Durance of Hate - Annoying not difficult, Certainly Not fun

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Hello Blizz; someone in dev forgot this was a “game”…

Durance is broken and not fun. Your dolls are OP and just plain stupid, hardly hurt a merc, but one shot a “CHAMPION” (your word, not mine). Okay, guys, get a clue. I just ran into a pack of Maulers (Stone Skin, Amp Damage Curse, extra fast, stun each hit, take up half the room and can’t get around them, mass hp, immune to lightning (resistant even with sunder). While on my javazon, please advise how this is fun. Durance is currently HUGE and pitch black. Making it worse, again, annoying and stupid.

Please stop making the game annoying and start finding ways to make it challenging without making it stupid and frustrating. I know you guys like to use easy street and throw together a bunch of foolish and label it “challenging.” This has gone too far. Please change classes so they aren’t narrowly specialized and still barely getting by if you insist on keeping RnG/Procedural the same.

Explain how I get better gear, to get through this ridiculousness when your drop rates SUCK. As I have a family, a life, school, and a job: it would be nice to come online, play for a couple of hours, get rewarded and log off. Not play all day to get through one act and be frustrated when I log off. This is not the D2 I remember. Keep in mind I was playing D1 some time ago and every other Blizz product since. This is the worst I have felt at the end of a session. Way to go, guys; you succeeded in your passive-aggressive attempt to alienate another player. Make the game FUN. Not stupid. Devs should be running these maps with every class, and every spec, before release. Over and over to see if they had “fun.” This is not happening.

Fix RnG, so certain traits do not end up together, please. Make the map a little more reasonable in size, and stop with the pitch black; it is not atmospheric, it is, again, stupid.

I know all the guys that live in mom’s basement and have 8-10 hours to play daily will get on here trolling; this message is not for you. So don’t bother. Go back to your breadsticks and chocolate milk. Go troll your mom’s new boyfriend instead. Oh wait, that might be me.

Regards,
OT

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I like the dolls… They present the necessary “danger” element that can possibly kill you, which keep the game interesting. Same goes for Conviction Burning Souls and Extra Fast+Fanaticized+Might Death Lords.

When running Durance of Hate, keep in mind there are only three types of monsters that spawn in level 2. So if you encounter three different types and no dolls, you’re home free to slaughter without worry.

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Honestly, the game could use more enemies that make you sweat a bit. The occasional danger makes you pay more attention, especially in HC.

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You did not read my entire message, it may be difficult for you to get through, so I will be patient.

Again, if you have something to say just because you have O.D.D., please do not say it. I don’t care. This message is not for you unless you are a Blizz employee. I would send an email to them instead if I could. Please keep your O.D.D. comments to yourself. Make your thread about how fantastic the dolls are, and again, go back to your chocolate milk. The fact that you took all of 10 seconds to post a reply to my post tells me you either need professional help, or are a Blizz employee yourself.

Regards,
OT

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You’re posting on a public forum, friend. Just a heads up so you aren’t wondering why you haven’t received a reply from Blizzard over the next several months, they aren’t going to respond to you. They very rarely post here in the General Discussion forum.

Just because I didn’t respond to every point in your original post doesn’t mean I didn’t read it. There are people who can read very quickly.

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Hahahaha. Nobody cares.

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If i had to choose
I rather have a dangerous meph than dolls

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but the original game was like that dark parts that don’t look good and the dolls and in other places the ghosts that shoot lightning that were always the most dangerous enemies together with the dols the maps were always like that. It seems to me that you used to play with maphack and there are others spots to farm the game is currently very easy, that is the big problem of not having an endgame that ends up being boring

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use lawbringer on merc for dolls

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I happen to agree with everything this person has said.
The drop rates especially in this ladder season are horrible. It’s all focused on the sunder’s… and terror zones, even then you’re lucky if you get a good drop 1 out of 15 maybe 20 runs.
MF is so screwed up it does’nt matter anymore how much MF you have you are better off not going over 150 in MF i found to get better drops it’s ridiculous. i had over 700 on a toon and got squat. dropped it to 150 and started getting a little bit of something. Don’t bother saying it’s random it’s shyt is what it is.
because people get on here bytch whine and complain that they don’t get shyt just handed to them. “i believe non ladder players should have the runewords ladder players have” ya? Then fuking play ladder you idiots. Laziness because no one wants to put in the time to build anything anymore. Ya i may be complaining about the drop rate on things but i do get on here and play for the love of it. I put in the work to lvl my toons try to gear them out the best i can but it makes it extremely difficult when you can’t get things you need on the game because they keep jacking things up. Totally agree with this guy.

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I feel that this is more romanticized, especially by hardcore challenge seekers, than actually taken on as an actual challenge. The dolls are fine as an obstacle to get past on a play through of the game, especially during solo play, but are not really revisited to farm as your character in on the endgame hunt. I’d call Souls more of a challenge, since they propagate as main enemies in more zones through both progression, and a major endgame farming areas, where Dolls are primarily only in optional areas, Durance, and Flayer Dungeon, and rarely in WSK Throne Room, where a much wider and open space allows them to be dealt with in a much easier fashion than the previous two.

I’d say that once most people pass through Durance, they are not revisiting unless they teleport. With that said, I’m only for touching either enemy if their damage is truly bugged, as it doesn’t represent the intentional challenge that the original developers designed them as (and ignoring/not fixing the bug, does not count as intentional design).

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you are a big noob running in durance with a javazon
maybe instead of asking for changes you should
learn to play

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TZ dolls are so scary.

i got wrecked in TZ throne it wasnt even funny. i was dead before i released my blizzard click lol

idk if id nerf them its part of the experience but damn… made me want to roll summon necro lol

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Dolls are easy, except for noobs.

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Congrats! Your post is the stupidest thing I’ve read today. Either your memory is failing or you didn’t play / progress much in the D2 you remember…

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so you hate the zone of hate? Good, its working as intended.

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Its place of “Hate” for a reason.

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That’s called Diablo 3.

True the Diablo 2 of the past was more difficult and drops were lower, you just forgot this game was harder before 1.10 and got easier every patch after that.
Unless ofcourse you didn’t play before that.
Since these devs took over the game is getting easier fast, so you can blame them for a lot but not for making the game harder.

Besides a family, school and a job, I think you also have some unresolved issues.
Advice at mephisto always keep turning left from the WP, on average this will get you to mephisto faster.

Bad luck then, Blizzard employees don’t read forum posts, you need to post on twitter or possibly reddit for that…no joke they ignore their own forum.

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don’t you feel that this game is already easy enough? Now you want to nerf dolls.

They should have never nerfed the vipers.

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Didnt read your post, game needs to be much harder, agree.

P8 on nonladder game creation is the answer. Profiteers will tell you no, but they dont care about this game, only their profits/rmt