"And idk y "purchased ROS" was part of and argument or point, but purchasing ROS,entitles you to, surprise, play it. Nothing more, nothing less."
Of every 60 minutes I spend split farming, 30 minutes is spent farming, 30 minutes is spent being disconnected / staring at a search screen wondering whether it has hung or not / entering and leaving bugged bounty / killing Diablo.III.exe and restarting / queued on the authentication server for 1/2/3 minutes a time. I don't expect the game to be perfect but I do expect Blizzard to make sure their infrastructure and services are scaled up adequately to accommodate all the licenses they have sold. Its a great shame that the process of split farming for a RORG exposes me to all these infrastructure related issues.
I agree rifting is generally repetitive aswell, however, after I have entered a game with a decent group, I stay in the game for at least 5 to 15 rifts thus avoidthese issues and I am actually playing 100% of the time. When split farming, I have no choice but to leave the game and then go through the same rigamarole again.
Have blizzard considered, if they allowed bounties to be reset, they would lower the load on the "game search" service considerably and overall, the game play ( split farming ) would be considerably more efficient for us ~ win win on both sides.
If this was a free game like DOTA, then I would quite happily take the rough with the smooth but as its not free, I expect a bit better.
PS: Yes, I am sooo obsessed about the RORG. You must have been too to farm 4 RORG. Tell me, how did you get over it ?.
1.- I agree 100% with you if thats the case about your problems with the servers, etc infrastructure over all. That's trully something you can demand to be "decent" if, like you also said, bought the game, and it's not free. So point there. I do not have such problems really, so good thing that you cleared that out.
2.- I can also agree with the "reset bounties" point. My connection it's slow, so it's always a pain in the as* having to leave game and re-enter.
3.- The only part of my post you limited to answer was my P.S.
4.- About the P.S. Like i said, all my words were with respect, so i don't expect to have to lower to a child level to discuss with you about this. When I used the word "obsessed" was with no mean of making fun of you or nothing, because i know that on this game that consist basically on grinding and finding gear, especially if like this you need specific BiS items for build/classes, it's quite easy to get stuck trying to get an item. I did nt have and obssesion with the ring to get four. Was just plain luck, like i think i said before. I just did bounties like everyone else to try and get a ring for my strength class, then for my dex class, and then the intel one, so that my chars could get set bonus (yes, i am a declared althacolic,lol), and also to get the bracers, but I never really have a bad time doing them, or opening cache, etc like you seem to have. So there you go, not really an obssesion to get over, so i can't really help you there.
I have totally lost count of how many caches I have opened but I knows it’s many hundreds and close to a thousand. So far, I’ve found one mediocre and one very bad RORG. Although I like playing Diablo and love the exhiliaration of the game, I really find the “process” of getting an RORG really repetitive, boring and even depressing to the extent I have stopped playing. The system issues ( timeouts and bugged bounties ) are the nails in the coffin as they have wasted so much time.
I have read forums where people explain why giving away legends too easily takes away the challenge and feeling of reward, however, as there are many people who have spent days and weeks just farming caches only to find nothing or salvage-worthy RORGs, it does make me think Blizzard have got it a bit wrong here. Some of you may ask “why bother with a RORG if you moan having not found a decent one ? ”. That’s almost a good point but let’s consider the fact that I have two sets of all the most desirable gear and acquired them playing the game as its supposed to be played. I levelled my characters, I purchased ROS, I played many bounties and completed many rifts up to Paragon 272 playing in a balanced way which I really enjoyed. I experiment with builds etc.. all fun and interesting. Playing Act 1 whether in Normal or Torment X mode again and again and again for days and weeks is not balanced and Blizzard ought to realise that this needs to be looked at. We all paid money for the game and if you put in the time in a legit and balanced way, we should be rewarded. They key word here is “BALANCE” which I shall repeat again and again just in case it was missed earlier. Anything to the extreme is not good…. To me, the way we farm for a RORG feels like an exploit because of its repetitiveness. If we got one RORG per 5 caches, then I think it would be flagged as an exploit. Only since the drop rate of a good RORG is so astronomically small is it not. I usually play one hour after work, a few hours at the weekend. However, when I think about RORG, I just don’t bother playing any more because it really is not enjoyable. Someone said you need to “do it like a job” but as I cannot afford the time and considering the reward is only a ring of no economic or enjoyment value to me in the real world, its just not worth it. To those of you who did put in the time, two thumbs up.
