My personal feedback as a professional game developer

since there has been a 2 years rough play using necro.

And is my first choice ever, i have tried EVERYTHING, and actually i have played ALL THE CLASSES and mostly the best specs in build to deeply understand where are the issues.

1º -Since people adresses stuff like movement, that you need to add it in gear like vampire curse semi teleport, i mean semi cause sorcerer teleport is a real teleport, can cross stuff, and it should be the same for necromancer that is actually, oficially and cannon a sorcerer.

-So taking in mind that, in the part of macabre and corpse and movement, we have to adress a few issues, FIRST, Blood mist, doesn´t work as it should be, is not even a blood skill is just an effect, and is bugged so no invulnerability, also you need to use like 4 aspects to work with that. why? cause there are no passives like other classes specialized in that. SO PEOPLE NEED TO WASTE SKILLS in active skills that they don´t even usse.

2º -CORPSE EXPLOSION. Well there is a huge 10% of nothing cause it only activates when target is only vulnerable, but acording to necro skills there are only sever, blood mist (thiss season) and corpse tendrils, there are a few more, but not need to mention, that gives you a few seconds of NORMAL corpse explosion, and FOR WHAT? a 10% of what dmg? NOTHING, cause it doesn´t even deal dmg. Shadow corpse explosion right now is the same, he!.

4º -So in diablo 3 we had blood teleport, that was perfect for a necromancer, you teleport like the dash (rogue), or jump barb, or teleport (sorcerer) or druid infinite vitality (totally invulnerable that can handle even oneshot attacks from lilith mega uber. And spirit born with gorila passive total warhammer with the martial arts.

SO in this aspect, we are still bugged at the point of glass cannon. But what has a glass cannon that we don´t even have. SKILLS that deal dmg.

5º Now i have to rely on take care of basic and normal skills, is ok that basic are just like a flower in a empty room, it doesn´t even have a real use, is better to add a passives there to have REGENERATION for skills than that garbage.

-What we have on skills, we have blood, we have bone, we have shadow? (where are minions skills, oh there aren´t, you don´t have a choice) that now darkness is also corruption? well you have spent like 2 years and never manage to call only one thing.

(INTERMISSION) -Is ok, but, since they are useless right now cause you made ultimates like an ultimate, is not a bad thing, you even nerfed and nerfed more, the only thing that was more nerfed than a mini dog. Blood WAVE. The buff wasn´t the problem, IS AN ULTIMATE, the issue is the sinergy with all the skills, you cannot use that ultimate like sorcerer does with the extra bonuses in the profile page, not gonna talk now about the ultimate cause is not the time. BUT FIRST I´m gonna spent time with the main attack issue, and not talking about passives.

6º- I mean, bone, depends on aspects, they don´t deal real dmg unless you spend 80 percent of dmg extra and overpower with more than 20.000 dmg and 1.500 crit with 100 crit chance. Cause it needs overpower right? i was wondering another skill that barbarian already has and necromancer is the master of that, and he will ever should be, “BLEEDING”. Why we have corruption, darkness over time, or whatever, and don´t have BLEEDING? or DRAINING LIFE?¿

-If you launch blood stuff, or bone stuff, the most relevant part are 2 things, actually are 3, first dmg imput, in the case of bone, bone DMG, and the case of blood, BLOOD DMG, we need to understand what means to play a blood skill from a necromancer real view, i mean.

7º- OVERPOWER, is like a TSUNAMI ATTACKS YOU AND DESTROY EVERYTHING. Is not the point of a blood wave right? or a blood mist? Also there are not even close a tsunami, is more like someone broke the water pipes on your house.

-So not gonna call it that, is ok, but like shadow dmg, blood and bone should have first blood dmg, and bone dmg, like passives or somethig and aspects to rely on dmg not in just a particle effect cause you don´t wanna solve the real problem in 2 years.

8ª -And the most important is DMG OVER TIME. BLEEDING, CORRUPTION, DRAINING LIFE OR BLOOD, OR EVEN FLESH, to recover from injuries? man use IMAGINATION! You are pretty well payd for doing this.

-So we have Barbarian class, that have bleeding, a necromancer basically is a master of blood, bones, and flesh, also corruption, venom, etc? right? even could have usefull fire and elemental stuff like other sorcerers, FROST? WHEN¿. D 3, D inmortal!!!???

