New Patch Barbarian Got a HUGE Nerf, Warlock got Buffed😂| Dark and Darker

Hey everybody, It's Dimo. Barb got hard Nerfed! We gotta Stay Strong Brothers!
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0:00 Barbarian Got Hard Nerfed
3:40 Warlock Got Hard Buff
6:00 Druid Rat Form Nerfed
7:30 VOIP in Lobby
9:00 Bard isn't Nerfed
10:00 Warlock isn't Nerfed
11:00 PDR Fighter with Rondel+Buckler isn't nerfed
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[@DnDimo]

Bard Not Nerfed, (S tier class) (Been an S tier for a Year) Warlock Buffed ( previously S tier class, slightly better now) Ranger Can kill Fighters as well as any other class (High Armor Pen) Fighters with Buckler/Rondel/Survival Bow (Didn't get nerfed works same way as bard) Clerics Judgement through doors didn't get nerfed ( High A tier class) Rogues got slight Buff (I am happy for rogue comrades) Barbarian got gutted (30% and 40% percent difference is absolutely insane, rage change is understandable) Wizard has never been a weak class Druid Got slightly Gutted (GG, people complained we got the change, I am fine with rat form (lanters, molotovs > Rat Form)

[@Ascketism]

I like you and your videos. But what is your main problem with Warlocks? I bet it has nothing to do with demon form. Your critique there comes off as bitching like a scrub. I don't understand why demon form should have access to weapons either though, but this "buff" is not stacking with the presumed balance problem you and many others have with warlocks.

[@danialhussain8877]

@Ascketism he didn't just mention warlocks? He mentioned fighter, wizard, and ranger too, so why are you so upset? In any case it is a fact that warlocks are a high tier class and have a lot of versatility and that is fine no one cares, the problem happens when you drastically nerf one class to the point where you have to consider changing your whole playstyle and the rest of the classes get to keep their jank. When games make "balance" patches like this we need to call out similar things so that we can achieve that "balance", get it? You sound like a typical player who doesn't want their power stripped away but is fine with seeing other classes lose theirs. Pathetic.

[@jawadamofficial7168]

Bro I laught so hard, I Play barbarian and the change is pathetic this should be much more. Look at fighter for example if you think barb is gutted then you have no idea about balance in this game. Barb is top tier from stats he doesnt even need the skills. They are going wrong direction, barb should be struggling with catching up people like cleric because otherwise he have no weakness. 3% from Rage is like ok let me grab slightly better boots and boom im running with ms cap again with 30 str 200 HP base. Like WTF ?

[@Ascketism]

@@danialhussain8877 And you say I am upset.

[@XJR15ftw]

@@Ascketism Aggro: Get close to warlock -> get cursed twice -> guy runs faster than me to nearest doorway, not far because he's a poosy -> hydra in doorway -> kill hydra fast or ULTRA movement tech to somehow squeeze through (btw I'm half health now and any damage I did he already regenerated off me/hydra) -> phantomize :) -> hydra is off cooldown after phantomize, repeat whole process until I'm dead or warlock severely screws up. Sprinkle in fire mucus floor BS as required to further gap me in health while he regenerates off of literally everything Non aggro, attempt to escape: Warlock runs faster than me, I am perma cursed as I open doors slower than him and if I crush them he gets to chase me for free. If I turn around he hydra + phantomizes for free. I can maybe down a potion and he's already full HP if I've even managed to do any damage Bonus: I buy full copperlight set, I am ULTRA fragile, but I catch these bozos easily and completely gap them since getting outran/equated in speed during phantomize with my weapon out makes the Warlock's brain freeze and forget his other 12905125 tools to kill me. I eventually die with said full copperlight set, ragequit

[@jamesperkinson5754]

Non-barb users: “We are free!!” Warlock: “I wouldn’t say free..” *turns into demon with long sword* “… more like under new management.”

