Nerf Bone Spear

Everyone sensible knows that Bone Spear is insanely over powered.

I don’t understand why it has been left as is for so long. I strongly hope that it gets a major nerf as soon as possible. No other build/class comes anywhere near hitting for 15 million damage at a time.

Having finally seen first hand how fast 1 bone spear necro can destroy a world boss in less than 5 seconds. Why is this allowed to go on?

Bone Spears current state is far worse for Diablo 4 than 142 people having a Shako in the Eternal realm due to a mistake.

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If you want to nerf Necro, better nerf Barb. Once you nerf Barb then you nerf Rogue, and finally Druid.

Necro wouldn’t be touched, because Barb is there to protect Necro.

Reason no nerf to Sorc because Sorc already got screwed over from the beta.

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lol, it hasn’t been nerfed for this long because the devs don’t think it is broken or needing a nerf . You kind of answered your own question there.

what else could it be ? applyin a nerf is a quick process we all seen it.

In all seriousness, bone spear doesn’t do 15 million dmg, it only does that damage if all return splinters hit the target. I can see why you don’t understand because you likely don’t play bone spear necro lol

With that said, they probably will shift meta to something else by Season 1, but likely not by nerfing bone spear, they will probably buff other spec to shift meta.

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Probably because Necro has no other viable builds once Bonespear is nerfed. So if they nerfed Bonespear Necro is essentially a dead class.

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Most people asking to nerf are people don’t/haven’t played those character or style.

Of course they wouldn’t know what made bone spear strong and why nerfing it wouldn’t make any sense (or is hard)

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It won’t be nerfed. You’ll just have to put up with other people doing more damage than you.

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Most people who cry about Bonespear Necro is because they watched some dude on Youtube beat Uber Lilith with it. Bonespear is actually garbage for dungeon farming…Necro in general is terrible, just really a slow slow class with zero mobility. It’s way more fun to play every other class that actually has fast movement mechanics. Necro is just a wheelchair.

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I’ll be surprised if they don’t nerf it when the season drops, but it definitely ain’t getting nerfed before then.

Yea, I for one will definitely stop playing Necro if bone spear is nerfed into the ground and they don’t bring anything else up. The only other viable build for reliable NM dungeon clears is blood and the idea of a blood themed Necromancer really just does not appeal to me in any way lmao. I didn’t pick up a Necromancer to roleplay as a vampire, no offense to anyone who is into that sort of thing.

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And you die SO fast too, like if you don’t have top of the line stuff to one shot clear everything, you flat out die to one hit. It really is kind of depressing lol.

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not to mention you would have to roll pretty prefectly and build it exactly like such in paragon board a lot of limitations needs to have applied for bone spear necro to do that in uber lilith - and that was 1 streamer posting 1 video.

There are other videos out there showcasing Bone spear necro killing uber lilith, at the same time, a lot of other classes also showcased killing uber lilith LOL

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Bonespear is a one trick pony, basically does well against Uber lilith but really sucks against any other content. Pretty boring to play honestly. But sadly if Blizz nerfed it Necro would just in general be a completely dead class. These people crying for nerfs are really weird though, it’s like Bonespear is effecting their gameplay personally in a PvE game…I mean they might be getting denied from clans because they aren’t a Bonespear necro…not sure.

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I bet is they won’t nerf bone spear. Fundamentally bone spear is not even op and is working as intended like it or not. We’ve gone through several balance patch now and even nerf that goes through very quickly to fix broken build - dev never touched Bone spear should be enough said.

Likely to shift meta in season 1, like i mentioned they will buff blood or shadow or minion (maybe) up to par instead of nerfing bone spear.

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Try 50 million damage actually, 50 million dps is what you can get with high end (not even perfect) gear.

And yes I can prove it

/facepalm…

no sir, not your majority, average bone spear player out there that are likely enjoying or not enjoying the current state of D4.

Your not so average streamers so, probably doing it for the view. You don’t balance something around streamers showcasing for views. lol

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Yeah, not the majority. But with high end gear, that’s what you can expect. 50 million dps.

Oh and that’s all single target dps. On an AoE ability

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correct sir, it would be wild to even thinking about balancing something based on what streamers do out of whack for viewership lol.

Why does it even matter? D4 is basically a solo game as blizzard didnt even include a reasonable chat function.

No leaderboards for at least 6 months.

No plans for an economy.

Pvp already in shambles.

Explain why any of it matters.

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Personally, I don’t think any AoE ability should be able to kill a pinnacle boss in 90 seconds. Some are even going as low as 45 seconds.

Now if bonespear was strictly single target, I could see how that’s balanced. But nope, no damage drop off at all. It does 50 million damage to everything it hits w/ all splinters.

Because there’s classes that will be lucky to hit 10 million dps with fully maxed out perfect gear.

I do think a lot of classes are going to be buffed for season 1 balance patch . Blizz done enough nerfing already - they’ve said it themselves.