"Why Does My Necro Keep Dying!" | Shielding Storm Did NOT Get Buffed in the Patch 

I felt it too! This patch has been a total disaster. HB turned off, Andy helm not fixes, this etc do they test ANYTHING?!

I need to remember to not be happy about stuff in the patch notes until it's confirmed that they actually made the changes...

I know is not part of the video, but why can barb have a super strong thorns build and ours is sub-par in comparison? Shouldnt we have a better one I mean, if each minion deals 100% thorns damage that's already like 13x and then all the minions multipliers on top. Can you enlight us a little with this please oh @MacroBioBoi sensei

This is all this patch has been. AAA studio straight up failing to fix and patch things they said they did. It's embarrassing how bad they are at something so straight forward.

exact same kind of thing happened to andariel's. The animation is on the enemies but is still pulses around the character, the tool tip changed but the damage is still the same. Now stuff like this, and other uniques that just don't work like soulbrand. I know we say tooltips lie but it's really really bad right now. It feels like the tech debt in the game code is enormous.

Its wild people play hardcore in game like this which has so many bugs!

Yep... that explains the shit show that happened with the necro in the pits. Thanks for pointing this out to Blizzard. I guess its Sorc until they bother to fix this. Every time there is a patch, no matter how good the buffs promised, it fills me with dread. Fix a handful - break a bucket...

You're doing gods work here Macro - much appreciated! Unfortunately I was one of the hardcore players that got the news about Soulbrand too late RIP.

The worst part about Diablo 4 is that you literally CANNOT TRUST THE DEVS. I have tons of interesting builds and ideas but the mechanics within are just broken. Yens procs not proccing aspects and paragon glyphs for one. I wanted so bad to play a teleporting Shred wolf with perma hurricane boulder spam. D: But "autocast" boulders don't work with hurricane because ofc they don't. BECAUSE BLIZZARD DOES NOT KNOW HOW THEIR OWN GAME WORKS. Edit: This isn't the only thing that doesn't work. Yens + Bold chieftain doesn't work, or marshal for that matter. "Skill damage" also applies to ALL damage, which just makes the tooltip misleading. There are so, so many things that just don't work and you literally don't know if they work until you try - because they should work. But the question always remains "How did the developers code it?". It's insane. Like the Andariels thing now, even the effect is lying. Berserk ripping deals INSANE amounts of bleed damage so you would think that the sword passive would be a nice addition to it, no? WRONG - it scales off nothing. The game is so inconsistant it's pissing me off so bad. Poe 2 can't come fast enough. Ps. Meanwhile Rod Fergusson goes "this game is easy to pick up and understand" with a straight face. Their own developers don't understand it, how the fuck do you expect a random player to understand it.

Hey, thx for all the testing. I also felt squishier on my necro after the patch but without using the shielding storm aspect. I play a minion skele mages necro using tyrael's and even blood golem that asborbs 30% incoming dmg and i feel like everything can one shot me in pit 100+ when that was not the case before patch. But can't figure out where it comes from.

Thank you for all your testing 😁... I was trying to figure out the issue when I was testing shielding storm.. 🤔But something still feels abit off; necro feels squisher... I died alot at the same pit tier than before even though it is easier.

How badly did blizzard code this game? Its incredible how bad it is, like every single update does not work or it breaks something else completely random. This game is fucked. I cant wait for path of exile 2

As long as streamers test and advertise their games for free, players pay to test the games, and QA is 90% of the layoffs everyone hears about in the industry...expect this always and don't question it.

There are so many things bugged right now in this patch. I tweeted at Adam F today to delay the campfire and fix all these issues. Tal Rasha's ring is bugged too. I bet you there's other things that are too that we just don't know about yet.

I was confused a couple of days ago when my Bone Spirit (25) necro was feeling far squishier in the Pit, struggling to maintain fort even when dropping down to an 89. I was trying out some of the variances that your build presented, as well as masterworking up a change in MH+OH to accommodate. Thanks for the info on the Shielding Zephyr aspect; hopefully it can return to being a storm sometime soon.

