Jeff_Stryker wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 7:42am:

How could something like that occur to them?   

From the videos I've seen of the devs playing, they have an average hotbar count of 3 with half the slots on those 3 bars empty.  Clearly, frequent swapping for weapon sets, scrolls, clickies, activated attacks and abilities is a completely foreign concept to them.  That or their builds are potatoes with derp derp feats like toughness x 5 just so they don't die every 30s.

Either way, it's no wonder that they have no idea what good builds can do in the hands of a skilled player.  They don't know how to optimize their own GUI, much less press multiple hotbuttons in an optimal sequence. 

If you told them that there are things that do more damage than autoattack, you'd blow their minds.  They'd probably ban you for hacking.

Metal-Beast wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 11:46am:


Yeah, some fellas are coming off pretty smug on the forums now.  I look forward to
reading their whinge posts after U36 goes live.

People running elite and R1 are getting scared that the crazy, massively OP class is now just massively OP.  In a setting where it doesn't matter. 

If you still don't have to slow down to kill the trash, does it matter?

If they nerf an ability that most good players aren't using anyways, does it matter?

Asheras wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 1:37pm:

I will admit that I rolled in ES with matching capstone for all my Warlocks to date.

I am big on survivability and ES doles that out in fucking boatloads.

I also felt it's capstone delivered more than SE or TS, for the same reasons.

But I also felt like I "lost" a lot of AP in the tree on trash I didn't care about (like those fucking aura enhancements I never used to get to the light damage).

So I was already mulling a switch out of ES when they announced these changes.

Now it's academic, I'll dump all but the necessities (which are few) and roll TS and SE.

I may have to roll another sorc first so I can remind myself how to play without a huge cushion of HP and an Easy Button...

Steelstar posted in that thread that the AA imbues toggle would stay on, even when you switch weapons, but the imbues will only work if a bow is equipped.  This addressed concerns about players who have to switch to a melee weapon, a wand, or scroll or something and then re-toggle the imbue on.

knockcocker wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2017 at 2:59am:

There was a lot to love, to be sure.

But whatever. I could roll the same build and it'd mean that mobs would take 1.5 volleys instead of 1 to drop dead.

I needed some incentive for my lazy ass to try the better blasting options anyway.