Agreed… that one easily kills several builds, essentially leaving channeling except Twister in a sad state. While it is true that wizards are too dependant on DW and ES for too many playstyle, that is not primarily the fault of Etched Sigil but Deathwish.
Also, there are better ways to make us not use Etched Sigil. One major problem is the lack of useful offhands for wizards. With exception of Triumvirate and Chantodo there is literally no other source that we want to wear that comes remotely close to Etched Sigil, both power and utility-wise. It not that Etched Sigil is too powerful, it’s that the other sources are way too weak and outdated by several years. I mean, look at them. Most are completely useless today and that’s a big part of the issue.
You started with giving Winter Flurry a more meaningful power, which is a good thing. It shouldn’t be limited to Hydra and adding Blizzard on top of Frost Nova is questionable, as already mentioned, but at least it does something. If other wiz offhands had meaningful affixes to offer, we would gladly use them over Etched Sigil, depending on the build. So please reconsider this…
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I agree, but not just Phalanx, Blizz seems to hate pet builds… (only buffed Wizards Hydra and WDs pets - Arachyr)
What I would like to see is also buffed:
- sentries for DH and the entire Marauder set
- Ancients (supporting items) and the IK set
- Monks Inna set the pieces bonus to at least 1200 or even 1500 instead of just 950
- Zombie Dogs, Gargantuan (to be good for LOD builds too, not just sets), Fetish army supporting items
- Command Golem, Army of the Dead and Revive supporting items also increase the damage of Skeletons Archers on Skeletal Mage and buff Rathma set 6 pieces to - Each active Skeletal Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by 3000% up to a max of 12,000%. Might also change the 2 set pieces to reducing the cooldown by 2 seconds each time minions deal damage
Another skills that were asked FOR YEARS to be BUFFED:
- Chakram for DH
- Elemental Arrow for DH
- Traps for DH, either buffed or completely redesigned (to be like Assassins from D2 LoD for example, would make this skill great again)
Other skills that could also be BUFFED (to be at least 120-130 GR viable or max 140 GR) and which were IGNORED for years:
- Grasp of the Dead supporting items for WD
- Blizzard, Frozen Orb and Mirror Image supporting items for Wizard
- Lashing Tail Kick suporting items for Monk
- Overpower, Revenge and Ancient Spear supporting items for Barbs
- Death Nova supporting items for Necromancer
Probably missed some skills, but anyway these are the ones I remember.
Also Firebird and Blackthorne are STILL the WORST sets in game…
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Does the new gold pickup radius have any effect on things like grave injustice and/or aura of frailty, and/or what effect will it have with avarice band? Cause that increases both of those areas of affect.
There’s no separate “gold pickup radius”, there is just pickup radius. So yes, the paragon pickup radius bonus will affect those skills.
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Wanted to confirm that the PTR is available now. Updated OP for people looking for links and info.
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My game seems to freeze trying to load a game in the PTR. Would love to test for you guys but 
Can you turn the PTR forums on for everyone else besides blues? 
Currently having trouble getting on the PTR my battle net client is able to load into the character selection. I did everything the right way noticed I have my PTR copy from last season so I clicked PTR copy and then when back at the character selection when I try to load into one of my characters it just gets stuck on the loading screen all help appreciated please I just wanna get into the game and test thanks!
Update: The current PTR does not work for macOS client users. If you are experiencing issues logging into the PTR please let us know in the bug section with any additional details.
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is it gonna get fixed soon for MacOS users? There are majority of us who also just wanted to PTR test like everyone else thanks!
Tried all the twister and hydra builds with the updates… All too weak! (as expected)…
Back to non season I go to use my Vyr/Archon build that Beats every Hydra/Twister build so far.
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Non-channeling hydra IS too weak, mostly because you seem to average at 3-4 stacks of Fragment out of 10 (and even at 10 stacks, it still loses to well-rolled Deathwish (300% vs 325%)) - though it is rather more pro-active and might be a good break away from the DW-(old)ES routine.
And speaking of, ES might work, though twisters are just wasting too much damage to compare with hydras even if on paper they can outshine it by a noticeable margin.
Hey there !
still no news about bug with macOS client users ?
Thanks
It’s 07:20 PDT.
They’re not even in the office again since the PTR went up yesterday.
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So far it looks that the Norvald’s Fervor buff could go away. People are clearing GR150 while the buff itself serves nothing else but a new pony-run variant of play.
Great, my wizard became even more utterly useless.
Great job, nerfing it.
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Tested the new Necro bracer , and they seem to give the extra that was needed for a good bone spear build. But I just wonder why a new piece to fix an issue with the Burning Carnival Set . You added damage, but also took away a slot. Would not it been more sensible to just up the sets damage. It limits your ability to use other bracers.
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This is a very good point.
Whilst players have been asking for necro bracers for a long time, I believe the majority want bracers that adds something to the Necro experience, namely some form of damage mitigation more efficient than APDs that can be used across all sets.
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