The next BIG NERF. Ok, you nerfed IAS. Now people are stacking crit hit/crit chance. Some people are afraid of what the next nerf will be, including myself. How are we supposed to make a viable build when everything KEEPS GETTING NERFED??? These fears are real, and not just by me. I'm not trying to troll. I'm trying to constructively get your attention and ask that you pass it on to the devs..people feel cut-off at every turn. I myself don't know what to do. Do I stack crit chance/crit damage and pray they don't nerf? Do I stack life on hit, resists, and sit and worry about that being nerfed? I guess I'm asking..what do you suggest? What do we do? I'm trying to be nice, constructive, and respectful in this post..could I please get an answer?
There are plenty of stats we could have nerfed, there are many (some which have been mentioned) which are probably skewing itemization and build variety. We nerfed IAS because it was probably the worst offender, and because unlike most other stats has a bigger impact on mobility and resources. We know build variety is still affected by a number of issues and factors. We plan to really attack that problem in 1.1, but we didn't think IAS could sit as it was until then.
We don't want people to be afraid of nerfs, and ... I guess maybe I can try to get that across by saying we could have nerfed a bunch of stats that probably deserve it to some degree, but we didn't (aren't you thankful!?), because we don't believe our design approach should be constantly noodling with really important things, like stats. It should only be when we have an extreme situation developing, and we felt that was the case with IAS.