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Whaaat?
You started a thread just to say that you don't like the game - you're entitled to your opinion, but it's quite useless for anybody else, as you don't share any thoughts on how the system could actually be improved.

Clearly OP is here to troll and disgust anyone like you who walked right into the trap. It is a fishing thread can't you see it?

There was many gear tiers in D3V.Then everyone make a DH char and start to farm infernal A3 for the best tier.And we have a AH, and a easy-to-reach maximum level.

If you have access to the highest tier, then the price and value of other tiers will drop to almost nothing

Removing AH and make leveling up 100 times slower will solve this problem. But with power level existing... So they just removed AH.

It is certain that this post is written by a harm heart player, but that post has nothing worthy left after filtered by logic and facts.

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1. Low drop rate

Does anyone still remember what they said about F&F? "You have nothing left to player after farming for 3 days ! This game sucks!" And now they say "I can't get a exciting legendary every next corner. This game sucks! ", and what? He doesn't even play pass EXPERT and he expects a pile of legendary drop?

I play on PTR at T3 now, and get averagely 1 legendary per hour even though there is NO high-monster-density rifts, NO gambling, NO cache rewards and NO bounty reward. So I don't think the droprate is low now.

Remember, the fact is: What some players want now, is the droprate of MP10 (what they are playing at now live) at MP3/4 (Master/Torment1).
Now what do you think ?

2. Bloodshards:

And the dear poster said there is no need to play pass expert because Bloodshards are everything... It certainly DOES NOT remind me of countless complains about "Bloodshards are useless!", and finallymake BLZ allow legendary items to be acquired from gambling. Whoever only play Expert and thinks something useless very valuable... I really don't think he is that "expert".

3. And droprates droprates and... starving monkey?

The droprate of F&F is like MP20, and now he has only MP1 (is expert difficulty really as hard as MP1?) droprate. Sure,any human can't adapt instantly.But before complains, he should think, is it because he is starving now, or he was too full?

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Surely there are a lot of things need to improved about RoS, too many that can't even be counted with one or two hands.

But how can a post that complains about droprates only because: "They want droprates of MP10 (live) or MP20 (F&F) at MP 1/4" move you like this?

Hello everyone! I am here to suggest some ideas I had. I tried to make it as simple and short as possible, so I hided some details. And I added Requirements Analysis to the end of each idea, to explain whys. Hope you will find some of these interesting and enjoy! Principles: More code reuse
Meet urgent needs
For majorities

Fusion Forge

Purposes: - Making “useless” legendries more useful
- Helping players accept account-bound
- End-game content like Cube/Runewords Brief:
- The forge has 4 slots; player can put whatever lv-70 legendary item into the one of slots
- If player puts another legendary item to an adjacent slot, and this legendary item has one and has only one common primary property as the first item, a link that represent this property would be formed - After clicking the Forge button, an amulet which has 4 “link” primary properties will be made, and all of those four legendary items will be salvaged

- This amulet has some very powerful secondary properties, like 500 arcane resistance, 10 pickup radius etc. Those secondary properties are decided by those 4 primary stats and their order
For example: Primary Attribute + Health (%Life/ Vitality) + Life (per hit/per second) + Critical (chance/damage) =500 Physical resistance + 80% Gold Find Details: Requirements Analysis:

Elemental Harmony

Purposes:
- Giving players 7th, 8th, and even more “skill slots” without adding any real skill slots
- Reduce complains about “elemental damage effect” (like fire weapon deals AoE damage etc.)
- Further increase build diversity Brief: - Any skill that deals damage can trigger Elemental Harmony
- Once the Elemental Harmony is triggered, a spell will be cast automatically
- The type of the Harmony spell is determined by the weapon’s elemental damage type and the skill’s element type Details: Examples:
Physical + Arcane= Wave of Force
Fire + Arcane= Hydra
Poison + Fire = Fire Bomb More examples and details: Requirements Analysis:

