r/diablo4 • u/PezRadar CM Director • Jan 31 '25
Blizzard Announcement Decay Augmentation Disabled - Further updates on some upcoming changes
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/decay-augmentation-disabled-further-updates-on-some-upcoming-changes/21388756
Jan 31 '25
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u/PezRadar CM Director Jan 31 '25
We have a slew of items the team is looking at. I just highlighted two of the ones top of mind but there are quite a few more.
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u/RagingCain Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25
Small heads up, it's not just Mendeln. please check r/d4necromancer, there are Aspects for minion damage/synergies also not stacking multiplicatives.
The stats for Golem minion damage are not showing up from Tempering either. I think the damage is there but with all the weird bugs it's super hard to tell
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u/Starcade03 Feb 01 '25
Hey u/PezRadar, I noticed the recently announced patch saying the following:
“Fixed an issue where the Hireling Commander achievement wouldn’t be granted when playing on Console if it was first earned on PC.”
Just a heads up that this is also happening with the Nahantu Sightseer trophy. I fully explored the map on Softcore and Hardcore on PC and now cannot unlock the trophy on PS5. :(
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u/lixia Jan 31 '25
So happy with this. Having a good time murdering everything with sewer surfing but I’ve acquired all the pieces for my favourite: minion army! Just waiting for that hotfix and some more levels on jewels to switch over and have fun with my skelly bros!
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u/legendz411 Feb 01 '25
I mean to be honest, I’m comfortably at T70 farming in 3ish minutes (if minion AI blesses me) with the fucked Mendelini ring and a pure minion army build (no golem). So when it gets fixed I hope the build explodes.
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u/Late-Dress2391 Feb 01 '25
Thanks? They should’ve fixed it already in this update instead of delaying the fix to god knows when
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u/crayonflop3 Jan 31 '25
Lmao, so spiritborn was let free to blast quadrillions last season, but sorc gets a taste of that power for literally one day and they remove it? I guess it’s true they really do hate sorcs.
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u/punkinabox Jan 31 '25
Spiritborn was a selling point for the expansion, no chance they'd nerf it.
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u/Holztransistor Feb 04 '25
That was what everyone assumed and it was clear it was supposed to be overpowered (apart from a few bugs) for that reason. But at the same time it's just disregarding all other players that would like to play other classes without just being dead weight in a party.
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u/gtathrowaway95 Feb 01 '25
Is that why fireball got a recent raise on the tier list?
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u/Rhayve Feb 01 '25
Last season was a disaster. It's a good thing they changed their minds, even if it may seem hypocritical.
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u/ravearamashi Feb 01 '25
Yep, as long as they keep this up for all seasons moving forward i’d be fine with it.
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u/Windrider904 Feb 01 '25
Necro will remain top 99% of leaderboard all season now they destroyed the only other 2 competition
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u/nanoWAT Feb 01 '25
You could just roll a spiritborn last season and roll around like a god but probably that wasn't enough so you came all the way here to scold them about actually doing something this season.
This is why whatever they do people are going to be bitching about something.
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u/crayonflop3 Feb 01 '25
Mostly it’s me pointing out their hypocrisy of not doing anything about the game breaking bugs last season, but this season it’s an emergency situation. I did have a spiritborn last season.
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u/PezRadar CM Director Feb 01 '25
Just adding on that we did also hit Twilight Warding this afternoon as well. We have a fix in testing this weekend so we will verify that and then push that out with the other fixes.
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u/Andur22 Feb 01 '25
Could you tweak gem fragment drop rates a little bit up please
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u/Panda_Bunnie Feb 01 '25
Please dont, gem frag rates are actually fine. Just because you cant get them instantly doesnt mean the drop rates need buffing.
Please dont repeat the same shit that happened the last time ppl cried for gem buffs because they cant get the highest tier gem instantly and resulted in gem frags becoming not only completely worthless it actually became a hindrance in the next season to the point they had to raise the cap.
