Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

Arcaus_sl said:

Once you get to a certain point in D3 you can't worry about gear, you have to worry about fun. If you worry about getting upgrades you will get burnt out pretty quick as they just aren't coming.

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Problem is a lot of the fun comes from getting the right items to do a different build and have it work. If you can't get the items, you stop having fun. In PoE for example you can always just keep grinding, and you'll eventually amass enough wealth that you can just buy the uniques you want for a specific build, and if you happen to dislike it, you can resell the unique and try another build and so on(unless you play HC and die with the unique, then you're fucked, but eh it's HC). In D3 well if you want to do a pet doctor, you can gamble a hundred thousand bloodshards and farm for 600hours and still never see a Star Metal Kukri or Tasker's and Theo for example, so you can never really do that build other than a shittier version.

Main counter argument is if you get gear too fast you'd get bored and that's kinda true, but it's not like you'd get perfect gear either. With the ancient system, you need so much fucking luck to get a near perfect item that you'd still have to farm a stupid amount of time to be decked out. You need the right legendary, for it to roll ancient, for it to roll the right affixes(minus 1 that you can enchant) and roll high values in all those affixes. This is such a small chance to happen that you could literally find the same item 1000times in a row and still not get a near perfect one.

And the longevity of the game is already pretty fucked due to the massive powercreep with ancient weapons and legendary gems. People who want to play a long time will play a long time regardless, and people who just want to have fun won't leave as early if they're able to have fun on every classes due to better drops enabling more fun builds.

The problem of the Grifts is they're terrible for gear. They're a nice scaling challenge and randomly generated stuff is cool, but you wouldn't farm them for gear. So you're left with farming T6 rifts/areas, but the problem is T6 is completely inadequate difficulty wise. It's way too easy to gear up for T6 farming and then it becomes extremely boring to keep farming it as it gets even derpier and derpier until you're finally done with your gear.

Tiering legendaries and having them drop only in certain levels of grifts and stuff could be nice though. But in general I'm not a fan of the concept of grifts not dropping loot, the GR doesn't drop nearly enough shit to feel like it's worth it when you do a high level grift. It would also create issues with classes that don't clear as high grift due to balance problems.

Considering they have a scaling formula for Grifts though, they really should just add a much more indepth torment system that's similar. Maybe unify the 2 scaling systems, so basically you have Difficulty 1-50 that's equal to Grift difficulty 1-50. Call the first few "Normal/Hard/Expert/Master" if you want, and then Torment 1-46. You need to clear a rift in a level to unlock the next(so no cheesing to skip stuff too fast). Legendary chances keeps scaling. Don't need to go higher than 50 I'd say as it's already more or less the top right now for solo play, and for group play it'd still be adequate for farming anyway(really most people would farm 40 or whatever instead).