if they remove leaderboard rewards from the "maingame" and moved em into arena, i wouldnt touch the maingame ever again the fun part is going for em....

We need BACKPACKS I am sick of getting all this BIS and can’t take it all

33:40 how can you disagree , barb barely scratches cleric over 124 gs bracket with or without blood exchange , 3 smite hits and even a half geared cleric wins , the only way to wins against cleric as barb is to hard outplay or be under that 124 gs , the cleric scales way better than barb right now.

I came back to playing, I dont like the game without the circle. It feels like all agency and tension is gone ;( Most my friends feel the same.

I feel most problems with subclasses and different playstyles could be fixed with a talent tree :) ! play a longsword knight? sure, use your limited points into those two. fighter that focus on range? why not! it will never have the trickshots a ranger does but hey. fighter should be universal weapons master based on talents selected in a tree to match the playstyle you want. same with other classes. cleric in dnd should be able to go ogaboga smite macetoface. or go caster. i think to add "subclasses/build" a talent tree would fix alot of this. there will ofc be meta stuff but i think patching with talent changes. pushing stuff down or up a tree to spend more or less points could make it "easier" when they find the sweet spot for movementspeed and so on .

We need that card game yall talked about a few pods back. I want to go boss farming for a lich or gk card to destroy the timmys with 1-2 skelly cards in the tavern while im waiting for my match to start. ohh just spittin ideas out, the devs mentioned you could play as a mob eventually maybe but what if you could use the cards you get from the mobs in raid and deploy it in the card game and then the character controls the mob card played. like imagine how sick it would be to be a death skull just outplay someone that played a warlord card

Gambling with in-game currency sounds really good.

Ranger needs more mele and survivability options we all see that Fighters and Bards are essentially better solo classes using range to dominate fights. But they are essentially stronger mele and witch utilizes bows. Ranger needs to have close range options not only spear or multi shot as last resort. Ranger needs fighter kind-a perks. I feel like Slayer fighter is stealing ranger and rogue play stile. Give dual wild to rogue but cannot use stealth or invis while dual wilding and i feel that sprint will be much better skill for ranger than fighter. We noticed what happen when sprit was nerfed. Fighter actually started using other skills like taunt and adrenaline rush witch are much more thematic to fighter. Sprit makes Plate builds too Strong with the ability to use range weapons. Nurfing sprint was the best thing that happen to a fighter! The only reason fighters are not meta is warlocks. As soon as warlocks are nurfed we are going to witness fighter king back.

Cleric needs mostly dmg nerfs, i would just go -3dex -3str, base dmg of judgement and holy strike reduced by 5 or so and faithfullness has to be changed, no more extra slow. And it would still be super strong in duos & trios. Bard needs Shriek duration nerf and I really like Somas idea of just 5 songs but more abilities, or have the 2nd music memory have a negative effect like -20%interaction speed and please -3 base dex & agi for bard so that its more support and less nuke.

Problem with shriek is not how much armor it removes. The problem is that it gives negative armor rating. If they just made negative armor not do more damage, problem would be solved. Shriek is like a damage buff on steroids in aoe form. I dealt an additional 30 damage to a dummy that was shrieked. Compare that to say divine strike, which increases weapon damage by 5 to a single target. That is insanely strong, but compared to shriek it drowns.

Seeing Soda being passionate about DaD is really a great prospect for the game, thanks for the podcast guys

Cleric and Wizard can cast spells, Druid Warlock came next... and now Sorcerer is anounced as the next Class^^ :3 pls just give us Monk, some love for the melee dexterity players xD.

Its so hard to hear people talk about empty lobbies if youre not from EU, its just not a thing, you cant queue any dung without its getting filled in 5-10 sec...

Apart from what Jay said about Tarkov arena failing (too grindy for a paid game), it was also imbalanced as kits of different tiers could be matched together and even within the same tier some kits were clearly better than the other. You couldn't make your own kit either, no gearscore system. The game modes were bad too, you could camp until the timer runs out and the AI that comes to punish you for that was random and exploitable.

40:53 Soma asks if Soda thinks dnd should be posed as an esport after giving his opinion, setting the stage. Any self respecting designer or dev would tell you, esports must be developed with the fundamentals of fair gameplay and balance with esport marketing as the primary focus from the ground up aka very start. What does an arena mode really have to do with esports? The truth is, little to nothing.

Screw the quiver. Make rangers have unlimited arrows. Everyone else has to have arrows to use bows

The audio mixing/balance seems a little off, but great stuff otherwise!

Need to nerf warlock by making them more team worthy. Make torture mastery heal less individually and share with teammates the same amount. Make phantomize give less move speed or make it a longer cooldown. Or make it so you have to sit at campfire to reset phantomize charges Why do they get a get out of jail free card multiple times but fighters second wind has one charge until you sit down?

what if for the issue of space for raid queue map issues, it could be like a larger more open modules like tunnels and such with things scattered around, possibly things like Stalactites if its a cave, large coffins/collapsing bricks (piles) if its a crypt. And instead of going for the normal style doors go for larger "dungeon" doors which can be opened and closed (i feel if it can it should make more noise and take some time to fully close, so you can leave it partially closed or open for more stratagy, if the raid queue had pvp)

Yo Soma btw, when can I catch you guys live? I am mostly a youtube frog, don't really spend much time on twitch but I would want to participate in the Q&A if I can depending on the timezone

We're so back. Having these episodes to listen to while working makes time fly by so fast.

