Like come on, we barelt get past 1 million damage while necromancers and barbarians get away with 20million damage. This is simply unfair for the druid players. Im not looking forward to playing the new patch. If it sucks as bad as i expect, then im logging off till they buff the druid. Its like screw you if you wanna play anything other than earth bear. Really making me regret spending money on this game. Now with the “versatile” druid build, theres only 2 viable builds left in the entire class. Earth Bear or Tornado wolf. Literally everything else is garbage now.
Also we dont gwt very much crowd control protection, why even hit grizzly rage like this? 6 seconds of unstoppable? Thats barely enough to get away from the instant freeze enemies that have no cooldown on the freeze attacks. And now we cant even rely on earthern bulwark the same either. Way to take a fun class and absolutely throw it in the trash.
-40% vulnerable damage? I might as well not even be making things vulnerable anymore. Lightning shred is nerfed to the depths. But at least they buffed tornadoes by a 5 percent. But they took out 34% critical damage for werewolves if you add the regular critical strike damage and werewolf critical strike damage.
After running a test dungeon with my build that could barely do tier 70 nightmare dungeons, i cant even do a tier 57 nightmare dungeon anymore.
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Well now barbs and necros are doing like maybe 4 million lmao
And sorcs and rogues are doing more thanks to the changes to elemental damage being stronger lol
Meanwhile us druids cap at 1mil. We have attack speed, but they totaled the survivability. Yesterday i got to do my first tier 70 dungeon. Today im dying in tier 57.
Im prolly gonna hop off till they fix this mess theyve created. I dont even care about the free season 1 with my purchase anymore.
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Idk if you are using the same druid everyone was doing with the infinite bulwark werewolf… but if so… then that is why… That got fixed. So now druid survivability is just like everyone elses. Werewolf was supposed to be squishy
Except bear form who has insane damage reduction naturally.
HOTA is dead.
Don’t you dare mention Barbs. We are basically deleted.
My Crone Bullwark druid is still hitting for 4 mil.
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I was running stormclaw personally. I didnt do the earthern bulwark thing cause it was obviously gonna get nerfed out
I have a HOTA barb alt… and im still hitting 3.9 million at level 68… im just not hitting the 20 millions randomly on enemies slightly outside the circle of effect…
Yes, I believe it should be this way thematically as well
…But we are also the weakest Druid build (without bugged Stormclaw)
So it’s just back to being suck
Edit: when I mention werewolf, I mean the real werewolf. Shred builds
They werent supposed to be massively squishy considering all the additional armor and buffs you could get to making your defense high particularly in werewolf form and while fortified along side all the life steal.
I used poison werewolf my self when i leved my druid to 100 (because poison stacking was fun on flurry rogue so why not)
It felt fine to me… It got hard at like NM70 though. But getting to NM 70 is hard on most builds that werent over tuned.
Now that Bone Spear, Storm Claw and HOTA are fixed… it is kinda hard for everyone now to farm them easy.
Which I think is fair… because some of these hearts seem insanely good, while some seem pointless lol
I am gonna do companion druid next lmao
The Moonrage (Vicious, Offensive): Kills have a 5% chance to summon a Wolf Companion to your side for 20-30 seconds. In addition, gain +3 to Wolves.
Subterranean (Offensive Aspect): Poison Creeper’s active also casts Landslide in a circle around you. Earth Skills deal 10-20% increased damage to Poisoned enemies.
These mixed with landslide being near full screen
Werewolf companions
and the +1 wolves aspect…
That is like 6 wolves
and landslide spam lol
How would anyone ever do tier 100 then if 100 is supposed to be extremely difficult?
Re-read all those… cause outside of like 2 gear slots… Werebear has INSANELY more damage reduction than a werewolf…
In fact the “reduce by x% while in werewolf form” and “reduce by x% while in bear form” made druids not get some of the other affixes other classes got that were better and more universal
I just did Duo 100 with my Rogue main and my clan mates ice sorc… So its still possible lol
But we respected to set up specifically that duo after we beat lilith duo lol (poison rogue and ice sorc made lilith a joke… since she just staggered instantly)
Extra poison and shadow damage vs frozen/chilled enemies.
Now that those are buffed it actually works even better than it did before the nerf.
Yea but not everyone wants to play a werebear, its simply not the way some people have fun. We could all just be werebears but then it just vecomes a game where everyone plays the exact same class
werebears do less damage but are tanky.
Werewovles do more damage and are less tanky…
You cant be both. It would ruin build identity
And thats the balancing issue, lilith is hard for barbs and druids typically but then sorcerer, necro, and rogue can melt her, hence why idk ehy druid is s main target of being nerfed
Besides Build identity is already ruined by the fact you have 2 builds to choose from now. You can get just under 30k life with werewolf, i havent yet but there are builds for it. And it might just be necessary now since they took the defences of both werewolf and werebear down 25%
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All the previous builds that wrecked lilith are actually the most nerfed now… so that is not really the same thing
and their reasoning is in the notes. They want her to, for right now, be so hard its nearly impossible to clear, which is how Uber Diablo was in D2 for a while until we got Uber Tristram and all the op runewords.
The lifesteal has always felt like crap for WW in this game. It’s nothing like WW had in D2, which is fine. But, it’s not really a core aspect to a WW build in D4, no puns intended.
Im so mad about Grizzly Rage being nerfed… Blizzard is really disappointing… I just saw the patch notes and im still in shock Grizzly Rage is nerfed to 6 seconds… 6 seconds!? Wtf dude…
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