Basically elites are really easy now and some bosses have gotten harder cause people are pure tank and don't have enough DPS to finish it off before enrage timers.

nOlifeTERRAN

United States153 Posts

June 19 2012 19:50 GMT

#342

Kripp for the win on this patch hahaha CONGRATS BRO!!!!

FakiVII

Germany18 Posts

June 19 2012 19:51 GMT

#343

Didn't they want to improve the quality of legendary items? I can't find it in the patch notes.

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

June 19 2012 19:52 GMT

#344

On June 20 2012 04:51 FakiVII wrote:
Didn't they want to improve the quality of legendary items? I can't find it in the patch notes.

That's 1.1, not 1.0.3.

No_Roo

United States905 Posts

June 19 2012 19:54 GMT

#345

I'm a little concerned about the specific normal monster nerfs, seems like they're giving up a lot of ground and homogenizing the difficulty. Hopefully this trend doesn't continue.

Yaotzin

South Africa4280 Posts

June 19 2012 19:57 GMT

#346

Easier game with fun viable builds like meleesorc > hard game with 2-3 viable builds per class.

Vinski

505 Posts

June 19 2012 20:00 GMT

#347

Has anyone here beaten ghom as a melee since the patch? I feel he is impossible

Phael

United States281 Posts

June 19 2012 20:00 GMT

#348

Hard game that required 2-3 viable builds per class that gradually expanded to 20+ builds per class as you collected better gear > this shitty nerf.

Yaotzin

South Africa4280 Posts

June 19 2012 20:01 GMT

#349

That game never existed. Would've been nice if it did. As it was if you didn't have certain skills you simply couldn't progress at all.

Amui

Canada10567 Posts

June 19 2012 20:03 GMT

#350

Damage in act 3 feels ~30% lower, but the aspd nerf really, really hurts. Feel spirit starved, less LoH, fewer interrupts and a pretty huge damage nerf for me despite not really stacking aspd that much. On the bright side though, molten hurts about as much as 2 stacked plagues prepatch(act3). Still think monks could use a little something though, because aspd was our best stat by far.

On June 20 2012 05:00 Vinski wrote:
Has anyone here beaten ghom as a melee since the patch? I feel he is impossible

I tried, don't quite have the dps to do it(I would've prepatch). Ended up short 4-800k short every time. I think what would fix the fight for melee's is that he waits like 5-10 secs before casting his first poison cloud, because otherwise it cuts off kiting paths for like the first minute of the fight. I think the enrage wasn't really tuned particularly well though, really feels like blizzard just pulled a time out of a hat, especially since melee spend 1/3 of the fight twiddling their thumbs.

Yaotzin

South Africa4280 Posts

June 19 2012 20:06 GMT

#351

You can have totally imba resists tho, that's your thang.

CTStalker

Canada9720 Posts

June 19 2012 20:08 GMT

#352

the nerd tears pouring through the bnet forums are near palpable. hilarious

Phael

United States281 Posts

June 19 2012 20:09 GMT

#353

On June 20 2012 05:01 Yaotzin wrote:
That game never existed. Would've been nice if it did. As it was if you didn't have certain skills you simply couldn't progress at all.

I'm fine with that. You min/max when you're super-undergeared to clear content above your level. That makes sense.

When you're kitted out in high level gear, you have a far greater selection available for you. When I was farming heart of sin these past few weeks, I'd try a new spec each run. Multiple runs have featured melee wizard builds with arcane orb - orbit, spectral blades, etc. They may have increased my run time to about 30 min instead of my usual 20, but it relieved the monotony. Generally, it took me about 10 seconds to kill a champion pack, the challenge was lasting long enough to do so.

I killed the butcher with nothing but thorns damage.

And yes, my gear was high level. It took time to farm and gear for it, and I reaped the benefits. 150k+ dps, 50% crit, 40k hp, 5k armor and 500 resist all. It didn't require weeks of no-life, as I do have a full time job among other distractions (such as raiding guilds who still insist on raiding DS sigh), but it still took time and effort.

Redox

Germany24794 Posts

June 19 2012 20:10 GMT

#354

On June 20 2012 05:08 CTStalker wrote:
the nerd tears pouring through the bnet forums are near palpable. hilarious

What are they whining about mostly?

Netherlands12045 Posts

June 19 2012 20:13 GMT

#355

you could actually do pony land with 5 stacks without dying now.... WOW... my gears are all level 61-62 and i lost 10k dps due to the AS nerf and still be able to do this.... EZ

Yaotzin

South Africa4280 Posts

June 19 2012 20:17 GMT

#356

On June 20 2012 05:09 Phael wrote:
And yes, my gear was high level. It took time to farm and gear for it, and I reaped the benefits. 150k+ dps, 50% crit, 40k hp, 5k armor and 500 resist all. It didn't require weeks of no-life, as I do have a full time job among other distractions (such as raiding guilds who still insist on raiding DS sigh), but it still took time and effort.

Regardless of the time it took, there are incredibly few people with stats like that. Yes, with gear like that options open up. But for 99% of the playerbase, there are just a few possible builds (energy armor, a slowing ability etc).

For now, when those sorts of stats aren't commonplace (I'm sure they will be someday), I think it's right to nerf a2+. They can do like they did with D2 though, and increase the difficulty over time, to compensate for such gear becoming more and more common. As it was, A2 on was a horror show for people with more mediocre gear. Getting through A2 with my crappy gear (I don't like using the AH much) was not fun.

Mysticesper

United States1183 Posts

June 19 2012 20:19 GMT

#357

In regards to balancing IAS / Crit:

Yeah it's anecdotal due to my gear setup, but apparently it's working as intended, 1% IAS is about equal to 1% crit on my gear, instead of being blown way out of proportion like before.
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EAGER-beaver

Canada2799 Posts

June 19 2012 20:32 GMT

#358

On June 20 2012 03:02 matiK23 wrote:

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You're at the gym for 3-4 hours everyday? Man you must love staring at your big biceps in the mirror, doing curls under a squat rack with a straight bar.

Also why are you always banned whenever you post?

That's nothing bro, I work out at the gym 18-20 hours a day and I do so many 'roids I'm legally a eunuch. I just thought all my starcraft internet friends should know.

Babaganoush

United States626 Posts

June 19 2012 20:34 GMT

#359

You know, the IAS nerf isn't as bad as I thought it would be.

At least my Witch Doctor can still cast Rain of Toads and damage opponents even before the toads hit the ground.