Every campfire the devs make promises but never follow through. This season was supposed to bring balance passes early in the season and nerf overpowered builds.
We never saw that, i’ll use the sorcerer for example. Lightning spear and the enlightenment key passive still way overtuned while the rest of the skill tree and builds are under performing. I could go on about the rest of the classes too but the community already knows the state of the classes and build variety.
I bet they bring up the battle pass as the first topic because its all about getting people to buy stuff.
Regardless of whatever they talk about during the campfire chat the end result will be history repeating. By that I mean:
Shadow nerfs to rogue.
Bugs added to Barb
Necro will get a new aspect that doesn’t work
Sorc will get unnecessary nerfs
Spiritborn with get useless buffs
And Druids will get absolutely nothing.
Although I can agree to this Experience teaches me this is the real reaction to have.
There is a lot they could help classes with by expanding the skill tree, allowing more selection of such things. Imagine a sorc having a skill of ice spikes rather than using an aspect. Or how putting more points into a skill gave some reward worth increasing it.
The old standby will never fail… they’ll say, “We’re listening” and then proceed to offer proof the only thing they listen to is the sound “Ka-ching!” from cash shop sales and maybe streamers.
It’s pretty clear nobody in the development team knows what a good game is let alone what they want this game to be. So we’ll get some wild over correction on something streamers complained about in S8 and maybe, if we’re absolutely lucky, a tiny QoL improvement somewhere else.
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Edit: I forgot to add a couple zeroes on the price of the Ninja Smoothie Grinder
Yes, I heard them say that they are focusing on human druid and stone burst to be the build for druid this season.
Bro, those builds are the best right of the bat and they even made updates on the human build during the patch. They didn’t patch the stone burst because obviously it was already OP and everyone was playing it. After the patch on the human build adding 2% DR, everyone started jumping to play the druid and having fun. What a great season.
Still waiting for them to balance the builds not by nerfing the meta but buffing the non-meta.
There’s no chance they don’t mention Reliquaries in some fashion - unless BP stuff never gets mentioned in a PTR stream. I guess there could be that ‘out’. Otherwise Rod would insist.
Could be a crossover event: Diablo X Jamba Juice. But just cosmetics, picking up strawberries in game to unlock them. No actual gameplay like grinding boss parts down into juice for new potions. That would take work and imagination.
Ready.
Experience teaches me this is the real reaction to have.
