Diablo 4 Season 5 Patch Notes Analysis

[@disposableheero]

Totally missed the mark on the druid changes here Raxx. Thunderstruck got capped at 40%. This was at least 200% for any serious endgame druid build running storm skills (so everything except pulverize). The loss of shepards + stampede was 180% multiplicative damage, the replacement aspects are on the order of 25% or highly conditional, for 40-55%, and the skill compensations were all 85%. So the builds like pulverize and shred that used only shepards and stampede lost a little bit of damage (round 15% or so), and the storm builds (wind shear, tornado, lightning storm, and hurricane) lost more like 65% of their overall damage. On the class that was struggling the most for damage. Druids are complete garbage tier with these changes and that needs to be absolutely drilled into the dev's minds this PTR cycle.

[@ener11454]

Every class had their paragon scaling capped.

[@PostprandialTorpor]

For Druid they failed to properly redistribute the power that was removed from Shepard/stampede and uncapped thunderstruck. They should have capped but increased both earthen devastation and thunderstruck to 60% perhaps. And the skill damage increases don’t make up for the 180% Shepard’s loss. So net nerf. Similar is happening with necro with multiple builds seeing 33-69% net nerfs per macrobioboi because devs don’t understand how builds use blight. Follow NikoWrex for Druid focused ptr and patch note review content on YT- great spokesperson for the class

[@Despond]

@@ener11454 Caps are on everything is such a lazy design and balance philosophy and mundane.

[@whoopsie321]

We shall see come PTR especially with the new aspects/uniques they have mentioned but yeah its either gonna be so bad they gonna buff shit way more or its gonna be decent more so on the earth side of builds. But honestly druids need a type of rework if they are still on the lowest after this

[@partyrd487]

AK47 Landslide Druid just cleared Pit 135 yesterday prior to tomorrow’s 4x Landslide buff. You seem very angry.

[@jgassman]

Raxx I'm sorry but I disagree with you about necros and sorcs. You didn't mention the nerfs. They are devastating. Watch MacroBioBoi's video about necros, it's good. Sorcs are more flimsy than ever, with the nerfs to flame shield and ice armor. I don't share your enthusiasm for the PTR.

[@MMoer]

Ok bey

[@jordanwilfong8904]

Agreed regarding sorcs. season 5 is a pass for me pending any earth shattering unique and legendaries. Chain lighting might have gotten a buff but like ball lighting and frozen orb before it, will be nearfed before season 5 if people are enjoying it on PTR. Otherwise the top 4 builds all got nerfs.Honestly at this point if I’m here for the xpac campaign and after I complete that I’m done with the game (again unless they have some crazy changes between now and xpac relase).

[@84cent]

Yea sorcs got nerfs?? Lol what is going on at blizzard?? And why no mention in the video? Sorcs just got no voice. Just keep getting the shaft.

[@peterweaver326]

Shhhh… you’re not allowed to go against raxx. You are a mere peasant….

[@asum7786]

Yea, most Necro, esp Shadow, builds straight up lost 70% of their damage. Aside from Bone Spirit, Necro is pretty deleted.

[@ClydeStokley]

Nobody is talking about removing CDR from offhand! This seems pretty bad...

[@nacujo]

Yep! Terrible change

[@Ignessis]

Blizzard is listening. Also Blizzard: Butchering sorc

[@chandaman95]

I'd rather not have 20 second cooldown skills to begin with lol. Wtf is that garbage design philosophy anyway.

[@Andy_Paris]

​@@chandaman95 How about a 3 second cooldown? Would that be more convenient for you?

[@DemonTime08]

@@Andy_ParisThe point is you should be able to build into things if you sacrifice something else for cooldown you should get the damn cooldown 🤷🏽‍♂️ if the spec wasn’t so squishy this wouldn’t have even been a thing people are just trying to find ways to not die they should just focus on bringing barbs back to reality and stop nerfing classes that don’t need it

[@tjtheblindgamer]

The fact that the developers called out the accessibility for completely blind players and partially blind players, particularly about the navigation assistant and the compass and whatever else, it's a giant deal for me and seemingly a lot of the blind population agrees that is just great. Within a year of this game coming out we've had a tremendous amount of effort and work put into the accessibility for disabled players to be able to play the game more effectively. At launch. All we had was the screen reading functionality, of which it was like 70% good with a couple things not read perfectly, and since then the screen reader now reads. I think every menu in the game now, hell when season 4 launched, the master working and tempering menus were not that accessible. But then they buffed the reader to read everything. Not to mention sound effects for the traversal spots like ducking or jumping or whatever, there's just so much that I have to commend them for

[@Katie-hb8iq]

I am not completely blind, but I also appreciate how large the fonts are in general, especially compared to many other arpgs, like grim dawn, lost epoch, etc. That alone makes me root for Diablo 4 a lot. Also, the changes in season 4 about not having to read items that much (as opposed to having to stare at every yellow item) also made this much easier on my eyes.

