Blizzard's Incompetence RE: Twister Wiz
So, I'm one of the small group of members of SoS that has been testing and refining the new Tals Twister meta for the past 2 weeks in PTR. If you watch streams, you may have even seen it start to debut on some of the popular streamer's channels this morning. We've pretty much perfected it, and at this point its pretty clear it outstrips Archon FB wiz by a large amount. Right now, this build is easily capable of 114+ with fishing / well setup gear / para. Its got more potential then the current DMO twister Wiz because of the way you can setup its entire 4 man group around it with the changes to damage in PTR.
Now, the intention of this patch was to remove globe fueled Twister Wiz. So, we took away the globes, and figured out how to make it work without the globes. Its pretty simple blizz, if you're going to nerf something, you need to nerf it enough (and buff other sets/classes) so that they are comparable or better then where that previous patch was. You took only 1 build (fire archon wiz) and made it capable of the same GR levels as DMO twister wiz in 2.4, then steady nerfed it lower and lower until at this point, its at the point of being able to be able to push up to the low 100s. In comparison, my group has been pushing 110s. Once chainer is in PTR, he'll be opening 113s to do so.
How is it that blizzard is SO incompetent that they are unable to have the game knowledge to look at something and decide on whether or not its going to be top tier? We have simple tools like D3Planner which let us sim, I'm sure Blizz has even more potent tools. It should be a nobrainer for an intern to sit down with moderate game knowledge and figure out which builds are going to be the best. We are about to have the same meta, two seasons in a row. From a player's perspective, this is hugely frustrating! I cant believe it even happened that blizz is incapable of doing something as simple as nerfing a few items so that they are no longer heads and shoulders better then EVERY other build in the game.
With that said, here's the entire set of all 4 of the group members in the twister wiz meta for 2.4.1
NERF Twisted Sword, and BUFF other DPS. Nerf the damage amp of DPS, and give incentive to bring interesting high single target DPS in addition to a high rift clear AoE Build. A 2 zDPS and 2 DPS meta is INFINITELY more interesting then the current awful meta of 3 zdps staring at a corner. As the barb, I'm the only person in my group actively making huge impactful choices. Everyone else? Their strongest decisions are talking to Reduce damage to the point where thats possible, without needing 3 zDPS worth of mitigation.
Edited by Anthony on 4/18/2016 5:52 PM PDT