Quote (aliquis @ Aug 20 2012 06:00pm)
You got that right. And everyone is cheering, just like on May 15. Human stupidity is endless.
Speak for yourself.
All of the bugfixes/usability changes(ah) and content adjustment(plvls, difficulty tuning, affix tuning(2hs)) should have/could have been taken care of in beta. They are good changes but I see them as the bare minimum to keep things going(I still see no mention of private chat channels or /f m, the fuck?).
A lot of the class balance is really silly. 95% of it(yea making up a % on the spot, wanna fight about it?) is simple herp derp of buffing the skills no one used by 25% or more of their weapon damage. They fail to realize why some of the skills are not being used(usability and core functionality/purpose). For instance, they buffed ice armor runes to return more damage when hit(woopty doo) but fail to realize no one uses it because they want(need) the armor from EA, and doublely, the resists from prismatic rune. They made almost no functionality changes in this patch. If they wanted ice armor to be used more they could have given it a flat armor boost(like d2 ice armor? durr) on the same level as EA, where EA runes(pris, force) can give even more protection or different uses(5%crit). All of the wiz buffs to severly lackluster skills arn't enough to make me think they will outdo my 100kdps archon spec. The only thing I may try is death blossom to see how random it is or isn't now or try out cascade, only because at 16ap/210% it's closer to competing with arcane orb but it still has usability issues like it's delayed explosion. Similar to boloshot for dh, they think the answer is just more raw damage instead of the overall feel/design of the skill. It's done this way because they're lazy and it's much easier change one value on a skill's damage than rewrite half of it's code. Honestly the only class that had real changes is WD. My barb I'll tryout 2handers some, then realize ww/sprint is still superior simply because of the speed you move about and kill isn't worth losing over seeing big crits and more single target damage. Borrrrring.