Is this a good time to point out that, pre-patch, Barb had two decent/good uniques (Tuskhelm and Magnum Opus) and this patch is actually significantly nerfing both of them
I almost feel like the changes to those 2 uniques might be a mistake LOL. But don’t worry, Rob got you guys, I am sure he will figure out some crazy builds for barb to dominate the season once again lol
That was the joke. The other guy got it.
Would be better to wait em out, to try em out =p
oh noes they balanced uniques that were op in the ptr based on feedback and information from the ptr. how dare they?!
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The crown was busted with the 75% resource reduction, so that that needed to be toned down, but I don’t understand some of the other changes. Removing the +core skills seems like a mistake.
Amulet and sword are still fine. I’ll still be looking to use both together.
The amulet still gives you 40% crit for an easily achievable goal of staying at 100%+ resource when all tricked out in end game gear. 40% crit chance is massive.
I don’t think you grasp the concept and understanding of balance vs trash can quality
I think they removed Core Skill because they saw people using it in Basic Attack builds with Shard and didn’t want people to think that affix was “wasted”? But then again Core skills are still gonna be horrible nonsense on like, any Class that isn’t Rogue and maybe Sorc so it still feels odd.
The shard I agree is still usable. But remains to be seen how good they will be considering other options that is on the table.
Yeah, I was actually thinking keeping the + core skills might help promote some none basic skill builds and forgoing the sword.
The amulet is still amazing. 40% crit chance on one item is huge.
Maybe it is for a pretty limited builds now. But before it was just generally really good paired with Crown of Lucion.
It’s only limited by whether a build needs crit or not. Any build that wants high crit chance will do everything they can to incorporate that amulet. And by everything they can I mean met the conditions - still need to make sure your resource is almost always topped off to get the crit bonus.
Noooooo no god no! Blizzard my pixels! You ruined the pixels!
Look if it was so busted every build needed it then it deserved to get absolutely obliterated.
I know right… I mean aren’t we all playing this game for the pixels ? Your screen is made up of pixels, I mean you are staring at it right now lol
I’m only playing for the drama and to one day hopefully play a build I made for fun that works well. Though I did finish the season journey with my weird werewolf build. And to drink beer while praying the game becomes so addictive I can sink endless hours into it dreaming of loot, salivating for the loot even! Or not.
But honestly just a really good solid game would be nice. Like Doom Eternal!
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well ok… good for you ? That isn’t how I play this game or intend to play this game. But Ye I agree with you these items were too powerful at PTR but I think the need to absolutely obliterated , by your own terms, is definitely not needed, and that isn’t balance
There is no balance here only knee jerk reactions to the community.
I was wondering if the curse of the odd season team misses were finally over… Guess not… Sorry odd team you had to be the ones to deliver these changes in your season… Youch…
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that is exactly what I said in my OP LOL. So, we are circling back to square 1 again lol