Diablo 4 14.3 Patch notes - Druid player loses remaining hair - Season 4 

"Fixed an issue where people were still playing druid. People can now reroll barbarian instead until Spiritborn release."

Why can’t they just buff the strong end game builds? Werenado is still so lacking. I mained Druid for the first part of the season, picked up Barbarian during the event and am already wayyyy stronger with Flay. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

At this point blizzard needs to reach out to people who theorycraft and play the most out of a class to help them with balances this point forward… like u said this was a patch of “I don’t really know what’s wrong so let’s just make 20% upgrades across the board and call it good”. I really hope for the PTR they reach out to you or another Druid player who knows the class. Druid is my main class since I found your channel early on when you discovered blurred beast so I hope you don’t lose hope and you will continue to try to give insight and help the Druid class through the PTR before season 5 starts.

probably, blizzard's final solution = delete druid from game.. i was druid player. now i am playing barb with a big smile on my face.. (compulsorily)

I think I have to give up on Druid after reading these patch notes, I really thought they would make huge bold changes in this patch because of serious performance issues compared to the other big boy classes but I was completely disappointed.. ugh

I’m glad you’re speaking out brother. I’d love to have a conversation with you about Druid and ideas that would make the class better. Keep beating the drum. Hopefully S5 will be big for us. Also, I wonder how many Druid mains are also TMNT fans.

Guys, in fact we are wrong, we should not play druid, we should play barb!

AHAHAHAHHAHAAH BRO 25% RABIES DAMAGE INCREASE HOLY FUCK THEY DIDNT EVEN TRY

100% to dust devil but 76% to pulz.....as if barb still need more damage.

Best way to play a Druid is to play a Barbarian

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the previous video. You're a passionate Druid player, and the changes are terrible. The Druid is in one of its worst states ever. You hit the nail on the head when you said 0 x 0 = nothing. These tiny little 5% and 10% changes do nothing. We're banging our heads against the wall at this point.

They really need to add passive spirit regen.

The fact they buffed barbarian's Flay skill shows they ONLY use skill use analytics to buff. Flay is pushing pit148 and anyone who played the class would know its actually overperforming and not need a buff. Less people using flay than bash doesn't make it bad. Devs don't truly play or follow their game, even in the classes they play.

I raged. It is obvious they did not actually care to spend time playing the Druid to understand what's really needed. Elden Ring DLC next week so will likely be done until DLC and possibly not even buy/play DLC.

As a Druid main since release and all seasons this is a joke of a balance change. Blizzard needs to play Druids, play the builds in the pits. Bring us closer to other classes.. I get that developers are probably not allowed to rework abilities in a mid season balance patch but if you are trying to balance Druid damage you need to start by looking at other classes. We are 20 pit tiers behind… this means as a starting point all Druid dmg needs to be increased by 300%x … (10 pit tiers =double dps needed) come on man these changes are pathetic

Proof they don't actually play the game they are developing. These patches are so out of touch they don't understand why certain classes/builds are underperforming.

They know they fucked druid up, so we get druid 2.0 in the expansion, The Spiritborn

100% current pulverize damage * 76% buff = 176 damage now. Then, with 30% [x] dmg buff added to Pulverize upgrade talent point, we take 176 * 1.3 = 228.8. 228.8 / 100 = 2.288, or 2.28x (rounding down) damage increase. So if you did 5 million overpowers before, you'll do about 11.44 million damage now. I haven't played Pulv this season... no idea if it even can hit for 5 million right now lmfao. But even doing 11.44 million Overpowers, as in this pretend example, is pathetic. Bone Spirit doing HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DAMAGE says hello. Pulverize still needs at least another 2x damage on top of all that we're getting in this new patch. Again, we're getting 2.28x more damage, but we needed more like 4x or 5x more damage overall, not just 2.28x... it's just not enough to make this build do any real damage in the pit. Now, I know the pit is being nerfed as well, but this will still be FAR behind all Storm builds. What Pulverize needs is... you know.. maybe... something... like... THUNDERSTRUCK NODE? Ha! One can dream.