[@rofltrance]

TJ, I get the impression that D4 has some of the most robust and intentional accessibility design for an ARPG. Would you agree? Is there any of game that comes close?

[@WhatASausage179]

I always wondered how a blind person plays video games? Given ik not all blind people are 100% blind but I'm just curious

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@Katie-hb8iq]

@@WhatASausage179 big fonts, rumble on controller for taking damage, using classes that don't require much aiming

[@GordKeen]

Druid got a net nerf. Not only was Shephard removed, but the buffs didn't fully compensate. Then on top of that the capped the thunderstruck multiplier to 40% where as before it could reach 120% or higher. So druid was double nerfed

[@jerrystambeck2092]

The devs hate Druid.

[@JoblessBuhdda]

They’re capping all of them on all the classes in the paragon board.

[@GordKeen]

@JoblessBuhdda that's irrelevant when even uncapped druid can't even hit 1 billion unlike all the other classes other than sorc. So now druid will be dealing 100k damage while barb rogue and necro still does 10+ billion per hit with caps instead of 50+ billion

[@JoblessBuhdda]

@@GordKeen it’s not irrelevant if there doing it for all classes.so I disagree…,.

[@GordKeen]

@@JoblessBuhdda then you're just not good with numbers because I can't dumb it down any further for you

[@XerXcho]

Come on, Rax. Not even a word on the massive Sorc nerfs on everything? No cdr on off-hands, increased tp cooldown. Hard cap on paragon damage nodes. Ice armor not scaling on damage anymore. Buffs are only the meaningless tiny damage increases on some skills, like you noted on blizz

[@Sir_ErmaK]

Exactly! Something to note, he did confirm that he spoke with the devs. So that might have something to do with why he chose not to go over that 😂

[@MMoer]

/cry

[@84cent]

Yea why the downplaying on the sorc nerfs? Was he told to do that by the devs in exchange for access? Sad sorcs arnt getting the buffs they've needed for many seasons in a row now

[@chukky1124]

@@MMoer /patethic

[@TheDravic]

@@84cent You don't know anything about the reworked uniques which could hold a lot of power for Sorceress and Druid, nor do you know in detail all the new legendary aspects and uniques that come from Infernal Hordes.

[@taz4548]

It would be nice to have eternal realm character slots be separate from season character slots. 10 of each or whatever. A total of 12 is too few. It would be nice for each character to have an individual stash tab just for that character.

[@JozaMuva]

exactly!

[@gantech7788]

I wouldn't be complaining about loadouts so much if the slots worked like that. Need loadouts or at least more slots to work with.

[@WhatASausage179]

I've never understood how people use so many character slots until this season. I've mad about 7 characters so I could see how someone has more

[@doozey365]

Easy solution, just delete most if not all your eternal characters. By the time u think u can play that fun build, its been nerfed into the ground. That, and there is zero reason to play eternal at all.

[@sonoftristram]

@@doozey365 that might be a solution but not a good one 😂 D2R separates all online and offline characters and every character has a personal stash tab so I can't see a reason why this shouldn't work for D4 as well

[@69cosmicbubble]

They’re nerfing the fun out of sorc based on a build that 1% of the community is playing that takes hours and hours of game time and massive amounts of gold to gear. The nerf impacts many sorc builds where the flame shield nerf I think is enough. It’s seems like again they using a sledgehammer when only a chisel is required or maybe they don’t know the mechanics of their game so well. The flame shield effect nerf kills the 1% of the community build. The CDR nerfs on focus, teleport kills the fun out of many builds which they said they’d avoid doing. In general there focus was to nerf bugged builds but now they’re doing CDR nerf for a 1% build that takes massive amount of game time to gear for. This feels like a season 1 style nerf which they said they’d never do. Another fun killer patch!!!

[@kevinsims5791]

Why did sorc legendary paragon nodes get nerfed when they suffer from damage to begin with.

[@Wendigo1986]

Maybe the weapon dot damage is compensating dunno

[@kevinsims5791]

@@Wendigo1986 if its the around the same amount as the other weapon affixes then it might be +16-20% dot damage. Its additive though, not mulitplicative like burning instinct is.

[@Weaver_Games]

@@Wendigo1986 Will it be like a 15,000% DOT damage increase on the implicit? Cause that's about what firewall needs.

[@Wendigo1986]

@@Weaver_Games y I know it sucks as a sorc main VoH will fix sorc for sure 😆

[@thejoyfuldragon887]

i want a little icon on my gear when a higher legendary power roll is available at the occultists after upgrading the codex.

