Due to stability issues huh? Funny considering all I usually see is the tons of explosions from fire.
Well, it was fun while it lasted.
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Wouldn’t assume it ends up being a nerf; depends on the arc’ing behavior. But as is described, it should at least be a single target buff, no?
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Stability change. Buff to compensate. WE all knew something was going to happen. Cant have hundreds of thousands of players gravitating to mage then making 50 millions spears each hitting everything 5 times a second. World bosses were locking up sometimes. Just too much going on. A good change by Bliz.
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This wording doesn’t make sense yet to me. “Instances” refers to server performance dips. The final sentence (“Additionally, the amount of Frozen Orbs that can be launched from Conjurations while using Fractured Winterglass has been adjusted in these rare instances.”) is (characteristically) ambiguous and kinda meaningless. It implies [when server performance is affected] number of conjuration procs is adjusted. In fact, “has been” adjusted.
Gibberish. Need to rewrite that. Who proofs these, and aren’t they probably comms people or professional writers?
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If there is anything that I’ve noticed is the tons of fire explosions.
Also have not experienced any issues otherwise.
I’m not home yet so I’m going off of others posts (which can be dangerous) but it seems it ended up being a nerf to the build.
Ah well. It is what it is but man, it seems sus.
Daddy, chill.
Still S tier build.
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I’m cool. It just is kind of meh.
Still an OP build. Stop crying.
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nice servers and game bild)
I didn’t notice a difference but I didn’t bother to turn damage numbers on this season so I just go by how fast things seem to die.
I’d guess the circumstances causing issues was in hordes when you have hellborn invigorates buff and can basically just spam spear casts over and over again while they also have a lot of enemies to hit and get procs off of.
In terms of screen congestion spear definitely isn’t the worst offender but screen clutter may not translate to what’s taxing for the servers. IE: my druid alts landslide lightning storm build covers the screen in a lot more stuff. I’d think it’d also be procing more between all the landslide hits, tornados and lightning storms but maybe not?
Thanks for your post. I am not crying. I am venting. This is a forum and I can and will do that as I do not need your permission.
And I am not home yet to check myself but from others accounts… it has ended up being a net nerf.
just logged on my sorc and can say it is no nerf. yes there are less frozen orbs shooting everywhere, but the dmg is still there. lightning spear is hitting harder and everything melts the same.
going back to playing my bonespear necro now
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Cool. I’ve been seeing differing reports but it’s good to hear something positive. Unfortunately my frustration has been based on second hand knowledge till I get home.
Thanks!
I’m about to go test it in P101 with my bone spirit buddy.
I just switched to the build last night cuz I wasn’t able to solo IH6 so this neck has been fun and easier to help me farm mats without any uber items.
Hoping the clear speed/ability is still there, but I’ll take your word for it.
I could solo t8 compasses before and after 
Not super optimized with the best crit damage rolls, but I have 2 mythics on and I think all my gear is 12/12.
When I made my Druid alt I thought I might be better in compasses with that build but I actually find them much easier still on my lightning spear sorc. I don’t kill the council as fast as the super optimized people but I don’t have the patience to get perfect rolls and masterworking rng and tempers. I’m also going to play TWW when it comes out in a week so it seems pointless to optimize to that level when I’m done with season 5 soon.
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So I played my LS build this afternoon before reading about the changes.
It felt stronger, I was wondering if I changed anything…
Then I read about the “nerf”, watch one of youtuber saying it’s a buff for casual, nerf for higher tiers. Which aligns with what I felt.
Yep, LS definately is hitting harder for me.
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It felt stronger but not clearing as fast.
But to be honest. I’m moving past this and back to playing!
oh sure i just made a sorc lol sorry guys
Ummm… what?
20 Questions.
Programmers are notoriously bad at documentation and I doubt they have an employee who explicitly handles documentation even though they should.