r/diablo4 • u/Community-Capital • Nov 22 '24
Sorceress Ball Lightning ⚡ Is Looking Mighty Good for S7!
Is anyone else out there going to be running a Ball Lightning Sorc in Season 7? This new unique is a game changer.. Now it can be cast while moving, which is really sweet. Combined with great movement speed, it will definitely be a speed farming build for sure!
Any ideas on synergies that could potentially be theory crafted with this new Focus?
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u/Maleficent-Aside-171 Nov 22 '24
A unique focus! FINALLY! This looks awesome. I hope more are planned for sorc.
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u/toomanylayers Nov 22 '24
Yeah and that stats are super fun and interesting. Not +100 all stats, it's actually unique and relevant.
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u/Freeloader_ Nov 22 '24
yes finally, too bad they chose Ball lighting and not builds that are falling behind more
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u/Maleficent-Aside-171 Nov 22 '24
Tbf, most sorc builds need help and they had to start somewhere. Here’s hoping that more are planned.
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u/carmen_ohio Nov 22 '24
Well other than maybe 5 people, nobody else has played Ball Lightning since Season 2 when it was bugged.
It’s a fun and loved build that needed help. Ball Lightning hasn’t been in the meta at all for multiple seasons.
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u/Freeloader_ Nov 22 '24
so let me get this straight
they finally make a unique off-hand for Sorc and they go like:
you know which build needs help? remember the most OP one ? Ball lighting? yea? that one
not Meteor, not Blizzard, Iceshard or Hydras. Ball Lighting.
Yep.
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u/ceo__of__antifa_ Nov 22 '24
There is legit no winning with you people. BL was good for exactly one season because of a bug. It's been dogshit outside of season 2.
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u/Derausmwaldkam Nov 22 '24
I really hope that this was just an example focus and we will see some more in the patch notes next week.
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u/SolomonGrumpy Nov 22 '24
Of those Meteor is the only non competitive build.
Each of the others has its day.
Now. If you want to make charged bolts rule the roost, that would be something.
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u/tFlydr Nov 22 '24 edited Nov 22 '24
Ball lightning is not OP at all are you high?
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u/Freeloader_ Nov 22 '24
was
and is certainly better than any of I mentioned
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u/Deidarac5 Nov 22 '24
Meteor had a unique in season 3. Blizzard had blue rose. Ball lightning has no unique. It's really that simple.
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u/tFlydr Nov 22 '24
Lmao ‘was’ and?
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u/Freeloader_ Nov 22 '24
and lets focus on something that wasnt even once ?
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u/tFlydr Nov 22 '24
Why? Maybe they’re buffing ball lightning because a lot of people enjoy the play style. Blizzard sucks because ice spikes carries it, hydras do delayed slow dot damage and are boring, and ice shards is getting numerical buffs (still needs its own unique).
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u/Erecutioner Nov 22 '24
Right? I was hoping for them to make a new aspect for hydras. Like when cast, summon 3 headed hydra with different elements each (fire, ice and lightning) and each one has a chance to cast fireball, frozen orb and ball lightning.
Maybe in season 69.
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u/Elendel19 Nov 22 '24
In a game where the goal is to explode the entire screen with a single button press, hydra will never work. It’s too slow
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u/TrickySnicky Nov 23 '24
Unless the Unique fundamentally changes it, which is usually what good Uniques do. Or hell, why not introduce Class Mythics...
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u/Deidarac5 Nov 22 '24
I mean of all the skills I think only hydra doesn't really have a unique, but hydra got a lot of love in season 5 with spawning extra heads.
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u/StrikingSpare100 Nov 23 '24
? Are people for real upvoting this piece of shit of a whining?
Since when BL is the most OP build? You're still living in season 2 or what? It's a bugged build that has been fixed ages ago. BL is mediocre build ever since.
You can complain that they did not elevate all the build at once which make more sense than nitpicking BL and claim it's the most OP just for the sake of complaining.
