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Quote from olfilthy123 »

Wow, that new Crusader set is so OP! Nice job Blizzard, give the crusaders another great set and the DH's are left with the stupid and useless Shadow set. Who will choose Shadow over Mara? No one! Please make every set in the game playable. I'll gladly move to Natalya or Shadow if they're worth it.

Lemme start by saying it's probably my fault for not checking Reddit's full thread/posts that you don't know that they're looking to improve the DH's sets too. That said, I will probably be adding Wyatt Cheng's replies there to the front page news tomorrow.

Here's the question and his answer on the matter:

Hello, Wyatt. Is it likely that the Shadow's Mantle set will continue to be a Shadow Power modifying set? I mean, it makes sense thematically, but the set (or should I say skill), adds little to nothing for offense (the only thing being a synergy between the area slow rune and Cull the Weak), but takes crucial gear slots. I don't have everything I want to test it, but I've been messing with it a bit. It's been kind of fun running into large groups of monsters and using Fan of Knives over and over because I can tank well with that 35% DR and the LoH, but I still feel weak, even when using a legacy sash of knives that has +49% fan of knives damage (which, by the way, I hope you don't change, I love the belt and the skill tremendously).

Are we going to see a change to the 2 piece bonus? It's essentially a Beckon Sail and the new Awareness passive. I'm not sure we need 3 life savers. Is it possible we'll see a buff to the skill (maybe granting some attack speed bonuses, resource return bonuses, or damage bonuses) that might make the skill more appealing. The skill is just significantly less appealing than Smoke Screen and/or Vault in terms of a defensive skill. Even with every rune available, it's equally tempting to just run a 3 piece nats for the extra discipline + crit and then use Smoke Screen: Healing Vapors.

And I guess, having touched on Nat's a little bit, is there any chance we'll see some improvements here? RoV is kind of lacking. Any chance you could add the Vengeance cooldown to the set? I realize it's a D3V set as well and they don't have access to Vengeance, but maybe they'll see it as an incentive to buy RoS.

[–]wyattcheng[S] 26 points 3 days ago
So the Nat's say is a great example of looking for alternative ways to make a set better. In my original post I said "We could also introduce a new Legendary item that offers a cool interaction or synergy with the "weak" one, and makes it better."
So in the case of Nat's, one thing Travis (Day) has been advocating internally is that instead of changing the Nat's set directly (which, as I've mentioned, we prefer to keep retroactive changes to a minimum), we could look at finding cool synergies with Rain of Vegenance. I don't want to put out any specifics, but in the same way Quetzalcoatl makes Jades Harvester better, or you can imagine that any legendary item that makes Rain of Vengeance better, makes the set better.

I hope that makes you feel a bit better about your DH's sets...

Quote from Seifa »

Uhm, they are removing Poison Damage from DH's smart loot, but aren't there a couple of skills left that use this element? Like Gas Granade and Serpentine Chakram? Not that anyone uses those abilities, buuuut, it's weird.

It's possible they'll change those as well and remove a specific element altogether from those classes to go along with that change. It's just on the PTR currently, so I'm sure they're just thinking about what they're going to do in this case and testing solutions.