[@tonythatyga2782]

I mean there is a symbol when you salvage it letting you know that is a higher roll than you have. So if you’re really wanting that upgrade you’ll notice it.

[@thejoyfuldragon887]

@@tonythatyga2782 i don't read every legendary power before i salvage them that would take forever. it would be nice to have an icon on my equipped gear to tell me when i can upgrade the roll at the occultist

[@tonythatyga2782]

@@thejoyfuldragon887 I mean yea that would be nice but it’s not necessary. It’s obvious when you get an upgrade. You don’t have to read every power. The name of the item tells you the aspect and if it has that symbol you know it’s better than why you have.

[@thejoyfuldragon887]

@@tonythatyga2782 yes and I'm gonna remember all the names by heart. like you said it would be nice. it's just kind of annoying rn

[@tonythatyga2782]

@@thejoyfuldragon887 I guess I’ve just dumped a lot of time and remember the names well lol. But then again I always run right to the occultist after salvaging an item with better aspect lol.

[@drekor884]

FYI the math on the druid damage changes is about a 50-70% damage loss on all storm skills. So yea... not a win.

[@Imboz]

17 damage

[@asum7786]

Same as Necro then, cool. I mean, they were really overperforming, time to buff Barb.

[@84cent]

Other sorc changes are not "whatever" as you say, they are nerfs. Uneeded nerfs to an already weak class. Sad no one is talking about the class balance being fucked and actually getting worse for sorcs..

[@shaxxshelmet1938]

I really want to know who’s in charge of handling sorc because man they are not in the same headspace as everyone else. Throughout the games history, sorc has really only seen marginal buffs combined with brutal nerfs. When they actually get something that puts them at the top it’s gutted immediately. It’s like they dont get why people put sorc at the bottom tier all the time. They need more 1) single target damage. This might happen with chain lightning but I doubt it. 2) survivability. There’s nothing here that helps that. You can’t rely on Ubers to live. Sorc does NOT NEED more AoE clear. That’s the only thing they’re good at. They suffer in the endgame when enemies get spongey.

[@Dookapu177]

The "something" they got was invincibility. What could possibly be wrong with that. Darn fun police ruining it.

[@Weaver_Games]

Sorc designers only want multi-element sorc that plays in melee range. Everyone else wants a ranged caster that's viable single element. The old necro Bone Spear build is way more like how I want the sorc to be than any viable sorc build's ever been.

[@WhatASausage179]

This, and I also don't want most of my bar to be taken up by defensive skills, it's so boring sometimes

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@MikeSakaru]

@@Dookapu177 Let's not pretend we're only talking about that. Everyone with a brain knows 100% uptime invincibility is dumb af and needed removed. We're talking about *every* time Sorc's have found a way to become viable outside of speedfarming, it's been obliterated.

[@teapea8184]

You forgot Teleport nerf and removal of CDR from offhands. Nerfs pretty much every current Sorc build more than these buffs. Also think they changed Vyr's to all damage in the mid season patch, so think it's only changing the mechanic and now you actually have to crit something to get any defence, which is pretty iffy, but 5 secs should be enough for 100% uptime. Overall apart from Chain Lightning looking absolutely cracked and possibly Arc Lash getting a lot with actually getting a temper now and a lot of shock skills got a buffs to their passive effects, so think it's rather easy to get 100% crit now during Unstable currents.

[@Weaver_Games]

Don't worry, if chain lightning is too good they'll just kill it after the PTR and buff the barb again.

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@oppi2603]

​@@Weaver_GamesAnother barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@mickpratt8327]

They didn't take cooldown off off hands, you just can't double dip because the inherent cooldown was removed. It hurts but don't Sorcs have cooldown tempers which Necros don't have?

[@teapea8184]

@@mickpratt8327 Last I checked not direct cooldown temper which affects everything. And yeah they didn't remove the affix roll chance, they removed the guaranteed implicit which nerfs every sorc player. CDR is by far the best stat for Sorcs in general and since launch all they've done is reduced it and Sorc has suffered in result.

[@TedPio11]

Not enough buff for barbs. Blizz please fix

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@echoesofmalachor3700]

B4 good

[@MidnightNeonLabs]

Thorns barb is practically dead. Will do 17 dmg

[@kapiteinlulhaas7612]

*fixed an issue where sorcerers could survive more than 10 seconds in high pits

[@subzero308]

*fixed an issue where sorc was in the game.

[@JPEaglesandKatz]

So funny as macoboi just put out a video detailing how almost any necro build will be totally wrecked by buffs. (I meant nerfs obviously, corrected later)

[@MMoer]

? Wrecked by buffs? Can you. Be any more confusing?

