Currently messing around with a berserk/arsenal build. Developer Note: Earlier today, we pushed out Hotfix 12 which included stability and performance improvement changes that affected Hammer of the Ancients. I think that blizzard or rather the Blizzard developers should nerf other mounts, such as the pandaren phoenix that runs but doesn’t touch the ground and they added legs for what Run the pandaren phoenix mountDiplo has been nerfed since last Hota 1. Developer Note: Earlier today, we pushed out Hotfix 12 which included stability and performance improvement changes that affected Hammer of the Ancients. Sad but true - Metallica. this isnt true at all. Gasmic-11993 July 7, 2023, 7:42pm #12. Build:. Add to Cart Instore Only Instore Only-+ ×. With 2 gap closers it is out of control right now. 5 Likes. ago by Synapse7777 HotA damage nerfed 50-75% overall. State of barbs compared to other classes when fighting uber lilith. I used to play an MMO that got ruined because of complaints from PVP players. [deleted] • 20 days ago. I was fine with this because bug fixes are necessary and important to the games help. 2. Donut: hopefully rend thorns is at the bottom of the list so it gets nerfed last. I tried WW, but still no fury. This build guide assumes you have a Level 50 Character and finished the. 2d #Maxroll #Blizzard 00:00 Introduction00:55 Necromancer02:42 Rogue04:44 Sorcerer05:58 Druid06:35 Barbarian09:44 Summary-----. T. I used to play an MMO that got ruined because of complaints from PVP players. The final and 6th second does 2 damage. Take 3 shouts Call of the ancients (switch to wrath of berserker when you have gear) Lunging Strike (replace with Iron Skin when geared) For the last skill you get to pick what kind of barb you want to play. This server-side update is a. Trialmaster RNG take. Jun 23 2023 02:53pm. AFFIXES. 11,362 views - Mon, Jun 14 at 23:03. Overpower HOTA is an taking Barbarian to the next level. Cove is a new type of fraction and town with all the necessary elements. Gameplay Fixes. • 5 days ago. A lot of people also seem to build glass-cannons for pvp as well; just lets hota hit even harder. Opinion. 12 Likes. . You can use these after the latest patch 1. If its fixed it not like it was. mjoe-2802 June 23, 2023, 8. 1 for Season of the Malignant is here and it's. I mean, I think sometimes an interaction occurs that changes a functionality or process and it's not always intended. so like an extra 180 armor and 18% more physical damage. Heroes HD on steam and play necro after playing HOTA. So then i figured wth use upheaval. General experience is that HotA is better for leveling but whirlwind is better late game. 5% using the Hammer of the Ancients now. Which of the 5 classes has become the best at beating Uber Lilith? Enjoy!Support us on Patreon: Three Channel Shop: does have holes in it so it would be a disaterous mistake to nerf it like WW. Edit: Blizzard confirms its not intended, they are looking into it. Any other HotA barbs noticing way less damage done today? EDIT: PezRadar. Watch all of Rob2628's best archives, VODs, and highlights on Twitch. It is pretty easy to build and straight forward. Uploading daily clips from Diablo IV. No views 1 minute ago #Diablo4 #Patch #Update. no class should be able to do this, maybe urgent need for a big nerf . Title says it all. HOTA has 50% (I think) lucky hit chance and pressure point is 10% chance per point on lucky hit. They nerfed hammstring lol. Chaddly7-1515 July 28, 2023, 7:17pm #1. 3. Alkaizer is reporting seeing less than half damage from a few hours ago on his Lilith kills earlier today. Going into the 1. Let's look at some other staggering #'s they've reported. 