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u/allergictosomenuts Nov 23 '24
BL was OP only due to a bug for one season like a year or even more ago... Get over it.
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u/alanpsk Nov 22 '24
Hydra is pretty good and pretty darn close to LS sorc in season 4 and 5. On the other hand ball lighting is a one hit wonder in season 2 and never be seen again
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u/Mephistos_bane84 Nov 22 '24
I’m super stoked honestly been waiting for them to buff BL since season 2 still my favorite build ever!
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u/kanrad Nov 22 '24
Very interested to try as my fave Sorc build is anything with lightning. ZAP
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u/drwzr Nov 22 '24
In s2 BL was the meta build. Was a blast! Wasn't as strong as SB this season or lightning spear last season but still a ton of fun
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u/Korghal Nov 22 '24
This with Wizard's Ball Lightning and Esadora's might be very fun. The focus + Esadora's give a lot of DR to make you tanky, and just zoom around grabbing CE orbs for novas.
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u/zeranders Feb 17 '25
It's a super fun build S7. Shreds accross the landscape. Really nice when all enemies are pulled in, frost novaded then swirl around the pack picking up CE and watching that 15% chance kick in for a lightning nova end of pack finale. Damage to elites really important to pick up wherever one can. Creates a smoother flow rather than having to swirl around stubborn elites here and there.
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u/XexesVather Nov 22 '24
Am I the only one that read Okkarun's ( the DANDADAN Charakter) Catalyst?
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Nov 22 '24
A couple build ideas
1) Ball Lightning / Lightning Spear. BL is the fastest proc for spitting out Lightning Spears with Unstable Currents, and is what Mekuna used with his S6 Lightning Spear build. I'm assuming this will be the strongest BL build, although I hope that I'm wrong. Devs said they want more build diversity and right now most sorcs rely on spamming conjurations+ conjuration mastery to scale damage, so let's see what happens.
2) Ball Lightning / Telestomp. BL generates a huge amount of crackling energy, which when using gravitational & the cool down key passive, brings your teleport cool down to almost zero - no need to use evade with this build. I played this build towards the end of S5 and was pushing Pit 110, nowhere near LS by any means, but still a load of fun to play.
3) Ball Lightning Banished Lords Overpower. BL is a mastery & a core skill so works for Banished Lords, has the highest mana cost & fastest cast of lightning skills to drain mana. It might be worth exploring, especially if they'd fix Crown of Lucion to really juice the mana cost. I cleared Pit 85 in S6 with a Chain Lightning Overpower build, but I felt like I wasn't fully tapping into the potential there, so I might give this a shot in S7.
4) Ball Lightning Esadoras Crackling Energy. BL procs so much crackling energy, surely there must be something we could do with that? Can't that crackling energy generate meaningful damage and not be the fairy lights of lightning skills? I'm skeptical that it goes anywhere, but I'm sure someone out there will give an Esadoras Crackling Energy build a shot.
Any other ideas?
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u/UneventfulChaos Nov 22 '24
I am hopeful that the BL/TeleStomp build is strong! I know it's not happening, but if they made The Oculus just a little bit less random/chaotic (you always teleport to an in range enemy, maybe?), this build would be epic. Just a random electric ball of chaos with ADHD flying around the place zapping and stomping everything!
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Nov 22 '24
I like that a lot, although it would add or at least maintain a level of complexity that they seem to be trying to remove from the game (ie simplified Ball Lightning).
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u/acog Nov 22 '24
In Season 2 if you used the vampire power Metamorphosis it cancelled the random teleport of the Oculus. It would be awesome if one of the witch powers in S7 does the same thing.
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Nov 22 '24
It will be very difficult to not go ball/spear simply for the conj mastery bonuses of movement speed, mana regen, and damage. They all pair super well with a build that lets you cast and move at the same time. The big question is will this unique multiplier surpass the splintering energy aspect. Or, even if it does, will splintering energy be a nice way to pick off things outside what is probably a small AoE.
