It's not hard to find basic gear in D1 & D2 which makes hell pretty easy to farm. For fast block for example, just equip a stormshield as a rogue. Warriors got default fast block with any shield.
Yes because stormshields dropped like candy... Why would I play a ranged character to do gimped damage with a sword and shield? Fast block easy enough but with no other stats = you will die quickly unless you have lots of +vit /all stats & resists on your other gear which again requires farming. I don't remember warriors having an automatic fast block, they received a better bonus from said attribute but don't have it at default.
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Diablo 1 in hell mode is not that difficult, there are several gameplay tricks (no not exploits) which make it pretty straight forward, even as a warrior or rogue. For example moving in a horizontal line makes it pretty unlikely to get hit by succubus projectiles. While doing so, chase them to a corner and slay them down.
Slaying melees in Level 16 is also no trick, just stand in the corner and max. 3 Knights can attack you at once which is survivable.
A simple stone curse fixed the range problem for melee. It's the fact that (unless you have the best gear) it took 6-10 hits to kill one monster and unless your standing in a door frame there weren't that much viable options (besides spells and potion spamming). You also needed a shield a very fast shield block to make that work or you would never get a hit off, again all these aspects lead to needing gear.
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You think I am dumb, right? Of course I played D1 & D2 regularly. NO I didn't use Godly full plate mail of the whale and stuff like that in D1 and I also didn't use ITH or bugged items in D2 1.09 or duped later on in the game. Gearing up in a new ladder season was fun, including runewords with selffound runes.
But still, gear was NOT a real requirement in order to kill something. It takes you one week max. from starting a new character to running through hell, but still gearing up in Diablo 2 is the main goal and is motivating, even though it is damn easy.
Regarding the Diablo 3 mechanics, how do you approach a fight with an elite phase beast pack having jailor, desecrator, arcane enchant and frozen/nightmarish if you see this beforehand?
The moment you see them they teleport on you, you are probably already in jail and 2 arcane enchants are spawning around you.
No problem to survive till now, but then they start making frost bombs while you run in fear from nightmarish, which alone made you run through the arcane sentries while 4 sword-wielding phase beasts thrash on you. But hey, I would have made it for sure if I had approached this correctly. Or simply outgeared it.
I don't think your dumb, I just don't think you are knowledgeable in what your talking about. Overall I'm assuming all your cool downs were off or your a glass cannon with no oh shit buttons. Gear was never a requirement to kill anything in D3 either (up to inferno), and D1 & D2 didn't have inferno mode. In all honesty D1 hell mode (solo) was nearly impossible without being cheap (apoc staff for the win or potion spamming).
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I didn't say it shouldn't be about gearing. Diablo 1 and 2 were also about gearing. Gear was just never a requirement in order to kill something, it just made you feel more powerful, which was a good motivation. Especially for people who just geared for duels, which is also gone.
My actual point is, farming inferno is boring because you either outgear packs and fall asleep while you slowly bring them down or they have imbalanced affixes that leave you almost no chance (based on my experience in act 3 and 4). There was a post some weeks ago from some guy that pointed out how to make elite affixes more fun. For example, instead of just being jailed, there could be some kind of warning below you for a short period of time (the higher the difficulty, the shorter the warning time). But no, Blizzard decided to just jail you, put 3 arcane enchants around you and burn your ass with desecration stuff at once.
How is a warning going to fix anything? "Oh noes I'm going to be stuck in 2 secs." compared to "oh jailers, I better approach the fight in this aspect."
Gear was a requirement to kill anything in D1 & D2 you just probably had the dupped items from D1 & D2 making both games cake. Try playing D2 LoD with no runewords, end game sets, or most end game unqiues. Let me know how well you progress in Hell.
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Yes because stormshields dropped like candy... Why would I play a ranged character to do gimped damage with a sword and shield? Fast block easy enough but with no other stats = you will die quickly unless you have lots of +vit /all stats & resists on your other gear which again requires farming. I don't remember warriors having an automatic fast block, they received a better bonus from said attribute but don't have it at default.
A simple stone curse fixed the range problem for melee. It's the fact that (unless you have the best gear) it took 6-10 hits to kill one monster and unless your standing in a door frame there weren't that much viable options (besides spells and potion spamming). You also needed a shield a very fast shield block to make that work or you would never get a hit off, again all these aspects lead to needing gear.
I don't think your dumb, I just don't think you are knowledgeable in what your talking about. Overall I'm assuming all your cool downs were off or your a glass cannon with no oh shit buttons. Gear was never a requirement to kill anything in D3 either (up to inferno), and D1 & D2 didn't have inferno mode. In all honesty D1 hell mode (solo) was nearly impossible without being cheap (apoc staff for the win or potion spamming).
How is a warning going to fix anything? "Oh noes I'm going to be stuck in 2 secs." compared to "oh jailers, I better approach the fight in this aspect."
Gear was a requirement to kill anything in D1 & D2 you just probably had the dupped items from D1 & D2 making both games cake. Try playing D2 LoD with no runewords, end game sets, or most end game unqiues. Let me know how well you progress in Hell.