If you read the entire post correctly, I doubt it affects solo play much. I mean in all honesty, which solo build rely's on self healing skills?
The meta wont change much while 50% of the sets in the game are total garbage at the same time LoN being nothing but a thing to house..4 gr builds maybe. 4! Out of a game that you can make dozens per character skill combinations that make sense. All of those should work in a sense but...here we are.
The nerf to some damage buffs can easily be reworked/coded to affect groups and not solo in the nerf, such as "for each player this buff affects, its impact is lowered by 50%". This means that for a 2 player group, the buff provides 50%, 3 player is 25% and 4 player would be 12.5% while still allowing a 100% buff increase for solo. I am not sure they will do this from the start, so we may have to go a single season without that coding, but I expect it by season 8.
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Why is it not good enough to just power them through some T10-T13 rifts based on your power and give them the gear that way, something you did TOGETHER.
I want my desert before dinner and I plan on eating it TOO!!!!
Come on people.
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Why can't people just accept that you can trade with your friends. It just needs to be in games played together!
Others have said it, but if you open up trading, then China bots will just flood the game selling everything through spam in trade chat. NO THANK YOU!
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For me:
1 - Loot
2 - Dark atmosphere
3 - The Grind (which for me is tied to loot)
4 - Did I mention loot yet? I just want more of it! More unique versions of it! MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!
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I think D2 was great for its time, but in the end, that is it for me.
D3 has much more to offer, and if D3 came out when D2 did, you would all still be shitting your pants at how good the game is, just like you are with D2 now.
We are in the era of Nostalgia, no new rendition of a game is good anymore. Every new game that had an original in the 1995-2005 range is being shit on by this Nostalgia society, and it is truly a shame. Especially when the real issue is the lack of ability to get into something new, the inability to accept change. People now just want what they used to have, because they were younger then, felt better then, and experienced something on a grand scale for the first time.
Attitudes like this are really hurting the gaming industry.
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Not blue confirmed, but common sense confirmed!
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The game is going in a much different direction than that, has been for awhile. Not really a good thing either.
That being said, a lot of the complaints about this game are just that, subjective insulting complaints rather than actual solutions. IE Make D3 like D2 is not a solution, that is a fanboy complaint from someone who likes D2, so go play D2!
D3 certainly needs an overhaul in the balance department. They lost themselves when they changed balance points. My estimate is that the balance point was T10, but then became T13 recently (well before T13 even released) as they knew it was coming out later. This left certain builds well in the dust. And now they really need to figure out a univeral balance point for power purposes, and fine tune the sets to this.
It really should not be that hard, but how do you pitch that to the people who give you your resources? Not easily thats for sure, but hopefully this massive outcry will play a large role in getting us all a few changes that we have asked for for the good of the community!
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Am I the only one that actually wishes area damage would be removed?
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I think the Druid will come with an Act 6 Skovos pack tbh.
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Back to your post, how would you differentiate this between a class like WD or Necro? Would you recommend that this class actually be able to use ALL THREE followers when in the field? That could be unique!
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I feel that every set is balanced, per se, according to power of the sets. But IK and Akkhans really need a rework to allow them to be more unique/stand alone.
I would also approve of Zuni focusing on more of the skills that Helltooth does not, such as Big Bad Voodoo along with the fetishes. Not sure what atm, but have been thinking about how to incorporated Big Bad Voodoo into the set bonus.
I feel that Shadow, Waste, Nats, and Vyr's are simply a supportive item away from being very competitive, and thus I would not really do much other than look to add that item to the game.
Many people can take each of those 4 sets into the GR 80 range, some have even taken Vyr's, Shadow, and Waste to GR 90 in Era. With the new Hellcat Wasteguard, I think the DH will see a major bump in power for both Nats and Shadow. The grenades from that belt do a ton of damage, and are simply part of many of the skills you can use. I also think that the overpower saffron belt for Barb could put Waste back on the map for most players as well.
That leaves Vyr's, and I am not sure if the new manald heal can really do anything to bring that build up, but it is certainly possible to run a lightning archon build so maybe it will! Thats what PTR is for boys, working on collecting everything needed atm, and will be testing away to give as much feedback as possible.
ESPECIALLY SINCE I SUGGESTED SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR TO HELLCAT WASTEGUARD FOR DH BACK IN PATCH 2.4.1 SO THEY ABSOLUTELY HEAR YOU WHEN YOU POST SUGGESTIONS.
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They said there is a few potential tweaks left to put into the dungeon, such as more skulls, things to make it look more dark, etc....
Also, PTR's always have new things put into them through the process, if you look at the PTR strings, there is mention of 5-8 features that are currently not in the patch notes even.
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Absolutely, I am loving it in that setting as well!!!
I will be starting off season 9 in this exact manner once it hits in January.
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I think we are going to get 3 packs total.
Necro being the int, Druid being the dexterity, and then my personal favorite is a Lancer/Dragoon which would be a strength class.
If you remember back in Vanilla, one of the best Barb builds was simply using Frenzy with a Spear and Shield, because the spear had the fastest attack speed. Having a class centered around this playstyle of insanley fast mid range melee attacks, with several unique air based attacks similar to a dragoon would be pretty sweet! Something where you leap through the air to a spot, while spitting out fire around you, basically like a flaming torpedo.
Uniquely, as others have brought up, there are two dragons of lore in the D3 story. One was Tathamet, and the other was a dragon under the control of the Necromancer. So having the Necromancer free the essence of the dragon forming a Dragoon class could be viable for the inception of the class.
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Yeah you missed something.
Arachyr Firebats was a GR90+ build last season. Obviously paragon played a large role, but the build is insanely strong both offensively and defensively once you get all the items.
I am actually fine casting haunt several times, charging into the center of the groups which also applies locust automatically, and then dancing creating firebats around me! Sort of a unique playstyle.
IK and Akkhan are the only two sets that have no real viable build beyond a GR 60-65. Akkhan thorns can, but it shouldnt because that is the purpose of LoN and Voker. I am okay with Roland and Wastes, and Vyr is one of the top sets for Wiz solo. A few legendary item tweaks would have those sets as a top set.
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Zuni could keep a lot of what it has, but have more emphasis on the Voodoo side of the WD. Jade sort of does this, but not really with locust and haunt paired with soul harvest being the primary.
Zuni could still be fetishes, hex, etc.... and a tuning to dagger of darts to give it that voodoo dart spitting feel again. Instead of having you apply a spender on a target, just have the damage scale based on fetishes on the field. You will need to use a few spenders to get them out, but applying a few stacks of haunt to get a 20% damage buff is optimal anyways. And as someone said, if you make the set power your skills as well as your pet skills, then you do more damage as well, really helping it feel more unique.
For defense, the set could have some sort of modifier like Swampland Attunement, in that each enemy hit with a poison dart gives you a certain amount of Damage reduction for 9 seconds, functioning like the Ancient Parthanons.
Just some basic off the top of my head ideas, but I do agree, a rework would be nice, focusing on other elements of the class other than Garg damage.