I appreciate all the work you put in to make this post. While there is some of it that I do not agree with, I truly enjoyed reading your ideas.
For me, D2 was great because you could bang out a few MF runs in a short amount of time. I can't even tell you how many times I would be up in the morning and realize I had 15 minutes before I needed to leave. That was enough time for me to do a handful of mephy/pindle runs before I needed to leave. I actually found things, useful things. I did not feel that I had wasted my time.
In D3, I would not bother to log in for only 15 minutes. By the time I reached my 5 stacks of NV and killed a few packs it would be time to go. Your idea to tie MF completely to NV, and have it stack to 50, would make it to where playing is only worthwhile if you can dedicate a couple of hours.
Being able to play here and there, whenever I could, was a big deal for D2. D3 is pulling away from that, but putting your idea in to the game would effectively end my D3 playing days.
I am fine with the paragon levels going account wide. I would love to be able to play my classes based on how I feel that day, not which one has the higher paragon level. Which is what you wanted to do with your system, but at the expense of being able to play for short amounts of time.
So again, thank you for making this thread. Thank you for your hard work, and I think most of your ideas are spot on.
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For me, D2 was great because you could bang out a few MF runs in a short amount of time. I can't even tell you how many times I would be up in the morning and realize I had 15 minutes before I needed to leave. That was enough time for me to do a handful of mephy/pindle runs before I needed to leave. I actually found things, useful things. I did not feel that I had wasted my time.
In D3, I would not bother to log in for only 15 minutes. By the time I reached my 5 stacks of NV and killed a few packs it would be time to go. Your idea to tie MF completely to NV, and have it stack to 50, would make it to where playing is only worthwhile if you can dedicate a couple of hours.
Being able to play here and there, whenever I could, was a big deal for D2. D3 is pulling away from that, but putting your idea in to the game would effectively end my D3 playing days.
I am fine with the paragon levels going account wide. I would love to be able to play my classes based on how I feel that day, not which one has the higher paragon level. Which is what you wanted to do with your system, but at the expense of being able to play for short amounts of time.
So again, thank you for making this thread. Thank you for your hard work, and I think most of your ideas are spot on.