-I know you sticked to basics but did the math wrong. If you call overpower dmg, then nerf it and nerf crit, or whatever, is the same of everything- When you play is allways the time you point your finger in the right button, instead of dealing dmg like a real necromancer.

ADD BLOOD DMG, BLEEDING, AND FORTIFY CHANGE IT FOR NECRO AND CALL IT, DRAINING LIFE. CAUSE you don´t just drain and deal blood, you actually are using your own blood to take care of monsters, so why not recover the dmg and do more realistic, also you can increase the need of being more tanky, so shadow dmg and corruption, like is now called, well now is barely fixed, only have one issue. It´s sadly fun to get instakilled when you have maxed all resistances in 4 torment and full life and armor, and get oneshoted by lilith one single punch. THANKS.

9º -SEVER. Sever is painly slow, take in mind that mostly people use 2 handed weapons cause you get 200 % bonuses of aspects, so you deal 200 % more dmg, so i understand the slow stuff, that it should work with rapid fire buffs. Instead of adding as a stuff on the gear. So in resume you have to pull several times for doing “vulnerable” attacks for nothing, cause it should be the first time all the time, equal to blood lance, blood lance, is one of the worst attack we have.

-So in skill tree have, basic, normal, crap and defenses, then we have curses that WHY DON´t we have a real vampiric curse, don´t call it vampiric, (vampires are not necromancers, are just UNDEADS MONSTERS, oh, they have similar stuff? AND WHO CARES?, call it draining BLOOD?¿ who want´s the curses, nobody, they just serve one, decrepify and not ALLWAYS just for the 3rd skill that makes every cooldown faster, nothing more)

10 - Instead just for minions, man, look, you don´t even have minions as a skill tree, you have buffs of life, you don´t have choice, so is not even a skill the minions, another issue we have. Minions, are not a skill, and they don´t even act as a skill, they don´t have commands, they don´t follow orders, so even a pet is more factible than this.

11º -Then we have ultimates, you added few seasons the darkness ultimate, that is awesome, actually you gonna nerf it more, GREAT. And blood wave NERF TOO. WHY? it was good.

  • HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED THE GAME? i don´t use other skills not because it was too overpowered, i didn´t played other skills cause they WERE SO UNDERLEVELED that they were just AN ORNAMENT. I WANNA PLAY THE SKILL I LIKE, not what you FORCE ME, cause is blackmailing what you are doing. Specially when i´m the one who has paid your bills.

12 º -So that´s why i call it sinergy, you have made from other classes balances, all the classes have that synergy, rogue have inmbuements, sorcerer has the 2 skils that actually change the playstyle of the game so is freaking awesome, barbarian have WEAPON MASTERY, Spirit born, has similar to sorcerer, so necromancer has crap skeletons that you need to buff and waste skill points and add a LOT OF ASPECTS just for doing something. GOLEM, is worthless. So the best is allways sacrifice cause they are a pain in the butt, what do you do when they get instakilled all the time and don´t have the Golem cooldown or corpses surrounding you?¿ NOTHING, you get and die.

So army of the dead, well, still is the army of nothing, even buffing. I mean, MAN!

THEY ARE CALLED ULTIMATES for YOUR REASONS. We don´t even have a choice.

I have played all classes, and skills, necromancers still like YOU HATE THAT CLASS!

-If you do really love it you would never destroy your own work, so the only point is someone is menacing you in real life, that is something that maybe in a magic world could happen more, cause now you are Microsoft employees and they have more money than USA and EUROPE togheter. So the other point, is that you don´t want to do that class, cause people love it, and you want everyone wants other classes too, but you have the same issue with DK in WOW. IS a bad understanding of selling but is your choice to destroy your game.

-They are the necromancers, but also they are DEATH KNIGHTS. And mostly they are barely handled, and hated. Even only frost is the only that is worse, and have been since lich king, i mean, the lich king IS LITERALLY A FROST DEATH KNIGHT. WHY you want to displace stuff to make others loot to things that don´t really matters? is not that is hard to balance, you make it on purpose. THATs that.

-------So IN END, we have garbage skills, passive are so relative that even blood use shadow buffs instead of real blood, there is no bleeding. Instead we have blood ORBS? WTH IS THAT MAN?

