Nerfs are negligible but I’d still consider it the games hardest class, at least for leveling, not sure about endgame. IF it was nerfed, which does not seem to be the case. 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. Thrustmaster. What's the point of doing higher nightmare dungeons if the drop is literally the same? Getting 1 Paragon point every couple of hours is the only reward for that grind and you literally don't need that since you can farm mid tier nightmares and get the same loot. Its just something to keep working towards friend. HOTFIX 13 - JUNE 23, 2023 - 1. As a result, Blizzard has. . ago. Show off your character, talk about some wacky build. Hota is just flat out better than Whirlwind now. Blizzard is killing barb with all of these nerfs to the point where they are almost unplayable in the endgame. 2 Likes. Nothing in the patch notes. Raise Skeleton. Watch all of Rob2628's best archives, VODs, and highlights on Twitch. Item has not been added to your Basket. ) bone spear aspect gets toned down (the multiplier is insane). HotA is so much more enjoyable than Whirlwind. ago. kkwon39. Currently in right hands it is among the strongest towns on most popular templates and arguably THE strongest on Jebus in current meta. In WW barb there are very certain equips for WW to be good unlike HOTA mediocre equips can kill Lilith in WT2. Otherwise a reduction to 20/30/30 feels suitable to me Slayer is a Mass spell at Expert Town Portal always has the Basic effect, movement point reduction 300/200/200 > 300/150/0 I'm not sure how on earth to balance DD and Fly. Rend, the main damage skill, is a frontal cleave with a very short range…WW and hota deserve no more love, as a matter of fact they are the core reason barb got trashed and nerfed. I sincerely believe it is not intended and they are not addressing it while they were so quick to nerf the whole bunch of stuffs. No views 1 minute ago #Diablo4 #Patch #Update. 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. Upgrade with Supreme to gain Fury, slow enemies, and increase your Damage / Attack Speed even further. However, like two years ago, some. Steel Grasp. NEW: Hota Barbarian Season 1: Nightmare Dungeon TIER 70 (Patch 1. However, long-time Diablo fans knew that the class would find its way once the game really started to open up. 0. 130. xROLLxTIDEx-1592 July 31, 2023, 9. 0. pls nerf both Rogue and HoTa barb, just make some crucial aspects not working vs. 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 performance improvement changes that affected Hammer of the Ancients. Use Steel Grasp to group up enemies and greatly increase your damage output. Notably nadoWW, grizzly rage, and bone spear. its silly I try to recreate some of strongest bone spear builds and got to 48. Build:. A new variation of HoTa that takes full advantage of all of the incredible changes in Season 2. Look where those promises have. The Barbarian Unique weapons “Overkill”, “Hellhammer”, and “Ancient’s Oath” will no longer drop for Druid players. The. Even with the most powerful barbarian build i can’t really touch her health bar before. g. Maugan’s Works Elite Nerf Announcement. Add a Comment. PC General Discussion. 6+ aspects for WW, bugged yet remains active thus oneshotting everyone in pvp hota. Diablo IV Forums Barb Does Damage = Nerf. #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. It is pretty easy to build and straight forward. -Nerfed EXP gain by ~20% for ALL players, even SSF, when their goal seemed to be to only nerf power-lvling-Nerfed Overworld mob-lvls in the endgame (which was never a problem), so now activities in the Overworld don't give you any EXP on higher lvls. 1. View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit Returning hero looking for tips. 4. Been experimenting and I therefore conclude that it's easier to build HOTA barb vs WW barb. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. You need to nerf the sorc ability to survive in pvp. 99 at Best Buy $69. 94 at Amazon $69. #diablo4 #barbarian #whirlwind #nerf TLDR: We have not seen other Classes in Endgame at level 100 yet, so it is not possible to judge anything based on the p. 99 at GameStop. A lot of damage pulverize used in the glyph trees was gutted supposedly. The arsenal system also felt unnecessarily cumbersome and doesn’t seem to add anything meaningful to the class. Conflux and Necropolis were the most powerful towns by far in SoD, so they got hit the hardest to balance them with the. It was actually smaller than druid’s seismic pulverize. There is a reported nerf to Hammer of the Ancients for Barbs can you confirm? 