Demonic Soul Gem and Monster Innate Affixes

Purposes: - Better monster balances while keeping their characteristics
- Give players reason to fight ACT4 mobs instead of ACT1 boring zombies
- Solution to bad lucky problems (farm x hours without a legendary loot) Brief: - Some monsters have innate affixes. For example: Soul Ripper have “Tongue Attack”
- Those monsters, when become elites, have less elite affixes(like fire chains etc.) because of their innate affixes - Killing any monster gives player Soul Gem energy. Each affix (innate or elite) increases energy gain by X%, which means, a Phasebeast yields much more soul energy than a zombie - After the soul gem is fully recharged, player can use it and summon a powerful monster that guarantees drop a legendary item Details: - The soul gem can be over-charged to 1000%. Each time it loses 100% energy when used. The item type of the legendary drop is affected by the sum of numbers of energy.
For example:
“492% charged”-> 4+9+2=15 -> 15->1+5=6
6 means it has triple chance to drop a shoulders item than other armor types More details: Requirements Analysis:

Infernal Trail

Purposes: - Short pain, guaranteed profit
- A challenging end game content
- A way to compete with each other Brief:

- Compared with Campaign and Adventure mode, it is just a minor mode
- Monsters are very powerful in this mode - Each week, a player can only kill each monster once. They will not re-spawn until next week
- Each sub boss guarantee drops a legendary item the first time you kill it each week Pain Control: - Each item when you are killed by a pack of elite of a boss, their health and damage will be decreased by 10% this week
- If you failed to kill a sub boss 5 times in a row, its loot will be degrade this week (legendary gear to mat). Same rule applies to elite packs (3 times) Details: - Player can view best 100 players and inspect their builds and gear from a billboard Requirements Analysis:

Separate Challenges from Achievement UI

Purposes: - Another PvEvP end game content
- Some of the challenges are combat-irrelevant, which means everyone could join in despite their gear level Brief: - Separate challenges from Achievements and put them into a new Challenges interface, and add a leaderboard to it
- At the end of each month, the best 10 players of each class will be awarded with special portrait frames and aura dyes
- Some achievements could be converted to challenges like boss kill achievements (on torment 6; in 2 minutes; don’t get hit by some skills etc.) Requirements Analysis:

Demons Must Die

Purpose: - Offering players a new way to play Brief: - Inspired by game "Orcs Must Die". Players can build blade traps, explosive barrels and even moonseeds in order to help them to defend waves of attacks

- Unlike OMD, all of those traps must be active by hand, not automatically, in case of exploit. And blade traps have cooldown, barrels respawn after each wave
- DMD mode doesn’t reward any gear loot. But it is a faster way to collect gold and experience than adventure mode
- Strength of monsters are dynamically adjusted by players’ gear level (EHP, DPS and Healing) Details: - Traps deal little damage. But they apply effects to monsters, to let players kill them much easier.
For example:
Triple arcane damage taken
Convert chill effects into frozen effects for 15 seconds More details: Requirements Analysis:

Demonic Infusion

Purpose: - Another end game content Brief: - Players can get item: [Foul Demonic Crystals] from monsters. They can choose to salvage these into gems, or use them near a normal monster
- Upon used, the crystal will shatter and imbue its power to the monster, which will get a special affix, and this monster can level up. Once reached level 10, it guarantee drops a legendary mat or even legendary gear and a lot of gold Examples of this “special affix”: · Greed: This monster automatically picks up gold drops by other monsters, and gains a level for each X piles of gold picked up
· Enrage: Watching another monster killed increases damage and speed for 2 seconds. Gain a level for each X monster killed Other examples:

