Haven’t played D3 probably since Season 5 or so. I quit mainly for two reasons: The game revolved entirely around set items, and Blizzard barely managed to balance even a handful of them.
I see this is still the case. Why they can’t adjust some simple numbers on sets that are clearly underperforming is beyond me. How hard can it be to just tune up a single number on a set bonus? They can’t be bothered to change a number? It’s like they intentionally want only a select few sets to be the best. Completely illogical. But that’s how Blizzard works. I.e. zero effort. A random fan could balance the game better in one day. I’m completely serious.
Now that I’ve said that, I had actually looked forward to playing the new Crusader set, having a final go at D3. Just one final season. FoH is a skill that appeals to me because I like somewhat simple skills like that, not to mention it’d be a chance to play something new. Then, two weeks before the season starts, the new set is now a HF set instead. FoH is not competitive enough. Now you gotta play HF or else you will play sub-optimally. Apparently it’s too much to ask to make the two equally strong so that players could pick for themselves. Nope.
So there we have it. Blizzard is still doing the same thing they’ve always done. I.e. they intentionally make a handful of sets/play styles overpowered to the rest, with no interest in overall balance, leaving you with no choice if you want to be competitive. Not to mention how they literally turned the new hyped set into something completely different right before release. Gee, thanks.
Now I remember why I quit. And I guess season 5 was my last season after all.
You understand that Crusader will probably be one of, if not THE most top performing class of s19, right? Less hysteria, please. This is nowhere near the neutering of Rend Wastes; they at least had a point. I totally expect Crusaders to clear in excess of 135 Seasonally.
You completely misunderstood the post so let me sum it up for ya:
I was looking forward to play a FoH build, but it’s no longer really a FoH set but rather changed last minute into a HF set. Since Blizzard is as awesome as usual at balancing, there is no choice between the two. Additionally, since Blizzard can’t be bothered to tune up a single number on underperforming sets (how hard can it be?), we have as usual only a single few sets to choose from if we want to be competitive. If I don’t like any of those few particular abilities or classes, which I don’t, there’s no longer any point in playing.
Nailed it Mortac, right with ya.
HF was already supported with legendaries and Akkhan/LoN. Heck the Ivory blocking build was doing decently enough compared to FotH.
Was also looking forward to a FotH set instead of getting a set that basically does what we could do already, in a very lame way if you ask me.
Im with you. I hope this wasn’t the ‘balancing round’ for crusader (as they said other classes will get this balancing round in the future). Sader is far from being balanced.
On the FoH issue, they have to add a shield that significantly buffs FoH damage as well as buffing the belt for 500-600% to make it viable
I do push pure FoTH nevertheless. It’s even perfect for very fast solo Bounties, T16 and GR85 run’s in ~2.5-4 minutes casually, sitting at only 11,000 main stat @1280 Para non season.
I was watching Kikhaha on Twich pushing GR120s on the PTR. His best try was unfortunately some seconds to slow. How high could he go now with the new Darklight buff to 1,000 % and the 6 pc AoV buff to 20,000 %? GR130? GR135?
My goal is to reach GR115 NS full ancient and full auged ~1300 para, for what i still have to farm a lot. I’m a fun casual noob. Nobody cares
