Yup a new Shako Teleport Shocking Impact Charge Meta is emerging 
Now item progression is more significant in the play through
YOU NEED TO MAKE PINNICLE DUNGEON SOLO or at least give it level restrition.
Or people still going to ask for boosts or even ask for real money for boost,
and you are also making gameplayed before level 95 completely obselete because it’s when the actual items of the game start dropping.
REMEMBER PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS GOING TO PLAY THE MOST EFFECIENT WAY.
im guessing you will get some masterwork materials from lower to mid level pit runs, just not as many as higher up. I’m also wondering if the first maybe 1-3 / 1-7, etc upgrades still require normal mats, veiled, iron, legendary salvage… totally guessing though.
Not true, some people play this way, idk about numbers maybe its most maybe its a group 10 million players is hard to label.Playing optimal calculous is boring for some. 
Necro minions go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. 
Its damage even with Raiment of the Infinite isn’t exactly earthshattering. Even at 500% it wouldn’t come anywhere near what the Barbarians and Druids were able to put out this season.
That’s where a WoW hunter style pet stance bar would come in handy, though I’m not sure how that’d be integrated into a controller setup.
It was stated previously that the patch notes would not contain all of the season 4 content information to keep some sense of surprise (and because iterations surely changed between then and when this goes live).
This highlights the very real need to have an option in-game that de-emphasizes others’ spells and abilities visually in favor of just yours so you can at least see what’s on the bloody ground (or dare I say it, your cursor when you’re holding shift and it’s a tiny freaking sword that gets lost in the visual diarrhea). The game has needed this since launch, but the firewall and meteor sorcerers really brought that point home this season.
You’re ignoring the fact that the upper bounds goes from a max mLV of 154 to 200 in season 4. That’s the justification for the extra power once you get to WT4.
You can have your unique crossbow when they make Windforce actually…fast. It’s always had +attack speed in some form, but lacks it entirely in Diablo 4.
Because the people that made d4 never played d2.
As someone else pointed out, if you really want to help the game, don’t just roll up and hit 100 as you walk in the door. I know a loud minority like to hit 100 and whine, but the leveling processes and reward systems are currently broken.
These changes hopefully look like bringing some real excitement to levels and by that I mean real items, not just trash to spend ages filtering through. And abilities that give choices instead of FOS.
I personally always start in t2 and level up, I’ll do that, should be able to get a 100 done properly within the week (without playing all hours of a day) 
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I see it with a happy and a crying eye as a Barbarian player. The changes overall are very good. But the hardocre nerf for the barbarian reminds me of season 1. I think season4 will be quite hard for the Barbarian, maybe so hard that you have to consider another class
It took almost a year, but the game is finally moving out of beta.
Maybe with the expansion we’ll also get sets and an enjoyable endgame grind.
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Honestly, my first opinion is can’t wait for Necropolis.
-They are making tons of great changes.
-They are also shortchanging sorcs as usual (outside of unintended shenanigans like Ball Sorc) and so I am a lil indifferent. They can hand Blood Surge necros ungodly power but still only give the lightest of touches to conjuration sorcs. OI.
I plan on engaging with the next season and even look forward to it. I’m a sorc boi and they are doing just enough to entice me but I wish the Sorc powers that be took more notes from the necro powers that be… which is how I have felt since the game launched.
*DELIGHTED about codex change.
*Holding my breath about tempering and Pit/mat requirements.
*Really not sure how I’ll feel but looking forward to finding out.
Seems to me quite a lot of work has been put into these changes, that alone is good.
The changes themselves look allright but the one thing I suspect they will drop the ball at is this key thing they state themselves:
“We truly want you to play how you want to play and promote real build diversity.”
All these changes to items and skills that they do won’t create any build diversity at all if the gameplay is monotone. I truly hope they start seeing that. It will take a few days, maybe a week, before players find the 1-2 GG builds and then its game over build diversity. Again.
The biggest build diversity comes from gameplay diversity.
If more places of the map were viable to visit in search for items then we can have specific builds for each of them, allrounders for all of them etc. Think Trav-barb, Cow-javazon and allrounder-hammerdin.
I hope that the devs of D4 think of build diversity not as a standalone but in combination with the enviroment and that it is OK that not all builds are best at everything but rather that there are MANY places to visit that makes MANY builds viable.
So far imo they have been bashing their heads against the wall trying to achieve some sort of balance and “equality” where all characters and all builds should be good at the exact same things. It will never work, especially with all these massive amounts of ways to get dmg where devs always will miss something that just cracks the system and opens up for 10b+ dmg etc.
They are working hard and that is good but I honestly think they need to start working more smart and more chill. I realize that is hard with a massive player base (where 90% quit) who are always on the verge of being angry hehe.
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I was excited about the upcoming season 4 and the changes to the game. After reading class balance changes I am not anymore. I am unironically considering not playing S4 at all. I already have a lot of negative feelings about D4 and I think these changes will help me once and for all leave D4 behind.
If the class changes go live in S4 I will stop playing and wait until there is a new team in charge of class and item balance. If that doesn’t happen, oh well, it is what it is. PoE 2, TQ 2 and even LE are options on top of all other available games.
Little steps in the right direction, but nothing at all that feels exciting like “I really want to try this”. Still nothing there that makes an actual noticeable change when you pick it up.
And if anything good comes up during PTR it will be watered down for launch anyway.
Come on, they finally added Greater Rifts, time for +150% multipliers to make the game actual fun. But that would require a completely new dev team probably.
the new uniques are cool
Rogue
Scoundrel’s Kiss - Unique Ring
- Rapid Fire now lobs exploding arrows that deal 15%-25% increased damage.
Sorc
Aspect Of Tenuous Destruction
- Deal 25-40% increased damage while you have no Defensive Skills on your Action Bar.
Flamethrower’s Aspect
- Incinerate splits into 3 beams, each dealing 70-85% of normal damage.
can wait to see that in action lol
I also don’t understand…since they snorted because it was being used little. Maybe they nerfed it due to the combination with something from the season. Only explanation
- More skills will now appear more visually powerful as the skill gains power. Additionally, existing visual scaling has been improved.
What ? so ranking up the power will make it look cooler?
- Elixir of Momentum
- After killing an enemy, increase Movement Speed by 3% for 5 seconds, this effect stacks up to 15 times.
- Experience gained is increased by 6%.
my necro is gonna perma drink this lol
you’re right… there will always be something that causes more damage, it’s impossible to balance that. But you can receive an item from another skill and thinking that can give me more survival in the well, I can cause more damage in areas, I can apply more cc , a skill can be stronger against bosses. So you should reduce the aspects in that sense and not now cause another 30%. Instead of increasing the damage from rain of arrows you should put rain of arrows that stun enemies. Another ability to recover life.
- There are many impactful Class updates. We are trying to move the needle, updating systems and designs instead of simply setting damage or health higher or lower.
Very intrigued, sounds great.
The rest is cool, not a wpn scaling numbers man, so whatever works idk, and i already think the game supports many builds so, good to see them looking at it, some can possibly lack the punch they could have perhaps, so that is cool.
Cant wait to play S4.