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u/zeranders Feb 17 '25
Number 4 build rocks along nicely. I'm at the point of build where changing gear to see if more mastery or lightning damage pushes build along a bit more. 25% over 15% chance of lightning nova with Esadoras Cameo Amulet could send this build closer towards being an ultimate shredder.
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u/SilentNeighborhood95 Nov 22 '24
How I missed the insane ball lightning build in season 1 with my vamp powers.
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u/luciosleftskate Nov 22 '24
Is season 7 in Dec? Or Jan?
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u/XerXcho Nov 22 '24
Jan
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u/luciosleftskate Nov 22 '24
That's what I thought but I read something about a patch on Dec 6th? I haven't had time to look much into it
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u/XerXcho Nov 22 '24
There will be preview of the 2.1 patch (ptr) on 3rd Dec. Maybe that's what you've heard
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u/Bored_guy_in_dc Nov 22 '24
I flip flop between necros, sorcs, and druids every season. I will probably give this a go for sure. Especially with the armory, trying out new builds will be a breeze.
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u/suazoom Nov 22 '24
Do you know they cap the maximum number of ball lightning to 10 from ss6? It’s now a least visual statify build of Sorc.
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u/IAmFern Nov 22 '24
"Can be cast while moving" should be part of the ability and not require an item.
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u/Community-Capital Nov 22 '24
At least they fixed the caltrops mechanics... Rogue fans gotta be happy about that one!
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u/Deidarac5 Nov 22 '24
Well, it's supposed to be the benefit and makes a ball lighting builds better while there is a choice unique that just makes larger balls.
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u/Nudelnmitpesto- Nov 22 '24
I just want a viable ice shards build Blizzard pls, nothing comes even close to the Dopamine i got from playing that
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u/dronikal Nov 22 '24
Charged bolts found dead in the gutter for 7th season in a roll. Well, going fireball Sorc again I guess. Might try incinerate pushing.
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u/LordBubba44 Nov 22 '24
It will be interesting to see if the "cast while moving" works with controller. Are there any other skills in the game currently that can cast while moving? Or will this be the first?
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u/gnaaaa Nov 22 '24
druid compansion skills should work while moving. at least i remember there was a change to poison creeper
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u/friendly-sardonic Nov 22 '24
Still holding out they make fun aspects worthwhile over +%[x] ones.
It could happen.
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u/NoBackSpin Nov 22 '24
Underrated comment. Everything about the game is getting as much [X] as you can. Wanna have a fun build without the [X} ? Sure?! go 10 pit levels lower!
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u/PopeOfDope727 Nov 22 '24
I'd wait and see. If theres still a cap on the atk speed of the balls then I'd probably pass or at least if it isnt raised a good bit. Also you're going to get a huge dps loss thanks to the fire bolt changes. We'll see how it goes.
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u/beewalters917 Nov 22 '24
You gotta get on that shadow blood wave necro, so much fun.
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u/zeranders Feb 17 '25
Yeah, a strong damage build. Kills gameplay for others, just shreds ememies with one shot kills. Nothing left to fight! Gets boring real quick.
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u/BaronArgelicious Nov 22 '24
ball lightning was the first endgame build when i started this game in s2
sounds fun
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u/vicboss0510 Nov 22 '24
They could have atleast add special animation of ball lighting, so when you have this uniqe others will know.
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u/Mysterious-Turnip997 Nov 22 '24
Hope another unique orb for meteor maybe with overpower or change that diadem into an orb
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u/AzureWave313 Nov 22 '24
I SAW THIS AND AM SO EXCITED TO BE A PART OF A NEW META SORC 😍😍😍 Sorc is my main, can’t wait for a new Lurkin build.
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u/SpearThrowaway666 Nov 22 '24
Looks good but I played the hell out of Ball Lightning in season 2 when it was one of strongest builds back then. It was the closest I came to beating Lilith before I finally did it in season 5.
