Just combing through the tea leaves and tin foil hats while waiting for the non-tin foil hat shako to drop.
My guesses would be as follows:
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Ball Lightning gets the bug confessional and damage drops by about 30%. Everyone moves gravitational onto amulet to compensate and BL Sorcs that still want to play spin to win move on while grumbling.
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Blizzard build retains #2 build (or maybe #1 build) since I think the devs intention was to make Blizz build the top build based on the unique item and glpyh release.
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Finally, probably my most confident callâŚnew bug appears and the bugged build will the top build. Based on AOZ Glyph Scandal on not catching the bugâŚitâs just so likely something else slips through during the S3 âbalancingâ that will be unbalanced.
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Hydra buffed.
Meteor gets new aspects and becomes new top 1 build.
Fire Ulty buffed / CD reduced
All passives broken fixed.
New Unique Focus
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I can see them nerfing Ball Lighting which would ofc. be totally uncalled for given as most of its current âout of lineâ performance comes from the S2 powers which are going to leave anyway once the season is over.
Ice Shards are still going to be way too weak for what an inherently single target / no utility skill should be.
Chances are good that weâre going to get another unique that has no real use case and is likely to be completely overshadowed by [insert new all class unique here].
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I can totally see the scenario where off hand focus unique becomes available AND no one wants to use it!
Would be interesting if a new aspect dropped that sped up the meteor and/or ice spikes builds. Made it instantaneous or cut half the time.
In my perfect (non reasonable world) they would basically change flamescar (of which I have so many now) to support Hydra instead of Incinerate. +5-7 Hydra anyone? Oh and made Hydra damage AOE.
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Not much hope for this oneâŚ
the community has asked the devs THOUSANDS times to buff the damage, specially to buff fire skills. to add a 3rd enchantmentâŚDEAF EARS.
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Gimme my Mammoth Hydra from D3 please.
Gimme my Big Cooldown Meteor too.
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Season 3/4 Wish list:
4 enchantments
Ice Blades Aspect or Unique
Meteor Unique
Ultimate Skills cooldowns reduced
Mana costs reduced
Set Items
Staff Slot so I can put on Ahavarion and not lose 20% cdr and half my Aspects -.-
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You Know what? if they increase the DROP RATE of UBER UNIQUES from 2 to 15%, the servers would be full rightnow and everybody happyâŚ
BUT NOOOOOOOâŚ
I think if it were actually uniformly 2% people would be happy. Itâs very clearly not 2% currently.
Anyways, forecast if anything is drop rate will get nerfed further. This is actually probably okayâŚif new uniques are on par with the new uniques they dropped mid season or like Tibaultâs.
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They could make hydra spit Incernates and it still wonât work, altho that might be a nerf to Hydra.
I was going to suggest that, but then realized that would be a hydra nerf legendary aspect.
Gotta figure whoever is in charge of âincinerateâ must be some execâs kid or something. Keeps getting buffs, and keeps not working but keeps getting the green light somehow.
I like idea of super uber drop rates. 15% is greedy
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not greedy: FAIR is the word
I heard someone say buff hydra?
Hyrdas should have their own enchantment slots.
Yeah buff hydra. We need more then 2 and 2 enchant hydras.
We need MOOORE
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More like a wishlist than a forecast -
- Solid buff to ranged builds - similarly to rogue, even if youâre playing a ranged build, youâre trying to fight in close range. Multiple enemies simply make range fighting bad or even impossible, pushing skills like FOrb to be highly situational (sometimes itâs great, chilling or freezing enemies, but when a butcher charges towards you it feels useless).
- Solid buff to core skills - those should be the⌠core of your build, but it doesnât seem they can get even close to HOTA barbs or TB rogues.
- Hydra buffs - thereâs nothing more satisfying than a build using Hydras and a core skill together. I wish something like Frozen Orb / Hydra would work, but instead, itâs much better to get the firebolt enhancement and focus on getting more damage through other skills.
- Bug fix - including the one that brings lightning balls to such absurd damage, in order to buff passives and other builds.
A wishlist of things that will not happen -
- Rework of core skills - I still find it amazing that I find sorc skills from D2 âfeelâ better than core skills in D4. Here, even the animations look weird sometimes, not to mention that they seem to achieve very little. I miss quick casting of low-mana fireballs, sending devastating frozen orbs, and - most importantly - I miss a good, olâ LIGHTNING skill, that shoots a Lightning bolt through enemies in a straight line (instead, we have clunky charged bolts that feel like they should be only applicable for low level characters).
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Not having to use 7 affix slots plus 2 aspects in order to utilize the most satisfying and effective skills that make the class fun to play would be a huge help.
Fix the resource starvation and you fix the class.
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I forecast incinerate being just as useless and only one meta build that works for aoz. I also forecast I donât care and wonât take part in the new chair arrangement of the titanic while it sinks.
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You think there will be AOZ part 2 again in S3?
Maybe flamescar undergoes another change in unique affix to attempt to fix incinerate again, and then, yeah, still doesnât work!