I started playing this game when I was 32… back in 2000.
I later lost interest, got busy, whatever, and as a result let my characters idle too long, and they were deleted.
I randomly decided to pick the game up again, logged into D2 only to find the lobby’s literally empty.
Quick search told me D2r had just been released.
I picked up D2r, and, since everything was new, made a new account… partly because the e-mail address I had 20 years ago has long since been abandoned, partly because, hey it’s a new start…so…
I’m sure I’m not the only old dude/vet to create a new account when d2r was released.
You really do need to remember, Activision picked their 5 most braindead programmers to work on this game. They have absolutely no clue how anything works. PvP, PvM, Charms, Space, Character limits etc. Not only that, but they trusted the feedback of a largely noob playerbase thinking that hdins were really that OP, sure maybe in HC they’re pretty top but in SC they’re not nearly as great as people think. There are a bunch of people who have never seen a high rune, who were now playing with an end game character crying because it was so easy. They were comparing it to their tribrid sigon wearing bone/summon/psn necro that hit none of the breakpoints in the game.
But oh well this is the new meta, time to figure out how to abuse it.
they didn’t nerf hdins, they just put every build on par. kinda a wierd choice, considering now instead of Hdins being too strong, every build is too strong; particularly sorcs.
They’ll have to implement harder content. I’m sure that’s on the agenda.
the dev balance anything every build have the same balance gap mean op build are just way more op and other build will need to work around these charm too min max , sadly already op build will just steam roll everything in 1 click
It was either one of the dev’s, the waitress or the bartender that came up with the idea.
I do expect one of the dev’s though, the waitress and the bartender were sober when this idea slipped out of the crack accompanied with a foul smell.
The descission was made by the dice.
The other options were:
1 The barbarian will only wear his pants on his head.
2 The amazon will only shoot lightning from her behind.
3 Buffing whirlwind by giving it 10% more damage and reducing the max attacks per second by 50%.
4 Renaming the sorceress spell Blizzard to Activision Blizzard Inc.
5 Asking Wyatt Cheng if he can get D2r to work on a phone.
Alas the dice rolled six, I was rooting for 2.
Of course afterwards there was much laughter and another round of shots.