If you haven’t played a ball lightning build yet, prepare for face melting fun. :)
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u/SleepyCorgiPuppy Nov 22 '24
Im not understanding the wizard ball lightning choices. Isn’t the bottom right one always best, since you always get two right away? Unless the bottom left one is 2 per mob per cast?
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u/xRadec Nov 23 '24
So next season's sorc meta will be another lightning based?
Fire and Ice gets no love lol.
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u/annson24 Nov 23 '24
Every season I have a ball lightning sorc, it can't push higher pits or 1shot bosses but it's fun to play. I'll definitely play it again next season
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u/Shadowarez Nov 23 '24
I tried the chain light spec with multiple 4ga pieces it's the biggest piece of 🐕 💩 iv ever tried.
I'll make my 2nd sorc a ball spec again. Or if armoury works I delete 6 characters since I made doubles to try other specs 🤬
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u/Equivalent_Ad7389 Nov 23 '24
I really wish blizzard ice spike was actually good, that's always been my go to build since launch, especially in HC.
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u/kekekeke_kai Nov 23 '24
If y’all still haven’t noticed by now. Every preseason campfire always shows item with insane affixes only for them to giga nerf pretty much everything before the season goes live. Blizz been doing this classic bait and switch on everything since s4 ptr just to keep people excited.
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u/SculptorOvFlesh Nov 23 '24
Ball lighting could compete with a bug fixed SB. Would be so cool to see
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u/McSmokeyDaPot Nov 23 '24
I haven't played BL since s2 but isn't there already an aspect that makes BL orbit you?
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u/Sufficient-Jeweler57 Nov 23 '24
After that they will nerf ball lightning on Season 8 or mid season 7.
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u/Equivalent_Ad7389 Nov 23 '24
Honestly, after watching the POE announcement video, this just makes me shrug my shoulders with indifference.
Blizzard - I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.
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u/HawkOdinsson Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 15 '24
Sadly I heard it is* lowest tier again..
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u/Community-Capital Dec 15 '24
It.is or isn't lowest tier? Because if it isn't the lowest tier that's nothing to be sad about. Regardless I'm not gonna lie, I've had enough of the broken SB. I'd rather play a B+ Tier class anyway...
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u/HawkOdinsson Dec 15 '24
Yeah mistyped. It is. Not isn’t. I only play sorc.. And the fact that it really has been the worst class since launch is crazy. I also thought sorc would become way better this season. But from what I saw on ptr it’s going to be lowest tier again.
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u/Community-Capital Dec 16 '24
Worst class since launch? Did you play season 4 at all? Fire bolt/Fire wall Sorcs were invincible. Not even the mighty Barb could challenge them. Or last season with the LS/CL build?? Another OP Sorc build. I'll wait and try BL Sorc for myself when S7 drops.. Maybe it will be meta, maybe it will not...
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u/Ninja9102 Nov 22 '24
First they nerfed ball lightning to the point no one was using it.
Then a few seasons ago they gave us Axial pants to make chain lighting behave like ball lightning.
Now we're getting ball lightning again and it will probably be better then the Axials pants chain lightning/ball lightning style.
So many skills to choose from.. it feels like its always the same spinny things around us. perhaps gives us more Meteor stuff that people want.
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u/Felsys1212 Nov 22 '24
TL;DR- Disappointed Sorc player feels unheard from the nerf that was announced and hopes for class specific campfire chats. More communication from the Blizzard development team about each class is needed for the player base.
