Since this is conceptually difficult, I decided to write a guide for the site. Please forgive the lack spread sheets and hard data. Most evidence is anecdotal and may not work if lacking soul.
How to enjoy Diablo 3:
- Play because you like it
- Measure your success by comparing your own skills and GR levels to where you were last season
- Play a meta class/build when attempting to play meta, do other things when not being meta
- Be appreciative of the fact this game has received significant attention in the last year and a half without further cash investment - an extreme rarity in today's market
- Give helpful and thoughtful criticism when irritated with situations in the game. Data is great for making a point!
- Do other things when you're bored or don't feel like playing. Here is a helpful list!
- Go outside
- Read a book
- Talk to people and invest in meaningful relationships
- Learn something
- Work out
- Avoid doing these things
- Being confrontational and rude for no reason
- Calling people sheep, sheeple, etc. - no one cares about your opinion. Seriously. People will enjoy what they want.
- Forcing a build that is bad or lackluster onto a group of random people and being upset when you can't keep up
- Complaining about not being the best if you're not willing to do what it takes to be the best
Follow these simple tips and I guarantee you will thoroughly enjoy your Diablo experience! Or at least avoid not enjoying it!!! Because who has time for things they don't like? Life is short. Do what you love, fam.
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It sounds like you already made your decision and then figured out a way to make all of the clues fit your idea. Confirmation bias to the extreme. None of the things you pointed out really seem that likely or obvious to me, as much as I would like a big and exciting announcement.
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Hands down the best post I've ever seen.
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I am baffled by the fact that you took the time to write that. Your hero doesn't fit the group meta. Is that really a big deal? How you made the mental leap between you voluntarily playing a build in a setting that makes it boring and Blizzard as a whole being incompetent, I will never know.
I've been lurking on this site since it started and I've seen a lot of pointless posts full of misdirected anger and accusations but this is one really takes the cake. I mean really, do you have deep and intimate connections with the barbarian class that warrants blanket negative generalizations of an entire company that you need to share so that I can understand the depths of your irrational rage?
It is a game. Just a game. One that has probably already yielded you more hours of entertainment per dollar spent than almost any other activity in your entire lifetime. Is there really that much to complain about, much less be enraged over?
You are free to roll a class or build that fits the current group meta, play alone and enjoy yourself, or even play a different game. Whatever you do, realize that your silly posts here or anywhere elseand won't change anything. You are just keeping yourself upset by trying to put a square peg in a round hole and then calling people names when it doesn't work. Stressing out over this and posting angry rants is literally bad for your well being. Not worth. Good luck finding emotional peace in your Diablo journey.