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Heh, I imagine the monsters' union had quite an issue with their poor guys getting shredded for billions of damage!

https://news.blizzard.com/en-gb/diablo4/23964909/diablo-iv-patch-notes Bone spear necro nerfed a bunch, but I'll probably still play it in the season anyway. HOTA barbs get a nerf via them fixing a bug with how the shockwave worked, but they fixed the suppressor issue with whirlwind and buffed Gohr's a bit.

You can't unlock the last two stages before T3, but you can bank the renown points ready to unlock them as soon as you do. The horsey is available at level 1 if you skip the campaign! I don't think it'll affect ilevel at all - you could get a nice 810 piece at 60 if you were lucky, and if it dropped then it would have a 60 requirement, so I think all this will do is cap the requirement so your alts might get some use out of stuff. Still a bit crap really - just let our alts use nice gear! Even the gems have level requirements ffs!

Not exactly, but if you don't ring the bell, you can log out and start all over again.

I'll be skipping the campaign too. I'll probably do some outdoor events, and maybe some Tree stuff, do a few dungeons to unlock aspects I need, and run lots of Strongholds. Hopefully get my renown done before 50, so I have a nice pile of paragon points waiting for me.

After the season he's just had, if someone offers £40m for him we should snap their hands off. Changing large numbers of players between seasons isn't ideal, but that's the situation we've left ourselves in.

Really interesting video from Wudijo about how enchanting items works. I wish I'd had this earlier, as I've wasted about 100m gold trying to roll better affixes on stuff when in reality it was never going to happen. The website he's using to check things - https://www.d4craft.com/

Probably 1 class specific aspect each, and then 2 universals. And if 1 of the uniques is an uber, in reality they're adding 5 uniques to the game, not 6. It'll be interesting to see the gems. I wonder if we'll get a list of everything with the patch notes?

The thing that still makes me the angriest about barb is the state of the uniques. The only half decent one is Rage Of Harrogath, and the rest of them are vendor trash, through a combination of weak/genuinely dogshit powers and absolutely terrible stats. It feels like the devs are trolling us. They accidently made one good initially - Gohr's - but don't worry, they nerfed that so hard it's not worth using anymore. Seriously.

Heh, the guy from the video, Rob, is almostly solely responsible for half of the nerfs barb has had. During the initial betas, his Upheaval build got that nerfed, and then his WW build got that nerfed too. Then he was first to 100 once the game went live, and they nerfed barbs even more. (Rather than waiting to see how powerful all of the classes - bar sorc - could be, ffs.) I was going pretty heavily on my necro, and enjoying it, but I added up the numbers and I'm not going to make 100 before the patch/season, so I may as well take a few days off and start fresh when it starts. Not sure what I'll go with yet, but I might make another necro if they're not nerfed too badly.

Sacrifice your buddies for the stats!. You'll want +crit chance from your skeletons and +essence from your mages for now.

From Maguire's point of view, I guess he doesn't want his time at United to be seen as a total failure, and also I imagine there aren't any 'big' teams interested in him, so it wouldn't be a surprise if he wanted to stay and fight.

Yeah, a variation of the standard HOTA build, with absolutely maxed out gear. Closer to the times of the other classes, but a lot harder to achieve due to the gear constraints.

Level 76 on my necro and things are really starting to come together now that a resource aspect I needed has finally dropped. I can throw bone spears all day long now, and my runs are speeding up thanks to that. I killed the butcher before he could even speak this morning, heh.

Yeah, sorcs need help in the S1 patch. Perhaps some sort of buff to their shields or armour to make up for how awful resistances are at the moment, and something - perhaps an aspect - to help with vulnerable uptime.

For any barbs looked to do something non-meta, Wudijo has come up with a fun-looking Walking Arsenal Deathblow/Upheaval build that nearly one-shots bosses. There's a build link in the description. It looks like his rotation is Upheaval (bludge wep) > Lunging Str (dual wep) > Upheaval > Deathblow (slash wep) - which now has Walking Arsenal procced, and then an additional Upheaval to reach 100 rage spent and proc vulnerable via the Expose Vulnerability passive, and then finally another Deathblow, with vulnerable, WA, and 200% bonus damage added in. It looks fun, but it'll keep your fingers busy!

If you're doing strongholds, try to do them in T3 if you can. Even if you're generally under the minimum level for the difficulty, strongholds will always only be +3 above your level, so they can be easier to begin with. Obols are a great way to target certain pieces or aspects. If you just do events non-stop during helltides, you soon end up with a ton of them.

I got lucky earlier too - level 61 and I find a Deathless Visage in a Mystery chest. The only unique my build uses! Having run a quick one, nightmare dungeons seem to give roughly half a level each at the moment, so I should be a big boy in no time.

Got to 60 on the necro and did the next capston dungeon. Time to start grinding helltides again.

Whirlwind won't do any damage to Suppression Elites unless you stop channeling and start again within the bubble.

Yeah, pretty much every build I've seen has the resource aspects on both rings. Barbs are thirsty!

Yep. High damage and good AOE, it's a lot of fun. Just made it to 50 before logging off, so got to spend some points on the first paragon board. Just need some glyphs to drop now, so I can switch out the amazing 2 radius blue one I've socketed for something better.

FYI, Temerity is either bugged or the tooltip is incorrect, as the barrier uses Base Life for its value, rather than Maximum Life as it says on the tooltip. Managed to do the capstone dungeon with my level 43 necro, so T3 here I come!

Yeah, that's the thing - for anyone playing even halfway seriously, the Enternal Realm isn't going to matter at all in two weeks. I guess there are lots of people who are new to the franchise on the official forums though, innocent babies who haven't yet grinded years of their lives away for no drops at all. Suck it up and get grinding, babies, the shakos never really drop! (Which is not to say that I endorse shitty drop rates. FU Blizz.)

None of the players that were released, bar perhaps Firmino, would have commanded much of a transfer fee anyway, so it wouldn't have made much of a difference.