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Quote from bigworm79»

This place is full of seti type people. everything you guys keep posting is some trumped up opinion on something you have no actual proof to go on. Blizzard does so many games you never get to hear about and scraps them all the time, if you look at the YEARS it took between D2 (expansion 2001) and D3 release (2012) that should be enough to show you D4 or an expansion would not be around for YEARS. Not 1 year or 2 or 3 BUT YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEARS. stop posting bullshit , that is why they made facebook.

You would not hire a "Game Designer" for a simple Necromancer pack.

You hire game designers to streamline an entire project. This is absolutely either an expansion, Diablo 4, or a MASSIVE DLC pack that offers a new act, new story, new game systems, etc.....

I think people need to come to realize that the Diablo 3 engine has a lot of room for growth, so we very well could see Diablo 3 evolve into simply being called "Diablo" with constant DLC packs revamping it every 6 months or so! I personally would be all for that. It gives you something to look forward too. You are not just playing dead in the wind wondering if they will ever do anything new. Instead, you would know that two times a year you are going to get some form of content that is going to add more play-ability to the game.

We would all welcome that! And at the least, if it is not the D3 engine, I really believe the next game in the series is going to simply be called "Diablo" and will follow the model I shared in the paragraph above.

Okay, thanks, I was not seeing that, but now that I went into b.net I see that as an option.

SWEETNESS!!!!

Not going to hard or anything but should be fun for a change of pace!

Quote from Negator402»

Paragon complaints are mainly by those who want to compete on leaderboards, but do not want to spend the time their competitors are. There is a term for that: socialist. The part I like about this suggestion is that there are new powers to choose from. Capping it, however, is idiotic.

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I am not so sure you guys understood correctly what Wyatt said:

https://youtu.be/z80DRTclTo0?t=788

they wanted to make a recipe that would allow you to RECONSTITUTE item back from the power. Not to infuse some item with different power.

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The bottom line is that they said they want to add a lot more cube recipes, so I expect to get several in 2017. Potentially a game breaker as well.

Where did they say it? I heard nothing.
"Maybe" is not gonna work here. Maybe we will get a Necromancer somewhere in 2017. Maybe an expansion in 2019. Maybe diablo 4 in 2021. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.

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Being forced to skilp elites you can't kill because it would take 5 minutes without density is not good for gameplay . I'm also speaking only to high leaderboard pushing ... These GR changes will not effect ll players who run lower GR since elites and trash die quickly anyway .

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Hey guys, from what i see, the new Faithful Memory and the Barber are really good and they have strong potential.

What about other new items? Can they shake out the meta or atleast be somewhat useful?

Barber will be nerfed/fixed soon. It's just as broken as in pervious ptrs.
Faithful Memory.. I think it will either be nerfed a little or stay as it is. It's just an important buff, but it's not overpowered or broken like Spirit Barrage.
The rest of legendaries are junk. The grenade belt is pretty cool, but in "fun" area. Rabid Strike is useless, Saffron Wrap is useless,

What exactly makes the Barber overpowered/broken, and not Faithful Memory? Last I checked both had done GR100+ solo. I agree that Barber most likely will get nerfed, but if it does, and Faithful Memory stays like it is... Well that is just silly tbh

You gotta check better.
Hammerdin did 96 before, without Faithful Memory. Now it did 103.
+7 gr difference.
legit LON Spirit Barrage did 74 before (i did it myself ). Now it does 103. And it's not even the end.
+29 GR difference (+16 GR difference if i compare to my previous result)
See?
And i did gr90 with broken Spirit Barrage with no augments at p1400.
With Hammerdin however i struggled a bit to do 85, so it's much much harder.

Why can't people just accept that you can trade with your friends. It just needs to be in games played together!

Others have said it, but if you open up trading, then China bots will just flood the game selling everything through spam in trade chat. NO THANK YOU!

Am I the only one that actually wishes area damage would be removed?

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None of these ruined the game, the game itself is just fine.

Everyone who votes for one of these issues has something else in common, THEY HAVE PLAYED THE GAME FAR TOO MUCH AND ARE BURNT OUT.

That is the common factor in 99% of people who complain that D3 is dead, yada yada

Dipshits who complain endlessly about a bunch of nothing are what killed the game.

PLAYERBASE

I have an idea for puzzle rings. There usually comes a point in the season where I am sitting on a bunch of rings. That leads to trying to find a group that is in the same position as you (needs gold, has a surplus of rings). What if every ring placed in the cube multiplied the amt of gold rewarded for a vault run up to 9 times. The difficulty could also be raised per ring. Perhaps a "super vault" can be opened with 9 rings?

