In season 6 many played a quill volley build because it was broken and they wanted to crush the game. In season 7 many played blood wave because they wanted to crush the game. All the season 8 changes that slow us down levelling, reduce loot drops, buffing pits will result in more people looking for the meta/ broken builds that crushes the game this season - season 8 is the death knell for class/build variety.
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The game barely already has any end game build diversity. This is going to be real bad.
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In theory I agree with this, but not so much in practice. Despite S7 being one of, if not the easiest season, you still saw only a handful of builds in the headhunt zones. I think people tend to flock to FOTM regardless of difficulty.
The game hasn’t fundamentally changed, either. The goalposts have simply been moved. It’s always been the case that some builds may top out before T4, or Pit 100, or Pit 149 or whatever the target is. That hasn’t changed, just the bar has been universally lowered.
I think instead of flocking to the meta people will just quit. People are clamoring for new content, and they just shuffle the deck chairs.
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it will be one or the other 
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I personally really liked the fact that I could use the armory and play 3 different builds with my sorc depending on my mood. Now it will go back to FOTM or some bug build that can do the content.
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This game never HAD any build diversity to begin with. I was barely able play the game with my own build back at release. And every single season all i could see was 2-3 meta builds that 90% of the players were playing.
Now it’s gonna get even worse, because meta builds will still steamroll over everything, while “homemade” builds will be in even worse position than before
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Nothing has changed, whoever plays META will play META. Whoever doesn’t play meta won’t play META, the only difference is that they play T3 instead of T4. If the difference between meta and non-meta today is 70 PITs, now in T8 it will be 30 Pits. That seems better to me. I think it increases the diversity of builds.
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I just got my Necro (eternal) into 80s. My off-meta sorc is getting buffed but I can currently only do low 50s because of how long it takes to kill bosses. All in the name of being able to level glyphs.
Having this progress I’ve worked on for forever taken from me because Blizzard arbitrarily decided pits should be harder rather than just making T4 harder and pushing out the entry pit level is a slap in the face to me.
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Do you think thats a build diversity seriously?
How dumb
I don’t see why it matters much given T4 is not required, you do not miss out on anything for playing in T4. It is the aspirational space for those that prefer more push back from enemies. Not to mention we now have an armory so you can certainly swap builds if you must play in T4.
As long as season journey does not require anything in T4, this us a welcome change.
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I think last season was the first one that t4 was required for season journey, and if it’s required this season it’ll make a lot of people frustrated
Personally I only played T4 builds because farming mats, gear on lower levels sucks. So looks like I am playing less this season.
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I agree, this game badly needs balance. Dance of knives rogue will be the go to leveling class this season. Its crazy how fast they level. On par with the average amount of time to level last season. I wanted to try it out and got 1-60 on the PTR in less than 3 hours without any crazy good drops.
Sorc is such a fun yet completely disappointing class to play. End game sucks with them.
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Not being able to even do torment 4 is not better…
A lot depends on the Season powers. They tend to balance them very aggressively for PTR and then bring them back down for live.
Why???What’s the problem with staying in T3??
Its not about staying T3.
But at least,
If you properly decked out your character,
12MW with 300paragon, proper GA gear,
That build should stay on T4.
Right now the problem is even a character with full 3GA 4GA gears with triple crit MW, if its not meta, you stay in T3.
Do you think this is balance?
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I leveled a CL sorc. Yes it took at least twice as long but made it to T1. Was doing fairly well and I got most of the gear before uniques except I did get tal rasha and axials. Then today with the vrak dude I farmed everything for an end game CL using Lurkin’s build. Now I waste everything on T4. And just general MW nothing specific. Not enough obucite. Oh and I’m maining Grigores boss power and does it kick butt. Especially ranked to 20.
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the non meta builds will still be on t4 just after more effort, assuming meta is the outlier w/e top tier builds people claim and off meta are the other 30 builds that have synergies and make sense after thought.
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