It’s ok for a class to have 4 weapons (2 double aspects), crowd control immunity and barrier all at the same time. Its balanced.
But the class needing 10 stacks to be able to deal decent damage is prohibited.
" *Blighted Aspect has been a disproportionately large source of damage for Shadowblight based Necromancers, giving far more power than we normally give for a single Aspect. To compensate for this change, we are increasing the baseline power of the Darkness Core Skills and Shadowblight with the goal of keeping these builds at approximately the same overall power level."
hahahahahahaahaa insane. ridiculous.
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The thing about Blighted Aspect is it buffs all forms of damage you deal and you can’t make that up without a pretty big numbers increase to compensate for that loss. That’s why Shadowblight needs a 100% damage buff if they do this.
As for darkness core skills, it should be a buff to all darkness abilities period. The only one that performs well is Blighted Corpse Explosion and that needs setup and/or multiple uniques.
This buff/nerf could go very wrong if not handled well by railroading all Necros into bone, minion or blood builds.
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Shadow is somewhat dead for S5. Play bone or blood for S5
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Yeah, running shadow minions with blighted aspect was the only thing keeping necros up with barbs and rogues. Minion builds are going to mid at best now, I suspect necro will just be going blood and sacrificing all of them for s5. Fun to be a summoner while it lasted I guess.
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Well of course. People need to learn from D3, they cycle specs nearly every season. Blood will be top in 5/6 or 7, wait and see. its like clockwork. Play your way is a lie. Its buffing 1 FOTM build and nerfing the old.
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exactly, they killed the shadow necro.
and apparently there weren’t any really interesting buffs to bones or blood.
it is incomprehensible how they love barbarians and despise other classes.
its amazing to see you crying about Barbs when they nerfed EVERY SINGLE KEY PASSIVE Barb has much, much harder then they nerfed ONE, SINGULAR KEY PASSIVE Necro has.
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They’re stuck thinking about Blighted within context of shadow builds where frankly, it’s not that big of a nerf because pure shadow builds are DPS, not burst where a nerf like this would hurt a loooot more.
The problem is that Blighted Aspect buffs all damage, not just shadow damage. This means minions, bone, blood, summoning, etc skills all get a massive nerf and hybrid builds are now effectively dead.
It was a bad idea because it’s going to railroad Necros into pure builds and it’s going to make shadow Necros a pretty mid choice on top of that.
Blizzard’s D4 team is bad for that tunnel vision.
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The problem isn’t the nerf so much as it’s that it kills hybrid builds while also nerfing shadow builds which really didn’t need a nerf for the sake of Aspect diversity, not balance or fairness.
They tried to address this by buffing some shadow damage abilities but they forgot that Blighted Aspect buffed all damage and had the least amount of impact with shadow damage due to shadow damage mostly being damage over time.
They noticed a lack of aspect diversity which was good but didn’t do a very good job moving that power elsewhere. It’s just…sort of gone now. That wouldn’t be bad if it was a balance hit but it wasn’t.
Well, its a Blizzard nerf, so math wise, its actually prob a buff! 