In my humble opinion, you're part right, part wrong.
Yes, doing bounties its repetitive and boring. Maybe there's people that enjoy it, I don't know. But doing rifts it's not so different, for me at least, it's also repetitive. Diablo in general has always been a game about finding things to do, over and over again for grinding or whatever (going down again and again on cathedral levels, mephisto runs, killing baal, in old D3 doing inferno act I over and over again hoping to get "decent" gear for, surprise, going to act II and do farm it over and over again to, again, surprise, reaching act III where "the good loot" was suppose to be,etc. I don't know about you, or even if you played this game since launch. I did, and i can assure you that what we have now it's a hundred times better and more rewarding (been the rewarding topic one of those you mentioned). This does not mean that there is no room for improvement. Like every human creation "perfection" it's far away, and you can always go and change something for the better (hopefully). I, like i said at the start, also think bounties are pretty repetitive and boring, and i also wish that blizz makes and effort in the future to make this a more enjoyable experience.
Now, regarding the (in)famous Ring (Rorg), why are you even so obsess about it? Here I think you got it wrong. I actually have 4 of those rings (I know, lucky me maybe), and I am not even paragon 300 yet (and mines, have always rolled with main stat, ias [yeah, i know ias it's not what it used to be], sometimes vit and main stat, cc/critdmg). You say you're paragon 270 or some, and don't play thaat much because of w/e reason and you have found 2. I can assure you there are players out there over 300+ paragon and they haven't even seen one RORG. On the other hand, respecting to the "rolls" for me, the "power" of the ring, and the thing about it, it's the affix itself (wich, of course, you will always get, no matter the roll), because you're getting the bonus of ANY set (could be even more than one set at the time equipped on you) with one piece less. This has allowed very good combinations (6 piece set bonus with magefist, Cindercoat, and so and so, for all classes). Second (first was the affix itself), I don't know what you call a mediocre roll and a bad one, but seems to me like you're demanding a perfect roll (the fact that some guy had a fuckin RNG lottery price and got an obsene ring does not mean every RORG its going to be epic), forgetting that we now have the Mystic to reroll stats and make items that roll nice even more grotesques. It can be expensive, i know (believe me, i've spend millions and millions and gems rr things, with a helm of akkhan costing me more than 20 millions to get a decent cc on it), but what else do you want? That we can get smart loot, powerfull items with legendary affixs, AND that you can rr the one stat you like less over and over again without costing you a lot? what would be the fun on that? everybody running around with perfect items doing T6 like it's on normal difficulty. Personally, I prefer a more challenging game. Again, i agree that "challenging" it's not the same or it means that it needs to be boring or frustrating. Third, why even waste so much time on the RORG? It's not even a good endgame ring anyway. At least the guides i've seen, the high T streamers i watch, and my personal experience, there are other rings you should be investing your time on looking. Of course the game will get boring and demotivating for you if you are just obsess with one item, that moreover, you can just get by doing bounties over and over again.
So my advice will be to just get over it and invest the little time you have to play doing something else, more productive and fun. If you use that same time getting the set piece you still need (that i guess justifies the need of a RORG) you're probably getting it sooner (they buffed class set pieces drop chance) and can also move to get a better ring too.
All here it's my humble opinion and said to you with all the due respect, knowing that we can have differences in thinking. I just tried to be logical on the "train of thoughts" and arguments I put above.Sorry for long post ! Hope you can keep enjoiying D3! Cheers!
P.S.: Got all my RORGs on my own, i don't do split bounties. And idk y "purchased ROS" was part of and argument or point, but purchasing ROS,entitles you to, surprise, play it. Nothing more, nothing less.
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2.- I can also agree with the "reset bounties" point. My connection it's slow, so it's always a pain in the as* having to leave game and re-enter.
3.- The only part of my post you limited to answer was my P.S.
