It’s not just the nerfs to the overpower, it’s also the caps to everything (key passives as well now) and the oversimplification and nerfs to legendary nodes on our paragon boards - make no mistake, these are nerfs on top of nerfs.
Season 9 - season of the nerf hammer.
Not even worth downloading the PTR - there won’t be a T4 viable build unless the seasonal powers are OP - blizz reverse these tone death nerfs please, and stop listening to that one streamer who is killing your game. Just look at the builds your player base is playing, and you will see that the majority want to blast, not crawl.
The end result will be a dead(er) game when people go play something that allows them to have the ARPG power fantasy and not some bastardized version of an MMO / Souls / ARPG abomination.
It is great that they are nerfing.
The game needs A LOT more nerfs.
That said, having to rely on hard caps definitely tends to be a sign of failed game design.
But we already knew that. It is nonetheless better than doing nothing.
Blasting is just as stupid as severe chronic underpowered characters. I would rather see a challenging game but with character mechanics that are equally strong, interactions and synergies that are entertaining to play around (see also: require a neuron) and are reliable.
This may come as a shock to you, but the vast majority of ARPG players don’t give a flying F*** about balance, the ones who do are usually epeen chasers in either PvP or leaderboards.
Most people want to come in and after finish their build (in a reasonable amount of time), want to come in and blow up rooms full of demons including bosses and pick up shiny loot.
Caps and nerfs are fine if they actually bring some balance to the game. What is more likely to happen is that it will rein in the meta’s slightly and decimate the off meta’s.
The PTR will show how well it works and then things can be adjusted if necessary.
So ‘balance’ is all about nerfing everything into the ground?
As for all these people screaming for balance? Where are they? When I play I seeing the vast majority of people playing builds that blast - if, what you say is true - what people are wanting is weaker builds buffed so that those can blast too.
Probably not, people will just test the meta builds and use the loot pinata vendor to play around. Almost no one will do anything that actually brings in useful data.
You mean all the people who don’t play this because of the state of the game?
Please show me data of how “most people” want a trivial game. Link?
I mean Blizzard is the one making the changes so they must know something about those numbers… right? It is not like I am making the changes…although I am in favor of them.
Lets just call it 40 years of ARPG and other gaming experience.
But if you want to pretend that people want some hyper balanced game like a PvP game or MMO and are fine with them screwing up every build every season, sometimes multiple times. Well you feel free to keep playing and giving them your money.
You and the other two or three turbo “”“fans”“” can stay here alone until the bitter end while proclaiming everyone else to be wrong and you and Blizzard to be right.
