IDGAF. I just want shit to be even remotely balanced.

-Greatly buff the lightning (and possibly Frozen orb and frost nova) tree of the sorceress.

-Make cloak of shadow defense bonus passive OR add a new overlay OR add a very audible sound when it ends.

-Buff mercenary hp across the board. With the increase in trash hp and and damage, most mercs simply can't stand their ground, even when equiped very well.

-Make healers more useful. Increase the amount of hp healed with holy bolt and prayer. If we're going to get hit by massive hits, at least allow us to play around it with a healer. Right now, 500-800 hp does squat against 17k damage hits.

-Slightly increase the druid Sages summons hp (10-15% max)

-Bring back +x to masteries that vanished from circlets and helmets in general

-Either buff damage synergies from the barb combat tree, or greatly increase damage % per level

-I suggest giving Fade another 1% hp bonus per point spend in the elemental MA charges (max 40%). Sins have difficulty sticking to bosses because of their low hp, claw block or not.

-Give faster block rare/ Faster hit recovery bonuses to the barb, druid, paladin and possibly sin (put them wherever you want, preferably on a passive for barb, on the shapeshifts for druid, on holy shield for paladin and either on burst of speed or cloak of shadow for sin)

-Buff the hp of shadow master. This thing is currently a joke, especially compared to shadow warrior.

-Add faster cast rate to both warrior and master

If you still have the time, check the damage of most builds and increase those that seem too weak. They're going to need some work if we're to actually beat the game.

Additionally, it would be nice to get + skills on claws before level 75.

I'll look at golems. Is it regular trash blowing them up or zerkers Quite a few regular mobs have the boss flag enabled, so they take reduced damage from mercs and deal increased damage to mercs/summons.

Edit: yeh, zerkers/wyrms/seraphims/maris/wsgolems etc all deal 8x damage tosummons/mercs (set as boss monster). I'm hesitant to adjust as it might make those mobs a joke. See how it goes with nerfed blade fury (zerkers were insane with BF)

Lightning strike is the skill without any synergy with anything except itself.
It does 1/2 weapon damage, converts 100% damage to lightning and creates a chain lightning on attack. It is also a melee attack and is very much useless against bosses.

For the rest, good shit. About cloak of shadow, I'm not sure if you're talking an update to made for your client edits or what you've already done with it. Direwolf overlay is far too easy to lose in the middle of a battle and there was no end sound either. I personally swapped Direwolf for SrIcehit which is pretty much unused through most of the game, looks good, and is very visible in a fight.

Also, my concern about assassin MA builds is that staying in melee range to charge these up is suicidal and building tanky enough to survive the hits is insanely difficult. So unless you're planning on messing around with health% with this patch, it would be nice to buff melee sins a little.
And if you can, add synergies similar to Phoenix strike to all the other elemental skills (So they synergies between each other with a similar cap as phoenix)

And if you have a spare minute, can you look into why Dragon flight does such low damage compared to Dtail? (Has something to do with dex and STR)

K how about moving the hp% from hard points in fade to hard points in charge ups, capping at 80%? Same would be done for pally, increased cap to 80%. Reducing caps is easy to do in future.

Assassin should get % life based on investment in any of the martial arts skills, not just chargeups. Cap at 80%, 2% per hard point.

Edit: My reasoning for this is because physical claw sins and kick sins might not invest into the chargeups other than 1 point skills. Because anything on the martial arts tab requires close range, I think any skill should qualify.

I'm concerned with the life bonus being removed from fade... especially because of items (I forget off hand but isn't there an armor with +fade skills on it)

not to mention trappers would get leveled .... or is the 80% being talked about on top of the 40% from fade?

Fade has been adjusted:
hp% completely removed from hard points in fade
hp% is not gained via points in any MA skill at 2% per point, to a max of 80%
Trappers and mindsins didn't get the hp before either because they are ranged.
It won't affect items with +fade

Holy shield had its cap increased to 80% too.

Battle command grants 1% CB + 1% per 4 hard points to shout (not sure about this one, but i'm not sure how else to make it appealing. +1 all skills per 5 points is still +5 all skills (op), +1 per 10 points isn't worth it. IDK.

i vote no. the reason is the new patch with a reset must have a complete full test, and i dont think patch d has gotten a complete full test.

if the new patch coming out, and a new bugged char building is found, then reset a gain?!