The 2.1 PTR: What You Need to Know

PC General Discussion
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Meh. The Armory and a bunch of temporary content. Still no substantial improvements to the game.

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now sorcerer is even more worthless…
these devs are losing it!

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I am looking forward to it. I like the Witchcraft idea. And we have seen some of those are summons, and with the upgrade to summon skills (shadow clone, druid companion and necro) adding those to the mix could be fun.

As for the enchantment change - I notices around season 3 or 4 that most web builds relied on it and Tasha’s, and did have one character with that, I didn’t want the same cookie cutter structure across multiple characters. I have 4 sorcs right now and only 2 use firebolt - and one of them is a fire only mage that won’t need to change much.

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So uhm witchdoctor basically … should have just added the class instead of recycling.

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Seasontheme and armory very nice.
Class changes and new items underwhelming.
(Firebolt nerf what the hell is wrong with you)

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The campfire chat was very solid. Thanks! :fire:

The Armory is an absolutely great addition to the game! :+1:
The new Witchcraft powers look great. I think a lot of players will like it. :+1:

Two Versions of a Unique Item

Having two versions of a Unique Item is a really cool idea. It does have the drawback of filling up the loot table even more so players will have this moment where they find 5 of the one version while they really want the other and vice versa. When you have one Unique that has its own Skill Tree where you can configure its use it only takes up one spot in the loot table. It does make the use of the item slightly more complex but might be something worth to consider.

Bold Ideas

I think Season 7, especially with a PTR to get the essential feedback, will be well received. However, I do think the game could use more bold ideas to "Wow!" the players. Ideas could be:
  • items that fuse skills together
  • Seneschal customizable skill idea applied to player skills
  • a skill that places magnetic fields that affect (bend) the trajectory of your projectiles
  • cursed items
  • real world-wide (global) events where all players worldwide work together to achieve an objective together (like defeat special bosses, solve puzzles) and you get live in-game updates on the progress
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While needed, this Armory is going to frustrate more than it wows because the stash limitations that were supposed to get fixed by S3 or so have gone unaddressed for a year. I want to play multiple classes and builds each season but you haven’t given me the space to do so effectively. In fact, you guys haven’t even given us enough character slots to play the range of classes on offer using both genders in SC and HC. Most modern ARPGs allow for plenty of storage so that you can experiment with ease, but over here we’re still looking silly. :v:

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lol as if they didn’t neuter the sorc enough already.

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Let Players Invest In The Game Modes They Like

Would be great to introduce a system where you can earn points when you do a specific activity like Helltide, Infernal Hordes, Nightmare Dungeons to invest in greater and more diverse challenges and greater rewards for the activities you like.

The reason for this is that players like some activities more than others. It would be great if you could invest in these to for example give you more rewards (materials, GA items, uniques) that you need and control the difficulty and variety to a much greater degree.

So for example for Infernal Hordes I would like a system where I can invest in a much lower chance to get Soulspires and an extra choice after each round, so four choices in total. Would also be great to invest in additonal rounds and a much higher chance for an Infernal Demon hunting you.

Huge Quality of Life Improvement for Elixirs Bonusses

While I do like the different Elixirs it would be great, time saving and inventory space saving to have using them once unlock them in a system where you can set your choice that stays active all of the time even if you log out until you chose a different bonus.

The reason for this is while in the beginning an Elixir feels like a bonus after a while it becomes mandatory because of the XP bonus and if you forget to use one it feels bad.

Improvement for Soulspires in Infernal Hordes

When Soulspires spawn in Infernal Hordes, can you make it so that other monster spawns like Hellbornes can still occur at that spot, but on the outer border of the Soulspire area?

The reason for this is that currently Soulspires often block the more lucrative events like Hellbornes.
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oh no it is Season of Which Crap I am really excited now gimme a break I will not give Season 7 a benefit of a doubt. Once a screw up always a screw up

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What you need to know: Don’t bother.

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