I was leveling my barb and i fell asleep on my keyboard due to how slow and boring it was. This is because of the new progression system combined with the huge nerfs and little buffs/changes to the class.
The progression changes made it so in early lvls you get less items in general which means less materials, less aspects and less powerful upgrades until you reach penitent/torment at 60.
I understand why this was done but it seems they didn’t thought or they didn’t balance all the classes properly considering the changes done. I haven’t tested yet but im guessing some druid builds or druids in general may suffer from the same problem.
So, esentially we are back at season 0, we went back full circle to season 0-1 were barbarian and druid early game was dreadful.
Im not willing to spend 10 hours or more playing a boring class.
One of the reasonings behind the progression changes was to make the system smoother and fluid not a slogfest. Luckily this is a problem with the class balance (barbarian and maybe druid im not sure) so they won’t have to re make the whole system yet again for season 7 (hopefully mid season patch).
I levelled a barb to 60 as well, dear lord was it a painful experience, much worse than ever before
By far the worst leveling experience out of all the seasons. Legendaries, uniques, and usable aspects are almost non-existent.
Not fun.
My barb is lvl 40 now, I also created a post on how weak and slow it is. I just realised something however, not only barb has been hit with all those trash nerfs but it has also became a caster now. I tend to create my own builds, but the better ones so far are:
Leapquake
Dust Devlis
Weapon throw
Blizzard not only broke the core functionality but it also destroyed it’s melee soul
It’s worse then that. I’m using charge with aspect that summons ghost bros. I’m using weapon throw that throws out ghost totems. I’m using the summon ghost wolfs rune with the “when injured or crowd controlled” rune to summon a big pack of wolves every 10 seconds…
I’m a freaking pet class.
Best part is that the “companion druid” does not relly on companions but you do
Just accept that the barbarian is dead. The only thing left for them to nerf is the survival of some low-tier build in tier A, fully specialized, min/max with mythics. Heaven forbid there’s still someone playing it.
I’m a main melee player, easier to accept D4 is dead really. Great timing though as PoE2 is just around the corner and it will be an easy transition
I hear that they’re fixing melee there, maybe it might be time for me to switch as well…sigh…this is what it has come to I guess
Sigh…
I’m still at level 57 and MY GOD it’s painful. So slow, so weak, so squishy.
I play barb, and ONLY barb, since launch, and it has never been this trash before. I don’t know what could be done to improve it, and maybe endgame it gets better, but so far i’m almost quitting S6 for good. I have no interest in playing other classes, but barb balance never made me wanna quit the game until now.
This only proves D4 have NO internal testing whatsoever.
It’s sheer incompetence.
I remember the fist mass nerfs they implemented and then promised to never do that again. This was not a mass nerf to every class, but barb has never been hit so hard.
You can’t use melee skills and the other utility / casting / mobility skills that remain are not good enough nor fun.
If you asked someone to destroy a class I guess they wouldn’t be able to achieve the same outcome.
hahah same!! i quit playing after hitting level 40… was just too painful to continue… feels like theres no light at the end of the tunnel
I gave up. Leveled a quill throwing SB and named him Barbarian. So now I can say my barbarian kicks a$$.
Seems deliberately sabotaged just because they made a new class. Faulty advertising. Every skill needs to be buffed 500%.
I made a similar post a few days ago. Sadly some moron still argued that sprite born wasnot that OP. Barb is doing 1/100 damage of the new class now.