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Interesting though how "the twats" are not the ones throwing childish insults around.

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you sir suck!

i got my refund also back. 60€ for this shit wasnt worth. and yeah i played ~100h, was end act 3 inferno and sold my items and gold for 90€. so what now fanboys?

Yes, he seems very mature indeed.



Also, R3form, it actually does matter how much time one spends playing the game, because not only did these guys play through it on three separate difficulties and a good chunk of the fourth, they also spent at least a whole week of their lives doing so. And then proceeded to complain how they didn't like it in the first place, bashed the game online and demanded their money back. That is like Douchebaggery 101 right there.

Much better than the DH video, I must say. The worm near the end is a really nice touch. Reminds you that you only saw a tiny percentage of the whole game and that there is a lot more of it waiting to surprise and amaze you. D3 can't come soon enough!

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What do you expect to do? It's a game about farming, loot, sometimes interesting builds, building a set of items that suits your needs, doing some brawling if you feel like it and that's pretty much all. This goes for all ARPG games. What bigger purpose do you want? Random maps in PoE - farming acts in D3. A few updates in the coming months should balance things out a bit when it comes to farming different acts with the same efficiency. But the core is that you just farm. What ideas do you have for ARPGs in general is my question?

My input on this matter is this. Why be limited to such? Why does it have to be about, and driven solely by loot, why would anyone want to take a great name franchise and limit it at every turn? Sure, I've played Diablo 1, and Diablo 2 way back when they were freshly created. I've seen what they have become, what they have accomplished. As time goes on, and as life and technology progresses, so to does the desires and taste of the community. Not only that, the gaming industry grows larger with each passing day, week and month.

If there is the ability, and the desire to see something happen, why not to do it? Is it because of the fact of "This design isn't meant to be in a Action RPG" Who stated that, and where does such a rule exist. Why not have survival dungeons, better PVP, even skills like collecting, gathering, cooking like an MMO would have? By suggesting this I'm not saying I want them implemented, my point I wish to get across is where did all of this limiting talk come from? Great the majority of the game is about slaying demons and finding loot, awesome! Sounds fun, but oh, there's something more besides the bloodshed and repetitive? Even better!

Edit:

Link to U.S. Forums Thread: http://us.battle.net...opic/8156055717 highly rated

Link to EU English Forums Thread: http://eu.battle.net...opic/6787929710 highly rated

Link to EU Poland Forums Thread: http://eu.battle.net...opic/6891639245 highly rated

Link to Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.co...nd_the_burning/ highly rated



And “like”... if you like (on the official forum threads and reddit too if you'd like of course)

Thanks everyone for the very positive feedback. It's much appreciated!
I'm glad that so many people liked the suggestions!

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Hi everyone,

I wanted to send an e-mail directly to the developpers but it seems that they don't have a direct way to give them feedback (the only one I could find was this: wowcmfeedback@blizzard.com but it seems it refers only to the feedback on CMs, MPVs etc. - and anyway the files in .pdf are too big to be sent to them ).
So the only way to do it it's by using the forums so I will write my ideas here.

I'm sorry about the very long read BUT this is my feedback and it was intented to be read by the developpers, so if you don't want to read it, just stop here.

(remember that these are just simple ideas that the developpers can take as base to create something new and improve the game)

Here's the e-mail:


Hi,
I'm Edriel, an italian Diablo 3 player.


Firstly I want to apologise if my English is not very good, I'm really trying to write in the most clearer way I can but I don't know if I will succeed.


Since the launch of the game I felt that this chapter of the Diablo series could be very successful.
However I don't think that in its current state it can become a masterpiece.


With that in mind I started to make many suggestions on the Italian Forum and after a while quite a few people who were excited about my ideas suggested me to personally send you my feedback.
So that's why I'm writing you this e-mail.