[@Wake_Maker]

Exactly my thought... I'm a warlock main

[@mikastroobandt9561]

imagine you hit an warlock in demon form and just hear the parry sound from longsword

[@DonaldPrizwan]

💀

[@DonDidThatt]

Bro I can’t wait to try it on my warlock now

[@phivedeadphish]

HOW IS BARD NOT CHANGED AT ALL WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE IRONMACE. MY SAVAGE ROAR LOSES 10% EFFECTIVENESS BUT BARD IS STILL SUPERMAN WITH NO CHANGE TO SHRIEK FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFF. sry for caps dimo but us barb mains gotta make noise about this lol. Savage was our saving grace.

[@Sarirath]

barb, bard, and warlock were all kinda broken. as a bard main I got destroyed by barbs and warlocks all the time

[@oldtwitchdog5969]

@@Sarirath If u couldn't deal with barb as bard - u clearly did something wrong.

[@noonegaming8685]

@@oldtwitchdog5969 as a bard, barbs are probably the easiest match up until u turn the corner and die in 2 hits to a max move speed barb

[@UnderfundedScientist]

Balance changes were actual psychopath behavior

[@butter1x704]

barbarians needed a nerf, but idk wtf happened to warlocks

[@UnderfundedScientist]

@butter1x704 I agree, I just think too heavy handed on barb .especially in combination with the other buffs given

[@davidmaly6606]

They took 9 ms from barb. They took 30 from fighter rofl. ​@UnderfundedScientist

[@Diet_Rifles]

Most fighters werent running low enough MS for that to matter, especially with how good slayer was until this season. It was a nerf to plate fighters only. ​@davidmaly6606

[@XennaShieldOP-pu6le]

Dam, looks like my 30+ hp rat form can't tank an arrow anymore 💀

[@CloudyMars-rb4kq]

YOURE WHAT?

[@xenird]

@@CloudyMars-rb4kq stacking flat hp, troll build but you are tanky as a rat

[@SalvationThroughFaith777]

Longbow needed that buff IMO, barbarian nerf totally crazy tho

[@DonDidThatt]

Yeah that long bow pen is scary

[@caedenbeard2304]

Me and my buddies are convinced the developers dont even play the game, they just collect "data" and make changes based off statistics, when they should just be taking feedback from players. The devs seem to be far more connected to the community than other games, so why do they always miss with every update!? Baffles me tbh

[@DonDidThatt]

I mean part of the fun of the game is having some over powered classes and builds. If the game was completely balanced it honestly wouldn’t be that fun. I kinda enjoy the random ass nerfs and buffs. I mean it’s making me want to go play my warlock for demon mode lmfao

[@Sarirath]

They should absolutely NOT listen to the community, the general chat in the discord is probably the worst place to get balance change ideas from. They need to have a team of test players that they pay to test out the classes and balance changes because half the people that make "balance suggestions" are just people rage-typing in general after dying to another class. Or they should have a better system to put in balance change ideas rather than just listening to the yap in general chat.

[@pauljerome01]

@@Sarirath wdym, people have been calling for warlock nerf and they never listened

[@TheInternationalJew-vn4bn]

yea they should take biased feedback and instead of actual stats wild

[@SNUSNU4U]

SDF plays warlock. Go figure

[@jaimeosorio1285]

If warlock was kinda broken just by using the ghost and running away from any character and then suck your life off.. now they just gonna beatt you however they want, might have even more hp and dmg than a barb lol thats kinda stupid tbh

[@davidrousseau100]

I don't understand why they buffed warlock demonform lol. Now they are faster, more tankier and have weapons. Litteraly will statcheck any class, this is dumb!

[@oldtwitchdog5969]

Obv they did it, to hold new players + make them buy the game.

[@noonegaming8685]

The fact that they were supposed to be viable with their fist and now can use weapons is crazy

[@keesler007]

lol warlock buff is crazy think I’m about to change main😂

[@Ascketism]

You gonna run Demon Form Warlock now or what?

