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Man, can we get a new project manager to be in charge of D3? They had the proc in a great state where it was and all they needed to modify was the internal cooldown or the base damage before item scaling.

Are their heads in the sand so much that they think people actually like the other legendary procs? The damage is so crappy on things like fire walkers, etc. that people don't care about them. In fact, as you get better gear, the procs get even worse by comparison. The procs are a giant failure and they keep designing things with that philosophy. They had some great ideas with the legendary procs and then dropped the ball hard on the design process of them.

The entire design process of this game has been a head-scratcher for me.

1.) Release game with horrible design decisions
2.) Player base says the design decisions are horrible
3.) Bliz says it's fine
4.) Players leave
5.) Bliz caves in and makes changes
6.) Game gets better
7.) Players come back
8.) Bliz comes up with new design decisions that suck

I see this being an endless cycle with this team. They've had a lot of great ideas that end up being bad due to design decisions. Item procs not scaling. Runes not scaling (just look at the haunt runes). Adding another reason to farm endgame and making the proc so bad that it's no longer something you'll want to farm for to get a BIS ring. Adding monster levels but making the rewards so bad that it's actually better to just farm with no monster level at all.

Don't get me wrong, D3 is a great game but they've had some amazing ideas for this game and ended up dropping the ball on most accounts due to stupid decisions. Just imagine the game if it had competent leadership.

I think you're being very dramatic but I agree that legendary effects should scale with DPS.

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It doesn't seem like many people are really putting together the impact of the item ilvl change, but it's actually very significant. If I'm interpreting it correctly, it means that when you're farming Act 3(which everybody who can, already does, let's be honest) every single item will roll stats as if it was an ilvl63 item. Even those previously useless level 58 ones. The only drawback to finding a lower ilvl item now is that its base stats are a bit lower, but it could still turn out really good. ilvl61 and ilvl62 items are going to be much stronger overall in this patch. And for rings and amulets, item level might literally not mean anything anymore, they're all ilvl63(?). This is basically the fix for "too much crap loot blizz, wtf" complaint that people have had since the beginning.

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Looks like some WD skill changes weren't listed or they didn't get into final version?

Grasp of the Dead:Groping Eels : Increases the damage done to 416% (up from 26%) weapon damage as Physical.

I guess they forgot that, as basic version of this skill has increased damage, old rune would be meaningless now.

Spirit Barrage: Phantasm : Summon a spectre that deals 225% (up from 45%) weapon damage as Physical over 5 seconds to all enemies within 10 yards.

I guess that one would be too good? I still hope they forgot to list it.

Wall of Zombies: Barricade : Increases the width of the Wall of Zombies (Previously the zombies attacked for 80% weapon damage as Physical).

Again looks like forgot that one?

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Wait wtf is going on here? Yeah they're buffing pets like they promised months ago, but they are killing mana regen and people are celebrating it as a buff??? Maybe there's other changes to mana regen that they didn't mention, but the post sounds like they don't want us to ever be able to have enough regen to be able to spam bats/bears. While the old mechanic was indeed "feast or famine" and I myself suggested many ways that could smooth it out, this change is completely gutting it. Before you could get over 250 mana/sec with gear and talents but from what they've told us it will now be limited to about 100 mana/sec.

This preview is worse than the wizard preview that said CM build is getting half as much AP procs from tornados. They're forcing WD to use primary spells, so everyone is likely going to be forced into splinters/firebomb builds and not care about mana dumps like they want us to.

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I'm a bit split on their design of not nerfing any abilities. On one hand, it's nice that they aren't touching builds that people currently find enjoyable. However, on the other hand, if they truely want build diversity, you need to nerf things. Battle Rage is a perfect example... it's just too powerful and is something you pretty much always want in your build.

Either way, I think a few of the mentioned buffs to skills seem a bit too much. 400% damage on smash? Are you kidding me?

Battle Rage is not used in every build. A better example would be Warcry with the resist rune.

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Nice, I like it! But I would like to have a small picture of my chatacter, not just a name of the items I use.