7:31 PM · Jun 23, 2023. ago by Synapse7777 HotA damage nerfed 50-75% overall. With a reduction of 75% to 125%, WW / Rent would be on par with Slam and Hota. This PvP Barbarian build hits all the right notes: Bleed damage, slows. I'm really enjoying the. They already addressed pvp. Basically 3 shouts, berserker, and flay/rend. I wonder why Blizzard isn't only friendly to barbarians. But Upheaval can crit on average for 3-5 million. Blizzard has unfurled 6,600 words worth of 1. Theophan-11651 July 8, 2023, 12:59am #13. On HOTA Necro is still the best town tied with conflux - post nerf for both of themThese “HOTA pvp” threads are implied callouts to nerf something that will hurt PVE players. Generate Fury with Rallying Cry and Lunging Strike to unleash Rend on density, Elites and Bosses. ceefbakes72 • 1 mo. Discussing the patch notes for Diablo 4 on July 18th 2023. This HotA IK Barbarian Build used to have a Raekor variation, but it eventually grew into a competitive build of its own, before turning into a Boulder Toss Raekor build, which you can access using the link below. Ww barb still s tier after that tiny nerf to one single item. The Tank HotA is a PVE build in Diablo 4 (D4) that lets survive Uber Lilith's attacks while trading damage. Each aspect is listed with its matching gear slot. The best weapon for this Barbarian build is the Mace of Ancestral Force. The lucky hit nerf wasn't as significant as the glyph changes, and depending on what the paragon boards offered will nerf some builds more than others. Yoo guys, lets talk about whirlwind barb post nerfs!Configure your own elite gaming PC today and use coupon code MOXSY at checkout for 3% off! is in bad shape. The damage isn’t even comparable to builds such as WW or HotA barbarians and those aren’t overperforming either (Minus exploits). So, about Rage of Harrogath's Lucky hit being not applicable. The movement speed is nice, but 1I'm experimenting w/ swapping in Challenging Shout for more consistent Fury gen instead. 99 at Best Buy $69. Only few dedicated streamers still playing barbs but most have moved on to Rogue, Druid, Sorc ect. People been crying too much about sorc to notice that Barb is probably the bottom class now after HotA nerf. D4 Post Nerf Tier List. 12. ago. i’d rec hota. Those 2 are still the strongest towns, but not banned any more. . 8 million total deaths. if the devs keep their word, skill balancing in consideration to pvp will never be a thing. 8 Likes. 128. Today you learn about a very powerful Diablo 4 barbarian build that will take you through the game with big damage, decent movement and survivability too! Th. I tried WW, but still no fury. Diablo 4 Best barbarian build. Ran into some Rouges, Necros and Sorcs, collected shards, even started a little fight club in front of town entrance where everyone was respectful when people were doing 1v1. Opinion. AlbinoTadpol-1241 June 27, 2023, 11:34pm #1. Got smacked by tons of HoTA barbs along the way, but at 100 reworked my build/gear for pvp, and have yet to find any real threats in pvp. So why not prepare a build beforehand that’s more. Dominating T4 PvP with Barb HotA build. gg for people to try out! It is designed to clear high-tier content by having high defense and damage boost from Malignant Hearts! The build is updated from kGAULT's original Tier 100 Nightmare Dungeon Thorns Build. 0. I even like the change to gores with the fire explode going off while channeling. Not much faster, but it was a base attack nonetheless. . But at the time, the HotA build was the only one known to be viable for Barbs, which is why Blizzard brought back a bug for it just to keep its damage numbers as high as they are, when they hotfixed HotA back in June. Currently, it is difficult for barbarians to even turn 70 stages of nightmares, but some users say that HOTA builds are fraudulent. ago. Rob2628. ) blizzard’s ice spike build gets adjusted. 0 Patch Notes Season of the Malignant Official Blog Post. Basically, any build other than using bladed weapons are. Lunge with bleed for normal attack, Rend for single targets and bosses, whirlwind for mobs, stomp and iron skin for control and survivability. 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 tired of every single diablo release. It’s probably because rogues are great one on one and absolutely rubbish. 