Call of the Ancients is also a good burst. Sheamus_1852 • 2 mo. Horn of the Abyss version 1. This change is a nerf to make Critical Strike Damage and Vulnerable Damage comparable to other dame increase options. As you level, you can focus on Vulnerable Damage/Core Damage. The. 0. 15% of the top 593 barbarians are still using Whirlwind to an overwhelming majority, so only 14. There wasn’t much reference. Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. Welcome to the Diablo 4 Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian Endgame Build Guide! This is a fan-favorite skill that returns to the franchise for Barbarians. all the stuff they BUFF is crap no one cares about 2 more seconds of berserking on double swing or half sec on vul from steel grasp. Get the unique helm that turns earth skills into bear skill. Level 100 Barb here btw. 289 subscribers. You can start playing like this but also look for the unique chest that turns you into a bear all the time. Thrustmaster. Rend, the main damage skill, is a frontal cleave with a very short range…WW and hota deserve no more love, as a matter of fact they are the core reason barb got trashed and nerfed. Alk F. 0 Barbarian Changes. Nerf Ultra Select Fully Motorized Blaster. . . 1 patch today, I was expecting the HOTA nerf though the fixing of the ancestral forces aspect. -nerf to Armor mitigation -nerf to main stat damage multiplier -nerf to all forms of damage reduction -nerf to hamstring It's like they took all of our class strengths and nerfed it without any offsetting buffs. HOTA needs to catch a pvp nerf. Paragon. Barb now in S2 (from perspective of someone playing WW) feels good once you reach. . When played correctly you can gather and delete entire rooms of monsters in a single attack. Lightning Storm Druid. It's still viable on large maps, you just need more time to build up skeletons now. She provides a very decent army for the beginning. 2 hotfix, as the community now scrambles to find the best alternative to leveling up in Diablo 4. I even ran into a two HotA party running from ritual to ritual. Gold: 282. Amumu. Going into the 1. 0. Necro pre-nerf was stupid . Nerf Earthen Bulwark and HOTA Barb. Stack crit chance, crit damage, vuln, STR, and core. The XP grind after lvl 80 is boring, pointless and artificially long. Yes highly recommend going hota barb for s1. Item has not been added to your Basket. Discussing the patch notes for Diablo 4 on July 18th 2023. Do your best to keep each aspect. You cast it, then cast it again 1 second later. PVP players are the first to complain and the. HOTA is more like for NMD pushing and endgame content. No Mercy officially deleted from the game, affecting all barbarian builds instead of HOTA. Trialmaster RNG take. I’ve nearly maxed all my glyphs, and 100% of my gear is BIS with very high rolls. This aspect is the best weapon aspect for the Hammer of the Ancient build because of it’s unique passive: “Hammer of the Ancients quakes towards, dealing 64% of its damage to enemies. And barbs got their defensive shout nerfed to like 40% uptime, which is also straight up their only damage reduction, while also having their damage nerfed into oblivion as well as their ressource generation. Diablo 4 Nerfs Most Popular Dungeon. Massive nerf. Cove is a new type of fraction and town with all the necessary elements. It’s just the weekly Barb nerf… you shouldn’t have fun you know that, right? BTW for over a week now. instead of nerfing hammer of the ancients, they nerfed HAMMSTRING and BLEED damage. It's time for NERF. The quaking. Blizzard has released another hotfix, this time reverting the unintended nerf to Hammer of the Ancients as well as fixing a bug which caused infinite monster spawns! Diablo Patch 1. Talk about anything. Premium. Initially challenging, but once resolved, significantly boosts the build’s potency. This moderately. HotA is TierB WW is TierC Double Swing is TierD Upheaval Barb is TierD. This build is defined by some items, such as Cindercoat and legacy SoJ/Skull Grasp with -HotA cost. Imo everything in the beta wasn’t complete, we didn’t have all the aspects, skill points, paragon boards, and glyphs to understand if a class would over or underperform. Particulars vary but HOTA builds favor using the core ability Hammer of the Ancients. HotA Barb. ”The HOTA nerf