1.0.3 hit me just like most of the community. I didnt like it very much because it had more nerfs than buffs (I think i can count the number of buffs on one hand). Of course, when you make changes there are always cry babys talking about quitting because things aren't going the way they planned. If quitting is your ultimatum then there is no stopping you, but I implore you gamers to try something new. Stop being so stubborn.
Diablo was never about 1 class/build fits all. Diablo was never about stacking a single attribute or looking for that "end game" item where everyone will eventually be wearing the exact same thing. Diablo has always been a reap-what-you-sow game and ultimately it all comes down to either time or luck. 1.0.3 balanced the game. That's right, no more belial power leveling, goblin hunting, botting, and stacking. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" If it wasn't for this patch, I would still be running a glass cannon DH with 12k HP, stacking everything into DEX and Atack Speed. If I were stubborn I would have probably quit as well, but we are humans. Humans learn to adapt to challenges, work around obsticles. If we didn't have that in our genes we would have died along with the dinosaurs.
Fellow gamers, open your eyes throw away your stubborness. Stop stacking attack speed (ridiculously over priced) and single attributes. This is not a one build game, play around with the thousands of possible combination of builds and gears available. Read the class forums and try out other peoples suggestions. ADAPT. Find your own builds to post! THIS is the fun that Diablo was designed upon.
I for one, am no longer "kiting" packs with the fear that even a droplet of elite sweat could kill my frail glass canon DH. Instead, I can now stand and tank them. Now there are much more possibilities to try.
People are not leaving the game because of attack speed or any damage nerfs, you got it a bit wrong.
People are leaving the game because of simple things they got bothered with :
1. Drop rate is ruined and game is completely broken now. Farming is completely useless now, unless you want to vendor everything you get.
2. People are annoyed with RMAH and AH. I personally don't have anything against those but it would be better without them probably.
3. There are so many broken classes, broken skills and so many bugs.
4. There is no end game for hard core players. This is not D2, this is not time of gaming from 1999. This is 2012 and people like challenges, end game content and rewarding system.
So once again, there are many issues with the game and damage is the last problem. I m personally still playing game even tho I cleaned entire content 3 weeks ago. Loot is currently broken as long as many other things. I m not a flamer, QQ'er or anything like that.
I m not fan of blizzard nor any other gaming company. I play games I like, I don't care who made them. Be realistic and don't look at the game subjectively.
I hope blizzard will fix this game soon cause game itself has a lot of potential to rock and roll.
But to be honest, this patch wasn't even that bad, and easy to adapt to IF you actually wanted to, you hit the nail on the head when mentioning stubbornness. There was a lot of people who quit over it, this can be seen in the amount of publics there are today versus the amount there was 2 weeks ago. Ultimately this patch cleansed the game of one dimensional cry babies that flood gaming communities everywhere with there negative attitudes.
Since day one of this patch the only aspect of it that bothered me more than anything was the high amount of wear and tear repair costs, I fully agree with your bank account being shredded as a penalty for dying, but haven't agreed with the high wear and tear costs. But i've moved on and just avoid deaths as meticulously as possible and swallow the 5 to 7k repair costs for just playing the game.
The patch cleaned the Diablo 3 community and the patches going forward will have a much more positive aspect to them because of it.
I didn't want to use the full quote for fear of sounding too aggressive. So far this topic is full of others who have it (and one who doesnt). There are frustrating aspects to the changes but there is good also.
You complainers think you are the majority because you connect through forums with thousands of others who share your opinion. Thousands.
But this is enough to give you the opinion that more people agree with your reasons for hating Diablo 3 than actually exist.
I wish some of these people freaking out on the forums would smoke something to "calm" down, because you aren't Chicken Little, and the sky is not falling. Yet.
Diablo 2 is fun because (1) promote coop - only botter play solo.
That's not quite accurate. I had a ton of fun playing D2 solo, and I'm extremely opposed to bots or anything of the sort. And many of my friends played the same way.
