SotV Deployment Timeline and Updated Patch Notes

Very nice patch in general. :-)

Chris, any progress concerning new death messages on hardcore? :-)

Ohh dat fireball buff, thank you, but 45 minutes for the skill tree? Thats not much lol

Buffing Arc would be nice and buffing totems :)

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Ow yeah !

Still don't know what build I will make for Invasion ... some hours to decide still :)

Isn't a new act coming out today?

Us summoners may have a whole new set of monsters to toy around with :)

Nice! I love casters!

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Monster Unrighteous Fire now deals a controlled value of fire damage, rather than being based on maximum life.

Haha I was wondering how this was not there in the patch notes :D

Caster buffs sound good, hardly anybody plays casters these days.

Will be really interesting to see how the nerf to BM's pan out.
They are wildly OP for sure in current state, so the dmg did need to be toned down, question is if they will be completely shit on like what happened to the chaos bears.

Problem is they are the only goto spectre if you want a decent clearing speed, since everything else you need to wait for the AI to "wake up" and attack whatever is coming for you + way too often they need to catch the stragglers that werent in the initial cluster where the BM aura picks off the small perimeter shit automatically.
So if BM's turn useless, and theres no new effective spectres in the new content that actually clear fast, it will indeed bring summoners back to being very niche.

Yes i know some people just like the playstyle, and dont care about high clearspeed, but alot of people (most?) dont want to spend ages per map/pietyrun/whatever.

We need more variations at Witch starting tree

Chris any cha yes to the 2 worthless movement speed nodes in the shadow tree? Maybe up the to 6% or something.