Seriously. It's just like former EQ players. They are so fucking nostalgic about it, they forget howactuallyterrible certain things were. Subsequently, they completely shut off their receptiveness to the idea that anything could everpossiblybe better.
Yeah, instead they want to scour the forums and public games trying to "trade" shit. Heaven forbid an AH make the EXACT SAME FUCKING THING you did in D2 any more accessible.
A valid argument - but for the fact that just about every single fucking person who played Diablo 3 on release saw it was a train wreck within 2-3 weeks. Nostalgia has nothing to do with bad game design. Bad game design is bad game design.
You don't get what makes Diablo 3 a mudflated game, do you? Look at the average weapon DPS you see on the AH, and look at the average weapon DPS of a drop you get while going through the game. Now go back to Diablo 2 and do the same. The RNG loot mechanics for the two games are completely different. Diablo 3's rolls on items are capable of being terribad <insert made up but very high %> of the times, which was never the case in Diablo 2, and is one of the primary causes for why the economy is tanked.
Necros were never a shit class. They were weak - because the pet mechanics scaled badly into Hell. But the basic design of the class remained the same throughout and when they fixed the scaling, necros got back to doing the same thing in Hell that they did in Normal.
This is why Etadanik's argument is completely retarded. Also, witch doctor pets are just fine now.
I have to wonder if you've even played a WD recently. Mine is no less fun to play than any other class.
Not only fine but with gear 0 cooldown dogs + sacrifice is rape. Etadanik's argument is retarded because the witch doctor has worse gameplay than a necro because you do more things to play the wd class. Active gameplay? That sucks!
My #1 gripe about the game is that it's a shit game on release and that by the time they fixed it enough to be a Diablo 2 clone, the bulk of the game's players have already left. That said, crappy class design does contribute to the game's woes. Were WDs a better class, I imagine there's a shot that I'm still playing, but the combination of the shitty start and the crappy class design made me lose all patience with the game, and the same goes for the 4-5 other people who I started playing with.
Working in an assembly line is more fun than watching a movie because you do more things!
I haven't touched Diablo 3 in months. Don't try to direct me to another game because I didn't quit Diablo 3 because a better game came out. I quit because it sucked.
Oh color us all shocked. Your posts were so on point about the state of the game no one could tell you haven't played in forever.
I meant get the fuck out of the thread.
Yeah, and? I'm talking aboutwhyit sucked, and not all of it is irrelevant because I quit in 1.05, which is when all the changes to loot, exp, and difficulty came in. The game was broken on release, correct; but the idea that it was only broken because of a few intangibles and people gave it an overly difficult time, which was what prompted my response, is inane. It took them 4-5 months to take it to the level of an average Diablo clone. It's still not a great game, and there are plenty of issues to talk about - not because it's going to make a difference to Blizzard who never reads these forums, but because it's what people on forums fucking do.
That's really great and all, but I think we've pretty much established that (a) Diablo 3 launched in a pretty shitty state, (b) that it's taken them longer than it should have to turn things around and (c) that there's still a laundry list of things to further improved upon. I certainly don't think this thread should be all about praise and positivity, but your criticism is for the most part pretty fucking old-hat, so why don't you give it a rest and move on? Seriously, you're shitting up the thread with your vitriol against a game you haven't played for 3 months and probably won't pick up again, it sounds like. You think D3 is a piece of shit; I get that, and I think everyone else does as well. Good thing there's plenty of other games out there for you to enjoy, buddy!
Well, the mats from a yellow DE into about the same price as what the yellow vendors for(in some cases more, but I don't have the patience to spam click and hit enter for a few hundred gold), which was never really the case. I'm not sure if that's due to an uptrend in prices or me just being away from the game for a while.