At this stage, players are too used to relying on it for an extra little oomph, not to mention the additional build variety it provides.
When going back to non-season, those builds we’ve spent a few months using become gimped. That is NOT fun.
Inb4 the power-creep shouters come in with their billboards and megaphones crying doom and gloom: WHO CARES???
D3 is a ~9yo game, and there’s no such thing as REAL competition in it anyway. So who cares about power creep? It’s a video game and it’s supposed to be about fun.
Well they brought in LoD after the season of Nightmares; so it’s definitely not outside the realm of possibility to make the 4th slot perm at this season’s end. However, I personally consider the possibility of that happening to be low. We should know for sure by the time of the next ptr update, as that may be the earliest confirmation we could get (besides them directly telling us via post).
Honestly, for me, they don’t have to do much for the next patch apart from creating a new seasonal theme, and implementing the 4th cube slot permanently into the game.
It would be good to have the 4th cube slot permanent… and then they can work on rebalancing the sets, etc.
Yeah, this is what holds me back from playing this season too much more than I have. I’d be making builds that rely on that 4th cube slot to work and they’d be gimped or useless come end of season.
Indeed. But here’s thing, did the 4th slot increase it? In most cases it actually did not. All it did was add another damage modifier into builds one way or another. That’s not variety.
For example necro builds which previously couldn’t use Reilena’s Shadowhook now use it in the 4th exclusively. Only numbers changed, builds themselves not.
So how to actually add variety? Limit the 4th slot to utility powers only.
If it were to leave the fourth slot in a nutshell, then for me there may be bracers, rings and amulets, but definitely not another weapon … That would be too strong!
Having the fourth cube slot has made D3 fairly enjoyable again. I have been playing around slotting in just about anything that sounds entertaining into it just to see what crazy types of builds I can make.
I don’t care about leaderboards, or GR 150, or even min maxing.
I care about fun and this is what the fourth slot has given me.
I just wish it would become permanent in non-Seasonal (functioning exactly as it does now in Seasonal) so I could then take my time to truly enjoy playing around with the new variety on all my characters.
I don’t play NS at all, but I’d be okay with this. I love having more options. Aside from your trollish tone in your OP, I have to agree with the content.
I care. If powercreep affected all classes equally, it would not lead to further game imbalance. However, we know that the fourth cube slot benefit classes differently where necromancers in particular become disproportionally powerful.
Indeed, the 4th slot doesn’t treat everyone equally. Necros particulary benefit from it greatly. I already mentioned how basically every necro build now uses Reilena’s Shadowhook. That’s up to 4.3x flat damage multiplier, equaling 9-10 GRs. Other classes have their own damage multipliers but none comes even close to that.
Stacking damage multipliers, especially global ones like Reilena’s, is not variety. It’s just power creep. Bloated numbers.
As for that 9 cube slot nonsense…
Being able to choose a lot of things doesn’t add variety. Having a lot options but limits to what one can choose does add variety.
The only time i can see them doing this, is when D4 launches. To keep any hardcore D3 players to continue playing that game but now with the 4th cube slot active all the time.
I want that flexible forth slot. Exactly the way it is. For wizard players this equals a second weapon/offhand slot, meaning I can use Aetherwalker and still deal some decent damage. Yep, that’s all the reason I need to want it.
I personally think that the extra cube slot was an ingenious idea and huge plus for Season 22. Yes, I would love to see that 4th cube slot be permanent as it supplies so many more build variants. I love it, and it would be a huge bonus to game play and enjoyment, if this was to stay permanently.
As others have pointed out, having two weapon slots is a huge boon to necros. Two armor slots for Kanai’s may be a little more reasonable - plus, a lot of utility items are in fact armor slots. (unless you’re a wizard, then it’s slapped on weapons for no real reason )
And you fail to answer the most simple of questions: who cares?
And more specifically: WHY should anyone care?
Balance in D3 is a pipedream fostered by the illusion of non-existent competition.
It’s not an e-sport.
And the only way you could achieve true balance is have every weapon and every modifier result in the exact same effective DPS, so that every class does the exact same amount of damage no matter what gear they got on.
