In a 'Campfire Chat' livestream hosted by several Blizzard developers, the team began by addressing the player outrage that's cropped up in recent days, before going on to discuss the reasoning behind the patch 1.1.0 balance tweaks. Here's how Blizzard initially touched on the fan reaction, before going into full detail further into the video:
"We want to acknowledge everyone's feedback in regards to reducing player power. We know it is bad, we know it is not fun and it's something that we ourselves know - that it's not the greatest play experience for players out there."
"I know that we've talked on stream before about our intentions for Diablo 4 being about choice. Part of that is ensuring that the various class options feel like they've got a place in the meta experience - that kind of goes to some of the changes made in [patch] 1.1."
Buffs are planned for the the Sorcerer and Barbarian classes in a future patch, along with what we'd expect to be a laundry list of other changes. However, none of the big complaints were addressed in a recent hotfix, so fans could be waiting a while to see how Blizzard tackles the situation in the future.
What is clear is that Blizzard wants to avoid another situation like this. Adam Fletcher, who works in community management at Blizzard, simply mentioned that "we don't plan on doing a patch like this ever again".
