Of course the time required for *perfect* items is enormous. If it wasn't, and you could have your perfect 50 CHD/5 CHC/20 area dmg/7% IAS gloves reliably in just 1-2 days by farming up the mats to re-roll each stat, you could get perfect gear way too easy. People who play a lot in each season - let's say, 200-300 hours or more, will have most items pretty much perfect and only need very small upgrades (i.e., maybe one low stat on an item, but not any wrong rolls anymore).
It's a grinding game, and acquiring good loot takes time. That's already not true anymore for most parts of the game (looking at free sets and how easy it is to gear up multiple builds; it took me ~35 hours in S7 to complete 8 builds for the conquest). If you make it even easier to re-roll sub-par drops into perfect drops, all you need is to find the basic items (which is ridiculously easy) and re-roll them. Done. The game becomes boring and the main essence - getting more loot - is non-existent.
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The premise is flawed... you do not need to find a group to 'burn' the surplus of rings, you can do it on your own.
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I used to get really worked up about inequity and unfairness too, and be very vocal about it.
Diablo 3 is an artificial system, I couldn't understand why the developers would introduce the same kind of unfairness that we have to contend with in real life in it. If this a fantasy, why does it have to have one of the most loathsome qualities of reality built in?
Then it dawned on me... is not that developers are hell bent on favoring some at the expense of others, is that humans want to be rewarded for doing what they like to do regardless of it being detrimental to others. Those that benefit from the inequality have the psychological tools to deal with the cognitive dissonance that arises from it, to silence and dismiss dissenting voices. And developers have to appeal to the humans that play the game. Make it fair and square, it does not resonate with our nature that is shaped by our reality (and viceversa, is a vicious circle really) and people stops playing.
It is remarkable how many people I have met throughout the years that mindlessly milk the system, telling themselves and others that they are only doing what is allowed, working within the framework that has been set for them, seldom stopping to consider whether the framework is actually healthy or not. Their general response to conflict goes along the lines of: 'comply, and you will reap the rewards too; you are only being penalised because you are an outlier, an outcast, there is nothing wrong with the system, look how nicely we bask on it, there is something wrong with you.'
The other thing that humans like to do is cheat. We are really good at it. We see a system and immediately wonder 'how can we circumvent this?'.
Don't get me wrong not all humans have the tools to circumvent a system, most of us have been born and bred into mediocrity and hell do we embrace it wholeheartedly, but once one finds a way this person will have no difficulty finding support on the fringes of the system. There is always an abundance of resource there; the further ingrained into the system you become the more difficult is to see just how many people it excludes so it sometimes shocks to find out once it is brought into focus.
Once you have your band of Merry Men assembled and you have a 'good thing going' others within the system will start joining in, some because they come to realise that the system despite demanding compliance without question from all within does not reward everyone equally, others because they see more in common with those without than with those within, the reasons are as endless as omnipresent is cognitive dissonance.
This invariably leads to conflict. The ones that have reaped the benefits of inequity for any length of time in exchange for their silent allegiance see their rewards somewhat lessened by this external threat. But once again the calls are not for the system to be less rigged in favour of some at the expense of others thus making this external threat less appealing, people less likely to jump ship; no, the calls are for this external threat to be quashed leaving the system as it is. Is comfortable, it provides, it caters to us. We do not want to include these people, we want these people and their artifacts buried under tons of soil soon to be forgotten.
Meanwhile the charms of being a maverick and the promise of great reward, which is the same mechanism that keeps people tied to the system, is not like we had to invent a device for this, it is already within us, keeps making people gravitate towards the fringe.
And this is where we are now. The conflict gets more and more polarised. Those within the system jump onto their high horses of righteousness and morality without ever considering whether your can be righteous or moral within an unjust and immoral system or not and call to wage war on those who are eroding it with their wicked devices of unfair advantage.
Those outside the system tells themselves and those who will listen that 'unfair advantage' is usually a matter of what side of the fence you are sitting on, and that 'rights' are generally dictated by those who have the capacity to enforce them. Besides, they are taking a risk, the only risk the ones on the other side of the fence have to face are system collapse or being excreted after displeasing the system, and they could tell you stories of just how easy is for the individual to displease and how swiftly and definitively that can happen.
Defending our little satrapies in which we find solace and comfort and assaulting those satrapies for a slice of the pie are both very human behaviours, but the moral high ground you will find in neither.
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@truerasp, reading between the lines of your posts what I gather is:
'Blizzard please say that is OK to use it so I can use it too without fear of retribution or ban those who use it if it isn't because I dare not take the risk but nor I would want anyone else to use it if I can't'
That is a very human attitude there, and very common too.
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Allows you to infuse legendaries with flavours of your choice.
I personally like mine orange and cinnamon flavoured.
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Have a look at this, there is some info about upcoming changes to Crusader.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/5bgq4f/akkhans_is_getting_a_neck_piece_as_a_7th_slot/
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Don't get me wrong, additional stash tabs are better than nothing, but this proposition (which has been around for quite a while) would not only be a storage solution, it would also be a noticeable QoL improvement.
But please do not make it so we need to play seasons to unlock it. Some of us are stuck with 6 tabs...
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This is the only way forward and out of the current toxic shroud of suspicion, mistrust and witch hunting.
We question the validity of the claims of those who present themselves as wronged and dismiss their pleas without a second thought yet we embrace, defend and proselytize a judgement borne of an opaque process that offers nothing but a semblance of appeal, all in the name of safety.
I have a healthy amount of salt for both, those who claim to suffer injustice and those who claim that their justice is beyond scrutiny.
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That is the policy of fear...
Never let anyone know what either by action or omission may lead to retaliation and claim to do it in the interest of everyone's safety so people live in permanent fear of doing anything at all while blaming the victims because well... they surely have done something to deserve it haven't they?
Don't get me wrong, it works really well. Even today some government bodies have it down to a T. However I would sincerely recommend to weigh in the implications before embracing it so wholeheartedly.
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This irks me to an extent. I may not be the most efficient player out there (I have just managed to hit 35bn/h) but I have been playing since vanilla, thousands upon thousands of hours worth of play, and I am still just a few levels short of 800.
The fact that someone can, botting or not, single-handedly surpass me in six days is an outrage.
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That's all right.
In this climate of zealotry, being a solo player myself, I consider anyone gaining an unfair advantage over me by accruing 5 or 6 times the exp/h doing 2 EXP support / 2 DD speed GRifts a cheater.
And Blizzard, who falls just an inch short of endorsing this by justifying it, the biggest cheater of them all.
The good thing about playing solo however is that I hardly have any issues keeping track of my buffs and stuff because I never have anyone else's in the way. Silver linings I guess. If Blizzard follows the trend in patch 2.4 if you play solo your buff icons will disappear from the bar as a consequence of some QoL change made for people that play in party. And no fucks will be given.
On a different note lag is still here, at least with HT WD, alive and well.