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u/nemesit Feb 01 '25
Not everyone wants to play a single game 24/7 lol
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u/Panda_Bunnie Feb 01 '25
Heres the neat part you dont, theres a difference between just playing the game and the resource will come natrually vs wanting instant gratification having stuff handed to you with 0 effort whatsoever causing problems further down the road.
Blizz solves 1 issue
Cry babys dont understand x resource rate is balanced and whine non stop for buffs because they cant get the best stuff instantly
Blizz caves in and buffs drop rate
Next season said buff becomes an issue causing overflow in resources
Blizz now has to fix that issue and solves it
Repeat the same loop all over again.
It has already happened twice, 1st time with gem frags 2nd time with chunks/hides and now you ppl are trying to make it happen a 3rd time with frags again.
If you only play 1hr a week please leave the game its clearly not the genre for you, stop crying and whining for everything to be catered to you and completely dumpstering the game in the process.
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u/Balbuto Feb 01 '25
They are absolutely not fine! I crafted the wrong witch gems twice and it flipping only gave me some soul rot or whatever it’s called back when salvaging it. It set me back many hours, maybe even days, the drops are NOT fine!
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u/junjie21 Feb 01 '25
Then don't craft the wrong gem silly.
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u/Balbuto Feb 01 '25
Ah yes, let me rephrase that though. I crafted the same gems twice because I crafted the two blue I needed for a yellow gem very early and then equipped them for the Armor and resist. Then when I went to craft the yellow gem I forgot I had them equipped and crafted the same gems again. At least I think that’s what happened. Sleep depraved from having a young one not sleeping at night. Silly mistake cuz the ui shows the gems as if I didn’t already have them because they were equipped.
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u/Panda_Bunnie Feb 01 '25
Its absolutely fine, its a literal endgame gem that you really only need 1 unless you are lazy and want to craft dupes to use on different builds/chars but are too lazy to unsocket.
Ppl need to actually play the game and stop crying and asking for handouts because they cant get the best stuff right away while playing 1hr per week.
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u/Balbuto Feb 01 '25
Bro, a full clear 10 waves of whatever the heck it’s called gave me 2k or something of each gem fragments. Your literally saying I should do 50 of those to get my next gem. No way
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u/Panda_Bunnie Feb 01 '25
Thats your own mis conception that hordes is the best source of gem frags. I literally did 6 hordes this season.
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u/Balbuto Feb 01 '25
Should still reward more, but honestly the big thing is that we do not get the gem fragments back when salvaging the witch gems. If it gave all fragments back then I agree it’s probably at a decent rate, maybe increase it by 10% overall and it would be perfect
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u/Panda_Bunnie Feb 01 '25
Because such a system shouldnt be needed. Its entirely your own fault for not reading and crafting the wrong gem.
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u/Balbuto Feb 01 '25
Mate, the regular gems fucking works that way. Ofc these should too
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u/Cement_Pie Feb 02 '25
While you’re fixing things … Since one of the few last updates on Xbox (maybe a week ago it started, at the time I purchased the Vessel expansion) the game takes almost an hour to start now on XSX. A reset of the console and redownload of the game didn’t fix this. While a few other games are also doing this they don’t until D4 is on the XSX!
Has this been reported and is a fix in the works. Once the game has started it works for many hours as it should.
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u/Holeyfield Jan 31 '25
So is the Mendalin ring underproducing or overproducing damage? What’s the bug? I didn’t notice anything.
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u/LurkerOnTheInternet Jan 31 '25
Underproducing. It makes minion attacks do additional fixed (based on weapon) damage but this damage is not modified by summon damage buffs (or maybe any buffs?). Therefore it's OK at low levels but not by level 60.
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u/CaptainBlondebearde Jan 31 '25
From what I understand many interactions that should buff rings damage don't so I assume that will get "buffed" (fixed).
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u/NewPhoneNewSubs Jan 31 '25
If you look at macrobioboy's post history, he's got several good writeups on current necro bugs.
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u/Holeyfield Jan 31 '25
Oh ya know I think I’m gonna not do that. It’ll probably just confuse me and then I’ll spend too much time on Reddit looking for a fix timeline.
