Clarifying Puncture

I decided to make a Tornado/Puncture char in Torment going off the description of Puncture in the Patch Notes where only the initial bleed was nerfed and the IPD was buffed. I have just reached maps and I am hardly using the thing. My gear is mediocre and Tornado can do more damage to a single target in a 3 link than Puncture in a 4 link. Two hotfixes and how many threads/pages of threads later and still nothing from the Devs on why this nerf was so hard and why the Patch Notes lied to us. I felt that a nerf to Puncture was necessary, but this was way too big of a nerf.

GGG, please explain that either this is not intended, or if it is, then why you lied to us in the Patch Notes about how big of a nerf it was getting.

I will have my answer god dammit lol

Sweep under the rug & whistle away...

Okay I think have a genius idea, I know one of you can go to rededit and like post this. Then a dev is LIKELY to come in there

fucking great idea right there.

GO MORBO

Reddit? Me? What!?

I didnt know what reddit was until I joined this game. I like the soothing blackness of this forum, the white reddit background makes my eyes hurt.

GO TO REDEDIT DAM YOU

lmao

GIVE ME A FUCKING ANSWER GGG

~Cries in a corner.

It takes 30 seconds to post "We're sorry, the patch notes were wrong and this is intended," or "We're sorry, the patch notes are accurate and we're currently working on this bug," or even "We're still deciding how to go on this one."

GGG is clearly choosing not to reply. The only reasons I can think of for doing this are all negative. They're refusing to answer in hopes that people will forget, they don't want to own up to their mistake or they don't want to be caught out in a blatant lie. I'm sure that there are potentially innocent reasons for the neglected clarification too but, quite frankly, they are probably very unlikely or not strong enough to justify lying to your playerbase for close to a week.

At this point GGG's silence is downright insulting and indicative of a serious problem with their attitude toward their game. I liken it to the asshole who parks so badly on a heavy shopping day that he takes up 2 parking spaces. It would take 30 seconds to repark and free up a parking bay, thus potentially sparing another human being 5, 10 or 15 minutes of fruitless searching and yet refuses to. What they are saying is "We think so little of the subset of our players who use Puncture that they aren't even worth 30 seconds of our time." Intentional or not, this is the message they are sending.

I apologise for all the negativity in this post. I've supplied more than my fair share recently and, to be fair, not all of it was justified. But it wasn't hard to avoid this specific problem. It seriously takes 30 seconds. Hell, even if you factor in the time it takes to consult internally and make a decision, 3 days is still a reasonable number and we are close to day 6 now. They should understand the importance of feedback by now, even if it is only for big issues like this rather than all of the many minor answers that they (justifiably considering that you can't please everyone) refuse to supply.

Thanks for the big "fuck you" you're giving to the playerbase GGG. This, more than any of the myriad problems I have with their recent patch which IMO indicate poor design and/or decision making, has made me lose all faith and respect for them as a gaming company.

Edit: there is an extremely high chance that I am needlessly overreacting. However there is a saying I am fond of using: "Perception is reality." I think it is obvious what my perception over this issue is ...

they simply dont care

and maybe they do think that current puncture state is fine. player has to do something more than throw one trap to kill map boss. i know some are not used to something more but.. it seems they do not care

la de do

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