I hope you will enjoy the two ideas I translated for you, because it took quite a while to do it


P.S. I posted the Talisman idea in September so it might feel a bit “old”.
P.P.S. I hope you can answer me, even just a “we received your feedback and we appreciate it would be nice”


Sincerely
Edriel
an italian fan of the Diablo series


FIRST SUGGESTION - REINTRODUCTION OF THE TALISMAN


➢ BASE CONCEPT

This idea is ment to improve 2 important aspects of the game that currently, in my opinion, are lackluster:

1. Longevity
2. Paragon Level design

I imagined something that is not far from the philosophy of the Diablo series and something that I really loved in other games: the souls.

The Talisman will be a special container that will allow the player to capture the souls of defeated enemies.




As you can see from the image the Talisman will feature 5 minor globes and a supreme globe of souls.
In the 5 minor globes the player will trap the souls of lesser demons (normal monsters or Elite monsters – the quantity of souls needed to full the globes depends on balance of course and on the talisman type. So the player can have “situations” where he/she needs just one Elite monster to fill completly the globe, “situations” where the quantity depends on how many times the player used the Talisman or “situations” where he/she needs a mix of normal and Elite monsters' souls and in this last case Elite souls would fill more the globe) while in the Supreme Globe the player can capture the soul of a Boss.

Every minor globe of souls will activate its own effect based on the type of Talisman that I will show you time to time.
When all the minor globes are full, the player is allowed to capture the soul of a boss that will increase or add other effects.
In addition everytime the players starts a new game session all globes are empty.

➢ TALISMAN OF THE NEPHALEM

This idea could replace the current mechanic of the Nephalem Valor by inherently including it into the Talisman.
The idea can also be “expanded”. But how? In this way:




This is the Talisman of the Nephalem.
As you can see there are various effects: +1 Artisan Item, +1 Follower Item etc.
These effects will unlock everytime the relative minor globe is full, but the effects (or bonus items in the case of this type of Talisman) are not cumulative so, for example, if the player has both the first and the second globes full, only the second effect will be applied.

With this Talisman the player needs just one Elite monster to fill completly a single minor globe and the effects will be applied only on Elite monsters kills and Boss kills.

Once all 5 minor globes are full, as I wrote above, the player can capture the soul of a Boss.
This soul will grant him/her the chance to have all the effects active, but when he/she kills another boss or when he/she kills an Elite monster and the “Talisman procs”, all souls will be lost.

Why did I wrote “Talisman procs”? Because if you did see there is a “chance to find 1%”.
What does that mean? It means that the chance to find bonus items is only of 1%.
Don't worry about that percentage because it refers to a Paragon Level 1 character: the percentage is equal to the Paragon Level of the character.

If the player kills another boss, instead, the chance is always set to 100%.

In this next image you can see the tutorial that might clear any doubt you could still have:




In this other image you can see that the player has a 1% chance to find an extra gem on the next kill of an Elite monster (or Boss):




This last image shows you how the Talisman will look like when all the globes are full:



➢ TALISMAN OF ENCHANTMENT

I feel that the lack of a quest that makes you enchant an item is very sad, so I thought a way to allow the Talisman to enchant items.

My initial thought was that this system should have had a mechanic based completly on the “harvest” of souls so without the need to add new droppable items and with a completly random enchantment.

However I feel that the introduction of new droppable items would fit much more the philosophy that the
developpers wanted for Diablo3.

These new items are the Soulstones and they will have one magic property each (except one particular soulstone of which I will write later)




This image represent the Talisman of Enchantment.
To explain how it works here's another image:




As you can see even in this case there is a sinergy between the Talisman and the Paragon Levels: the higher is the player's character Paragon Level the more powerful are the magic properties.