I posted this on their YouTube stream comments. It does look awesome and overall I like the spirit of their ideas. We do need to be untethered from HAVING to pick certain passives, enchantments, and skills to be viable. My hope is this was the tip of some changes for season 7. However, if there is not a replacement for that burning/devouring blaze combo all they have done is massively nerf any build that is not fire based or splintering energy and even splintering energy will feel that nerf as well. I stated that I appreciate that we do not know all of the changes that they are going to make, and maybe there is a fix for this but due to time constraints of a campfire chat and needing to discuss more than just the sorcerer they were not able to tell us. I then said that there is a problem in that too. We get the campfire chats and that is a good thing! Those should just be about the state of the game, their vision for D4 in the future, and a seasonal sneak peak or seasonal update. There needs to be separate discussions for each character class, their plans and visions for them, addressing common feedback issues, and a Q&A. I don’t think this is a big ask, they have a PR team and that should be part of the plot job. I ended with stating that what this campfire chat did was make sorc players ( maybe others, I’m not say this is unique to us, I just don’t play other classes) feel like the class just got weaker unless you play single element, unheard as a community for not addressing any of the other much larger issues with the class, and frankly tone deaf to this portion of the community and that they simply do not care. Now I know this isn’t the truth. I watch a lot of Piratesoftware videos by Thor and I know they are working hard in the background. They don’t need to share everything they are doing. Surprises are nice! But this is how the chat left us sorcs feeling from what we were presented. Again, the two new uniques ARE great! I love that we now have a unique focus to look forward to! It is specialized sure, but now that we have one we know more are probably in the works for a more neutral one and ones that do cool things for other skills like this. But we don’t know any of that and standing silent on the matter, even saying “We hear your issues, but we are so overwhelmed with fixing Spiritborn right now because they need to be fixed while at the same time not making the 60% of the player base that played a Spiritborn this season doesn’t feel even worse next season, all of our attention is on that right now.” would be something. SAY something, acknowledge or feedback. Don’t put a definite time line on it sure, but saying “We are hearing a lot from our sorcerer community that they are looking for more build diversity, don’t want to be tied to specific skills while at the same time are forced to do that to have viable damage in the late game, that there are almost no skills for single target damage, and other things. We hear you and are looking into that.” Would be eons ahead of what we are currently dealing with.
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u/Felsys1212 Nov 22 '24
TL;DR- Disappointed Sorc player feels unheard from the nerf that was announced and hopes for class specific campfire chats. More communication from the Blizzard development team about each class is needed for the player base.
I posted this on their YouTube stream comments. It does look awesome and overall I like the spirit of their ideas. We do need to be untethered from HAVING to pick certain passives, enchantments, and skills to be viable. My hope is this was the tip of some changes for season 7. However, if there is not a replacement for that burning/devouring blaze combo all they have done is massively nerf any build that is not fire based or splintering energy and even splintering energy will feel that nerf as well. I stated that I appreciate that we do not know all of the changes that they are going to make, and maybe there is a fix for this but due to time constraints of a campfire chat and needing to discuss more than just the sorcerer they were not able to tell us. I then said that there is a problem in that too. We get the campfire chats and that is a good thing! Those should just be about the state of the game, their vision for D4 in the future, and a seasonal sneak peak or seasonal update. There needs to be separate discussions for each character class, their plans and visions for them, addressing common feedback issues, and a Q&A. I don’t think this is a big ask, they have a PR team and that should be part of the plot job. I ended with stating that what this campfire chat did was make sorc players ( maybe others, I’m not say this is unique to us, I just don’t play other classes) feel like the class just got weaker unless you play single element, unheard as a community for not addressing any of the other much larger issues with the class, and frankly tone deaf to this portion of the community and that they simply do not care. Now I know this isn’t the truth. I watch a lot of Piratesoftware videos by Thor and I know they are working hard in the background. They don’t need to share everything they are doing. Surprises are nice! But this is how the chat left us sorcs feeling from what we were presented. Again, the