3. Hammer of The Ancients. Yeah several aspects were fixed so infinite bleed isnt a thing but Hota still can probably reach those numbers. Available in store and online Available in store and online. 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. Not only that, you shouldn’t be able to slaugther players 20 levels below you to make your tiny epeen feel bigger. Hamstring now only Slows Healthy enemies, and Slow amount increased from 10/20/30% to 20/40/60%. 2d #Maxroll #Blizzard 00:00 Introduction00:55 Necromancer02:42 Rogue04:44 Sorcerer05:58 Druid06:35 Barbarian09:44 Summary-----. 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. pc. 102. My crits dropped significantly from averaging 6m down to 1-2m. They nerfed hammstring lol. Too much survivability and damage. Unconstrained: This build requires plenty of Berserker rage. Go back and play like. Leap. 2. Can we all just make a Gwentleman’s Agreement to nerf Reavers and Cultists when Gwentfinity starts. 1. instead of nerfing hammer of the ancients, they nerfed HAMMSTRING and BLEED damage. Group: Member. I got home from work and I do a NM50 dungeon, I’ve been farming this tier of dungeon like it was nothing for the last week and a half, suddenly I’m barely making it through the dungeon, my damage seems like it’s at times 1/10 of what it was before. When played correctly you can gather and delete entire rooms of monsters in a single attack. Blizzard confirmed the nerf via patch notes for the latest 1. End game you stack Overpower and Vulnerable Damage. Regular and Pre-Order items cannot be purchased in the same transaction. 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. PvP playable now? PC General Discussion. Logged into play and saw the nerf to HoTA (which I was gonna switch to end game), and quit the game. We’ll have to see what’s getting buffed or nerfed in the upcoming patch if you want a meta pick. Completely min-maxed gear, 6 glyphs at 21, 9k base armor, 11k health, 42% crit, 512% crit dam, like 400% vuln, 370% core, and so on… It's already happening, someone complained (rather cried) about HotA damage in PvP and Adam said on Twitter that the team is investigating HotA quake damage. Bigbazz-2623 June 24, 2023, 1:34am 1. You're still starving for fury in 4 player 40-60 nightmare dungeons because Sorcs and Necros absolutely mop everything up. Really need transparency on what changes are being made. HOTA QUAKE NERF REVERTED & General Balance State Diablo 4. End game you stack Overpower and Vulnerable Damage. If Necropolis needs anything - it is definetely not a buff. I suspect that the hota big right now stems from an intended nerf yet nothing was reported. The Rend Barbarian is a fantastic leveling build in Diablo 4. 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. This build guide assumes you have a Level 50 Character and finished the. #diablo4 #barbarian #hammer #quake. 3. 0. Stack crit chance, crit damage, vuln, STR, and core. 100%. 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. 95%. The Diablo IV team has been diligently monitoring your feedback. Which means that balance is very important. Only now. 276 million total hours played. 2. The endgame HotA build from maxroll. Broad strokes, but here are my guesses: 1. B Tier - Bone Spirit Necromancer, Ark. Fraktal-1850 June 9, 2023, 11:41am #6. Since this hotfix is server-side, players don't have to worry. Imo everything in the beta wasn’t complete, we didn’t have all the aspects, skill points, paragon boards, and glyphs to understand if a class would over or underperform. With 2 gap closers it is out of control right now. 1 patch notes, detailing the nerfs and buffs that have already hit Diablo 4’s classes, along with changes to neutral elements of the game. Call of the Ancients is also a good burst. I used to play an MMO that got ruined because of complaints from PVP players. PLEASE Like & SubscribeFollow The streamer featured belowYour Clips TODAY to be f. HOTA does have holes in it so it would be a disaterous mistake to nerf it like WW. no class should be able to do this, maybe urgent need for a big nerf . So when a barbarian has to use exploits to quickly kill Lilith and do a lot of damage there. The hamstring passive was actually vital for all builds and that’s gone now. You can still get 100% or almost 100% uptime. PC General Discussion. 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. SKU: 21008326. TheChemicals-1408 June 14, 2023, 2:08am 5. Barbarian (S Tier) From the beginning everyone was talking about barbarians are going to have yet the worst early game leveling experience, but their end game is clearly going to be the strongest. 