Firebird's Finery has been the focus of a lot of community discussion since the launch of Patch 2.4.1. As the patch and current Season settle in, we want to take a moment to share development insight on what's coming for this powerful class set in the future.
Firebird’s Finery has come a long way since its original implementation. We’re really happy with its theme. It’s the Fire set for Wizards and puts you in a place where you can burninate all the things. That’s awesome, we like that, and we want to preserve that feeling. On the other hand, we’re not happy with the bugs we’ve encountered and it’s become clear we need to take a new approach. We’re working on a fix that will be introduced in a future patch.
So, what does that mean for Season 6? There are a lot of players who have pushed hard and reached high ranks with these unintended bugs. However, we don’t want to punish players for working within the parameters given to them. To that end, the current functionality will remain intact for the duration of Season 6. Once these bugs have been resolved, you can expect that the power level of Firebird’s will be much more in line with other sets.
In short, the bug will not be fixed in season 6 and anyone who abuses this will not be punished.
My personal opinion on this: I don't understand this. It takes paragon 1000+ and a lot of practice, playtime, and augments to get a GR100 down as solo wizard without this bug. However, now all those "legit clears" will be pushed off the leaderboard, as with this bug everyone can eventually clear GR100. Not easily, but it's possible. Some people with the new builds (Tal/Vyr, or maybe even the Twister+Archon hybrid) will probably top the leaderboards, but most spots will be occupied by this build. So in my personal opinion, a sad day and a decision I don't understand. But well, here you go.
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Apparently Blizzard is fine with everyone using this bug:
http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/62440-the-future-of-firebirds-finery
Originally Posted by (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Firebird’s Finery has come a long way since its original implementation. We’re really happy with its theme. It’s the Fire set for Wizards and puts you in a place where you can burninate all the things. That’s awesome, we like that, and we want to preserve that feeling. On the other hand, we’re not happy with the bugs we’ve encountered and it’s become clear we need to take a new approach. We’re working on a fix that will be introduced in a future patch.
So, what does that mean for Season 6? There are a lot of players who have pushed hard and reached high ranks with these unintended bugs. However, we don’t want to punish players for working within the parameters given to them. To that end, the current functionality will remain intact for the duration of Season 6. Once these bugs have been resolved, you can expect that the power level of Firebird’s will be much more in line with other sets.
In short, the bug will not be fixed in season 6 and anyone who abuses this will not be punished.
My personal opinion on this: I don't understand this. It takes paragon 1000+ and a lot of practice, playtime, and augments to get a GR100 down as solo wizard without this bug. However, now all those "legit clears" will be pushed off the leaderboard, as with this bug everyone can eventually clear GR100. Not easily, but it's possible. Some people with the new builds (Tal/Vyr, or maybe even the Twister+Archon hybrid) will probably top the leaderboards, but most spots will be occupied by this build. So in my personal opinion, a sad day and a decision I don't understand. But well, here you go.
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