Stop spreading misinformation like this. There has been no indication of a nerf to crit from Blizz, and they've stated they do not intend to play with people items after the communities reaction to the IAS change.
What does it matter. Diablo 3 was released as a single player game with a co-op component. There are people that have dumped 200+ hours into the game, farmed gold and items so they could gear up with the best gear they possibly could and are now upset because they feel they didn't get their money's worth. Their 200 hours of entertainment for $60 just isn't enough. There needs to be more!
Well, there's not... that's the game folks. Perhaps it's time to stop pointing the finger at Blizzard and start looking at yourself if you're bored with the game. Diablo 3 is not the -only- game out there. Play something else, take a break, quit the game... Stop trying so hard to make the game into something it isn't.
Bottom line is: You will never be able to out farm a bot. As gold value continues to decrease it will not be long before buying gold, or spending USD on items is the only method to play this game competitively.
Bottom line is: This is not a game to play competitively. If you're banking on D3 pvp to be competitive, then you're in for a disappointment. The rest of the game is an item farming game. I'm failing to see where you feel the need to purchase these items in order to be competitive.
What I'm understanding (and I could be wrong, only human after all) is that you're getting upset because people with more disposable income are able to advance faster than you are by purchasing items with real money from other players who, after Blizz takes their cut, then get the real money you just paid...
Farm out a few items, sell them for real cash on the AH and build up an account bit by bit. There no need to spend more money. If you're impatient enough, or feel that it's such an injustice that someone else is willing to pay for something that you aren't then I don't know what to tell you...
How is this game not competitive? This is one of the most competitive games I've ever played, and the only game I've ever played where the exploits of others severely gimped the entire population. I could care less if you exploited gold in WoW, because you're still not going to buy most raid loot. However in Diablo 3, the loot is not a reward for in-game accomplishments, but rather something you have to find out of the auction house - which now requires your credit card.
Suggesting that I am upset because I don't have the income to purchase items myself is not only false, but childish. I play video games because they are fun. If I found out that someone else could get Rogue Legendaries in World of Warcraft for $250.00 I would be highly annoyed. I did not go through 3-4 months of questing and raiding to get my Legendary daggers because of their monetary value; I did it because it was a challenge and rewarding.
This is no different with Diablo 3. When I spend 300 hours playing my Monk, and my friend with less than 100 hours of time played spends $30 and now has better gear than I do, I feel like I wasted my time and that the game is no longer rewarding regardless of how much time I spend playing it. You could argue that I could just ignore item buyers, and mind my own business, but the reality is, I can no longer purchase items with gold because most of the items I search for have been moved to the RMAH, and what ever gold I can farm is worthless now that the market has been flooded by farmers.
I guess in your eyes, I should take my "disposable income," and throw it at the screen, and be done with Diablo 3 forever. I am not going to do this for the same reason I never hacked a character in Diablo 2. I like the idea of earning my status in a game, but when that same status can be purchased for pennies on the dollar, it really gives very little incentive to continue playing. I looked forward to Diablo 3 being a game I could spend years developing a character in, and believed that the time investment would feel rewarding, but I now realize that working a 4 hour shift for minimum wage would yield greater results than farming for 100 hours.
First I'd ask that someone please explain to me how this game is competitive? What/who are you competing against? The game has been beat, timed runs have been done and there's not going to be any new content. I suppose you might argue that you're competing to have the best build/stats for each class but that's sort of arbitrary when you take into account the sheer number of possible builds. You can build for damage if you want and you can show other people screenshots of your character info or maybe you'll get a some sort of praise in a public game for your character, but I'm not seeing a competitive game here...
Second: I was not trying to suggest you were poor or lacked the funds to make the purchases, simply that you were unwilling to do so. Other folks are. You said it yourself that you play for the challenge and the reward. That brings up the question of how do other people purchasing in game items with their money affect the challenge -you- have when you play the game? The reward bit I won't touch on, because honestly I have no idea what you find rewarding about the game. I'm not implying there's nothing enjoyable about the game, just that I don't know what -you- find enjoyable about it.