obviously makes a huge difference but that’s because it was a bug so it’s good they fixed it. Since this hotfix is server-side, players don't have to worry. Avantasian-1260. They should reverse the HoTA "nerf". I was critting an elite for my base damage. You need to nerf the sorc ability to survive in pvp. You want to watch a “one shot” video, look up any one of the many HOTA videos. . PVP players are the first to complain and the. 16000M FCS Hotas. Conflux and Necropolis were the most powerful towns by far in SoD, so they got hit the hardest to balance them with the. Cooldown reduction is now capped to 3 targets, for a maximum of 9 seconds of Cooldown reduction. This is a video series of a former AAA designer critically analyzing Elden Ring's design. I honestly am liking the changes. . Just like there's a world first race to clear MMO raids, Diablo 4 also has a race of its own: to reach level 100, the highest possible character level in the game. . Broad strokes, but here are my guesses: 1. Whirlwind Build - But again another unexpected twist, 84. Opinion Usually play with a few buddies of mine, and one of them is a barb playing HOTA, not even 100 level, with half leveled glyphs and still working on optimized gear, can dish out 50+ million smashes. <style> body { -ms-overflow-style: scrollbar; overflow-y: scroll; overscroll-behavior-y: none; } . Sorc can at least grow into deleting screens of near-level trash quickly, barb never comes to excel at anything. 8. 2 Likes. Raise Skeleton. With healthy balance of range and melee on the field, the defense gets more diversified and makes the field more interesting to play (no pun intended). E. 0. A lot of damage pulverize used in the glyph trees was gutted supposedly. if HOTA nerfs go through I'm done with this game. I play Rend Barb. Bleazy-11235 July 31, 2023, 9:20pm 16. Valdrane: Eternal realm is where you will be playing the expansions and any DLC they put out. It definitely needed the Nerf because it was way too strong. Blizzard has promised to address “feedback” from players on Diablo 4’s latest patch following backlash from the community. The best weapon for this Barbarian build is the Mace of Ancestral Force. its silly I try to recreate some of strongest bone spear builds and got to 48. Available in store and online Available in store and online. And you can still focus on vampires early and have a fairly insane army. HOTA Needs a MASSIVE nerf. Hardcore Uber Lilith Defeated - Once Again by Ben! Get instant notifications when the latest news is published via the Wowhead Discord Webhook! Enjoy an ad-free experience, unlock premium features, & support the site! While Ben already boasts the first Hardcore Uber Lilith kill, he now boasts a second World First title - the first Hardcore. The new 1. ago. The barb isn't even that "tanky" compared to other classes. Barb last HoTA nerf. . I even like the change to gores with the fire explode going off while channeling. g. Even with maxed poison rogue build is hard, almost impossible, to kill it, and Barb HOTA. Lol. Sorc is the best class to start the new season. 1 Like. The problem is the nerfs to Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind and Gohr’s Devastating Grips and to a lesser degree, the nerf to Challenging Shout damage reduction. Support Tab. boltbane-1510 August 8, 2023, 2:24pm #2. Both Mage and Rogue felt unique and powerful. Build:. . HI, So far barb class is able to maintain shouts full time, spin freely, do tier 100 sigils, 1 hit world bosses with HOTA, so my question is: When it gonna be nerfed? all the other classes are not at this level, even at PvP it is praticly unbeatable due to the amount of stuns, unstopable, berserk, etc… i understand that some random dev play barb, but im. 1 for Season of the Malignant is here and it's. At level 90 I see 300k rend crits and I one shot most everything. Nothing needs to be nerf, but if HoTa gets nerfed, rogues and necro needs to follow suit with the nerfs while the sorcs stay put. Yeah, I beat pre-nerf, can confirm they just got one shotted, it was awesome! haha #11. So for people who wants to play hota with pre-nerf diplomacy, heres a little "guide": Hop into "RMG Template Editor", open your favorite template (for example, JebusCross), i suggest you to create a backup copy of the original one, just in case, but after you