Fort cry / Shield wall warrior nerf overkill
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Around -40% on single target damage now for shield wall players, from carn's early testing after patch notes. For a build that is by no means broken, just a solid league starter, that has around 3% play rate on day 3 of 0.4, which saw one of the biggest nerfs of the patch.
Don't understand logic here, unless it's angormus used this build to win several races, so nerf and no more investigation needed. meanwhile guythatdies just beat world record campaign by a significant amount with a build that got untouched. And I'm not calling for nerfs to twister/grenade, it's just to highlight the confusion. Build has strong defense, good damage, and is relatively slow / 'combo' gameplay with lots of buttons. so it's not an outlier on the three axis of build strength. Hoping this change gets reverted, totally unnecessary, the scales of these nerfs would imply it's a broken build. Yet many content creators didn't classify it as an outlier, and some didn't even include it in expected list of skills to get nerfed. My final point, people who enjoy warrior archetypes already have so little to play with, so why not just leave it alone, it was a great option for people who like comfy, solid progression and frankly one of the few melee builds that was remotely competitive with other archetypes. Last edited by Archaelies#1783 on May 22, 2026, 12:40:16 AM Last bumped on May 22, 2026, 2:38:11 AM
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It's mainly Fortifying Cry that was (heavily) nerfed for mono target. All those nerf to the armour scale on Shield "should" be somewhat negated to some extend by the buff armour on equipment got across the board (+15% in Endgame) including Shield Base Armour.
Personally I'm not really that worry. Boss killing was already this build strong point. Sure, it will be less good but between One/Two shoot a boss and needing 4 to 5 shield walls - except the WOW effect - it doesn't have much impact in the long run. And that without taking into consideration new Items/Support gems that could potentially negate partly this damage nerf. |
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