Blood knights are exploiting massive unlimited shields with the currently bugged and unstrifed essence skin upon steel which grants them immortality across the board. They fully regenerate the shield with each life drain so nothing can be done about it.
Please fix it urgently.
Stun. Deplete shield. Don’t stand in whirling strike retaliation.
Then how are you moving idol ? Do you even pvp ? This dumpsterfire needs a cooldown because it doesn’t have any and keeps replenishing.
YES, do you? One of the reasons the devs make auto attacking gems like Starfire Shard and Maw of the Deep for PvP is because most of you are really THAT bad at PvP and apparently need the auto-aim auto-damage to give you the illusion of skill and effort. There are technicalities that you clearly aren’t aware of and just cry for nerfs.
It does have a cooldown… It only replenishes when they deal damage. If it’s replenishing, then they are dealing damage. That includes retaliation and damage over time. Also, they could have 4 Mountebank for more shields. The latest Abomination essences only last 5-6 seconds and they cost life to use.
Also, you’re not hitting them (Evasion/Miss), dealing much damage (Armor/Curse of Weakness), and or they’re damaging you (Burst Damage/Damage Over Time/Retaliaion). If you made this post, I’m sure you don’t comprehend. Let me explain.
Shroud of Night Evasion + QOT Rune
Whirling Strike Retaliation
Abomination Slow + Curse of Weakness
to counter
Dude bk was the most nerfed class for months by the developers. Diablo Immortal is the only mmo game I’ve played that relies on nerfs.
I’ve noticed that it’s become an addiction in the player base to keep asking for class nerfs. In my opinion, instead of asking for nerfs, players should ask the devs to equalise the combat power and mechanics between the classes.
literally every MMO, honestly the most broken thing ive ever seen it must be a bug or an exploit complete bonkers
whats to comprehend besides that its completely bugged, i just watched a BK with 3k reso tank 5 people that all had better stats, you’ve got to be joking defending this, not playing BG or paying into this game anymore till this is fixed.
count me in , it make me so mad to play bad matching - all 15/15 pvp matching resulting total lost - it so weird game - we all contribute in the match , not like anyone are afk or anything but we get defeated badly, i dont understand it - bad built? or bad class?
Dude its not about asking for nerfs because we dont like it but because it is plain broken and has to be fixed. The crazy high shield is clearly not affected by the circle of strife and scales indefinitely without ever running out. Thats a exploit, like it or not.
So, if you have an outlier that’s massively more powerful than anything else there are two potential ways to deal with it, and equalise power amongst the classes…
If you choose option 2, this leads to massive power creep, until you eventually have complaints of everyone able to one-shot everyone else and BGs become a reaction-time festival of run to combat, roll the dice to see who clicked an ability first, loser goes to the graveyard, resurrects, repeat.
They choose Option 1, i.e. nerfing the outlier back to normal, because longer-term, it makes more sense than turning everyone into one-shotting gods.
Also its not affected by pvp reductions which already justifies a nerf. Hence broken and not working as intended. Limitless immortality is NOT OKAY. Bks abusing this obvious exploit can’t die, no matter what.
And we have seen what unhindered buffs after buffs after buffs does in D3. While it does not have a proper PvP and focuses on PvE exclusively, it does have Greater Rifts to challenge players. All those those buffs without proper nerfs have effectively removed almost all challenge from the GRs. Throw in the mix a powerful seasonal theme and even casuals can walk through GR150, the maximum level.
the build is so strong it dosent even feel like they are playing the same game even DH and wizard cant come close to this nonsense.
I’m a 7K BK…it’s not Immortality, you’re overexaggerating, and ignorant of certain things. What these new BKs are exploiting, is YOUR lack of knowledge of PvP, game mechanics, and Blood Knight.
You don’t comprehend PvP, that’s why you think the shield is broken. You’re not contending with just a shield.
Does your character have more than 20% Accuracy?
Well, BK has +20% EVASION and a SHIELD that replenishes upon dealing damage while it’s active.