[@MKP2W]

Lmao what are these changes 😂. Are they even aware of the strength of their own classes? I legit want to just play wizard now. The Skinny Pete build unaffected 😂.

[@NikoMoroz]

dude I cannot believe they didnt nerf Warlock and instead buffed em. that's insane

[@jeremyh6348]

i agree with everything you said except cleric judgement. can literally only use it looking through the windows in doors. its so buggy trying to use it in any other situation. been cleric since play test #2 its only gotten worse

[@Stronk_Barb]

Looks like it's time to try out rage/war sacrifice.

[@Empty_Estus]

warlock gonna be siiiiick. Thanks for the video bud!!

[@someoneslick5399]

So 90% armor pen with windlass on ranger?

[@nofooku]

I have only been playing a few days. What makes bard so strong and are they stronger than warlocks(I hate trying to fight warlocks)? I only know about bards lock pick song, sit down song and my one friend hated playing bards lol

[@DonaldPrizwan]

this feels like "get some locks off phant without nerfing something". its a bold strategy... we will see. edit. put "HotFix news" or some shit in the title of these vids. also a bold strat! this position has some of the best job security around.

[@jarmuzz]

Devs did a interview talking about giving demon form weapon to test a play style for upcoming sorcerer.

[@jarmuzz]

@DankManPlays it has to do with the mechanics of them being able to to be in magical stances and which will be coded like shape-shifting / demon form is. Go watch the interview. This framework as they call if will also be used for the monk.

[@RandallMiller-eh6wm]

I hate to say it, but they stole this game from someone with a brain. 100% can't convince me otherwise

[@joshleach3828]

Couple things, I pretty sure the gold ingot being buy-able off the market was actually intentional because its pretty hard to get gold ore now if you didn't already know the bosses. Two I think buffing the ranger is pretty reasonable because you very rarely see them anymore because they kinda get destroyed by panthers since their gap close is so insane. My understanding is that the demon form weapon thing is meant to be a temporary thing to allow them to test some back end stuff related to the functionality of transformations interacting with the equitable items because the upcoming sorcerer class needs this tech to implemented before they can being production on it.

[@freezymays]

The past week or so I've been thinking of switching from barb to warlock completly anyway because I only have the free version of the game, would it be the time now to delete my lvl70 barb and try warlock or should I just wait another 2months or so until next wipe?

[@DnDimo]

nope never delete barb!

[@tadi1695]

My friend that didn't buy the game simply made a few accounts with different classes, shouldn't matter much since you can't trade really and the gold you make is locked to one character(I think, I have legendary account)

[@the_silverking]

nah just buy the game then swap over.

[@illusionist19-sl4nh]

Whatever you do, DONT buy a game from these bots. Trust me... Theyre already realizing they need players and the only way for them to get more is to unlock more stuff for f2p people. It wont be long before they unlock marketplace/HR so the only thing youll be paying for is more character slots/stash tabs. If they dont remove multiclass they will probably lock f2p accounts to 2 character per acc.. Save your money my man.

[@tadi1695]

@@illusionist19-sl4nh They do need the money to keep developing their game though, not saying they don't have any but they certainly need an income to keep updating the game, there isn't enough cosmetics for that to be their business strategy

[@josue804]

Need in-game tests to these changes asap 😭

[@mikastroobandt9561]

is barb still worth playing and if not what should i use instead of barb and if barb still worth it what build?

[@DonDidThatt]

Sure barb is def still playable, think about swapping the q and e ability you use. Remember, the only nerf on the barb was the abilities savage roar and rage ( albeit those are prolly the best abilities lol )

[@naggs3958]

nah bro barb is still strong achilles and blood exchange combo is about as good as rage and savage roar combos before nerf so just rock that and you will feel just as powerful as before

[@j.d.4697]

I think they are just experimenting. I want a tanky sustain warlock, but demon form with weapon is weird. Demon form in general is weird. I think maybe they should lower or remove the self DoT and the weapon to make the form a limited but versatile tank.