4.- About the P.S. Like i said, all my words were with respect, so i don't expect to have to lower to a child level to discuss with you about this. When I used the word "obsessed" was with no mean of making fun of you or nothing, because i know that on this game that consist basically on grinding and finding gear, especially if like this you need specific BiS items for build/classes, it's quite easy to get stuck trying to get an item. I did nt have and obssesion with the ring to get four. Was just plain luck, like i think i said before. I just did bounties like everyone else to try and get a ring for my strength class, then for my dex class, and then the intel one, so that my chars could get set bonus (yes, i am a declared althacolic,lol), and also to get the bracers, but I never really have a bad time doing them, or opening cache, etc like you seem to have. So there you go, not really an obssesion to get over, so i can't really help you there.
Best of luck in w/e you are doing.
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Yes, doing bounties its repetitive and boring. Maybe there's people that enjoy it, I don't know. But doing rifts it's not so different, for me at least, it's also repetitive. Diablo in general has always been a game about finding things to do, over and over again for grinding or whatever (going down again and again on cathedral levels, mephisto runs, killing baal, in old D3 doing inferno act I over and over again hoping to get "decent" gear for, surprise, going to act II and do farm it over and over again to, again, surprise, reaching act III where "the good loot" was suppose to be,etc. I don't know about you, or even if you played this game since launch. I did, and i can assure you that what we have now it's a hundred times better and more rewarding (been the rewarding topic one of those you mentioned). This does not mean that there is no room for improvement. Like every human creation "perfection" it's far away, and you can always go and change something for the better (hopefully). I, like i said at the start, also think bounties are pretty repetitive and boring, and i also wish that blizz makes and effort in the future to make this a more enjoyable experience.
Now, regarding the (in)famous Ring (Rorg), why are you even so obsess about it? Here I think you got it wrong. I actually have 4 of those rings (I know, lucky me maybe), and I am not even paragon 300 yet (and mines, have always rolled with main stat, ias [yeah, i know ias it's not what it used to be], sometimes vit and main stat, cc/critdmg). You say you're paragon 270 or some, and don't play thaat much because of w/e reason and you have found 2. I can assure you there are players out there over 300+ paragon and they haven't even seen one RORG. On the other hand, respecting to the "rolls" for me, the "power" of the ring, and the thing about it, it's the affix itself (wich, of course, you will always get, no matter the roll), because you're getting the bonus of ANY set (could be even more than one set at the time equipped on you) with one piece less. This has allowed very good combinations (6 piece set bonus with magefist, Cindercoat, and so and so, for all classes). Second (first was the affix itself), I don't know what you call a mediocre roll and a bad one, but seems to me like you're demanding a perfect roll (the fact that some guy had a fuckin RNG lottery price and got an obsene ring does not mean every RORG its going to be epic), forgetting that we now have the Mystic to reroll stats and make items that roll nice even more grotesques. It can be expensive, i know (believe me, i've spend millions and millions and gems rr things, with a helm of akkhan costing me more than 20 millions to get a decent cc on it), but what else do you want? That we can get smart loot, powerfull items with legendary affixs, AND that you can rr the one stat you like less over and over again without costing you a lot? what would be the fun on that? everybody running around with perfect items doing T6 like it's on normal difficulty. Personally, I prefer a more challenging game. Again, i agree that "challenging" it's not the same or it means that it needs to be boring or frustrating. Third, why even waste so much time on the RORG? It's not even a good endgame ring anyway. At least the guides i've seen, the high T streamers i watch, and my personal experience, there are other rings you should be investing your time on looking. Of course the game will get boring and demotivating for you if you are just obsess with one item, that moreover, you can just get by doing bounties over and over again.
So my advice will be to just get over it and invest the little time you have to play doing something else, more productive and fun. If you use that same time getting the set piece you still need (that i guess justifies the need of a RORG) you're probably getting it sooner (they buffed class set pieces drop chance) and can also move to get a better ring too.
All here it's my humble opinion and said to you with all the due respect, knowing that we can have differences in thinking. I just tried to be logical on the "train of thoughts" and arguments I put above.Sorry for long post !
Hope you can keep enjoiying D3!
Cheers!
P.S.: Got all my RORGs on my own, i don't do split bounties. And idk y "purchased ROS" was part of and argument or point, but purchasing ROS,entitles you to, surprise, play it. Nothing more, nothing less.