So is the best spec from last season completely useless in this one? cuz im about ready to just roll a new class rather than learn meteor/firewall.
No, but it will feel dead compared to re-rolling HOTA barb. Do yourself a favor. Roll HOTA barb – sadly.
I literally was typing this in clan chat when you posted it. “Should i just save myself some time and re roll a hota barb or did they kill my 2nd favorite build in the game too?”
Yeah, sadly, re-roll. The upside here is that Starless uber enabed HOTA will feel even more powerful than before.
Off topic, really feels like they are trying to crush all spin to win type builds from WW to TB. Almost like by pure design they feel these should be leveling builds and not end game builds and will lower power numbers until people stop using them end game.
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I have to agree. Tired of them deciding what my end game build should be, i want to play what i like playing, and i liked playing the ball lightning build last season. Now if you’re not using pyromancy or chain lightning you’re sh!t.
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Tha ball lightning nerf was extreme.
it does nowt woth it…
I understand It had to be nerfed, but not that nerfed!
the Nerf was absurd and so severe that incinerate build is better… and those are major words…
these guys don’t know what they do
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I almost feel like they are balancing around Starless buff and then backwards calculating how much to nerf everything else.
For example on druid, I mean in what balance context did Retaliation aspect need to go down by 10%x?
RIP, another season where my famous ice bomb build reigns supreme!
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Definitely done with this game after the massive nerf to ball lightning sorcerer. Nothing like spending all that time grinding for gear, just to log in and discover you can’t even do 1/4 the damage you were doing a few days ago. Way to ruin the game, Blizzard. Maybe Microsoft was right to lay all you guys off.
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Not only ball lightning… the whole sorcerer class…
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There is a guy using a s3 ball lightning build and he just mows through uber lillith like butter.
Just insane dps unless they stealth nerfed her hp or something.
BL is not dead at all. Its still very very good.
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I found his build.
www.reddit.cm/r/diablo4/comments/1ac9oup/s3_lilith_kill_ball_lightning/
Change cm to com for link
S3 barb One-shots her.
Yeah why even do anything anyway right?
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Is chain lightning actually good now? I haven’t been keeping up with things so I’m not sure why it would be that good now, either for leveling or endgame.
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All these skills were always “good”…many were just not playing the game right. If you actually play the game like it was meant to be played, then you gain a deeper understanding…an understanding of how Blizzard progression would look like.
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Um okay. That doesn’t really answer my question though.
What’s so good about it now, or then, or at all? Chain Lighting that is.
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Starless takes base CL original build and amps up by 40%. No attack speed nerf like on BL so the build is just strictly better than CL was last season.
Also…it would seem like non gravigational BL still shoots out fast enough so assuming you are running CL as true base engine with both recharging and tether, your mana energy regen should be so crazy high you can support both Selig and spamming regular straight line ball lightning for crazy DPS.
@decklan, that build you posted looks similar to the build I ended up with at S2 PvP. The compensations they do to stretch to all the glpyhs does work. But in NMD100 just feels a bit of a slow pace vs HOTA since you have to sort or just sit on the enemies waiting for them to die.
I agree. I think blizzard is most likely the best all around build this season.
Something else may show up though. especially if this upcoming patch changes some things
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Seems interesting. So it’s not just chain lightning but alternating between it and ball lightning?
What kind of gear do you need to tie it all together? I just finished the base season 3 questline so I’m debating whether to continue on or wait for season 4. Haven’t done much yet but so far chain lightning has been okay on its own as a leveling tool.