Sunder & Demoralize Build do now 35% less Dmg

After the maintenance, my character (a barbarian) does less damage. There was nothing about it in the patch nodes. My father also plays a barbarian and has the same build as me; he also does less damage. We noticed it during our dungeon runs because it took us longer than usual. When we tested it on a dummy, the results were shocking. My father (Elíam) was at his peak at 127 million in 30 seconds (depending on critical hits) and normally at 110 million damage in 30 seconds. Now he’s at 80 million in 30 seconds. The same goes for me. I was at around 100 million and am now at just under 65 million depending on critical hits, and I have 32% (cold), which is actually good. So you could say I do around 35% less damage.

Additionally, the key settings don’t work every time I log out. I always have to reassign the keys. For example, I use “K” for the Kodex, which I always have to reset because it resets itself.

Furthermore, the challenge portal progress was reset, and I’m no longer ranked even though I reached level 480.
I even received the season reward twice, which alone indicates a mistake.

Furthermore, I lost all my spirit essences, but we’re already familiar with this problem. It was only 6,000, and it wasn’t a legendary stone that suddenly disappeared from my inventory.
So it’s actually the least of my worries, since I lost 35-40% of my damage, which is more of a problem for me and my father.

Nevertheless, I received an email today stating that only 52 essences had been refunded, which is also very questionable and amateurish.

Oh yeah, and the Colossal Event has now been extended.
The old version was 20.03-8.5, now it’s 20.3-01.06, so it’s been extended by a whole month. The problem is that, like many of the things mentioned above, it wasn’t in the patch nodes, so we/I don’t know if it’s a bug. This led to me completing the entire event with 8700 points progress. I only needed 20 (19) orange emblems. The annoying thing is that if it actually does last until June 1, I would have still gotten it for free through the weekly 100 point bonus.

I’m hardly one to complain; these things happen.
And with about 25 years of online gaming experience, I’ve learned that asking usually doesn’t help… which is a real shame.
In any case, the problem is that they’re not treating their customers transparently. Especially after so much damage to the Barbarian class, they now also lose 35% of their damage. It’s like a personal vendetta against the Barbarian and all of his players who enjoy playing and expressing this class.

Here’s another screenshot of the build so everyone knows what I’m talking about:
(the screen is a post below me, thanks to FernandoCR)

It’s the Barbarian’s racing build, where Sunder and Demoralize work together to deal damage and trigger Firestorm while running.
I asked around on my server, and players like Öni, with around 9.5k res, who use the same build, agreed with me and suffered a negative loss after the maintenance.

  1. When will the build be fixed and the old damage restored, and will a statement be made?
  2. Will the key settings be fixed?
  3. What happened to the Challenge Portal? Is there a statement on this?
  4. What about the Spirit Essences? Enough people have complained that they haven’t received enough back.
  5. Does the Colossal Event really last this long, or is this a display error?

Well, I can only leave negative feedback. You’ve completely scared off my father, for example. He’s 60 and doesn’t have the nerve for that anymore. He’d rather play Red Dead Redemption… I find it sad, but at least it was something I could spend time with him.

Greetings to all
Server: Marius
In-game name: Elazar89

PS: This was translated using Google Translate.

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Device Type:Pc
Device Model:AMD
Device Operating System:Win11
Diablo Immortal App Version:3.3.3.0.1efa97e6.2880756.E.600.D.Windows

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Emdedding the image for you:

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Thank you very much. I still have to figure out how to do that correctly. Then I’ll delete the link in my post above.

Instructions for how to provide URLs / screenshots in the forums…

…however, as explained in that thread, until your Trust Level is higher on the forums, you won’t be able to embed screenshots like FernandoCR did for you.

I have exactly the same build and exactly the same problem, but everything hit even worse, instead of 120-140 million per minute, now I deal 65-70 million. Why this happens is not clear, I don’t see the point in playing further until they solve this problem

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Agree.

Seen a massive drop in my DPS also with Sunder / demoralise. This happens way too often now.

Patches continually rushed out always introduce new problems into the game that are unrelated to the patches and updates, then unless the player base discovers the problems, they just remain in game un realised.

My lost trust now questions everything. Do leg gems work as described? Green sets? Leg essences? Pet skills, class skills?

Who knows anymore.

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I doubt it’s a bug and they simply stealth nerfed it. Demo/sunder was really strong for pve. Especially dungeons and anything aoe damage. The only classes I’ve not tried is monk and blood knight, and it easily trumped all the other class when it came to world farm, and dungeons. Surprisingly was much stronger than crusader aoe too. The builds biggest weakness by far was single target damage. Possibly the worst of all the classes. I don’t think a lot of barbs caught on the demo/sunder build in the first place and not many seem to care enough to flood the forums with hate posts about the silent change. It still seems to function the same way, just that it does half of what it used to which is a bitter pill after the last official barb changes

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I have the same porblem I am dealing really less damage, what did you do blizz now this build its useless and hammer too nerfed what are you expecting to kill barbarian?

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Hi, i am facing the same issue very huge damage reduction of Sunder’s damage exactly using magma step essence.
Especially when I use a combination of these essences Typhoon Step, Magma Step, Bul-Kathos’s Rage I am facing the very huge damage reduction as before major or also last minor update
Pls check it and solve the issue.
Thanks.

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