Rob just posted a video titled “EVEN MORE NERFS CONFIRMED FOR SEASON 9 Diablo 4”
Thoughts?
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I think this game director is on par with Jay Wilson for the sheer amount of damage they’re doing to the game they’re directing.
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it is ridiculous and beyond comical at this point. If none of these changes and making it to live S9. I am probably gonna skip the season.
It is just not fun by the look of all these nerfs. While your bosses still has forced immunity, insta 1 shots and bullet sponges HP in the max trillions .
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Why is it not fun for you? Every season there is a new broken META build. If your characters get nerfed last season, unless you play Eternal, which the majority of players do NOT play, what does it matter if your old build got nerfed? The majority of players will jump on the next broken META build anyways.
So how does this impact you (or the majority of players) at all?
When Ball Lightning got nerfed, people played Spiritborn. When Spiritborn got nerfed, people played Blood Wave Necromancer. The list goes on and on. I literally don’t see this impacting how players play at all.
There still gona be 1 shot builds liie Bloodwave or Death Trap or whatever for casuals to play the game dont worry.
The game is too hard for them and they can only use 1 button
you are right about this - however, just about everything got a nerf in this game. Except the monsters and bosses. You will have a new meta, but it will be a meta of the nerfed game.
Your power level will never be the same anymore. That is the point I am getting at. I understand that there will still be a meta. The new meta will probably max out at pit 100 or even lower, while every other non meta build will be down to pit 50 or less relative speaking.
Compare to current season, your top meta perfect gear can probably do a pit 120
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That’s a problem. There shouldn’t be a meta build that you need to play to complete season journey. Most coherent builds should be able to do that.
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- Because it’s sloppy, garbage game design and is a great example of how the game is developed overall.
- Because there are people that want to play a specific class or build and even if it is completely competently put together it’s a shadow of the metas.
- Despite how high and mighty you think you are, plenty of people DO play eternal and they/we have just as much right to a well-designed game as the people who play seasonal. Barring sales we all paid the same price to get here. And if you don’t think eternal matters to Blizzard at this point, they decided to start monetizing it.
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I guess we can hope there is some changes to the mobs as well to compensate. Granted they didn’t mention those changes so really this is just a lot of wishful thinking in the hopes the season isn’t a complete loss.
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Indifferent. We all know that Blizzard ultimately still wants their players to “win” T4 and all necessary adjustments will be done to facilitate this before S9 goes live.
Until July 1st, I’ll be busy with some other games as I’ve wrapped up S8 now, which I did enjoy.
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Good stuff, nerfing the entire game is the first step towards making D4 a video game; something it’s currently far from being.
Hitting for billions and trillions of damage when you start out hitting for 50 is not healthy for any game.
People have been asking them to stop the power creep since June of 2023.
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Errr…no…every season will have best/ worst builds. However, when the ‘meta’ on tickles the boss HP bar as you stand their for 10 mins facing tanking it - that is no longer a ‘meta’ build - it isn’t beyond anything. The layers of NERFs to player power introduced in S9 are the most sever this game has ever had, and they are across the board.
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META is an acronym for Most Effective Tactic Available. There is always a META based on that definition, as long as something is the most effective tactic available to complete an objective.
Every season that we’ve had nerfs, players have complained for the same reason, yet every season we still had builds that could deal trillions of damage. This season is not going to be any different. Minion builds have not been nerfed from what the streamers been saying, and the S tier Minion Barb is still S tier for a reason this current season. From what Wudijo said, Earthquake Barb has basically been untouched and that is another S tier build in the current season.
If the current Earthquake Barbarian is a S tier build this season and hasn’t been touched, why do you think next season there wouldn’t be any characters that can kill bosses? It makes no sense lol.
Clanmates on our discord curse his name regularly.
D4 devs have zero idea what they’re doing nowadays. Here’s to hoping Titan Quest 2 comes out soon!
Unless there is a cool looking pet (season 8 was ugly)…I am going to skip it too. I will go play Dune which comes out that week too i think.
This is odd. All the numbers are lower. Is the scaling not going to be as high? Why hide that in the PTR?
Correction: Some of these are buffs actually. Looking only at the T3 temper ranks some are going up. It looks like diversity is probably the goal then.
First things first => we don’t know how powerful are the powers in S9
Seconldy, we don’t know what itemization changes there will be…
Yes, tempering power is down, most of the inherent affixes are also down (but not by a lot), my only concern at this point is that it seems to me like S9 might be a DoT build or die trying, and speaking of DoT that bear pool smash especially
I mean that would be the only real potential turnoff to me, if they made the Bear-smash like 100x stronger than everything… 
Ok, that’s half-way fixed, then next season bring down to 80 but then buff the weaker ones to 60-65-ish… It’s a process and won’t exactly work the first time but in order to be effectively done, needs to be attempted at least
And then to finally make everything work at least decently bring back some monster CC for post 60-70 or at least evolve them a bit
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We actually get some more fleshed out seasonal activities and power structure this season. Have high hopes for the season itself, but the massive nerfs are going to chase away a lot of people.
Even more streamer advertisement spam in the forum.
He must really be desperate.