5. Upheaval can do damage, but requires too much to make it work compared to HotA which requires a lot less setup in combat and from itemization. Nerf Earthen Bulwark and HOTA Barb. with all necro skills being halves, this being said they still have some really powerful options and can still mass skeletons if you choose a hero for it To be honest the only reason they're this high up is just becuase of vampire lords. Since this hotfix is server-side, players don't have to worry. This wasn't just a WW nerf, the class was decimated. It's a buff that is also a nerf, because now you can't stack that much berserking just with a single skill. Reverting a performance change that inadvertently reduced the damage for “Hammer of the Ancients”. The. Barber ruins lucky hit builds. Lunge with bleed for normal attack, Rend for single targets and bosses, whirlwind for mobs, stomp and iron skin for control and survivability. SUPERMAN-15513 June 26, 2023, 5:04pm 1. HOTA would be the only other build I’d try on barb. . I don't th. There is zero overlap between the developing teams of the two mods. WW is better at clearing mobs and speed farming/dungeon clearing. Necropolis They got nerfed, hard in the Hota. The barb isn't even that "tanky" compared to other classes. Leap. I even like the change to gores with the fire explode going off while channeling. I was critting an elite for my base damage. 100% damage reduction nerf. If hota barb gets nerfed, might as well be compared to butterbean at this point. kkwon39. Cove General. Afterwards, you should use an endgame build guide to allocate Paragon points and equip gear with the best stats and Aspects. Courtney's first book, published in May 2018, is entitled. 2h axes have pretty good stats, except the attack speed is nerfed. Whirlwind keeps getting nerfs over and over and over and over again. Barb is dog water. 2 Likes. Iron Skin. Then they also nerf the WW Unique dead, but other classes like Sorc have shoes where they have 100% crit rate and there is no nerf, but at the Barb WW they still nerf the aspects for crit rate to death. So for people who wants to play hota with pre-nerf diplomacy, heres a little "guide": Hop into "RMG Template Editor", open your favorite template (for example, JebusCross), i suggest you to create a backup copy of the original one, just in case, but after you opened the template, you'll see a map like stuff. . Even with my sorcerer I haven’t found the nerfs to be a big deal. FC: 0361-6999-4252. Hammer of The Ancients. Once the HoTa player cant kill with the initial smashes, they’re as good as dead with their nerfed to trashed cooldowns. So if a class does too much in pvp then they’ll nerf it in pve as well. No one gonna tell you on here man blizzard gonna nerf that shiz quick. It could drastically increase difficulty and for rewards do nothing but increase drop rate of Ubers, this would solve multiple things in one go. Stack those on dwarves/battle dwarves and its 70/90% chance to be immune to spells vs just taking 90% less damage. Addressing particularly how it effects the Barbarian class HOTA build and the effect of cumulativ. instead of nerfing hammer of the ancients, they nerfed HAMMSTRING and BLEED damage. ridge. There is a massive imbalance with HOTA. HotA and WoG are in no way compatible: no WoG features are available when playing HotA, and vice versa. Even with a bugg that added 100% dmg it was still worse. Would be interesting to see. may. It's fair to say that overpower will be a common way of dealing [extra] damage in D4. They nerf main. Gameplay Fixes. No Mercy officially deleted from the game, affecting all barbarian builds instead of HOTA. Is a HOTA nerf coming soon? Because getting 2 shotted by a level 80+ HOTA barb sure is BS. For those who aren't aware pressure point only procs on lucky hit so it's not a guaranteed vulnerable application with every skill use. Revert Back Please. Barbarian’s in Diablo 4 are in a spot of bother after one of their most powerful builds just died due to a bug fix. So i main barbarian and don’t have a build that can burn down Uber Lilith in under 2 min and the fight just seems too RNG to be fun. The barb isn't even that "tanky" compared to other classes. 3. A Tier - Infinimist Necromancer, Ice Shards Sorcerer, Blizzard Sorcerer, Stormclaw Druid, Penetrating Shot Rogue. The good: leapquakes and ground slam quakes stack the 10 upheaval charges, meaning in big groups you can get max stacks almost instantly. 