I knew I wasn’t crazy. I’m seeing more people notice and post about the Barber not working… it would be nice to get some sort of a response from the CM or anyone on the team.
Also, INB4 “the hotfix was rolled back” - whatever they did or are doing… Barber is not working like it was before the hotfix → rollback → hotfix. If that’s your only comment, you aren’t paying attention or you probably aren’t using the Barber heart.
They are constantly messing with the backend all day long everyday. There has not been a day in like 3 weeks where something is not breaking due what they are doing in the backend of the game to fix the increased server response time that came with the exploit fix, threshold checks for sanctions, extra stash tab, and monster density increase.
You can tell when things are being messed with, as certain mechanics stop working. One of the easiest ones to recognize not working is Stealth, as its very much reliant on the servers response time. Often servers are not being updated fast enough while your client registers you in Stealth, so you end up still getting targeted by mobs because the servers don’t recognize you are in stealth.
Certain timings like grenades that are the same activation time between multiple aspects will begin to have varying times. Positional Desyncs are another one, that can affect different skills and builds differently. Like, Ill have grenades not registering for minutes but TB will register, then when I finally kill the boss or enemy player, I will get teleported to where the server actually thinks I am, and it may or may not drop the loot there or some other random place. Other times, Barber just wont register specific damage sources.
Whats most likely happened is, the devs found the Barber to be a potential place where they can reduce some of the server stress, because other potential places to reduce server stress will require them to refactor multiple individual microservices, which is going take them a long time. They basically have to rebuild the game from the ground up while keeping it live to fix the major problems the game has.
Anything that requires there servers to do more calculations in real-time, is going to increase server load, which the barber is doing everytime it procs. If the game actually had the population of launch right now, I don’t think the servers would be live, without Blizzard just scaling up to stop the severs melting.
I posted on the PC bug report forum, and there are others as well. You should add your input too… hopefully we’ll actually get some kind of a response.
Whatever they did to it violated their opening promise during the 1.10 campfire of “never doing this sort of thing again” and “being open and honest about changes”.
This is getting bad enough that I believe D4 isn’t fit for the intended purpose, which is the implied warranty that the game is subject to.
If they don’t get it back on track and fixed in a reasonable timeframe I might look into getting my $ back. They’re in violation of my countries consumer protection laws at this point - but I will give them time to get whatever clown show is going on behind the scenes straight.
I’m not sure if it’s intended but I don’t get any damage ticks sometimes, then loads of them. Literally just started using the barber tonight since I got a second one that’s better and I can afford to test one on sub-optimal gear.
What is the timing on yours? I’m asking because I’ve been wondering about that. My first barber was around 4 seconds. It felt like it took too long for my rogue to kill anything so I tried a 2 second. Much better. At least for me.
I have a 2s and a 4s - tried both last night and they aren’t working like they did before the patch. Sometimes it only works once… then no more damage ticks. It’s really really obvious when fighting a boss in a NM dungeon.
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