Its amazing how imbalanced builds are. I have spent the past few days completely resetting paragon board over and over again testing, i saved gear sets for both ranged and melee. And specifically…wanted to test a straight damage rogue vs mostly imbuements on the paragon board.
Honestly straight damage (chip, turf, core skills, physical, etc) is useless compared to investing in all imbuement and non-physical damage.
Ive tried tons of gimick unique special builds for fun. But honestly nothing compares to twisting blades poison…
I dont want to rely on imbuements. I was hoping to have a insane attack speed physical damage dealing rogue. And i came close but once in tier 60+ it just doesnt work as well as having constant imbuements up. And honestly the only viable boss killer is poison…
And then I grouped with my friend who is a lightning ball sorc. And i basically just ran behind him and watched him kill duriel in 5 seconds…
That build relies on a known bug and when it’s inevitably fixed that won’t be happening. That’s why I don’t run it and chose cl instead. No fun in relying on broken skills and I’d gladly take less damage over cheesing the game.
I get that maxroll has all the best builds. And i have tried all of them. I spent most of S2 so far compiling gear for both marksman and cutthroat so i could swap. Ive also been experimenting with the duriel uniques (godfall, xfal, etc). And various different imbuements.
I went all out today spending much time on developing a straight out physical damage rogue. Using all the glyphs, nodes (close damage etc.)…and man was I dissapointed.
I understand rogues and imbuements go hand in hand. Id be ok with that if shadow or frost were remotely as good as poison. And they are during levelling…but they just dont cut it at end game.
I know its challenging making a game where all builds are viable. But most fun builds just dont work end game unfortunately.
Yep. It is not worth wasting time on a subpar build. I tried necro shadow dot and it’s hilarious how bad it is compared to anything meta. Every season ai will only make meta builds, everything else is a waste of time.
What is even the point of uniques? The buff they received is irrelevant. Using one can make your entire build useless. I thought i could make an interesting frost rogue with frostburn, pen grieves, etc…nope just brutal.
My level 63 necro with no glyphs and barely any paragon baord, blood lance/blood surge does 3x total dps more then my level 80 fully buffed out frozen orb sorc. Doing a standard nm dungeon boss on my sorc takes like 10 minutes, not worth my time.
Because theory crafting and trying different builds is insanely fun.
Lol! These smarty pants’ never come up with optimal builds, they simply copy/paste from streamers after the build becomes well known by the player base.
No, they’re not. Look at their conjuration build, it’s absolutely abysmal. My conjurer build will clear the same content in literally 1/10 the time.
Yep. It’s insanely frustrating.
I honestly despise this game’s lack of balance and build variance. It’s nothing more than pure laziness.
I was able to create an excellent pure physical rogue (melee-ranged hybrid) before everything was nerfed preseason one, but they nerfed vulnerability and crit so hard, every rogue is entirely dependent on imbuements now, and imbuements were still the meta before the nerfs.
There is absolutely no build variety or balance in this ridiculous game.
Just look at the sorc. Ball lightning is out there one shotting Duriel, and Blizz doesn’t care.
Yep. Even most of the uber uniques are terrible.
The devs seriously have no clue what they’re doing. Meanwhile, they refuse to use a PBR, which further illustrates how lazy they are.
Blizzard already stated they won’t nerf anything at all in season 2.
Honestly I mostly hear: “good gear comes at tier 4…around lvl 75-80”. So…the first three quarters of the game are supposed be a struggle and a slog for certain classes (Necro specifically)? What kinda rubbish is that.
I’ve made 3 major builds/changes this season to date.
I just can’t/don’t cognize, recognize nor make the 4-5 head connections that the meta-magicians make in regards to gears, skills and paragon.
I accept this but I still try.
I’ve seen vids of clears(speed Boss or Uber Lillypad) and the gear they were using in some was just …well not ‘bad’ per se but largely un-optimized.
The stuff I have in stash could, in their hands, be even more efficient than the stupid times they did x y or z.
Such is my place in the hierarchy and I have no recourse but to accept this.
Do i WANT any old willy nilly build to be able to do said x y or z content?
Irdk. Is that “balance”?
Having tried a ‘physical crit/vuln’ 500+% invested in a particular area Rogue build and have it not even tickle Lilith - Yea something is wrong or maybe…it’s just me and “They” might be able to make it work.
It’s a tough call and fine line to walk.
I accept i’m no meta-magician and never will be.
I’ve followed the pack or at least watched as players broke D2,3 and now 4 and I try hard but just never quite cut it - why? Well frankly the semantics, math, combinations and so on elude me.
Blizz cannot cater to me - that will utterly trivialize the game(yes it is to a degree already) - but I CAN enjoy using whatever I want and ‘Play your way’ is a promise they’ve kept up to this point.
It may not be the most effective, but if I/you/they enjoy it - it’s working.