And by the way, I've spent at least a few thousand hours playing D3, reached the leaderboards in 2 of the 4 seasons, and will continue to play the game, even in its broken state.
I've been a fan of the diablo franchise for as long as I can remember and have very fond memories of playing D1 and D2.
The simple fact remains though, that Paragon leveling is mindless, easy and an absolute requirement to be on the leaderboards. It requires zero skill.
lol again.its not that simple to get on leaderbords even if you have high para ...its a must to have some skills too,for ex : i did go up on leaderboard with my low para (low i meant 1086 then) and did beat a friend of mine (diablo friend) with para 1400 so i quess even if you have high para you still can be a noob like ive seen it before.so again you dont have a clue what you talking about.
I'll never for the life of me understand these "WAH! WAH! TAKE AWAY PARAGONS!" kids.
I've literally never heard a one of them come up with a logical reason behind their opinion that didn't essentially come down to, "It's not fair cause people who play way more than others get further in the game". Yet these kids make sooooooo many posts about this crap. As if to make up for their complete lack of reason or rationality they just take to being really loud and insistent.
Let's say we remove paragons. Then what? You get your BiS gear...........then what? No paragons to farm, if you kept grifts you'd essentially reach a brickwall eventually where you'd never be able to progress any further and if you throw grifts out too, then what?
You people whine about "feeling like your on an endless wheel" but your solution to that is just to stop the wheel completely? Just end the game? Make it so that no one has any chance at progressing passed just beating the campaign and getting their best gear? Why?
In what world would that make sense or be preferable to how things are? Why can't these kids comprehend that in ANY game like this the people who spend craptons of hours into it are gonna have more and go further than those who don't? What's unfair about that? When you watch sports do you ever think "Uck, that's not fair. I want to be on the Yankees but I've never played baseball before! It's not fair that these guys who spend all their time playing baseball get to be on a major team and I as someone who doesn't play baseball don't! We should ban baseball!"
Why are we even putting this much weight on leaderboards? Such a teeeeny, tiny % of the playerbase even ever make it to the leaderboards yet we're willing to nerf, cap and destroy entire relevant aspects of the game that are open to a much larger % of the playerbase to give these kids the feeling that it's "more fair" for them. I've never been on the leaderboards and that's my own fault for not being as good or having the same amount of time to put into the game as those that do.
Do they not realize that removing/nerfing/capping paragons and grifts isn't gonna make it so that they can now magically be #1 on leaderboards? The same guys that spend 12 hours a day or whatever farming paragons and pushing grifts would just spend more time than you farming better gear, find more people to share gear with and get further on the boards than you anyway. Then what do we do? Remove RNG gear? Make all legs/sets have the same base stats? Put a cap on the time anyone can play on any given character? When does it end?
Can't we just make a pretend ladder for these kids and photoshop their names on it or jingle keys in front of their face while the rest of us enjoy the game?
I really, really hope Blizzard doesn't take posts like this seriously. These kind of posts make me worry about the future of the game more so than any inherent in-game flaw.
Have you even taken the time to read any of the posts in this thread?
There's plenty of logical reasons as to why people are unhappy with the end game being a mindless xp speed farm.
Do you know the current state of end game requires you to drop the difficulty and speed farm easier content to increase your Paragon levels?
It doesn't make any sense to me when you say only a tiny portion of the player base reaches the leader boards so people should stop complaining about the fact they can't compete. Why even have leaderboards then? What is the purpose of giving the 1% of people who can actually get on the leaderboards a leaderboard?
Why implement a system that at its very core forces players to BOT to achieve a spot on said leaderboards?
The new augmentation of acients should help to alleviate the initial need for Paragon grinding but there will still come a point when PL will be your ultimate end game. Which to me doesn't make sense in a game that is supposedly all about the gear.
lol....are you for real?man you got it all wrong...if no para farming you will never get on leaderboards.and why should you be on leaderboards if you have no time to play...i mean cmon man if you had time to play your idee would sound stupid even for you.its like this: if you play you will get gear, high para and a place on leaderboard.you play less or you get allmost nothing because (pay attention) you cant get something from nothing.so pls stop your QQ and play more or just hire someone to play for you if you dont have time play.
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