Devs confirm personal loot ladder and classic ladder or this game is DOA

[MicroRNA-1507]

@Zax-11538

Personal loot is just easy solution for lazy people or people who dont want additional diffuculty option.

Personal loot in comparison to FFA loot makes it harder to gear up.

@Zax-11538

Everything in D2 is there to make your life miserable and hard and thats why its so great game.

If you really wanted D2 to be harder, personal loot makes it so.

@Sorsha-1578

You can have personal loot right now, play the game solo you have all the loot see PERSONAL.

Do you really want to make this argument? Even if D2R released only with personal loot (I want it to have an option for personal or FFA loot as selectable options), you can still play FFA games in D2.

@Sorsha-1578

Fine you want Personal loot , ok but the caviot is then you have to play Hardcore mode so once you die your done. Seriously its not about exposing the game to new generation you are asking the game to be spoon feed because you cant be bothered to actually put any time more then 5 mins into it.

Actually personal loot is harder. In FFA games, you can scavenge gear and this can not happen in personal loot games. In addition:

1)In a personal loot game, you only see 1/8 of all drops (e.g. in 8 player game) in comparison to a similar FFA game.

2. If playing coop with players of similar level and “clicking” ability, there is no functional difference between personal loot and FFA loot games when the party sticks together.

3. If one player is much stronger (carrying the group), in FFA game, they get extra gear because they take advantage of the multiplayer bonus. Therefore, the strong gets stronger.

@MicroRNA-1507

“Functionally”, personal loot has less drops than FFA already. The reason for my apparent contradiction in that keeping total drops the same means “functionally” less in personal result is due to player stratification.

A well-geared player or a selective player may only be interested in a small fraction of the drops. Consequently, they do not pick these drops up. In a FFA environment, B-tier items that dropped would likely be picked up by less geared party members. In a personal loot game. if the B-tier item was assigned to the well-geared/selective player, they would not pick up the item. Consequently, the total items are functionally already less in personal loot games in comparison to FFA even though total drops are constant.