There is no other game, that can cause me this feeling… OMG! I hate and love Diablo 3!
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Looking at your profile it appears to me that you probably don’t play with other’s.
I’ll bet you’ve never been a member of a decent clan either.
The game is meant for people playing together.
Join a clan and ask questions.
People will want to help you.
You’ll be running group gr 100’s before you know it.
Good luck!
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I would try Soft Core until you get better. Running Hard Core for a beginner can diminish the enjoyment of the game. After you get some experience though, HC can be lots of fun, or at least a change of pace.
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Most beneficial paragon and gear wise, sure. But not really.
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The game is meant to play however you prefer. I personally largely prefer singleplayer and the moments where I force myself to play multiplayer (like when I’m doing bounties) that actually detracts from my enjoyment.
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Yeah, I don’t have time to grind for high paragon, or fish for best GR runs every season. Its funny though.
This season is my highest Paragon earned during a season, but at 1/3 the time of the previous high record I had achieved.
Farming is at an all time high efficiency right now, with the follower changes when playing solo. I’m currently trying to beat my all time highest amount of rifts ran in a season and bounties done in a season. Along with gold collected, and a number of other things. Already surpassed bloodshard collecting. lol Less rifts and bounties, but at max torment and higher GRs… Doesn’t take much. Clearing T16 in 4-5 minutes (including item gathering), and speed running GRs at the highest level I can do in 3-5 minutes. Currently that’s between 85-90.
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Diablo 3 is, to me, one of the only games that i can actually complete in a reasonable time frame. it takes about 200 hours of focused gaming to get a LoN build completed for one character. literally no other game has it done this fast.
and yet, when i want the same for D2R, i get shouted down to oblivion. when i want the same for diablo 4, same thing.
fools. they should know better, especially since many of them would be adults now, and have limited time. but nope, people want 20 more years of grinding.
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Feel the same love hate too. I basically only play this because a couple of my mates play for the first month or so during a season.
I play for the same reason I played D2.
- I need an outlet for anger/stress and I find killing hordes of demons is cathartic.
- I LIKE that Diablo games let me sort of run on auto pilot while my brain sorts things in the background. Kind of like running used to do before I destroyed too many body parts to do it.
- The tiny brain juice injections when a good item drops are a nice perc. For this reason loot rates matter. Too much loot and I get bored. Too little loot and I get frustrated.
- Diablo games don’t require me to play with anyone. I can just solo mow down demons on my own - MY way. No need to follow the “meta” and keep up with a group.
- No need to log in every day like an MMO where time passes you by and you get behind.
- Nostalgia. I did play with a very few friends back in D2, sometimes. Most of them I met on a Diablo related forum. Those friends are lifelong friends now - and from there, I met a large circle of people who have become my best friends - 20 years later they are still my best friends. This includes the WoW guild we went on to make too. Not that many of us still play, but we keep in touch. So odd to think people who’s weddings I sent congrats on have kids going into College/Uni now.
TLDR - I find those things fun.
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ohh snap - here we go~
i like to blow things up and have a personal liking to trying out the top builds. For gons, i usually end up at around 1200 - 1800, playing here and there, mostly messing around. Come mid-season I like to play with variants of the builds to see if I can find something new or unexplored. They don’t get me top results, but I do have fun playing with them.
I’d say my time played is split between solo/group. I enjoy the social aspect of sharing gear and just chatting it up with friends. I’m looking forward to S24 because I’ve had some good luck with gear the past few seasons and hope that my luck carries on with Ethereals. It’s been a while since I played Monk, and i’m looking forward to mixing it up a bit.
Lastly, I think Kadala loves me and I appreciate her ability to give me awesome rolls.
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Kadala, IT’S A TRAP!!!
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For me it is more like that I want to play Diablo 3, but there is not much to look forward to.
I want to play it to make new builds, theorycraft, experiment with unusual skills, passives and items, and then gearing them up, …
…but the way Diablo 3 is designed, especially with its itemization completely breaks this.
The builds are basically predetermined by sets and legendaries that only buff a predetermined set of skills, so there is basically no to little theorycrafting and sadly 98% of D3’s predetermined endgame builds are not satisfying for me personally to play.
So what I resort to a lot oof the time is create new level 1 characters and level them to 70, because that is when I have the most freedom to play the builds that I actually want to.
I could play with them further after reaching level 70, but for what? Most of the predetermined endgame builds use sets of skills and have a playstyle that I don’t prefer and most non-meta items are often unintersting and/or useless…
I just don’t feel ownership over my characters/builds and low level content is not too difficult and engaging (because increasing the difficulty just turns enemies into bullet-sponges).
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Diablo 3 does however still have very, very satisfying combat + the fact that I will always remember D3 as the game it could have been. That goes so far that I am still totally geeked out about it and I still make a ton of mock-ups / concept art of how things could have been, including an itemization that would have allowed for more player customization.
You should try DOOM Eternal on lower difficulties.
Instead of hunting for loot you gain glory kills and the satisfaction of blowing things up the way you like it.
Assuming you like shooters… but no one is gonna care if you don’t play on the harder difficulties since it also is a single player game.
I’m not sure how many people remember it, but in the very earliest iterations of D3 made available to the public, D3 was pursuing a skill rune system where you could find runes as item drops to socket directly into your skills. The system was kind of like what PoE 2.0 is doing, but I don’t think it is as expansive.
Nevertheless, I would have liked to play that original iteration. I remember thinking how much promise it had at the time since the skill runes weren’t really skill specific, they were things like +1 projectiles, multistrike, increased damage etc… that could have provided a ton of build diversity. They even iterated far enough to have rune progression for NM, Hell, and Inferno skill runes.
I’ll also remember D3 mostly for the promise it had, but also for how let down I felt by its many oversimplified systems. The combat is still excellent though and I still play it from time to time for that even today.
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Uh, what is going on? slaps monitor… rubs eyes… A Blizzard CM joining in the conversation? 
Thanks for sharing, @FilthieRich!
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Can you please pass some of that luck off to others! like me!! I need all I can get, D3 hates me! 
Reason 1:Cuz we still have to wait for Diablo 4…
Reason 2: D2R is too expensive. I think $20 is OK.
Reason 3:…And Not have a phone…lol
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Not true at all. It can be enjoyed by people playing together, but it is a SP game with MP options. Frankly I find ARPGs to be not enjoyable playing with others. Even with my wife. We have different styles of play, take different routes, and have different philosophies about playing. We do short stint things like puzzle rings, cow levels, and the occasional PL. But I have never enjoyed playing Diablo games with others.
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I remember a friend letting my play DOOM on his PC…I was so bad learning controls he had to set me to God mode.
Years later I tried Quake3 Arena at the suggestion of a friend. I get horribly motion sick in first person shooter games. I can’t even watch people play IRL, stream, etc.
It is why I picked up Diablo 2 when the Quake3 friend suggested it. The hope was it would not make me motion sick - and it did not! Then I got VERY into D2…and 20+ years later am still here. WoW is also good in that it does not make me motion sick with the camera zoomed out.
As long as Blizz keeps making camera views I can handle, I will likely keep playing. Not much feels better in game than going bowling for demons using an ice orb. Although some of the D3 spells are a LOT of fun to use for mass mob destruction!
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Unpossible. Now we KNOW you’re an AI chatbot 
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“Not true at all … for you!”