential for you to have some substantial crowd control and resource replenish.
And no, that doesn’t promise that you can match up with other class Sets but as I have seen it, most people ignore that aspect of the Demon Hunters then complain when their LoD RF build, taken from an online guide, sucks.
While I think DMO would be better, I’d give a shot to Firebird too for Electrocute based setups. For a start, immolation effect of Firebird have a chance to inflict AD% right away. It could be fun to ignite and snap multiple targets at once in a crowd with Electrocute. In that case, it’ll be an utility skill rather than a direct damage dealer but pretty close.
Although, I bet there are some other mechanics that should be considered before going too deep on this. When you are a fan of Electrocute being the main course, guess LoD or DMO can not go wrong.
The only LoD that needs to be buffed is DH LoD. Don’t know about WD LoD, but all the rest are pretty strong. Each of them has its own season - monk - crucibles, wiz - ethereal. necro - the current season, sader - soul shards. Barb’s LoD is lower but it was 100% playable at pushing Gr 150 in the soul shards and crucibles seasons.
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