I fear the main gain will become the friendly lobbies from the past where no one fights all farm and they team up against anyone else that wants to fight outside the arena mode! I feel the original game will become PVE exclusively.

Yoo you guys got Sodapoppin??? How the heck did you swing that? Good stuff guys!

Yeah dude lmfao WOOOO ARENA!!!! ANOTHER MAP CHOICE/MODE TO SPLIT THE PLAYERBASE BECAUSE IRONMACE THINKS THEY HAVE COD NUMBERS WOOOO lmfao Why do you think that EA is fucking "put this in, see if it works, if it doesnt' shelve it"? It's wasted development. That kills studios. Warlock is also an easy fix. Get rid of how hard initial Curse of Pain hits. Stop allowing them to heal off Hydra. There. The class is fixed. Simple as

Unlimited fireballs would really suck for anyone other than wizard but maybe zap I could see that working?

Please add dual nun chucks for fighter. Just for the memes.

Very cool of Soda to do this

Nerf warlock, thank you for coming to my ted talk

Hey soma thanks for podcasts they rule and also cant wait for sorcerer add map idea giants lair

MY FAV OLD MAN <3 I wanna stream snipe you and play my lute aggrassivly

Just got on the bus and this is perfect podcast I needed. Keep it up Soma! Would it be possible to maybe reach out to popular gamers like Penguinz0, Asmongold and invite them for a talk and maybe some trio rounds? They have played the game in the past.

druid needs more summons i need to relive my diablo 2 days in dark and darker give me a perk that gives me 2 treants or 2 wolves would be amazing

Yay! Perfect timing about to be home from work! Looks like some DaD is in order!

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22:50 oh how the turn tables

weak cantrip spells that dont need recovery. 6 dmg eldrich blast. 5 damage fire BOLT

You guys brought up that all classes should have some form of escape move. An idea for wizard's escape spell is Misty Step. Quickly teleport to an unoccupied space you can see. To balance this they should have 1-2 charges

Almost every class is in the game. Sorcerer and Monk is on their way and now the last one will be paladin. Take smite off cleric and give it to fighter boom you got a Paladin.

for the wizard having to sit all game problem they could just let people use meditation and still play the game(move attack spells search) and add a 50% walk speed debuff for the duration of the meditation this way you could use it before looting chest or when you are shooting mobs from far

Spud was a great addition. Awesome episode fellas.

Donnie's back gave out, he was carrying too hard

As a rogue player I agree that the landmine playstyle is unhealthy for the game. Nobody likes being killed without the chance to respond or outplay because that feels awful. The problem right now though is that the class was designed around that mechanic/playstyle. Like the rogue is inherently supposed to lose a straight up 1v1 because you can't really build armour or health on them, you have no access to shields to block or counter and most classes in the game will 2 shot or even 1 shot you if they're correctly geared. So it forces the rogue player to rely on landmine if they want to see any success, that and a lot of the perks that would open up different playstyles are just bad. Tumble, Caltrops, Smokepot... These skills aren't used because they're just awful or fully limited so you feel like if you don't use them properly you just waste them. Right now it feels like there are three levels of skills in this game. Unlimited use skills that have no charges. "Limited use" skills like fighter second wind where they're only getting one in a fight but they can get them back. Then truly limited use skills like smokepots or ranger biscuits where once they're gone you're down a part of your kit that you have no way to get back in a match.

The whole marketplace debate is a little flawed. With the current state of the game its perfect. It compliments every style of play right now. New players can get cheap/decent gear without spending their whole piggy bank. Old players can experiment with new builds that they wouldn’t have been able to before. The Sweats can hyper build. I believe that taking it out now will ruin the new player experience. Sweats/RMT will still be able to get their insane kits, while leaving the newer/casual players in the dust. If we change the overall stats of gear slightly away from PVP then that fixes the marketplace problem. Either way, this is the best the “shopping” experience has felt in the past year. I can go buy the last few copper i need to make my “rusted” kit. Or if i don’t like the rolls i got i can sell that piece without having to waste 30 min in the post, buy the mats to craft it again and go on my adventure. Post was terrible for those of us that can only play a few hours a week. Great episode as always, RIP DONNY, but welcome Spuddy 🎉

Spud is an amazging guy and amazing addition to the podcast. He's also been killing it with the content, I think he fits in here perfectly.

Gonna miss Donnie, but I love spuddy so this is for sure bittersweet

I already hate that there is multiple maps for crypts. I like knowing where the action is etc, it allows you to choose how you want to play that map. Randomizing the map is awful, I LIKE spawning in and being like “I know the room I want/need for a quest is on the opposite side of the map and planning my route

When i used my code to switch from Blacksmith to Steam i lost all my previous Gold bags and etc from previous seasons or whatever its called. =/

spud is a great addition to the podcast bro his accent makes me pay attention to whatever mans is saying

Bye Donny ❤