opened the template, you'll see a map like stuff. Yeah, after nerf they shouldnt be so op. Nerfs are negligible but I’d still consider it the games hardest class, at least for leveling, not sure about endgame. Galactic-1116 June 28, 2023, 12:43am 3. HOTA/DB here, which is the best basic attack? Currently running frenzy with the unique amulet I need more vulnerable procs, was thinking about switching to bash? Maybe flay if there’s a reason to add bleed? Is there a point where we don’t need basic attacks at all? Perhaps swapping out Frenzy for Ground Stomp/Charge/Leap for fury gen00:00 Start01:10 Build Credits02:08 1 Handed Weapon04:16 Build Planner05:53 Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus06:55 What makes this build so go. Anivia. Hammer of the Ancient doesn't hit like it used to. The hamstring passive was actually vital for all builds and that’s gone now. The nerf reverts will take place with Patch 20. From 8% down to 3% damage. Finally got one!! Random dungeon elite drop. But we’re talking about WW and it buffs WW single target damage significantly I don’t know what your argument is, are you saying barber doesn’t increase WW single target damage? Also WW still clears faster than HOTA dump even after nerfs. I’m sure none of the devs are playing barbarian, otherwise you’d be nerfing rogue and necro long before you nerf the barbarian. 25 comments. Avantasian-1260. A new variation of HoTa that takes full advantage of all of the incredible changes in Season 2. Frenzy, Upheaval, Rally Cry, War Cry, Death Blow, Call of the Ancients. 67. This build has incredible damage, survivability, and speed. Asmongold said he would "donate $10,000 to charity" to watch a AAA designer, who is critical of Elden Ring, play the game (clip in comments). Diablo 4 got its long-awaited pre. B Tier - Bone Spirit. D4 Post Nerf Tier List. Martial Vigor - 10% damage reduction nerf against elites. Ben is literally the chosen one for aRPGS. Even with the most powerful barbarian build i can’t really touch her health bar before. Barb is dog water. r/D4Druid. . Check Price. 100%. ago. There are only 3 Aspects you really need and a bunch you can play with. chrono625 3 months ago #2. 128. 0. Really important to nerf player power in a mostly PVE game where PVP is just a minigame with cosmetic rewards. ago. This particular barbarian on /p8 in D2 LoD clears Chaos (not seal rushing) in about 6 to 6. 1-25 is Upheaval/Death Blow, at 25 Repsec to HOTA/Death Blow into Walking Arsenal. There is a massive imbalance with HOTA. Didn’t see anything about it in the hot fix notes. 2 Likes. . I have acquired nearly legendary aspect at 95 and perhaps I missed this but what is the one called that has 3 steel grasp charges, because it definitely isn’t the garbage unique that only adds extra chains. I have no issues with Barb post patch. No nerfs for HotA! 23 Jun 2023 22:07:03Especially the HoTa build nerf it to the point this is not a good Build for PVE content. Hypertrophy-3111 June 19, 2023, 7:03am #3. Ground Stomp. 0. Lunge with bleed for normal attack, Rend for single targets and bosses, whirlwind for mobs, stomp and iron skin for control and survivability. Once you loot 3 utopias in one day, right under your opponents nose, you start to appreciate the movement points properly - +100k gold and 10 relics for having just 1 day advantage. A titan that shatters the earth with a godly hammer. . 0 patch for Diablo IV aims to balance much of the endgame content ahead of the Seasons of the Malignant launch, but it seems to hamper the fun. Completely min-maxed gear, 6 glyphs at 21, 9k base armor, 11k health, 42% crit, 512% crit dam, like 400% vuln, 370% core, and so on… It's already happening, someone complained (rather cried) about HotA damage in PvP and Adam said on Twitter that the team is investigating HotA quake damage. Thrustmaster. T. This Diablo 4 patch changes. The benefits of talented berserk are too good to pass up. the issue is the nerfs not only hit WW but all barb builds so WW is still the best build around it just requires a lot more gear now. I added a whirlwind barb from my D2 LoD character files to my D2R character files and discovered a significant weakening of the character when added to D2R. Honestly, I think Hota’s base should be the quake and ancestral force turns the very center of it into the current (bugged) nuking mechanic. Patch 1. Not sure how but somehow. Avantasian-1260. This was done after the 1. Most of the unique from Barb is garbage, like pure garbage. this isnt true at all. So in the most recent leaked gameplay there was a "tips" loading screen that talked about how Crit damage is colored in yellow, Overpower is colored in blue and Overpower Crits are colored in dark orange. . Add a Comment. $44. Even with a bugg that added 100% dmg it was still worse. Barber ruins lucky hit builds. 