0.11.0f, Race Season Three and next week's 0.11.1 patch

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Hereafter wrote:

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EricRoachTS wrote:

Hello Chris, a question and some thoughts...

Will there be more balancing to the changes to life and armor made in the 0.11.0 patch? To me, it seems to have gone from "Path of life nodes" to "Path of not enough life from life nodes so lets either get a kaoms (near impossible for most) or go CI (easy solution) and while we are at it, might as well go dual spork...Exile"

Kind of a silly representation I know, but hopefully you see my point. Some will argue the buff to armor effectiveness from the monster damage nerf more than makes up for the loss of life, which is true early game, but end game that is just not the case. It's not the 20 small hits that worry me late in the map game, its the 3 BIG hits that will kill me in a second i'm concerned about. A hit that big completely negates the armor buff and leaves me exactly where I was pre 0.11.0 but with about 1.2k less health pool.

It seemed the goal from the patch was to be able to rely less on health nodes, promoting more build options, it seems quite the opposite now. If i'm going life build, it's even more vital I hit every health node possible along my path. Melee suffers the most from this endgame, which is also the opposite of the goals you outlined in the patch threads. Sure, they got significant damage buffs, but endgame survivabilty, if anything, was kind of nerfed. Now they not only have less life to counter the big hits (which is unavoidable with a melee build considering you need to be close quarters all the time) but phys reflect as well.

Just my thoughts, all that said, I truly enjoy the game and appreciate the unbelievable amount of support GGG puts into it everyday. I'll be around for a long time to come. Sorry for the TL:DR :)

I read the forums daily and this the only well written sensible thing I read in a long time.

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Jackel6672 wrote:

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BRavich wrote:

What's with the nerf to shield charge? It was already a pretty underutilized skill, right? Dont get me wrong, I'm glad that evasion is slightly less gimped.

This.

IF it effects the player skill its going to have to be re balanced.

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Shield Charge (including Rhoa charges) can now be evaded.

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Gauldar wrote:

Also, to kind of back up the idea of the "endless dungeon/tower" style idea, I've noticed that the shadow in the picture has very low-level looking gear,and only freeze pulse and double strike - which means he must have started in this kind of thing. I'm looking forward to these races :D