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.
If they are going to nerf Warcry Inpunity, then they have to nerf Energy - Prismatic Armor. Energy armor give a 65% armor bluff, while WC only 20%.
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.
am i missing something in the article?
no changes on might, defensive, taticts or rage abilities?
so basically every barb will stay with warcry+impunity rune - great job Blizz after thinking months about changing skills to diversify builds ....
It's a overview to give you an idea of what they have done (not everything), did you see any title stating "official 1.0.4. patch notes"?
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Elites getting 25% less health. Damage going up about 100% on abilities.
It's essentially a 50% nerf to all difficulties. Not to mention the new legendaries.
Given that it's DPS buff of 100% on some abilities to bring them in line with other more effective specs, I think you might be overstating your case slightly.
Elites getting 25% less health. Damage going up about 100% on abilities.
It's essentially a 50% nerf to all difficulties. Not to mention the new legendaries.
Given that it's DPS buff of 100% on some abilities to bring them in line with other more effective specs, I think you might be overstating your case slightly.
Exactly. If they leave the skills that "everyone uses" untouched, and they buff the skills that "nobody" uses because they simply don't cut the mustard in Inferno, then that's hardly "damage going up about 100%".
This looks pretty solid to me. I played around with a lot of different builds while levelling my Barbarian main. Used Cleave as my main attack most of the way, with the corpse explosion rune, it was great fun. Used Rend a lot. But then I found that I needed to minimax to be able to cope in Inferno, and have been using - you guessed it - Frenzy, and no fury spender skills. I'd love to be making tough choices about builds again.
exactly a OVERVIEW - so i atleast expect ONE sentence like "oh an we change some of the underpowered might, defensive, taticts and rage abilities too"
is one sentence to much to ask?
I suppose your right but considering the backlash Blizzard receives I'm not surprised they didn't put any brief sentences in. If we received a blog that comprised of 4 lines of every change for the Barb with no reasoning or details I'm quite sure there would be a lot of WTF. It would be nice to see a "book" of line by line every single detail the have worked but that's asking a bit much. You could also be right and they are only focusing on offensive abilities. Maybe defensive abilities will be in 1.0.5. Overall I'm happy with at least knowing that I can use a fury spender, use a different fury generator and have worthwhile legendary items. This will keep me very happy till 1.0.4. and there are still many announcements to be made.
TL:DR job well done Blizzard I'm excited for the new patch.
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For 1.0.4, we're taking a good look at some of the most unpopular skills for each class, figuring out why they aren't being used in your builds, and then seeing how we can make them better -- either by redesigning how they work or just buffing the hell out of them.
So, in all the examples they give, the fix is just to buff the number values of under used skills. Don't get me wrong, I think this needed to be done, but it could have happened months ago in a simple tuesday patch. I kind of expected something new... maybe Cleave building stacks of a bleed on elites or something. Maybe when the patch notes are released we will see more redesigns and not just buffed values added to existing skills.
agreed, i was really hoping for some new INTERESTING updates, not just more number changes. I like the changes i guess, but i kinda was just yawning my way through it, nothing really stuck out...
on a side note, legendaries are starting to look better!
Mad all I've ever really liked using, since release, were Cleave and Seismic Slam as my main two abilities. Its refreshing they didn't go the wow direction and simply nerf the skills doing well, but instead buffed the ones doing poorly.
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what problems is that?
Well...
I also can't see any text in the quote box in shootingbull's post nor the blizzquote in Aldrek's post. Again, the problems went away once I disabled AdBlock+ but normally I don't need to. /shrug
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what problems is that?
Well...
I also can't see any text in the quote box in shootingbull's post nor the blizzquote in Aldrek's post. Again, the problems went away once I disabled AdBlock+ but normally I don't need to. /shrug
Looks like just the colored text is missing. Is it really gone? Maybe it just blends in. Probably unlikely.
Your AdBlock is probably blocking the chuck of HTML that displays the colored text. That's how those things function. Try adjusting the settings for the site and see if the text pops up again.
Hero profile for the streamer at twitch.tv/goodideagaming. This is essentially the reason behind the 50% nerf to CM/WW wizard build. The build is still possible, but you will no longer be able to perform with budget gear; you will have to max out critical chance. Way more effort and gold (or cash for RMAH users).
