Hotfix 1.20.0 - Hotfix #6

This dexterity and strength change, in my opinion, has broken the entire balancing system of the game. Via testing on the dummies in Detlas, some weapon archetypes such as spellspam cata and melee grim deal such significant sums of damage that they make all others virtually useless. Grimtrap melee attacks on day 1 builds (which are bound to be far from optimized) are dealing 300k. Cataclysm, already well known for being an over tuned weapon with absurd damage numbers, sees viable spin numbers now up to 150k, and with pure glass who knows how much higher. These numbers are to be taken with a grain of salt, as per usual with testing from humans, but I believe that this significant of a damage increase disproportionally obliterates more defensive weapons which when optimally used will not use Dexterity and Strength. Many weapons will become redundant if there isn't a hotfix #7 with some serious balance changes, and I'm surprised that this broken intermediate stage of the game was pushed to main servers.

 

By the way - I would recommend against calling something a hotfix when the changes made here are more impactful to the game than the main update.

 

The main update gives content while the hotfix changes the entire damage system (which means gameplay). They aren't really comparable here IMO.
But you are right though, it should be called a patch or something, instead of hotfix.

 

Can you make it like how loot chests work, but if they actually remembered that you are reconnecting to the same place. If you go to another guild and don't war, you shouldn't get punished for that. If it wasn't clear, I don't want to have to pull in my alt into the main guild as soon as I think of temp leaving (for say PROF), just in case I need to war.

 

honestly i was perfectly happy with the old system, i found it to be balanced and entertaining. however, this patch has changed it from being fun and exciting to boring and easy (at least from what i've heard, i've mostly been on the hero beta so i havent had the chance to test it out)

there is so much community backlash though that i see it likely that this change will be nerfed or reverted

 

which change is it you are referring to? New guilds or new str/dex?

 

str/dex

 

Yeah we need that reverted asap, it basically broke the game.
The better way they could've done this was to make dex and str not synergize.

 

I think he means gear like heavy melee, and maybe a light nerf to all others but i believe heavy melee builds will get the most nerf

 

Yeah... I really like the fact that they were trying to make str/dex better, but this change isn't really sustainable to the game. It definitely needs to be reverted if they want to avoid some long-term effects.

 

-My build is heavily nerfed in 1.20
-I gotta get a new build
-I get the new and expensive build after a lot of work
-Due to a hotifx the old build now deals 8k more dps than the new one
I now have to consider whether or not I should sell my new build's items before the prices go down or if I should wait and hope that the change gets reverted
And the worst part is that the old build is also probably heavily outmatched by a heavy melee one

 

I tried doing EO solo with The Nothing and my current build, and the new Str/Dex changes are busted as hell. If I had a Str/Dex pot on me too, I would 1-shot the Deathknell Wretch with one meteor.