A Diablo 2 vet's response to the 0.9.3 dev diary
" Yeah, pretty much this. From the way it sounds, it seems like each class will start with, let's just say, four points in specific areas. The way I visualize it from the example is a Duelist has a point near a dexterity dual-wield branch, another near a strength-shield branch, another near a strength two-handed branch, and a point near a dexterity evasion branch. For an example of a "pure" class, the Witch would have points near lightning damage, cold damage, energy shield, and wand branches. That's the way I think it will work, anyways. So, a Witch COULD get the same dual-wield bonus that the Duelist can reach, but she'd spend more points while the Duelist starts with a couple of choices that are flavorful to the class (as a master of weapons). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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" Definitely agree. Currently I think hybrids are frankly plain out superior to pure classes, because all those 'extra' points the pure classes get are completely wasted when requirements top out at 299 of a stat. Every 9.2 frost or fire witch would be better off as a 6th class character to get more levels of the amazing green projectile gems. There is no advantage of being a marauder over a duelist atm: A str duelist could have all the same armor and gems while still having higher levels of green gems and more total mitigation from mixing in some evasion instead of hitting the armor cap. The only reason a bow duelist isn't better than a bow ranger is because literally every single bow applicable passive is in the dex tree. |
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" Why? Because of lack of AoE duel wield skills? | |
" The base dps is substantially lower. The gap increases as you get more IAS (since the IAS bonus from DW is additive). It's not as bad as I make it sound if you choose the right skills. Dualstrike is almost as good as doublestrike. Cleave got buffed as sort of a bandaid solution so that it no longer applies a 50% penalty to DW (think it's a 75% penalty now?), which makes it potentially on par with 2h Cleave. The reason those 2 skills are ok is because they use both weapons at once. |
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