I hadn't used sheilding storm since last season, but when I was leveling a necro I had it and it felt way less powerful than it used to be. Glad you got down to the bottom of it

Let's be honest, we all can't wait for PoE 2, they at least know what they are doing

I love this game but it’s kind of ridiculous when the developers don’t know how the game works or how to test it. Holy bolts was supposed to be nerfed for necro with the previous patch as well but I was still getting super high damage from it. I see now they have disabled it completely in the quick fix yesterday (or at least they said they did 😂). I can understand some of the original oversight, but when they are fully aware of bugs and unable to test whether things are actually working the way they should is nutso.

"This is why youre dying".. And here I thought it was all the poisons in our food, water and air.

Blizzard should really just pay people like macrobioboi to test their shit BEFORE they release it. They have to realize that stuff like this makes a significant amount of people not bother playing anymore. Theyre losing more money than what it would cost to hire just a few competent testers

I wish blizzard would hire community members like you to test things before they launch patches. Genuinely sad that my excitement for all these "buffs" were deflated quickly after testing my andi/flurry build.

Killer Video and Thumb!

After a whole year they still weren't able to fix shenanigans of the uber lilith fight... what do you expect from them :D I found a bug for example, where she's stucked in the last part of her first phase forever on 1hp and repeats attacks infinitely until you eventually die cuz of debuff stacking. Dunno if somebody saw this bug before, but imagine this happens to you on a high end hc character 😅 I may upload a video about this as a warning ⚠️ + maybe blizzard will eventually fix that unfair designed fight...

MacroBioBoi could you please explain the Elemental surge - how it actually works? can it be scaled with Crit? what is its place in the damage formula? If there any sense to get a certain element type?

Yes, I activated this in a sticky situation last night and died on HC at lvl 95

It's horrible how we have to deal with all these broken things.

It's just insulting at this point how much stuff they're lying to fix but don't... As an extra to not even lying that they are fixing what they should be fixing... Blizzard is double or even triple dipping in failing their players and offering a baseline of decent content. Not good quality. They can't offer baseline quality! Not even mediocre

I am wondering about thoughts on a decompose basic build on necro

yeah, i have noticed it too, so I started playing my sorc

The feel made me try a barb. Appreciate the data

It is extremely annoying that a billion dollar company cannot figure out basic math and need the suffering player base to do it for them. There is not a single patch without significant issues breaking stuff or just not doing anything listed. No problem to ask for $60 horses though!

Not sure if most people know this is or not, but using Ultimate Shadow (Bone storm also adds Darkness damage over 2 secs), does make the Bone Storm generate 3 times as much Barrier. Initial hit plus the 2 extra hits of darkness over 2seconds. Even on my blood build I use this so that my Bone Storm generates barrier quick enough to keep me going, i'm only doing Lv60 pits currently, was really hoping the buff it got would have really made me nigh on invulnerable, cause my max hp is 5 times my base hp. But for now its working cause of Ultimate shadow, and hopefully will be VERY nice once they fix this stupid bug.

Is barrier updating on the server tick or every 60 frames?

So in the meantime is there a better aspect we should be running in that slot

Oddly i have been dying very often with my minion army necro lately..i actually rage quit last night because i could NOT figure out why. Lol Maxed armor and resists. Not even lvl 100 mobs , like 85-90 lvl. Now i know

The damage reduction from vyrs mastery also got worse. Did any of the new changes was implemented right? I cant keep track anymore

Goodness thats why I get one shot in barrier last night lmao xD

nothing works as it should in this game. So many bugs and broken things…such a shame. They really struggle to get a W.

OMG i died so much after the patch and now i know why. Blizzard is messing up so badly with the necro

Does tibaults will work then?

Can someone explain to me how barrier is so hard for Blizzard to program? Like honestly.

Thanky you, you're the man! Hopefully they can fix this. Sort of related to this ... If you were running Lidless Wall and had multiple Storms going, would they all contribute to the Barrier? Not asking for numbers here, more a "what - if" thingie

It's just pathetic how almost every thing they touch becomes a complete failure.

Man sometimes I wonder what this game would be like without people as commited like you. The answer not good. Thanks for the work you put in!

Damage per tick, but barrier is per second, and it's still base life. Blizzard shipped a patch with a fix it didn't include. Someone forgot to commit prior to release or forgot to fix it altogether.

Is temerity working or no?

It looks like D4 devs have version control issues of the code, and someone has overwritten the code with old formula... Also, their QA team is literally non-existent. I would do better job testing it, despite not being even close to a software tester :|

Meanwhile the Barbs pet dog got damage buffed more than any other class 😂.

