It's just me or have more people here frustrated with the diablo 3?
I will tell my tale....
Stay awhile and listen...
There is a time in the game where you start dying, dying and dying. You realize then that you need better items.
You try to pay more attention, open more chests, rake more corpses, kill more mobs, champs and rares and see that has no result.
Then you discover that the game is not capable to provide you with these items.
Why the game is not capable to provide you with these items? Because there are simply too many modifiers and these modifiers have a minimum and a maximum range too big that the chance that you will get a good item with modifiers for your class and a range in the modifiers that are good for your class is almost impossible to be achieved by playing the game in a way that a regular human who plays for 2 to 3 hours per day for 4 or 5 days a week. (In any stage of the game, from level 1 to 60, from the normal to inferno).
Then you discover there is an auction house in the game where you learn people that finds good items puts them there for sale, then you run to there to try find upgrades.
Getting there you learn that all items that have modifiers you need in a moderately acceptable range are extremely expensive. Expensive enough to the point where you have to spend much of your playable time to get that much money and also discover that this amount of money is impossible to get.
We have now a problem that leads to fail. You have a need for better items and tries to get in the game, you realize the game fails to provide the items for you due to randomness of the modifiers, the range of them, the chance to get the item and the time needed to farm these items, then you go to auction house and find items that cost a fortune and you do not have the money needed to be able to buy them and finds it impossible to get as much money to buy these items.
Conclusion, fail.
Getting the items trying to farm = fail.
Getting the items shopping in the auction house = fail.
Therefore, it is impossible for you to advance in the game.
Soon, diablo 3 becomes an impossible game
Impossible = not fun.
Someone over here shares my frustration?
But I did not come here only to criticize, I have suggestions. 1-Increasing the drop better items, lets say every 100 rare items, you get an uber one, 6 to 8 modifiers, each modifiers good like primary stats, vit, all resistance in ranges that are the almost the maximum allowed for that item. Maybe 1 every 200 or 300, but make something achievable, not something like .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of chance to get that.
2-Restrict modifiers in the class specific items or make hard to get modifiers not desirable for a class to be generated such as monk helms with intelligence. (I know that intelligence helps resist all the monks, but you guys understand my point).
3-Enable the exchange of skills without losing the buff, or at least we can exchange the skill runes without loosing the nephalem valor.
4-Making the nephalem value be counted opening chests, corpses and stuff like that.
Yes, it's true that upgrades are far and few in between when you are actually playing the game, but if you are farming an act or certain area, your gold accumulation should be going up and not down. There are so many intermediate items on the AH that could easily bridge the gap between life and death in a progression area and are extremely cheap.
You don't need to spend 100 million gold to get a 1300+ dps weapon or specific gear to make everything faceroll, but figure out what you are lacking. Is it resists? Vitality? Not enough dps? If you have a couple hundred thousand gold, you can find all kinds of upgrades. If you refuse to use the AH at all, then yes, the game will be frustrating because you'll be stuck without any hope of progressing unless you get really lucky.
I remember wanting to quit my barb because of the first canyon in act2. The wasps and leapers would just melt me. Then I farmed a little, bought a couple items to boost my resists and it's been downhill farming speed for all the acts now.
It would be nice if some of your suggestions existed in the game, but I don't see it happening. It just seems like it would be too much of an overhaul for them to limit what mods could be on class specific items. I hate seeing an awesome dps barb weapon having 700 loh, an open gem slot, but with150 int or dex.
I think your conclusion is largely correct, that is, that the game fails.
However, the reason is off IMO.
Think of the items and thier prices like a rubber rope:
Over the course of the game, the rope is being stretched - in both directions. Amazing, top end items keep going up up up up in price because people have more gold (fail gold sinks).
But, the other end of the rope is also being stretched in the other direction, bad items are getting cheaper cheaper cheaper.. every day some items that used to be worth trying to sell, are no longer worth trying to sell.
So.. the best of the best items are out of reach.. but the quality of items that sell for very very little is getting better. I killed diablo on inferno with my Monk, with only 3-4 mil worth of gear at the time.
Your conclusion of fail is still accurate though, the games "now we want you to go to the AH so you can keep progressing" model is horrible.
The overall itemization needs a big overhaul but as Doez stated I doubt it will happen. The game is largely focused on using the AH and that's "alright" as its no different than D2 (trading items) except you use gold. Not sure why people QQ about prices, unless you want perfect gear or put act 3 on easy farm things are very cheap. You can spend a couple hundred thousand gold to fully gear a WD (weakest class ATM) to put act 1 inferno in farm mode.
