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>Defense Overhaul: Introducing Toughness
Who asked for this? Devs really need to stop trying to reinvent the wheel with resistances and armor. It was already easy and simple to figure out, now they are going to dumb it down to one stat, just like in d3. It's like dealing with UI designers who need to fuck something up occasionally to later fix and revert that, only to justify their existence.
>Introducing Season Rank
>Renown is changing in a big way on the Seasonal Realm as it’s being removed in exchange for the Season Rank system, completing optional objectives with the Season Rank to earn Skill Points, Smoldering Ashes, and Cosmetics.
This on the other hand looks like a typical "we need to take an existing system and make it more tedious and arduous". Not that renown was anything rewarding in the first place but prevailing bonuses were nice and felt like your prior effort rewarded you with some benefits.
>Capstone Dungeons Return
Fine I guess.

All in all I have high hopes majority of streamers and people on forums will flame them for these changes after PTR. Season 10 is good and if they pull through with those patch notes next one will be boring by comparison. Ain't gonna be good for those metrics.