67. and with a HOTA build you use fortify aspects so undaunted would get you the boost you need. With healthy balance of range and melee on the field, the defense gets more diversified and makes the field more interesting to play (no pun intended). He shared it over on Reddit and D4Builds. The Barbarian has unparalleled strength and expertly wields an entire arsenal in battle, with a weapon for every occasion. After that nerf it’s really the only viable build other than a rend build which lacks pretty bad. Raise Skeleton. Initially challenging, but once resolved, significantly boosts the build’s potency. Theophan-11651 July 8, 2023, 12:59am #13. Yet again can’t stress enough the build remains the same. 0. Ground Stomp. Hammer of the Ancient doesn't hit like it used to. Group: Member. 8 Likes. Necro pre-nerf was stupid . Nerfs are negligible but I’d still consider it the games hardest class, at least for leveling, not sure about endgame. WW is only good for speed farming it has horrible damage scaling against uber Lilith or high NM pushes. What happens is that when the HOTA barb hits you, it procs the Escape Artist effect and you can dodge the next 11 attacks (max roll on amulet) for the next 10 seconds. Would be interesting to see. The benefits of talented berserk are too good to pass up. 0. from my 3k + kills in fields of. Really regretting that I chose barb right now. Blizzard has promised to address “feedback” from players on Diablo 4’s latest patch following backlash from the community. if HOTA nerfs go through I'm done with this game. Very fun to play and very smooth leveling experience. It can be difficult to get going in early levels, and the lack of mobility in early levels asks you to be very mindful of how to use your evade and know which attacks from enemies will or will not stun lock you. Gold: 34,115. Iron Skin. Lightning Storm Druid. nerf any class that can clear nm 100 dungeons in under 15 minutes or uber lilith in under 10 minutes (suck it blizzard sorcs) Not the only 2 things, personally would like to see Exploit glyph removed as well and then maybe reduce duration for Vulnerable to 2 or 2. Hamstring now only Slows Healthy enemies, and Slow amount increased from 10/20/30% to 20/40/60%. Sorc can at least grow into deleting screens of near-level trash quickly, barb never comes to excel at anything. The nerf barb meme lives on. My hota does zero dmg now wtf? PC General Discussion. B Tier - Bone Spirit Necromancer, Ark. They nerfed hammstring lol. Diablo 4 Best DPS Build Tier List - Top 10 Highest DPS Builds For Season Starter after 1. Diablo 4 Nerfs Most Popular Dungeon. Fans expected Diablo IV's Season of the Malignant update to bring some major changes to Blizzard's ARPG, but what fans didn't expect. The nerf reverts will take place with Patch 20. Yeah, after nerf they shouldnt be so op. Steel Grasp. I even ran into a two HotA party running from ritual to ritual. Nerfing something to the ground is so dumb when a middle-ground exists and Blizzard usually goes too far with the nerf hammer and spoon feed buffs, which triggers a lot of drama whenever there is a big patch. HOTA scales extremely well without needing tons of gear, possibly even outscales WW if you party play. 593 barbarians are tracked here and it's going to. Excludes bulky items. Yes, it was nerfed because there is a big focus on PvP in HotA. Then if your opponent has the 3 items (boots, necklace, and cloak) that give a total of 30% resistance, and has the. Most of those using HOTA for lilith use the bug showcasing how large the radius is. If you’re a HOTA barb in PVP ( don’t care about pve, so whatever the fuck you want to ), then I simply question how you can actually have more than five minutes of fun with this god forsaken play. Even with the most powerful barbarian build i can’t really touch her health bar before. 