Let's have a look now at how a Soulstone looks like:




This is the particular Soulstone I wrote about earlier.
It will have always a primary statistic and a relative magic property of the class that uses that statistic.
For example the “Soulstone of Virtue” grants Dexterity and:
– Spirit Regeneration
or
– Life points per Spirit points spent
All other Soulstones will have their magic properties and their relative values completly random.
Let's have a look on how this Talisman works (make sure you check the Paragon Levels everytime):











Last but not least, the image that shows you how a full-globe-talisman looks like:




The soul of the Boss, as you have seen from the images, will give you a random number of sockets.
Anyway, this idea can be replaced with, maybe, a better one that allows the soul of the Boss to add a random magic property instead of the sockets.

Note: This Talisman idea can be used to craft new and powerful rings and amulets as well!

➢ TALISMAN OF SKILLS

This type of Talisman will allow the player to improve his/her abilities.
Let's see how it looks:




With this Talisman, whenever the player starts a new game session, the globes won't become empty.
The quantity of souls the player captured will be saved so the player's efforts won't be wasted, because every talent point the player gains makes the next Talisman “refill” longer.

To prevent that a player becomes too powerful, there can be a maximum number of talent points a player can gain.

To learn how this Talisman works I will show you an image:




Like every other Talisman I showed you, even this one has a sinergy with Paragon Levels.
The last image represent the Talisman when it has all its globes full:




➢ TALISMAN OF ABILITIES

This Talisman allows the player to benefit from various temporary buffs chosen by the player himself/herself.

Every 10 Paragon Levels a globe will unlock (in this Talisman there is another type of globe – the globles of temporary buffs - where the player can “put” the chosen buff) and it will allow the player to benefit both a longer duration of the buff and a “major quantity” of buffs at once.
Every globe has a duration of 5 minutes (hypothetical duration).
However, the 10th Paragon Level is an exception because the player will unlock not one, but two globes.

Anyway here's a first image to understand better what I've just written:




Now another image that shows you how the Talisman works:




In this case the temporary buff has already been chosen. To choose a temporary buff the player has just to click on the globe of temporary buffs. Once he/she clicked on it a window will open: this window is much like the window that allows the player to choose his/her passive abilities (just to let you know how it looks like).
From the image you can also understand that the temporary buff is already active because the minor globe linked to it is full.

Let's skip to level 20:




At level 20 a second minor globe of souls will unlock. This will allow the player to benefit from temporary buffs for another 5 minutes, but he/she must pay attention because the minor globes are not cumulative.
This means that the duration is just refreshed and it won't stack so the maximum duration is always 5 minutes.

At Paragon Level 30:







In this last image the player has just filled the second minor globe of souls.
This will grant him/her another temporary buff for another 5 minutes since the duration has just been refreshed by the second minor globe.
Just to make it clear: temporary buffs stacks with each other so in this case the player benefits of both temporary buffs.

What happens at Paragon Level 100?




This image explains that when the player captures the soul of a Boss, he/she can benefit of all the temporary buffs for a maximum duration of 30 minutes (or until he/she kills another Boss) with doubled effects!

Isn't there a negative aspect?
Yes and no: it's true that the supreme globe of souls makes the player very powerful, but the downside is that he/she must kill a boss within 5 minutes from when he/she filled the last minor globe.

This is the Talisman at full power:




Note - Temporary buffs can be various: e.g. +10% armor, when you drink a healing potion you gain 50 points of Fury etc, +5% movement speed etc.

➢ TALISMAN OF PORTALS

This Talisman has the simple function to capture souls. Once enough souls are captured the player can decide to release them to open a portal that leads to the Burning Hells.
The monsters that the player will find inside the portal will be stronger the higher the Paragon Level is.

Here's an image to explain how it works:




Here's an image of the new UI:




➢ THE TALISMAN

All these Talismans are separated ideas, but I thought that it would be awesome if all of them could be implemented into the game:




By clicking on the icons, the player can choose which Talisman he/she wants to use, so the Talisman itself will change its functionalities based on the player's choice.

The function of the Talisman can be changed any number of times within a game session but everytime the player changes a type of Talisman for another all souls will be released.

