- It has an actual economy.
Enlighten me with your infinite knowledge of Diablo 2 about how that game's economy was better than D3's. Even better, explain in how that game even had an economy (and please leave the idiots who lost actual money being scammed and buying duped gear from third-party websites out of the explanation).
- It has a better respec system.
Do you even know what I'm talking about? Or did you only play D2 up to Normal Act IV, and is jumping on the fan bandwagon? The rose-tinted-glass symptom usually indicates that.
In D3, you can change gear pieces around and rebalance the power of your character. Too squishy? Get more EHP pieces. Taking too long to kill? Change that +AllRes +Vit ring into a Trifecta one. Dying to Reflect Damage and from standing in Plague? Get more sustain. I'm deeply sorry if I prefer a system that actually requires you to use your intelligence instead of 50 hours of grinding the same shit for levels/stat-pointsbecause the game design surrounding stats is crap.
- It has a better skill system.
Maybe please tell me how managing Paladin auras made the gameplay so much more fun in D2? Or how Leap(Attack) could actually be used for something. Or how much fun was it to farm with a Hammerdin pressing the exact same BUTTON (singular, not plural) for hours. Oh wait, nevermind, you had to press 3 buttons - 1 for potion spam, 1 for Enigma's Teleport and 1 for Hammer. Such tactical decisions.
You sir, are everything that's wrong with "old school nostalgic" gamers. Stuck in the same mindset forever. Incapable of accepting any change. Can't even simply deal with a different opinion than yours. Can't handle the fact that someone is enjoying a game, and you aren't.
But hey, keep... that... up... In 30 years you're gonna be blabbering about how your grandsons' music is shit, how "there weren't so many problems back then", how that new Virtual Reality is crap and videogames of 2005 were better than it, how their hobbies are less fun than playing paper-and-pen RPGs, and how their new brain-implanted cellphones are a dumb novelty. I'm sure everyone will love that attitude.
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Besides the RMAH comment which I just disagree with, I agree with the rest of your points;
Paragon needs some sort of power cap. You can continue to level, but I really think not having a cap on your main stat really hurts this game. I played the hell out of this season so far (just like every other season), but even though I've got a lot of ancient gear I'm miles behind because I haven't played 8 hours a day / botted. I personally think P800 should be the power cap, with additional levels giving maybe gold find (which is supposed to be worth something next patch anyway).
Also the snapshotting thing is just a facet in the larger problem of exploits. Look at all those streamers on the top of the leaderboards. They're ALL exploiting the hellfire problem, and abusing mechanics such as the one you mentioned. Now this is going to happen probably every season considering those tools go on to the PTR JUST to find these exploits, hide them and use them when the season starts, but I really hope Blizzard can jump on these problems sooner. It's been like two weeks for the hellfire thing and still going.
So while the gameplay is rewarding for me personally, I absolutely cut my play time by ~90% after the hellfire exploit came out, and a hotfix didn't. And look at that Gabynator screenshot, someone's (maybe his) toon is at like paragon 1,2xx. He's got over two thousand more main stat. It doesn't matter how hard I try, that's such a huge gap I'm not going to beat it, the numbers aren't there.
Anyway, rant over. Mostly agreed OP. Hopefully we can see some changes.
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While I'd love three classes, so I'm not responding to that, I did want to point out that having an equal number of classes for each main stat doesn't matter anymore. Before smart loot, it absolutely mattered because having 3 classes use strength meant you'd find more strength items than anything else.
Now that we've got smart loot, it doesn't matter if there's 19 classes with Strength and only 2 classes for int and dex, because 15% of your loot is random, and no matter how many main stats they add, 85% of your loot will always smart loot to you.
Drood4lyfe
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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Pretty sure you meant going to instead of gonna.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa omg L2types
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I feel like you should've added 'my child' to the end of that =D
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As soon as you take all rng out and make it the exact same thing is when you lose me. Sounds boring as all hell.
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If time matters, then saying 14k / 14M / 14B is faster.
Just deal with it.
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omfg a suggested build that won't be able to reach rank #1 world??!!! Should never even try it, just for fun.
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Quit trying to speak for me.
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Yep agreed. In vanilla, 1m crits were awesome for me, and maybe full party buffed 5m. Within one expansion, we're now at where 1B crits are pretty normal, with 5-10B being the huge buffed ones.
I REALLY don't want to see numbers in the trillions. Number crunch that shit naow blizzard, it's already too insane.
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My first guess is that it was one of the random magic items you get when you turn in quests, you know like a yellow chest piece or blue boots, ect. Shouldn't be important.