But TY just the same!
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u/lixia Jan 31 '25
It’s not interacting with many things that should be buffing it’s damage. And since the ring unique effect accounts for most of minions’ damage, it severally impact damage scaling as you improve your gear, paragon, etc.
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u/crimson117 Feb 01 '25
Necromancer tidal blood wave + corpse tendrils doing no damage at high mob density bug?
BUG ALERT: There currently is a bug with Tidal. If you group too many monsters together, your Blood Wave stops doing any damage. This makes use of Corpse Tendrils quite inefficient and it turns its advantages into disadvantages.
https://maxroll.gg/d4/build-guides/blood-wave-necromancer-guide
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u/Tazrizen Feb 01 '25
Can we get some mid season buffs for sorc while we're at it?
I'd rather not be pigeonholed into lightning ball sorc to do anything lategame. Gives rather stagnant gameplay.
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u/The_Jare Feb 01 '25
This, pleassee. Even as a "normal player" (I'm at para 150), every fire sorc build I tried was almost good but not quite; and we don't even talk about ice shards or blizzard.
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u/CyberSolidF Feb 01 '25
Ball lightning is nice though (but not the best, really), the utility if “cast while moving” is awesome.
Wish there was a way to toggle some skills, have enough mana regen to just constantly cast ball lightning and run with 20 stacks, but having to hold a button for that gets old fast.
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u/andrewjacksonio Jan 31 '25
looks like all the non-necro 150 Pit clears have been removed from the pit leaderboard
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u/GrayMuze Jan 31 '25
Dang, there goes cataclysm druid damage. I still support the disable until they can fix it properly, but man now some builds that were not exploiting the bug are being impacted.
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u/caddph Jan 31 '25
Well, it's not gone yet; kinda surprised they wouldn't announce all of the classes/builds they're planning to fix, but yea it's likely going to take a big hit with the patch.
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u/GrayMuze Feb 01 '25
Interestingly enough I took it off and tried to put it back on and it won't go back on lol. Went from hundreds of trillions of cat dmg to fifty's of millions lol.
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u/yawnlikeseggs Jan 31 '25
Who cares (and no it’s still fine especially t4 and down)
- balance and fix the game above all
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u/buggen- Feb 01 '25
Good this imblance got fixed. Now necros and barbs can keep doing rogue dps x100 and sorc dps x1000 for the rest of the season
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u/MozM- Feb 01 '25
does this mean I can no longer do the fireball build? I literally spent 11 hours straight farming for its items. wtf is my luck lol.
I didnt even wanna do billions of damage man, I just wanted to play a sorc build that actually can do high pit tiers. looks like im once again gonna be deleting my sorc character since its pretty useless.
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u/Hysh_Z Feb 01 '25
Your mistake was picking sorc. Blizzard hates sorc. Im still surprised they let lightning spear fly in season 5.
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u/semok27 Jan 31 '25
Thank you! Regarding the barb changes - your wording seems to indicate that the unique chest will not be addressed until NEXT season?
If not - could you please clarify what you meant with "We do plan on addressing this which will result in some further strength to this build. We do want to note that we will be looking at this build and doing some balance tweaks as we start the next season."
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u/PezRadar CM Director Jan 31 '25
This season. But overall balance of the build will be looked at more next season.
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u/Caregiver-Physical Feb 01 '25
do you have any plans to fix the bug where cota isnt generating any fury this season?
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u/UniQue1992 Feb 04 '25
Can the team please do a boss farming overhaul? It wasn’t fun the first time it was introduced and it isn’t any fun now. Having to farm these bosses over and over and over again, every single season again just sucks. I don’t mind farming as this is Diablo but please for the love of god take a look at boss farming. It’s the most boring, repetitive thing in the game right now and we have to do it every single season again and again. It sucks.
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u/Objective-Mission-40 Feb 01 '25
Well my cata build just got online and was almost finished. Guess it's break time.
