That the elemental damage affix on Swampland Waders was useful to any class that needed them for a LOD build and the WD-specific affix was a waste to anything that wasn’t a WD. Not only that, for non-INT classes they had to rely on re-rolling the INT to their main stat, so it was even harder to find a set with useful affixes. Blackthorne’s can now drop with class-appropriate main stat, VIT and All Res, and that leaves you the option of re-rolling a secondary.
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Oh, so your point is…they have basically inferior to Blackthorne’s in every way now. Well, that’s true enough. Maybe someday Sacrifice will return to it’s former glory. I wonder what exactly it needs.
For non-WDs, yes, but WDs now have two sets of pants that can grant them elemental bonuses.
Completely agree with you !
They rework Firebird not WD and not DH. We wanted something else than always meta Necro/crusader. The DH is still the best runner and the best farmer and the support DH is still in the meta. Why people are complaining about DH ? He’s now a single target and not a multi target. You have to remove striken and put bane of the trapped and he’s still very good in solo.
OK they nerf the WD but we have to accept that. They bring something else with the follower, with the Necro, with the Firebird… I think (no i’m sure) it will be a good season. I enjoy WD too but we can play something else, something new…
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Thank you very much!
The CM did a great job together with Devs. Hopefully the devs can workout better communication channels regarding diablo3 adjustments, because the playerbase might be focused on d2r after its release. The devs would need a really great reworks, buff/nerfs to shake the meta for upcoming season to get players interested in joining back
Still curious to hear why we are changing this a few seasons in.
Is it because it’s a new dev team everytime and this time nobody cares and just rushed the bejesus out of this? I’m calling massive poor effort, not from community managers or anyone else but the devs and those in charge of the seniors in charge of them.
Good and balanced change for FB! Can Rathma get the same kind of love and bump it back up a bit? maybe change the 2pc to give pets more CD-reduction (0.75-1s again) on hit for AotD making it more spammable, or just some dmg % increase. Please dont leave this reworked set sitting in the dumpster!
Maybe that they should make all Blackthrone’s pieces have elemental affix, so people can use its piece in their build.
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Great suggestion.
Add gloves and it is OK.
Blackthorne chest needs a preset 4th AS affix, similar to Tal Rasha chest piece. 
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Agree. Good suggestion.
the few of my friends and myself that actually play d3 all agreed to skip next season (and non-s.), because it’s pointless…no balance changes to our most beloved classes, no new items, no skillchanges, no seasontheme (that is interesting…and seasononly)
there was way too much time wasted on only a couple of changes back and forth, it would be much more effective to change/buff much more items/skills and only go over them once again + balance them the following season seeing more results - players would have more new stuff to play with
have no clue why some ppl see 2.7 as a big patch, disappointing
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Well, the follower revamp is basically the biggest and most interesting thing they have added since… the cube? Anything else in between worth mentioning?
It is not Friday yet, so time will tell, but S23 seems to be the first time I play Diablo 3 in quite a while.
So yeah, I hope future patches will be more like 2.7, than what came before.
That said, yeah, Blizzard should try to balance more skills. It is sad that all “balancing” happens through items.
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it really pains me to say it but this new FB set is 100% broken and should not go live as is 
There is, as you said, another armor with attack speed. What about CDR on a chest? Can we make it interesting? Maybe Tyrael’s has a chance upon damaging a demon to lower cooldowns by 1 second? or just 10% flat CDR? Lots of items could simply be more interesting - Itemization was Diablo 3’s Achilles heel.
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This isn’t totally true. FB set is actually overall, in a good place in the S tier category. To be honest it looks like it’s 3rd on the list behind Sader and even possibly Bonespear necro still. It is a strong build, but it’s not even the strongest in the game. Other builds for T16 and speed GRs are still above it also.
Follower system, Leaderboards and teleport fix big core update i think, ty for this
Most interesting season if you bot or don’t have friends to play with
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Yes finali solo players got a little help and now it seems proup players got all bitter about it. The game should benefit all not just group play so suck it up buttercups.
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It really pains me to tell you that you seem to be the only player thinking that 
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