Diablo 4 - MASSIVE S1 PATCH 1.1 IS HERE - ALL CLASSES NERFED (Barbarian is RUINED)

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So as

many of you know by now, the new patch

1.1.0a is now out for

Diablo 4 just before the new season is

released, Season of the Malignant, the

first season in Diablo 4. We've got some

pretty ugly looking changes and nerfs to

basically every class, and we also have

some new special unique weapons and items,

and we'll be having a look at those later

in the video. As you can see, there's

loads of bug fixes, which is really great.

It kind of surprises me that they've fixed

so many bugs because I've been playing a

lot of the game, and honestly, I haven't

really noticed any bugs with my class,

the Barbarian. And it says they've fixed 4

bugs with the Barbarian, but it seems like

the other classes have way more bugs that

had to be fixed. Seems like they've made

tiny changes to the amount of experience

you get for defeating higher level mobs.

They've also done some tweaking of

Helltide to make it more risky, so there's

more danger of you dying and losing your

Aberrant Cinders. And also seems like you

get less cinders from defeating groups of

enemies. But the biggest thing I noticed

after this patch is my Barbarian is doing

way less damage than it was doing before

the patch. So my main character is a level

97, nearly 98 Barbarian using a Ham of the

Ancients build, stacking Thorns and

maximizing damage when berserking and

using vulnerability. I tried to put as

much plus damage, plus vulnerability

percentage damage bonuses on every piece

of gear I had, and I was doing like 1.5

million to 2 million critical strike

damage on my Hammer of the Ancients before

the patch. After the patch, I can't do

anywhere near those numbers. Before the

patch, for example, I was able to clear a

tier 50 or tier 51 or 52 dungeon,

nightmare dungeon. But after the patch, I

jumped into a tier 52 nightmare dungeon

and I was just getting one-shotted by the

first pack of mobs, and I wasn't even able

to do any kind of damage above over

500,000 damage. So I wasn't able to DPS

down the mobs fast enough, so I had to go

down to like a tier level 44 Nightmare

Dungeon, and even Tier 44 was giving me a

lot of problems because I just wasn't able

to do the damage I was able to do before

the patch. Usually my playstyle was I

would pop my shouts and also Berserker

Frenzy, so I'd have all of the maximum

damage buffs, and then I would let the

enemy hit me so they get damaged by my

thorns, trigger Vulnerability, and then

I'd hit them with a Hammer of the

Ancients, and I would do like a million

damage easy on the low end. But now after

the patch, I run in, pop all my buffs,

and I was just critting for like 50,000

damage to 100,000 damage. If I got 150k

crit on Hammer of the Ancients, that was

kind of special after this patch, which is

just kind of lame because it was exciting

before the patch. It was really fun. I'd

just run in there, do like a million

damage with my Hammer of the Ancients on

everything around me, and I'd feel like

this machine, like this destructive

machine of power. And now I feel like this

weakling that can barely do any damage.

You see these massive giant tree enemies I

used to be— I was just one-shot them. I'd

run in, trigger vulnerabilities, smash

them with a Hammer of the Ancients and do

like a million damage, and then just go

down straight away. Now it takes forever.

Look at this, how long it takes for me to

take down one tree enemy. Oh my God, it's

still standing. It's just so— I feel so

pathetically weak. I don't know what

they've done after this patch. They've

completely destroyed vulnerability buffs

and any kind of build that relies on

making the enemy go vulnerable. And doing

bonus damage to vulnerable enemies has

just— so it's been nerfed so much to the

point where Hand of the Ancients build

Barbarian just feels so much weaker

than before. Now I think it's not just the

Barbarian. I think most of the classes

have been nerfed into oblivion because

some people were making these builds that

let them do insane damage, like millions

and millions of damage they were doing.

And I don't think Blizzard wants people to

be able to be doing such insanely high

amounts of damage because it was kind of

breaking the game. And I can kind of see

why they nerfed a lot of classes because I

guess it is kind of ridiculous, just run

in and one-shot everything. But that's

kind of what made it fun. It's not really

fun anymore. Well, it's not as fun as it

was before. I kind of like how they put

your character— they show your character

during the loading screens. Gives you a

chance to kind of appreciate what you've

built so far and the way your character

looks. That's a nice little touch.

They've made this one tiny change which I

find very annoying. So now it takes 5

seconds to teleport out of a dungeon

instead of 3 seconds, which is just so

dumb. I don't know why they felt the need

to waste the player's time by an

additional 2 seconds. I mean, was it

really that game-breaking for players to

be able to teleport out of a dungeon in 3

seconds instead of 5? It's just kind of

annoying having to wait 5 seconds now.

