Holy hell, this is nuts! I totally missed all of this because I have been playing the new Elden Ring DLC pretty much nonstop since it came out but if all of these proposed changes make it to live I expect every sorcerer player to revolt. The new uniques alone are reason enough, they’re a joke, especially the staff.
They saw almost no one used staves so they nerfed the wand/focus combo but didn’t buff staves! The fact that they changed them to now give bonus DoT damage just screams that they’re looking at data in a vacuum because a lot of sorcerers used the new Incinerate aspect on a staff to level. Same thing with the Teleport cooldown nerf because they saw almost everyone is using the new Aspect that reduces Teleport’s cooldown.
This just confirmed what we’ve long suspected, they look at data in a vacuum and base changes on whatever the algorithms are showing them. Wouldn’t even be surprised if it turns out they use AI for everything, it would certainly explain why this game has been a dumpster fire from the start.
The worst decision I ever made in my 20+ years of gaming was to buy D4. The best was to cut my loses and not play it.
Anyway, back to having the time of my life with Elden Ring again!