Gotta say GGG's cycle of nerfing and buffing the same skills is getting tiresome

Last league for instance for some unknown reason they saw fit to buff ball lighntning. Cool didn't need it but fine.
Now its nerfed back down again

You guys have any clue what's going on or do you just roll some dice and go ok this league we buff/nerf this.

Really makes no sense.

BL will be just fine lol.

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Slower Projectiles Support

Supported skills now have 20% less projectile speed at gem level 1 (from 30%), up to 30% less at gem level 20 (from 49%).

They also did this last league, which many people thought would outright kill BL. They were wrong. They'll be wrong again. About everything.

Bv is probably 100 times stronger, wasn't touched. yup that's what I am playing.

I'm not concerned about its viability its just tiresome to see buff nerf buff nerf over and over. Why buff a skill that did not need a buff just to nerf it again
Such a waste of time.

they are afraid of that ascendant BL build lol

It's simple, just like how we have it with LoL, in order to keep the game 'fresh' they need to needlessly overbuff/overnerf certain skills so it'd feel like something 'new'.

All these typical skill nerfs and senseless tweaks every league appear to be nothing but diversion from real problems in the game: core and atlas.

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Mreik wrote:

It's simple, just like how we have it with LoL, in order to keep the game 'fresh' they need to needlessly overbuff/overnerf certain skills so it'd feel like something 'new'.

Do they though? As I already illustrated people say that every league, but then the stuff isn't actually killed. Go back and watch TarkeCat or whoever review the patch notes. Go read reddit. People were down on BL.

In 3.11 they were obviously going out of their way NOT TO overdo it with ball lightning by giving it compensatory buffs to go along with what they expected to be a large nerf with the slower proj.

They very rarely outright kill anything, contrary to 'the sky is falling' posts you see here like clockwork.

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RitualMurder wrote:

Last league for instance for some unknown reason they saw fit to buff ball lighntning. Cool didn't need it but fine.
Now its nerfed back down again

You guys have any clue what's going on or do you just roll some dice and go ok this league we buff/nerf this.

Really makes no sense.

Skills get new interaction every league. Why they nerfed it this time around, could have to do with other stuff that got added last league, or other stuff getting added this league. Don't tunnel vision on the skill itself. Look towards the new "Pinpoint" gem and stuff like that. Those can also be the reason why.

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innervation wrote:

They very rarely outright kill anything, contrary to 'the sky is falling' posts you see here like clockwork.

While this is of course true, it will always fall on deaf ears in here. As long as 'their favorite' build gets a little bit less DPS or a little bit less defense, it's "CRAP NOW".