With new patch, I'm hearing a lot of bad things for SB/Hunter, more specifically, melee hunter & shadowzerk. I plan on playing one of these two classes to help mid out in this time of need, but can somebody please explain to me why they are going to be hurting so bad with new patch? I am a very skilled player, so I could probably adjust to be being underpowered, but just tell me if its worth my time leveling if theres absolutely no chance of victory in a 1v1 vs other classes.

Thanks!

Shadowblades like any assassin will be fine (still poorer unique RAs than inf/ns though), hunter will be a sb stuck to 2h spec, no poisons, no cs styles and no see hidden (you can do the math here) and a pet that hits for 20 damage.

Shadowblades will suffer from the removal of remedy. Nightshade and Infiltrators both can spec pierce which is based 50/50 str/dex. Shadowblades can only spec weapons based 100 on str. So, str/con str and desease will decrease the shadowblade damage much more as for infs/ns.

Disdain wrote:Shadowblades like any assassin will be fine (still poorer unique RAs than inf/ns though), hunter will be a sb stuck to 2h spec, no poisons, no cs styles and no see hidden (you can do the math here) and a pet that hits for 20 damage.

Preach.

is there a LA nerf in 1.69 that will hurt shadowzerk specd sb?

djmw wrote:is there a LA nerf in 1.69 that will hurt shadowzerk specd sb?

La nerf was before patch 1.69.