Ladder Season 15 and Patch 3.3

varangium wrote: 1 hour ago

Bind Demon nerf is lame. It's cool to have a summon that actually does some non negligible damage to help.

It's not that the demon is needed for fire or

Echoing Strike builds or the damage makes a huge difference, it's more that it is just satisfying to have a summon or helper that is actually more than just a

Decoy or aura stick.

ganseng wrote: 1 hour ago

some (late game) uniques are fine and bis, but most of them are trash.. shall i recite my fix wish list again?

all bows and xbows except for

Windforce,

Lycander's Aim,

Demon Machine and

Skystrike

The Grandfather

Doombringer

Tyrael's Might

Metalgrid

Dwarf Star

and a long list..

Schnorki wrote: 1 hour ago

ganseng wrote: 2 hours ago

thanks for sharing. interesting with tweaking the uniques, would also do it sequentially, because you of course piss off people who have the old versions in perfect rolls. would make sense to start with the high level items to give people more time to accumulate the new versions, but i guess they are testing the water here.

as for the changes themselves, it's a mixed bag. angelic set and

Manald Heal are already great options, nice to see them getting even better. battlebranch,

The Ward and

Bane Ash could become somewhat usable now. and both bow updates are just middle fingers, remain as useless as they were

Seems more like another step in that "trying to make early to mid game gear more worthwhile" effort, akin to what they've already done with many sets in an earlier D2:R patch. Many a high lvl unique really doesn't need any changes after all as they're perfectly fine and often BiS as they are. Given, some of those do kinda suck as well by comparison but nowhere near as much as the early to mid game stuff.

And a change like "added socketed (1)" just screams "we're not looking at endgame, we just want to add something early/mid to save you from blowing your

Larzuk socket along the way".

Though FRW on manald is actually kinda hot and does make that somewhat tempting even for certain (albeit few) endgame builds.

The "ladder only" part is weird though, seeing how they didn't artifically limit it in the last round of changes. But oh well..gotta have something be different on ladder I guess, what with the RWs finally rolling down.