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Nov 25 2019 12:28pm
Wtf... how can you be shape shifting every time you want to swipe at something. Seems like a waste of energy.

How can you swap to a 2hander every time you use a skill... Makes no sense.

At least d2 had a nice perk with 2 handed whirling such as range and penalities such as hits per whirl. 1 handers boost of a shield or a nice off hand aura like beast. They could have developed this sweet balancing concept further.

What are your thoughts on this? Can the new system be better and still have depth?
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Nov 25 2019 02:00pm
i think the idea could work, who knows about execution though
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Nov 25 2019 03:08pm
Quote (jackkiller @ 25 Nov 2019 21:28)
Wtf... how can you be shape shifting every time you want to swipe at something. Seems like a waste of energy.

How can you swap to a 2hander every time you use a skill... Makes no sense.

At least d2 had a nice perk with 2 handed whirling such as range and penalities such as hits per whirl. 1 handers boost of a shield or a nice off hand aura like beast. They could have developed this sweet balancing concept further.

What are your thoughts on this? Can the new system be better and still have depth?


Not sure about druid but with a barb you just use a skill and swap will happen automatically (in case other weapon is assigned to it). I guess for druid it works same way.
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Nov 25 2019 06:01pm
Maybe not shape shifted you get some bonus and shape shifting also grants you a bonus. Possible that you could stack both together if you get perfect switches off. Just a thought?
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Nov 27 2019 05:36am
I think they said that if you use the same shape shift attack twice or more in a row you will just stay in the form not shift out between attacks
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Dec 14 2019 10:35pm
hey blizzcon attendee here. there was a legendary that dropped that made swappping viable, gave IAS or something like that. It made that abilities feel meaningful for druid when swapping forms. the swapping felt fluid for the most part and with the limited build it allowed the rotation was a little dry but it was obvious when to use each skill.
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Dec 23 2019 03:18pm
these days they keep their "hand on the dial"
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Dec 26 2019 10:52pm
I mean I'm talking lore here. Like you have to grow fur, grow your snout, grow your teeth, grow bigger, all for one swipe? THen revert to a bear. Then revert to a druid. Then revert to a wolf. This is abuse of digital effects.

They could at least keep the Druid a man, and maybe summons the spirit of a wolf, or spirit of a bear, with each skill. So he's not literally transforming back and forth with every swipe.

It's these little things like make a game crappy over the long run vs a great masterpiece. D2 was a great master piece. Not perfect but ultimately a masterpiece.

When you don't think and just do, the result turns out like shit, even if it looks really really good. Although this is just an aesthetic issue, the fact that no one at Blizzard Activision considered this strange and objected reveals to me that there could be some very bad fundamentals going on with the game itself.
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Dec 27 2019 08:29am
We need wsg in d4
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