3. Yet again can’t stress enough the build remains the same. Find their latest Diablo IV streams and much more right here. Hota is just flat out better than Whirlwind now. HotA is its own expansion, based on the original Shadow of Death, without leveraging any material or know-hows from WoG. That way the barb could have only 2 viable build compared to 4. Probably need a discovery of another interaction before another top tier build materialises, it at all. For the same reason, some towns got buffed. Build: her second form, take 2 points out of Martial Vigor into Concussion to stagger her. ago. Yes, it was nerfed because there is a big focus on PvP in HotA. With either Warcry or Rallying Cry up, it's usually two lunges then HotA. Overpower in Diablo 4. Opinion Usually play with a few buddies of mine, and one of them is a barb playing HOTA, not even 100 level, with half leveled glyphs and still working on optimized gear, can dish out 50+ million smashes. Enjoy!Support us on Patreon: Three Channel Shop: ahead, Nerf it. Rend. Pulverize is supposed to be one of the builds that was fairly impacted by the changes. 2-3 annoying things to go against but. I play Rend Barb. The arsenal system also felt unnecessarily cumbersome and doesn’t seem to add anything meaningful to the class. Diablo 4 Best barbarian build. Blizzard’s day one Diablo 4 patch notes have rolled out, with a small number of key updates making the list including nerfs to several Diablo 4 classes. Yooo guys, today we talk about the most recent hotfix, as well as a new way to play whirlwind barbarian! Configure your own elite gaming PC today and use cou. Developer Note: Earlier today, we pushed out Hotfix 12 which included stability and. Hota Barb nerfed? General Discussion PC. . 1. 4. 0. Other than that, juggernauts Q could use a duration / damage nerf for the early game and. So the dev note below that patch note basically says “yeah we know. 100%. Fraktal-1850 June 9, 2023, 11:41am #6. For a 40% chance it sure happens quite a bit. 3% crit chance as a start point I got sacrifice bonus 20% crit chance for 6 sec after corpse tendrils and top it up with bone storm and paragon boards. Reply reply. TheChemicals-1408 June 14, 2023, 2:08am 5. Get the unique helm that turns earth skills into bear skill. . Hammer of the Ancients (HotA) Barbarian is super fun and is built around CotA. This is a video series of a former AAA designer critically analyzing Elden Ring's design. Why is there no notice of the HotA nerf ? Cutting the damage of a skill in half is probalby worth mentioning :) 23 Jun 2023 19:35:21It will allow you to get faster to the middle and get more from it than your opponent - and we all know whats in the middle - relics, utopias and creature banks. Literally impossible to change your mind. Players complain in pvp because they may get hit by that random crit but the is a PVE game and it will break the class completely to change HOTA s current state. HotA lacks survivability that you need to run solo unless you got lots of gear. ”. Asmongold said he would "donate $10,000 to charity" to watch a AAA designer, who is critical of Elden Ring, play the game (clip in comments). Although hota is a beast i dont like relying on it because its obviously bugged and will see a nerf bat soon. 99 at Best Buy $69. . Nothing in the patch notes. Dominating T4 PvP with Barb HotA build. I haven't had any trouble killing things up to 23 levels higher than me, but I am level 91 now and the paragon board is. On HOTA Necro is still the best town tied with conflux - post nerf for both of them These “HOTA pvp” threads are implied callouts to nerf something that will hurt PVE players. HotA has a good reasons to halve the outcome of necromancy and remove Galtran from heroes roster, this combination was just plain unfair and had it coming. Developer Note: We do want to forewarn that Druid players with these weapons already equipped will still be able to use them, but you will not be able to re-equip them if removed from your weapon slot. HOTA is more like for NMD pushing and endgame content. Nerf. This Diablo 4 Highest Damage HoTa Barb Build Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian Endgame Build Guide for Leveling 50-100 sets you up in Diablo 4 for OP Big Damage Endgame and is the best BARB build currently! The HoTa Barbarian Build in Diablo 4 Post Nerf is amazing and super OP and is great to run through the game with on every. 0 but before Forged in the Barrens goes live. 95%. 63. I wanted to avoid spamming shouts, Wrath of the Berserker, and Whirlwind. 2 Gameplay Fixes Addressed an issue with how monsters could infinitely spawn in Cellar Events. Barb last HoTA nerf. 5. Toxmedic29. 