PTR findings and first impressions

i've heard they gave you an

Eth

Thunder Maul fort for testing, is this a joke?

Thank you so much for the information/experience shared. <3

Appreciate your testing and effort!

weegee wrote: 7 hours ago

i've heard they gave you an

Eth

Thunder Maul fort for testing, is this a joke?

Sort of The compilation of the ES gear is - to put mildy - overall not very well balanced (e. g. no ML leech )

Thanks for the info. Why the hell is ES only lvl80 build?

basicnecromancy wrote: 3 hours ago

Thanks for the info. Why the hell is ES only lvl80 build?

The more important question is: Why the hell is Summoner only lvl30 build????

I don't want to grind this guy up to 90, so PTR is a hard pass.

The marketing division of the Blizzard Cybernetics Corporation is a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Thanks Schnorki ! When you have a sec, can you try Sigil: Lethargy as well : is it useless or not ?

weegee wrote: 7 hours ago

i've heard they gave you an

Eth

Thunder Maul fort for testing, is this a joke?

Well, the durability loss and

Eth breaking needs testing.
But yeah, Blizz templates haven't exactly been good or anything for prior PTRs either. Just one of the reasons I prepped my own.

Queegon wrote: 5 hours ago

[..]I assume you did so through exporting from d2planner, which randomized the aura even before PTR and chose one from the available pool upon entering a game for the first time despite one being chosen in the planner.

If you had other means to try this out, I take it back. Perhaps, if that works, make a char in RotW offline, check the demon has aura you want and then copy paste the char into PTR?

Just tried it myself going from RotW

Holy Fire/

Blessed Aim/might into PTR with

Vigor/

Thorns/

Concentration. At least that Infinity I will have to make for chronicle will have a use afterwards for my firelock.

You can export from d2planner?! Where's that bit hidden?
But yeah, no, I know how to test things properly.

Queegon wrote: 3 hours ago

Mirrored Blades is now stronger than

Echoing Strike for melee range, if you don't have a x/bow equipped.

I don't see any mana leech or life leech for either MB or ES.

Damage from weapons is now a big deal, so Breath of the Dying

Thunder Maul is the undisputed king of damage (so complete opposite of pre-PTR for weapon choices ). The 60% IAS applies to

Mirrored Blades, compared to zero on Death.

ethereal BotD dmg: MB: 5k-29k, ES: 8k-24k
non-ethereal Insight dmg: MB: 3-12, ES: 7k-14k
Death is slow for MB, ok for ES.

Leech is still there for ES. It merely feels quite low. Not entirely sure what's happening there yet. Almost as though only off-weapon leech is considered or something weird like that. Needs more testing whenever I get around to that.

Necrarch wrote: 1 hour ago

Thanks Schnorki ! When you have a sec, can you try Sigil: Lethargy as well : is it useless or not ?

Haven't actively tested the functionality but the tooltip seems the same except with the dmg taken part removed, as was the stated goal.
Assuming (risky, I know) it works correctly and still does the same except for the dmg taken as well, it'll still be a solid 1pt wonder for various situations. The -def part can be useful early on/in lower gear but isn't needed with half-way decent gear for ES (which is why I didn't bother actively testing that one). The slow remains a solid defensive choice and brilliant to shut down

Baal's annoying

Teleport and the like. It still offers quite a lot for a measly single skill point.
Though I wouldn't expect to add more than that single point, seeing how the scaling is then really only -def and duration and not exactly stellar.