All you them trolls asking for barb nerf. Shame on you. Get a life. I can destroy some numbers to prove you all wrong, which I did in the past. However, I have 0 trust in developers’ judgement as past experience showed me so…Trolls and baseless claims rule when it comes to barb and PTR.
And 143/144 darkapator’s prediction (he wrote at least on live) is even without FoT (as darkpatator wrote, he had not physical FoT to test with them).
And Vyr Wiz 144 max is darkapator attempt too, ideal comparison.
WW Rend is than maybe slightly stronger than prenerf Vyr Wiz, but I have no problem that no. 1 Barb will be 1-2 GR higher than no. 1 Wiz.
We are discussing the PTR and the magnitude of the barb buff on live server. The current barb buff is exceptionally strong. The only class with similar power (wizards) is being nerfed on the PTR.
Achilles see the posts by darkpatator he disagrees. He think 144-146.
I thought Prokahn’s greater rift efficiency research showed that wizards were OP in comparison to other classes recently.
The OP literally is lol. He’s not alone either. I know you’re more talking about the players actually discussing things rationally and intelligently, just had to point that out carry on.
The biggest issue here for Barbs, is that for years, the Barb community asked for buffs, without asking for anything else to be Nerfed.
Barbs finally get a buff, and all of a sudden the Wiz community wants Barbs nerfed back to the bottom of the pile, without actually making any effort to address their own issues.
For those who don’t know, DarkKnight and GoodWillHunt are alt accounts of MicroRNA. I think I can safely speak for the Barb community when I say that Micro and his alts do not represent us, nor are they welcome.
Also a thousand times YES.
PTR is over folks.
Here’s hoping those of us who fought the good fight are heard louder than trolls. I’m consoled that, no matter what, Barbs got buffs, but I certainly hope those buffs aren’t curtailed by whiners and trolls who think “balance” is more important than fun.
I do not play wizard. Reasonable posters are not asking for barbs to be the “bottom of the pile”. Barbs would still be #1 next era with a 2-3 less strong buff (i.e the ability to clear 143).
How do you become an official member of the “barb community”? A blanket statement that barbs never asked for nerfs to other classes can never be right if this is a large community with heterogenous beliefs.
Case in point, I can think of several posters who main barbs and I think are considered as part of the “barb community” (who definitely asked for nerfs historically and gloated when nerfs happened).
To be honest, builds that are overpowered should be nerfed and nerfs absolutely should be asked for. If the dogma of “the barb community” is never to ask for nerfs than this is problematic itself. The gloating over nerfs is something that I could do without.
No. Based on the overwhelming historical precedence AND analysis of the person who cleared 140. See darkpatator and his posts. He explain why this build will go to 144-146. The top clears on live always exceed PTR clears by at least 3 because more people push on live.
Grift 150 has been the max. Are you trying to tell me in season 4 if one class can clear a 150 while the rest were much, much lower it would not be overpowered. Even the “barb influencer” has said that the pre-nerf wizard build is “obviously broken”.
How do you know what the “general Barb community” wants or there opinion on whether OP builds should be nerfed? As far as I can tell, the majority of people want there to be reasonably good balance so that all classes are similar in power to each other. The most frequent chorus for “no nerfs” come from the OP class. Outliers either low or high should be buffed and nerfed, respectively.
I support the barb buffs. The key question is the magnitude of the buffs. Is it ok to be #1 by 1 grift? Or do you want to be #1 by 3 grifts?
If there is only 1 build capable of clearing 150 and the rest were only capable of 140, then I would argue that is a problem.
Did you support the 2.6.6 barb buff proposal? In it, they asked for parity between classes. Specifically, it recommended a buff of 4.1 greater rifts for barbs. At that time, barbs were 11 grifts behinds wizards. Even if the wizard nerf was reverted, the current potential of ww/rend exceeds wizards (pre-nerf).
Check Prokahn’s analysis or simply ask your self what classes would need to be buffed/nerfed to get everyone within 5 greater rifts (e.g. 138-143).
There is no wall charging exploit in the ww/rend build that is buffed in the PTR.
ähm…no? we havn’t seen clears from barb that wiz didn’t already do in the past…with 2 diffenrent builds - and the maybees of 1 guy that is 10k+ paragon shouldn’t count as a fact and reason enough to nerf the build