I'm a little bitter over this, considering how fun* it appeared and something I am slowly working toward. I don't want them to nerf Barbarian just because my favorite class/build is nerfed, but... daaaaaaaang.
*Fun shall be understood to mean "I kill the monsters without running away all over the map."
Looks like just the colored text is missing. Is it really gone? Maybe it just blends in. Probably unlikely.
Your AdBlock is probably blocking the chuck of HTML that displays the colored text. That's how those things function. Try adjusting the settings for the site and see if the text pops up again.
I can "select" the lines, but nothing displays, so no case of blending. I tried changing a couple settings as you suggested, but there was no change. It's really odd for the thing to be acting up on this website now after all this time, but it's not too big a deal for me.
Thanks for the help anyway, aldrek. I'll just disable it for this website from now on.
I usually do another clear formatting on these on the final post, I still don't understand why that would change anything for you. If the wizard one is not working for you, then that must be the issue
I usually do another clear formatting on these on the final post, I still don't understand why that would change anything for you. If the wizard one is not working for you, then that must be the issue
Yeah, none of the class preview news posts display properly with the addon. It's fine, I can live with trusting this website.
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If they are going to nerf Warcry Inpunity, then they have to nerf Energy - Prismatic Armor. Energy armor give a 65% armor bluff, while WC only 20%.
You're right, that's a better example.
It's a overview to give you an idea of what they have done (not everything), did you see any title stating "official 1.0.4. patch notes"?
Given that it's DPS buff of 100% on some abilities to bring them in line with other more effective specs, I think you might be overstating your case slightly.
Exactly. If they leave the skills that "everyone uses" untouched, and they buff the skills that "nobody" uses because they simply don't cut the mustard in Inferno, then that's hardly "damage going up about 100%".
This looks pretty solid to me. I played around with a lot of different builds while levelling my Barbarian main. Used Cleave as my main attack most of the way, with the corpse explosion rune, it was great fun. Used Rend a lot. But then I found that I needed to minimax to be able to cope in Inferno, and have been using - you guessed it - Frenzy, and no fury spender skills. I'd love to be making tough choices about builds again.
I suppose your right but considering the backlash Blizzard receives I'm not surprised they didn't put any brief sentences in. If we received a blog that comprised of 4 lines of every change for the Barb with no reasoning or details I'm quite sure there would be a lot of WTF. It would be nice to see a "book" of line by line every single detail the have worked but that's asking a bit much. You could also be right and they are only focusing on offensive abilities. Maybe defensive abilities will be in 1.0.5. Overall I'm happy with at least knowing that I can use a fury spender, use a different fury generator and have worthwhile legendary items. This will keep me very happy till 1.0.4. and there are still many announcements to be made.
TL:DR job well done Blizzard I'm excited for the new patch.
agreed, i was really hoping for some new INTERESTING updates, not just more number changes. I like the changes i guess, but i kinda was just yawning my way through it, nothing really stuck out...
on a side note, legendaries are starting to look better!
these are skills almost no one uses, so if you start using a skill you've never used before...
what's the point of making brand new abilities if people aren't even using the different ones already available
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I have a strange feeling they might be.
Well...
I also can't see any text in the quote box in shootingbull's post nor the blizzquote in Aldrek's post. Again, the problems went away once I disabled AdBlock+ but normally I don't need to. /shrug
Your AdBlock is probably blocking the chuck of HTML that displays the colored text. That's how those things function. Try adjusting the settings for the site and see if the text pops up again.
Hero profile for the streamer at twitch.tv/goodideagaming. This is essentially the reason behind the 50% nerf to CM/WW wizard build. The build is still possible, but you will no longer be able to perform with budget gear; you will have to max out critical chance. Way more effort and gold (or cash for RMAH users).
I'm a little bitter over this, considering how fun* it appeared and something I am slowly working toward. I don't want them to nerf Barbarian just because my favorite class/build is nerfed, but... daaaaaaaang.
*Fun shall be understood to mean "I kill the monsters without running away all over the map."
Originally Posted by (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
I can "select" the lines, but nothing displays, so no case of blending. I tried changing a couple settings as you suggested, but there was no change. It's really odd for the thing to be acting up on this website now after all this time, but it's not too big a deal for me.
Thanks for the help anyway, aldrek. I'll just disable it for this website from now on.
Yeah, none of the class preview news posts display properly with the addon. It's fine, I can live with trusting this website.