Skill-oriented instead of Luck-oriented

Purposes: - Improve gaming experience
- Reduce complains about random or inevitable death that pisses player off Reasons:
- Skill-oriented battle design makes player proud of their increasing skill
- Luck-oriented battle design pisses players off, just like arcane enchanted/frozen+ vortex, old reflect damage/mortar etc. Brief: - A Skill-Oriented affix should contain and only contain 2-3 of following parts:
1. Unavoidable Effect: Like Frozen, it deals unavoidable damage once the ice ball spawns. But it is not deadly. The purpose of Unavoidableis to make players balance between EHP/Healing and DPS
2.Deadly but AvoidableEffect: Like frozen effect of Frozen. Once applied, it can put player into a very dangerous situation.
3. Rewarding Effects: If players didn't get frozen by any ice balls, those ice balls will frozen/slow enemies. This kind of effect is to reward players for their skill and give them sense of accomplishment. Also, it "increases" farming difficulty of bots because it is hard for them to get rewarding effects.
Details: - Vortex:Spawn a big cycle of wind under a player’s feet and deal damage to him. If he chooses to run out of the cycle, he will be pulled to caster’s location. Otherwise the cyclone will disappear after 2 seconds.
Shielding:Damage taken will be doubled in 4 secsafter the shield expires. Requirements Analysis:

Waking Powers

Purposes: - Giving player a better first impression instead of “I became weaker after 2.0”
- Giving player more driving force to level up Brief: - For every X paragon level a player gains, he will also get one level of a passive skill beside paragon points
- Most of things that was taken away from players, like primary attributes of old paragon system and Nephalem Valor, will be back as one of those “passive skills”
- Some interesting things that does not booster players’ combat capacity that improves the game experience, could be added into game as one of those skills
- If possible, a skill tree could be better and it could silence more complains Example of the Powers: • Increase player’s movement speed while in town
• You can attack and destroy Treasure Goblin’s portals
• When a legendary item drops (from an enemy), confuse nearby enemies and make them attack each other More examples: Requirements Analysis:

Free Upgrades: Standard to deluxe, deluxe to Prime-Evils Pack

Reasons: - A lot of people complain that the expansion is a little bit too expansive.
- A lot of people were disappointed by D3V Brief:

- Upgrade current standard edition to deluxe edition, and deluxe edition to Prime-Evils editions for free
- The Prime-Evils contains World of Warcraft heirloom weapons (transmogrify weapons of RoS deluxe edition), Black Soul Stone mineral fields skin, RoS theme card skin etc. Requirements Analysis:

High Resolution Face Textures

Purpose: - Making this game looks like something released after 2000 instead of before Reasons: - Allowing players to custom their chars benefit a RPG game just like allowing players name their chars, dyeing their gear, transmogrifying their gear. And 1000% better
- When most of online games, especially those made in Korea or Japan, allow players to customize their chars however they like, while Diablo 3, a RPG game made by one of the best companies on the earth, only offering players a bad looking and low resolution face texture.

Miscs

- Completing a bounty increases rewards from bounties of another random acts by 10%, and remove 1 stack of bonus of this act - Allowing players to modify models might be a better idea than offering high resolution textures, just like the Elder Scrolls. - Difficulty settings could not be liner, like easy- normal- hard etc. The difficulty setting design of Meteor: Last Light is very advanced. Player can choose between normal mode and hardcore mode, and each of them has easy to hard settings. So Diablo could also provide players 3 modes like:
Serious Nephalem: Very high monster density, lower drop rate, low monster health
Destiny Warrior: Normal monster density, normal drop rate, normal monster health
Humanity Defender: Low density, high drop rate, high monster health
And 6 difficulty choices like torment 1-6. Torment 1 “Serious Nephalem” should be as difficult as torment 1 “Humanity Defender”. So players can use different builds to farm different modes. - Currently, one of the problems that discourage players do public games is that, if they play with some players that has less DPS than them, they may feel that they are carrying but without additional reward.
Unlocking higher public game settings by soloing uber bosses of that difficulty could be a solution - Whatever players complain is whatever they cannot control. Leaving something that system does now to players may solve some of those problems
For example, if players complain the reviving time of followers is too long. You can allow players clicking on followers to revive them (just like reviving players). They may stop complain, because it is their problem now.
Many designs follow this rule, like Runewords vs. random properties, luck-oriented affixes vs. skill-oriented affixes etc. - It is excited to see a lot of gold or some gear dropped by chests or ashes, but it is also easily exploited by bots. One of the solutions is adding invisible buff stacks to players: killing a monster gives player some stacks of this invisible buff, which greatly increases loots from chests etc. Opening chests removes some stacks of this buff. - Adding player rating system may improve environment of public games: If a player gets low ratings from many players in different games. He may not join another public game for some hours. - Adjusting the class balance is like trading with players - Dynamic system could be introduced to balance skills and runes, if a skill or rune is not popular then it will be automatically buffed by up to X%. This buff is determined by players themselves so they cannot complain about it. By Hawke0323 Hawke0323@gmail.com