The only people that think that these are good druid changes are people that don't play druid.

Very disappointed with the mid-season update for druids. I dont see any reason to play druid until next season all this patch done is widen the gap even further between us and the other classes compared to some of the massive buffs they recieved

Nice! If they keep this pace, by 2028 I'll be able to use Rabies, a skill that I don't even want to use, it's lame.

It scares me that the expansion is introducing another class into the mix, when they can't get 2 core classes right. Druid and Sorc are just pathetic, Spirt Class is gonna be the same.

A very rough estimate on (OP) Pulverize: Iron Feather Maximum Life increased from 14%[x] to 20%[x]. = 1.053 Swooping Attacks Attack Speed increased from 10%[+] to 15%[+]. = 1.045 Obsidian Slam Kills required for guaranteed Overpower reduced from 20 to 10. = 2 Pulverize Damage increased by 76%. = 1.76 Raging Pulverize Previous - Enemies Overpowered by Pulverize are Stunned for 3 seconds. Now - Pulverize deals 30%[x] increased Overpower Damage. Enemies Overpowered by Pulverize are Stunned for 3 seconds. = 1.3 Nature's Reach Damage to Distant Enemies increased from 3/6/9%[x] to 5/10/15%[x]. = 1.055 Mending Previous - While in Werebear form, you receive 6/12/18%[+] additional Healing from all sources. Now - While in Werebear form, you receive 6/12/18%[+] additional Healing from all sources and gain 4/8/12%[x] increased Maximum Life. = 1.12 Provocation Time in Werebear form required for Overpower reduced from 24/20/16 to 20/16/12 seconds. = 1.333 Dominate Glyph Damage bonus after an Overpower increased from 12%[x] to 15%[x]. = 1.027 Putting together = 8.1435[x] Enough? No. Remember that OP Pulverize was not even working before OP was nerfed and OP HotA was one of the top... so clearly the mechanism did not and still does not work. Also to mention one of the biggest issues is the SHEPHERD IS HIJACKING ALL DRUID BUILDS with 3 skills and 2 aspects and companions doing negligible damages, only to scale damage to a level which is more like baseline. Shepherd really is to compensate companion builds for having fewer ways of damage, and must not be a compulsory for all druid builds. My suggestion is to redo spirit boons and move companion skills there like book of the dead, and add one more set of skills/passive in companion skill tree node. Maybe even get rid of shepherd and scale everything right in its place. Resource generation is also an issue, especially for OP Pulverize. From my personal experience I cannot do smooth flows of damage if I use Ursine Strength instead of Earthen Might, plus Umbral which takes one more quota for aspects. Given the resource generation mechanism, basic skills need to be buffed to the same level and core skills to make it work. Aspect wise, Vasily's prayer and Insatiable fury also take two aspects with old stats. Shepherd takes two. How many aspects quota left with one two-handed weapon equipped? And a lot more... Hands off of Pulverize, and Druid.

Blizz secretly running a hair transplant clinic for druid players obviously

You know where the priorities were when you see Rob practically leaping for joy and Ace needing to make a second video to calm down

I think the Druid is gonna get nixed...which is really sad. It was my first TWO. Characters i created. I have one weather storm druid and another that's a shapeshifter. I think the concept of the druid class is cool, but just really poorly executed. I would have loved to see a skill that enables ALL animals on the screen to fight for you... Like instead of a couple of pets following you around- you could cast a spell that would enable any animal on the screen in a particular battle start fighting along side you...Also- I think, that the Druid class should be completely immune to all animal attacks in the game. Bears, Wolves, Spiders, Birds, Bison, Insects. Obviously, you wouldn't find these animals in every part of the map or dungeons...but I think it would visually look cool on the screen to hypnotize and command EVERY. animal in Diablo to fight for you... especially in a huge battle. Another thing, i thought of- Was you could change into an animal, that would essentially conceal you from enemies... Kinda like the cloaking mechanic of the rogue...You would morph into an animal, and then just sneak right past enemies. Maybe put it on some kinda cool down timer. Maybe you could regain health, while you were in this animal form of concealment. Im a 50 year old gamer...I use to play DnD when i was a kid...I think they could make the druid really awesome..I feel like more than any of the other classes - The druid has limitless possibilities in terms of creative design elements. ✌️

