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details on the 1.0.3b patch?

What is missing? Hmmm, I don't know, but I have some ideas:

*Boss Rush Mode- I like to see how fast I can kill all the bosses =D

*PVP...

*Random Dungeon Tool- (Actually this one should be available when you reach the Inferno mode) would be nice to farm itens and gold without being stuck in the same place ¬¬

*Alternative Bosses- and some that could only be defeated in group (really hard bosses).

*Bonus Campaign- (I don't know, maybe telling the story of Diablo I since it has changed a lot) as a reward for those who beat the Inferno.

There is a lot of things, the problem is that would require a lot of work, and Blizzard doesn't like this word...

Pretty sure this post just made wands with life on hit and ap on crit skyrocket in price.

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There is a lot of things, the problem is that would require a lot of work, and Blizzard doesn't like this word...

You think Diablo 3 didn't take a lot of work to make?

For me, I usually only keep playing a game for a long time if it has at least one of the following "features":

- Constant updates that add more content. Common example: most MMOs. Caveat: I don't consider new difficulty levels for already existing content to be new content. This includes harder versions of the bosses.

- User-created content; in other words, it must allow mods, addons, user-created missions, or something similar that enables users to add new content. Best example I can think of: Neverwinter Nights.

- Enough sandbox features to allow emergent gameplay. Best example I can think of: Minecraft.

None of the options in the pool would extend the time I would keep playing D3 in any meaningful way.

I played Diablo 2 for a long time due to it's mods; I was already bored with the vanilla game by the time I finished it on it's easiest difficulty. As a side effect, I never played on Battle.net, because it only allowed the vanilla client. Diablo 3 is, most likely, going to be similar for me - but with the heavy disadvantages that it does not allow mods, thus cutting most of it's longevity for me, and that all gameplay happens on Blizzard servers, which means I'm unable to play whenever my internet acts up or someone starts a download, not to mention Blizzard's weekly maintenances actually happen during one of the main time slots I would have to play.

Diablo 3 doesn't have the legs of its predecessor, but it's not, as everyone seems to be concluding, for a lack of content. I believe it's because the items are boring, and the way you get them is boring. They thought the item-hunt would be as fun as it was in the last game, but they didn't realize that they had compromised it. The auction house has made it so easy to buy and sell items that it's where you get your gear, not the game itself. It's like a funnel; you can ignore the AH, but ignoring it will be harder and harder as you approach the endgame where the game demands better gear -- and here's the most important part -- gear that won't drop for you, because they have balanced drop rates around the playerbase as a whole, and not individually, on behalf of the AH. It's why you don't find sets or legendaries as you play, either. Practically, the only things that ever drop are blue or yellow, which is another thing that makes the item-hunt less interesting. And because your primary attributes are on items now, there is a very small window of viable itemization that all items have to be in for them to be worth anything to anyone, and because they're completely random, they almost never are. Add to it that most items that drop are much lower-level than you, no matter what level you are.

All of that makes the item-hunt a lot less rewarding than anyone had hoped. It's so much more efficient to shop than to farm. That's what has made this game's appeal so much shorter than expected. Now, I should say that even still, the game has brought me plenty of hours of fun, and the game is well worth the money in my opinion. It certainly doesn't have the lasting appeal of Diablo 2, which I played off and on for years, but that only means it's down to staying fun several times longer than most games do.

Pandemonium Event doesn't sound different than what Inferno is, a static content you can beat once you have the gears, and after that, what?...

I'd like to see a system like Maps from Path of Exile (video). Maps are items you can trade, and once you activate it, it opens a portal to a random map with custom rules.

You'll farm for those Maps because they can have interesting loot and are fun to play due to the random factor.

As it is right now, for me, there's no incentive at all to keep playing D3. I haven't finished Inferno yet, either. But, to me, inferno acts as Hard/Nightmare/Insane or whatever you want to call it in other games, i.e. nothing I actually care about. I thought I would, but it's so different from how I actually expected it to be, and it's not even to play right now.

Keep in mind, I only played the first two weeks of launch before I had to go away. Came back yesterday and I'm not really feeling the vibe.

PvP patch with a ladder would help a bit compared to the other options, (in my opinion), but Desann makes a good point about the major impact the Auction House system has had on item hunting. It's what the Diablo franchise has been all about, pretty much. Take that away and Diablo is just basically an empty shell.

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PvP patch with a ladder would help a bit compared to the other options, (in my opinion), but Desann makes a good point about the major impact the Auction House system has had on item hunting. It's what the Diablo franchise has been all about, pretty much. Take that away and Diablo is just basically an empty shell.

The thing is, though, without a use for the items you find - why hunt them?

To this day I still haven't finished D2. By that I mean hitting lvl99. That's the incentive for me to play D2, and to get enough bank to support and level a smiter strong enough for Uber Trist. While doing that I will find loads of items fitting other classes and many different builds. I just don't get that feeling with D3. I thought I would, seeing how easy it was to swap skills without having to reroll. But it's completely different.. Where's the carrot?

Infinite dungeons would make farming so much more enjoyable.

They would just need to categorize it into 3 different difficulty like inferno.

Infinite Dungeon #1 - Act 1 skill level mobs

Infinite Dungeon #2 - Act 2 skill level mobs

Infinite Dungeon #3 - Act 3/4 skill level mobs

Then randomize the dungeon map using all 4 act maps.

We are need group content

Bosses for 4ppl which cannot be killed solo, something like scripted group bosses. They should make PvE challenge.

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We are need group content

Bosses for 4ppl which cannot be killed solo, something like scripted group bosses. They should make PvE challenge.

Which would help...whom exactly? The few people who actually have three more friends who still play Diablo and have free time at exactly the same periods, otherwise, they would be missing a person to do the run with? Not exactly the biggest demographic to cater to. If they make end game content, it should be available to everyone who finishes the game on Inferno.

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Pretty sure this post just made wands with life on hit and ap on crit skyrocket in price.

Would be nice if people actually started putting up wands like that on AH to begin with...

ZOMG ~runs as fast as she can to the blizzard store~ OMG A TY... sold out mother of god...

It would be cool to see a boss rush/pandemonium event like mode that would just increase the damage/health of each boss after each kill, so you could in theory have an unlimited amount of boss fights with possible leader boards just based on how many kills you can get in a row

I.. Ugh.
Just make it more like D2.
Simple fact is: If you cater to casuals, your game will suck after the initial glitter loses it's sparkle & the whole
casual fanbase moves on. Which it has now. It has just been proven.
STOP MAKING CASUAL GAMES. They suck!
Give us what D2 gave us. We were already robbed by the azn cartoon graphics department..
Make D3 more cut-throat like D2.
- No more cutscenes after the first time.. Wtf. The game seems repetitive because I feel like I'm going through a fifteen minute storybook everytime I kill Diablo. I miss Save & exit, join game, town, run thisthisthis. Pvp. Xfer... Fun.
- Actually interesting item modifiers -.-
- Bring runewords back.
- In-game hostility (FFS people..)
- More secrets in-game
- Boss runs. You know what I'm talking about.
- Make set items sort of 'build specific', & give them gfx (i.e. Tal rashas full set D2)
- Make ladder & NL. Starting over is half the fun. I still make low-level characters in D2

All in all.. Stop fucking babying us because some carebear made a long post on the forums about how he's the best & his ego can't.support the fact that he sucks. Fuck him! A little griefing in a game can do wonders to it.
Ladder resets. In-game hostility & pk. Runewords. Better uniques & sets. Booom