Wizards Nerfed into the Ground, Druids (finally?) BUFFED - Dark and Darker Patch #61

With Dark and Darker patch #61, it seems Dark and Darker has decided to nerf wizard cast speed into the ground using a certain perk, bring druids up with some support and form buffs, and help out warlock a little bit.

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[Onepeg]

Cleric holy strike blind duration was removed from the patch.
Wizard nerf for overload changed to -30% instead of -40%

[miserymittens]

I swear this game's balance is just a ping pong match weekly

[virulentskills]

The hr change is baffling. Its like they're doing everything in their power to stop new players from trying to learn high roller at all costs.

We went from a 100g entry to 300ishg with some garbage blues or purps to fill the inventory, to now spending 15 mins to put together a kit worth about 600g just to get spawn rushed by a druid alrdy in demigod thats skipping modules

[KingIngramII]

The 15% quick chant is more in line with what’s fair. The spell overload change hurts badly.

[Sltud]

The issue I see with not being able to bring equipment in your inventory is mainly rangers. I know some people (including me) run crossbow and bow, then we can't bring a rapier or something for melee clearing, also we can't bring 2 crossbows for multiple shots. Idk if they intended to also nerf this ranger build, but it's kind of frustrating.

[dillonmastales]

At least they didn’t nerf magic missile damage or fireball splash damage. We will make do like always.

[KurbStomper]

I get the change with the weapons in the inventory but I usually run a recurve and a windless has a ranged and brought a back up arming sword, so that kind of sucks now lol

[LemonSiege]

Was nice knowing you wizard, we'll meet again in a few patches

[rpardo]

Druid buffs are huge for trios terrible for solos

[alsonollid]

I guess at 200hrs I dont understand the game enough to get the whole 225 gear score req for HR lobbies. I personally feel like it fucked me over because I was able to farm a bit of AP prior to that change, but now I have to spend 500-750 gold per kit to get in and possibly LOSE ap. Im not very good, but have gotten a lot better over this past 30 hours. I just wish there was a lower gear score requirement. Cause I never really have over 5k gold at a time.

[TrevorTargaryen]

Love how wiz was good so they had to send it back to the shadow realm. 40% knowledge gonna hurt.

[carlosolea]

Wizard really can't be allowed to be relevant for more than a few minutes.

[commentsonly]

Thanks for the breakdown, and thank you for the Dimo-Wilson stuff off the rip.

[MrDragonRyan]

Not being able to bring equipment in your inventory into the dungeon... A few times I've bought or supplied a friend with a good weapon or other equipment from my stash, as i play a lot more than them. Removing this makes it more of a pain to trade that to my friend no? Theres no direct trade other than using the marketplace. This is a bit of a strange change and i wish it was implemented differently. Just dont count gear score or count the highest score of each type of equipment in someone's inventory.

[willojames]

Why not just nerf the splash and ice bolt like everyone wanted

[WilderQ]

Okay devs need to hire a dedicated balance team. Only real way to play wizard now is by NOT using spell overload and instead you use 10 spells. Forcing you to not have meditate which for a lot of people are the QOL that actually made wizard fun to play. IMO they should have nerfed wizard dmg by 20% and kept his cast time. That way wizard will be the quick casting class and sorcerer will be the big dmg caster class.

We did ask for druid buffs, but NO ONE asked for bear buffs. literally no one.

[Reetyh]

UGG idk how I feel about this, not being able to bring equipment in your inventory kills all possibilities of adapting to your opponent, like changing to a buckler to chase faster opponents or a weapon with armor pen 😢 this will fuck up a lot of matches for fighters

[yuselescount]

The issue with druid will always be that they have access to everything at all times. Buffing it too much will break it in some way simply because of the utility that everything else their kit brings.
Personally, i would like to see forms be a lot stronger but just limit how many forms you have to like 2 per shapeshifting memory (not including human).

[DimeszTV]

Druids don’t need a buff they get to run away in every fight and reset

[MegaMooer]

Natures touch + dreamfire gonna go CRAZY in teams. The burst healing is super nice