Diablo II: Resurrected PTR 3.2 Coming Soon

Skaijuice wrote: 1 week ago

Necrarch wrote: 1 week ago

I tend to think that a nerf was necessary.
- Multiplicative damage instead of additive was most likely a mistake, and removing that alone will basically divide all damage by 3 or 4. And that's a good thing.

- Most of the others (e.g. less synergies for ES), tend to agree too, though...
> Binding demon is fun, so a bit sad to make it much harder
> Using

Eth weapons for main char was fun, so that one is more an annoyance than a strong nerf, so not very happy on this one.
> And the damage taken was also rather fun on something that is static on floor and not very large - would have simply diminished the values instead of removing fully the thing.

Anyway, before crying, let's try.

i'm 100% on this as well.

Having durability loss doesn't make sense to me ...for a skill named "echoing" strike which literally is a Spell.

U take your weapon's damage and project sound outwards and it bounces back to you, similiar to

War Cry and..might i add -

Shock Wave.

There never is any physical interaction between the weapon (that is FLOATING) ever touching whatever is targeted, only the echoes branch out and return.

Schnorki wrote: 1 day ago

A few hours after PTR closure...I sure hope they finally got some internal testers to replace their "streamers can do it" nonsense because the PTR and random people alone obviously don't cut it.

There's a measly 23 bug reports that came out of it. Or in other words ... 35% of all PTR bug reports were submitted by me, despite my semi-limited testing. That ain't right.

Here's to hoping they add an in-game bug reporting tool again if/when we ever get another PTR. Maybe that'll help things at least a tiny bit.

hondasupersport wrote: 1 day ago

Schnorki wrote: 1 day ago

A few hours after PTR closure...I sure hope they finally got some internal testers to replace their "streamers can do it" nonsense because the PTR and random people alone obviously don't cut it.

There's a measly 23 bug reports that came out of it. Or in other words ... 35% of all PTR bug reports were submitted by me, despite my semi-limited testing. That ain't right.

Here's to hoping they add an in-game bug reporting tool again if/when we ever get another PTR. Maybe that'll help things at least a tiny bit.

i seen a video where someone was saying item drop rates from heralds are really ridiculous. any thoughts on that aspect?

Schnorki wrote: 21 hours ago

MOX wrote: 23 hours ago

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I think that some drop rates maybe are inflated for the PTR, in order to balance them later.

Famous last words...remember when sunders dropped off of literally every single hork?

hondasupersport wrote: 21 hours ago

from the video i seen about 6 hours of tier 2

Herald farming produced about 7-10 sunders. on players 1 with low mf. i dont know for sure but i guess we shall see

Fall wrote: 1 hour ago

instead of nerf warlock, why note buff other classes.

Schnorki wrote: 1 hour ago

human_being wrote: 1 hour ago

Fall wrote: 1 hour ago

instead of nerf warlock, why note buff other classes.

I keep reading this. If a character is enough above the line, then taking everyone up to that line makes no sense. It would mean you're completely restructuring what the high point of the game is and everything below that becomes unusable.

I really don't understand why people are so averse to nerfs. The point of a game isn't for you to have as much power as possible, it's to have as much fun as possible. Enabling god mode doesn't make a game more fun; at least not for long.

Agreed.

D2 is already a relatively easy game (once you get at least a minimum of gear, build depending). Far, far too easy come decent gear in a decent build. Buffing everything to absurd no-gear-faceroll-through-everything levels just makes that even worse and ultimately everything more boring.

Unless you buff all other classes/builds to the same level and then buff the entirety of PvE content to pose a challenge based on those now evened out classes.
Then you'd ultimately get the same result as a nerf except with bigger numbers. Only real difference being that "buff literally everything except for 1" is infinitely more work and infinitely harder to get even remotely right than "nerf outlier".

So yeah..lock nerfs are fine, overdue and if anything didn't go far enough for multiple builds.

Except for that

Bind Demon channel/bind-frame change...f that nerf...doesn't do squat for balance, all it does is make things annoying AF for no reason whatsoever.

human_being wrote: 1 hour ago

Fall wrote: 1 hour ago

instead of nerf warlock, why note buff other classes.

I keep reading this. If a character is enough above the line, then taking everyone up to that line makes no sense. It would mean you're completely restructuring what the high point of the game is and everything below that becomes unusable.

I really don't understand why people are so averse to nerfs. The point of a game isn't for you to have as much power as possible, it's to have as much fun as possible. Enabling god mode doesn't make a game more fun; at least not for long.

Fall wrote: 1 hour ago

human_being wrote: 1 hour ago

Fall wrote: 1 hour ago

instead of nerf warlock, why note buff other classes.

I keep reading this. If a character is enough above the line, then taking everyone up to that line makes no sense. It would mean you're completely restructuring what the high point of the game is and everything below that becomes unusable.

I really don't understand why people are so averse to nerfs. The point of a game isn't for you to have as much power as possible, it's to have as much fun as possible. Enabling god mode doesn't make a game more fun; at least not for long.

For me, the point is to enjoy the class I love and enjoy the game.