Also, it'd be nice if when you teleport to

a dungeon, like a Nightmare Dungeon, it

would teleport you inside of the dungeon

instead of outside of the dungeon's gates,

because it means you have to sit through 2

loading screens. You have to first

teleport to the dungeon, wait for the

loading screen, and then enter the dungeon

and wait for another loading screen. It's

just kind of annoying. It'd be much nicer

if you just see one loading screen and you

get teleported to the inside of the

dungeon. They've reduced the tendency for

many monsters to move around in combat,

so melee characters don't have to chase

their enemies down as much. That's a nice

little touch, as in as a barbarian, it's

kind of annoying having to constantly

chase after enemies when you want to keep

them all around you so you can AoE them.

Added more dynamic loading screens. I

think it would be nicer if they just got

rid of the loading screens because I hate

having to watch the loading screens. It's

kind of boring. Fixed multiple issues with

the map pin functionality. That's nice,

but I would like it if they fixed it so

you could easily locate the Nightmare

Dungeons. Sometimes I would activate a

Nightmare Dungeon and I just can't find it

on the map because it's being hidden.

Behind the way— the waypoint icon. I have

to disable the waypoint icons to be able

to see where the Nightmare Dungeon icon

actually is. That's, that's kind of

annoying. And as for the new 6 unique

items, we've got this Ahaverian Spear of

Lakanda, which is an uber unique staff.

And it says it's an extremely rare drop.

We wish you luck in recovering.

Apparently it's supposed to be extremely

rare, so I'm not even expecting to be able

to find it. So that means I don't really

care about it. And the Barbarian special—

I think there's like a Barbarian special

weapon. Yeah, Azure Wrath unique sword.

Lucky hit: your core skills have up to a

20% chance to freeze enemies for 3 seconds

and deal some cold damage to them, which

is kind of boring. I mean, I guess if I do

Hammer of the Ancients there's a chance of

freezing a load of enemies around me.

That, that could be kind of cool. But

there was already a pair of gloves that

had a lucky hit where you could freeze an

enemy just doing a basic attack, so it's

kind of just the same as that. It's not

really interesting, it's not really

anything super new. I guess if I got

it, if it dropped, I might use it just to

see if Hammer of the Ancients would then

AOE freeze everything around me, which

could be kind of interesting. And then

there's also 7 new legendary aspects. For

the Barbarian, we have Ancestral Charge.

Ancestral Charge offensive aspects: Charge

calls forth 4 Ancients who also charge,

dealing 50 to 100% of normal damage. It's

kind of boring. I don't know if that means

I need to have Charge on my toolbar and

use Charge. I never use Charge. Yeah, it

says Charge calls forth 4 Ancients. I

never use Charge, so this aspect is going

to be completely useless for me. I have a

Hammer of the Ancients build with Frenzy

and and 2 shouts, and I don't really have

any more room to use Charge. I have tried

out a Charge build and tried stuff like

Leap and Upheaval, but they just kind of

suck as abilities compared to the other

abilities like Hammer of the Ancients. So

yeah, I'm not really excited for the new

unique item or the new aspects for

Barbarian because they both sound kind of

boring and lacking in luster. I don't play

any of the other classes, so I can't

really say anything about the aspects and

items for the other classes. So yeah,

this new patch kind of sucks, to be

honest. I mean, the bug fixes are great

and everything, but I didn't really notice

any bugs after playing the game for over

200 or 300 hours. I haven't really

encountered any big bugs. There was only

one bug I had when I had to slay all the

enemies in an area, but I somehow managed

to get past the barrier and I just kept

going further and further into the

dungeon. Then I got stuck there and I

couldn't slay any of the enemies and

progress into the dungeon. But I don't

know how they've made so many bug fixes

for bugs that I've never seen before.

But anyway, the entire patch is just kind

of like a wet tissue. The game just feels

way less fun now that I'm doing way less

damage. I also am going to have to rethink

my build because I was easily able to do a

Tier 50 Nightmare dungeon before this

patch, and Now I just— I'm getting

destroyed on the mobs near the entrance.

So I have to— I have to like do a much

lower tier Nightmare Dungeon. I think

maybe back down to 45, or maybe 40 to 45,

before I can start working my way back up

to 50. Because my build is completely

broken. I don't know about your build,

your Barbarian build, but my Barbarian

build relied heavily on vulnerability,

and now vulnerability just kind of sucks.

So I think I'm gonna have to redo the

affixes on my gear, redo my talents, redo

my Paragon stuff. I have to redo

everything now because my build is

essentially broken and it just really