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Overpowered (or OP) is a term commonly used to complain or accuse a skill, item, monster, or other game feature of being unbalanced and too strong. Whether a feature is OP or not is often a contentious issue and much digital ink is spilled by players arguing about the matter.

Features that are legitimately overpowered are usually [[nerfed]] in patches or hotfixes, though of course those patches themselves are then debated as appropriate or not.

==Overpowered in Diablo 3==

A brief selection of game features that have been considered or at least argued as overpowered.

* [[Spin2Win]] Barbarian build is the fastest killing build in the game, largely thanks to the [[Sprint]]: [[Run Like the Wind]] rune effect.
* The Demon Hunter skill Vault: [[Trail of Cinders]] was bugged to deal 1500% weapon damage in v1.04. It was debugged/nerfed down to the intended 300% damage over 3 seconds in [[Patch 1.0.5]].
* The Demon Hunter skill [[Elemental Arrow]]: [[Nether Tentacles]] was very strong at release, with each projectile able to land numerous hits. The skill was nerfed to reduce each orbs maximum hits to 2.
* The Wizard skill [[Energy Twister]]: [[Wicked Wind]] was nerfed by lowering the [[proc]] rate in Patch 1.0.4.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/patch-1-0-4-preview-wizard] This weakened by did not kill the build, since other rune effects in Energy Twister were almost as good.
* [[Black weapon]]s are bugged to deal extra damage, but not so much more than it's considered truly [[overpowered]].

==Overpower==

There is a Barbarian skill called [[Overpower]] which is, ironically, not considered especially powerful.
* Yet more ironically, it once was very OP, and the rune effect [[Crushing Advance]] was nerfed in v1.04 to remove the potential to [[proc]] repeatedly from some types of attacks, which could make the Barbarian basically immortal while the skill was in effect.

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 * The Demon Hunter skill Vault: [[Trail of Cinders]] was bugged to deal 1500% weapon damage in v1.04. It was debugged/nerfed down to the intended 300% damage over 3 seconds in [[Patch 1.0.5]].
 * The Demon Hunter skill [[Elemental Arrow]]: [[Nether Tentacles]] was very strong at release, with each projectile able to land numerous hits. The skill was nerfed to reduce each orbs maximum hits to 2.
-* The Wizard skill [[Energy Twister]]: [[Wicked Wind]] was nerfed by lowering the [[proc]] rate in Patch 1.0.4.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/patch-1-0-4-preview-wizard] This weakened by did not kill the build, since other rune effects in Energy Twister were almost as good.
+* The Wizard skill [[Energy Twister]]: [[Wicked Wind]] was nerfed by lowering the [[proc]] rate in Patch 1.0.4.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/patch-1-0-4-preview-wizard] This weakened but did not kill the build, since other rune effects in Energy Twister proved adequate, though lesser, substitutions.
-* [[Black weapon]]s are bugged to deal extra damage, but not so much more than it's considered truly [[overpowered]].
+* [[Black weapon]]s are bugged to deal extra damage, but not so much more than it's generally considered [[overpowered]].

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