The Talisman of skills is no exception, but the bonuses the player receives from the skill points (the ones that are already allocated) will continue to be granted to him/her even if the Talisman is set to another type.

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P.S. You can check the animated gifs of the talismans of portals and abilities at these links (but the words are in
italian sorry):
Portals: http://imageshack.us...minatoevoc.gif/
Abilities: http://imageshack.us...itaanimato.gif/

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SECOND SUGGESTION – THE BURNING HELLS PORTALS


➢ BASE CONCEPT

This idea might be similar to the Talisman of Portals one, but I can assure that its philosophy is completly different.

After you defeat Diablo in Inferno difficulty the player will find out that there are still many Burning Hells Portals active throughout all Sanctury! The player's mission is to seal all of them.

To start the “sealing operation” the player has to talk with the Caravan Leader in any act.
The NPC will show the player the map of Sanctuary where he/she can see where the portals are.
After the player has chosen which portal to seal, he/she will start a quest that will be different everytime: mission rewards, objectives, treasures, bonuses etc. will be different from mission to mission (except a particular one,called “Enigma” where the objective is always the same – more on this later).

The tooltip of a mission looks like this:

● Mission Type
▪ Objectives

● Enemies in the area
▪ Resistances, abilities, damage, etc of the enemies

● Rewards based on the Mission Type
▪ Quantity or type of reward

● Description of the mission

The Description of the mission will be the only thing that has a fixed “pre-set” since the number of mission types is limited to three (the number is just the number of mission types I could thought about, but the number can increases depending on the feedback received).

It might sound a bit complicated now, but I can assure you that it's a very simple idea and with the help of some images everything is going to be much clearer.

Once the player has accepted the mission, he/she will get teleported to the area where the portal is and we can start the “sealing operations”. When the quest is completed the player can get his/her rewards.

➢ MISSIONS

Let's have a look at the map:




In this map the player can see where the portals are.
In every game session the position of the portals changes but the total number of them is always 10 (hypothetical number).

Let's have a look:





Note the different positions of the portals between the two images.

At this point the player has just to choose what portal he/she wants to seal so he/she will mouse-over over one and:




Let's analize the tooltip:

Mission: Assault

The mission type Assault is one of the three different mission types.
Assault indicates a mission where the player has more than one objective (objectives are random – I wrote about this earlier) and he/she must do them in a precise order. For every objective the player completes he/she will get a reward (more on this later).

Monsters

This point indicates which monsters the player has to fight against when he reaches that area.
In addition the player will know what the resistances, the abilities, the weakness etc. of the monsters are going to be.

Note: I thought that the resistances and the weaknesses of the monsters could be a fixed number (like 50%) and that only their damage increase could be random.
Another nice idea would be that the resistances of the monsters scale with Monster Power (MP0 = 5% resistance, MP1 =10% resistance... MP10 = immunity and no weaknesses ---> of couse the immunities cannot be to all elements...)
I thought it would be nice to reintroduce the resistances (even if it goes against developpers' will) mostly to give a sense to the elemental damage types.
In addition the player knows before the battle what type of resistances/weaknesses the mosters will have, so he/she can prepare better himself/herself with another type of weapon and/or another build etc.

Objective Rewards

Everytime the player completes an objective he/she will receive the rewards that are listed in this point.

Mission Rewards

When the players completes the mission he/she will get the rewards listed here.

Note: Just to be clear, even if I wrote this earlier, the rewards are random, and so are enemies etc.
E.g. If the player gets another Mission: Assault he/she might get the objective to kill X number of monsters and then save Y villagers, the monsters might be Moloks and Cultists with cold resistance and fire weakness, the objective reward might be Z quantity of gold and the Mission reward might be a rare amulet.

Let's have a look on the second mission type:




Mission: Race against time

In this mission the player has only one random objective but he must do it within a certain amount of time.
The thought a player should have is: will I go for the mission rewards or for the hidden treasures?
As you could understand, if the player wants the hidden treasures he/she must explore very well the entire area to look for them at the probable expense of a mission accomplishment (you lose time while looking for hidden treasures) or if the player wants the mission rewards he/she has to leave behind a lot of hidden treasures.