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Isn't Master supposed to be like MP 5-6? Logic would dictate that if you're farming MP 7+ now that you'll find Master relatively easy. News at 6.

monster health: mp5;monster damage: mp3-4; affixes AoE damage: mp 6-7

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Just play PTR for the first time and completed act 3 and it was easy! does anyone else find it easy? how hard is torment? Real hard? Like head from ROS beta player. Also the drop rate was low, found some rare, one leg (death mantle, was terrible) and not enough white crafting will take long time. Kill two goblin, got 3 nap globe, kill about 23 elite, the mobs was very disappointing The 4 boss were easy. Exp did nor work. Did not really like the new map system. Changes to menu took a little adjusting Died 3 times was walled in by elite. Why do we have wait when we die? Found no upgrade. bliz talk about game changing leg but with the new system it will take forever. ran with my p76 DH, play mp8-10 on d3v love to hear from others

of course it is easy. Master is not the highest difficulty but you are top geared at current level

The first thing that came to my mind after I read the 1.08 PN is that: BLZ finally found a way to make use of their empty servers.

So I believe the mob density is not going to be tuned back, until servers are gone empty again sometime in future. However, at least devs can increase the density on high difficulties or in rifts and let us know, to ease our pain.

Try taking off all your gear and hit by a mob in A3 and comparing the damage number with yours.

Very good build.
With the good slowing effect of BLZ and ROF you can even swap WOF with the frost hydra for a higher damage output.

However your AoE damage per second would be low. And that "Cold Blood" rune: not reduced to 0 but to 12(in the beta patch 15), which mean the lack of signature skill may lead to an awkward situation of running around with no AP to cast any spell.

You CAN keep attacking in that 3 secs and mobs won't try to attack you or chase you. SS is a very good skill as a aggressive skill, sometimes even better than used as a survival skill.

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The difference between AO and M is that AO explodes after the 1st hit and M can hit wherever you want. So in the hand of a experiences player M can hit more targets and get a higher damage per AP.
A example:

Yes, AO's effective area is only about a semicircle, however, there is a good 1 second delay on meteor landing. In other words, you are going to miss a good portion of that AoE as well. The area is slightly bigger, but nothing amazing.

But I do agree with you actually. I think blizzard has it in for skills that get lobed. Look at firebomb for WD, its about half as potent as it used to be.

True, that makes meteor not that efficient against fast movers compared with AO.

Are you one of the employees of BLZ ? How did you get this data:
"It takes an equally geared wizard 25% longer to kill the Skeleton king than any other class in patch 15!"

The difference between AO and M is that AO explodes after the 1st hit and M can hit wherever you want. So in the hand of a experienced player M can hit more targets and get a higher damage per AP.
A example:
http://pic2.178.com/...4a61ee9fd7b.png

In the case of the picture, Meteor hits 2 times of the targets compared with AO.
Obliteration runed AO: 35/228%
Molten Impact runed Meteor: 60/234+78%

35*2=70>60
228<234+78

So Meteor maybe much difficult to use, but eventually more efficient.(in the condition of the picture, other conditions? try it yourselves)

30% damage reduction after each hit.
It was included in the tooltip in the early few patches but removed somehow.But I tested in the patch 14 and confirmed.