These changes are so infuriating, you look at the fact the buff many barb things and then scroll down to see the so called “buffs” given to Druid. Well thanks blizzard for doing nothing of relevance to fix the weakest class in the game. There has been a handful of skills and some key passives that are utterly useless on the class since launch, in a years time they can’t fix the class. Worst leveling experience in the game and now the worst end game at least 8 months ago the good endgame was a trade off. Every Druid player should be livid. I get every class to 100 each season and min max at least one build type and Druid is so so far behind right now

Your frustration is understandable. This patch gives the impression that they don't know what to do with the Druid class. Have you ever thought about making a video "Everything wrong with the Druid class in Diablo 4"? Could be a spreadsheet as a basis where you point out what is not working and why it's not working. Like in this video, you could even give a recommendation on what could be changed to make it playable and/or competitive. It sounded to me like you have everything in your head already. It just needs to be written down somewhere so the Devs know where the priorities are. Keep up the good work 👍

For god sake how hard can it be to balance a class for a billion dollar company?!

my last druid play was last season , ive tried the best i could with the class , but blizzard nerfed bulwark then nerfed shred and now the class is just unplayable for high pits . so sad they did with my fav class

I'll take rage Goblin over less rage Goblin any day. That last video was priceless.

Blizzard never fails to disappoint us players in the aspect of disappointment.🤡

Yeah they clearly don't play the game and earth druids need love

Visage helmet looks interesting for sure

I played Druid once game come out and now Im running barb dust devil - it's just sad what they doing to Druid ( PS What is the best way to level Druid - just stay close to necro on heltide :P Edit : I don't understand why we are getting new class if they cant fix the old one

When they do things like these, I always wonder if there’s some hidden mechanic that no one has found out yet and they partially buff stuff because otherwise it would be like the best build in the game, but then again, we’re talking about the same people that don’t know how to do simple math :)

@Blizzard thanks for nothing in this patch....driving @aceofspades to no longer make Druid videos. Mission accomplished?

why is the barb always OP regardless of the season? its kind of unfair.

Nature's fury would be better at 40% i personally think. Overall, they just need to do better by Druids. Because this shit is so asinine how we are still one of if not the weakest class when we really should be 3rd strongest. Its just crazy how they buff things nobody uses at all. But barely buffs things al.ost every druid is using. I wanted to be a wearbear so much i had thoughts on builds tried them and they just wasnt effective or efficient to do damage or stay alive. Its crazy how we have to find a meta build to be some what playable.

Thoughts on this? Make it so Shepherds doesn't work with core/wrath anymore and buffs companions a shit ton cus I like the pet style with all 3 of them. Tired of seeing a lot of druid builds relying on that aspect. Its a start but way more needs to be addressed.

almost like none of the devs actually play druid

At this point it is obvious to me, that the guy they hired for the druid class, is using a calculator to find how much is 2 times 2. I only play druid and I am not going to spent another 50$ and wait till they accidentally fix the fucking class.

No offense to you Goblin but we really need the big four to get involved about talking and discussing the Druid problems raxx,wudy,Rob and ryk to get any of this done it's unfair they need to bring back rampaging werebeast and remove the 200% cap on the aspect tornado Druid should not have to use companions to do the bulk of the damage it should come from the Druid itself

they don't actually care because nobody plays druid... they have a metric they post almost every season now, of which classes that get played and druid is always at the bottom. They have only made huge adjustments to the characters that people play. I don't blame them for doing this when you take into consideration that they have a product they are trying to sell. However this only guaratees our issues will not get addressed anytime soon. Looking forward to shadow of the urdtree and POE2. Ill be on last epoch until then

Ain't that the truth

Bro…. Then all on top of this, we are still bricking and we can’t enjoy the pits with our friends…. I’m so annoyed. It’s upsetting.

