After playing the open beta over the past few nights and watching tons of videos leading up to it, I am a little disappointed. I have been playing Blizz games since they were S&S with games as Rock N Roll Racing and Lost Vikings, and Have been playing blizz games since then. I love all their games especially the Diablo series. I remember playing D1 and 2/EXP and just could not stop playing the game no matter how many times I played through it. But I found playing the open beta I was not as enthusiastic about wanting to play it. I stopped for a long while and honestly had a hard time forcing myself to play the open beta afterwards. Hell I am still playing D2 like crazy but taking a break since ladder is resetting. Also played WoW for many years doing hardcore end game raiding putting up WoL records during wrath and cata. But Im sidetracking.
First off the graphics/art/sound's are superb there is no doubt about that. I feel they transitioned to higher end graphics quite well along with all the details in the spells and and towns. I love they have a shared stash! HUGE PLUS! (no more temp bans for muling hopefully). Very glad that they allowed automatic gold pickup instead of having to click on every single gold drop like in D2. Bigger backpack also is great. Loving the lore and the voice actings.
My main concern that I am quite unhappy with many of the spells/moves are on cooldowns. That was one thing I loved about D2 that a majority of spells were instants and you could spam them. I know there were some spells that did have CD's but they were very short and rare. That is what I loved about D2 it was a very face paced game where you could just go nonstop without having to wait on CD's. It's like in WoW, if you wanted to maximize your DPS/heals/tps, you were constantly tracking your cd's, icd's, cd stacking, friendly buffs, enemy debuffs, friendly debuffs. And it got to a point where it was monotonous and no longer fun.
Just like in WoW, the CD's are probably added to help balance PVE and PVP, which I understand but it sucks at the same time. In my opinion I think they added a few to many aspects from WoW to D3 and I dont like it personally. Maybe Im just so caught up on D2 and I understand over 10 years and they are trying to update the game to todays standards. I just hate CD's/Debuff tracking for a game that is supposed to be a fast paced hack and slash game.
I also feel that the Witch Doctor is quite boring at least on the beta being able to play up to lvl 13. But again after reviewing this skills and runes. It seems like its almost identical to the Warlock in WoW.
Again this is just my opinion based off the open beta as Im sure many might disagree with me.
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First off the graphics/art/sound's are superb there is no doubt about that. I feel they transitioned to higher end graphics quite well along with all the details in the spells and and towns. I love they have a shared stash! HUGE PLUS! (no more temp bans for muling hopefully). Very glad that they allowed automatic gold pickup instead of having to click on every single gold drop like in D2. Bigger backpack also is great. Loving the lore and the voice actings.
My main concern that I am quite unhappy with many of the spells/moves are on cooldowns. That was one thing I loved about D2 that a majority of spells were instants and you could spam them. I know there were some spells that did have CD's but they were very short and rare. That is what I loved about D2 it was a very face paced game where you could just go nonstop without having to wait on CD's. It's like in WoW, if you wanted to maximize your DPS/heals/tps, you were constantly tracking your cd's, icd's, cd stacking, friendly buffs, enemy debuffs, friendly debuffs. And it got to a point where it was monotonous and no longer fun.
Just like in WoW, the CD's are probably added to help balance PVE and PVP, which I understand but it sucks at the same time. In my opinion I think they added a few to many aspects from WoW to D3 and I dont like it personally. Maybe Im just so caught up on D2 and I understand over 10 years and they are trying to update the game to todays standards. I just hate CD's/Debuff tracking for a game that is supposed to be a fast paced hack and slash game.
I also feel that the Witch Doctor is quite boring at least on the beta being able to play up to lvl 13. But again after reviewing this skills and runes. It seems like its almost identical to the Warlock in WoW.
Again this is just my opinion based off the open beta as Im sure many might disagree with me.