593 barbarians are tracked here and it's going to. Blizzard has unfurled 6,600 words worth of 1. Which are still incredibly busted. Diablo 4. (Before the nerfs the “strong” build aka HOTA was only strong due to a bug). FC: 0361-6999-4252. It's a buff that is also a nerf, because now you can't stack that much berserking just with a single skill. He shared it over on Reddit and D4Builds. 00 #17. NEW: Hota Barbarian Season 1: Nightmare Dungeon TIER 70 (Patch 1. No build will go without shouts. If Necropolis needs anything - it is definetely not a buff. End game you stack Overpower and Vulnerable Damage. 1. I'm level 100, following this guide to a T, have pretty much everything in terms of BIS gear, i have all affixes, fully upgraded glyphs, etc. 100% damage reduction nerf. I was fine with this because bug fixes are necessary and important to the games help. Honestly, the cooldown nerf isn’t the problem. What's the point of doing higher nightmare dungeons if the drop is literally the same? Getting 1 Paragon point every couple of hours is the only reward for that grind and you literally don't need that since you can farm mid tier nightmares and get the same loot. Fixed an issue where Virtual Currency values. Developer Note: Earlier today, we pushed out Hotfix 12 which included stability and performance improvement changes that affected Hammer of the Ancients. The enemies start to get noticeably more dangerous around level 42~ and you don't really start to overcome it and feel strong until you get to WT3 and start getting much better gear. And no, especially with a leader board or season. LOD Hota; R6 Hota; WW / Rent (hopefully) Fire MotE; Too bad that the developer WW / Rent had to give such a hard nerf. It could drastically increase difficulty and for rewards do nothing but increase drop rate of Ubers, this would solve multiple things in one go. Possible stealth nerf to Barb's HotA aspect. Zyrus-1281 July 15, 2023, 1:09am #15. Steel Grasp. 25 sec. After that nerf it’s really the only viable build other than a rend build which lacks pretty bad. T. At the maximum level and with all the Renown gathered, players will have 58 skill points to invest. 2d #Maxroll #Blizzard 00:00 Introduction00:55 Necromancer02:42 Rogue04:44 Sorcerer05:58 Druid06:35 Barbarian09:44 Summary-----. Any other HotA barbs noticing way less damage done today? EDIT: PezRadar confirmed this was not intended and they're looking into it. SKU: 21008326. Thorns Barbarian, HotA Barbarian, Arc Lash Sorcerer, Bone Spear Necromancer, Penetrating Shot Rogue, Shred Druid: C: Pure Summoner Necromancer, Pulverize Druid, Blood Lance Necromancer: D: Landslide Druid, Companion Druid, Double Swing Barb Get the passive Earthern might. 4 is out! As previously announced, it is predominantly aimed at solving issues pertinent to the original game and Horn of the Abyss. ARAM nerfs and buffs for League of Legends champions in the aram game mode. Fraktal-1850 June 9, 2023, 11:41am #6. Its just something to keep working. I got the barber heart on the way to the boss room in the NM difficulty. Golem. #Diablo4 #tierlist #patch1. This barbarian build has incredibly high survivability and damage potential, allowing you to power through nightmare dungeons. Sorcs need a buff. As a result, Blizzard has. Diablo IV. D4 Post Nerf Tier List. Developer Note: We do want to forewarn that Druid players with these weapons already equipped will still be able to use them, but you will not be able to re-equip them if removed from your weapon slot. Also, it’s not about ‘being the most OP spec’, it’s that, without unlimited uptime shouts the entire class feels AWFUL to play. Even with a bugg that added 100% dmg it was still worse. I definitely think people shouldn't be immortal, but also 80% should have an impact, and 80% definitely should. 