What I believe is going on is that most of the skills that are implemented into the game right now don't have proper support (Aspects/Uniques) that is ready for live service so they put in arbitrary buffs to incentivize usability. Example: Incinerate got a brand new aspect that made it halfway playable in the mid game. This is terrible design philosophy and is catching up to them.

Each class should have a class lead who actually plays the class and lias with the top druid player and theory crafters.

Druids and Sorcs have been hard played. Since Poison shred. Druids have not had a single s tier build. There is barb with over 3 builds going past pit levels than Druid. There is many necro builds that do the same. What’s the point of making a class if it has a major disadvantage. Druid and sorc is my fave. But these disadvantages are crazy. Do they play Druid ? I don’t think they have a clue what they are doing.

Thank you for continuing to push. We don’t have anyone in our corner but you. No other content creator seems to give a shit about druids… thank you.

Poor Elon Musk 😂

Druid devs need to be fired.

It’s such a joke these patch notes. The devs hate Druids

Dude the title is great

I think they should take a page out of ESO's book and look at how the Werewolf specialization is. I absolutely love how the Werewolf plays and that's what I envision how Druid Werewolf should be, only it's 1000 times worse in D4. They really have no f'n clue how to make a Druid class and that's been extremely obvious since CBT & OBT.

Couldn't the new Andariels be pretty nice for Windshear? As far as I know Windshear is at the moment not bugged in any form. So if they finally fix all the double dipping bugs and perma immunities etc. every class should end up between 120 and 130? Class internally, everything except stormskills is f***ed because of thunderstruck... thought way would cap it after the PTR...

We've heard your feedback about Druid being under-powered, so here are some Barb buffs, uwu. God damn lizzard striking again, I thought I was hallucinating when I've read the druid "buffs". No one in the dev team plays druid. (every marketing bullshit video they put out, they're saying they play necro, barb etc., with druid never mentioned)

Yeah meanwhile barbarians get our tornados and even get to temper their size 🙄 the creativity for this class could be so amazing. Like some kind of synergy between cataclysm / hurricane / tornado / wind shear.. and why is hurricane the size of a hula hoop? Wouldn't be surprised if they let barbarian have that too. Druids aren't allowed to have class fantasy or build creativity at this point, and blizzard handing out bonk builds is just making it worse. All I want is a pure wind build that doesn't involve me using shapeshifting... This triple dipping stuff is just not my jam. Thank you though for always making dope builds for us to be able to have fun with 😎. This paragon board is way too bloated and dramatic for me to figure out 🥴 Id honestly prefer they just do away with it because the glyphs aren't fun either, but it is what it is. 😮‍💨 Druid was the entire reason I snagged this game because I loved Diablo 2 druid and I just cant vibe with the other classes at all 😕

Druid is really rough especially this season. I play the class since open beta but this season made me mad how oblivious devs are you would expect them to improve it by now but no. I think class desperately needs more aspect slots and more new aspects that changes skills in different ways. Like why even have pulverize size temper in the game ? then add new aspect so we always overpower with pulverize when we don't use shockwave aspect and we compensate the size with the temper. Boons are still trash. I played other classes too and it's eye opening how much better they are. It feels like everything is forbidden for druid's for some unknown reason despite having cool build paths you can't realize any of them. You hit a wall. Needs a big overhaul. Number buffs not gonna cut it. 76% pulv buff could have been 760% and it would still be bad. Boons barely compete with 1 single affix/gem with these buffs. All boons needs to be changed to impactful aspects. Tempest roar unique aspect should be a boon.

