although real talk, what exactly about the changes to firebirds did I miss that suddenly put them up to doing 125 rifts? I thought the last patch nerfed them? What am I missing here?
i think what a lot of people fail to understand is that the PTR is meant to test all of the changes, not just which ones are most broken. Blizzard however understands that people are just going to play the best build. So in order to make all of this time running the PTR not a waste of time, they are trying to cycle out which sets are at the top to get a better idea of where the sets at the bottom need to be. So what likely happens is when they feel they've gotten the data they want about a top build they nerf it so others can rise up instead and they can get data on that build, then when the patch actually releases hopefully most builds they tinkered with are going to be relatively close in power, and they have a firm idea of where to nerf/buff builds if they need to later. This is potentially why thorns didn't stay at the top long, it's not a very complicated build and there were almost no mechanical adjustments to be made, just numbers tuning, so they knocked it out so that they could test other sader builds. In contrast to firebirds, which has clearly proven that number changes aren't enough to keep it down, so they are looking at other ways of changing it, hence why firebirds has been at the top for a while.
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although real talk, what exactly about the changes to firebirds did I miss that suddenly put them up to doing 125 rifts? I thought the last patch nerfed them? What am I missing here?
i think what a lot of people fail to understand is that the PTR is meant to test all of the changes, not just which ones are most broken. Blizzard however understands that people are just going to play the best build. So in order to make all of this time running the PTR not a waste of time, they are trying to cycle out which sets are at the top to get a better idea of where the sets at the bottom need to be. So what likely happens is when they feel they've gotten the data they want about a top build they nerf it so others can rise up instead and they can get data on that build, then when the patch actually releases hopefully most builds they tinkered with are going to be relatively close in power, and they have a firm idea of where to nerf/buff builds if they need to later. This is potentially why thorns didn't stay at the top long, it's not a very complicated build and there were almost no mechanical adjustments to be made, just numbers tuning, so they knocked it out so that they could test other sader builds. In contrast to firebirds, which has clearly proven that number changes aren't enough to keep it down, so they are looking at other ways of changing it, hence why firebirds has been at the top for a while.