Fixed an issue with players having fun.
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I am just so confused as to why they would take away even more survivability. I don’t understand it at all.
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Also fixed an issue with player survivability by removing it.
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uninstalled the game, WAY better choices around. Heavy sorc nerfs and zero buff to Chain Lightning. Not sure how I’m suppose to have MORE FUN in S1 then Pre-S1. GL
They took survivability out of every class by nerfing defensive affixes and Aspects.
It’s just that Sorcerer had almost none to begin with, so it really looks out of place.
these notes are great for those of us that rolled sorcs at launch
we legit have no reason to play the class for the next 2-3 seasons and can play other classes in the season without any FOMO
this is actually a big boon to those of us smart enough to start on sorc. sucks for everyone else who will play sorc in s3 and find out how bad the class still is
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Yeah I’m done… they took everything that made lightning sorcerer even remotely fun to play and buried 6 feet underground.
Aspect of control, nerfed, well there goes all my dps.
Disobedience, nerfed well there goes my defence.
Exploiters, nerfed more dps down.
CDR nerfed well there goes my defense and offence.
Crowd control, nerfed that’s literally the only thing I have. Build is reliant on chain stuns and barriers.
Crit nerfed
Vulnerability nerfed.
I was already a wet noodle with no mana getting one shot deaths. This is bad for the overall health of the game
They can’t be this daft, play the game devs.
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See I get that, but what shocks me the most is how they gutted our damage as well. Fixing the CC aspect is one thing, that is a bug fix, but gutting crowd control damage which is all we have?
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My only issue with that is that I was currently doing NM99. NM100 was within the realm of possibility with a lot of ap affixes cherry picking.
With the current patch, I cannot even begin to pretend I can run NM80+ safely anymore as almost everything, close or ranged, will one shot me. I’m disapointed as I was really believing they would at least give us a small survivability buff that would bring me close enough to beat NM100 before Season 1.
I should have pushed for NM100 before the patch… but meh. Better luck next time I guess.
Still, you’re right. On to another class we go.
I’m a little speechless right now. Maybe I’ll come back in a year or two once they figure this game out. It took D3 a few years to right. All that pre beta and 400+ hours I’ve put into this one toon. All out the window. Nerfed cool downs? Cycling my shield was the only way to stay alive, now I can’t even do that anymore. I’m just gutted.
blizzard just wants sorcs to git gud!
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Because what we got is half of the patch notes.
The other half is the malignant hearths and one of them is defense focused.
I think: Sorc got buffed in a major way, especially the Mastery and Conjuration skills it will come down to the interaction between various elements.
I think mastery skills were the least impacted by the changes, but the nerfs to survivability kills the class on eternal realm. Hearts may save it, but it starts off as dumpster fire where as other classes (except maybe barb) don’t start in nearly as bad as a position.
Malignant hearts are temporary and not eternal so moot for normal builds… im really hoping that the end result isn’t as bad as is sounds in the notes… the occy sounds stupid compared to other class uniques as well… but we’ll see…
But… but… I’m doing my best! 
Seriously, I’ll try a 90+ later tonight, just to see. Looking at my gear affixes, I’m affected by most of the affixes nerfs and almost none of the buffs. I’m pretty sure I can’t clear one anymore without redo-ing all my gear, which I won’t do.
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Mastery spells are going to benefit from the destruction glyph, not sure how playable will be the interaction between basic spells and mastery spells.
Meteor and Blizzard both got buffed as well.
Regarding the Aspect of Control, it got nerfed on bosses, but maybe it was activating 9 times instead of the regular 3 times it was supposed to be. Regular enemies can be affected by more than one crowd control affix right?
Edit:
Last point, since our major source of defense resistance was only going to be fixed in season 2, I think it is why we didn’t get a buff to defense (to avoid giving and taking it a season later) for now we will have to rely on season 1 theme for it.
Regarding The Oculus, it plays to the lightning theme of being random.
I’ve just checked my lvl 100 sorc - without barrier im being one shot with trash mobs on equal level yet still you are forcing me to play melee range - thx blizz- i come back to the game when u will get back to your senses and finally improve the class. Only hope they will be someone left to play the game with.
Time to put aside D4 and go back to some tv shows… Game was boring already and trying it now it’s even more boring and difficult now…
To be fair if you were playing Sorc, not really that much fun.
sorc are officialy dead, Im gonna uninstall D4 anyway , huge disappointed
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