I mean, it fits into D2 being mean and dark. Just saying, if you need them, you probably can’t even kill Baal reliantly. If you can kill him easily, you probably don’t need them.
no get over it and go away
The essences can be used by any of your chars. It means that you can farm them with your best one and use them with the char you want to change. That, of course, if you already used the 3 respecs.
Also, remember that you have 3 respecs for each of your chars. It’s not 3 for account.
Truer words never spoken…PnP Dungeons and Dragons we would sort through piles of reference material and supplemental game material to get the perfect unique character. And at the end of the campaign your character was a legend frozen in time and would be referenced in future games or conversations with your friends for years and years…
No no no no no no no. No. Yes this is a sentence blizzard.
“Not being able to respec easily” how come does that make the game better. You guys are just lunatics who want everything to be a pain in the a** and don’t want anything to be chaged.
As for the runes. I also hated being have to research for the recipes on the internet. The Horadric Cube should display Recipes. Diablo 2 cannot be played without using internet or research. Is this a game or a school project??
You guys don’t understand the difference between hard and pain in the a**
I really don’t understand this. It is so easy to respect. You just have to get to hell for the drops. I can respect all day long if I want. Yes some of the characters need gear to farm hell. But some do not. Again this goes to show how many people really do not play this game. Beating it in normal is not playing it. Normal mode is really a tutorial and it really starts in NM and Hell. I guess so many people are used to D3 where no work and grind is needed. Max level day 1 , No BIS just all use same sets which is super easy to get, can respect on the fly with no cost. This game requires some brains to be used not a lot but a little.
I’m all for some QoL changes, but this should definitely not be part of it. Diablo 2 takes a completely different approach to leveling and progression than Diablo 3 or WoW do.
The leveling phase in D3 and WoW is basically non-existent. You only do stuff on max level which you reach extremely fast and easy, and you only play a few characters (since every character can switch to any skill at any moment there is no reason to ever level another one).
In D2 there’s a very limited ‘end game’. It’s pretty common to start a new character with a different build here. Progressing through the three difficulties is fun and a big part of the game. In my opinion this is the superior approach in a hack and slay game, as it keeps each part of the game fresh and you always meet other players regardless of difficulty. Introducing free respecs would be fatal.