Some people do really need to get over themselves and start looking for things to do other than greasing the bandwagon wheels and complaining about things they only glanced at in another thread, troll mentality in a nutshell to be honest
its not simply because of nerfs that is making people quit. with every patch, blizzard is pretty much narrowing the game down to exactly how they want the game to be played. there is absolutely nothing wrong with smashing vases for loot or gold, nor changing into mf gear to pop open chest. if the problem is botters, than fix that. don't go eliminating different play styles people enjoy simply cause of that. some days i simply don't wish or have time to endlessly kill packs, as currently that is the only way left to farm now.
i enjoyed a quick 5nv siege run. i enjoyed wearing my mf gear and just run through whimsy and pop some clouds open while trying to dodge mobs, i still die and sometimes i don't get loot at all, but the adrenaline of dodging and trying to speed through surviving as long as possible is fun. i don't want to log on with only the option of farming packs after packs after packs after packs every time. your analogy of lemons is poorly used, in life sometimes you have no options, not so when choosing what or how to play a game.
1.0.3 hit me just like most of the community. I didnt like it very much because it had more nerfs than buffs (I think i can count the number of buffs on one hand). Of course, when you make changes there are always cry babys talking about quitting because things aren't going the way they planned. If quitting is your ultimatum then there is no stopping you, but I implore you gamers to try something new. Stop being so stubborn.
Diablo was never about 1 class/build fits all. Diablo was never about stacking a single attribute or looking for that "end game" item where everyone will eventually be wearing the exact same thing. Diablo has always been a reap-what-you-sow game and ultimately it all comes down to either time or luck. 1.0.3 balanced the game. That's right, no more belial power leveling, goblin hunting, botting, and stacking. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" If it wasn't for this patch, I would still be running a glass cannon DH with 12k HP, stacking everything into DEX and Atack Speed. If I were stubborn I would have probably quit as well, but we are humans. Humans learn to adapt to challenges, work around obsticles. If we didn't have that in our genes we would have died along with the dinosaurs.
Fellow gamers, open your eyes throw away your stubborness. Stop stacking attack speed (ridiculously over priced) and single attributes. This is not a one build game, play around with the thousands of possible combination of builds and gears available. Read the class forums and try out other peoples suggestions. ADAPT. Find your own builds to post! THIS is the fun that Diablo was designed upon.
I for one, am no longer "kiting" packs with the fear that even a droplet of elite sweat could kill my frail glass canon DH. Instead, I can now stand and tank them. Now there are much more possibilities to try.
Have fun
not stacking vit endlessly in diablo 2? then you was doing it wrong
They are making Diablo 3 operate like an MMO. If I wanted to grind till my fingers bleed, I'd go back to D2.
Fixed that for ya, buddy.
The grind comparison is laughable because, outside of a very few instances, WoW has done a great job listening to the community and eliminating grinds. If you were to compare D3 to a WoW grind, after 2-3 weeks of 1 hour of amazingly easy dailies you'd have a vendor unlocked which would just sell you items.
That doesn't sound remotely comparable.
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Diablo was never about 1 class/build fits all. Diablo was never about stacking a single attribute or looking for that "end game" item where everyone will eventually be wearing the exact same thing. Diablo has always been a reap-what-you-sow game and ultimately it all comes down to either time or luck. 1.0.3 balanced the game. That's right, no more belial power leveling, goblin hunting, botting, and stacking. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" If it wasn't for this patch, I would still be running a glass cannon DH with 12k HP, stacking everything into DEX and Atack Speed. If I were stubborn I would have probably quit as well, but we are humans. Humans learn to adapt to challenges, work around obsticles. If we didn't have that in our genes we would have died along with the dinosaurs.
Fellow gamers, open your eyes throw away your stubborness. Stop stacking attack speed (ridiculously over priced) and single attributes. This is not a one build game, play around with the thousands of possible combination of builds and gears available. Read the class forums and try out other peoples suggestions. ADAPT. Find your own builds to post! THIS is the fun that Diablo was designed upon.
