My last surviving HC char is a concentrate barb and these hammerdins just come in and run right through everything basically playing the game for me while I just run behind.
I don’t know which is worse: hammerdin, sorc, or javazon. They’re just so horrible to play with. even summon necro is tolerable compared to this.
I am sick of this MF cult that has ruined the game and just blasts past everybody. I WANT to wear mostly ‘trash’ equipment and feel incredibly lucky to actually find something.
and I hate baal and boss runs. I mean wtf is the point of the game to these people?
sounds like you just don’t like this game that much then. which is fine. plenty of other games to play
the game doesn’t need nerfs. i don’t even care to think of balancing. but if blizz is gonna do it, i’d be ok with some slight melee buffs. but that’s not. no nerfs
You’re not being forced to play with others, nor can you dictate how others should be playing.
People who are so bothered by other peoples playstyles should stick to single player tbh. If other people enjoying the game in what you view as the incorrect way to play it bothers you to the point where you feel it ruins the game you shouldn’t be playing games online at all, or at the very least keep their play with friends of theirs who share their gameplay style.
Barbarians are just in a bad place. For me, they are really boring to play. Bowazons are right there with them. Just boring. Sad, because they used to be A LOT more fun to play.
WW Barb & Bowazon used to be the best, then come 1.10 that killed most attack builds.
1.10 is suppose to be a start in a new direction (Synergy), NOT the end, but the last major OG Dev left & the game development ended pretty much. We are now stucked in a WIP patch.
But purists worship it like scared religious text & anyone who suggest update to it were attacked with “go play D3 & other games” “This is just a remaster” “git gud” “Every build is viable”
Lack of AOE, min benefit from +skills, the attack rating BS. Spell hit all time withot needing investing in anything. Massive investment is need to hit even hit decently for attack skills to name a few problems
i think these are mostly losers with a massive inferiority complex they need to compensate for in-game with stupid god-like characters that destroy everything immediately. Then it becomes a race to see what does it the fastest for mf.
I think it was meant to be a hack-n-slash with meaningful character development. Not a crutch for your self-esteem.
this d2 cult is ruining the game and needs to be ignored.
Right. It’s the people you’re complaining you can’t keep up with in game that aren’t here right now complaining about other peoples playstyle that have the inferiority complex.
When i think of character balance the first thing that pops into my mind is teleport. The next thing that pops into my mind is the Li Ming quote (D3 wizard in Heroes of the Storm):
[Isendra] was a great teacher. But she always kept a secret or two to herself. I’m still not sure how she was able to teleport so quickly. And without a cooldown
huh no class balance? hammerdin/javazon/trapsin/wind druid/blizz sorc/light sorc/fb sorc/pnova nec are all fantastic at clearing, is that not enough for you? ww/frenzy/zerk barb can do nearly as well but it is a lot more item dependent especially in regards to the weapon… OP if you decide to go with non-meta build that is on you. why complain meta builds clear a lot faster than you…concen barb just sounds excruciatingly slow lmao…if you don’t want these players in your games why invite them…? either play by yourself or join up with other folks? strange complaint…
Regardless of what build you choose whether it is the strongest build for your class or not doesn’t matter. What does matter to them is that they are going after the best gear in the game. Even though it isn’t needed to beat the game in hell difficulty they want the best for their characters.
That is the point of MF’ing is to find better loot. Farming bosses are part of how you get great gear. If you don’t care about it then just let it go.
I really don’t trust Blizz to handle balancing this game due to how poorly they have balanced their game of D3. Even though we have many viable builds now in D3 they are not really balanced like a lot of players would love them to be.
Since Blizz has shown disdain for D2 in the past along with the bad assumptions that the current devs of this game have done already with all of the issues of servers. I don’t think they know the original code as well as they would need to in order to get the job done right. Nor do I believe that they understand the game well enough to attempt to balance it.
I play it online solo, I just change my settings so there is only one player in the games that I make, me.
You do realize there are those that like the current changes that D2R has made, but are leery about other changes suggested. So I wouldn’t call those purists. They are just ones that don’t trust Blizz to make the right calls as far as changing things in this game.
I don’t trust them to balance at all due to how poorly they have done D3. Even though we have a lot of decent builds. Still the game is not truly balanced.
Also if balance means homogenizing things no way that won’t work either. That would be more boring.
If casters have to invest into other stats other than strength for gear, dex for gear if they use gear with dex requirements and the rest into vit unless energy sorc is a good idea. Because a sorceress doesn’t get the same point for point boost to life from vit as a barb or other classes that have melee builds.
nah, I think it is too early to trash blizzard so hard. It’s only been a couple of months (?) and they seem to have mostly fixed the server problems. (I mean, I don’t have to queue anymore and I stopped dropping constantly. also seeing more games in my lobby.)
I’ll definatily wait until I see the balance changes before I turn sour.
Sounds like you are bad at the game, I can run through the game with a mid geared Barb or Melee Paladin just fine. Its more rewarding than using a cookie cutter caster.
Not every build, not every skill, needs to mow down the game.
Oh yea… before this, I wanted to play wizard… but it’s worthless to play any ranged class when there is zero way to keep mobs at range… but this wizard spec/ set is amazing. Channel destrobeam constantly and teleport has zero cooldown. And you do crazy melee range damage and have amazing def. No real reason to play any other spec for GRs.
Oh and for people who like to complain that everyone in D2 is using the same gear… head over to D3 and see EVERYONE using EXACTLY the same gear… season after season after season… all within the first couple of days.
U sure? Cause u only use firebird on wizz and only god on dh and those havnt been there season after season. Enigma in d2 are used in pretty much every class and build in d2. Both games have meta builds wouldnt say d2 has more gear variety.
