One has to find 21 Ethereal items in order to get the transmogs for future seasons and beyond. This is straight up BONKERS. There are a very limited group of players who even like all of the classes enough to play them and an even smaller group who has the time to grind all of the classes at max level to get all 21 items. This is NOT an honoring of Diablo 2, it is a return to the D3 vaniila release where one had to buy a collector’s edition to get special dyes to apply to one’s gear in game. I found it to be a real petty move back at D3 launch and this follows in the same vein. If one excludes the Ethereal idea the next season is mostly a repeat of season 23. More boredom and frustration. Even if the power of the Ethereal items allows every single non-viable build to magically clear GR 125 like its GR 85, the boredom will be set upon the player base with lightning speed.
It looks like Blizzard is trying to enhance demand for D2R. Here’s the problem. Making me more dissatisfied with D3 does NOT increase my desire for D2R. It isn’t making Immortal more attractive either.
My first priority right now before any season theme, buffs, nerfs, new features, season journey rewards, or set/item reworks is a fix to the lag and disconnect issues tied to FireBirds.
Before anyone tosses out suggestions and workarounds:
- no change to the sound settings has removed the issues
- reinstalling Diablo 3 has not removed the issues
- no I have not replaced the D3 sound library file and I have no intention to play with the sound removed from the game (let them fix the damn game that we paid for)
- reinstalling a clean fresh Windows 10 does not remove the issues
- no changes to the video/graphics settings remove the issues
- equipping or unequipping CoE does not remove the issues
- My internet is good and I got a speed upgrade between Feb and March of this year
- Time of day has no effect on lag and disconnects
- No I have not monkeyed around with the processor affinity settings for the game’s executable (again let them fix the damn game that we paid for)
- I have not seen any communication coming from the devs/forum mods that indicates that they have nailed down the problem and are working on a fix to it
The above list is based on my experience. The lag and disconnect issues occur on 2 systems:
- Ryzen 7 1700x system with 16GB RAM and a GTX 1060 6GB video card
- Ryzen 7 3700x system with 32GB RAM and a RTX 2060 video card
If anyone has a definitive fix for the lag/disconnect issues associated with Firebirds please post a reply to this thread.
I like many others have become bored to death and frustrated with the current season. My boredom stems from me not being able to enjoy the Firebird changes. It is not worth the effort to torture myself through rifts/GRs only to suffer the ill effects of lags and disconnects when the issue are not my equipment or internet connection. I’ve already tried playing other classes but the boredom set in almost immediately. I am not excited about playing the other classes right now considering the current sets/items/builds. There are some builds in the Wizard class that would be fun to play but they are not viable much further than T-16 rifts. Who in their right mind wants to put in 14+ days worth of hours into a build that works until around GR 94-99 and then falls apart or requires extreme GR fishing to clear a GR 110? At one point I was going to roll a barb strictly to become good at the zBarb role. However, why would I spend the time to do that when the lag and disconnects will be waiting for me in group play with organized and pub groups.
The idea of a lets get a new season going with a good theme and some rebalancing changes sounds great until one realizes that the big FireBird change after like 7+ years is no change at all if the game is damn near unplayable. If this next season goes forward with no communication and no fix to the issues listed above, then at some point future set and item revisions will be rendered mute because the game is damn near unplayable.
For the would be bored and trollish types. I have no cookies or food for you. There is plenty of other threads for which you can forage. Please do not post here if you have nothing sane, valid, on-topic, and non-trollish to contribute. If you are starving for cheap laughs please find another post. If you are just looking to increase your post count this is not the thread to leech from. Feed elsewhere.