Feels like good newd for once about d2r i saw this email sent too late but also couldnt go to sydney for it, but does give hope that new things will come from this
Blizzard’s Global Research and Consumer Insights team is conducting research focusing on the thoughts, opinions, and experiences of some of our Diablo II: Resurrected players across the country – and we’d like to invite you! If you are interested in sharing your experiences playing Diablo II: Resurrected with other players like you live in an in-person focus group, please use the link below to sign up! If you are selected for a focus group, you will be compensated for your time. Note: This sign-up will only be available for the next 72 hours, so sign up quickly!
Said email also mentioned that it should be kept confidential (someone fully leaked it on Reddit earlier today, it has since been removed), you might want to delete your post here if you want to continue to receive and/or have the opportunity to participate in these things, OP.
If this is real, perhaps not all hope is lost for this game after they ruined it with sunders and mosaic.
Though blizzard compensating people sounds sus at best
No, they didn’t ruin anything. I know that’s your opinion, but you only hate it because its good.
However, I’ve heard a lot of hate for it, and I don’t understand why. It fixes a fundamentally unfun thing about martial arts. I think the thing about mosaic should be baseline to all katars. And instead of finishers popping off when a finisher is used, they should be a proc. Like “10/20/30%” chance on using a finisher to apply its effect. And that’s only me trying to meet the people who hate it halfway, because they’re allergic to things being fun.
Diablo 2 in Hell was supposed to be a challenge, they added immunities because the game was too easy, I agree that martial arts sins are kinda bad without it, but this is ultimately taking up 2 weapon slots and sins have no choice but to use it or suck. At least with other characters there are alternatives to GG items.
There’s nothing fun about the screen clutter that is Mosaic, however I do think adding %not to lose the charge to either finishers or the martial arts skill itself would be a good halfway point, It would probably be more balanced if it was on the charge up move instead of finisher though. Maybe like level 20 of a charge up skill has 100% chance not to consume charges or something of that sort
2: It’s overpowered, especially considering the runes used to create it.
3: It was a lazy way to “help” the Martial Arts tree. A rework of the tree itself would have been a more difficult and better solution that wouldn’t have invalidated every other assassin weapon in the game.
I guess if liking excessive pixel barf and feeling immensely overpowered is your idea of “fun”, to each their own.
Many things in late game are. Hammerdin teleporting around. Sorcs with stacked caster rate spamming novas. Tho, I’ll meet you halfway, they could dither the effects.
Many things in late game are. Grief? Enigma? Fortitude? There’s many more. There will always be a “best thing.” And if you want the game to go to “everything sucks and you’ll always struggle” then I don’t wanna play your game.
Agreed. See my above explanation. Combo points being consumed and having to be built back up is the issue. Its not fun or rewarding.
Yes, feeling powerful for getting some of the rarest items in the game, and being able to smash demon face with it is fun. It isn’t for you?
having no struggle and just walking through the game with zero effort is not fun for me no. I don’t need my hand held to play diablo. There’s no other item like mosaic which makes others in that slot as useless, enigma, fort, chains of honor, rares, uniques all have a place in some builds. Grief, not necessary sure it’s the best but it doesn’t make your build useless if you don’t have it, MA sin without mosaic is literally useless, and it takes up 2 slots…
You could easily make same argument for grief, enigma and spirit…the latter 2 is more a big deal since they are nearly ubiquitous on virtually all mainstream builds whereas mosaic and grief users only represent small portion of players…
especially in PvP cuz D2 is PvM early and with PK/PvP end game 
