Hi,
i´m a Casual since Beta and played Season 1 and 2, skipped 3.
Til now i always palyed after the same Pattern.
After leveling at around Level 70 started the corrupted Monos and it worked.
Wasn´t a Breeze but i could go on.
This Season is completely different.
Breezing throuch Campaign and the Monos it ends almost immediately entering corrupted Monos.
Resis are maxed,i´m critimmun but still fall like a Feather in the Wind.
Only Thing i noticed, all my Chars are low on Life, around 1600-1800.
Remembering prior Seasons i was at around 2300-2700.
But is this the only Problem?
Tried 5 different Chars, Minionnekro, Warpath Voidknight, Bleed-Hammerdin, Bear/Crow-Beastmaster.
No Difference in Survivability.
Although it´s not my Class i started a Rogue.
Went Bladedancer with Shuriken and…Jesus.
Not only does he do insane Damage, it seems even more tanky than all my other Chars.
No Problems in corrupted Monos at all.
So is it me not understanding maybe some new Mechanics ? Just absolutely don´t understand why i run into this Wall.
Maybe you Guys have some Tipps for me.
I play Acolyte only, so I can’t comment on your particular experience. However, more and more builds appear to be heavily dependent on very specific gear or a gimmick, which makes them unplayable with even a slight deviation. While I love aRPGs, this issue is my pet pieve in all of them.
Playing Warpath and I have full 1LP w/ corruption, max res, and 3300 life. I could play with ease at 300, had to be careful at 500, and at 750 corruption there are just a ton of things that can clip me and I get one-shot. With better gear not dropping(prophecies) and imprints never proc’ing(on a T7/T6 exalt) I don’t see a way forward.
Hahah it’s not just you - they nerfed a bunch of stuff then they took rogue, added some new insanely strong skills with broken interactions with some items (see shadow rend) then they buffed umbral blades which was doing 110m crits see video on Juse’s YT before the end of season, testing with single slammed gear and what did they do? They buffed that a LOT. They literally have no idea what balance is. They don’t ask well known players in the community to test the classes they’re known to make content for so they don’t understand how insane the class is going to be. Most of the dev’s haven’t even killed uber, ever. Some have on “test” servers but really, lol.
I was told to report imprints by a dev if I think its broken which it seems to be - I dont think theyve tested the rate. When youre in game report it as well. The more the better so they can check the data
I´m so confused.
After testing the Bladedancer i didn´t like the Style and started a Judgement Pala.
With Lvl 70 starting Corruption and it´s just so much better like the other Chars felt.
2700 Life is a huge Difference. Even the Championecho worked first Try.
Don´t know why my other Chars are so squishy.
That’s what CT is for, but it’s much smaller than it was.
Whats CT stand for?
Community Testing. EHG has a community testing program (CTP) where players test the game before release. Last year or so the content creators were removed from it, so we wouldn’t have those situations where you’d get build guides and spoilers on day 1 of launch.
But the CTP still exists and things are tested. You just won’t get all the problems with it because there are always more players trying to break the game than testers trying to prevent them.
It’s also significantly smaller than it was when they massively increased it for 0.9 & mp testing.
I don’t know the details about it. I do know that they announced they were reducing the CT last year(?) and cutting out the content creators.
They could have increased it since then. I have no way of knowing and they wouldn’t have announced that, I think.
If they did then they didn’t increase it in any meaningful way 'cause they would have asked for applications.
I haven’t checked the positions they listed on their hiring sprees lately. They could have added testers to it and increased their team that way. Although I guess technically they wouldn’t be community testers but internal ones.
It is very likely that they do have 2 separate testing teams, one internal and the community one and they could increase the internal one without us knowing about it. 
Of course they have internal testers!! That’s a very bizarre thing to say, itself not like they’d have fired all of their internal testers because they started up the CT back in 0.7.9.
Do you think they got rid of their artists because people do fan art?