So I've been burning to play some Diablo since I got into the D3 beta and got a taste for it again. I was never a huge Diablo 2 heavyweight online, but I played quite often.
Sadly it seems that Battle.net is dominated by bots, and trading outside of the game itself using third party currencies. Chat is dead, games are flooded with bots and spam, and trading is literally dominated by a certain site that I won't name here (and refuse to even use.)
Am I better off modding with something like PlugY and getting a similar online experience without the other players? Part of why I'm doing this is to experience the story again, but I also love the loot...who doesn't?
Use PlugY. The shared stash is amazing, you get all those -relatively- cheap and effective ladder only rune words and you can do the uber quests. The only problem is, that you just can't force certain drops. You know, once you have like 5 M'avina Diadems, you should have enough goods to trade for multiple Griffon's Eyes, there's just nobody to give it to you.
Sadly it seems that Battle.net is dominated by bots, and trading outside of the game itself using third party currencies. Chat is dead, games are flooded with bots and spam, and trading is literally dominated by a certain site that I won't name here (and refuse to even use.)
Am I better off modding with something like PlugY and getting a similar online experience without the other players? Part of why I'm doing this is to experience the story again, but I also love the loot...who doesn't?
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Sol77-2972/hero/66110450