Abyss got practically buffed in PTR and Miasma chain was bugged from day 1.

well you cant test radius with your demon when your build require you to use 3 tainted lol, a lot of mechanic will be different or messed up depend on stats of your demon/aura etc. with 3 tainted or even defiler you get more accurate representation. when I summon 3 of them and jumping around using bloodboil its no where near as good as live demon version damage or radius. the fire ball does good damage but thats no important. I'll test it comes next ptr rotation, but so far the patch note pretty accurate you basically get 4 yard radius at level 10+ bloodboil. its much more noticeable when you jump from live to ptr and a lot of people notice it too not just me. we'll see how it goes next update

lots of pvm casuals that play for 5 weeks then quit until next reset yes

pvp i see the same guys since ‘07, spending big bux on items

I just tested it again... its 8 yards, not 4 not 10. My lethargy is level 23 - so I get 8 yards. Find a Maggot (not their babies) as they tend not to move. I use a tainted demon who also tend not to move but they do fire fireball but with 1 point in tainted it doesn't do much damage, if cast lethargy with one edge on the maggot and I stand just at the opposite edge with my tainted it will kill the maggot if I cast BB. If i move slightly out, it won't.

This is odd as when I tested it on ptr drop it didn't hit so far away. In any case, happy that its back to 8 yards.

Hephastos it might seem bigger but probably cause the dude is phat....?

This post was edited by arislanpug on Apr 22 2026 01:26am

Its about 10 yards not 8, but the difference is 8 yard spells like nova and sigil are using collision detection, and that extends the collision size of each target by the size of its tiles, about 1 yard for size 2 actors along their axis. Blood boil and static field and other direct aoe checks only use distance between actors, center to center. So an 8 yard collision spell is kinda like 9 yard aoe spell, and blood boil showed about 1 yard larger than nova when I tested it, which equates to its 10 yard radius when it displayed 20 yard range, as they apparently used diameter.

But for all we know they could nerf it before its live patch and if they do, 2/3/4 yard radius would be unplayably bad and 2/3/4 yard diameter would be so broken blood boil might not even hit targets at melee range, an urdar could be hugging enemies as close as possible after a telestomp and still not be able to boil them

But if I didn't listen to MrLlamaSC and Coooley (aka ) who would tell me how to think and tell me which aspects of d2r I should enjoy? Streamers are so good and I'm so glad blizzard listens to them and only them, because they're the average player and obviously know best.

Not saying anything about the radius but have you tried urdars? Their regen is sick for bb.

I'm using one on live right now, but on ptr I just use 3 tainted for testing as demon is pointless comes next patch

I do ubers fairly easily with abyss lock. Are you spamming miasma bolt on them to make the clouds disable their HP regen?
But yes, single target damage is pretty garbage for abyss until you ramp up the stacking clouds. PTR reportedly nerfed the clouds damage by a lot so I expect it to be much worse on PTR that it is on live.. haven't tested and cba to. I still love abyss because it's one of the coolest looking skills in the game XD

yeah I guess the removal of certain auras along with low proc rates on amp make bind demon pretty weak comparatively now. Plus there's the hp nerf or cap added. I find it strange when nerfing things they're doing multi-pronged nerfs to the same skill rather than one at a time to find a balance.