Will you nerf the OP lightning spear already??!

I've played LS to level 88 solo self founded (technically i'm in the trade league but i haven't traded anything for my char and try to push it as far as i can without help before buying).
My personal experience has not been that this build is OP. Maybe it is with highly optimized meta gear. I've died more this season than with ice monk and spark witch the season before.
There certainly is content that LS shreds through but overall i never got the feeling of playing with a smooth running well oiled machine.

I lucked into a Lycosidae which helped greatly to bring the build online but even then actually playing the game feels super unbalanced. I can shred through mobs and still have near death experiences every single map. Or there randomly shows up a rare or boss that's almost immune to my build. Or in delirium white mobs spawn right on top of me, insta stun me and make for awkward, clunky manouvering. Sometimes the first spear doesn't hit properly and then i fight unholy amounts of mobs with borked dps output.

A lot of dps i have to sacrifice to make ES work and after upgrading my skill gem to lvl 19 i now run into mana management issues aswell.

If this is THE OP build this season then i'm afraid the game is actually in a much worse state than i thought.

Maybe there are build guides out there that i can try to respec my build into but honestly to me it's insane that people want the game to be balanced around only the very best setups. It should be balanced around players trying to make shit work on their own and ENJOY playing the gam.

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Flowneppets#0528 wrote:

If this is THE OP build this season then i'm afraid the game is actually in a much worse state than i thought.

It's popular because it's easy to use. All the drawbacks you mentioned are by design since all that ease of use gives you a glass cannon. A lot of people think that's fun. But if the devs nerf it you'll also get a glass air gun instead that's all drawback, no kick. Nerfs should be for things that are easy to use but also have no drawbacks at all.

They did mention no build nerfs during leagues, so expect Dawn of the Hunt to have the spear power for the entire league.

Just go with the meta if you want to enjoy the game.

Nerf this to the ground already.

i hope they nerve it, that way there won't be anyone left playing the game 🤣 so we can all wait till they decide bringing 0.1 back before the game completely dies

If they want slower, more methodical gameplay, it needs to be rewarding.

People play LS because the loot in this game is so abysmal that if you don't clear entire screens at a time, your chances of finding anything valuable are literally zero.

If you could still find decent items while using a slower, more methodical build, people would play them.

But right now, we have two choices:

Play super-fast screen-clearing blaster builds for a tiny chance of finding loot.

Don't and never find anything useful while you struggle to do anything.

Blizzard have finally realised that no-nerf seasons with mid-season buffs doesn't work. The OP builds just dominate the whole season and by mid-season it's too late.

They are changing philosophy to acting quickly to nerf overperforming builds at the start of a season. GGG should do the same.

Yes, it sucks for the no-life blasters who got OP within 48h. But they have lots of time to respec, re-gear or just make a new character. Normal people would notice no difference.

But maybe they will never do this because there are leaderboards? (apparently, I have never seen them personally) IDK.

You should enjoy one of the few fun builds that make the game bearable and not a piece of trash slogfest that calls itself a "soulslike" just because it has dodgeroll instead of trying to get it nerfed lmao

It's obvious that in 0.3 they're gonna destroy this skill though, and many others. But hey maybe by then they would have figured out what to do with Grim Feast and re-enable it. But I wouldn't count on that.