Added a new damage mechanic, can't be bad. Wasn't great last season, looks better now for small change but 25% buff is quite a lot.įire. Was v good last season so should be tier 1 now. Was good but not Tier 1 last season so should be better now. Overall reduced health and movement from passives. Interesting DK option to use them as summonable bombs. As Tyndall pointed out, Dragonfire Oil synergy will be enormous. Reduced pierce on Jinn = not so good, but at least now they are usable with xbow for pierce. Buffed? Widowmaker damage should be easier to scale as fire. QoL on movement/tele mechanics from BtS also means safer to play. Innate lvl 1 teleport - very nice! Also reward skills rework. Overall, the change to BtS will benefit a lot of non-summoner builds.

Neutral? Buffed damage, slightly less life per level. Hard to say if IAS fix will be offset by worse fpa limits.īear. Only changes to shapeshifters and vit per point. It was always a top farming build so hopefully it is again. Buffed? The new passive is an unknown though. more speed, less damage? Didn't play it enough to know if the nerfed damage is significant. Loss of elemental weapons and lower life.Įlemental - Not sure. Buffed? QoL improved? Too early to say.Įarthshaker - Nerfed. This was a good build last season, under-rated, removing speed buff from Beacon may make this worse.Ĭlaw. Small buff to Shuriken Flurry and to life. Overall: change to Beacon will affect a few builds that don't benefit from the reward skills other than the speed buff Beacon had. Does it make any of them good? Dunno that it's enough. There may be 2 variants, melee and throw? I'm no expert, others may disagree with my take (happy to hear feedback, especially on the builds I'm not sure about), but to me it looks like the overall changes are:īow - Buffed. I wrote out a summary of buffs and nerfs to help me decide what to play - I thought I may as well post it here in case it's of any help/interest to anyone.

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