Best image ever! But everyone is forgetting another reason why Diablo 3 sucks big flopy donkey dick and it is the quests. Right now we get gold, whoop de fucking do gold, what the fuck am i going to do with this 500 or 1000 shitty pieces of gold. Oh but hold on we can get nephlium valor stacks, again whoop de fucking do derp derp derp.
Let us take a look at Diablo 1. Our 1st quest was to kill the butcher (some times it was the poison water supply) after the butcher almost caught up to us and preceded to brutally rape you and to throw your corpse on a meat hook after (the rogue or sorcerer and some times warrior when hes trying to run away) we kill him. That was an epic encounter that gave you nightmares when you heard "Fresh meat" and after we got to use the butchers cleaver, which you guessed it lasted for various levels untill you replaced it.
How about that for a first quest? you get the butchers weapon!
Lets look at Diablo 2 quests the quests in this game that impacted your character the most was the: Skill point quests in every act. stat points, life potion, and all resist scroll. But the other quests. Charsi will imbue a white item to make it a rare, you get discounted prices in act 2 from Atma, you get to shatter a sould stone upon the hellforge in act4 and it rains gems/runes and in act 5 you get to socket an item.
Lets look at Diablo 3 quests, Shut up and take your minimum wage pay cheque and get out of my office before I fire you.
Now I don't know if any of you can connect the dots but getting a free socket, having it rain gems/runes and imbueing items were all quests that everyone remade characters for and leveled them/rushed them though the acts and difficutlys. That added replayability.
Now the best quest which should be in Diablo 3 from Diablo 2 is the hellforge quest. The current gems in this game is a fucking joke and laughable at best and the only way to get a top tier gem is spending millions of gold upgrading gems, we have no other way of getting them.
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While everyone did rush characters though normal, nightmare and hell for the quests, you could not get past act 5 with a level 1 without exploiting OR clever use of game mechanics, and so normal was 20, nightmare was 40 and hell was 60 for level caps.
Speaking of replayability, there are achievements in this game that require you to level two of the same class that gives no benefits besides epeen flexing. Now if there was a hellforge quest in Diablo 3 or a socket quest I would totally level the same class twice for those quests alone and you know what? That helm of command that i just crafted I can add a socket to it or that weapon with amazing stats that is missing a socket, I can add that socket to that weapon for fuck sakes, niggas do you understand what i'm trying to say here? Taking a weapon that you would normally not even pick up due to it not being IL63 or that you would vender. Seeing such weapon being totally amazing for you if it had a socket, well good news you can add that socket and use the fucking weapon instead of vendering it.
Did i just blow your fucking mind at the concept of taking a shitty item and making it a useable item?
As I am listening to your video, I have to agree with everything you guys say. One of the biggest problems with Diablo 3 is the team working on Diablo it self because they are not experienced in ARPGs, also fuck jay wilson. Another thing that made Diablo 2 a great game was the stats you could add every level and the skill trees.
Also keep this in mind though Diablo 2 had its share of problems; however, they were addressed over time and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction is when the game shined the most. But you know what? Diablo 2 before the Lord of Destruction was still in a better shape than Diablo 3.
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ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THIS! The quests holy shit man, the quests in Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction, they all gave unique rewards in terms of items, gems/runes (hell forge runs), consumable scroll that increased resistances. In Diablo 3 they give us gold.......
The fucking horadric cube niggas! need I explain more!?
I wish they would take their itemization more seriously, I found a nats hand xbow with 144 str on it. I understand the reasons and view points of random is random; however, what I don't understand is class items having worthless stats on them. I know I am not alone on this. When there is an item that only a class can use like hand xbows I don't want to see such a garbage stat no matter how much armor that 144 str gives (144 armor lawl) that armor will not do you any good.
What needs to happen fast is a quick fix to itemization in terms of class items. How would you make such a change? Easy. Remove the str affix from hand xbows (for example) because with the removal of that affix there will still be plenty of other garbage stats that will benefit you more like the insanely nerfed life steal in inferno or Int, I'd take Int over str any day because of the resistances int can provide.
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Best image ever! But everyone is forgetting another reason why Diablo 3 sucks big flopy donkey dick and it is the quests. Right now we get gold, whoop de fucking do gold, what the fuck am i going to do with this 500 or 1000 shitty pieces of gold. Oh but hold on we can get nephlium valor stacks, again whoop de fucking do derp derp derp.
Let us take a look at Diablo 1. Our 1st quest was to kill the butcher (some times it was the poison water supply) after the butcher almost caught up to us and preceded to brutally rape you and to throw your corpse on a meat hook after (the rogue or sorcerer and some times warrior when hes trying to run away) we kill him. That was an epic encounter that gave you nightmares when you heard "Fresh meat" and after we got to use the butchers cleaver, which you guessed it lasted for various levels untill you replaced it.
How about that for a first quest? you get the butchers weapon!
Lets look at Diablo 2 quests the quests in this game that impacted your character the most was the: Skill point quests in every act. stat points, life potion, and all resist scroll. But the other quests. Charsi will imbue a white item to make it a rare, you get discounted prices in act 2 from Atma, you get to shatter a sould stone upon the hellforge in act4 and it rains gems/runes and in act 5 you get to socket an item.
Lets look at Diablo 3 quests, Shut up and take your minimum wage pay cheque and get out of my office before I fire you.
Now I don't know if any of you can connect the dots but getting a free socket, having it rain gems/runes and imbueing items were all quests that everyone remade characters for and leveled them/rushed them though the acts and difficutlys. That added replayability.
Now the best quest which should be in Diablo 3 from Diablo 2 is the hellforge quest. The current gems in this game is a fucking joke and laughable at best and the only way to get a top tier gem is spending millions of gold upgrading gems, we have no other way of getting them.
Edit:
While everyone did rush characters though normal, nightmare and hell for the quests, you could not get past act 5 with a level 1 without exploiting OR clever use of game mechanics, and so normal was 20, nightmare was 40 and hell was 60 for level caps.
Speaking of replayability, there are achievements in this game that require you to level two of the same class that gives no benefits besides epeen flexing. Now if there was a hellforge quest in Diablo 3 or a socket quest I would totally level the same class twice for those quests alone and you know what? That helm of command that i just crafted I can add a socket to it or that weapon with amazing stats that is missing a socket, I can add that socket to that weapon for fuck sakes, niggas do you understand what i'm trying to say here? Taking a weapon that you would normally not even pick up due to it not being IL63 or that you would vender. Seeing such weapon being totally amazing for you if it had a socket, well good news you can add that socket and use the fucking weapon instead of vendering it.
Did i just blow your fucking mind at the concept of taking a shitty item and making it a useable item?
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Also keep this in mind though Diablo 2 had its share of problems; however, they were addressed over time and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction is when the game shined the most. But you know what? Diablo 2 before the Lord of Destruction was still in a better shape than Diablo 3.
edit:
ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THIS! The quests holy shit man, the quests in Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction, they all gave unique rewards in terms of items, gems/runes (hell forge runs), consumable scroll that increased resistances. In Diablo 3 they give us gold.......
The fucking horadric cube niggas! need I explain more!?
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What needs to happen fast is a quick fix to itemization in terms of class items. How would you make such a change? Easy. Remove the str affix from hand xbows (for example) because with the removal of that affix there will still be plenty of other garbage stats that will benefit you more like the insanely nerfed life steal in inferno or Int, I'd take Int over str any day because of the resistances int can provide.