2 casts, 20 damage over 6 seconds. Welcome to the Diablo 4 Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian Endgame Build Guide! This is a fan-favorite skill that returns to the franchise for Barbarians. 3. HotA is in no way connected to WoG. Fury gain increased from 25 to. Each aspect is listed with its matching gear slot. PC General Discussion. It's time for NERF. Too much survivability and damage. Barb nerf comapred to other classes - Twitch. This Diablo 4 Highest Damage HoTa Barb Build Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian Endgame Build Guide for Leveling 50-100 sets you up in Diablo 4 for OP Big Dama. Golem attack damage increased by 10 percent. No views 1 minute ago #Diablo4 #Patch #Update. This is what makes the HotA build so strong and is the most important aspect to. . Current Stock: Features. Not sure that there is a way to cheese the endgame and not sure why you’d want to. Ninja Hotfix, not in patch notes. Quote (labeletteaumiel @ Jul 3 2023 04:23pm) CHANGE MY MIND. The hammer fell on Hammer of the Ancients after. Conflux and Necropolis were the most powerful towns by far in SoD, so they got hit the hardest to balance them with the. #Diablo4 #Barbarian #BuildAfter finishing most of my goals on my hardcore Rogue, I decided to roll a Barbarian and try something more off meta with a Walking. Literally every core skill can be used in NM pushing builds and almost every utility skill is able to be used. . 1 Patch HotA Barbarian Nerf Analysis / PvP Gear Update. I’ve nearly maxed all my glyphs, and 100% of my gear is BIS with very high rolls. 4 hotfix 1 and 2 have rolled out to live servers, with a key Necromancer nerf that even players who favor the undead-raising class can be happy with. 1. Using any of the other skills; you don’t have those effects to stack. This isn't reflective of bone spear itself, but end game synergies with it. Barbarian. Horn of the Abyss version 1. Valdrane: Eternal realm is where you will be playing the expansions and any DLC they put out. A new variation of HoTa that takes full advantage of all of the incredible changes in Season 2. Give me my money back, thank you, and please also compensate me for my lost hours, please… I bought this game to play the barbarian introduced to me in the beta, rofl. 2 Likes. 2h slash lunging strike, double swing, hota, war cry, iron skin, wrath of the berserker. B4m0r1z0r-2800 June 24, 2023, 5:51am #2. Melted Heart Of Selig = super OP. 1 mo. 8. On top of the other barb targeted nerfs one after another, while other classes can kill lilith in 30 seconds with no adjustments. you are grinding people's hours of playtime into the ground for NO good reason when EVERY OTHER class is melting at barb lvl pre-nerf. by berethon. . Group: Member. View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit Returning hero looking for tips. The Rend Barbarian is a fantastic leveling build in Diablo 4. Apr 4, 2022 @ 3:51am fix a stupid boss, but completely ignore all the glaring performance issues #12. s. 127. Go back and play like. Thorns. But in general, builds here are being judged off on how well they can accomplish this on average. Caged heart of focused rage with a good enough roll, like 60-70 fury spent on a HotA build will be permanently active pretty much, as HotA with. The quaking. Blizzard has fixed an issue regarding which will result in a hefty damage nerf for one of the most popular Barbarian builds, while other abilities like , , and have received meaningful buffs. D4 1. 5K subscribers. Diablo 4 Patch 1. a decent geared rogue with poison comes and hit you. Sorc has a few other options besides arc spamming, rogue has a ton of options that are all relatively high tier builds, necro has two very boring but very powerful builds that don’t use summons. Go right ahead Blizzard, show us how anti-fun you are by nerfing the one thing Barb can do that’s comparable to other classes. Vote. fun detected, u know the rest. Diablo 4. