Diablo 2 PTR The Echoing Strike Problem...

NinjaNerosis: Rip warlock 2026-2026
willskorupski: tell me WHY a skill that requires FCR is now all of a sudden using durability. i feel STRONGLY the skill should be based on IAS if the sk ill is going to use weapon durability!
뭉뭉-b8q: I remember seeing an old interview with Blizzard North where they said they would spend dozens of hours testing even the smallest changes and put a huge amount of time into balance. It seems like Blizzard today isn’t like it was back then.
KannibalReaper: I understand why they Nerfed Echoing, But I think they went WAY too far.
momothezencat: TL;DR: Hex nerf incoming.
CAVETROLLTRON: Jesus... That's terrible. This looks awful to play now.
zaug1561: It's so dumb they remove the "no durability consumed bug" but still give you ethereal weapons to test with. There is no excuse for that kind of stupidity.
SugoiNL: It's good that they're doing this. People are having too much fun
Yepmyaccount: This is why you don't ask blizzard for nerfs to balance things. They don't balance, they just kill entire methods of play.
manydaysman8426: Oh my God, I hope there won't be any more nerf.
nikolaykatsarov4084: The nerfs are awful. Once again Blizz chose to listen to the wrong people. You can't release a character with certain playstyle and completely destroy it after 2 months. This is just like Diablo 3 season patches, they force you to play certain specs and the next season they just change the build for you. It's like they hold your hand and force you to play certain way.
FoodDipFan: Now they're going to just nerf hex purge and leave the rest as it is.
EventHorizon8-p3g: Short Reign of the Warlock - coffers are full now though
Hochspitz: I know it matters not as a very old lady playing Warlock, single player offline, very casual, what I say. I am lvl79 in Hell, just slayed Radament, have done 10 Countess runs without a single key, mostly a single Thul drop on most of them, Fal is the highest. My build is Demon, The Smith is highest I have bound thus far. I struggle to find runes and gear in hell even though I have 150% magic find. However that being said, act 2 hell is the furthest I have ever managed in D2r and I have fun, yell at myself when I don't switch skills quickly enough. So probably these changes won't affect me as a Warlock as I doubt that I shall ever reach end game just plodding along and I bloody hate act2, at any level Yet this why D2 remains the best, it lets you progress at whatever pace you want to, its skill tree is simple yet also hard to choose. Bugga, I wish I could find an Ist rune!
JamesMichael-d7j: Please no more nerfs.
TheDannyvincent: Warlock isnt dead enough, quick step on it some more!
terminatorgames8872: sooooooo now we going get hex nerf.....
Thelonebone101: Gotta love how blizzard drops a secret OP class, then once everyone buys the expansion they nerf it into the ground.
leshreddur: This was a trick money grab.
Blacknight200: Mr. Llama this is a family show!!!!
the253legend: yea they nerfed him every possible way they could think of at first but why stop there....lets keep going.. i disagree at this point personally lol, leave it alone man!!! we cant even do ubers our demons suck i could go on but ya... leave it !!!

we bought a charicter seeing it was good but now its like hey guys pump the breaks we cant have this as good as amazon or the other clssses who can actually do end game content in a fun way lets make em pathetic like necromancer and druid yeasaaa
mpw116: Dude I half agree with you but please stop suggesting nerfs. I seriously anticipated nerfs and built my character to maximize magic damage, traded for a gg ars dul mephistos since you gave feedback of only grimoires with two handers, got weapons that could beat the durability bug, and stacked crazy amounts of -magic res to maximize the hexes. At about -55 right now. Please. It’s fun. That’s enough freaking nerfs bro
user-wo9jj6ii6t: I want to cast hex:purge on my goatmen and demon
AllentheNiNjA: Just revert all of the nerfs, and tinker with the numbers. Or just remove the Warlock. Only real problem the build faced was doing an overwhelming amount of damage for little investment. Now it just feels terrible to play in all aspects. I would rather just go back to playing the same classes I have for the past 20 years. Blizzard has already revealed their hand on not understanding how to "nerf" things seeing as they couldn't fix the mosaic "problem". Instead had to disable / remove it on Ladder. But to to introduce a new class as an "expansion"...sell it, line their pockets. Everyone overall liked, if not loved it. I was level 97 on Ladder, haven't bothered logging in since a few days after PTR. Nerfing it to the point it's worse than all of the other staple builds (Hammerdin, Javazon, Blizz, etc) just feels gross.
erick3755: I don't like that we are suggesting to nerf hexes based on how they interact with a single skill that was completely reworked. Also why are we testing the physical without a might merc, without say reapers, without a demon who can roll concentration, all of which would add large modifiers to physical damage?
edinburghkairos321: This is why we cant have anything nice. Quit trying to help before everything is broken. They should leave it alone.
Swabian90: the way it was nerfed is kinda concerning, they almost broke it,thank god it's on a ptr, i hope they approach nerfs in a different way in the future. What was done here is far from smart-balancing and makes me worried about what might happen to other classes at some point...