Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

A day in and they're nerfing the new M6 because it was so broken. Except now, it's undisputeably weaker than the live version. For each Sentry active, you deal 100% more damage from your Generators and the spenders Sentries can use. Sentries will just do the normal skill damage. They'll still shoot as fast as you. Current PTR version is way overpowered and stuff. Like, a perfect 4.15 Ball Lightning copying over does 1.6x their old DPS. But after this next nerf coming up, they'll do 0.75x their old DPS if they're constanly shooting.

Anyways. Some shenanigans on PTR

 GR 40

So if GR40 drops like 450 Blood Shards, why is the cap 500 still

 ROCKETZ

 Ancient Arcane Barb

[SPOILER=What it's like on the PTR]


Anyways, if they actually tune it correctly, i.e. it's not a net nerf and not pomegranatety to play, here's some thoughts on the future of M6

Kridershot will be very good. If they're actually switching the damage bonuses to center on you, it'll be less important. But it's a huge convenience and significantly strong for a non-Immolation EA build.

It feels like Spitfire Turret shoots some weirdly high number of rockets. As I posted earlier, it looked like it might be double dipping from its own attack rate and your casting or something. If they remove or lower the damage bonus on Sentry's spenders, this will be a bigger chunk of damage.

Ancient Arcane Barb + Immolation Arrow + Mortal Enemy is a good start to no-Primary. Ball Lightning and Meticulous Bolts is also okay, but not as good at generating with Mortal Enemy. Ancient crafts are fairly easy, took my about 6 tries, and it's probably like 1/10. I just happened to roll a near perfect base damage one though apparently.

If they keep the high Sentry damage, Torment VI running, Physical Build will be very good. Razor Disk does this hilarious thing where it casts on the enemy's location regardless of where the Sentry is. You could leave all 5 Sentries at the WP, and go to the next one, as long as you don't enter a fully new area, the Chakrams will fly to the enemy position. Could take a second or two if you're really that far away though. Kinda hard to keep track if your Sentries are still alive too. But you don't need to replace Sentries with this setup, they're really fast and cover a huge area. Every time you attack, nearly instantly, 5 Chakrams will zoom onto an enemy nearby and kill it. But if they do focus the damage you deal more on your own character, it'll still be okay since 5 Chakrams at normal damage is decent, but Arsenal will probably still be best since it covers such a huge area too. Cluster Arrow does the same thing if it has direct line of sight, i.e. there's no walls or obstructions that would normally block a CA. Really weird.