Let's be real, all the top builds (including Druid's wind shear) rely on a bug for insane damage. Nothing they add legitimately will do anything for Druid unless it is 100x or 1000x damage which they won't do. Our only hope is a new bug slips through (accidentally, of course).

Why is Banished Lord's Talisman useless? If you use resource generation rather than resource cost reduction, roughly every 7th Pulverise overpowers, and all crit overpowers get a x60% multiplier.

"We have completely fixed the issue where Druid players could play Diablo 4 in Season 4." As I feared, they continued to make changes in what they think is a cool direction, but anyone who has played a Druid knows they actually end up choosing a pile of shit to cook with.

Druid is my favorite class thematically. I have a 100 tornado druid, but now just started leveling my second barb because they are so fun, I don't want to respec my existing 100 barb. They need to fix druids.

I think Blizzard can't really fix anything with reasonable buffs as long as they are not willing to fix the broken S-tier builds that are based on bugs. Who cares about 2x buffs to any build as long as Bash, Flay or Heartseeker are the reference. The most hilarious line in this patch notes is the buff to Flay though. Its so bad that it makes me want to quit the season and wait for the next PTR.

i propose to all unite and only play barb so we can force them actually do something with the other classes...... I started necro this season and just rolled a druid, currenly 89. I am not even gonna bother raising him to 100. So upset i have not rolled barb.....

Anyone else feel like overpower is glitched for druid ? I'm on my hurricane build and when I stack that skill to overpower after 12 seconds it's not over powering much. It's much less after this update.

I dont understand why they cant make Wolves a Storm skill through Storms Companion. That would buff the Build pretty good, being able to go much further in the pit and being such a simple tweak

It's like when they nerfed Hota. They didn't understand why it was extremely OP so they nerfed everything and made all the barbarian core skills do no damage. And they also nerfed every skill in the game that uses overpower even skills that wasn't OP.

Maybe it's just me left with this feeling, but after seeing the expansion and the new class it feels to me like this is a druid class V2 considering they've been obviously unable to fix the current druid class so far, so why not create one new one from scratch and call it a different name :D all the classes got skins too apart from the druid which seems to be completely neglected :X

I must hate myself because I decided to main a Druid for the second season in a row and chose sorcerer as my secondary. At least next season when I finally try Barb I’m going to feel BROKEN.

The new Druid fix is just disguised in Spiritborn. Lmao I swear Spiritborn will be everything a Druid should’ve been. 😂

What a joke of a patch for druid. . I love playing druid and seeing them adding like X5% on skills, nodes that does nothing makes me wonder if they even played druid, tested things you know 😂

garbage patch for garbage devs. I can't believe they buffed barb AGAIN for the 100th time. I am hard swapping now, ggs

I complained about the druid buffs on another video and someone told me to play a different class since I "didn't know how to build druid". Like my brother in christ the math isn't mathing when the pit boss hp is scaling by the billions and other classes are hitting for billions.

I think most druids are actually waiting for spirit born since blizzard aren’t paying attention to Druid meanwhile the poster child barb gets another build to play with 😂

Some1 test dmg from fleshrender ? How we can increased dmg from this item ? Does it stack with thunderstruke when use bloody howl and tempeat roar ?

Playing druid literally to feel like a earth bender from avatar. is it good, nope can I beat tier 80 pits yes. What am I missing damage to bosses

The gates in NM dungeons will take longer to destroy with lvl 12 masterworked rabies than other classes kill torment uber duriel.

Has anyone at bliz actually played the Druid and compared the power ceiling to the other classes? Such a fun class but so far behind

laughable patch for druids who have been obviously struggling. D4 balance team strikes again.

100% agree with you frere 😡 Stupid development! Please, play your own game Blizzard

I think the Update are very bad but they buff my Favorite skill 😅 Make you a Pulverise Build ? c:

Used to be a druid main on launch, it turrned into my first alt the other seasons, now i didnt even make one. Cant really be asked to run the same awkward shepherds shit.

