I mean honestly, changing the way Blessed Hammer works is just anti Diablo II in my opinion. I don't care if you love it or hate it, the classic hammerdin is a staple of the game. I personally hope some of these leaks are not real. I know this is a somewhat minor thing but it feels more than that.
It's unusable in maggot lair, that alone justifies it imo.
As a Wind druid main, I am confused by the wording of the rumors regarding element druid. For me personally it would be nice if Tornado would be reliable from distance... that's all I want. Now, I'll have to telestomp everything with Enigma because it's the most effective (and dangerous) way to use the skill since you hit better if you're in front of a monster. Lightning damage? Why? Doesn't make sense, make Hurricane AoE radius a little bigger - with hard points... Don't need a third damage type
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These rumors are just made-up wishes & wants by some Chinese content creator, which was misinterpreted as a "leak" and reposted by someone named "xiaohei" on BNet forums, then somehow everyone and their mother thinks it's a leak and/or "unconfirmed changes", and Coooley is making clickbait videos about it (big surprise). It's not. It's just some random Chinese dude's hopium, whose intent was misinterpreted and twisted.
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all that somehow loops back and xiaohei posts on d2r forums on August 31th about unconfirmed leaks.
rolf
self fulfilling prophecy, or whats it called
there is nothing here. just lost in translation.
BYB makes a podcast episode.
战斗蜗牛 listens to the episode, gets inspired by it and makes a video of what could they could possibly announce in BlizzCon
xiaohei watches the video and thinks those are leaks.
we read xiaohei post and think these are leaks.
Pavke wrote:
Leaked by the same leaker who previously leaked Warlock screenshots. Highly credible in Korean/Russian communities, though unconfirmed officially.
- xiaohei thinks 战斗蜗牛 is the leaker or connected to a leaker.
战斗蜗牛 is just your average content creator on Chinese bilibili. 战斗蜗牛 makes 3 videos on August 30th:
these leaks are formed upon someone else's thoughts and suggestions. Someone watched these video, misunderstood them or it was lost in translation and though these are supposed leaks
Might we actually be getting any of these changes? Maybe, who knows? But it'd just be coincidence if there's any overlap between actual new features/changes and the stuff mentioned in the post.
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Hopefully, it's like you wrote. First smaller changes to early game items and then all of a sudden such changes? This would not go well, I assume.
And it's not only Cooley, but also Sweet Phil reacted to this forum post and in his latest video Llama behaved as if he knew what was coming up, but who knows? Maybe just a good actor...
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Just another streamer bob click- and rage-baiting as streamer bobs do. Nothing to see here, move along.
Though going by that forum change list post, random and non-credible as it may be, most of them sound like a pretty bad idea that doesn't understand the actual issues (e.g. drood summoners getting even more single-target while still failing @ crowds) so...that does sound like something blizzard would do. ^^
I'm not sure why the hammer change would be considered a nerf. The hammers would still spiral... the center of the spiral would be a short distance away, but you'd still be standing in a storm of hammers. Seems like making them usable in tight quarters would be worth the change.
In any case: I think some big changes for RoTW are reasonable. First off, as an "expansion," RoTW has FAR less content than LoD did, so they honestly need to add a significant amount from a value standpoint.
Second, as long as base (non-RoTW) D2R remains unchanged, that gives everyone 3 options to play how they want: you can play the original release, or play D2R for modern resolutions and some QoL stuff, or play RoTW for a new vision of Diablo 2.
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