105%. Sheamus_1852 • 2 mo. Not sure how it’ll do at higher end stuff, but I’m trying to make it work. TinyPanda3 • 1 mo. Barb is dog water. 8. 16. and with a HOTA build you use fortify aspects so undaunted would get you the boost you need. Chaddly7-1515 July 28, 2023, 7:17pm #1. 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). 3. 100% damage reduction nerf. ago. Get the latest gaming news, reviews, and deals sent to your inbox, FREE. This build has incredible damage, survivability, and speed. Sorc is the best class to start the new season. Currently in right hands it is among the strongest towns on most popular templates and arguably THE strongest on Jebus in current meta. Yup true, and this is not a satisfying situation. Zyrus-1281 July 15, 2023, 1:09am #15. Hope it’s a mistake and not because people got salty during the 5 mins of pvp they play a day dying to hota. No nerfs for HotA! 23 Jun 2023 22:07:03Especially the HoTa build nerf it to the point this is not a good Build for PVE content. Read on for the complete list of Vampiric Powers, Skills, and Aspects you need and how to play the build for Season 2. 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. Barb now in S2 (from perspective of someone playing WW) feels good once you reach. I noticed this for max fury on barbs, didn’t realize it was across the board. Next takes infinite amount of gold to for one affix on a weapon or gear. Lol. Boulder Toss Raekor Barbarian Build. 16. Supreme iron maelstrom reduces its cooldown by 1 second every time you swap weapons and deal direct damage. Sorcerers and Necros are definitely at the bottom for the D4 global launch tier. Rogue poison nerf (pvp) As a Barbarian being doing pvp since start before and now season, playing against every class a lot and if you did too you know that rogue’s poison is a main issue there and its not like we seeing now, rogue’s poison has being a main problem to pvp since the start. . Subscribe. All the HOTA and PVE players coming in being salty that im dissing SOMETHING about their game. 8. Much like Druids, Barbarians struggled during Diablo 4‘s betas. Apr 4, 2022 @ 3:51am fix a stupid boss, but completely ignore all the glaring performance issues #12. The next 4 seconds, it does 4 damage per seconds for a total of 16 damage. E. 79. chrono625 3 months ago #2. Avantasian-1260. Bone spear isn’t op though. Didn’t see anything about it in the hot fix notes. There is zero overlap between the developing teams of the two mods. 3. Not sure how but somehow. My Walking Arsenal & Death Blow/HotA Build. And no, especially with a leader board or season. Legion needed a nerf 4 patches ago; this hero is so polarizing in pubs it's not even funny. Looks fun tho idk how good it’ll be. 25 sec. $199. Overall, this seems like something that's either going to get nerfed soon or reworked into a nerf soon because there is no reason not to use this, especially compared to most of what's coming soon. 1 mo. Group: Member. I have 102% crit chance on my hota barb with mortal draw and caged heart of focused rage btw. 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. Here’s a simplified table outlining the key aspects of the HotA Barbarian playstyle in Diablo 4: Powerful AOE attack skill that forms the foundation of the build, maximizing damage output. 3 comments. HotA is its own expansion, based on the original Shadow of Death, without leveraging any material or know-hows from WoG. It could drastically increase difficulty and for rewards do nothing but increase drop rate of Ubers, this would solve multiple things in one go. I used to play an MMO that got ruined because of complaints from PVP players. #Diablo4 #tierlist #patch1. Reminds me of the ethically sourced human spine shopping bag. Atleast increased damage reduction cap, even on cap of 80 you still get oneshots on SURVIVOR difficulty. Yes highly recommend going hota barb for s1. Originally posted by. Literally every core skill can be used in NM pushing builds and almost every utility skill is able to be used. HotA and WoG are in no way compatible: no WoG features are available when playing HotA, and vice versa. . Blizzard will probably nerf barbers and just for good measure they’ll nerf barb again. Although hota is a beast i dont like relying on it because its obviously bugged and will see a nerf bat soon. . Reverting a performance change that inadvertently reduced the damage for “Hammer of the Ancients”. Nothing needs to be nerf, but if HoTa gets nerfed, rogues and necro needs to follow suit with the nerfs while the sorcs stay put. Boo hoo. instead of nerfing hammer of the ancients, they nerfed HAMMSTRING and BLEED damage. They can’t just buff everything constantly. This was the only build barb could use since the previous hotfix to kill lilith. 