Aspect of Bursting Venoms Shadow-Nerfed in Patch 1.1.1
Diablo 4 Global Community Development Director, Adam Fletcher confirmed via Reddit that the Rogue's was previously bugged and had been fixed as a part of Patch 1.1.1. Since this fix was not originally present in the patch notes, players took to Reddit, social media, and the Diablo 4 forums to discuss this apparent shadow nerf. In response to these allegations, Adam Fletcher responded with the following:
Wanted to chime in on the Aspect of Bursting Venoms as this was reported by the community yesterday and the team was investigating this into the early evening last night. We have amended the patch notes this morning to include what occurred here. Fixed imbues as part of ongoing improvements to game performance. Imbues were refactored. This includes a change which fixed several edge cases where the Imbuement would fail to end properly and was incorrectly allowing non-Imbued skill casts to trigger certain Legendary effects.This was indeed a bug with Rogues that was fixed in this patch but it did lead to a nerf to this specific skill. It actually wasn't planned for 1.1.1 and was for a patch later on. This of course is leaving a pretty not great feeling for Rogue players who were relying on this and we should have given a better heads up regarding this and highlighted it into the notes. We will get better at this. This one slipped under quite a lot of changes in 1.1.1 so I'm hoping we are a bit better buttoned up as we change up internal flags on making sure these can be highlighted into patch notes when we start compiling these with our production teams. While the team has continued to apologize for miscommunications and has repeatedly claimed that they will improve, community trust appears to be wearing thin. Diablo 4
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