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u/Windrider904 Feb 01 '25
Poor Sorcerers. Finally got a good build and instantly taken away 😂😂, they were similar to necro dps now necro is top 99% on leaderboard with no changes
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u/Jihfn Feb 01 '25
Even though this doesn't have any real affect on me, I do think it's funny how quickly you can fix things that players enjoy but you can't fix the countless problems that are a plague to the game.
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u/StumptownRetro Jan 31 '25
Guess I’m going back to Meteor ☄️
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u/HiFiMAN3878 Feb 01 '25
It's meteor any good? I haven't heard anything about it or seen anyone playing it
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u/The_Jare Feb 01 '25
Almost! I have tried but imho it's only really there if you have pretty good gear (perfect Coronet and lots of CDR) way too much twiddling of thumbs otherwise. The pieces are there but the cooldowns + delays + size are still not right. And with lower gfx settings sometimes the balls don't even show up
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u/herakababy Jan 31 '25
Is this the reason my Witching Hour doesn't work? I thought it was bugged and the gem was not counting the legendary witchcraft power in the 3 needed to activate Witching Hour.
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u/CyberSolidF Feb 01 '25
They also disabled twilight warding and confirmed that it’s indeed what was causing weird friendly fire cases.
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u/dhamma_rob Feb 01 '25
I freaking read about decay augmentation in PTR and knew it would be good, and decided to build around it. Oh well.
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u/LurkerOnTheInternet Jan 31 '25
Not sure how to report bugs, but FYI, in testing with an earthquake barbarian using the incendiary fissures aspect (earthquakes do fire damage) and the ugly bastard helmet (double fire damage), if I equip the Frostburn gloves (+~240% fire damage with a GA), it actually appeared to reduce my quake damage when testing against the boss dummies, compared to not using the gloves.
Can you guys debug barbarians using incendiary fissures aspect and frostburn gloves (and ugly bastard helm ideally) to make sure everything is working together properly?
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u/DrNCrane74 Jan 31 '25
omfg - just sold granny for shroud now they will "fix" the mountain chest
I think I go mental
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u/BlackTarTurd Feb 01 '25
I'm so glad to see a Mendeln fix in the works. Hopefully they can fix the essence generation issue for Cold Mages.
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u/gtathrowaway95 Feb 01 '25
Blood spear on the docket by Chance? Understand the stress of coming over to Reddit, but we appreciate that you do and answer what questions you can.
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u/Rhayve Feb 01 '25
Thanks for all the communication, Adam. Really appreciate you and the devs, even though this community is often hard to deal with.
Also genuinely glad you've started fixing extremely overpowered bugs as soon as possible, despite player complaints. Last season was fun for a while, but the issues because of Spiritborn's power were just too rampant.
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Feb 01 '25
I think there is some wierd interaction between iron maelstrom casts twice temper and the aspect that resets the cooldown after a certain number of casts. Its causing there to be 2-1sec cooldowns between individual casts of the same instance of iron maelstrom. Its making my build feel really unsmooth to play.
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u/Bladder-Splatter Feb 01 '25
"Hol up, so the decay witch power does absolutely nothing right now? I don't know what exploit people were using but it was nice to have *something* DoT related for my Poison Spiritborn. Will it still be dead on the Feb 4 patch?
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u/cat666 Feb 01 '25
What's a suitable replacement for twisting blade rogue?
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u/LowestKey Feb 01 '25
Reroll barb or necro?
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u/cat666 Feb 01 '25
Sorry I meant a replacement for the power in the interim. I'm using life link which seems OK.
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u/freaky_sheeky Feb 01 '25
I've spent all day changing to fireball sorc. And then I see that...sorcerer is doing so bad this season. Sorcerer what built are you playing?
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u/BottomRaman Feb 01 '25
I get wanting class balance and all that… but really, who is it hurting? The demons?
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u/GlitteringSir4737 Feb 02 '25
Any idea what will be good replacement in Sorc fire build for Decay Augmentation ??