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. As you level, you can focus on Vulnerable Damage/Core Damage. Still working on those. This build guide explains in painstaking detail the Raekor-HOTA (R6 HOTA) build, a powerful variant to the IK- or LOD-based HOTA builds. boltbane-1510 August 8, 2023, 2:24pm #2. Premium. 2 Hotfix 13 - Infinitely Spawning Monsters and. 1 patch notes, detailing the nerfs and buffs that have already hit Diablo 4’s classes, along with changes to neutral elements of the game. Whirlwind keeps getting nerfs over and over and over and over again. Discussing the patch notes for Diablo 4 on July 18th 2023. Other than that, juggernauts Q could use a duration / damage nerf for the early game and. Toss Thorgrim in the mix and battle. Barb nerf comapred to other classes - Twitch. ) nerfs to barb unbreakable duration uptime. Join. Flight HOTAS X. #diablo4 #barbarian #hammer #quake #balance. General experience is that HotA is better for leveling but whirlwind is better late game. Try to walk into a pvp zone. That means for a short period of time, Standard play will have a wonky and likely overpowered meta. Show us how anti-barb the dev team has become in these past two months. Within the past 3 hours, HotA damage has sharply fallen off. D4 1. #diablo4 #barbarian #hammer Get ready to smash your enemies with the Hammer of the Ancients Barbarian. But when I was looking into the patch. Barb is nothing without it’s shouts. Meanwhile Rend has 0 offensive, 0 utility and only one resource that relies on lucky hit and a percentage chance, to replace one of the shout. Quick Reference. 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). WW requires way too many aspects / uniques to work as efficiently as HoTA that only really requires 1. 7/28/2023 4:30:03 PM. Before you guys jump into conclusion, know that the hpta nerf being looked into and Adam fletcher was not aware of this so it’s more likely a spaghetti code mess up rather than a stealth nerf. This class is non-stop on full fortified and immune. . 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. Diablo 4 Patch 1. I even ran into a two HotA party running from ritual to ritual. I’m level 100 with almost a perfect HOTA build which cost me 100 million gold+ for re-rolls and countless hours of farming. If spinning sounds like your idea of a good time, then let out your loudest Rallying Cry as we Whirlwind our way through this Endgame Barbarian Guide. These changes were strictly for backend performance, but unintentionally also affected. This change is a nerf to make Critical Strike Damage and Vulnerable Damage comparable to other dame increase options. if HOTA nerfs go through I'm done with this game. And you can still focus on vampires early and have a fairly insane army. And for. Apr 4, 2022 @ 3:52am They patched the patch. Get the unique helm that turns earth skills into bear skill. There’s much better builds right now than HoTA. errorContainer { background-color: #FFF; color: #0F1419; max-width. Then we would have had 3 to 4 builds that would be at the same level. The thing that really sucks about the shout and shout ring nerfs is that you're forced to use a basic skill (which feels like dogshit) until you have perfect gear/high level. A Tier - Infinimist Necromancer, Ice Shards Sorcerer, Blizzard Sorcerer, Stormclaw Druid, Penetrating Shot Rogue. Enter captcha to continue:The player will have to battle 50-100-150-200 Iron Golems for a reward of 1-2-3-4 Giants RMG value is 3500, density is 80. Which are still incredibly busted. Steel Grasp. 4. . 25 comments. . Partoutatix. 1 Patch HotA Barbarian Nerf Analysis / PvP Gear Update. Uploading daily clips from Diablo IV. Unstoppable plus hota go brrr. 79. Barbarian. 1 for Season of the Malignant is here and it's. Avantasian-1260. [+] A new creature bank, the Wolf Raider Picket, has been introduced. 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. may. C: Sorcery, Fire. You want HoTA man. Everyone on the forums crying rn, im just happy pvp might actually be enjoyable now. S Tier - Bone Spear Necromancer, HotA Barbarian, Werewolf Tornado Druid.