I think botters amount will decrease drastically in EU and US. In China as far as i know botting is on much higher level, there is no way to compete with China now. With exp boosts and such
As for EXP and mats. Botters bot for both. EXP problem can easily be fixed = if you farm low level content you gain NO EXP. Exactly like in POE.
So high level botters would gain no exp from gr70.
As for mats it's more complicated. The whole Torment system and drops must scale with level somehow, or must completely be moved to GRIFTS.
I personally would like to have NEPHALEM RIFTS removed completely.
If you wanted to go that way, you could simply apply the LoN effect by default on ancients, as Dark_Sol suggests, and at the same time, have it not affect set items. Not necessarily going to be perfect, just offering that constraints can be enforced if devs wished to do so.
LON was introduced to give variety to the players, but in fact it's very limiting.
Most 2pc sets outdamage early LON build now. LON is also very power hungry, you need tonns of great gear to make it work. While even a crappy rolled set can easily compete with a well-rolled LON build. As of 2.4.1 sets were buffed greatly and LON is in obscurity once again
I have a monk friend who got rank 2 world on NS with just about ~1200 paragons. He was a very dedicated cool player. He fished like crazy for good rift. He said he blew about 300 gr keys to get THIS ONE DREAM RIFT.
So this is possible indeed with a lot of dedication and fishing.
But with botted paragons it's just SO MUCH EASIER, unfortunately. 3000 paragon player need just a couple of attempts to surpass a low paragon player.
Grinding Paragon is pretty much the only thing i cannot effectively do in this game. I absolutely hate playing zdps. I can still remember how depressive it was to build pull/healing monk a patch ago. AS well as god damn zsader, zbarb and so on. I pretty much was FORCED to create zdps characters or i could not find party to play with.
As my previous Sacrifice Helltooth build was featured on main page, i thought maybe i could offer another interesting video. It might be interesting for those who didn't participate in PTR.
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I think botters amount will decrease drastically in EU and US. In China as far as i know botting is on much higher level, there is no way to compete with China now. With exp boosts and such
As for EXP and mats. Botters bot for both. EXP problem can easily be fixed = if you farm low level content you gain NO EXP. Exactly like in POE.
So high level botters would gain no exp from gr70.
As for mats it's more complicated. The whole Torment system and drops must scale with level somehow, or must completely be moved to GRIFTS.
I personally would like to have NEPHALEM RIFTS removed completely.
Bounties must also be redone.
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I dropped a lot of 50 level gems on the ground before augments were introduced......
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I am super clown. p1100 and spent thousand hours farming Tomes of Secrets in vanilla!
Guess what happened next.
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personally, it's kind of dumb to have a 2pc SET that is being buffed by legendaries. And the set is actually RINGS = most precious slots ever.
Why not make a default feature that each ancient legendary buffs ALL DAMAGE by %??? So much easier.
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OP is pretty much correct.
LON was introduced to give variety to the players, but in fact it's very limiting.
Most 2pc sets outdamage early LON build now. LON is also very power hungry, you need tonns of great gear to make it work. While even a crappy rolled set can easily compete with a well-rolled LON build. As of 2.4.1 sets were buffed greatly and LON is in obscurity once again
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Pretty sure patch 2.4.1 will land on 29th April when S6 starts
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Did you play offline back in the days? Do you still play offline in D2?
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I have a monk friend who got rank 2 world on NS with just about ~1200 paragons. He was a very dedicated cool player. He fished like crazy for good rift. He said he blew about 300 gr keys to get THIS ONE DREAM RIFT.
So this is possible indeed with a lot of dedication and fishing.
But with botted paragons it's just SO MUCH EASIER, unfortunately. 3000 paragon player need just a couple of attempts to surpass a low paragon player.
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I pretty much skip Shielding indeed.
Arcane is terrible as well.
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Jmacc is one the best WD pros. So indeed JMacc all the way. His video is much better, Bluddshed's video is kind of a mess. Slam dance lol.
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Grinding Paragon is pretty much the only thing i cannot effectively do in this game. I absolutely hate playing zdps. I can still remember how depressive it was to build pull/healing monk a patch ago. AS well as god damn zsader, zbarb and so on. I pretty much was FORCED to create zdps characters or i could not find party to play with.
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Hello everyone!
I've made a summary video for upcoming changes to Witch Doctor class in 2.4.1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yWF_-pD3Rs
As my previous Sacrifice Helltooth build was featured on main page, i thought maybe i could offer another interesting video. It might be interesting for those who didn't participate in PTR.
Thank you!
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There wont be any massive reworks of paragon system, this is for sure. Neverending grind is the only reason people still bother playing.
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I only miss 2 things from Vanilla:
1) Loot hunting
2) Actually hard and rewarding difficulties (inferno, here we go)
The first being more important above everything. And auction-house started killing loot hunt since the very beginning.
Biggest mistake #1: auction house, real money or not.
Biggest mistake #2: increased drops. Loot hunt does not exist now.