TWO NOTES:
Don't tell me about your network connectivity issues. Every single person I've talked to has tried to get to play hc throws that excuse at me and you know how many friends I know have lost HC characters to lag? 0. You know what you do when your connection gets bad? Farm an area you won't die in or go play SC until your connection gets better.
Bullshit.
If you play a barb you will have problems with rubberbanding. If you have disconnects sometimes you will die rather soon then late. I know several people who died because of either rubberbanding, lag or disconnects. Including myself, I lost 2 60 Chars (plvl 22 and plvl 17) to disconnects so far.
How can you call BS on his experiences? It's the same with me - none of my friends ever died due to lag/rubberbanding. I don't even personally know anyone who has ever experienced rubberbanding (but I read about it a lot on the forums, so I know it exists, calm down).
Neither on my barb nor my TR monk I've ever had a problem. But I also bought an SSD specifically for D3 (what a life saver!!!) and always have a very good internet connection. It sucks if your internet connection is bad, such as for the many fellow forum members in Brazil, or if you're still playing with a non-SSD HDD, but please acknowledge the fact that there are people for whom this is not the case.
I feel sorry for your lost HC characters - it sucks, I know that; but I completely agree with JKlimek.
MP10 on ezmode farm. (accomplished).
All classes to 60 without being power leveled ( accomplished)
Get one class through inferno hardcore with self found rules (accomplished).
One class to Para 100.
So basically all i have to do is level to para 100... Xp farming is soul crushing tbh. I hardly play D3 anymore.
Its to bad there's no reason to design builds and re-level, no competitive ladder racing, no leveling pvp characters... Blizzard really took away the stuff that i liked from D2... if D2 was this shallow i would have quite in less than a year also.
I guess Blizzard assumed people would rather work the RMAH for RL money instead of doing those things i listed above... However, im not interested in making pennies while playing D3 i have a way to make money already.
The point is that Inferno should have kept us busy for a long period of time but it was easily cheesed by pot farm, broken skills and the ah itself. Yep, that was the end-game that Diablo 3 proposed us, but was poorly tested (that's what you get when you call a demo "beta").
Then, the real problem of the game came out, and it's the item system. If we had decent drop rates, good and interesting affixes and narrowed stats (at least they are coming), we would have farmed to beat Inferno a little more happily instead of being swarmed by Rare Weapons of ilvl 61+ with a dps compared to a early hell one.
Getting a WD to 60 HC is a goal for me. As well playing my self-found monk. My barb is at p92 so obviously reaching p100 is a goal, as is crafting something half-way decent for him.
The Hardcore community was completely gutted early on with the terrible client stability and unbalanced difficulty.
In games like these usually the hardcore mode is the legit way to play and everyone else agrees softcore is for people with limited time to play or horrid net connections. However in this game its universally agreed upon that HC is trash due to server issues.
So now we have everyone with one supped up SC character and even back in the D2 days if you only played 1 character the whole time you didn't last long.
Its tragic tbh.
Unbalanced difficulty? If you're a veteran hardcore player you know better than this. If you're not the whole "hardcore community" reference is just bad. The servers had problems early on, but everyone pretty much expected that after release.
In games like these usually the hardcore mode is the legit way to playand everyone else agrees softcore is for people with limited time to play or horrid net connections.
Saying things like that completely undermines any future credibility and fair argument you might have.
However in this game its universally agreed upon that HC is trash due to server issues.
Funny. I always see a couple dozen public games open and thousands of items on the AH, even in these days (when a lot of people are taking a break). "Universally agreed upon" is a stretch.
I doubt it's always "server issues". More likely to be our connection/ISP being unstable. I changed to a better ISP and my D3 server connection improved tenfold. I still have some rubberbanding now and then, but a quick check on my network traffic almost always shows that it was my own internet that had a spike. And yes, I did have decent connection in other games, but most of those don't have the complex network coding D3 has.
Of all the people who complain about connectivity, I wonder how many people actually try doing something to solve these issues. Firewall/router config, changing ISP, buying a new suite/hub/cables, cleaning up their computer.
Unbalanced difficulty? If you're a veteran hardcore player you know better than this. If you're not the whole "hardcore community" reference is just bad. The servers had problems early on, but everyone pretty much expected that after release.
In games like these usually the hardcore mode is the legit way to playand everyone else agrees softcore is for people with limited time to play or horrid net connections.
Saying things like that completely undermines any future credibility and fair argument you might have.
However in this game its universally agreed upon that HC is trash due to server issues.
Funny. I always see a couple dozen public games open and thousands of items on the AH, even in these days (when a lot of people are taking a break). "Universally agreed upon" is a stretch.
I doubt it's always "server issues". More likely to be our connection/ISP being unstable. I changed to a better ISP and my D3 server connection improved tenfold. I still have some rubberbanding now and then, but a quick check on my network traffic almost always shows that it was my own internet that had a spike. And yes, I did have decent connection in other games, but most of those don't have the complex network coding D3 has.
