Sorcerer was terrible because all of their skills costed a lot and had very little return for the investment. Rogue was and continued to be the best build path or class so to speak. Much like we see with builds now that don’t really use dot damage but multipliers on finishers.īladestorm which is just whirlwind was completely overpowered on launch and subsequently nerfed just like in Diablo 4. They initially weren’t very good but through bugs and multiplier stacking became insane. One of the biggest issues was dots and dot damage. Unlike diablo 4 where you are expected to grind all the way to 100 and still maybe never see a build enabling unique. But at least you could save up and eventually get what you needed to play. And if it spawned with the unique you needed while you didn’t have enough you were sol. The difference here between Wolcen and Diablo 4 is that Wolcen had a unique vendor that would sell you a unique for an absurd amount of gold. Uniques were build defining and if you didn’t find the ones you needed for your build you simply couldn’t really play it at end game. Much like vulnerability and exploit glyph.

Mark of impurity was a must have included in every build because it was a universal modifier. Much like we see in Diablo 4.Įveryone needed to find a unique belt called “the trial” which allowed every build to apply mark of impurity which increased the damage you dealt. Minion builds had some of the coolest customization options and really felt like they could perform but once again bugs limited their viability. The same issues we are seeing with paragon boards. And respec costs were relatively high with out a good gold farm early on. So you would invest a lot of time and resources into a build path only to realize it wouldn’t compete.

The issue was the fact that a lot of things simply didn’t function as the tooltip stated. The wheel of fate offered a ton of build diversity. But it shares a ton of parallels with Diablo 4’s launch. If not for the campaign completion bugs it would’ve done much better but not being able to finish the game until a week 2 patch was crippling. For those who didn’t play this game on launch, it was a poop storm.

Wolcen: diablo 4 alpha