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As a WD farming t6 and speed running greater rift 40 with 2 barb friends i think this patch is garbage.

When i am halfways through the map. They are on the next level. The only thing i am able to do is run and loot. And its boring as hell.

They need to balance classes more. WD cant run and kill shit like barbs can. As a wd you kinda need to stop and attack and then to the next group. While the barbs just keep a button pressed and kill the entire map without stopping. And ontop of that. Sick movemenst speed.

Blizzard need to make all classes viable to run with eachother. Its not right that i have to reroll my class to be able to play with my friends

Blizz has actually explicitly said in the past they won't change class balance in this regard. They want different classes to have different levels of maneuverability.

Just indulge me, in what way would you change WD to be able to run along side one of the single most mobile classes in the game? Simply put, there is no easy answer. And then, if they buffed WD movement, but not Wizard, or Crusader, or any other class, you're just causing more class imbalance.

I looked for, but couldn't find, the blue post in which they talked about this fact. Their answer was basically just "use a faster build."

Love patch 2.2, the changes have been great. However, there's a couple things that are really starting to bother me;

1: Numbers.

Vanilla had me feeling like 1 million crits were huge and I got excited when I saw them, and I used to see ~5m crits with a full party buff. Now, that's already turned into 1 billion crits being the norm, and the 5-10B crits being the exciting ones. I think even one more expansion of this number inflation is too much. Should we be expecting Trillion crits to be regular? Because that's ludicrous, and I think even the current numbers need to be addressed, let alone the potential ones.

2: Sets bonuses.

While I understand Blizzard's idea to make them the end game, end-all-be-all items, I don't like it. I realize it's probably a huge pain in the ass for balance reasons, but why on earth to sets need to do 300%, 500%, 750% more damage with skills? It creates a TON of problems; with Rolands set my shield bash and sweep attack hit for the hundreds of millions at least, which is fun. What isn't fun? My generator hitting for 7 million, any of my damage cooldowns hitting for 10-15 million, or put another way, everything else I have hitting for ~.01% of the two buffed skills. There's absolutely no reason to have these insanely high modifiers for skills with the set bonuses, and even the stand alone legendaries. It completely trivializes everything else.

3. Set slots.

I might be the only one, but it bothers me to no end that a set takes up HALF of our slots, and with un-interesting items by themselves. A quick example would be Rolands set again. Alrighty, 6p bonus! Now what do I have to play with and move around to make the build of my liking? My weapon / off hand, bracers, belt and jewelry. You can forget any legendary helms, shoulders, chests, gloves, pants, and boots, since you can only pick one of those slots (and give up a jewelry slot). Want to wear RoRG and magefists? Well that's pretty dumb, since cindercoat beats out magefist every time. Want to wear RoRG and any other piece for your crusader? Sorry, not going to beat FnR.

TLDR; The numbers have already gotten astronomical, and need to be addressed. Instead of balancing sets and unique legendaries, we have sets that you absolutely NEED, even if it's just to play some higher greater rifts than the T6 equivalent. Oh and while wearing those sets? Say goodbye to being able to mix and match all those cool, unique legendaries we all wanted back in Vanilla, since they were all plain and didn't do anything.

Sets should provide synergy within a party, not troll the party.

This is actually pretty offensive to us as well, but we don't think the problem is with the concept of Raekor's. When you observe the gameplay as a teammate, it kind of reminds you of that kid on the playground who would take the ball and run with it rather than passing it around and letting the other kids play with him.

That's not a great feeling, especially for the rest of the party. It doesn't live up to the spirit of multiplayer or create good teamwork opportunities. We're looking to fix this by redesigning the Dreadnought rune and the Raekor's set. Here's the current plan:

Furious Charge>




Dreadnought>



• Has been redesigned. Now grants Furious Charge two charges.

The Legacy of Raekor>



• 2-piece bonus: The first enemy hit by Furious Charge takes 100% additional damage.
• 4-piece bonus: Furious Charge gains the effect of every rune.
• 5-piece bonus: Enemies hit by Furious Charge take 3000% weapon damage over 3 seconds.

The gameplay of zipping back and forth across the screen and dealing huge amounts of damage is a lot of fun, and we want to preserve that. What we want to combat is how this gameplay was downright incompatible with multiplayer. Rather than charging forever forward, it should feel good to charge through existing groups before moving on to the next pack, and it'll be even better if your buddies line 'em up for you to knock back down. This change should be in the next PTR patch, which we're hoping to get to

This was the blue post before the Raekors nerf (pre 2.1.2?). This changed how Raekors worked -- changing it from charging and dragging minions with them to Barbs just charging and having no collision.

Honestly, I have no idea what they're brainstorming process is like. I've wondered what methods they use to come up with ideas for the game. I swear the developers don't use a Pros and Cons list on their whiteboard for any new ideas they come up with. A lot of things they put in the game also seem like ideas that are good on paper, but are actually terrible in-game (rift keys, GR keys, Trials) but they implement them without taking a second look.

Don't get me wrong, I thought 2.2 was a great patch. The amount of build diversity has broadened and some of the builds are very entertaining. I'm having fun with it, but there is so much potential with the game that I can see that it feels underwhelming with how slow they fix/release new/old content. Anyone still have server lag issues? Occasional frame rate drops? Die to invulnerable (1 hp) leaping winged assassins/lacuni prowlers. Confused as to why you can't hit the snake guys from act 2 when they're invisible (been like that since vanilla). Frustrated that your stash space is so limited, even though they keep adding new and more worthy gear to hoard (ancients, revamped sets). Angry that you just died to unavoidable damage (frozen, thunderstorm, jailer, ghosts) in Higher GRs; especially if it one shots you (and yes toughness will not save you from infinite scaling GRs). Perplexed by the ridiculously high numbers from your scrolling combat text, stat sheets, monster hp. Pissed off at the barb/monk who is going 150mph in the T6 rift, killing everything, and leaving you in the dust, but also reducing your mf/xp gain from lack of stacks of Strength in Numbers buff (outdated). Baffled at how you just two shot 'Ubers' bosses (except for Maghda).

These are just a few of the issues that I and I'm sure many of you have with the game. I still play Diablo and enjoy it, but I'm just frustrated by the lack activity by the Dev Team. Feedback is incredibly slow and/or very minimal ('soon').

Sets are basically a way to make builds and spells work in end game, and this makes me quite angry, because it means some underused skills won't be viable until Blizzard decides to make bonus for them, which they already said it will be the case; they rather make items to empower those abilities than make them good from the start. Basically, Blizzard decides when it's the time you will have more viable builds in end-game while keeping a bunch of useless legendaries with bad affixes that won't synergize with a set or between other oranges to make something workable.

At least i'm having fun with different sets to play with, variety, even if limited, makes this game better; i was so sick of running M6 all day, every day, even to farm keys, bounties and normal rifts.

How have people not been demanding a proper PVP system, possibly with MMR, matchmaking, ladders and rewards to increase the "value" of farming this insane gear

D3 at launch was by far my favorite version of D3. I played a DH back then.

The game now is definitely better than it was a few months back, but far from being my favorite version of D3.