My already bad melee build is now a little bit worse

Druid
1

I have a really bad build that I am somewhat addicted to doing each season which involves crit/crit damage/Shred and Waxing Gibbous. It’s simple, it’s terrible damage, but MAN is it fast and fun for what I do with it. I absolutely love blinking across the map at full throttle insta-gibbing trash with guaranteed crits.

I’m not going to pretend like the build is great. It isn’t. The damage modifiers aren’t there.

But here’s my issue -

Inherent Affixes on multiple Weapon Types have been changed.

  • Axes inherent Affix changed from Damage to Healthy Enemies to Damage Over Time.

So now Waxing Gibbous will add to damage over time, which doesn’t match any other part of the weapon.

sigh

I just want to Shred through things at Mach 5. Is that so wrong?

2

I don’t think it’s going to matter much. You should still be able keep going on with your playstyle.

3

It isn’t, considering the buff to Shred, but it’s still annoying.

I’m about ready to tap out of D4 for a while.

4

I mean just run Shred crit and werewolf crit for tempers. Waxing has lost its place considering the effect is useless when you can have 100% crit chance.

5

Apollo is very right here. Late game you can get your crit so high that waxings marginal return from the auto crit bonus becomes less and less.

Again, the facetiously named s4, didn’t actually bother reborning any of the uniques that were once defining items of builds. They all became vendor fodder.

Stay tuned for s5.