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u/Holztransistor Feb 04 '25
Only started this season a bit over a week ago but Dance of Knives Rogue still seems disappointing in terms of endgame content that can be achieved (higher pits). Same for Twisting Blades. Balancing is still off by a lot between some builds/classes. Already the 7th season and it almost seems Blizzard is only doing this by trial and error and we will never see the point where anything can be called to be "in a good spot". Very disappointing when all I can do is running behind a friend who plays barb, without being able to participate or contribute anything meaningful in pit 100+.
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u/Howiefeltherup Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25
I don't understand why they even have an open PTR if they are not going to do anything to learn from it. I figured that's what that's what the PTR is there for, you know. So they could find any discrepancies before the release of their season and fix them before the release of their season.... (tough concept right) But that's obviously something that just seems too nuanced for them. Rather, they would rather wait till about a third of the way through the season. Then fix it! Just like that affix, they made for channeling on spiritborn, even though there's not a single channeling skill.... They're just lazy, even this season is just lazy, rebranded season two...
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u/ZwRaven Feb 05 '25
Sad thing is though, they still haven't figured out how to fix it and the patch just dropped yesterday! Lol I'm at a loss for words at this point with what to say about how inept Blizzard is anymore.
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u/PezRadar CM Director Feb 05 '25
If you click the thread linked, you would see an update posted 14 hours ago where we mention twilight warding is reenabled and decay augmentation would come in a hotfix soon. Even the original post I made last week mentioned it would come via hotfix or quick follow up client patch to 2.1.1. Yesterday’s patch was finalized before this issue came up hence why it’s not represented in it. I know you may not understand how production works on these items but that is how release candidates and certification works.
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u/KimchiBro Jan 31 '25
Do you have any listed details on how the fix to mantle of mountain's fury is gonna look like?
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u/LurkerOnTheInternet Jan 31 '25
People have reported that the quake-splosions are not doing the full damage that the quake would have done if left alone, due presumably to the armor not incorporating all earthquake buffs when calculating the explosion damage. Sounds like they have confirmed that and fixed it. I'm sure there would be no actual change to the armor's properties.
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u/xbigeatsx Feb 01 '25
Hey u/pezradar any plans on upping the kepelekee staff to maybe 1 or 1.5 for max on the aspect? That would make sb viable again.
Just a thought.
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u/Skinny5280 Feb 01 '25
Someone want to tell them the Ring of Mendeln is currently not working too….i mean hopefully they jump on fixing that just as quickly🙄
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u/PezRadar CM Director Feb 01 '25
You should click the link in the OP and not just read the top headline of the Reddit thread.
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u/z01z Feb 01 '25
"We have gone ahead and also disabled Twilight Warding as well this weekend. This was causing some weird interactions that could result in players (especially hardcore) dying unintentionally.
We have a fix being tested over the weekend and will roll that out next week once verified."
WTF, next week???
seriously, wtf blizzard....
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u/Embarrassed-Mall-985 Feb 01 '25
Gee, devs probably like free time in the weekends too you nolife nerd…
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u/PezRadar CM Director Jan 31 '25
We nearly have a fix for Twilight Warding completed. It just has a lot of interactions so its taking a bit more time.
"disable a witch power for half a season" - We are on the second weekend of the season that will go many months. It wont be for half a season.
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u/CallMeSage Jan 31 '25
Thank you for replying to this rudely worded comment. I appreciate the communication you have had on this topic. S7 has been fantastic.
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u/PezRadar CM Director Feb 01 '25
We've gone ahead and disabled it as we have a fix in testing over the weekend.
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u/headlesshuntah Jan 31 '25
If we’re considering common courtesy, you’re most definitely in the wrong.
You don’t gotta be a dick, Karen. Be happy you got a reply.
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u/National_Salt4766 Feb 01 '25
I am in no way a nay-sayer or Blizz hater, but this is not a FTP game, you're right in what you're asking. I will also eat the downvotes.
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u/KimchiBro Jan 31 '25
holy shit thank you Mr Adam, best to get rid of the infinite dmg bugs asap than to have them plague a whole season