[@pauljerome01]

Im still surprise warlock hasn't gotten there phantomized nerfed that's just stupid

[@googlespyingonme]

as a rogue player i feel u, we been nerfed to the ground too

[@IAmKnightsDawn]

I would love them to remove lobbies. I don’t think being able to inspect all players in a lobby should be a thing.

[@ToucanSam123]

They just added voice chat to lobbies I’m kinda excited for the chaos lol

[@googlespyingonme]

@@ToucanSam123 thankgod i have voip turned off.. no need to listen to those spergs spergin out

[@d-j1650]

@@ToucanSam123 in my lobbies nobody use it

[@Sarirath]

This is honestly one of the best changes they could make, it would add to the fear of seeing if another team is geared or not

[@ToucanSam123]

@@d-j1650 im sure people will use it they just added it

[@ADeadlierSnake]

As a new player, playing Barb was already completely miserable. Not sure why they felt the need to make the slowest class in the game even slower. I already can't catch anyone as it is, and no one will approach me because most players aren't that dumb. I can't sneak up on anyone because of how much noise everything makes, so the only way I can kill anyone is if I happen to find Helen Keller in the dungeon. When I do try chasing people, even if I put my weapon away, if I take it out while my character model is physically touching theirs, they are already out of reach by the time my weapon is out lmao. It's seriously so bad....and now they made it worse. Fucking why.

[@vowish5319]

Yeah i just run rage and achilles and swirched to the zwehander with 20% action speed and I just max distance keep them stuck in place and they die by the swift zweihander 3 hit combo. Weakness: landmine rogue if you dont immediately react Ranger if they are hackin

[@vowish5319]

Perks: Two Hander , robust, savage, berserker

[@snekers2038]

its fkn stupid that locks got buffed , we all know the class they spent most dev time on since all of its skills are flushed out and has multiple builds that are viable where we have classes like fighter and rogue that are sitting with 70% useless perks and skills no other way to put it rather than its dumb af

[@hornet7271]

Damn, and after just switching from rogue to barb I was having so much fun all for the class to get a fat nerf lol. maybe I should make a bard now

[@DnDimo]

High Skill Class, but you won't regret it. Gonna take a bit to get better at it

[@jaredh923]

Ninja Nerf for Druid: Druid can no longer jump during shapeshifting cast. This increases skill celling of Druid even more.

[@equinox3d585]

Was just in a duo fight with a warlock and a bard, we (fighter and ranger) killed the bard and the warlock changes in to a demon and comes at us with a halbert and destroys us after being hit twice by my longbow then twice more once he became demon and my mate the fighter hit him twice when he was a demon but still stomps us... Good balance patch there, what was IM thinking with that!! Bare in mind we had full health after taking out the bard then the warlock just thought F it changed to demon and just steamrolled us both.

[@Villzard]

Where is the Dimo Discord Server D:

[@mariuzmadden8552]

That armor pen, kinda doesnt matter, I still gotta take my armor off to be able to catch a ranger anyways.

[@kicks6152]

why in the world is barb getting nerfed i play a wide range of classes and i also play duos and trios and the only class i really die to is warlock whether its range or barbarian warlock in generial is just way to op. maybe warlock is just my cryptonite idk.

[@chost-059]

demon barb build incoming

[@fingernubs3795]

Finally occultists pants and tunics will finally be used

[@nelsonchiu8257]

At this rate just play full melee warlock its basically 10x stronger than barb and can 1-2 shot players with crystal sword

[@user-ul2ow3sh3m]

Make demon form warlock build with longsword

[@devinbuerger5832]

So if treasure gives no AP now what does exactly? how do high levels get enough AP to gain any? Kill players and what else?

