The second is that Archery is flawed - a passive that adds big DPS is fine, but the bonuses are unbalanced since +50% Critical Damage by far the best, especially since by far the best ranged weapon in the game is the xbow Manticore. The first is that 15% of Demon Hunters are unconcerned with greatly increasing their DPS and should probably go play Minesweeper.

As I see it, there are two problems with this. It’s Archery, which 85% of Demon Hunters use.

The Demon Hunter passive skills thread finds more agreement, since the class has one obvious passive skill problem.

So should some of those be combined? Reworked? Or should Critical Mass just be “baked in” for the Wizard so the class would once again have 3 passive slots to fill? You can find arguments for all those opinions in the thread. After that things drop off a cliff, and the other 8 passives are all between 2-7% usage rate. The most popular by far is Critical Mass at 65%, but there’s a decent amount of variety, with Glass Cannon, Cold Blooded, Evocation, Blur, Astral Presence, and Galvanizing Ward all over 27% usage rate.

The Wizard passive skills thread shows a real division with the class’ passives.Just to defy the conventional alphabetical order, let’s start off with the Wizard. So what are the results? The conversations are still going on and you’re welcome to join in, and this is the Internet so opinions differ, but there are some interesting and insightful posts. Each post has a table showing the most/least used passives for that class, for easy reference and skill hover tooltip info. The question spurred some good replies, so I extended the concept to all five classes and made a post in each class forum for discussion. The whole debate was begun in the Demon Hunter forum by Vanadin, who took a Blue comment about “baking in” the all-but-mandatory One With Everything Monk passive and extended the concept to the Demon Hunter. This week’s forum watch post hits on a single issue that’s animating threads in all five of the class forums what should be done (if anything) to improve Diablo 3 Passive Skills? Which overly popular passives should be nerfed or changed or “baked in?” Which unloved passives should be improved? Can some be combined or merged to create new options? And how about more passives that are impactful and encourage/allow a whole new styles of play, rather than just adding slightly more damage or hit points or defense, etc.

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