Guys you need to understand that what they said about "us never feel weaker" is for live servers
It is normal for tweaks to happen in PTR, that is why it is a PTR. On live, we will be a little bit stronger but you need to forget about lightning DH because they used immortality, I compare my self to without perma smoke screen builds and I am doing better atm they I can do on live
That is true, but I stoped playing DH because my shooting was ridiculous comparing to what sentries did, now this buffing is pretty great because now I will do more dmg than sentries or the same dmg as 5 sentries combined and yes, solo for this sucks, as least for higher grifts, so I guess it will be only viable with some tank which is fine I personally do not like to solo
Sentries will no longer receive the 100% damage, only the player, nerfed already.
I am not sure if it will be a nerf, cause our shooting was 200% with 5 sentries and that takes some time to plant and I was having problems planting 5 sentries and actually having them all shoot at mobs even on gr42 and I sure did shoot at mobs, so now I will be more than double stronger and sentries will be double weaker so hmm, not sure it is a nerf but hell, we need to test but my bear was doing around 250mil, now it will do 600mil ? hugh
I just tried 3 builds, cold, fire, lightning, all with kridershot and bombardier,
I can confirm that also elemental arrow gets 40% dmg per sentry. it says ingame on set, generators and spenders get buff
For cold I used maelstrom+ballistic, I saw up to 270 mil crits, for fire I used loaded for bear, up to 220 mil crits but much harder to play solo since no cc, for lightning I used dazzling arrow and stun elemental arrow and it was great cc but crits up to 190 mil
Also I noticed that sentries shot their regular bullets and if I shoot spender, sentry shoots both
I did not play much, ping too high to play, I tried 3 trials and I easily got 41, I did not finish because it was too hard for ping and I died too much and this respawn is idiotic, I get into map, I get 2 insane elites, I die easily and I can not revive at checkpoint instead I get +5 sec for each death up to 30 sec, so I die 6 times and I need to wait 30 sec !!!
I do not think this setup is going to get nerfed because since you must be moving much sentries and you will not shoot too much so you need so big crits to compare solo with other classes. But real power for DH lies in party with some tank. I personally hated grifts so I did not play much, I did not go solo over gr38 but but those 3 41 grifts I would finish easily if I had nerves and ping would be better, elites are going down fast
All in all, I like the change, I did get a little rusty for DH since my favorite now is charge barb but I think me and my first love DH are gonna spend some good time together once 2.1.2 gets live
It is normal for tweaks to happen in PTR, that is why it is a PTR. On live, we will be a little bit stronger but you need to forget about lightning DH because they used immortality, I compare my self to without perma smoke screen builds and I am doing better atm they I can do on live
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I am not sure if it will be a nerf, cause our shooting was 200% with 5 sentries and that takes some time to plant and I was having problems planting 5 sentries and actually having them all shoot at mobs even on gr42 and I sure did shoot at mobs, so now I will be more than double stronger and sentries will be double weaker so hmm, not sure it is a nerf but hell, we need to test but my bear was doing around 250mil, now it will do 600mil ? hugh
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/iGGi-2191/hero/87768679
I can confirm that also elemental arrow gets 40% dmg per sentry. it says ingame on set, generators and spenders get buff
For cold I used maelstrom+ballistic, I saw up to 270 mil crits, for fire I used loaded for bear, up to 220 mil crits but much harder to play solo since no cc, for lightning I used dazzling arrow and stun elemental arrow and it was great cc but crits up to 190 mil
Also I noticed that sentries shot their regular bullets and if I shoot spender, sentry shoots both
I did not play much, ping too high to play, I tried 3 trials and I easily got 41, I did not finish because it was too hard for ping and I died too much and this respawn is idiotic, I get into map, I get 2 insane elites, I die easily and I can not revive at checkpoint instead I get +5 sec for each death up to 30 sec, so I die 6 times and I need to wait 30 sec !!!
I do not think this setup is going to get nerfed because since you must be moving much sentries and you will not shoot too much so you need so big crits to compare solo with other classes. But real power for DH lies in party with some tank. I personally hated grifts so I did not play much, I did not go solo over gr38 but but those 3 41 grifts I would finish easily if I had nerves and ping would be better, elites are going down fast
All in all, I like the change, I did get a little rusty for DH since my favorite now is charge barb but I think me and my first love DH are gonna spend some good time together once 2.1.2 gets live
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/iGGi-2191/hero/87768679