[@thelordofcream]

love ya dimo

[@bga6189]

Man wtf I’m new and barb is the only class I like so far. This makes me mad since you’re a veteran barb saying this is bad

[@dmckel]

Barb is still good, don't let this worry you.

[@bga6189]

@@dmckel okay thanks for some reassurance bro

[@chost-059]

the barb nerfs are fine, its just like fighter had

[@sdunned7842]

Why did they buff warlock? I’m playing warlock rn and even I think he’s too strong. They made the leach TWICE AS STRONG!

[@onigomopro615]

bro its 3% on MS and 10% on a already OP perk

[@xenosama3604]

Welp time to change mains 😢 goodbye my barb 😢

[@divinenotion]

Now barbs can be kited even more yay

[@jager356]

Fuck now I never get selled my 40 campfires

[@BLaCkKsHeEp]

ahhh dude... im already a noob on a F2P barb.... im screwed. also a rogue 2 shot me like 2 days ago. and they move hella fast. i think of switching to Rogue once i buy the full game

[@cousin0kri752]

"Warlock got Buffed" BRUUUUUUUUUUH

[@dylangutierrez7482]

Barb is already hard enough to fight kiters, why nerf 😭😭😭

[@GiannhsGfs]

Rip Bar

[@ItsAbility]

Warlock buff is despicable and barbarian nerf is insane lol barb isn't even good in thus meta tbh

[@sethrusso45]

Still playing Barb 😅

[@Onthebean]

Fuck barb I’m going warlock

[@Akay_TM]

30% is still alot of dmg they lose

[@ozylocz4078]

It was always balanced around 40% losing 10 FUCKING % for no good reason while not touching bard and buffing warlock is insane.

[@DrJesus-st9rk]

@@ozylocz4078 nerfing barb was just. the ignoring and buffing of bard and warlock respectively is crazy

[@hanavolenstien7090]

Celebrates my birthday by playing my fav class barbarian. :) Gets nerfed :(

[@DnDimo]

It's alright, just don't fight clerics🥲

[@donttouchmysoda7551]

Warlock demon form sucked, it needed something this might be strong but it doesnt stack with what is already op on warlock which is speed/caster build, warlock is just has a viable melee build now

[@DnDimo]

Warlock demon form is very strong, wdym brother? With Plate you could easily stat check a high geared barb

[@donttouchmysoda7551]

@DnDimo u can, but easily? Idk about that. I agree it's strong maybe to strong, they could add something like the 20% dmg reduction the fighter gets with non fighter weapons to demon form. Demon form may have been possible but if u were playing warlock seriously u were on caster phanomize I also wanna clarify I'm not a warlock main

[@justiceanxiety8214]

yeah plate demon is insane

[@donttouchmysoda7551]

@@justiceanxiety8214 now

[@justiceanxiety8214]

@@donttouchmysoda7551 worked fine for me last wipe 🤷‍♂️

[@ElMonko]

hard

[@jager356]

They needed to nerf barb bc new barbs slaughter other new players lol they are the best class if u have no skil

[@BrandonSollenberger]

Wadu hek

[@presto8442]

What is voip in lobby

[@mythcrafts]

it means you can hear people in the lobby, not just in the dungeon like before, tbh it does not make any difference I rarely ever meat people who actual have mics and talk ingame

[@muffinmuncher9756]

they nerfed the barbarian because all he did was one hit with that ability

[@DnDimo]

new player? Welcome to my channel brother

[@googlespyingonme]

noooo i love barb

[@WoeBringer1195]

Nobody was asking for Warlock to be buffed.. what the fuck?