Note: This would be an ideal situation which might change due to the player's progress (more gear, lower MPs with end-game gear etc).

Hidden Treasures

This is a list of what items the player can find if he/she explores very well the area.
By doing so he/she loses time and he/she might fail to complete the mission.
Hidden treasures can be found inside corpses, chests, ashes etc.

Enemies and Mission rewards

The same as in Assault

Let's have a look on the last mission type:




Mission: Enigma

This mission type will have always a fixed objective: “disable traps”.
By looking at the image you can easily understand that there are no enemies, but this doesn't mean that when the player activates/disables a trap they won't appear.
To disable a trap, a player has to solve little enigmas (in Soul Reaver 1 style – just to be clear on how I ment these enigmas to be – but much much easier to solve) or he/she must activate and then destroy them (much like the one in the Cathedral where when you click on the chest a lot of skeletons appear).

Rewards

Everytime a trap is disabled/destroyed it will drop something. “That something” is what it is listed in this point.

Enemies and Mission rewards

The same as in Assault and in Race against time.

Now that the player knows what type of missions and rewards he/she can get, he/she has only to decide where to go:




Once the player has completed that mission (note how the portal is now grey-colored):




he/she has only to choose another one:




and so on.

➢ Q&A AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Q. What does the player have to do once he/she has the map of the burning hells portals open?

A. As I wrote above, the player has just to mouse-over over a portal to choose which mission he/she wants to do and once he/she decided he/she has just to click on that portal and the click “accept”.

Q. What would happen if a player relogs into the game after he/she got a disconnection while he/she was doing a mission?

A. As I wrote above, the position of the portals changes on every game session.
However if the player gets a disconnection or has to log-out, the mission will remain active and when the player steps back into the game he/she will see a town portal that leads to area of that mission.

Of course, if the player was doing a Race against time mission type that mission would get cancelled if too much time has passed between the disconnection and the relog.

Another thing: the Burning Hells portal of that mission will remain active, visible and will stay on the same position as it was before the relog. When the mission is completed that portal will grey-out and be disabled like all others. This is to clarify in case you had some doubts if there could be a case where a player could get more than 10 portals open at once in a single game session.

Q. Aren't there going to be any monsters in the Enigma missions?

A. Enigma mission type is like the other two, so the player might have to fight against monsters. That image was just an example to let you see that you could get an empty map and a “relative safe” area (however, monsters can spawn from traps!)

Q. In the Race against time mission type the player could just skip the mission rewards and just look for hidden treasures! Didn't you think about it?

A. In this mission type the rewards must be balanced in a way so the player MUST choose what he/she really wants to do: fail the mission and look for treasures or complete the mission and leave the treasures?

Q. Is there any achievement for the Burning Hells Portals?

A. Yes, here's a couple:







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P.S. Enigma missions might not be very “Diablo” like, but I think that something different might help this game to become a real success. Also you can have a mission that is a mix of all three... well.. the combinations can be many... it's just a matter of immagination I guess.

P.P.S. “Missions” can be renamed to “Quests” of course

If you would like to check my other ideas you can click on the link below:

http://eu.battle.net...opic/6533923479

That is an index of all my ideas for Diablo3, but unfortunately they are all in Italian.


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Reintroduction of the Talisman
and
The Burning Hells Portals
by Edriel - an italian fan of the Diablo series

Where is the downvote button?

We have enough marginally intelligent critiques of these points that your vague non-solutions do not deserve their own thread.

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The fans and customers have spoken, they have spoken before release, during beta, after release and even now but blizzard just won't listen. They're going to stick to what makes them money, once they realize they start losing customer base they give the fans a little bit of what they want to keep them hanging on and then it's back to business.