Thoughts?

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As much as I agree with certain parts of your comments, and I can relate to that and emphasize with the devs, this have a different conclusion.
Due to D3 being multi-plattform, and Blizz-made, we normal PC users of the game won't be receiving content at all, or if even, in a really slow pace.
Is that what you are implying? I had thought that Blizz had tenfold, or a hundred fold or more the money that the Small companies have. Therefore, they can and should invest in their games with as much dedicated staff as necessary, am I wrong? Shouldn't that offset the "big company" bureaucracy?
Things doesn't make sense, when we consider that the d3 team is pretty small right now. That seems to be a consensus, tbh. And when a good dev shows interest or simply excels (see John Yang), he is "transferred" or promoted to the important part. Namely Wow.
No way mate. And we, as a playerbase, should accept that and deal with it?
You can do what you want, of course. I will vote with my wallet, since that is their only language nowadays.

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And, as talked to exhaustion, D3 core flaws with the infinite paragon and the level 120 ++ gems create an unending playing field, and a new player will never ever be able to compete with a paragon 3000 with all gems 100+. That is a Loss-Loss situation. No new blood in greater rift competition--->prOs leave (see Quin). But the new blood cannot compete due to paragon and gems.

That is why seasons exist. No one who buys the game today should reasonably expect to compete with players who have been playing 1000s of hours since launch in non-season, it's just not realistic. At least not to truly compete. That would be true without so many endless systems, since min-maxing items in other ARPGs is usually a long process that would yield dedicated players a numbers advantage (albeit smaller than with paragon and etc).

That's not to say that some of the design decisions and systems aren't flawed, just that they aren't the reason a new player can't compete in non-season. Without playing a TON and working really hard.

the Dev team is not in a no win situation. My personal opinion is that they are misguided. That's the only way I can understand Nev (love her, she really has a passion) answering "Rekt" to people asking for new content in the game, after giving NO NEW content at all.
They want WIN? Seriously, not that hard. A small as fuck act 6. Insert the Necro with stitches in there. Put in some class, skills and sets balance (like it was given for free in 2.4) , and you have yourself 3.0. All is shiny as fuck for another couple of years.

They absolutely are in a no-win situation, because they don't make the final decisions. The develop within constraints given to them by people who care about money, and many of the fan base don't understand the fundamental difference between working for Blizzard and working for Crate or GGG.

With small studios with a single title, there is a lot less bureaucracy involved in decisions. The team makes a decision, and they go with it. They only answer to stake holders who funded the game, which agreed to a specific business model and plan when they signed up. Blizzard and Activision dictate whether something jivs with them or not. They push for approachable as a core design philosophy because that sells more games.

D3 is also multi-platform (both with OS on PC and because of consoles) as well as mutlinational, so every single interface change requires updating for all of that and making sure things are worded for all supported languages. All of this combined means that things move much much slower for these guys and it's out of their control.

It's similar with communication. They have to clear it with a bunch of people to just tell the playerbase anything.
The Necro pack is an experiment in trying to monetize the game, which will be needed to get more resources to develop more content. If players want to show support for the game, buying it is going to be the best bet.

None of this is to say they shouldn't do better, it's just that in order for things to get better, players have to understand the reality of the game. If the devs start trying to communicate more (dev blogs, AMAs on reddit, whatever) and the playerbase reacts negatively to it because it's not exactly what they wanted or they aren't giving specific answers (because they have to be careful of what they disclose), they are just going to not do that anymore because it's not beneficial to them.

If we want to help give them a win scenario, we as a playerbase have to meet them halfway. We can be critical of them, but it has to be with some level of tact.

You should also fair enough to see that people are hype about different things. I think the Necromancer could be Amazing.

I dont like the Setting of the WitchDoctor for example, but I would like a Pet Class.

Also, I really Really love the Idea behind the Anniversary Event.

I think the extra stash tab is great and all - I always feel good when I earn it, but honestly -- on the NS side of things, I look at how much crap I have accumulated in stash and it's not that much. I guess I just am not that much of a pack rat. Hehe. Not one in RL either. I'd like to think the bottom line for most of us for seasons is simply the challenge of starting from scratch and pushing to a point where we hit a wall with our toons. Blizz could offer us nothing more than poop on a stick for completing a season journey, and a player like me is still going to want to start from scratch because the alternative NS play is pretty boring - i.e. been there done that.