[@JPEaglesandKatz]

@@MMoer I meant nerfs.... sorry

[@asum7786]

@@MMoer Rax calls them buffs here, when these builds straight up lost 70% of their damage.

[@PostprandialTorpor]

I enjoyed macro’s video, as a fellow scientist, he walks you through the numbers and math which is great. He basically called out Devs don’t understand how builds use blight and blighted aspect

[@JPEaglesandKatz]

@@PostprandialTorpor Yes me too.. He is very thorough... Personally I think Blizzard should pay him for all his testing as they themselves are clearly incapable of testing anything

[@AnatoleVGC]

Kinda of annoying how you hyped the only good sorc change but skipped through all the nerfs to the class

[@jsak83-ro2cf]

One thing I miss as a controller player is in D3 you can use the joystick to cycle through items on the ground. That comes in handy in D4 when the obols chest drops right on of the glyph upgrader and you have to move all over the place trying to get the murmur chest to highlight.

[@w0t]

Yeah that sucks. If I weren't playing on PC and could switch to my mouse for that and a hundred other little things where the interface fails, I would have rage quit long ago.

[@Dayemon]

OMG yes. 99% of all deaths I have is due to trying to pick an item up in the middle of some trash mobs and try to keep moving. But nope with a controller it's next to impossible. I usually just stop picking things up because of this.

[@WhatASausage179]

I'm fed up with this too, I usually just give in and pick up everything in the dungeon and just drop the yellows at the end

[@Weaver_Games]

Man, Blizzard just hates the sorc. I don't get it. Like oh yeah, Static Discharge now has a 6% chance to spawn crackling energy vs a 5% change. Now we're ready to go! Ignore that crackling energy needs need literally a 1000x damage boost to compete with a barb hitting enemies with a basic attack.

[@WolfgangGaming-xq5rm]

World bosses were a really fun fight in the pre-release where people were getting 1 shot from the mechanics, had to play around them, and the 15 minute timer was relevant.

[@Sir_ErmaK]

Completely skips over sick Sorc nerfs 😂. I had faith in you Raxx 😢

[@84cent]

Yea whats up with that? I always took Raxx as the guy who kept it real. My guess is that people have played too much barb or necro to care or know about sorc anymore.

[@mixanblend]

Raxx is a Blizz partner who is on board with their ‘just play Barb’ attitude so he’s not going to help out here. They made him happy just putting a new colour for mythic uniques.

[@oppi2603]

​@@mixanblendAnother barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@endorphinADMIN]

@@oppi2603 an original reply, seen it 3 tines already

[@chukky1124]

@@oppi2603 rofl copy paste much ? you litterally reply to everyone with the same shit xD poe is dog poe and new planet already sucks ass xD

[@Grooving_Guns]

Did I miss it or the massive nerfs for necromancers weren't mentioned in this video (nearly -50% on hellbent commander, grasping veins, etc)? Necros are the most squishy and slowest class in the game and instead of buffs we get nerfs. Meantime barbs get massive buffs. It ALL makes sense folks, and from both ends, Rax for not touching it and Blizzard for coming up with such deranged concept s. And they say the want to balance the classes...

[@AjuntaPall316]

Druid looks to have some decent buffs and I'm excited to try it. But I don't think it's going to compensate for what it lost and will be overall less powerful than even now. But dear god... the sorceress is a joke. They nerfed teleport, flame shield, blizzard ice spikes, cooldown reduction, and a few other things. And "improved" the overall damage with a tickle. It's going to be so laughably bad.

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@jasonlucia6682]

Many of the changes didn't make sense, but the teleport nerf was honest to god the one that made my brain do a backflip.

[@PostprandialTorpor]

@@oppi2603barbablo season 4 inbound 😂

[@CallMeNeutraL]

So what barb build should I play next season? Shame, I've always been a sorc fan but not gonna play if it's as bad as it sounds

[@kevinmann2154]

Blizzard, pls just make ice spikes part of blizzards skill enhancement on skill tree so we can have room for aspects that we actually want to use . Ice spikes should be part of the blizzard skill and not a add on.

[@GregoryPellegrin]

Raxx, does Static Surge work with the passive casting of Chain Lightning from using it as an enchantment effect?

[@gerardrosario3855]

So disappointing how you keep downplaying the state of Sorcerer or just flat out dont mention it at all. I dont want to assume you're in Blixzards pocket. But its definitely looking that way.

[@xxilovebeesxxk1078]

You really think the guy that hard quit D4 for the longest time to prop up and promote Path of Exile is in Blizzard's pocket? C'mon man

[@Saiperia]

ice armor icespike aspect was not used because the ice armor has cd, the spikes spawn behind you were no enemys are so you deal no damage with them.

