For me, I'm looking forward to "looking back" at the 20 years of Diablo. I've been playing since the beginning and I'm excited to take a look back at where we've been, and hopefully get a glimpse of what is to come!
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A couple of people have mentioned what they would change to D3 to make it better (or, really, either more like D3 vanilla or D2). That isn't the purpose of the poll to me - it's what about DIABLO that you really and truly love! "Low drop rates" is not something about Diablo you love. But maybe having truly rare items that you just have to force RNG to give you is!
For me, it's pretty simple - I love the loot hunt. I really enjoy the feeling when an items drops and I know it could possibly be an upgrade. It brings a little excitement back. I like the idea of truly "rare" items that you just have to farm and farm and farm and hope it drops. That's the main allure of Diablo, finding that one item you've been hunting for. I also enjoy mindlessly slaying demons, but hey, who doesn't?
The second most important thing for me is the story. The story in Diablo 1 was pretty simple, yet done well enough. The story in 2 was really strong, and the story in 3 was...ok. Not great, but not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. In whatever the next installment of this game is, I'd love to see a really strong story, maybe tied to the return of some very powerful nephalem.
I'm indifferent to trading. I feel like it takes away from the loot hunt (a lot) and if you can just buy/trade to get your pieces then what is the point of playing the game? But I understand that some people don't want to do the loot hunter all day every day so I'm not against it. I don't have to participate if I don't want to trade. But if Blizzard has to make drop rates SO bad for the AH to function properly (see: Vanilla D3) then I think it's more detrimental than helpful.
I'm indifferent to PvP. I have no interest in it and think Nephalem fighting Nephalem when Diablo is out there makes no sense, but if they can work it in as more of a Nephalem training thing then I'm fine with it.
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When it's cheaters that achieve it, no one cares.
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Friends and I sped (at level 22) to SK and killed him in 17:30 on Hard difficulty, and we didn't really know what we were doing. I imagine we could get it done in 15 if we had to. Will you make up the 15 minutes it takes to get it? Probably not, but it'll be close and you'll have one for your cube.
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Quin's point is a good one, but I agree with other posters in that this has been a "problem" in Diablo since Reaper launched. Most players won't do any testing or theorycrafting themselves, they'll just look on the LB's and copy whatever build is out there. Build diversity is a myth, and for the most part doesn't exist. If you want to compete on the LB's you do one of the following:
How many people do you REALLY think are iterating new builds to compete on the LB's? Based on what the LB's look like right now...not very many. The top clears are almost all the exact same build.
If you aren't looking at the LB's, and you're just playing because you think it's a fun game to play, build diversity has always existed because you're only competing with yourself. You play what's fun with the combination of items you've found. These updates don't change that, they only make you excited (for seasonal players) to find your first Ancient Tzo Krin's if you want to play LoN Wave of Light. And every Tzo Krin's you find is possibly an upgrade until you find the "perfect" one.
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As someone who put together a Wave of Light build using the random ancients he had laying around in his stash, critting for 36b to an entire room...
Yes, LoN needed a nerf. 100% is probably too low, I imagine it'll come in around 150-200%. Still a lot of testing to do, at 100% I'm not competitive with new Uliana or Static Charge, but I don't have perfect ancient gear yet.
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I read again what you said, which was "This post is worthless because I don't need some streamer to tell me how to play the game."
So, like said above, you have some beef with this specific streamer, which is fine, but don't call out other people posting ideas from the PTR. We all know it's speculation...that's why it's on the test server...
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Thanks for the guide, very helpful to those of us who haven't put in 60 hours into season 2 already!
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*dies of excitement*
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RNG is evil.
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In D3 1.0, once you got to a certain level in Inferno (and for me it was right at Inferno) it was incredibly difficult to complete any content unless you: 1) Bought your items on the AH AND 2) went with a specific build. There was very little choice.
In D3 2.0, I can find my own gear and upgrades in T2, and I can use a variation of builds from any element I feel like playing, and not die every 15 seconds. The current D3 experience is more enjoyable than any other Diablo experience I've ever had. Maybe when we get to RoS and 70, that'll change and only one or two builds will be viable. But right now I have choices.
To address your point about stat points - If you want to be a tank wizard keep items with toughness stats, like AR and LoH. There are a lot of defensive stats on item rolls now and I'm sure you could build a pretty tanky Cold wizard if you had the right itemization. Another great example of actually having meaningful choices.