By definition, a bug or exploit is not an intentional design.
Give barbs different scaling since they have more stats in general, not sure why they’ve made 0 attempt at the easiest class. It’s tanks and can have the best single target damage (ignoring lame shatter sorc stuff). Nerf their aspects too, they get too much value and never have to run aspects like Druid or a rogue has to that converts a skill type (and gives no bonus). Buff other class aspects to all have some multiplier on it.
? You could make barb weapons have half the value of other class weapons… It can easily be balanced but this dev team is… I’ll leave it there
it’s impossible to balance if you are not nerfing anything. So yeah it’s impossible.
Dont be in bad faith.
DD has nothing to do with bash.
Barb has a bunch of builds that are garbage, worse than sorcs, and we dont talk about those.
Balance is not class specific, its build specific.
Sorc has 6 core skills and you see predominantly FO and the occasional incinerate sorc out in the world. If you include mastery skills. With mastery skills you have a bit more choice.
Where the class suffers most is that you have to use half of your skills for defence and you have to rotate them flawlessly otherwise you are dead, and this can and does happen with regular base activities out in the overworld. Also you are mana starved and have to focus hard into that with less aspects to manage so you end up taking a lot more rss generation and cdr compared to other classes to make the whole thing work.
Sure barbs have subpar builds, but the still do more damage, have better survivability and superior sustain compared to some of the most gear dependent top tier sorcs in the game.
I played both classes the past 3 seasons and made my own builds each time and barbarians outperform sorc in every important metric in the game.
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meanwhile sorc had cleared pit 175 and barb hasnt…
36 barbarians in the top 100. Only 10 sorcs. 44 Rogues. 10 Necromancer.
Also worth noting Barabrain has the only HC players.
And Druids as well expected are dead last.
the leaderboard that ended over 2 weeks ago are you referencing?
not to mention a leaderboard that is unofficial and put together by a third party that not everyone participates in.
meanwhile world first pit 175 cleared by a sorc who doesnt show on that leaderboard…
isnt the top clear in the game by a landslide sorc? i think they did 174 pit clear last night?
175 actually. quite impressive
I think they should buff Barbarian. Still weak cant do Pit 200 in 2 minutes.
But but you see.
I HATE BARBS
The end.
/s
IMO, Balance is not possible when :
- buff & nerf cycle exists every patch/season and ‘force’ you to play the strongest class/build.
Balance requires a more complex review of all classes + skills.
I don’t mind as I only play what I like.
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If no feasible way to balance between classes, I’d be happy with balance within classes via builds.
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Also balance is doable within range
I don’t think they can make balance work for 200 levels (if they drop it to 150 then might)
Not with scaling alone at least… I mean it’s super hard to find a nice formula/progression that doesn’t go into billions over 200 iterations tbh
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