We haven’t even got the first expansion yet. There are years of changes to come. And one of the things that makes Crate awesome is how they iterate improvements. Keep them coming!
If you could bind TSS on left click and use your regular attack when it’s on cooldown, that would make melee cold builds more interesting.
Welcome additions, especially for free!
When can we expect some mutlicore/thread optimizations? The expansion?
You guy’s rock! Keep up the good work!
Trozan builds are a pretty solid with gear just check the videos in the recent thread Zars posted! Deathmarked is garbage?? You must be high. Valdun/Ulzuin could use some love though
As someone who has played since B28 Crate has done a pretty good job of taking OP stuff down to strong levels, they don’t trash sets/builds when they nerf them. So worry not your witch blade sets will still be plenty strong my friend! The balance mistake they make is not buffing the weak stuff enough 
Yeah, some people like to be really overly dramatic. Thinking nerfing a set will somehow make it garbage. The only case i believe they went too far was with Judicator rings and thankfully they reverted the OA removal in the Fist ring.
And lol to the person who said Deathmarked was garbage. Deathmarked set is still one of the best sets in the game even with the nerfs it got.
The changes get the Ceno seal of approval. The sets in question remain very usable and probably still among the best sets in the game. And, as usual, there are far more buffs than nerfs. What nerfs there were were definitely warranted.
I love the part where he implies that Crate nerfs stuff, making them “nearly obsolete”, when he doesn’t even knows what was nerfed and how much it was nerfed… :rolleyes:
I guess the part where Zantai mentioned “upgrading some Rare affixes and uniques that needed a boost” and buffs to mastery skills doesn’t counts… I thik that when these people read the words “patch notes”, the first thing they do after clickin on them, is to CTRL + F and type “nerf”, then press next until the end, then starts bitching around before enven trying it in-game. :rolleyes:
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He posted 2 threads with trozan set recently. The one with Invokers Elements set and the one without it. I followed the first one, with moderate spirit investment and slightly different devotion setup (all defensive procs in place). Even elite Mad Queen killed me 3 times. On Ultimate it took around 5min of running around to kill her. Each trozan shard triggers separate reflective whatever while her aura is on, so if you time your trozan wrong and you’re within 15 meters - you’re dead. If you use devastation on her aura you are very dead. Lots of AoE, but single-target DPM is weak even at 14/16 Devastation.
His last build shows some Fabius and Mad Queen killing but a wand+robe mage with 1k physique, that has to go melee to proc Olerons Blood (yes, mage with Olerons Blood), and uses skill from an item as a main damage source? You may call it pretty strong build but to me that’s not how TSS build in TSS-specific set should look like.
Even Zars in his guides states that TSS is not quite a main damage skill, if I remember correctly.
You bring up cold-based caster but there’s really not that much support for cold outside of Olexra’s , i mean you do have Trozans and Wind Devil but they just add some flat cold damage. They both still heavily favor Lighting…there’s just so much Lighting added to everything and we STILL don’t have chain lighting in the game yet, tisk tisk …
I wanna see a cold based caster…Ice Spike and all (a viable ice spike) not the crappy one we get now. I would love nothing more to get a caster based Necro-ish class fantasy based around Cold/Poison spells/skills.
“…and new means to stack Movement Speed have been introduced.”
I’m really curious about this.
omg! I can’t wait!
These MIs are delicious, especially the Chains of Ordas.
Great! Finding the maximum zoom before item names started disappearing was quite boring.
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cough cough Night’s Embrace cough
Caster Druid has limit choice in term of damage mitigation, that’s why Oleron’s might is one of the best mitigation you could get besides Maiven’s Sphere and MoE. TSS is the main nuke skill but it’s mainly deal lightning damage rather than cold, because Frozen Core is one of the worst Arcanist modifier, hopefully it’ll get a buff next patch. The most damaging cold spell imo is stack of Whirlpool.
That does not fix the core problem, other CC like stun entrapment and many more have no way to do that, and it requires a sepecific item to allow freeze to work on bosses, what if your are cold Druid would you use that Nightblade amulet to be able to freeze bosses? Maybe? This mechanic of CC reduction should be on something more accessicle like devotion, components and augments.
yeasssss!!! :rolleyes:
I hope you guys also upgrade the move speed cap to at least 150%
Have you seen what Warborn does in crucible with Vanguard AS bonus? It might not be the nerf anyway, i’m just guessing. And Ultos has been discussed many times as being overpowered, end game or not so i just assumed there as well.
Markovian has already been nerfed in a way. The ability CD was increased like Belgothian relic. Which is worse than in the case of Blegothian because on the relic the proc is more reliable even against single targets due to critting all the time. but you don’t block all the time with markovian.
I really do hope for proper patch notes this time. It’s really frustrating to jump into the game without knowing all the changes. 