Diablo 4 - PTR Experience Day 1! The New Shepherd's Aspect!

My day 1 experience with the Season 5 PTR. Much more testing to do. Let's hope we have the time.
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[@esedesszeuslee4495]

They need to do something with boulder and basic skills like stormclaw.

[@omerniners4921]

Druid please I don’t know why the human is more strong the a bears 😅😅😅😅

[@harrytorta]

That truly sucks Niko, whats the point if you have to re-farm everything while in a testing realm...and only have 1 week.

[@NikoWrex]

It does. It’d be so nice to just have instant access to everything. One week isn’t enough time to really dig into everything.

[@tasandmnm69]

Hey Niko, thanks for all the testing! A couple questions if you don't mind since I can't access the PTR on console. 1) How does Lightning Storm feel without Unsung Wraps with Cataclysm gloves instead? Unsung are a huge source of damage and my soul is still hurt that they didn't make the Cata gloves a ring or anything else. 2) How does the Lightning Storm attack speed buff translate over to Nature's Fury Stormslide? 3) Is pure Landslide going to heavily outclass Stormslide? 4) Someone said that paragon/items that you have to use spirit for don't effect the Cataclysm gloves because you aren't actually spending spirit. Thoughts?

[@kennyhouser3467]

Quadrillion damage Zoo Druid is hilarious. I bet they're glad that didn't go live. 😂😂😂

[@NikoWrex]

And I’ve been wanting to make a poison creeper build all season 😂.

[@WatcherEight]

We are updating uniques! * Does nothing with Waxing gibbous wich is the only thing that might have saved the most iconic druid spec, shred

[@NikoWrex]

We’ll see what happens. They didn’t update any for the PTR.

[@emptysoul2757]

@@NikoWrexwindforce and blood moon breaches were updated and a few others that I cannot remember

[@kennyhouser3467]

Yeah, they probably should've held off on the ptr until the old uniques got updated. If they are also buffing the affixes, I can almost guarantee that some of them will be busted.

[@jaythendal426]

Frustrating, cataclysm unique should have been on a ring so we could have paired with unsung wraps. They've been so creative with sorc uniques yet all we seem to get is damage number boosts. I'll probably main spirirtborn once available now 👎 I hope you find something great for us!

[@NikoWrex]

With all the buffs to the lightning strikes too. I’ll never understand how an ultimate skill was designed to not hit enemies.

[@kennyhouser3467]

​@NikoWrex Did you see J-Macc's Cata focused build? It's actually not that bad, and it does seem to snapshot overpower, but not for every strike for some reason. It was still proc'ing way too much to be regular overpowers though. That's an interesting find. Since Cata and Lightning Storm scale differently, I'm not sure why some people are Hellbent on using that unique for it. There are much better uses with Shred and Pulv tbh.

[@codyrader1552]

To be honest, it doesn't even seem like pulverize was even buffed compared to everything else, in my opinion.

[@NikoWrex]

With the Cata gloves and Locran amulet it felt really good when Cata was up. I just can’t find the cooldown temper recipe to test it further.

[@codyrader1552]

@@NikoWrex have you been able to find the new crown of Lucian and test with that yet?

[@Pokdemon]

Didn't they change cooldowns so the cd doesn't start untill after the skill ends? I feel like with that change it would be impossible to get 100% uptime on anything especially ultimate skills.

[@NikoWrex]

That was for Grizzly Rage.

[@PostprandialTorpor]

No clue why they don’t just give you access to everything like in d3 PTR. Unless is so the public underreports because they can’t do thorough testing so then they can tell higher ups “yep we’re doing great, hardly any complaints form testers “ 🔥🔥😀👍🔥🔥

[@PostprandialTorpor]

Wow, between the cataclysm gloves and the amulet, I feel like it makes those must take items for any build and it kind of even the gates taking anything else on earth based build like what is the point of the basilisk?

[@MrGlass-]

I was the landstorm Druid you played with the other night running pits with droodster. I have to say man, your vibes are awesome. My buddy and I were having a blast just playing and listening to what you had to say. Keep it up.

[@NikoWrex]

It was a great time! You guys are always welcome on or off stream.

[@buddelandreas9523]

I dont like to overwork my whole grear just to play the Lightningstorm Druid as i do in Season 4. That sucks a lot m8 !!!

[@NikoWrex]

It’s a lot of work before you can actually test anything.

[@daveysquier]

good stuff niko! fun hanging out on stream yesterday

[@NikoWrex]

Same brother! You’re always welcome to join me on or off stream!