I for one, am no longer "kiting" packs with the fear that even a droplet of elite sweat could kill my frail glass canon DH. Instead, I can now stand and tank them. Now there are much more possibilities to try.
Have fun
People are leaving the game because of simple things they got bothered with :
1. Drop rate is ruined and game is completely broken now. Farming is completely useless now, unless you want to vendor everything you get.
2. People are annoyed with RMAH and AH. I personally don't have anything against those but it would be better without them probably.
3. There are so many broken classes, broken skills and so many bugs.
4. There is no end game for hard core players. This is not D2, this is not time of gaming from 1999. This is 2012 and people like challenges, end game content and rewarding system.
So once again, there are many issues with the game and damage is the last problem. I m personally still playing game even tho I cleaned entire content 3 weeks ago. Loot is currently broken as long as many other things. I m not a flamer, QQ'er or anything like that.
I m not fan of blizzard nor any other gaming company. I play games I like, I don't care who made them. Be realistic and don't look at the game subjectively.
I hope blizzard will fix this game soon cause game itself has a lot of potential to rock and roll.
Have fun
But to be honest, this patch wasn't even that bad, and easy to adapt to IF you actually wanted to, you hit the nail on the head when mentioning stubbornness. There was a lot of people who quit over it, this can be seen in the amount of publics there are today versus the amount there was 2 weeks ago. Ultimately this patch cleansed the game of one dimensional cry babies that flood gaming communities everywhere with there negative attitudes.
Since day one of this patch the only aspect of it that bothered me more than anything was the high amount of wear and tear repair costs, I fully agree with your bank account being shredded as a penalty for dying, but haven't agreed with the high wear and tear costs. But i've moved on and just avoid deaths as meticulously as possible and swallow the 5 to 7k repair costs for just playing the game.
The patch cleaned the Diablo 3 community and the patches going forward will have a much more positive aspect to them because of it.
Also, the dinosaur part gave me a good laugh.
Diablo 3 is build around RMAH.
1 - punish coop. The game is much hard playing coop
2 - gear dependent. You cannot kill anything when you are naked.
I didn't want to use the full quote for fear of sounding too aggressive. So far this topic is full of others who have it (and one who doesnt). There are frustrating aspects to the changes but there is good also.
You complainers think you are the majority because you connect through forums with thousands of others who share your opinion. Thousands.
But this is enough to give you the opinion that more people agree with your reasons for hating Diablo 3 than actually exist.
Bandwagon Effect, Clustering Illusion, Confirmation Bias.....
I wish some of these people freaking out on the forums would smoke something to "calm" down, because you aren't Chicken Little, and the sky is not falling. Yet.
That's not quite accurate. I had a ton of fun playing D2 solo, and I'm extremely opposed to bots or anything of the sort. And many of my friends played the same way.
Some people do really need to get over themselves and start looking for things to do other than greasing the bandwagon wheels and complaining about things they only glanced at in another thread, troll mentality in a nutshell to be honest
i enjoyed a quick 5nv siege run. i enjoyed wearing my mf gear and just run through whimsy and pop some clouds open while trying to dodge mobs, i still die and sometimes i don't get loot at all, but the adrenaline of dodging and trying to speed through surviving as long as possible is fun. i don't want to log on with only the option of farming packs after packs after packs after packs every time. your analogy of lemons is poorly used, in life sometimes you have no options, not so when choosing what or how to play a game.
not stacking vit endlessly in diablo 2? then you was doing it wrong
Fixed that for ya, buddy.
The grind comparison is laughable because, outside of a very few instances, WoW has done a great job listening to the community and eliminating grinds. If you were to compare D3 to a WoW grind, after 2-3 weeks of 1 hour of amazingly easy dailies you'd have a vendor unlocked which would just sell you items.
That doesn't sound remotely comparable.