Since this is conceptually difficult, I decided to write a guide for the site. Please forgive the lack spread sheets and hard data. Most evidence is anecdotal and may not work if lacking soul.
How to enjoy Diablo 3:
- Play because you like it
- Measure your success by comparing your own skills and GR levels to where you were last season
- Play a meta class/build when attempting to play meta, do other things when not being meta
- Be appreciative of the fact this game has received significant attention in the last year and a half without further cash investment - an extreme rarity in today's market
- Give helpful and thoughtful criticism when irritated with situations in the game. Data is great for making a point!
- Do other things when you're bored or don't feel like playing. Here is a helpful list!
- Go outside
- Read a book
- Talk to people and invest in meaningful relationships
- Learn something
- Work out
- Avoid doing these things
- Being confrontational and rude for no reason
- Calling people sheep, sheeple, etc. - no one cares about your opinion. Seriously. People will enjoy what they want.
- Forcing a build that is bad or lackluster onto a group of random people and being upset when you can't keep up
- Complaining about not being the best if you're not willing to do what it takes to be the best
Follow these simple tips and I guarantee you will thoroughly enjoy your Diablo experience! Or at least avoid not enjoying it!!! Because who has time for things they don't like? Life is short. Do what you love, fam.
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Nope and don't expect to. Similar reason to chadwx - I have no intention to ever try to master a set dungeon, that's the most anti-fun crap I have ever experienced in any Diablo game.
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Really, you need to think of single-player and multi-player D3 as two completely different games.
imho, the difference between single-player and multi-player is much greater than the difference between Softcore and Hardcore.
If you enjoy single-player (like I do), then play it. But don't look at the multi-player people and get angry that they are vastly more advanced than you. That's like a Hardcore player looking at a Softcore player who goes full glass cannon and dies a lot, and getting angry that you can't do that in Hardcore.
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There's no denying Haedrig's Gift made a massive change to the way the season unfolds. I'm a super casual player and within two weeks of this season starting, my character was more advanced than the best I'd ever achieved in any previous season or in non-seasonal play! I found this quite enjoyable, especially since the build pushed on me by the class I chose and the set they awarded me - Leapquake Barbarian - is incredibly fun to play.
But I absolutely understand that it would have really undermined the seasonal experience for some people, unavoidably so.
I like the suggestion mentioned in Bagstone's post about the Gift giving you two pieces each of three sets. That's generous without being game-defining.
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There are few things more unattractive than throwing a temper tantrum, not because something bad happened to you, but because something good happened to someone else.
Answer me this question: are you, as a non-season player, going to have less stash space as a result of this change, or exactly the same amount as you have now?
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Nu metal is a pale shadow of old metal. But then I would say that - I'm old. ;-)
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Unless you genuinely believe you are in the top 0.1% in the world - in skill, dedication and playtime - then just treat the leaderboards as a curiosity, nothing more.
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http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/88935-the-rng-thread