Of all the people who complain about connectivity, I wonder how many people actually try doing something to solve these issues. Firewall/router config, changing ISP, buying a new suite/hub/cables, cleaning up their computer.
"Future credibility" A bit harsh no? I'm just frustrated with how barren the HC scene seems in D3. You go through forums like these and people speak of HC as like a project... like its something to do other than working on their SC mains... it makes me sad.
When i played D2 some of the best players (that i knew of) were HC, now most players getting the spotlight are SC (it seems that way anyway).
I know SC players don't want to read about HC players thinking they aren't really playing the game... i apologize for our mentality but i refuse to change it... even if you are a mod.
As for the D3 server stability issue its legit not just some silly virus issue of the player.
The HC scene was always a bit barren. Years before D3 was released we already had a statement from devs saying how very few people (iirc it was like 2%, on old forums) played HC.
It's a scary premise in the first place, playing for hundreds of hours to progress, die once and lose it all. And even so, we have like 5-10% of the playerbase playing HC on D3 (can't remember the numbers 100%)? Seems pretty good to me.
I started playing hardcore a month~ ago and there were always items on the AH, people on chat to give me tips on underused skills/passives that were useful in HC and public games (although I never really joined those).
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How can you call BS on his experiences? It's the same with me - none of my friends ever died due to lag/rubberbanding. I don't even personally know anyone who has ever experienced rubberbanding (but I read about it a lot on the forums, so I know it exists, calm down).
Neither on my barb nor my TR monk I've ever had a problem. But I also bought an SSD specifically for D3 (what a life saver!!!) and always have a very good internet connection. It sucks if your internet connection is bad, such as for the many fellow forum members in Brazil, or if you're still playing with a non-SSD HDD, but please acknowledge the fact that there are people for whom this is not the case.
I feel sorry for your lost HC characters - it sucks, I know that; but I completely agree with JKlimek.
MP10 on ezmode farm. (accomplished).
All classes to 60 without being power leveled ( accomplished)
Get one class through inferno hardcore with self found rules (accomplished).
One class to Para 100.
So basically all i have to do is level to para 100... Xp farming is soul crushing tbh. I hardly play D3 anymore.
Its to bad there's no reason to design builds and re-level, no competitive ladder racing, no leveling pvp characters... Blizzard really took away the stuff that i liked from D2... if D2 was this shallow i would have quite in less than a year also.
I guess Blizzard assumed people would rather work the RMAH for RL money instead of doing those things i listed above... However, im not interested in making pennies while playing D3 i have a way to make money already.
Then, the real problem of the game came out, and it's the item system. If we had decent drop rates, good and interesting affixes and narrowed stats (at least they are coming), we would have farmed to beat Inferno a little more happily instead of being swarmed by Rare Weapons of ilvl 61+ with a dps compared to a early hell one.
In games like these usually the hardcore mode is the legit way to play and everyone else agrees softcore is for people with limited time to play or horrid net connections. However in this game its universally agreed upon that HC is trash due to server issues.
So now we have everyone with one supped up SC character and even back in the D2 days if you only played 1 character the whole time you didn't last long.
Its tragic tbh.
Saying things like that completely undermines any future credibility and fair argument you might have.
Funny. I always see a couple dozen public games open and thousands of items on the AH, even in these days (when a lot of people are taking a break). "Universally agreed upon" is a stretch.
I doubt it's always "server issues". More likely to be our connection/ISP being unstable. I changed to a better ISP and my D3 server connection improved tenfold. I still have some rubberbanding now and then, but a quick check on my network traffic almost always shows that it was my own internet that had a spike. And yes, I did have decent connection in other games, but most of those don't have the complex network coding D3 has.
Of all the people who complain about connectivity, I wonder how many people actually try doing something to solve these issues. Firewall/router config, changing ISP, buying a new suite/hub/cables, cleaning up their computer.
"Future credibility" A bit harsh no? I'm just frustrated with how barren the HC scene seems in D3. You go through forums like these and people speak of HC as like a project... like its something to do other than working on their SC mains... it makes me sad.
When i played D2 some of the best players (that i knew of) were HC, now most players getting the spotlight are SC (it seems that way anyway).
I know SC players don't want to read about HC players thinking they aren't really playing the game... i apologize for our mentality but i refuse to change it... even if you are a mod.
As for the D3 server stability issue its legit not just some silly virus issue of the player.
It's a scary premise in the first place, playing for hundreds of hours to progress, die once and lose it all. And even so, we have like 5-10% of the playerbase playing HC on D3 (can't remember the numbers 100%)? Seems pretty good to me.
I started playing hardcore a month~ ago and there were always items on the AH, people on chat to give me tips on underused skills/passives that were useful in HC and public games (although I never really joined those).