I'm sure all the improvements they've made so far haven't been directed to player concerns. I'm sure the newest blue post by one of the devs regarding itemization and the AH has nothing to do with what players are concerned about and was pulled straight out of his ass.

In the wise words of Bashiok:

aren't you thankful?

^^ and this is exactly what I'm referring to in my above post. This toxic drivel "aren't you thankful" that the more immature crowd continues to throw in Blizzs face, a comment that has been taken severely out of context, has become the battle cry of the stupid and immature community.

Sometimes I feel sorry for Blizzard, which is unusual for my feelings about a corporation. I mean, they're one of the better developers. No matter whether you agree or disagree with the direction they take the game, they at least TRY and make it game first, they support things past the first 6 months without asking for more money (as opposed to companies that pump out 4 to 5 DLCs, including one that comes out on release day containing very near vital information for the story, and pop out maybe two patches), and they generally keep to consumer friendly business models (sure, there are some iffy things here and there, but they aren't dumping in BS stuff like EA).

But then people come along and say Blizz doesn't listen to the fans, immediately after one of the actual developers (not a CM or PR "dev") talks about their plans, specifically in relation to suggestions. Or they call the game a cash grab, and then go and happily purchase up the next Madden or CoD every year. Or they get butthurt that they had trouble playing on release night due to serve issues, and go and review bomb metacritic and amazon. Or they act like they deserve a refund after playing 100+ hours, and get touchy when people disagree.

I'm not saying Blizz is perfect, but man do they have some terrible forum users. It's almost like the forum equivalent of a MOBA game.

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I was just here to QQ guys, try and get some opinions from people and express mine.
Some stuff said i deff liked and some i thought were too much blizz fanboy shit. Thx for letting me speal, thats why i love the forums =)

I just want to point out that saying things "are too much blizz fanboy shit" only hurts you. A) it makes you less likely to actually listen to evidence (cause you assume it's just some fanboy shit) and B: people start treating you like a whiny mouth breather cause you ignore points because of a personal prejudice. I'm not saying that there aren't some Blizzard fanboys who would gladly buy a box of shit stamped with their name on it. But writing off all their arguments cause they are fanboys just moves you closer to the opposite camp, who says everything Blizzard does is terrible now, and they were perfect a decade ago (while buying all their games).

To me, the big thing they screwed up was itemization. The issues with difficulty stem from that imho. Instead of trying to balance everything against the AH, it would have been better to make most gear that drops bind to account and then add an affix that makes the gear not bind. To be clear, I would have opposed this at the time because Diablo has always been about free trade. I would have been wrong though because I hadn't yet seen what the AH would do to the game.

Making gear bind to account by default would mean that you could balance the game around self-found loot. You could easily predict how long a person ought to be stuck at a specific gear gate, for example.

The other major benefit would be a lot less time needing to be spent on the AH. Since self-found gear would be inherently better since it doesn't have a net -1 affix, the AH would be a fallback for people who were unlucky with a slot or two, wanted to build more specifically tailored builds, or had a bunch of real money to burn instead of being the default for all gear each of your characters has.

The other piece beyond making gear bind would have been to not have gear from A2-4 be so much better than gear from A1 Inferno. This is the main thing that made it so impossible to advance for some classes. You simply needed gear you didn't yet have access to in order to realistically farm the content you did have access to.

So, I was discussing with some of my B.Net friends about the difficultly of Inferno at launch and now, and I realized something - I've never heard anyone suggest (what I think) is a better way to implement difficulty in an ARPG, and more importantly, how do you design the game so the player can overcome it. I'm mostly interested in it because I don't believe in holding something against someone if I can't at least suggest something else.

Before we start, I think we can agree the item drops were a little off (basically needing to be in Act 3 to get items to let you beat Act 2), and it's not great when mobs can one shot you from off the screen. Aside from these, how would the difficultly have been improved (assuming they stayed true to the original idea, in that only a very few would actually be able to complete it)?

