Simple DPS Fix for Barbs and Monks

[anon93475338]

Someone above said if they buff Monks and Barbs they’d be afraid of those classes taking up the trash killing role. That’s completely ridiculous.

Barbs would need to do maybe 100 times the damage they do now to match a LON StarPact Wizard in 4 player. Maybe even more.

And no 100x is not an exageration. StarPact 1 shots elites in 150 4p games at relatively low paragon.

People don’t understand how far ahead Wizards and Necros really are when it comes to damage in groups.

[Aspirine-2366]

Problem is more that Blizzard does not seem to understand either

[anon93475338]

@Aspirine-2366

Problem is more that Blizzard does not seem to understand either

[MicroRNA-1507]

@naksiloth-1354

Never implied anything of that sort where they’re incapable of fixing it.

For her quotes, I bolded key points.

@Nevalistis

I literally cannot promise you’ll get everything you want or have proposed, and honestly, that would be a bit unfair to ask of anyone. Some changes proposed might be literally impossible, or pose such significant engineering risks that we can’t pursue them. As an example, we’ve encountered cases where what might be one great change to the game is such a risk it means we can’t add three other things, either because of the work involved adding it or testing issues arising. There’s dozens of factors that go into class balance requests, feedback, changes, and bugs that I cannot begin to list here (largely because I have a lot of other work to do today with the PTR live, my apologies).

@Nevalistis

Most of your answer lies in the patch notes. It’s important for us to balance what we can do with how many resources we have available to do them, and to do as much as we can for as many players as we can. For this patch, we focused on items as many players as possible could use, with a couple noted exceptions that were long-standing requests. Mortick’s Brace was a good fit for this , because we agree Barbs needed a significant boost.

We wanted to make sure to include something for Barbs, but that doesn’t mean we are done forever. I have a blog coming soon™ (I hate using this because memes, but it applies here as it’s working its way through various approvals and still needs localization) that will explain more of what you can expect from patch to patch in the future. Please bear with me. Transparency takes time and a lot of coordination.

The musings of George Bernard Shaw and David Bowie’s song “Underground” keep running through my mind.

[Steve-6849]

If they set it up the way you would of done it, maybe, but I know that those change in simple numbers, can cause all sorts of problems further down the line
After looking up what a software architect engineer is, you are just the person that gives the orders and leave it to the actual programmers to make it happen
An actual computer programmer or whatever the actual title is of the person writing the actual program has more of a clue as to what can and can’t be done in said program

[PicklesJr-1158]

@Steve, I was an engineer for ~5-6 years. I did a good job and learned the architecture so they let me do design work for other engineers. You don’t become a software architect if you can’t program

[anon93475338]

Wow do people actually believe that changjng a variable such as “Demon Hunter Set Bonus 5” from [10,000%] to [40,000%] or whatever is “impossible” or a super complicated genius level programming feat?

They literally just added way more complicated code such as an amulet that doubles your damage until you take damage or an amulet that doubles pylon duration and Messerchmidt’s Reaver which gives you reduced cooldown on kill etc.

You think they can do all of that, and add stuff no one is really askjng for, but CAN’T static item values?

Come on, use your critical thinking. PicklesJR is is right about set bonuses.

[naksiloth-1354]

@MicroRNA-1507

For her quotes, I bolded key points.

Ah I skipped that part… So… Sad that they can not fix the core issues that restrict them.