i remember back in the day ladder resets were like 6 months. i feel felted from the shorter seasons. anyone else agree?
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honestly, they one feels like a reset of last season with NHD removed
This season is a special case (or more like all seasons up to this point have been special cases). Expect future seasons to range from 4 to 6 months, assuming they manage to stabilize their season development.
let me tell you what their goal was and what they managed to achieve.
on this one, they actually did listen to the playerbase, and decided on 4 month ladders to give the more casuals the right amount of time to meet their ladder goals, and for their to be 3 resets a year. a reasonable offer.
what they have managed to do season 1. forget the season reset is comming, run a PTR for 2 weeks, 5 month ladder season.
season 2. they actually let it play out like normal, they don’t forget about us, but they’ve introduced sunder and tz (arguably drastic changes for the game, bandaid fixes no one really asked for) and run the season for 4 months as promised.
season 3 happens, but the introduce, mosaic claw. small change how cold mastery works with cold sunder, and voila ! a 3 month season because they don’t want it to coincide with… a game a good portion of d2 players don’t care about anyway.
season 4 - this is where we are, they have now made the mosaic sin more powerful with the NHD changes they have made. why they felt the need to do this instead of aiding the barb or druid is beyond me.
so ya…
depending what happens here season 4, but we haven’t had a single ladder that was the same length yet.
but ya, let’s thank blizzard for the 4 character slots and “updates” they are giving us… ffs. they have no clue what’s going on, or how to manage this game.
you meant to say melee builds. druid got mega buffed this patch, just not melee druid.
ya you know what i meant when i lumped it in with the poor baba … i know i’m not as concise as you all the time, leaves some wiggle room 
sometimes not the best but eeeh…
i knew what you meant, but not everyone would. helps to be clear when you want something to change. the issue is melee builds being shafted, not necessarily those characters being underpowered 
s4 is s3 extended, nothing change for majority, only assasin get buff like s3.
they wont end this ladder season until October.
Game is dead within 4 weeks each ladder. No, 6 months is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long.
I agree with OP.
I suggest they should make 1 season to last 1 year. Every new year, you get new season.
resetting the ladder every 4 weeks could be good if they gave us some damn incentive to restart every 4 weeks, some extra end game content, maybe a hardcore challenge, maybe a SSF race with higher drop rates. 4 week resets with no extra content to compensate for throwing away your grail every time would just kill ladder.
How are 4 months enough to let the more casuals achieve their ladder goals?
If I want to get anything with HRs in it, 4 months is nothing when you play about 2 hours per day.
casuals shouldn’t care too much about “ladder goals” if they have any long term goals take them to offline or have different goals i guess. but 4 months is long enough imo and that’s what they chose over 3 or 6…