You're sort of contradicting yourself a bit as well. You claim to play the game for challenge and reward, yet you're upset because you can longer -buy- the items you want with the in game gold currency because people are moving the items they found to the RMAH. How does purchasing an item fit into that? Do you honestly garner some measure of enjoyment from farming gold just so you can go purchase an item someone else had drop for them? If so, you're right... what's the difference between spending an hour farming gold to buy something than spending an hour employed so you can buy something? One has a higher return than the other.
Here's the thing about status in Diablo 3. You'll never have it. Simple as that. The game doesn't promote the same sort of stand out attitude that some other games do. You're character isn't going to look unique and/or special because he downed some boss in an endgame instance. There's no "coming content" that's going to push you to be better, or have better gear. At best, you'll be able to faceroll through Inferno Mode. You're not going to be fundamentally better than another player on any noticeable level. Whether you spend years or hours investing in a character, if you're doing in search of notoriety (which is what I get from your post, apologies if I'm wrong) then you're going to be disappointed.
Bottom line is: You will never be able to out farm a bot. As gold value continues to decrease it will not be long before buying gold, or spending USD on items is the only method to play this game competitively.
Bottom line is: This is not a game to play competitively. If you're banking on D3 pvp to be competitive, then you're in for a disappointment. The rest of the game is an item farming game. I'm failing to see where you feel the need to purchase these items in order to be competitive.
What I'm understanding (and I could be wrong, only human after all) is that you're getting upset because people with more disposable income are able to advance faster than you are by purchasing items with real money from other players who, after Blizz takes their cut, then get the real money you just paid...
Farm out a few items, sell them for real cash on the AH and build up an account bit by bit. There no need to spend more money. If you're impatient enough, or feel that it's such an injustice that someone else is willing to pay for something that you aren't then I don't know what to tell you...
Because you don't have to do all of act 2 to progress to act 3 if you have a buddy in act 3. Just get them to send you an invite and voila! you can start doing siegebreaker runs.
You can certainly get higher damage weapons from Act 1 inferno. I know I've found 1H weapons that were in the 600 - 700 damage range farming Act 1.
I'd advise joining some public games to do butcher runs. Also, the AH exists... if you don't want to use it for whatever reason, that's fine but there are decent weapons for rather cheap. And if you're not using the AH then you're just sitting on piles of gold that you likely aren't going to find much of a use for in game.
My WD is only lvl 55 and my damage is around 12K or so. That said, I am using a ~600 damage Ceremonial Knife with a - lvl req stat.
What was so different in D2 that made the same basic gameplay (farm, farm and then farm some more) so much more enjoyable? Was it knowing that once you had that BiS item, that you knew you were done with that slot? Was it so you could flex your e-peen (not meaning that as an insult) to your buddies? Was it something else?
I think the big clash between Blizz and the players is that Blizz made a game wherein there is no BiS due to the fact that they aimed to have this huge number of viable builds/skills that you could interchange and still be able to progress forward. A "play as you want to play" style if you will. The problem with that, at least in my opinion, is that that isn't what today's players are looking for.
The internet databases have changed -everything-. Players can now look up every item in the game, affixes, suffixes and determine what -the- best item is for each and every slot. I'd say WoW contributed a good bit to this attitude (be it good or bad). Players aren't playing to play what they enjoy so much as playing what puts out the best dps, or can kill the quickest, or can survive X, Y, and Z situations. At it's foundation, I believe the biggest issue is the disparity between the game Blizz developed and the game the players wanted it to be.
More than all of this, the major problem is that once you "soak" some hits how are you going to get that health back?
The biggest miscalculation blizzard seems to do here is that unlike melee classes, wizards at least do not have any possibility aside from a potion to regain health properly and thus still do not want, or cannot take hits.
Health globes, life after kill, regen, LoH (does this work for wiz?)...
There was also some hoopla about using the rune that creates twisters behind you when using sprint recently. I'd imagine folks playing around with that particular skill/rune combo bumped it up a bit as well.
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Whatever you can get someone to pay for it.
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Well, there's not... that's the game folks. Perhaps it's time to stop pointing the finger at Blizzard and start looking at yourself if you're bored with the game. Diablo 3 is not the -only- game out there. Play something else, take a break, quit the game... Stop trying so hard to make the game into something it isn't.
