I hope you can buff the bees next season. There are too few people playing bees this season, and their strength feels even worse than toads. There are too few sources of damage amplification. If you want to play bleed, there are no talents or other equipment to boost it. It’s not as good as the damage from playing bleed with Necromancer’s Blood Ghost next door. I really like bees, but they are really weak. I hope you can buff them.
I think the bees are fine. They are small and squishy, but they should be plentiful to make up for it.
The set does not provide that. The amount of bees in the set is so bad in relation to what you have to give up to use it fully. Both weapon slots and the chest?
Since bees are awesome I want them to feel cool and awesome, and unique. My suggestion for set change is that on complete set the bees (from any source) have a chance to have their attack to count as yours.
- Having them on a spellblade? Can trigger Fire Aura.
- Primalist? Can trigger Storm Bolt.
- With Rule of the Simoon they can trigger tornados for every class.
- Harbinger of Stars can make a bee sorcerer viable.
- Depending of how it’s implemented you can trigger Smite from them (Holy bees).
- The Ghost Maker can trigger.
- If they are made to count as melee you can finally use them in Spriggan form to get the melee trigger.
And so on. Then you are giving up so much potential power to something useful and fun instead of just one larger bee and, more importantly, they feel distinct from every other minion.
And, of course, there should be many more bees =)
And I think it’s fairly balanced too. Either you use the 3 piece to get both the bees and the complete set bonus, or you have to use the primordial ring, or get the bees from somewhere else and use the forge to get the complete bonus.