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In what universe is NV too restrictive? He probably didn't play any D2....

Was expecting a strength based class - either something like the paladin or a necroknight (necromancer with more melee focus)

In general I disagree with the author. Diablo 3 should appeal to all people, not just ones with >5 years gaming experience. The real beginners don't need to and don't want to be confronted with too many choices / information. Of course, these players might not get very far in the game, unless they change. If they do change and use their newly gained knowledge of the game, they will also be smart enough to discover elective mode and advanced tooltips, as well as look up information in the internet. However, I do agree that it should be made more clear that elective mode exists and what it does. (Not that beginners get frustrated at not being able to choose more than one skill from the same skill-group.)

Blizzard isn't dumming down the game. They are making it more accessible. People that complain probably also complain why games where they choose the easiest difficulty are so easy.

Ok, few things to bring up here, so far it seems like many people are attributing the game's quality to its drop rate. Now there is a few reason to play the game, one is just to see the content, other is to farm for gold/$$$, another might be you like to max out character, constantly farming to upgrade gear to farm some more. Whatever that might be, so far the most discontent I see is drops are crap.

So crap could mean several different things, one is its not an upgrade, another it can't sell much, or third nothing is dropping.

So put in perspective, I just found a 1200DPS blue xbow, it would only be sold for 300K, I purchased something just like this first week of June to start farming act III for like 7 million. What this could only means is that drop rates are actually too good since more than enough items are dropping to push down prices. In order to get an act III capable farming toon these days should only cost a total of 4-5 million if you are spending your money wisely. A month ago it would cost 20+ million in gear.

Now economic's lesson, if prices of gear is dropping, does that mean there is more supply or less supply. The only items that cost alot are items that only have like 3 or 4 pages worth, ie 80-100 items available to the market. Considering there are million of players, lets say 2 million active. 80-100 items is nothing, .00001% so those perfectly roll items are super rare hence the reason why its costing 50 million.

Now if blizzard decides to just up the drop rate where any joe schmo can farm 2 hours and get those items, what do you think will happen to the price. This is exactly what is happening to all the mediocre gear, much more larger population can farm act 3 and drop rates have increase, hence its causing more and more gear to be practically worthless or worth very little.

Its not that the gear is bad, since lot of gear that's only worth 50K now was actually still very good gear. Just that we don't need it anymore since many of us that's farming act III for last 2 months have found better.

Now can you still find million gold plus items? Definitely, like other posters has said, if you can clear all of act III, and I mean ALLL, not skipping side dungeons, I usually find million+ worth of gear every two runs. Each run takes approximately 3 hours for me. Either alone or with people. For some reason I seem to find better gear if I'm grouping, but that might just be RNG. Also soloing is boring.

Also I'm thinking there are many people with about 120-150 hours play who just got to Act III struggle though it a for a few hours and maybe kill a dozen packs and don't find anything and say nothing drops. That can very well be true, until you can start rolling through Act III, don't be complaining about drops just yet. Reason why drops suck in terms of dollar value is that its because there is actually too much supply, that is just my opinion.

Personal fact, I'm farming with a DH, current value of gear approximatly 40 million (70K DPS non SS, 25K health, 300 AR). Been clearing Act III easily, over the past 3-4 weeks. Earned approximately 100 million in gold overall, and $120 in RMAH. 250 Hours spent on DH, 100 on barb and 50 on wizard, all level 60.

Also lastly, people don't actually put down is how good are you at gaming? People who are using cooldowns properly, have faster reflexes, not stand in shit, know how to gear and spec your toon are probably more efficient at farming than others, not everyone knows how to make best use of what they got.

1.0.3 hit me just like most of the community. I didnt like it very much because it had more nerfs than buffs (I think i can count the number of buffs on one hand). Of course, when you make changes there are always cry babys talking about quitting because things aren't going the way they planned. If quitting is your ultimatum then there is no stopping you, but I implore you gamers to try something new. Stop being so stubborn.

Diablo was never about 1 class/build fits all. Diablo was never about stacking a single attribute or looking for that "end game" item where everyone will eventually be wearing the exact same thing. Diablo has always been a reap-what-you-sow game and ultimately it all comes down to either time or luck. 1.0.3 balanced the game. That's right, no more belial power leveling, goblin hunting, botting, and stacking. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" If it wasn't for this patch, I would still be running a glass cannon DH with 12k HP, stacking everything into DEX and Atack Speed. If I were stubborn I would have probably quit as well, but we are humans. Humans learn to adapt to challenges, work around obsticles. If we didn't have that in our genes we would have died along with the dinosaurs.

Fellow gamers, open your eyes throw away your stubborness. Stop stacking attack speed (ridiculously over priced) and single attributes. This is not a one build game, play around with the thousands of possible combination of builds and gears available. Read the class forums and try out other peoples suggestions. ADAPT. Find your own builds to post! THIS is the fun that Diablo was designed upon.

I for one, am no longer "kiting" packs with the fear that even a droplet of elite sweat could kill my frail glass canon DH. Instead, I can now stand and tank them. Now there are much more possibilities to try.

Have fun

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Fixed that for you.

What else do you expect from someone with no rebuttal?

I had hope? I know...I know...

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Fixed that for you.

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Oh so many people that don't agree with me and I can't support my opinion without degrading into name calling.

Fixed that for you.

Hmmm, I didn't know I was mad. I have been enjoying playing so much I didn't even notice

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Most people are in denial about the game. You are so f*****d in the a** by Blizz that you can't take any criticism what so ever about the game you waited SOOOO long for.. Get real people, it's not that great a game if you take into account the amount of development that went into it. It only scored an 88 on Metacritic for instance. And 8.5 on Gamespot.

And reviews aren't subjective at all... riiight.
D3 also got 9.5 on IGN, but you don't care mentioning that. The game IS flawed but it really is not nearly as bad as some people are claiming it to be. It is better than D2 and D1 combined, and is yet to receive it's first major patch.
All the hate is extremely over exaggerated.

$60 for 100 hours is pretty good. Your entertainment dollar is 833% more efficient than going to a theater or buying a video game with a 12 hour single player campaign. That being said I'm having fun leveling every character to 60, then I'll progress past Act 1 Inferno.

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Yea I forgot that beginners get so frustrated at anything involving them to read or think that they immediately quit. Was Diablo 2 not accessible? It is a pretty easy mechanic I mean "BOOM you leveled, click this giant red button! Ok great now on the right it clearly says you have x skills and x stats, put them somewhere, done." Now we have "boom you leveled...heres your new skill enjoy".

Beginners didn't know that in order to survive Hell that they had to dump all their stats into vitality after getting enough str/dex to wear the gear they wanted. It's an absolutely stupid system that Blizzard removed and benefits the community overall than not. The skill trees were cluttered with useless filler crap that no one used. Get over yourself.