[@MrJeremydb91]

Hidden patch note: sorc deleted from the game

[@Dozeball]

Developer's Note: We hear the complaints regarding the fundamental changes to the Sorcerer class, so we have buffed all Druid skills by 200%.

[@XerXcho]

​@@Dozeballyou mean Barb lul

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@oppi2603]

​@@XerXchowe need new game and new devs

[@endorphinADMIN]

@@oppi2603 5 i'm done, good one marcel

[@specialorder9379]

Blizzard Devs be like: “Sorc bad, Barb good”

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2

[@endorphinADMIN]

@@oppi2603 meh, fuck poe

[@n77mee]

Try WW without tornados and lets talk after that.

[@benjaminghazi787]

@@n77mee why would you play it without twisters? It’s your own fault if you have brain damage.

[@dropkick5927]

One thing I’m excited for is trying to build a boulder Druid. In the patch notes is stated that the aspect that makes boulder a core skill will no longer remove the “wrath skill” tag. This means that maybe we could launch boulder at 0 spirit cost because of the temper that gives you X spirit when you cast a wrath skill.

[@locky2127]

Barb has 2x2 extra aspects compared to sorc, clearly for this reason Blizzard Sorc needed 1 aspect slot taken away.

[@Joseph-p6d8r]

As a wallmart greeter, i like Raxx video. Plain and simple.

[@PowerofRa_]

Rax I can trust you provide all the feedback for PTR Sorcs and Druids need to be buffed so much more. Like you once said just give another enchantment or move like rogues have an extra slot barbs have many more. Sorcs and druids need something to compete. You know what balance means in this game and I trust you to give the best feedback from us all. I play all classes but I can easily see Druids and Sorcs are way to behind when it comes to fairly levelled game. Thanks

[@84cent]

I hope the ptr does sorcs and druids justice as well, but im not confident. Remember in the s4 ptr a few sorc builds were much better like frozen orb and frosty strides. Then they got massive nerfs in the actual season. Then they never competed with any barbs rogues or necros. Sorcs actually got fucked because of the ptr

[@dominotetris]

I think sorcs need more than just an extra enchant slot at this point in order to complete. Hoping Raxx's curious silence means there's something like that in the works that he can't talk about, but I'm not holding my breath...

[@henrynguyen4315]

​​​​​​​@@dominotetris an extra enchant wont be enough and realistically what can you add as an enchant to all the meta builds as the 3rd enchantment when youre pigeonholed into using 4 defensives, ice blades and your core? Not only that, even if you try to go outside the meta, to even make the enchantment impactful you need to invest skill points into it as well as aspects and tempers which is impossible in its current state. Sorcs would effectively need more skill points to even make this playstyle effective but alas we are hard capped on skill points at lvl 50. Youll likely just run firebolt, ice blades then a random enchant depending on your build or teleport but that doesnt anything to your DPS.

[@DemonTime08]

I don’t get why barbs get to be absolutely busted with 4 weapons with tempers and aspects but god forbid we farm the shit out of gear to min max a build for sorc or Druid they come over “nope too op”

[@oOBlackadderOo]

Those trousers that let you heal beyond 100% and turn healing by potions or skills into a barrier while also make you find more healing potions... might come in handy on a rogue. I really like how they open up options into many viable builds.

[@GrantPearson]

I have level 16 Meteor using Starfall and it takes DOZENS of meteors to kill the maiden on my own while other builds are 1-shotting her and world bosses? The OP builds are having a negative impact on the game by ruining boss fights. So what does Blizzard do? Nerf the sorcerer! Are they seriously adding 3 seconds to the teleport cooldown???? I have +4 teleport on armor, CD on amulet, CD on focus, and yet it still takes over 2.5 seconds to teleport....so they're gonna make it worse?!?!

[@MichaelSmith-hu9vx]

Cd removed from focus…

[@AresGod0fWar]

I just want them to fix the issues with Sorc teleport. And I’m going to continue to post it everywhere until they fix it or the more likely solution is I just quit the game. The issue: Unstoppable granted on fears, but not hard CC. They want to fix Vyr’s Mastery (a bug that helps character), but ignore issues that harm player like mine? If my teleport doesn’t make me unstoppable and I get frozen or stunned in higher pit I am dead especially if flame shield is on cooldown. I already have to play kind of risky with the way the incinerate aspect works to maximize damage output. I don’t need a shiny sack of “uniques”. I just want the game to feel good. If they can’t fix it they need to give us a new form of unstoppable without needing an aspect.

[@MMoer]

You know the answer so bey

[@davidzimmerman617]

Tele is Unstoppable. Not sure what you're getting at.