From this patch all we got are patch notes except for a barb buff. See andariel, druid boons, this aspect and other stuff: nothing there, only a patch note.

Indeed!! Thank you for for your videos as always.. Mac! 💜💛💚💙❤💀💀💀💀💀💀

I run shielding storm + temerity. It helps! Also, if it mathed right at half the procs- each proc should be 1,900 vs 950. So its only giving out 1/4 barrier of what it should be. Thats why I roll with Temerity (which Id be interested to see if they work right, either) as it still doesnt feel right combined with the two. That said, if Temerity isnt working correctly I would bet the coding lies in barrier generation gane wide not just with shielding storm.

I’ve always preferred protector. At least I can tell when it’s doing something

You're doing the Lord's work here friend. Thanks. Do you have "back channel" contact with any of the devs? If so, have they acknowledged this bug? I don't see anything publicly available.

Maybe it is because temerity and the aspect clash maybe? Or if uou use both barrier bugs?

Hi Mac, goodmorning ! any news on when this’ll get fixed?

Someone needs to tell ‘Blizzard’ that their Activision is showing. This is the same crap that happens non-stop to CoD anymore. Nothings fixed, shit that isint supposed to be touched gets broken/changed, and so on. Every. Single. Time. How is it that hard to not make changes to things that you didnt want to change? Or to make sure that the changes you are trying to do actually work? Zero play testing, no QC, nothing. Minimum effort expecting maximum pay

lol at this opening. Goat!

At this point I lost all trust in any item description and this sucks because it makes it impossible to make your own build and theory craft without following a build. I really like d4 but with all these bugs I rather play something else 😢

😊I knew something was wrong, cause the same necro I was using in season 4 I tried in the PTR. And guess what I could not kill a level 31 pit boss. Got through the pit ok, but was automatically killed when I got to the den mother. And whent back to season 4 and am doing good into level 43 so far. So like I asked them , what gives?

Blizzard needs to hire you part time as a QA tester or even better yet, a game/class design consultant.

I switched to barb a week ago. I got tired of how slow and soft necromancer was. Now i blast through things

"Y'all necros had too much fun with minions, so we need to fix that!"

basically, for the first tick only it's calculated on max life, then on base life. to get to this level i bet they had to start with elevated spaghetti on their code[x] and then they masterwork critted it 3 times. they also tempered meatballs chance on hit and pasta range for good measure.

I died on my 98 hc necro last night.. those mortars were wicked but this aspect must have contributed to my squishiness lol

Hi. Im currently playing a Blight Necro build. What gems should I be using on my weapons? I have Shadow damage over time slotted now.

I love d4, but this here is just aggravating. Half of the functions, calculations and aspect just don't work as they say. Same for Sorc, always full of bugs and broken mechanics. The worst part is, you're almost always forced to re-test everything after each patch. Seriously, every patch breaks something. I'm flabbergasted Blizzard doesn't do more internal testing. Good detective work and great job as always Ser 👍

Are reapers still bugged?

I'll be honest, I was using bone storm before the patch and I felt even squishier after the patch while using it, so I just dropped it and switched to a 2h build and started dancing more to avoid damage. I still don't understand why I would feel MORE squishy.

I wonder... if you have a Golem out and/or corpses and Lidless Wall, do the additional Bone Storms also generate Barrier on hit?

Does barrier add to bone spirit/overpower damage?

I don't know how it is now, but before the previous patch, the passive ''Raid Leader'' occasionally failed to work in heltides (maybe everywhere else too, I haven't noticed). Just half HP and press the ability to shout and nothing. It's very expensive and damp. Too greedy for this state of the game.

I hate how necro feels like paper compared to my Barb. The Blight Necro is the worst since you cant hide behind your minions and you need to stand there and take hits :(

"No no no... I wasn't crazy" I'm sure no crazy person has ever said that before.

has this been fixed? I just started the season and am following the maxroll guide. I dont know if it's worth using or not

I noticed this video earlier in the season but just thought I was crazy

So I don't know if you've covered this prior but The sacrificed iron golem does not multiply "bone critical damage". I had two separate greatswords each with the same-ish stats and the one with regular crit damage hit harder and even showed the increase on the character stats screen. Maybe you have covered this and I just missed it but bone critical seems to be a bait. Bonespear builds should know lol.

