Damn your nerf bat!!!! Devs read!!!

Your new patch "fixed" a few issues today. Stop swinging damned nerf bats. try increasing damage output of other characters. I am 10 levels above current content and should be able to rape everything i see. I understand the need for balance but dropping dmg% from gear, and 30% reduction to damage of abilities. I understand some aspects of the abilty were glitched but 30%. Did you ever think of upping the other other AOE abilities 30% instead.

These games are all about the numbers and sick amounts of % increases. Lowering those percentages only cripples the awesome high numbers the game currently has.

STOP SWINGING THE NERF BAT. You guys took this game to great heights IMO (even for CB). Start a new trend of balancing UP not down...

If one person replies to this post with a negative comment go back to WOW...

So idea is to make everyone overpowered? Or what is your vision about these games? :P

If you weren't overpowered in D2 you sucked....

The goal of endgame is to Feel overpowered!

Not, "I spent 3oo hours getting to 96 and to get all this gear and I am even with the content and at the same level of power i was at level 1"

Tons of content is missing, and they said 9.3 is the balancing patch, and you come in here spouting rage because the easymode build you picked was fixed? They lowered the range of damage which was necessary since shock nova was a brainless spell and did so much more than anything else. They didn't buff the other skills because the game isn't balanced around what is currently available. I can't believe you are pissed off they didn't make the game easier when it has been shown how stupidly simple a shock nova build is.

I am not pissed off... Nor did i post to that purpose...

Every game trends this way, all the other classes whine about another class. Then they nerf. In turn another ability becomes more powerful and the whining starts over. Nerf bat comes again. Its a never ending cycle i'd like to see avoided.

Well, I can't go back to WoW, because I never jumped on that bandwagon, but negative comments anyway:

The 30% damage reduction on the upper end of Shock Nova's damage isn't that big of a nerf. It's balance, plain and simple. The higher range of damage is only applied at the furthest radius of the nova. A witch shouldn't be able to clear an entire screen with 2-3 casts on Merciless. How would you balance up to that? All other classes would need similar skills, and clearing the whole screen at once with so little effort is ridiculous.

Other skills did get boosts, anyway:

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Increased Fireball's splash area of effect and increased its damage by 23%.
Increased the damage of Sweep, Ice Nova, Ice Spear and Phase Run's melee damage bonus.
Viper Strike, Poison Arrow, Infernal Blow and Glacial Hammer do more damage at higher levels than before.

This isn't about 1 damned ability.

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Godssend wrote:

This isn't about 1 damned ability.

It is, actually. Shock Nova is the only skill you pointed out (since it's the only one that got a damage reduction). I know you're just trying to make the point that negative balancing is a bad practice. I understand what you're saying. But, Shock Nova was so ridiculously overpowered that balancing up to it would be insane. It needed to be nerfed.

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WhiteBoy88 wrote:

Well, I can't go back to WoW, because I never jumped on that bandwagon, but negative comments anyway:

The 30% damage reduction on the upper end of Shock Nova's damage isn't that big of a nerf. It's balance, plain and simple. The higher range of damage is only applied at the furthest radius of the nova. A witch shouldn't be able to clear an entire screen with 2-3 casts on Merciless. How would you balance up to that? All other classes would need similar skills, and clearing the whole screen at once with so little effort is ridiculous.

Other skills did get boosts, anyway:

"

Increased Fireball's splash area of effect and increased its damage by 23%.
Increased the damage of Sweep, Ice Nova, Ice Spear and Phase Run's melee damage bonus.
Viper Strike, Poison Arrow, Infernal Blow and Glacial Hammer do more damage at higher levels than before.

If you ae 10 levels above the current content, have a shit done of damage gear with IAS etc... A witch should be able to clear a whole screen in a couple seconds.


BOSS mobs are what isn;t suppose to be able to be killed in 2 seconds....

Does anyone else enjoy the irony that this thread which states "Stop swinging the nerfbat" is right above a thread which says "This game is TOOOO easy"?