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PTR balance patch update! (news.blizzard.com)
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Even more new changes have hit the PTR. These sound fun but where are the larva egg and revelation bug fixes?

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Basically the DPS is lower than the current stable patch, but it lasts longer and it's bigger, you really need to move out of it

Mana made a video https://youtu.be/wvAcHog4V5c

Or ZombieGrub https://youtu.be/z14SwYJUcJk

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I understand what the initial changes were to storm, I was asking specifically about these additional changes that refers to specific mechanics that I've never seen before.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    The initial change was super bugged because they didn't handle the ticks correctly, this basically fixes that. Aside from the radius increase, I think the other storm changes are only bug fixes from the previous PTR. IMO they made the patch changes too technical, should've just said "fixed bugs from last PTR". Really we just need to know what's changed compared to the stable release. I think it might tick faster than the stable release now so it might be better than half DPS?

    This is now 130 damage across about 6 seconds, instead of 80 damage across less than 3 seconds. So I guess this is like 75% of the original DPS.

    Mana shows storm at the start of his video, in unit tester. ZombieGrub talks about it starting at 2min in her video.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    should’ve just said “fixed bugs from last PTR”.

    I hate this, I'd rather have jargon that can gain meaning later rather than the vague "various bugfixes and improvements" we get from mobile app updates.

    Thanks for the insight on how PTR storm works!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I mean if you're talking about notes of release->release sure, but when it's an alpha test patch that only existed for 2 days, I'm not sure the details are that important, just tell us the difference from the release version

    Oops we messed that one up, ignore that last patch, here is what's different from the release version:

    Is really all that needs to be said, or an explanation so normal players are capable of reading it, but they went for the worst of both worlds lol

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