Quote from Blackdust
Act IV should be almost Impossible to play? Especially when the game is at its climax I for one would love for them to make Act 4 harder than any other act with more monster density, because come on its the end of the game/story here. what does the "BLUES" think and what do other people think about the "END GAME" difficulty? (Let's make Act IV the most sought after hard(butt) place to farm with benefits, like hard as s*** with beast mode drops)? Inferno of course! What you guys/gals think?
Not sure if you've been to Act 4 since patch 1.0.8, but even the small boosts in mob density in places like the Gardens of Hope and the Silver Spire have at least increased the difficulty by a bit. Example....pre-patch, I used to do a long, extended run starting at the quest to kill Cydaea all the way through Diablo. With my Monk, I used to be able to go through the whole thing, dying here and there but nothing monumental. Now? I can handle Act 3 on MP6, but not Act 4. Battalions of those Morlu Wizards guys, Legionnaires, Succubi, and Subjugators are way too much. If I want to farm Act 4 (and I do like farming Act 4, Nekarat drops random keys, all I gotta say), I have to ratchet the MP down a few clicks from where I usually go.
Honestly, I know what you're saying, and I would say the mob density in Act 4 could even be kicked up just a tad in some spots...but all in all, I don't think it should be impossible, but I do think the mob density increase there did make it harder.
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