As the title says, the DH is fun to play, but most of the skills feel lacking.
Vengeance is not one of those skills, it feels like you’re activating god mode and everything melts before you. You really do feel like you’re as powerful as the nephalem before you. Having an extra 8 hits means you get 9x the LoH (I think, hard to notice when you only have 2k LOH and over 500k hp). The stun rune also means everything literally bows before you, before they die.
Rapidfire bombardment, Lighting ball, seem like the only viable skills because you need the skill to work with AoE and single target. 1 skill is needed for a hatred generator, another for vengeance, another for your choice of healing either shadow power (blood moon rune) or smoke screen (healing vapors) then you’re left with two slots. You really need vault to get out of stuff since shadow power isn’t gloom so you can’t just run through stuff or tank it, and smoke screen only lasts 1 second which isn’t enough to steer clear of lots of damage on the ground, and even if it is, you don’t have the massive disp to spend.
So now you’re left with just 1 an actual attack. You can’t choose a single target one like impale because you’re going to get owned by any form of group of mobs, and you can’t choose stuff like multi shot because it sucks against groups. You also can’t choose high costing hatred spenders because you need resource reduction gear which yes, you can roll on stuff, but most rares only have 4 properties (6 prop rares seem to have a very low drop rate), and legs aren’t exactly falling from the sky, and lots of them don’t have 6 props on every roll either so you’re limited on your reroll. Oh, and if they do have 6 props 2 of them shitty secondary skills that if you want to reroll can only roll other shitty secondary skills. Most of those skills don’t feel powerful or fun either, nothing really feels like it synchronizes well together. That could just be because I don’t have the right legendaries, but it feels so much worse than what I’ve seen from other classes.
I feel like I can’t take a hit from anything and I don’t know where I’m going to get a lot more EHP. If I hadn’t personally gotten lucky and found a fire and poision immune ring I don’t think I’d be able to farm torment, or ever be able too. over 50% of my 540k HP (8mil~EHP) is taken away from the initial damage from jailor and thunderstorm (Both unavoidable damage unless you’re in smoke screen all the time…which isn’t possible). I’m seeing lots of other classes with so much more EHP and skills that buff it, while the DH is left in the dark. There’s a reason everyone used gloom beyond the life steal, it allowed us to actually take some hits before dying. Most people hate being a glass cannon and I find farming a lone so much more harder than farming in a group.
Maybe it will all change once I get a Ninja set or something, but right now it feels like the DH is behind every other class skill wise. Our 3 new passives are terrible and completely worthless, they fucking suck, why are they even in game? 30% more damage on a target with 80% or more HP? more dodge chance every second I don’t dodge? the fuck? I already have more dodge than any other class except monk, I don’t need more of it, it’s completly RNG and that’s not something that should be so valuable when calculated into EHP, because it’s not something you can rely on. And of course 20% (or is it 30?, w.e it would suck even if it’s 100%) more damage vs an enemy when it’s the only enemy within 20 yards… blizzard come on now.
Now I remember why I quit my DH back in vanilla, it’s just terrible compared to every other class. In RoS it’s no different except every 90 seconds you can actually kill something, which tbh is so much fun that it almost makes up for all the other terrible shit that DH has. Maybe if I get an actual good fast legendary wep. I’ll be able to make more use of how OP CB seems to be, or just more legs in general, but right now it just feels like I’m Aqua Man and ever other class is either Sups, bats, flash, wonder woman, or GL.
tl;dr: vengeance is so fucking awesome but, every other skill is shit and needs to be re-worked so that it’s actually usable imo.
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