- Cooldown Reduction: Reduced by ~30%.
Hot damn. The cooldown reduction nerf is insane. Unless this is offset by a caged heart bonus, Barb and Sorc builds gonna feel this in their bones.
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My favorite part is where the say “Cooldown Reduction affixes often felt mandatory due to their raw power.”
No, Blizzard, cooldown reduction doesn’t “feel” necessary. It is necessary because skills have such insanely long cooldowns.
If you want to make cooldown reduction less mandatory, then you buff cooldowns, not nerf cooldown reduction.
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Like many things, this is because D4 is trying to keep insane damage and power creep out of game. Did you notice that StormClaw has been severely nerfed as well. That is because of the Lightning Shredder Build - it does 1.8 Billion (yes, with a B) per hit. It does not do that now.
So, some idiot decided to brag about how far down they got their Ultimate cooldown. And now, everyone else pays the price. Hopefully, it was a streamer but that still does not mean people need to keep broadcasting everything!?
Blizzard in other games: pressing buttons more often is fun!
Blizzard in diablo 4: pressing buttons less often is fun!
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I hope they get -30% LESS money from all players for this St.
Yes St.
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Barb has literally been deleted as a class. There is nothing left.
They have successfully destroyed the entire class.
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Yep. I don’t think these devs have a clue what they are doing…
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Well, they failed.
If they actually wanted to limit powercreep, they would be doing their own internal theorycrafting and modelling to determine the true upper bounds on damage. Instead, they’re just throwing things at the wall in the hopes something will stick.
Also, didn’t they literally claim Malignant Farts in season 1 were “game breaking”?
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I agree the chances of me spending money on dlc or in game purchases is absolutely zero because of them removing cool down reduction. Why would i spend money on a game that they can ruin in one patch. Over night the game went from fu. And i was hunting for cool down on my helmet and amulet to now being disgusted. Why are more people not upset about this?
this is such a joke.
It’s a good point but I think that the CD reduction affix made it difficult for them to tune down some CDs in the skills themselves.
Horrible take.
If that was the issue, they would have reduced both, CDR and CD proportionately across the board.
That’s definitely not true. The latter is significantly more involved. The former is setting expectations.
What’s more involved about it? You math at all, bro?
“Malignant Farts”…how old are you?
And a number of them are pretty powerful, especially at the higher levels. Give it a week or two and people will be calling them OP.
Oh funderful; because THAT’s what we needed, as if the game wasn’t slow enough already.
CDR nerf was fine… The problem is no compensation in return
They surely and well noticed the problem between Barb/Sorc survival and CDR being tightly coupled to one another, but didn’t address the problem otherwise
In other words - this is the “Murky nerfed but still no rework” patch, soo yah, at least won’t take 6 months this time… 
Also for the 15th time: why don’t they separate CD by categories (Defensive, Ult, Wrath/Conjuration/Imbuement/e.t.c.)
Have these roll, it will be much simpler:
- Defensive skills CDs reduced by 2-4 sec.
- W/C/I/ skills CDs reduced by 2-4 sec.
- Evade CD reduced by 1-3 sec. (but this rolls on one item slot exclusively, say Amulet for ex.)
- Ultimate CDs reduced by 6-12 sec.
Simple as that… Now sure, perhaps there might be someone that gets same CDR twice (say both on amulet and off-hand for ex.) and reduces CD of Defensive by 8 sec or reduces CDs of Ults by 24… I’d actually say it’s fine in a way, the other skills are still without CDR…
Heck they could reduce the high rolls for these ( but more importantly - strong alternatives as well
Uh oh, Karen detected. Everybody, on your best behavior.
Got it. Tween confirmed.
Got it. Karen only capable of personal attacks rather than real arguments confirmed.