Seems like Blizzards balance changes here are just as bad and weird as they are in Overwatch, just from reading this thread here and a few others on Reddit. It’s funny that it happens in the exact same patter as well; don’t fix the obviously broken and useless stuff but give the useful and fun things unwanted and unneeded changes just for the sake of changing something, then ignore all feedback and proceed with the mostly unaltered changes that got “tested” on the Public “Test” Region.
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so much feedback on ES and they still didnt touch it again and went with their 1st iteration.
it could still be a twister flavoured season with the old ES. Buff either of the other 3 items and it would have no different effect on twisters in the end.
they promised to give classes more competetive options and this single change of an item is the complete opposite.
the introduction of that atrocious Winter Flurry effect is just rubbing salt into the wound…
I also usually main wizard but I’m seriously considering in picking another class this time around.
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This is what baffles me the most, especially when there are people who either think this change is good or that it brings something new. It doesn’t bring or offer any new mechanics, nor did it give us any new builds. If Energy Twister did receive a new build of any kind, it was only because of the buffs to it’s 3 existing legendary items, not because of Etched Sigil’s change.
It is worth repeating that we Wizards didn’t receive nearly as many new builds as we have lost with this change (in short we have less builds overall to choose from compared to before). It’s even worse when you consider that some of the new builds involve a clunky mess of a playstyle (looking at you hydra, winter’s flurry, and Fragment of Destiny).
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No problem, Crusaders can take over for wizards with their shiny and working “Meteor” bombardment - trust me, that was the real reason for nerfing Etched Sigil.
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Truth be told, I’d rather not think of that as the reason as that would be partially blaming Crusaders, which I definitely would rather not do as they need plenty of attention as well.
I’m still mad they were the only class that could do t6 on RoS launch, to the burning Hells with them!
Ah c’mon, don’t do that. I mean think about what they had to go through after RoS launch. Nerfs to their healing, being made squishy as blocking became an irrelevant defensive stat, fun skills becoming lost to obscurity due to nerfs or lack of buffs; for example the Phalanx skill. The list goes on and on; as such I personally wouldn’t throw them under the bus. They’ve suffered just as we have.
So what was the point for the PTR again? It defenitly was not balance.
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It’s perfectly balanced - carrot and stick, you now. Issue is some got the carrot and wizards got the stick. Well, it’s a stick that resembles an oversized spiked club with rusty nine inch nails.
I don’t see why they remained so fixated with the twisters, it’s not like we have a Twister set that needed extra oomph. Typhoon still needed help, other sets as well.
ES change would be fine, if they compensated for non-channeling builds enough to make them viable.
It’s not like even if wiz had an S tier build for GRs (be it TC or RGK) they would be the most played class by far, since they still blow at speeds (be it key farming, GR speeds / gem levelups, bounties), but hey at least you could play some aspects of the end game in season w/o feeling obsolete or auto-kick in public games (happens a lot).
I highly expect more changes before live season 22, or at least within first 2 weeks of S22 for wizard to fix at least some issues.
I don’t expect anything other than number tweaks. The best strategy for players might be to stop playing wizard in seasons.
You’ll never get me to stop playing Wizard! Well… except by doing one thing (which I shall not named for fear that it’ll be jinxed).
They rarely make balance changes between PTR and season start, well at least not buffs, as they have made nerfs in between. I would not expect any buffs to the wizard class until Season 23 now…
I think you meant Season 32 ^^