The real gatekeeper is how many charms you find, every build needs skillers, resistances, and some need sharp grand charms and fine small charms. Everyone calling for teleport nerfs right now on these forums, but teleport is only good for farming uniques really (important, but limited).
Teleport gives you fast and immediate rewards, but your characters are all gate locked behind how many good charms you find. No charms? Your character basically sucks. Teleport doesn’t help you find charms, you can just play a zealot or fishmancer and get charms just as fast as any teleporting character, just hit the travincal, swampy pit, worldstone keep, etc… no teleporting needed. Stop asking for nerfs, just get good and learn how the game is played.
A whirlwind barbarian can immediately enter through waypoint and kill the travincal, and hork all of the corpses to farm charms faster than your enigma hammerdin can do anything even remotely similar for charm drops. Stop asking for teleport nerfs, learn how the game works, get over it dude. Teleport is fine how it is.
not every nerf is about farming. in group play teleport is so fast that you can’t even go through a zone before the sorceress pop up a town portal for the group to go to the next objective. some like skipping everything and just afk for xp and drops. but some people want to clear the monsters and have a fun time as a group instead of just playing the wait for the portal game. the mobility is just way to fast for a extremely short game like this.
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If you want to clear random mobs aka being innefective for exp gain as hell you are free to do so, create game for it baalwalk or similar.
Those of us that play this game for such a long time strive for maximum effectivity nothing else.
Its just waste of time for exp gain. Not very hard concept.
Your described way of playing D2 is for minority of people and ± 20 years too late for general public.
easily fixed by boosting xp gained. half afk group baal runs shouldn’t be the most effective method anyway. i don’t know what about that is fun to you. but i don’t think it’s any fun just effective. clearly people only do it to level up faster.
Leveling is not fun at all to me, It is means to an end nothing else.
I need certain lvl to make PvP build work so I do it as necessary evil.
Or to ease after some PvP/Mfing session just to get some benefit while not needing to pay too much attention.
This game too old to mess with core mechanic and why should they when D4 will be their flagship.
if blizzard could improve the leveling experience with a few tweaks to the game. then it would be well worth it in my opinion.