For those that don’t know, vendors at the start of ladder offer a great means of some really good items that will keep you alive at low cost. Obviously this is more important in hardcore but it still is useful at the beginning of ladder. There are also some items that are only efficient to get via shopping. Some of these are godly and worth a huge amount at any point in the season.
The D2:R team changed the way gambling works so you can refresh, can we please see a similar change for vendors so we don’t have to run out of town each time or go through a portal to refresh them? This really doesn’t seem controversial and would be a huge time saver.
All you need to do to make it work is just to prevent the refresh when someone else is in town with you(the current status quo).
This would be a huge QOL change for people trying to shop very rare items and make the whole experience far more bareable.
I’d be happy to list some of the items you could shop at the start of ladder if people have questions/wonder why you’d do this.
Yes to vendor refresh. If refresh spamming is a concern, put a 5 second cooldown on it.
Anything but repeatedly going to a waypoint over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over… Just to finally get that 2 socket +3 fireball staff for LEAF!
I don’t keep asking for changes that make things easier. This is legit the only one, and to suggest this is going to be ‘more easy to progress’ is pretty exaggerated. You’re still going to shop the vendor over 100 times to get what you want. It just cuts out the clunkiness of running out of town. I’m not a genius because i use a cow portal in a1 or an uber portal in a5. Its not like that takes a huge amount of skill to do or something. Or are you going to tell me that refreshing the vendor for gambling also made the game so much easier?
Also - game is already easy, it can be cleared naked…
yet you call for it to be made easier
if it’s so easy why don’t you skip the leaf
why don’t I skip the tele staff, the 20fcr wand, or a scepter with 1 charge to have on switch?
having these items makes it easier to progress I’m asking for a counter buff to monsters
I’m sorry, is shopping the vendors the game? Is there a specific boss i need to beat to get the items i want or something?
Removing the clunk from the shopping process to make it consistent with gambling doesn’t gaurantee i get it any item that supposedly makes the game easier. Otherwise i’ll look forward to your thread telling blizz to undo the gambling refresh since you seem to think removing inconvenience and clunk is removing difficult gameplay. The game doesn’t become easier. It just wastes less of your time.
oh you don’t see how being able to shop certain Items at certain stages gives you an advantage in gameplay?
I’m sorry I can’t help you there.
I’m not against your refresh shopping
I just want monsters stronger to counter these changes that make game easier to progress in
You are able to shop the items regardless of whether the change is made or not with enough dedication. And of all the things to complain about the game being easier, you pick vendoring?
I’m sorry you find the game difficult and i again look forward to your thread asking them to reverse the gambling refresh button.
I basically never use vendors except for a Teleport Staff.
I think vendors not having a refresh button is done on purpose; you’re supposed to check for new inventories everyonce in a while, in-between bouts of monster-slaying, and look forward to the shifting selection of goods… instead of monotonously pressing a button until you get what you want.
This is an argument for making vendors easier to use, not less. You only shop for one item? There are so many good ones. You don’t have to spam endlessly to get something useful at the beginning of ladder. You also spam that button endlessly to find what you want to gamble.
true but made the choice between time investment/return harder and I’m more likely to pick subpar rolls.
it’s easy for me I don’t need to hack a way to find good shopped items like you
I complain about all changes that make game easier to progress in I want to see lot’s of deaths in Hardcore
I’m calling for stronger monsters why would I find it hard
rune stacking, gem stacking are QoL changes that don’t make game easier
shopping refresh although not very significant does it
But you don’t have infinite gold for gambling, especially at the start of a ladder.
Vendor = Refresh until you get the item you want, then purchase it, guaranteeing an upgrade.
Gamble = Refresh until you see what might be an upgrade, then pay to find out, usually wasting your gold, then quitting once you are out.
I don’t think the devs want people to mindlessly spam vendors, they want the player to check the shop everyonce in a while in-between the monster grind.