[@AresGod0fWar]

@@davidzimmerman617 OHHHH. It is? Maybe read my post. It has been behaving like that for me since I came back this season. It is an issue with CC. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn’t. You’re able to teleport but nothing else afterwards except evade. I’ve witnessed others deal with the same thing. It is almost behaving like a collision problem except nothing is even near you for that to take place. So if you don’t know what I’m talking about then good for you I guess? Be thankful you don’t have to deal with it. It’s infuriating.

[@ashleybaker-v9r]

I want to see what you say after the PTR. Because you skipped over the nerfs to Sorc and Necro that way out balance the "buffs" they got.

[@JozaMuva]

@Raxxanterax there are so many different non equipement items we have to pick up, don't you think it would make sense if we have more inventory tabs with different associations? Elixirs, Summoning mats, Sigils...

[@nothing55rk]

Sorry i'm not giving Blizz any of my $$$ until Sorc has at least 2 S tier builds... OR I'll just give Last Epoch, Undecember or POE 2 my $$$

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@Puddin127]

I would trade some of the Druid companions aggressiveness for some of the minion damage. My wolves and ravens attack enemies off screen constantly so when I use the wolf active it takes like 3 seconds for them to run back and cast unless I have Storms companion lol.

[@Hjortur95]

1 year of firebolt enchantment of Sorc 👍👍👍

[@lotlizard7735]

Whatever happened to that third enchantment?

[@Hjortur95]

@@lotlizard7735 i'd rather they decouple While Burning from 90% of text. it's also trolling true DoT builds like firewall with 0.5s burning durations.

[@JoblessBuhdda]

I love my fire bolt enchantment

[@scubadoobiedoo2190]

​@JoblessBuhdda the issue is it's mandatory. So it's like you have 1 slot

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@xSpeakerYT]

I think the rain of arrows and arrow storm changes seemed interesting. Maybe we could get a build around them sometime.

[@patrickhuffman9632]

Hi raxx its everyone.

[@Alleyezonjimz]

Hi everyone it's everyone here too

[@Campo-e8l]

Take a shot for every time he flexs his access to the devs.

[@NC-ke1cj]

I notice on dark shroud that you can only lose a dark shroud once every 1.5 secs. Does that mean we're exposed for that duration after it burns off? Maybe that's the nerf that's pairing up with the heal buffs.

[@Erkekjetter.Vladislav]

Now someone gots it.. monkeys on reddit downvoted the shit out of me for mentioning it..

[@c-tothefourth4879]

No

[@cloutyweather]

i actually believe that's a buff, if you're getting hit multiple times in a 1.5 second time frame, each of those hits consume 1 singular shroud. this actually allows you to get hit multiple times in a 1.5 second window and only have 1 shroud consumed for all instances of damage during that period. we'll have to see how it plays out, maybe the other instances of damage during the 1st 1.5 second window carry over to the 2nd 1.5 second period and i hope that's not the case. but i initially believed it to be a buff when i first read it and still believe it to be, just so as long as the damage instances don't carry over from window to window.

[@NC-ke1cj]

@@cloutyweather Makes sense, thanks

[@Bendickson300]

The best thing about the druid change is that it's not so simple as losing the shepherd damage and buffing the skills. We now have not 1 but 2 additional aspect slots to use something more fun and to get more damage. Lastly, we can remove those 3 companion skills and swap them for utility. My Shred druid next season will be using Howl, Trample, Lacerate, and lastly maybe cyclone armor, but I'm undecided. We have some actual CHOICES now!

[@francisserpa4465]

Sounds like the melee rogue could be fun next season. I'm looking forward to seeing how that turns out

[@MrJeremydb91]

Wish they’d add a little something to nightmare dungeons other than just being forced to do them for leveling glyphs. Maybe give butcher a chance to drop ubers or something.

[@PeterPan-fk5nq]

The only way I make sense out of this is that we don’t know everything yet. Blizzard was never good at communication when it comes to changes. So let’s cross fingers we get all back somewhere else … somehow…

[@JoeyXB]

I just tempered 2 gears with +2 cold front, and slotted frost bolt into an enchantment slot. Near instant freeze, wonder if this glacial aspect change will push my insta freeze blizzard build to a new height

[@darrelladams4886]

Give sorc a third enchant slot already and you’ll see a lot of happy people. The amount of options ans utility created will be well appreciated and fun

[@dangerzone9747]

It's time to buff barbs.