12 Likes. It costs $20 to join and $5 to rent a Nerf gun, but you can bring your own, too. Comment by Nevcairiel on 2023-06-04T17:34:33-05:00. Yet again can’t stress enough the build remains the same. Ran into some Rouges, Necros and Sorcs, collected shards, even started a little fight club in front of town entrance where everyone was respectful when people were doing 1v1. Alkaizer gave his opinion today. ago. Watch all of Rob2628's best archives, VODs, and highlights on Twitch. 6. ago. It’s supposed to be fun. Pathfinding and Navigation are too overly situational to rank and can be S or F or anywhere, Diplomacy is pure cheese tier, Necromancy is a bit of both. Healing done reduced by 20%. Skalgard-1465 June 9, 2023, 12:02pm #7. Yes it resets all of those CD’s; but it’s not designed for that use case; so it’s going to be sub-optimal when you don’t need the resets on those other skills. You can use these after the latest patch 1. PVP players are the first to complain and the first to leave, even when they get what they want. I’m level 100 with almost a perfect HOTA build which cost me 100 million gold+ for re-rolls and countless hours of farming. Once the HoTa player cant kill with the initial smashes, they’re as good as dead with their nerfed to trashed cooldowns. . Current Stock: Features. Otherwise a reduction to 20/30/30 feels suitable to me Slayer is a Mass spell at Expert Town Portal always has the Basic effect, movement point reduction 300/200/200 > 300/150/0 I'm not sure how on earth to balance DD and Fly. For seasons I am pretty sure all power loss is going to be easily offset by power gained from Hearts. Robs more defensive setup on his gear means you can just stand in any damage in the game and never take a single hp of damage. I would be interested to see the season 1 ladder by end of this week. Read on for the complete list of Vampiric Powers, Skills, and Aspects you need and how to play the build for Season 2. With a reduction of 75% to 125%, WW / Rent would be on par with Slam and Hota. 1. Baratriss • 2 mo. 3 Likes. Alkaizer gave his opinion today : r/diablo4. IIGhrimII-1726 July 18, 2023, 10:35pm #1. The burst Fury from Leap is often wasted because Berserking Fury bonuses or Rally cry help build quickly. On top of the other barb targeted nerfs one after another, while other classes can kill lilith in 30 seconds with no adjustments. Season 1 Barb = Nerf, dead, worst class Season 2 Barb = 1 Shot everything, immortal, best in both PvP and PvE Season 2 Barb = Guessing somewhere in between, balanced. I dont run fireball anymore but they have stealth nerfed a bunch of dungeons as well, theres a transparency problem rn. The Diablo IV team has been diligently monitoring your feedback. Tactical Vest for Nerf Guns, holds nerf darts and accessories, comes with two packs of darts ,I have 10 in stock. does anyone else find this crap repulsive, my other buddy. Go right ahead Blizzard, show us how anti-fun you are by nerfing the one thing Barb can do that’s comparable to other classes. Blizzard is killing barb with all of these nerfs to the point where they are almost unplayable in the endgame. Posts: 12,721. Here is how to build your barb. Even before this bug, HOTA barb took almost 15 minutes of perfect play to kill lilith, while necro kills it in 30 seconds with bad gear. HotA damage nerfed? PC Bug Report. Barbarian HOTA is ️. Not only that, you shouldn’t be able to slaugther players 20 levels below you to make your tiny epeen feel bigger. WW nerf, Hota nerf, nerf, nerf. HOTFIX 13 - JUNE 23, 2023 - 1. Go back and play like. 2 Likes. Reply reply. generation is a major problem early on, but once that's solved this build can clear massive waves of. #diablo4 #barbarian #hammer #quake. Uploading daily clips from Diablo IV. 276 million total hours played. Please enter the captcha below. No Mercy officially deleted from the game, affecting all barbarian builds instead of HOTA. For Necro, Galthran is back in the game (in HotA Ranloo used to replace him), it. They can’t just buff everything constantly. Legions move speed is too high, the passive is too strong, the ultimate cooldown is too low, and the insta-kill potential with blink blade mail is ridiculous. There’s just no contest fighting them, it’s so brain dead of a play style and nothing counters it. 3 Likes. Outburst - More big nerfs to