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Stack crit chance, crit damage, vuln, STR, and core. I have acquired nearly legendary aspect at 95 and perhaps I missed this but what is the one called that has 3 steel grasp charges, because it definitely isn’t the garbage unique that only adds extra chains. Addressing particularly how it effects the Barbarian class HOTA build and the effect of cumulativ. • 6 mo. PVP players are the first to complain and the. Flight HOTAS X. Martial Vigor - 10% damage reduction nerf against elites. While HotA naturally has a very small area of effect, we solve this by using the Aspect of Ancestral Force (which, conveniently, can always be imprinted via the Codex of Power). Level 100 Barb here btw. 0. Go back and play like. Even before this bug, HOTA barb took almost 15 minutes of perfect play to kill lilith, while necro kills it in 30 seconds with bad gear. Stealth HotA Nerf? Alkaizerx - Diablo IV. PC General Discussion. Only few dedicated streamers still playing barbs but most have moved on to Rogue, Druid, Sorc ect. Hota barb is still good in nightmare. Honestly, the cooldown nerf isn’t the problem. Also, it’s not about ‘being the most OP spec’, it’s that, without unlimited uptime shouts the entire class feels AWFUL to play. SeÐïtïonïst-1796 June 8, 2023, 10:17pm #20. The Barbarian Unique weapons “Overkill”, “Hellhammer”, and “Ancient’s Oath” will no longer drop for Druid players. #diablo4 #barbarian #whirlwind #nerf The Whirlwind Barbarian can ramp up infinite damage using Violent Whirlwind, Wrath of the Berserker and Shouts to keep s. Don’t worry, Barbarian is doing fine despite the nerf, solo play, Elias, Hatred’s Remnant boss fight to unlock Tier 4. LOD Hota; R6 Hota; WW / Rent (hopefully) Fire MotE; Too bad that the developer WW / Rent had to give such a hard nerf. 0 patch for Diablo IV aims to balance much of the endgame content ahead of the Seasons of the Malignant launch, but it seems to hamper the fun. The first successfull attempt in adding the new terrain in. 6. 5. Diablo IV. Season 1 Barb = Nerf, dead, worst class Season 2 Barb = 1 Shot everything, immortal, best in both PvP and PvE Season 2 Barb = Guessing somewhere in between, balanced. Even before this bug, HOTA barb took almost 15 minutes of perfect play to kill lilith, while necro kills it in 30 seconds with bad gear. But Upheaval can crit on average for 3-5 million. Barb now in S2 (from perspective of someone playing WW) feels good once you reach. (Before the nerfs the “strong” build aka HOTA was only strong due to a bug). Particulars vary but HOTA builds favor using the core ability Hammer of the Ancients. This is an absolutely crazy setup though. Diablo 4. Were Conflux and Necropolis over nerfed in HotA? What do you think about this subject? I think halving of Necromancy was really necessary but it would be better if. HI, So far barb class is able to maintain shouts full time, spin freely, do tier 100 sigils, 1 hit world bosses with HOTA, so my question is: When it gonna be nerfed? all the other classes are not at this level, even at PvP it is praticly unbeatable due to the amount of stuns, unstopable, berserk, etc… i understand that some random dev play barb, but im. No Mercy officially deleted from the game, affecting all barbarian builds instead of HOTA. People been crying too much about sorc to notice that Barb is probably the bottom class now after HotA nerf. On June 5, 2023, Adam “PezRadar” Fletcher, Community Manager of Diablo 4, announced on Twitter and the official Blizzard forums that they rolled out a server-side hotfix for Diablo 4 to balance and adjust a few details about the game. 7/28/2023 4:30:03 PM. % Total Armor affix has been increased by 160%. Support Tab. Hope it’s a mistake and not because people got salty during the 5 mins of pvp they play a day dying to hota. Can’t even call it a preemptive nerf for the new sorc super heart because it’s gone after s1. Apr 4, 2022 @ 3:52am They patched the patch. Robs more defensive setup on his gear means you can just stand in any damage in the game and never take a single hp of damage. It's a buff to whirlwind build; offset by the fact it won't allow you to just abuse berserking AND the ancient call aspect. 16. I also 2 shot a level 120 butcher with “nerfed” hota. Please don't nerf bone spear, go ahead and nerf the amount of stackable synergies associated to it tho.