[@baysedgamer]

They will. Always do

[@XerXcho]

And nerf Sorc

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@endorphinADMIN]

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[@AlexandraSpeaks]

True barbs have been so weak for so long

[@Stutterstep77]

god I hope the chain lightning stuff is amazing. Lightning is BY FAR my favorite element in any game. (Lightning focused elemental shaman in WoW, Crack Lance/Arc/any other Lightning skill in PoE, Lightning runemaster in LE, etc lol) So I hope it's amazing and it's the gear we get for free in the new season journey. Looking forward to seeing your findings in the theorycrafting Raxx! keep up the godly work you and your team at Maxroll do! :)

[@echoesofmalachor3700]

So what barb build are y’all playing next season?

[@MrThebigfreak]

Hey raxx thx for the videos quite helpfull what do you think about the new unique staff for sorceress i wad thinking putting that into the firebolt build could become quite something i mean as a core fireball that shoots firebolt into a firewall that triples your boosted firebolt to me its starting to sound quite promising

[@fuzyboy45]

I''ll be waiting for poe2

[@oppi2603]

Another barb season. We need new game. Waiting for poe 2. And new planet

[@Rkcuddles]

Did you enjoy the minion builds in Poe? Aggressive/defensive behavior is modifiable

[@edwdishuge2401]

would really like to see sorcs be able to have a staff and wand+focus

[@Drock7749]

I play a fire Sorc and the changes I've been looking at just gut this spec unless I'm missing stuff... Guess I'll be running a chain lightning spec next season!

[@greganastas]

The problem with making the world boss harder is at the beginning of a season its hard. Then when everyone scales it get ez as op builds come on line. They need some type of dynamic scaling

[@davidgorman4400]

So is the bash temper being fixed for season 5? Havent seen anything in any of the notes yet.

[@ben22213]

I imagine they will but a probably way too scared to say so at this point. Look at what’s happening at the moment, it’s embarrassing

[@PhrazeMuzik]

Stash tab space is still an issue for me. When you start gearing alts and bricking items the stash fills up very fast.

[@treasonabledoubt7251]

"You don't feel like a commander of the undead, you feel like a babysitter" - genuinely perfect summation of why I hated playing minion necro, despite it being so powerful.

[@Winterhe4rt]

The Sorc changes are all mind boggling and infuriating.

[@Stefiou974]

I always thought minions were able to overpower or lucky hit just like how they crit. Doesn't make sense in the first place that they could not.

[@BatDad-qu4fo]

Rogue really seems like it's getting some great survival buffs. Those Dark Shroud buffs alone are crazy.

[@SAVAGENARRATIONS.]

Quick question here. The versatility glyph does that work with doom bringer shadow damage explosion or poison?

[@brice9013]

Ball lightning was the most fun ive had in the game so if chain lighting is strong and fulfills that feeling of power im all in

[@michaelmwk]

So can druid uses 2H sword or not in S5? It can uses 2H axe, polearm and 1H sword, but it didn't mention 2H sword.

[@ThingyRPG]

A net nerf for Sorcs. It's beyond tiring...I get it, they want us to roll Barb every season but can I just play Sorc without a shield gimmick and feel strong just once please?

[@nicokruger]

Instead of making minions more agro they should just have a "attack there" key like they do in last epoch... that was amazing

[@barryk3088]

I highly disagree with you, I think the skilled cooldown should affect all cool down skills just for fairness and not just targeted to certain skills

[@henrynguyen4315]

The sorcerer changes are stupid. Chain lightning was weak enough and now theres a hard cap up to 30% increase damage on it making the bouncing aspect useless.

[@djryat4591]

Grizzly rage cant be permanent anyway since it changes your loadout and you were never able to recast it before it ended

[@DemonTime08]

There was a way to basically drop the cooldown of it while you were in it so you could just recast if it dropped off now if it drops off that’s when the cooldown starts

[@djryat4591]

@@DemonTime08 ya my pulverize druid had pretty much 100% cd on it, but there was an aspect that gives you like 3% dmg for every second grizzly rage is active and I tried to make it permanent but then realized when you cast it, your loadout changes and it removes it from your bar. Thought I was being clever trying to make it permanent but they thought of that already

[@sonofanarchy5594]

Looks like Diablo is continuing to move in the right direction. I am a bit annoyed as a sorc main. But hey, rather my role be bad in a good game instead of good in a bad game.

[@gatsusagara6637]

I feel for the sorc changes, they better to a quick qc pass on the broken paragon boards and the bugged dmg aspects. As it stands, they lost even more defence and raw firepower. They are going to end up as the weakest possible class just like the preseason.

[@QQWoLPHie]

I hope the new class has projectile traps. She reminds me of assassin mixed with druid from d2

[@Talezi1]

that would be fun to see

[@LLTT92]

I think she’s going to be heavily poison based like witch doctor was

[@Kjetilstorm]

Where can I get the Raxx hoodie? Or is this not a thing? Anyone know?

