I should set up a bingo card with barb nerfs, maybe making crit and vuln tempering rogue specific?
if they nerf FB sorc i am out lol. i spent over 220 hours trying to perfect it and i am not even close to the top pit clear break points yet. i am NOT going back to blizzard, uh uh.
Sorc will get nerfed the hardest. Immunity build gonna get nerfed into oblivion. Sorc tears will be rivers soon.
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Where are you reading about upcoming barb nerfs? If they nerf barbs, I’m done lol. If they can’t just let us have fun, i’ll refund my pre purchase of the DLC, and just play another ARPG.
some over the top tempering changes would suck. i hope the limits stay, no resets. some suggestions on here are kinda cool tho.
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Im just guessing why they think releasing ptr first before the patch would cause whiplash. Which makes me think barbs are on the chopping block.
my bet is, barbs won’t be nerfed, it’s blizz’s pet class after all. sorcs will though b/c no one likes them being strong at any thing. silly magic people.
Actually making Druids good.
Barb nerfs.
Killing Heartseeker builds.
Minion nerfs
You just listed a recipe for killing the game.
I don’t see them doing any major nerfs mid-season outside of bugs and only if they massively negatively affect something. They were quite clear on previous streams that they don’t want people to spend all this time farming up stuff for a build, only for it to be killed off mid-season. ONLY if it’s massively bugged and way out of line would they do this.
Don’t get too hung up on class balance changes. Those change every few months, and sometimes major mechanics for the game and loot change too. They will change again before the expansion, so keep that in mind.
Probably best not to guess and panic about it.
Mostly it is just to prevent us from playing one version forward on the PTR, then having to go back to S4 without the changes we just got used to. Whatever those changes are. There will be more than one, I am sure.
But, if BINGO cards are your thing that is fun too. Just don’t take it too seriously when speculating 
Edited for spelling fails.
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Bit of a stretch there. They don’t do heavy nerfs mid season.
I think they are saying whiplash because going to PTR with changes then back to game without them and then when the patch lands back to the changes on PTR again all within a short window of time.
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Barb will get nerfed big league
I should buy up underperforming GA skills to get ready for their buffs next week. hmmmmm…
I wonder how the changes or nerves will affect the gold market for items
***** Speculation *****
Sorc nerfs - Perma immunity builds cant exist. Flame shield now has a fixed 3 second internal cooldown before you can cast it again. Sorcs wont get 3rd enchant slot and will just be destroyed until S5 changes.
Barb nerfs of bug fixes - Bash is rediculously op
Druid buffs - Every druid build forced into companions as dmg stat sticks. Weak. Will see big buffs.
Necros nerfed - Cant believe I am saying it but minions are too good
Rogue - Bows impossible to temper. Will be made easier. Suprising dodge to nerfs because rogue.
Tempering - No change yet but will say they are monitoring the 
situation.
Masterworking - Cost reduced to reset to 2m.
Stones - Pity timer added. IF you have done 400 cumulative levels of pit and have not got a stone you will get 1. This means you get one 100% at 2 pit 200 and will get 1 every four 100 pits.
Bug Fix - Bliz admits there was a problem on rerolling what you have just rolled on masterworking and tempering and it is being fixed.
Some part of goblin vent thing made permanent.
meh, whatever balance changes they do to the barb, I’ll adapt as always and carry on smashing things. Adapt, overcome and beat the crap out of the mobs. That’s how we roll.
If past mid-season patches are anything to go off of, not only will they not nerf Barbs, they’ll double down on buffing them. They’ll fix some kind of bug that was double dipping for rogue. Leave sorc alone, and increase the amount of resource you get for your basic skills as a Druid once again.
Easy. Nerfing popular builds and affecting fun low-performing ones as side effect.
Some unforeseen tech glitches.
Whiplash is aunavoidable at this point. Too many people and fake accounts “screaming” that other people are not allowed to have fun.
But my guess is that they will buff a couple of the uniques. That would probably be the easiest way to get the balancing on point right now, since they are just massively underpowered in many ways.
Nerfs - they will probably “nerf” one or two builds. But after all - some things are not meant to be that way (immo sorc for example). Anyways: just guessing doesnt help I will wait patiently, and since i have 7 Chars on 100 but not one is using a meta build - i am probably safe.