BK Shroud of Night Helm gives 22.5% Evasion Rating then QOT Rune gives +0.8% more Evasion Rating per nearby enemy. You only actually hit them theoretically 77.5%-78.3% of the time solo. Everytime you miss or they evade, they heal 2% HP if they have the QOT rune.
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Abomination Slow + Curse of Weakness
If you are near a BK Abomination and they have the Abomination Anchored Agony, they deal continuous damage to you and slow you (LOC).
When you get slowed, you get the debuff Curse of Weakness (Paragon), which decreases all damage you deal by 30% and they are statistically evading about 20% of your weakened attacks.
Now, make it all worse with Whirling Strike nearby Retaliation every 0.5 seconds and it specifically scales healing.
Obviously, you’re not very good at or knowledgable of PvP if I can’t just tell you all of this, how to counter it, and you’re still saying it’s broken like I haven’t had it break all day during Battlegrounds.
How the freaking heck is it not op when it is not affected by the damn cycle of strife debuff and scales up to unlimited heights endlessly without end ? This damn class can keep shields up forever without ever dying. How the heck is that okay ? How ??? Let them fix this exploit and stop being a baby because your cheat gets fixed.
So…what class do you play?
I literally explained it all.
Read the explanation. That’s why BKs are apparently wrecking you in PvP, it’s like you can’t comprehend anything.
BK can only replenish the shield by dealing damage, while it’s active they cannot use Life Drain to replenish any Life. If the shield is replenishing, then they are damaging your character or someone else’s character to replenish it. It can go up to 100% Life, but there’s an overshield limit. If they have 80% shield, they have only 20% Life left.
Clearly, the shield breaks, YOU have trouble breaking it. You’re not used to BKs being immune to Knockback and are probably used to beating one with a lucky Starfire Shard knockback stunlock proc, and you keep ignoring Evasion Rating. If they dodge all of your attacks, you wont hit the shield, obviously. They’re evading your weakened attacks, retaliating, and replenishing the shield while damaging you.
People that are bad at PvP are like you. I’m telling you the build and how to counter it and you blame the shield.
You:
“Devs please nerf!”
Everyone actually good at and knowledgable in PvP:
“Stun BK. Deplete the shield, don’t incur damage by the BK while doing so”
Obviously, don’t stand in the Abomination’s continuous damage ritual circle or in range of retaliation while depleting the shield, because you would be fixing the shield while trying to deplete it. It’s a simple puzzle.
Now you have to use intelligence and skill to down Abomination BKs instead of hoping for them to incur knockback lock ups from you and 7 of your teammate’s Starfire Spam.
And the least usage and popular in the current BG meta.
For them, any class that is not their main get KDA 20-0-15 is OP and deserved to be nerfed.
My guy…stop being a muppet and just accept that its a cheat and insanely gamebreaking that should never exist in a competetive pvp environment.
Why wont you say what your class is?
It’s not a cheat, but it does seem that you’re just bad at PvP.
The devs wont nerf every class just because you have to actually put in some effort to combat some of them. Wizard actually was OP, they fixed the extra damage, but there are still complaints because it’s people like you trying to nerf everything to secure easier battles. Now, here you are complaining about not being able to take out a BK shield, while I’m telling you how to, while you’re pretending that it doesn’t deplete at all. If that were the case, even I would admit to it.
However, that’s not the case.
Any decent Wizard, Monk, Demon Hunter, Tempest, Crusader, Druid, Necromancer will break that shield no problem. Only the most common Barb builds would have an issue because they lack stuns and burst damage, but it’s not impossible.
I even told you the build, evasion and retaliation, and you still want to nerf what exactly? The shield just highlights the evasion. If you’re not hitting them, but they are hitting you, the shield will replenish.
You: “Please remove the shield because I have to put in effort, position my character intelligently, and can’t depend on auto attacking gems to do everything against BKs anymore!”
You could just stun them, get better at PvP, and stop crying for nerfs. Instead, ask for buffs and balance.
As I said in my post this is the only mmo game I’ve played that relies on class nerfs at the request of the player base, if all classes have a real improvement in combat mechanics, players will have to really strategise and understand the class they’re playing and its abilities. And not win just because you chose an op class and the others play with nerfed classes so it’s easy to stand out in the BG.