yeah it makes sense that it was unintentional

but why does WSG still exist in some form but not in others?

i.e WSG + casting spells still kinda works but WSG + walking is fucked

I heard they removed it on purpose and for good lol

It sucks but it is what it is , maybe they will put it back but enjoy the game as it is

There's been no official word, its all rumors. I wish the devs would state their intentions

patch 2.3 and communication was really positive though. and they are adding a PTR so maybe improved ability for us to provide feedback on it

This post was edited by Aaronoob on Dec 3 2021 09:06am

Who knows maybe they add a new tech to help get out of perma stuns. Or maybe even a new item/runeword.

I agree I think the PTR will be very beneficial.

Ah that’s good to hear from their part

What is ptr

Sound it out champ

Pee - tee - are

There is actually one significant bug that effects Bowazon play.
FRW does not update during weapon swapping until you stand still and stop moving, and then move again.
IE: I am on bow and swap to Titan's while running, and it does not add the Titan's +30% FRW until I stop and stand still, and then move again.
Likewise, if I am on Titan's and swap to bow, it does not take away the 30% FRW until I stop and stand still, and then move again.

The 30% Titan's into bow swap doesn't make up for bow into Titan's not adding 30% FRW immediately.
When you're sticking & moving with a bow and then someone gets into range to be a threat, that FRW needs to activate when you swap to Titan's.

They seem to have devoted a non-zero amount of effort to removing as much desynch as they reasonably could without converting movement/spells to a system which would verify player actions on the server before allowing the client to perform them (which I suspect would change how the game feels too much). Look at how attacking with no target is actually synchronized between clients now or how equipment is displayed on other players that would previously be str bugged (primary weapon issues aside). These and many others were quirky behaviors we had got used to from 2000 but probably don't appeal to selling a game in 2021 that's supposed to look finished. There's obviously a ton of unfinished or terrible stuff which on some level means things like the online glue screens weren't as important as fixing gameplay issues. I personally don't think they would undo synchronization work, nor try to hack around it, to make animation cancelling issues from equipping an item function more like 1.14d when other changes in d2r seem to indicate these sorts of things were intentionally removed.