05-25-2012, 06:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2012, 06:32 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Very, very disappointed that they nerfed Smoke Screen. If anything, it should be been made more potent, not nerfed. In its original state, the game was already hard enough, now its even harder. Smoke Screen, along with Prep, are really the only essential defensive skills the DH has to get through the higher difficulties (along with Vault, which I think is still a pretty good skill to have). Without them, playing the DH solo would be basically a waste of time, as they are probably the squishiest char in the game. Caltrops and Shadow Power were awesome on normal and not too bad on nightmare, but I found them to be completely useless on hell mode. Too many mobs have CC reduction, fast trait, teleport, vortex, or mortar etc and just go right through CC or it is even ignored entirely. And Shadow Power is basically a poor man's Smoke Screen.
I dont think the SS/Prep combo is over powered in the least bit, and they are actually NECESSARY to survive on the higher difficulties (unless you find being 2 shotted by Hulking PhaseBeasts or Soul Lashers on hell/inferno difficulty to be fun - I do NOT). I cant speak for the other classes being nerfed as I havent tried them yet.
Also, I wouldn't say multi-shot is the only "good" AoE option for DH, though overall it's probably tops. I prefer the Fire at Will rune over Suppressive though. Chakram with many of its runes and Elemental Arrow with Ball Lightning are also awesome.
I dont think the SS/Prep combo is over powered in the least bit, and they are actually NECESSARY to survive on the higher difficulties (unless you find being 2 shotted by Hulking PhaseBeasts or Soul Lashers on hell/inferno difficulty to be fun - I do NOT). I cant speak for the other classes being nerfed as I havent tried them yet.
Also, I wouldn't say multi-shot is the only "good" AoE option for DH, though overall it's probably tops. I prefer the Fire at Will rune over Suppressive though. Chakram with many of its runes and Elemental Arrow with Ball Lightning are also awesome.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)