First things first I did not build my character to be a one hit bone spear wonder. I try to build my characters the way I enjoy playing them with balance and survivability . I don’t watch the streamers and copy their builds to one hit Uber Lilith .
So I login today to find basically my entire build not just bone spear has been nerfed. Intelligence on my weapon has gone from 180 to 120 , my Thorns have been nerfed not only on my regular armor but also on my Razorplate Unique costing me thousands of points of damage. on numerous pieces and I spent countless hours rolling at the occultist to balance this build, lots of hours. Even though I have Minion Life and they do draw more attention they now seem worthless My minions are now getting destroyed.
Like I said I am not a one hit Bone spear Necro and while I did understand the need to drop some of the ridiculous damage off the skill, by nerfing just about everything else my build has now been turned to pure garbage because they nerfed numerous stats to accomplish this and that’s really bad design when it effects other builds and the character in general.
My builds may not be the best and quite honestly I really don’t care I just play it to have fun and build it as I go along without any help from no lifers who spend hours building so others can copy their builds and claim they are great gamers.
I’m not one to complain much but this game so far has shown me its been designed not for a player to have fun or enjoy the experience but to lure players and push them to playing more hours to accomplish what they want to have fun.
So I’m guessing they also nerfed the Int on one handers as well ? So over all my Armor has been Nerfed, My Int has been nerfed, my Thorns have been nerfed, my skills have been nerfed over all and now fights seem to last way to long and are not enjoyable at all.
So great job Blizzard worrying about one skill and destroying an entire build that worked well and was fun to play and cost hours of my time to design.
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if you’re honestly running a minions/thorn build it actually caught a few minor buffs. Not to mention if you look at the full list, necro came out the cleanest imo. Bone spear (after these “massive” nerfs) still kills uber lilith in ~2 minutes. Infinimist is still fully viable, and after release of increase to shadow heart is only going to spike harder. Defensive melee minions taking more % of thorns at base means they can take more overall thorns down the road including other %thorns increases. Mendeln is still a HUGELY successful minion build and was barely scratched due to its consistent damage output and not being reliant on vuln procs for primary damage source. Hell, to be direct here even blood lance was buffed and has more viable builds now. If you’re looking to complain that the patch ruined your build and made your class un-playable I think you should be in the Sorc forums, because… well look at sorcs. They got oculus that teleports them randomly into floors and such. woohoo.
Necro is still the most bugged class by far.
none of the minion damage nodes in the paragon board are working correctly.
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Blizzard devs said we should go outside or play other games. Guess this is one way of getting us to do that.
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I hear ya but it seems the survivability of my Minions is much worse. My damage still took a big hit but its not as bad as I first thought since a made a few small changes this morning which seem to be working out. I’m still trying to get that damn ring 
… Thank you for a well thought out reply
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Survivability took a hit which is annoying.
Haven’t really noticed a huge difference in damage, can still clear at relatively the same speed.
Using a shadow/minion build with Howl from Below, Bloodless Scream and Mendeln and hopefully eventually the Sever boots.
I’m willing to give them time to readjust some of the damage changes, but the reduction in overall defence when 60-70+ is already basically a one shot festival with you as the headliner made absolutely zero sense from any standpoint.
Nerfing damage so players can’t one shot everything in sight makes sense.
But they were already avoiding everything or dying in one hit doing 100’s etc
All they’ve done is made it so the ones starting to get into the 35-50’s NM will become annoyed with being one shot all day and never bother attempting higher
Yeah. If they nuked our dps but also buffed survivability or nerfed monsters it would be one thing. But WT4 monsters basically disregard damage resistance as it is.
The only thing they did is reverse the flow of the one shot kills so we’re on the receiving end.
Sure they are. It’s just that when only add 50 damage to 1000 damage, you don’t notice it. The numbers coming from minions are so embarrassingly bad, that we would only notice a difference if they buffed them by 10000%. Minions exist purely as carriers for ring of mendeln. That’s it. Think the butter robot from Rick and morty.
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