OP you have a point, so does the mega-hate party on you.
They dont understand that not having a green number is an old school thing, it’s cool, its cool to play a game with the least amt of hand holding things, like “hey, this weapon is better, something that old-rpg games want you to think about on your own, but in new-age gaming we’ll do this for you”.
However, lets be real.
What do you look for when thinking if a weapon is good or not?
Damage, since just about any ability outside of spells that don’t multiply off your weap damage, do care about weap damage. IF they dont, they care about plus skills.
So, you’d be like “does it have higher damage? Does it have plus skills?”
Then, you look at attack speed.
Then, other mods like CBF and such.
I mean youtube negates the DPS thing from mattering, its like “hey guys sup youtube here wear this with that holla” and people are like “ok i need that, and that, and that, ok im good at diablo”.
So, while it would be cool to not have the DPS number and to have everyone on their own think about breakpoints and their builds, youtube ruins that right away, and will, always, forever, always forever, so, just be like “im playing my way, and if they’d give us the option to disable this, then im happy”
So, the answer, since im right politley, let us disable it so it’s not annoying to see and/or insulting. Let everyone else who drools over it, even tho youtube negates their ‘leveling build choices’ anyway, think it’s helpful or cool.
It’s a win win.
Let us disable it, simple.
But like D3 devs were, they dont want us being like “you dont like one of our ideas? We dont want you to disable it we want to push our diablo-dev political agenda on you”.
Let us diable the political-push, that would be ideal.
It’s a win win, hurts nobody.
Yea, i mean i should add if the game isn’t like Diablo 3, which we have no reason to believe at this point, then possibly a lot more choices can go into ‘is this weapon or armor best’ or not, which would be amazing.
Obvoiusly, in D3 it was “is it a set? Does it support a set? Get out of my game if it isnt, and move over i need in that greater rift for max time” And this sort of puke.
If D4 is like properly made.
You’d have things like “this armor slows your char down” and “this poleaxe has bigger range” like Warrior below brings up.
Obviously if it were really well made, “this armor looks different on char then that, and transmog ISNT in teh game, so im going for this armor even tho it’s slightly weaker bc it looks stylish and thats valueable to be different in a mass-played arpg even if it’s only cosemetic, cosmetics matter, when u sacrifice build strength to be-cool, not when you click transmog and like have items be easy to find so no transmog is rare”
Anyway, weights, ranges, looks, i mean obviously mods in the item text, but like playstyle things too “this thowing axe is eth so it can’t run out of quantity” or w/e. Like these things affect playstyle, which affects “how fun a build is” besides just dps.
Should the “green number” account for “well this is a throw barb, which is weak ATM, so were going to give this weapon a -2 for the next patch bc it’s not enjoyable bc it’s so weak, so our buy/sell on this eth tomahawk is sell, it’s too weak till we get around to caring about buffing it” and so on.
Like do we want like Research Analyst style “i say buy” on each and every item piece? I dont think so, as who values someone else’s opinion when theirs probably is better?
That’s why this is hand holding, but for some people, googling a breakpoint isn’t as fun as youtubing the build, and that’s what they want to target bc it’s the maj or new age gamers. It’s not their fault, they’ve been born into youtube? Then game, keep youtube up while gaming too.
I mean all this DPS thing is a psuedo-youtube for leveling, and if leveling is quick and over with, it doesnt matter.