I feel like pulverize will be strong now, just saying it here now :D

They do not even try to fix bug which make you can not even play such as glyph, companion...

POe2

Blizzard games are for CASUALS. I made the mistake to take up this game when it came to gamepass despite knowing blizzard makes games for newbies. Of course they would continue to buff the class that can hold two 2h weps and two 1handers-who are already performing incredibly well. Time to go back to actual competitive games, this is a game for people like rhykker and raxanterax who complain about game models being too ugly for their fapping

Tough but fair critique. Great video

why do they limit boulder to 10 when they have a double projectile temper for it? makes no sense

I'll probably quit playing until next season. L patch

Out of curiosity in 1 of your videos you talk about not having to hold shift to cast a melee ability. I was wondering if you could remind me how to do that as i forgot how i got it to work before and i have a different laptop setup now. It was your Wind Shear video where you said to use shred to keep up the Quickshift counter. Granted im using claw but same thing really.

You deserve better for all the hard work you have done. Class balance is just a joke at this point

Not sure why...but after the patch, the storm slide now performs better than the wind shear for me.

you know whats crazy..the ptr is currently proving this video wrong.

IM SOOO CURIOUS HOW ANYBODY CAN FORSURE SAY THAT THERE WONT BE AT LEAST ONE OTHER BUILD THAT CAN COMPETE SOMEWHAT IN PIT.. its so confusing how ppl actually can add up all the numbers and percentages to forsee that it wont work i just wanna know some builds that will come closest to wind sheer or maybe even beat it cause i dont htink imma be able to get my kid to quit playing druid

1.Stormclaw must be rolled back to what it used to be. 2.Toxic claw must do damage based on the actual crit damage and not the base damage. 3. Heighten Malice should work on single targets 4. Lust for Carnage should also give uncapped [x]% damage to shred (for example based on damage to poisoned or close or attack speed) 5. Lacerate should be Burst dmg. Something like Do x% of the damage you ve done with shred critical strikes the last 6 seconds - add cleave effect 6. Inner beast should be 5 stacks 7. More weapon slots. Totem should be used with two handed weapons. Either a two handed and a totem, or dual wield 2 one handers and a totem 8. Nerf Shepherds to scale only with one type of companion 9. Rework Blurred beast to do [x]% amount of damage to all poisoned enemies every 3rd shred hit 10. Lupine ferocity, remove critical strike on every 6th and make it overpower on every 6th 11. Give Rabies an aditional desease status. Spreading the desease and making poison effects hit faster for the duration. 12 Gift of stag x to maximum spirit and %spirit cost reduction 13. Prickleskin thorns + Defence % 14. Energize +spirit regen/sec 15. Bolster +increase barrier amounts and durations 16. Dolmen stone remove knockback

A simple example: Ahavarion vs Granpapa, you know the answer.

I completely don't understand, why they don't improve builds that people want to use.. They don't even care that, lightning bolt which has its own glyph is not a STORM skill? You cannot proc it, only flat additional damage. Same for Dancing bolt, procs only from Lightning Storm, so why we can do lightning damage from Shred or claw? Also it dancing and lightning bolt is not even Nature skills, which also could have many synergies in many builds. Such improvements are rather bug fixes, that could improve many builds

Druid is in a decent spot, can do all content etc. it’s just not as good to push as deep into the pit as other classes, other classes rely mostly on bugged stuff with broken bugged multipliers. What’s the point of buffing Druid to the point where it can compete with the other (bugged) classes? Those op builds get nerfed anyway when new season starts. Yeah I agree blizzard buff stuff to a point where it’s still questionable why they even buffed that, but that’s the case for all the classes. Sorc has 1 passive and that’s shatter that allows for pit pushing with hours of boss fishing, if you take away shatter then sorc is the worst pit pusher.

no sugarcoating or dancing around the obvious flaws, i appreciate that