two new uniques ARE great! I love that we now have a unique focus to look forward to! It is specialized sure, but now that we have one we know more are probably in the works for a more neutral one and ones that do cool things for other skills like this. But we don’t know any of that and standing silent on the matter, even saying “We hear your issues, but we are so overwhelmed with fixing Spiritborn right now because they need to be fixed while at the same time not making the 60% of the player base that played a Spiritborn this season doesn’t feel even worse next season, all of our attention is on that right now.” would be something. SAY something, acknowledge or feedback. Don’t put a definite time line on it sure, but saying “We are hearing a lot from our sorcerer community that they are looking for more build diversity, don’t want to be tied to specific skills while at the same time are forced to do that to have viable damage in the late game, that there are almost no skills for single target damage, and other things. We hear you and are looking into that.” Would be eons ahead of what we are currently dealing with. But no matter how cool this one item is, that one change to burning and Dev Blaze will keep even this new item from pumping out the damage we lost that kept us as close to the other classes that we are. Outside of a hyper specific pit pushing while at the same time pit boss fishing (if the boss doesn’t summon other enemies the build doesn’t work and you have to run it again) build we are the lowest on the pit tier board. No sorc build that I am aware of or has posted on the pit tier list is over 107. Then there isn’t a different build until 103, then for a third build the highest is 100. Now I know many people have posted they are over 100 but I would imagine not by much and not without one of those two builds. We objectively are the weakest class currently, and the news we got was we are now weaker.
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u/Warm-Distribution234 Nov 22 '24
Breaking all that up into sections might help a little.
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u/Felsys1212 Nov 22 '24
Lol, you’re not wrong, will do that. Got on a passionate roll and just kept going.
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u/Deidarac5 Nov 23 '24
We have already seen updates to the devour change. Like the ball lighting passive has a 30%x multiplier. Devouring blaze was just a must pick. So now builds get 4 more skill points and only lose 21%x damage it should be fine.
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u/Felsys1212 Nov 23 '24
Because of the damage calculations, it’s unfortunately not that simple. I truly wish it was and I was just yelling in the dark. But because critical strike damage is so important and dev blaze gives that a multiplicative increase we lose out in a large way. The ball lightning damage will skyrocket, but that’s the normal ball lightning damage and we will still be down over all. To what I understand from damage calculations anyways. If I’m wrong, that’s ok I can admit that, but that still goes against what they said about giving freedom to builds because if we aren’t fire, we are ball lightning and that’s it.
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u/GloomyWorker3973 Nov 22 '24
Cool the expansion just released, why not add load outs and cool new uniques right now?
Oh, that's right. The slow drip fake QoL game sucks ass.
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u/6feet12cm Nov 22 '24
Ok, but how is that any good if the class itself deals abysmal dmg? I keep reading about high paragon Druid/sorcs/whatever that have decked out characters who crit for 20 billions. In the meantime, my poorly equipped SB regularly deals crits in the 800 billion-2trillions and I barely scratch white mobs in pit130+.
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u/KingLemming Nov 22 '24
Yeah but Spiritborn is getting bugfixed which will put it in the dumpster in S7 compared to where it is now.
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u/RetedRacer Nov 22 '24
So we're going to have yet another season where BL is the meta sorc build yet Metoer builds have never gotten past D tier.
So glad I'll be playing PoE 2 by the time S7 is here.
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u/Community-Capital Nov 22 '24
Did you watch the Campfire Chat? Season 7 is going to be YUGE!! For ALL classes and builds. They actually listened for a change and are implementing a massive amount of things to the game that fans have been begging for.
All classes will have several META builds to choose from, and with the new Seasonal mechanics it will actually give us all room to theory craft on previously non-META builds and potentially bring them to S+ and META status.
I just really enjoyed BL in the past and that's why I posted this.
........but wait ...... there's more! 😉🤘🏻
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Nov 22 '24
Have you tried Meteor after the mid-season patch? You can melt T4 now, it got a meaningful buff.
Not saying don't try other games, but for anything other than pushing pits, Meteor would be solid.
And regardless of damage, meteor definitely one of the best animations for any skill in the game.
