I have now played some Nightmare Dungeons with the new patch. I am Sorcereress with a cold build. I find that the only real change I feel in the moment is that the game has slower leveling. Experience is not as readily gained. I also find that with the Vulnerable nerf I cannot kill the end of dungeons boss as fast. He is no more damaging to me. In fact I can stand in stuff I could never stand in prior to the patch, but he takes forever to kill. I was doing the level -20 approach to picking the difficulty of the Nightmare dungeon. So the boss was 4 levels above me. It took 5 minutes to kill him. Basically I stood infront of him and pressed a button. I may need to trade some damage reduction for damage now. In the past I could kill a boss 4 or 5 lvls higher than me in 30 secs or less. That was too fast but this is too long.
Also I have high resistances being a Sorceress it appears that they may be working better since the patch as I am not feeling as much damage from poison and fire as I was. Before in a Nightmare Dungeon I would have had to run from the fire guy who shoots fire in 4 directs from himself. Now I can stand in and just shoot him. I was also having to reposition all the time to get out of poison pools in Nightmare Dungeons. Now I can stand in them with no issues.
So the game is slower. For me. Lower Nightmare Dungeons because of less damage done to end boss = less exp and less fun. The game was made more boring. Hope the season spices it up some.
PS I did not mention Hell Tides because they say they will fix the ember issue in a hot fix. I am holding my judgement until then.
Yeah, there is no defending this set of patch notes. I tried to be positive, but I don’t think I can play it now. Blizzard just killed this game, you did the exact opposite of what you were promising the player base. “Because it is live service, we will listen to you”. You listened, and then made all the complaints worse? How did you come up with any of this?
You just trumped Ghost Crawler in terms of being counterintuitive to your player base. I never thought that was possible, but here we are
Can I provide an overwhelming level of support instead? Because I feel like all of us in this thread just need to have a group hug and support each other in moving on from this game.
I already requested a refund for my season 1 battle pass. I refuse to pay for this clearly ignorant or to a point malicious attempt at destroying any level of enjoyment. I am a Sorc main and I refuse to play in it’s current state.
There is a big problem with increasing the life of mobs,technically, it’s not that simple. And they already said that they don’t want to stay the same as d3. I played and I didn’t notice a drastic change in my damage, I lost about 30%. But I still kill mobs with ease and bosses too. I think it’s fun now, more challenging. Armor is a big concern. Some nerfs were essential to the game. Now maybe you opt for a little life over a vuneravel attack bonus. I know it’s frustrating because we spend time fixing items and now other attributes are needed.
Oh, well if Rob can kill uber Lilith after the patch then it definitely is a good enough patch for the other 99.9999% of players. Thanks for the info! Ps, who tf is Rob?
i honestly feel they got the millions of dollars. now make player base dwindle . less cost .it shows they can care less if this game dies. they already got your money
My meager opinion does not count for anything, I understand that. But it is feedback without insulting or threatening anyone because that is not acceptable. We are all human and have hearts and feelings. Most of us, haha jk, had to say it.
The game is just slower
Cannot power level friends that fall behind and it takes much longer to level in general.
With helltide changes gearing will be slower.
Lowering CDR and a myriad of other stats makes actual gameplay slower and feel sluggish.
Not enough quality of life changes -
We got the map reveal and lilith statues, cool I am all about it. But nothing to combat the frankly absurd gold costs of re-speccing, enchanting gear, running out of specific materials (looking at you silver ore), the cumbersome and underwhelming stash which will now be worse with the addition of malignant hearts. Tons of features that could have been developed, changed, and addressed were simply, purposefully even, were not.
Class balance - An argument can be made that malignant hearts will power creep everything back and classes will be crazy powerful, but why? So we have to play seasons to feel powerful? We have to have a socketed Malignant Heart to not feel slow? Sorcerer is in such a bad state people are actively deleting their sorcs… Classes are nowhere near equal in ability, build diversity, power, enjoyment, speed or any other measurable metric.
I want this game to succeed, I love Diablo. But this is just such a farcry from what needs to change in the game and unless some of the things players genuinely want to see come and go, people are going to very soon stop caring and move on. No one cares about your fancy loading screens, or if mystery chests are too cheap…FIX THE STASH!!! LET ME RESPEC WITHOUT FEELING PUNISHED!!! MAKE RESISTANCES ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING!!! Do something meaningful instead of spending countless resources on a season mechanic that “might” undo everything you have damaged.
I’m not going to comment on the patch as everything has already been said…
I’ll say one thing… why is it so impossible for blizzard to make the game like the PLAYERS want instead of what the soon to be out of job if you ask me game director wants?
this is the most casual way i have ever heard either wow or diablo described being played. i do not play this way. no one i associate with plays this way. i hope to heaven the target audience does not play this way.
Yep. This patch was a terrible decision for this game. Turned Diablo from a awesome game series into a TERRIBLE GRINDY MMO clone of Lost Ark. No thanks, I’m done.
Yeah sure i wait till next Year then i start playing. New Diablo release is Jan 2024. Oh maybe they dont want to sell Diablo 4 anymore cause it was fun for a short time. And the Sorcerer can be Changed into Bloodnight for rl money i guess???