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Two methods of nerfing were mentioned:
1. Decrease the value range of IAS on each item slot.
2. Introduce diminishing returns to IAS.
Last I heard, they were leaning towards option 1.
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First I'd ask that someone please explain to me how this game is competitive? What/who are you competing against? The game has been beat, timed runs have been done and there's not going to be any new content. I suppose you might argue that you're competing to have the best build/stats for each class but that's sort of arbitrary when you take into account the sheer number of possible builds. You can build for damage if you want and you can show other people screenshots of your character info or maybe you'll get a some sort of praise in a public game for your character, but I'm not seeing a competitive game here...
Second: I was not trying to suggest you were poor or lacked the funds to make the purchases, simply that you were unwilling to do so. Other folks are. You said it yourself that you play for the challenge and the reward. That brings up the question of how do other people purchasing in game items with their money affect the challenge -you- have when you play the game? The reward bit I won't touch on, because honestly I have no idea what you find rewarding about the game. I'm not implying there's nothing enjoyable about the game, just that I don't know what -you- find enjoyable about it.
You're sort of contradicting yourself a bit as well. You claim to play the game for challenge and reward, yet you're upset because you can longer -buy- the items you want with the in game gold currency because people are moving the items they found to the RMAH. How does purchasing an item fit into that? Do you honestly garner some measure of enjoyment from farming gold just so you can go purchase an item someone else had drop for them? If so, you're right... what's the difference between spending an hour farming gold to buy something than spending an hour employed so you can buy something? One has a higher return than the other.
Here's the thing about status in Diablo 3. You'll never have it. Simple as that. The game doesn't promote the same sort of stand out attitude that some other games do. You're character isn't going to look unique and/or special because he downed some boss in an endgame instance. There's no "coming content" that's going to push you to be better, or have better gear. At best, you'll be able to faceroll through Inferno Mode. You're not going to be fundamentally better than another player on any noticeable level. Whether you spend years or hours investing in a character, if you're doing in search of notoriety (which is what I get from your post, apologies if I'm wrong) then you're going to be disappointed.
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Bottom line is: This is not a game to play competitively. If you're banking on D3 pvp to be competitive, then you're in for a disappointment. The rest of the game is an item farming game. I'm failing to see where you feel the need to purchase these items in order to be competitive.
What I'm understanding (and I could be wrong, only human after all) is that you're getting upset because people with more disposable income are able to advance faster than you are by purchasing items with real money from other players who, after Blizz takes their cut, then get the real money you just paid...
Farm out a few items, sell them for real cash on the AH and build up an account bit by bit. There no need to spend more money. If you're impatient enough, or feel that it's such an injustice that someone else is willing to pay for something that you aren't then I don't know what to tell you...
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I'd advise joining some public games to do butcher runs. Also, the AH exists... if you don't want to use it for whatever reason, that's fine but there are decent weapons for rather cheap. And if you're not using the AH then you're just sitting on piles of gold that you likely aren't going to find much of a use for in game.
My WD is only lvl 55 and my damage is around 12K or so. That said, I am using a ~600 damage Ceremonial Knife with a - lvl req stat.
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What was so different in D2 that made the same basic gameplay (farm, farm and then farm some more) so much more enjoyable? Was it knowing that once you had that BiS item, that you knew you were done with that slot? Was it so you could flex your e-peen (not meaning that as an insult) to your buddies? Was it something else?
I think the big clash between Blizz and the players is that Blizz made a game wherein there is no BiS due to the fact that they aimed to have this huge number of viable builds/skills that you could interchange and still be able to progress forward. A "play as you want to play" style if you will. The problem with that, at least in my opinion, is that that isn't what today's players are looking for.
The internet databases have changed -everything-. Players can now look up every item in the game, affixes, suffixes and determine what -the- best item is for each and every slot. I'd say WoW contributed a good bit to this attitude (be it good or bad). Players aren't playing to play what they enjoy so much as playing what puts out the best dps, or can kill the quickest, or can survive X, Y, and Z situations. At it's foundation, I believe the biggest issue is the disparity between the game Blizz developed and the game the players wanted it to be.
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Health globes, life after kill, regen, LoH (does this work for wiz?)...
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