Seriously? Again with the balance changes? 🤦‍♂️

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I’m referring to the new patch changes that buff super ball lightning from 100% increased damage to 125% increased damage.

Guys, the reason no one uses ball lightning on live and why no one used the new super ball lightning unique on the PTR is because base ball lightning damage is 0. 0 multiplied by 125% is still 0.

Even bad builds do tens of billions of damage. We’re talking barely T100-viable here. You are wasting your time making new ball lightning uniques if the base ability still does 0 damage.

Not to mention that you need several mythic uniques to bring this hypothetical super ball lightning build online and you will be missing all of the good affixes from a normal focus like CDR. Seriously…

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As in the patch notes from the PTR that haven’t been revised yet?

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They revised some of them in the new blog post.

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sorc unique buffed and he whines because they shouldnt buff it?…

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Got a link? 9 chars.

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The buff shows that it’s been a year and a half and they still don’t understand what makes a build viable or not.

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you could also apply to their balancing team.

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Isn’t that just some notes about new uniques? I assume the actual patch notes might have other in depth class changes.

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Full patch notes aren’t out yet until dev campfire chat on Thursday.

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Yeah but Trolly McMakeastink spends all day every day scouring the internet for anything that they can use to stir the pot here and get people worked up.

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Very important because this is just the new stuff. A lot more was addressed on the PTR.

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Thanks for the link!

And I too am apprehensive about the Sorcerer come season 7. Have a few builds that may not work going forward.

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There’s the context we need. So your argument now is that Ball Lightning itself does zero damage correct? As in you hit the enemy with it, and it quite literally does nothing, so it just shows an effect instead?

I don’t play sorc so I’m genuinely asking. Sounds like a broken skill if that’s the case.

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loved that one, thanks for the giggle =P

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Just like every other sorc skill except for maybe fireball and lightning spear with aspect. That’s why high-end sorc builds use items like frostburn and do shatter sorcery. Base skills just do no damage.

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i kinda doubt you ever played a high end sorc to be honest.

I assume you are just angry that ball lightening isnt as OP as it was in S2 :slight_smile:

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So sorc base skills do zero damage? Ouch, why have them in the game if they are quite literally doing zero damage. That sounds broken to me. Now if they just do low damage that’s a whole other story, but doing zero? Damn, don’t know what to tell you sorcs, you got screwed hard.

See the problem with making tabloid topics with no context and false information? Cry wolf enough times and people are going to ignore you.

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Cries in Whirlwind Dust Devils and Earthquakes.

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I guess that’s true in Torment end game or something, because it’s way far from true where I am.

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Blizzard has been ignoring the actual state of class balance and just doing what they want to for decades now. Nothing changes.