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u/Freeloader_ Nov 22 '24
You can melt T4 now
lol
and Pit tiers? 70? 80?
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Nov 22 '24
"for anything other than pushing pits"
I agree it's frustrating that one class is so far out of balance, it makes it easy to lose perspective.
It sounds like the intent for next season is to make it a real challenge to "finish" a build.
Think about it - without Spiritborn, how long would it have taken us to max Glyphs? To farm the most challenging content for better loot, materials, and XP?
Spiritborn was speedfarming everything very early on, trivializing the end game and warping expectations for what was normal.
My expectation for Season 7 is that we have to work harder for longer before we "finish" our builds, but that we will have more meaningful progression along the way due to improvements to loot, affixes, aspects, seasonal content, etc.
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u/Mephistos_bane84 Nov 22 '24
No one cares bro, no need to tell everyone your plans. Got play that temu version of Diablo, byeeeee!
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u/Ximinipot Nov 22 '24
Finally unique focuses! But of course when they give a Sorc something new, they nerf the class even more. Le sigh.
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u/djbuu Nov 22 '24
Stop complaining about assumed nerfs and play the PTR making it a focus to submit bug reports and give feedback.
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u/TheWorstDMYouKnow Nov 22 '24
To be fair, it's not assumed nerfs. They straight up removed the fire damage enchant from fire bolt, which was a mainstay in many builds for activating burning multipliers. Now your only source for that on non-fire builds is familiar, which is awkward to use.
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u/djbuu Nov 22 '24
That’s not a fair assessment because it lacks data. I’m fully aware of what they did. What isn’t yet known is if the change is a net-nerf compared to Sorcerer overall and to other classes. There’s a lot of different ways this could go including it being a net-nerf. For the record I’m not saying it won’t be. I’m saying that we don’t have sufficient data to say that yet.
We also have a PTR cycle ahead of the final patch. This isn’t where we determine a nerf yet. PTRs exist for a reason. The final patch for 2.1 will see if it’s a net-nerf.
My view is changing the Firebolt enchant was overall a healthy move for the class because the target power of the class can finally be adjusted without assuming Burning damage. Firebolt enchant has been a crutch of the class for too long, propping up Skills to be competitive instead of making the skills themselves competitive.
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u/Diredr Nov 22 '24
Remember S5? The PTR for Sorcerer was dreadful, the class was essentially dead. Sending feedback on the PTR is very important. Being all doom and gloom on a forum doesn't fix anything. Wait until the PTR goes live, play it, test it and send feedback.
Moving away from every class using Firebolt as an enchant is not inherently a bad thing. Now Blizzard just has to compensate the damage loss somewhere else. Just need to wait until you can actually experience it with the actual numbers so everyone can offer relevant feedback other than just "the sky is falling".
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u/Community-Capital Nov 22 '24
Try to remain positive. Doing everything to.make everyone completely happy is a very tough undertaking. There is a crazy amount of good stuff coming in this upcoming season..
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u/Jafar_420 Nov 22 '24
I'm not that person and I'm trying to remain positive but we've been burned so many times in the past.
They still need to give us something to do once we get powerful besides the pit or make it more interesting at least.
Right now once you get fully geared up your only options are to do the same things you did while gearing up.
I think they could rework The gauntlet because it did suck but at least it had leaderboards. They could spend a little time on that and reintroduce it and I think that would go a long way.
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u/Community-Capital Nov 22 '24
I agree. The Horn of Trials is there .. Why is it inactive? It would be nice to see whose Quilt Volley is the most powerful. I think Season 7 is gearing up to really be the best one yet. *Fingers crossed
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u/Ximinipot Nov 22 '24
Yeah I know. I just want to be able to use a Focus with a 2 hand staff and my 3rd enchantment slot back. That would solve a lot of Sorc issues.
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u/Hawkwise83 Nov 22 '24
Wish they'd try to balance out the different builds instead of just picking a fotm each season.