Why nerf WD? There’s no buggy interactions and you don’t need a macro like bazooka to play it.
Why nerf WD? You want to take the fun away from players?
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Fun is against the Terms of Service here.
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Consider this along the lines of forced herd movement. D3 tweaks are there to get people to play differently, and possibly change meta play so different builds are not locked out of playing that. Its like s21 is meant to bring decent soloing for Necro, and creating a DH WW along with zDH. 
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It’s overpowered, that’s why the nerf. It’s kind of logical thing to do to an overpowered outlier.
It’s just the method of nerf that might hurt the build more than it’s necessary.
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If they nerf WD, they will complained by one class, if they don’t nerf WD, they will complained by the other six classes. Welcome to the real world, they can’t satisfy all the players at the same time, they must make a choice, as a player mainly play DH, I understand it, because they always choose me lol.
WD blocked Necro meta spots. They need the sales figures.
WD solo 150 capacity is just an excuse, there are many ways of nerfing WD 's solo performance with minimum impact to group trash kill, but they chose the harshest method.
S20 supposed to be a necro season, yet trash kill nova were quickly dethroned by WD as SB were more enjoyable to zb for.
S21 looks like another necro season, they had to make sure history do not repeat.
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wd is playable right now. what are you talking about?
have you played wd in other seasons???
s21 will make wd crap again.
I have played WD this and other seasons. The SB build is overpowered, that is a fact.
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they had more then enough time to test the build. but they didn’t.
and now, as I said, they really only want to sell more necro addons. ridiculous balance.
Necro trash killer’s meta spot only works for this season because of the cube season buff. Even if they nerf WD, next season, necro won’t be a viable trash killer, nor will any other class for 150.
At 750 paragon, I was running 105GR without dying only having 3 gems leveled to 85. I’m no expert but that seems a bit overpowered. Class is still playable with substitutions but now I’m 850 para doing 95GR with 3 gems at 90. So minus 10-15GR levels on average
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They nerfed it because the goal was to have a player of 5000 paragon clear around 130-135 and the build is going to hit 150 at that mark.
Personally, I would rather they balance builds to be in the position that SB is at and have maybe a handful of players clear GR150 while most others that are dedicated are in the 140-145 range. That feeds the hunger imo, so close to 150, push a little harder etc…
At 135 for a balance point, you need to do exponentially higher damage and have higher survival just to get into that 145 range let alone 150.
Reaching the limit (150) was never part of GR’s original design. It is a leaderboard, the limit should never be reached.
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the best answer to your question: blizzard wants to buff necro, and encourage players to buy it.
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Nerf was expected but the chosen implementation of said nerf is a bad move. Only PTR testing will reveal what’s right and wrong.
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I dont see a stronger version of TK than LoD Nayrs GS atm. With buff to Sim and SM rune added to shoulder for dumping essence, its a strong indication they want this bd in action. Need PTR to see though
They need to revisit WD SB… its too big of a nerf.
agree. simple fact.
balance and fun never interested them. they haven’t even responded to good forum posts for many years.
I mean, the game is 8 years old and light years away from the original intention.
Things change, and often times for the better.
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Or, for the worse.
There is no reason to say that a solo player reaching the maximum level of this game is something “good”, on the contrary, it will trivialize the difficulty levels of this game, especially for 4p.
This game is old, but that doesn’t justify staying in error.
The original design may be distorted due to the massive powercreep, but there is a big difference in proposing that it be completely ruined …
You should not have to group up with other players to achieve the highest rank in an ARPG, that is the bottom line.
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