When I learned of the 'damage buckets' design, I was somewhat disappointed in that the diversity of viable builds was maximally minimized as the majority of affixes (stat bonus types) were essentially useless.
They seem to be correcting exactly that in this build, so one wonders whether this change will be for the better in the sense of supporting diverse playstyles, however they also decreased defensive bonuses with no counter-balance from what I can see, so many people are expecting much longer grinds, which most suspect is the actual goal of this patch.
The power levels of players were too strong and they did a bunch of nerfing in a game that already has a very shallow end game. It's probably necessary - but feels very bad for the players.
Maybe the new season mechanisms have multiplicative bonuses too so they had to pre-emptively adjust everything else down?
It was such a stupid feeling to have tried to develop any sense of mastery or enjoyment in the game as it had been designed, and then have a series of z-version update all but unravel it. Now that's normalized as "the meta", but it's the same now as it was then — a hamster-wheel of an obstacle that doesn't accomplish "balance" so much as it separates casual players who give up or get out while they still can from the suckers who keep paying to chase eternally moving goalposts of mastery.