thorns, 50% nerf to amount of thorns and 50% increase to HP amount needed to increase thorns so is like a double whammy large nerf because now you lose 50% thorns and need 50% more HP than before per increase. • 6 mo. Barbarian’s in Diablo 4 are in a spot of bother after one of their most powerful builds just died due to a bug fix. . You can't tell me its disrespectful to nerf things mid race while technically not lying about a day one patch. . However, long-time Diablo fans knew that the class would find its way once the game really started to open up. C Tier. Until the Barbs show up. New terrain for the Conflux town - Highlands. I wanted to avoid spamming shouts, Wrath of the Berserker, and Whirlwind. Barrage Rogue. Not a hota build. This is a Season 2 Berserking HotA endgame build for Barbarian in Diablo 4 (D4) that focuses on Overpower and Berserking uptime with Hammer of the Ancients to deliver unending blows to enemies. PC General Discussion. Would be interesting to see. Melted Heart Of Selig = super OP. Excludes bulky items. 6. Current level of weapons are dropping low DPS. . This monster just dropped in WT3. For the most part it was fun. Yea it seemed still broken to me. The best weapon for this Barbarian build is the Mace of Ancestral Force. 289 subscribers. Maugan’s Works Elite Nerf Announcement. This build guide assumes you have a Level 50 Character and finished the. . We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Here's the Wowhead article with that new blue post: the HoTa Barbarian out there : the HotA "nerf" isn't intended by Blizzard, it's a bug and devs are looking into itIt's reported that Diablo 4 has earned more than $666 Million dollars in the first 5 days of sales, setting a new Blizzard Record. What I think is the builders need to pump out a LOT more Fury, so we can do a lot more core attacks, but lower the damage of the core attacks to compensate. Havent noticed a difference yet at 70. WW is better at clearing mobs and speed farming/dungeon clearing. 25 sec. 2, the nerf to the dungeon elite density. There’s much better builds right now than HoTA. Not sure how it’ll do at higher end stuff, but I’m trying to make it work. Nerfing damage won’t change that fact unless you both nerf the popular choice and bring up the rest of the ignored. 20 Flat fee shipping. Yes, it was nerfed because there is a big focus on PvP in HotA. Would be interesting to see. hi guys, i was searchin the internet for how to counter rogue in pvp, i have only founds how rogues counter hota barbs:D…is there a weaknes? rogue seems to me like crazy survive - dodge, healing etc, crazy burst dmg output, unmatched utility skills… definitely needs some nerf in terms of disabling some abilites in pvp…Actual fix not a nerf. which is the armor and physical damage nodes. I used to play an MMO that got ruined because of complaints from PVP players. It’… 31: 13300: August 19, 2022 [Guide] Zodiac Rend (Season 20) Introduction This build guide explains in painstaking detail the Zodiac Rend build, our strongest and most versatile Rend and Whirlwind build. not atm due to two aspects WW really needs as well as some uniques nerfed. There isn't a safe answer just yet and will take a few days to flesh out. Well, that’s. so like an extra 180 armor and 18% more physical damage. Possible stealth nerf to Barb's HotA aspect. Notably nadoWW, grizzly rage, and bone spear. And a majority of my time has been spent in PVP zones. Sadly, they do nothing to mitigate these nerf effects on early/mid game leveling which makes the class feel bad until you’re decently geared at endgame. Most of the unique from Barb is garbage, like pure garbage. The Barbarian Unique weapons “Overkill”, “Hellhammer”, and “Ancient’s Oath” will no longer drop for Druid players. kkwon39. The mistake was calling for nerf’s early in the beta. D4 DPS Tier List After Nerf - Most Popular Highest DPS Class & Builds in Diablo 4. Players complain in pvp because they may get hit by that random crit but the is a PVE game and it will break the class completely to change HOTA s current state. The tool tip is showing 10k dmg less then it was before and I can tell its not hitting like it was. This Diablo 4 Season 1 BEST Rend Barbarian Build Guide After the Nerf for Leveling 1-50 sets you up in Diablo 4 for OP Big Damage Endgame and is the best BAR.