[@trilegiance3446]

As for Grizzly Rage, The change doesnt truly matter in clearing since you can keep it at 10 sec duration forever now instead of recasting it as often, now for harder content it does definitely suck.

[@harrywilliams4469]

So the potion thing with rouge is all potions or just healing coz if it's any potion they just farm mats creat them keep drinking and get way op

[@lukewarmtx]

Potions are for healing. You’re thinking of elixirs which are completely separate

[@eXceFPS]

On flurry, if its imbued - the healing currently does not work, so I imagine its going to be the same thing.

[@justinsurpless4137]

I guess I'm wrong but I thought I remember Grizzly Rage cooldown timer starting once I reverted from it?

[@LeMiBu]

can we comment on the trade site being off by a decimal point. Items need to be farm-able by actual players

[@rotony1]

The sorc is bad, no tempering fix, no armory... I can't see the Season 5 good 😢

[@big.guy77]

Good overview, but I think you're too soft on the nerfs to Sorcs and Necros, which look to me to be a complete fiasco. I hope you'll check things out and provide your partner feedback from the PTR. Also, until every class has 12 aspect slots / 4 weapon-offensive slots, Barbs will always be best. *shrug*

[@kaikwekkeboom7724]

Grizzly Rage got CD Starts After the Duration Ends? But why Rage of the Berserk is not effected? Its the Same Type of Ultimate I dont understand the change

[@rafaelyser7935]

Whirlwind and Pulverize scaling with size, but Blizzard size is a direct nerf to Ice Spikes dps

[@darksmoke5201]

all i hear is chain lightning will be good as lvling as per usual but its never good as endgame build sadly . Sorcerer needs some single target boss dmg with their builds. i like to play builds that are good in both aoe and single target. not completely suck in one of them and if u go really high in the pit as an example u struggle to kill the boss thats how it goes with my whirlwind twister barb.

[@XxdemoxX1]

Man they really fucked sorc hard, they need to REALLY look into sorc some more. My favorite class but the weakest single target class in the game.

[@spluv1]

bro, i just want to say, i really really appreciate that you're helping to make this game better. when i heard that you're sending notes on the dungeon backtracking, i can only assume you mean the campaign ones, where it makes NO sense hahahaha. if they change that, that's amazing pahaha. the fact that you are making so much content for this game, for a casual gamer like me, to be able to enjoy the game at levels that I never would've thought possible (with builds and knowledge) i'm just super thankful and appreciate it a lot :)

[@Bladerxdxi]

And on the topic of world bosses. It would be nice to still participate in the bossfight even if you arrive 10 secs after spawn.

[@JFiez27]

Flurry gunna be NUTS lol. Oh btw with them changing Shepherds and them giving us the damage in skills. We get two opened up legendary slots. We get three opened up skill bar slots, and we are not forced to used a 2 hander now. It frees up so much. It could potentially be more dps and for sure more mobility/utility with the freed up items and skill slots.

[@xxwidowmaker]

Appreciate how rax is trying to make the game better but the way he acts like he is singlehandedly the reason that changes get made annoys the fuck out of me,

[@lerpy4338]

It's probably true tho

[@Kevfactor]

With all the buffs, are they going to buff the monsters too easy right now lol.

[@Touchin-Grass]

Hey Raxx, i just want to thank you for all your hard work and constructive critiscm towards the game, which undoubtedly made it a much better game. It brought so much more than your typical " D4 bad comments."

[@MichaelSmith-hu9vx]

I think it’s very odd that he seemingly refused to mention all the nerfs. He mentioned the buffs and then passed over ALL the nerfs that gutted almost every viable build for every class except barbarian. Maybe he’s afraid of losing the ability to talk to the devs directly which he mentioned a dozen times…

[@billytheframe1355]

That is very common. Similar things happen with content creators and PoE 2 reports where you hear suprisingly nothing about the problem child melee.

[@Narfmann369]

I'm gonna start season 5 the same way I've started seasons 0-4: minion necro. It's been really fun 20% of the time so far

[@Malacite]

Still waiting on them to fix Rupture. For the love of God, it's been broken since Day 1. For those who may be unaware there is a bug where if you cast Rupture and then it fails to kill the target, it actually heals back all the damage - on top of removing the bleeds. It's been driving me nuts that they don't even acknowledge it. I'm loving these patch notes overall, I think Rax missed a few important things though - Arrow Storms & Rain of Arrows are getting big buffs, as are Dash and Shadowstep (like they needed it) to the point where that one aspect that relies on going invisible with Shadowstep might actually be a build now. But one of the biggest things is you can only lose a single shadow every 1.5 seconds now that is MASSIVE because that's always been the biggest problem with Dark Shroud, when you get surrounded you just lose them all too quickly.