1 yr. ago • 95%

Today’s patch to Helltides makes them unplayably not fun

I’m really not one to complain about how a game is unplayable, but this patch’s helltides updates legitimately mean I’m stopping interacting with this feature until they fix it. Which I’m actually really sad about, because I was just getting into it. Between class nerfs, chest price increases, and extra level to enemies I just spent 10 minutes of a helltide getting about 7 cinders from mostly normal mobs. (They didn’t say so in the patch but it seems like the cinders drop rate is lower now too). “Risk-reward” is one thing, but if there’s no actual reward then it’s not worth doing.

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Same, just played 20 mins in the Helltide and managed a whopping 18 Cinders. Its no longer worth to do Helltides unless you are in a full group and stand a change of getting enough Cinders before the time is up.

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The massive drop rate reduction is a confirmed bug that they'll be hotfixing.

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- Where did they say this?
  
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  On the forums and twitter.
  
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- Hot fixing as in as soon as they get a fix? They won't wait until the next deployment? That's good.
  
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Oh man did they screw up Helltides.

Welp, done with that.

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That’s if you can survive long enough to spend them. My Druid was finnaly starting to feel good. Now I can’t even stay alive in the helltide.

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As they were before, they weren't really worth the effort. Now they seem like a totally lost cause. Hopefully they'll measure the effect of these changes on player participation and rebalance them again.

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- They were definitely worth the effort before if you were specifically going for the Mysterious Chests. Now those have been boosted in cost, it may be less worthwhile.
  
  That being said, uniques can now drop from Helltide chests, and drop rates for non-Mysterious chests have been increased so it might be a zero-sum change.
  
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Oh wow. I didn’t update my system with the patch yet but this sounds BAD. Thanks for the heads up, honestly. I won’t poss away my time if they’ve destroyed the point of Helltides.

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Which nerfs are you referring to? I just read the list for the heroes I play and it's almost all buffs.

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- its the section below the heroes that results in nerfs for all classes
  
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  Thanks.
  
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- There was an accidental undocumented nerf that greatly reduced the cinder drop rate. https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/cinder-drop-rate-shadow-nerfed/87983/154
  
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  That's a separate issue from the one I'm asking about. He said class nerfs.
  
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