I watched the interview between mrllamasc and the d2r devs on twitch. here are the broadstrokes that concerns us lld pvpers in the upcoming patch:

GENERAL

• ladders will last 4 months.
  
• ladder exclusive content: the new runewords
  
• there will be new runewords on every new ladder
  
• when ladder ends, NL characters can now make those new runewords on NL
  
• skill tooltips will be made clearer
  
• underused skills will see buffs
  
• PTR: you can play from scratch, or use lvl 99 template characters, maybe big item vendor
  
• thorn: "attackers-take-damage" on swing (rather than on dmg) change is intended
  
• mlvl increase of some areas (like moon temple/arachnid's lair, there will be others too)
  
• the 3 khalim organs are now required to go into durance (no more a3 rushing with just trav+meph)
  
• dclone: they will change it to make it more available to most people (no specific announcement yet)
  
• character slots: no plans for an increase (it'll stay at 20)
  
• crafting: no changes
  
• new cube recipe: we can now up set items
  
• patch cadence will slow down, but changes in them will be bigger
  
• no mention of WSG returning

AMAZON

• dodge/avoid/evade: seems like a reduction of animation time (pog)
  
• jav skills: synergies will become cheaper and not as restrictive (less skill points)
  
• impale: now always hit (no defense/atk rating check)
  
• valkyrie: reduced casting delays
  
• inner sight/slow missile: range increase
  
• GA/multishot/strafe: no changes

ASSASSIN

• charge skills: now consume one charge at a time instead of all 3
  
• charge skills: increased dmg & made easier to charge up
  
• fire traps: dmg synergy buffed
  
• lightning traps: synergy heaviness reduced
  
• blade skills: will get dmg synergy, lower timer on blade sentinel
  
• no mention of finisher kicks being unblockable

BARBARIAN

• leap: improved travel speed
  
• leap attack: increased dmg from synergies
  
• throwbarb: higher base dmg
  
• frenzy: new synergy from increased stamina
  
• whirlwind: no changes

DRUID

• fire skills: better dmg & casting delay (pog)
  
• artic blast: better dmg scaling, less synergies, better player control
  
• twister: more reason to spend points
  
• wolf/bear form may cast elemental buffs
  
• werewolf: atk rating boost
  
• werebear: better dmg
  
• fireclaw: lesser synergies (devs said this was going to see a massive change)
  
• ravens: will function like a dmg'ing spell (higher dmg & permanent?)
  
• all wolves: higher dmg, tankier
  
• spirit wolves: now deal cold dmg instead of phys dmg

NECROMANCER

• bone skills: synergy improvements -> less points, more dmg (pog)
  
• bone armor: better scaling
  
• weaken curse: better effectiveness at reducing dmg
  
• blood/fire golem: better effectiveness

PALADIN

• foh: reduced casting delay (pog)
  
• offensive auras: increased dmg based on distance (closer = bigger dmg)
  
• thorn: they're looking to make it a flat value, not % based (PTR testing will decide)

SORCERESS

• frost nova: scaling dmg increase
  
• nova: static field/tstorm are now nova synergies (huge dmg buff)
  
• inferno: better dmg, synergies, better usability (like artic blast)
  
• blaze: dmg increase & frw buff (pog)
  
• hydra: heavy cast delay reduction (they said removed/reduced, unsure)

ITEMS

• new runewords will mostly complement the changes above (and merc)
  
• rws: Plague (hld) & Pattern (lld) are coming with little tweaks (Pattern picture: https://i.imgur.com/M2bpyOq.png)
  
• these are not the only 2 upcoming runewords, there will be more (no specific number given, but dev says people will freak when we see them)
  
• improvement of unused sets (cow set unchanged)

Love my d2 to not be d2

i like the fact unused skills are brought back into the light. fireclaw & artic blast were absolute diarrhea tier.

however the synergy changes are huge. big potential to break trappers / cs & psn zons / pnb necros. a bit nervous there.

This post was edited by WereWolf12345 on Dec 16 2021 03:16pm

D2r is the official blizzard mod of d2 🤣🤣🤣

that's good

lets just cement trappers as S+ tier, eh?

Devz probly never played the game except for probably doing a couple walk throughs and felt the game was hard… that’s the only explanation for these changes 🤣🤣

They lost me when they made some guy that sounds like he has cocaine/Newport throat the liaison for this miserable experience lol

(ty Arena)
We dont care about this:



but this is nice for 18?

this will probably be over 18 because of the ort rune. the website displays lvl 1, but thats probably because it was datamined. i know of no rws that have a lower req than its highest rune.