Ok, I think I need things explained to me, because I don’t understand some of you veterans anymore…
Two things about the nerf :
- Dying God was spoken of inside sir spanksalot topic : “Devotions : A how-to-maximize them”. In this topic, it was pointed out that Dying God was really good and taken in many cases by not-Chaos/not-Vitality builds, Lightning and Aether builds in particular, and I quote :
Ok, now I know that not everybody will scour the entirety of the forum and read every single topic, but I saw a couple people there, and I see them here, and they didn’t say much then, and are riotting in this topic right now. 
- secondly, we’re mainly talking about 5% Crit damage nerf, right? There’s also duration, but main complains seem to go toward 5% Crit damage nerf. And here I just want to ask…how much of a nerf is this, mathematically speaking? I mean, if it was 5% crit chance, yeah, I could understand, but 5% crit damage…even if I have a raw grasp at the fact that you get more and more juicy crit multipliers the more you stack OA…5% crit damage seem like a quite tame dps-loss, it’ll definitely be less than 5% less dps, right?
I think the real question is rather to see if the +% in Chaos and Vitality damage makes up for that loss. In substance, I think that if we should riot, it should be for moar %Chaos/Vit damage, typed damage, rather than general-untyped damage buffs. And preferably after some testing on Chaos/Vit builds.
Dying god is a Chaos/Vitality constellation. It shouldn’t be a reflex pick for builds that happen to have the correct affinities, it should be a choice “do I pick Dying God, despite the fact that it doesn’t match my damage types, or do I invest in more defense, or in a T2 constellation of my damage type?”
Pointing out that Chaos is a weak damage type is fair game, quoting examples and personal experiences would be in the range of what Z asks for feedback.
But I do think you guys are complaining about the wrong thing. Imho, it’s not “this shouldn’t be nerfed”, but rather “it should be changed this way instead, because it impacts the wrong target, the numbers are off, blablablabla”.
So prepare your Chaos/Vitality builds for some testing post-patch! And if it’s another build that is impacted, could be nice to explain why, who knows, could lead Z to see where buffs are warranted.