In an ARPG, the obvious way to make it more difficult is increasing monster strength/damage/numbers. Alternately, they could improve the AI. I'm not sure how much the AI could have been improved, so I'll work with the first one (if you have good examples of AI, feel free to work off that).

For dealing with improved monsters, I can only think of a few ways for players to improve: grind for levels, grind for loot, or improve character control so you can manually dodge attacks.

I think in this case, level grinding is out cause you get so little stat bonuses from levels (a few points when you regularly have 1000's of them), so they COULD have done that, but they' either need a HUGE amount of levels, or they'd have to rework the skills/stats so they radically improve every few levels. In any rate, this, to me, is basically the same idea as the loot, so I'll cover more of it there.

Grinding for loot. It's what they did. Yes, a gear check is one form of difficultly, no different than any other RPG. The issue here is the same as gaining levels, as things tend to increase exponentially, then eventually you get to the point where you have to take 100 hours to get any progress (unless they just make it so you can out level any content). For levels, it's because it always takes more to gain the next level than it did before (linear, exponential, or quadratic only change how fast that happens). For items, it's because every upgrade puts you closer to the BiS, which means there are less items that can be an upgrade.

For the player skill, I tend to believe them when they said it wasn't much fun to try and dodge EVERY attack (which is what they said most people ended up trying to do). I, personally, think so because the mouse is actually a really clunky way to move around (not aim, it's really good for that). I mean, we only have a limited form of this (kiting) and many of the guides comparing kiting builds to others all say the same, many people find this boring. This changes in a game with different controls (for example, the best part of Kingdom of Amalur's combat was that I could dodge or block or parry instead of just taking the hit).

So, all that said, I can't see where Blizz went wrong, assuming you believe their stated goal of making it nearly impossible and only for the hardest of the hardcore (aka, not about trying to get people to buy gear on the RMAH). Also taking into account what I mentioned earlier (and other little niggles that crop up, like certain champ affixes being OPed or some such). The control scheme prevented most of the player skill, so their only two alternatives where both time sinks.

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Yeah, you're basically asking for going back to D2 mode - going straight for the bosses and ignoring 99% of all content.

Not gonna happen, sorry.

Agreed. To hell with that.

People need to get over this rear-view mirror D2 thing.

I'm going to tell you two, whom I think are very good people, that you're flat-out wrong on this one.

As long as NV stacks matter, we simply won't be just doing the D2 boss-only shit. We don't have to worry about that. I HATE not having the open world. I hate not being able to kill Maghda because doing so means I cut off all the good spots in Act 2.

I want to spend MORE time in one game farming MORE things. I want to get my 5 stacks of NV and then hit all my favorite spots in the game. Vault of the Assassin, Black Canyon Mines, Alcarnus, Cemetery, Festering Woods, Keeps 1 & 3, Rakkis Crossing, Core of Arreat, Leoric's Manor Courtyard, then the bosses which are accessible (Maghda, Zoltan Kulle, Belial, Siegebreaker, Azmodan, Iskatu, Rakanoth).... and perhaps, just perhaps, all three keywardens if I see fit.

One thing I fucking *loathe* with a passion about the Infernal Machines is that farming key parts goes completely against the idea of how farming is supposed to work in D3. 5NV + Boss + reset is exactly what people were doing on Siegebreaker. That is such a boring way to play. An open world would make farming for Infernal Machines a LOT less tedious and a LOT more enjoyable.

I really think it's very possible to have a completely open world (which I refer to as non-storymode) without going back to boss-only farming. In fact, a non-storymode would probably be the single best thing they could do for Act 4 without completely redesigning it to not be farming-friendly.

We have NV transitioning between Acts, honestly, an open world (with controls to prevent outright boss farming) is the next logical progression of that. I think that having bosses as options is important though. I don't want to ONLY farm elite packs, and I don't want to ONLY farm bosses. I want to have the opportunity to do both.