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I have act 3 on farm, but i still find that this game is shit and agrees with OP, the stuffs that drops are mostly shit, and the rolls are shit, legendary is shit, imagine get a legendary wizard wand with only str and dex on it, u get the idea... so there's no point to run act 3, even tho i can face roll it, best bet to earn money is just to flip items on the AH every now and then to get ur upgrade, instead of playing the game
their reason for having shit drop is that they want to establish an economy so that the rare good items can sell for large amount of gold or real money, but they over estimated the player's patience level, if ppl never get anything thats useful or can sell, they just feel that the game is not rewarding at all, thus players quit the game, in fact, 99% of my friends list is gone. Economy doesn't matter if there's no player -> no market, ppl's shit is not gonna sell, and Blizzard won't benefit from AH cut
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It's just me or have more people here frustrated with the diablo 3?
I will tell my tale....
Stay awhile and listen...
There is a time in the game where you start dying, dying and dying. You realize then that you need better items.
You try to pay more attention, open more chests, rake more corpses, kill more mobs, champs and rares and see that has no result.
Then you discover that the game is not capable to provide you with these items.
Why the game is not capable to provide you with these items? Because there are simply too many modifiers and these modifiers have a minimum and a maximum range too big that the chance that you will get a good item with modifiers for your class and a range in the modifiers that are good for your class is almost impossible to be achieved by playing the game in a way that a regular human who plays for 2 to 3 hours per day for 4 or 5 days a week. (In any stage of the game, from level 1 to 60, from the normal to inferno).
Then you discover there is an auction house in the game where you learn people that finds good items puts them there for sale, then you run to there to try find upgrades.
Getting there you learn that all items that have modifiers you need in a moderately acceptable range are extremely expensive. Expensive enough to the point where you have to spend much of your playable time to get that much money and also discover that this amount of money is impossible to get.
We have now a problem that leads to fail.
You have a need for better items and tries to get in the game, you realize the game fails to provide the items for you due to randomness of the modifiers, the range of them, the chance to get the item and the time needed to farm these items, then you go to auction house and find items that cost a fortune and you do not have the money needed to be able to buy them and finds it impossible to get as much money to buy these items.
Conclusion, fail.
Getting the items trying to farm = fail.
Getting the items shopping in the auction house = fail.
Therefore, it is impossible for you to advance in the game.
Soon, diablo 3 becomes an impossible game
Impossible = not fun.
Someone over here shares my frustration?
But I did not come here only to criticize, I have suggestions.
1-Increasing the drop better items, lets say every 100 rare items, you get an uber one, 6 to 8 modifiers, each modifiers good like primary stats, vit, all resistance in ranges that are the almost the maximum allowed for that item. Maybe 1 every 200 or 300, but make something achievable, not something like .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of chance to get that.
2-Restrict modifiers in the class specific items or make hard to get modifiers not desirable for a class to be generated such as monk helms with intelligence. (I know that intelligence helps resist all the monks, but you guys understand my point).
3-Enable the exchange of skills without losing the buff, or at least we can exchange the skill runes without loosing the nephalem valor.
4-Making the nephalem value be counted opening chests, corpses and stuff like that.
You don't need to spend 100 million gold to get a 1300+ dps weapon or specific gear to make everything faceroll, but figure out what you are lacking. Is it resists? Vitality? Not enough dps? If you have a couple hundred thousand gold, you can find all kinds of upgrades. If you refuse to use the AH at all, then yes, the game will be frustrating because you'll be stuck without any hope of progressing unless you get really lucky.
I remember wanting to quit my barb because of the first canyon in act2. The wasps and leapers would just melt me. Then I farmed a little, bought a couple items to boost my resists and it's been downhill farming speed for all the acts now.
It would be nice if some of your suggestions existed in the game, but I don't see it happening. It just seems like it would be too much of an overhaul for them to limit what mods could be on class specific items. I hate seeing an awesome dps barb weapon having 700 loh, an open gem slot, but with150 int or dex.
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However, the reason is off IMO.
Think of the items and thier prices like a rubber rope:
Over the course of the game, the rope is being stretched - in both directions. Amazing, top end items keep going up up up up in price because people have more gold (fail gold sinks).
But, the other end of the rope is also being stretched in the other direction, bad items are getting cheaper cheaper cheaper.. every day some items that used to be worth trying to sell, are no longer worth trying to sell.
So.. the best of the best items are out of reach.. but the quality of items that sell for very very little is getting better. I killed diablo on inferno with my Monk, with only 3-4 mil worth of gear at the time.
Your conclusion of fail is still accurate though, the games "now we want you to go to the AH so you can keep progressing" model is horrible.
their reason for having shit drop is that they want to establish an economy so that the rare good items can sell for large amount of gold or real money, but they over estimated the player's patience level, if ppl never get anything thats useful or can sell, they just feel that the game is not rewarding at all, thus players quit the game, in fact, 99% of my friends list is gone. Economy doesn't matter if there's no player -> no market, ppl's shit is not gonna sell, and Blizzard won't benefit from AH cut