So theres a game inside this bug.

I appreciate you doing the .ath for those of use who are too lazy to do it ourselves. Wont be touching my necro until this is patched(successfully)

Something is weird... My numbers go all over the place. Sacrificed Golem without Osseous Gale and with Doombringer max health 59.978 I got barrier values: 21.013, 19.580, 18.625, 19.580, 19.103, 20.535, 19.580, 19.103, 18.148, 20.058, 19.580, 19.580, 16.237(?!), 18.148, 19.103.

Is someone keeping track of all those bugs in a public list? Because I totally lost the overview of everything that is bugged right now 😬

I just turned Lvl 50 and I also noticed I was dying more often, so I am back to playing V rising, which before this nerfing, I stopped playing Vrising to play D4...really the devs are their worst....

Welcome to the Druid club :D meanwhile barb ironskin gives istanta 290% life as barier + fortify + aspect of 50% dmg reduction =))))))))) How long will we pretend that we have more then one actual class in diablo :))

This is not to crap all over the devs. They are people. But the organizational structure of their team seems to lack any kind of leadership and second checking of one's own work. I think it's genuinely fair to say that the number of bugs introduced into the game with any given patch that they put out is simply far too high. There are some serious quality control issues on that team when it comes to coding changes into the game. And again this is not my area of expertise or anything, but just as a simple observer of the situation, I think anyone would see this is the case. It is getting really difficult for me to give the devs the benefit of the doubt that when they make a change it actually goes through the way we would expect. There's this video today by you macro, and like an hour ago Wudijo posted his own video about a bugged Rogue paragon legendary node that is granting +dmg to all things, instead of just +dmg on crits like the tooltip indicates. These are just two of like over 100 examples for this season, in terms of bugs. It's really frustrating that they can't better check their work and put out higher quality patches. The number of bugs is genuinely unacceptable as just a regular player of this video game.

what happens if you try it with ultimate shadow?

That explains it.

How does the game feel different if there was no change? How can you feel squishier then before the patch?

This is literally an issue of "We fixed the UI but not the code"

Honestly, they should be paying you a salary for finding the bugs they don't seem to be looking for.

Are we suppose to take life damage while fortified? Can you test that? I'm sure I'm taking damage while fortified...

At some point you have to ask yourself whether it's ineptitude or is something nefarious going on. I vote stupidity; I think it's ineptitude. They build such convoluted damage systems that even the devs don't fully comprehend what's going on behind the scenes. Why does it have to be so freakin complicated? Do they TEST their patches? I don't think "sandbox" means what they think it means.

Each time said that they fix something, i don’t use it for weeks, just in case 😂

I almost never die as I use blood mist (and every DR possible). My shadow mages are at about 2500% damage (10 points into Mage Mastery). Sheiko, Doombringer and Razorplate (27k thorns plus tempers).

Insidious.. the force is strong with this patch.

Im just playing Barb next season lol. You know they will have a top spec, and Necro is just constantly bugged.

Started the season on necro. Was fun but mobility & survivability felt bad. Rogue, Sorcerer, &Barb all "feel better". Dying generally feels fairer.

Why can't blizzard get items right, for ALL classes. Is fixing bugs really that hard? Also, can we get a toggle for the onscreen skill bar to make it invisible. It's ridiculous that I'm trying to kill demons on the bottom of the screen and i get a text box that covers half my screen

We said this before blizzard doesn't know how to count and it shows

sooner or later the couch dads blizz spent *800 million dollars last year* advertising to, the ones with three jobs and five kids who have 26.8 mins per week to play vidya, get bored and move on. the core community thats left needs to come to terms with the fact that D4 doesnt just have an overarching design/identity problem, or a management problem - the coders suck too. everybody is screwing up except the art department. the sooner theyre all held to account, the better for everyone involved. an objective mathematical analysis like this video is the most constructive form of criticism if the game ever hopes to improve on a fundamental level

Getting things you were promised from Blizzard/Activision? Oh my... I want that too. *nostalgia to the time where they promised diablo 3 and never got it*

How do we report things to the developers? I want to report that osseous gale is a utility aspect not an offensive aspect.