[@diswazzi1683]

Just play the meta you'll have a lot more fun

[@tano1670]

Not if everyone is running the same character.​@@diswazzi1683

[@PolarrsX]

Day 37 of eating while watching dimo's new wideo. Still nothing but aye lowkey people might hate me for this one but W patch ngl

[@SoraxTTV]

I mean this is realy sad. I want to say realy bad words but yeah. Barbarin need BUFFS and he got a nerf lol but the best class in THE GAME WARLOCK buff again and again and again. What is going on

[@suki9772]

its a little nerf not to bad at all

[@DnDimo]

cap

[@Onthebean]

Drums still work

[@bird2881]

turn down the bass on your mic bruh

[@ItsAbility]

I'm honestly glad i dont play this dumpsterfire of a game anymore

[@Turusolight]

nerfing barb makes perfect sense but buffing warlocks? that's some bs haha

[@mikastroobandt9561]

:C

[@ChrisWilliams-rz2op]

It still lasts 9 seconds, it's still a 30% damage reduction. You still can go felling axe and 1 shot everything and be as fast as a rogue

[@DnDimo]

stop the cope

[@ryanwitte600]

bruh barb has been broken for awhile now you didn't need a brain to play barb now you do...

[@bednoises6391]

Barb is garbage we warlocks now

[@COFFEETIIIME]

…..this didn’t age well warlocks suck again YAY!

[@Ceeple]

Why are we calling this a nerf when Barbarian has every good tool for a melee combatant to have, the ability to be flat out stronger in every melee trade, access to some of the best weapons, while also benefiting from innate bonuses that occur when not equipping gear, thus making them faster and easier to catch opponents? They are merely evening the playing field with these changes, a nerf would be something that particularly strips the class of it's ability to perform.

[@DnDimo]

You are not barbarian player, you are new to the game or you have a very low amount of experience.

[@Ceeple]

@@DnDimo What a cop out response, when it's clear that the majority of the community doesn't enjoy being run down by this class. You're basically the Pyro of Team Fortress 2

[@Konuta]

@@Ceeple The majority of the community are new players. So just because they are new, the classes they hate should get nerfed?

[@anthony420181]

This game is a joke at this point

[@2010thurley]

Day 34- Play Wizard

[@tronki8508]

Maybe bcs barb was broken AF? Warlocks make 1 or 2 mistakes they are dead barbs can makes 40 mistakes and still kill you

[@davidcoppenhagen]

HuH? are you aware of the phantomize skill? Its literally a get out of jail free card for warlock.... what are you yapping about man do you even play the game?

[@exgrex9102]

Barb and warlock is broken bruh

[@lorenzteran5780]

Barb needed a nerf idc what anyone says. When a class can pretty much stat check most other classes starting with 130 base hp plus hitting for 100+ with base kit is fucking insane. No other class can flat out run through lobbies and just destroy everyone with the only counter play being hopefully you're faster and can kite, unfortunately for you the barb stacked agi and isnt wearing a chest piece and boom still stat checked and out ran. Shit is far too overtuned when you can also just spam pots and have a base 60 mr cause why not. I mean you legit just posted a vid wiping 3-man lobbies solo. I dont care how new they are too the game it should not be that easy for anyone to 3v1 full lobbies bro thats not balanced. Every other class can only make 2-3 mistakes maybe even one or they are just wiped, Barb can make 20 mistakes and still stat check any other class.

[@Senbonzakuraaaapp]

Thats funny cuz i played barb for awhile and never once thought it was OP, the savage roar is nice for pve but in pvp,barb dies just as fast as any other class,barb needs to accurate hit with axe or the next swing going to take forever

[@lorenzteran5780]

@@Senbonzakuraaaapp At the end of the day what really matters is who is playin the classes. I have a hard time with barb personally but I understand if others think its not that hard to deal with. 150hp with no gear and 100+ hit with no gear makes them the strongest in 25 and below lobbies at the very least. A lot more counter play when you have gear and can kite them successfully.

[@Senbonzakuraaaapp]

@@lorenzteran5780 The thing is barb is like A tier and the nerf them but buff warlock which is alrdy s tier. barb is fine whr he is,just buff other weaker class instead of nerfing barb

[@presto8442]

Dimo do you have a discord?