------why i have to run for “blood orbs”, i can die in the meantime running for fireflies just for a simple 1 second cuuuldown, instead of waiting for the ultimate or doing a cooldown recovering with other skills? why blood skills are so pointless that i rather cut my hand and launch it to the screen to deal more real dmg¿?

-Man, specially on SPECIAL, BUFFS, AND SKILLS, with DMG OVER TIME, there are some points, let overpower alone, and focus on real stuff, we don´t throw WATER TO PEOPLE, and deal overpower dmg, we cannot barely handle a 2 handed weapon, and man, we don´t even have a choice to have extra weapons, or extra resistances of all elements, or extra life, or extra dmg. WE HAVE NOTHING.

-AND HAVE BEEN FOR 2 YEARS? so happy 2 years, time by time, i end to cut more and more the time i spend in this game, cause it started like all what we wanted, and the begining WAS THE WORST LAUNCH OF DIABLO IN THE COMPANY, even chinesse diablo INMORAL has earned and worked more than this game, and that game is a gacha garbage game that you should never have done.

-So thanks in regards, i hope you understand the JADED of my comentary, are not salty, are WASTED emotions, i don´t intend to controll your company, but look even i´m not wasting my money in your super duper cosmetics funny seasonal pass.

------I just earned the mount cause of the animal and the lilith skin. 400 platinum that was being waiting for nothing. I haven´t paid anything else, cause even the skins ARE WORSE THAN EVER.

Have you ever remembered THE VAMPIRIC SEASON¿? the best ever already?

-----Still the best, the cosmetic were not something that is useless, i still use it, cause it was the best you have made for that. Now is a carnivale of LUNAR ATTACK? is that chinesse lunar solsctice and the fact you are obssesed with their market they force you to make this?

—I don´t know, but just speculating cause NECROMANCER, use SKELETONS, and i remember that China in the past were forcing WOW to not use something and talk about DEATH. CAUSE IT WAS TABU THERE. So i cannot have proofs. But just asking, that´s why you destroyed one of the most loved characters?

----¿¿¿¿¿¿¿?¿¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?And what will you do right now? you have launched a screen talking about what will you do, but it means there is no CHANGE FOR THIS¿¿? i have paid even expansions, supported your game and company since i was 8, now im too old for that change of minds you have.

So, don´t know, i could resume better, but in the end emotions are the only we have and you have destroyed all my good emotions in this game, so good luck, is the second time i try to talk, the first one was more heated, this one, is less, don´t know if is better to leave forever this game and assume this was a scamm and another game full of broken promisses.

HAVE A GOOD DAY.

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I said something like that in few months ago: Diablo4 is the unique arpg that ur build dont depends of ur… build[?]. All is about ur aspects. ALL. If u change a skill… a passive… maybe u loss then 1% from ur damage or ur defenses… But if ur change one aspect… JUST ONE (and Devs are the people than select aspect for you) ure droped to hell from sky… Sense? To me isnt

You resumed my feeling about this game. 3 seasons without play with what i want.

I stopped reading at point 10. I really feel like you didn’t sell the idea that you being a game dev added anything to you opinions.

Some of what you said had really good points on why Necro feels so awkward to play. It was written very immaturely for a professional though.

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Bro just wrote that, thinking they will be taken more seriously, yet failed to write anything serious. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Give them a break. They’re in QA.

I understand English is clearly your second language, but a wall of text written like Donald Trump speaks is a “no thank you” from me, sorry buddy. :slight_smile:

Mother of TLDR . Gif

“professional game developer” as in PirateSoftare? Cause if so :rofl:

Since when were game developers effective communicators?

Effective and Professional are not synonymous. He could’ve sounded professional and still had a poor message.

Necro section is quite interesting. “Professional” unprofessional opinions :smiley:

I like/appreciate the post, but you need to condense your thoughts. Very few will read that wall of text…you did use paragraphs…but still.
I hate that we Necro’s only have 2 skills…blood wave or bone spirit. EVERY other skill except maybe soulrift is either useless or just a way to boost Blood wave or Bone Spirit. Lets be honest, the mana dump that is bone spirit b*tch slaps peeps away from playing it.