Patch notes/changes were a complete let down

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So basically, next to zero balance changes for almost every mastery that didn’t get reworked, including sorcerer (all 3 masteries in their sorry state), no change to ward which means its another life-stacking season again

I guess the devs don’t even bother looking at the arena ladder or care at all about a competitive avenue. Arena is going to be a complete waste of time once again. The CDR-stacking shaman build that stacks so much CDR on gear and idols that its warcry that grants a 1-second damage immunity buff which is longer than the cooldown is going to stay for at least one more entire season, lol. Give me a break.

I don’t think any of the unique or primordial items were interesting to me. Maybe the ring that stacks set bonuses if I can be bothered to go through the headache of crafting a million pieces of crapola gear with set affixes on it. Or the amulet that is basically just a stat-saver which allows me to not need to build poison/void/necrotic resist. Boring.

I think this is the nail in the coffin that tells me they don’t ever care or will ever care for Last Epoch having a platform for any competition. Want to compete on the arena ladder next season? Have fun playing your build that spams warcry for permanent damage immunity and offscreens things with tornado. Or just not competing at all. Those are your choices. Complete lack of class balance, and a competitive field that isn’t even worth participating in.

What a huge let down.

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One thing I learned from D3 is never fall in love with one class or build. While I do think they intentionally buff and nerf things, it’s not like they are micro-managing the meta to the point where they want mages to be unplayable. It’s just an unfortunate circumstance of limited development teams and resources. Stuff like Arena needs an overhaul and I think is on their list of things to do.

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Yea this is not E-Sports game. Seasonal game which aim to rotate different archetypes, skills around.

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I guess this season is not meant for me. It’s for minion builds i think. I am somewhat interested with lich changes, because my harvest lich waits for its moment since 1.0 or 0.9, i don’t even remember at this point. Maybe flay will be interesting.
Also they nerfed healing and block effectiveness for sentinel. Not sure why. Block wasn’t some uber defense mechanic. And if something else was using it for scaling and got out of hand then that thing should get hammered, not block itself.
But to sum up my reaction to “hype” week and patch notes - meh. I’ll try it, but i didn’t even read most of the patch notes, because i was so disenchanted with it.