I am going to start off by saying I have played Diablo 2 all the way through at least 15 times and I have played Diablo 3 about just as much
I see a lot of people talk about how drop rates for Diablo 2 resurrected need to be more like Diablo 3. The game is going to be ruined if it is at all like Diablo 3.
The only drop rate that should be increased is runes. A lot of people will play this game and never get the best runes.
The whole reason why diablo 2 is loved and cherished and still played after 20 years is the fact that someone like me can play the game again and again and still find items I have never found before or rarely seen. When I played diablo 3 I found the same legendary item 6 times in 1 hour. We don’t need that
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I didn’t know they already changed the drop rates for runes. I like D2 how it is and I only mentioned the drop rate for runes because it seemed impossible after 1000 hours (not actual) to get really good runes and upgrade. A lot of really high runes I never had the opportunity to find for myself
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The rune already got buffed in 1.14 after 2 week of launch if you play 6hr / day you will at least see 1 vex + drop. I played 2 month last ladder and i saw every high rune drop from vex to zod and some 2x time and 3xLO
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Drop rates must remain unchanged, as one of the keys of how addictive this game is, is the hard it is to get good drops.
Btw, playing the game 15 times is nothing xD, i must have played it full at least 10 times for EACH LADDER.
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That’s actually really good to know. I think thats perfect and no other changes should be made
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No drops should change EXCEPT this one set of things that I think should.
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well when I say 15 times I mean like from normal to hell act 5 (with expansion) being 1 run. For a long time growing up I wasn’t allowed to play online battle.net and only played other multiplayer with my twin brother or single player. Then when I grew older I started to get into the ladders.
Still I think going from normal to hell takes quite a long time and I can’t put an exact amount of hours on my game time. I just know D2 was all I did when I was younger
The only “Drop Rate” That should be changed is the cow king. Drop him once and its the end for that char. Makes me so mad when someone kills my king.
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Drops are pretty good imo. I am somewhat open to QoL and even some small changes to broken skills, etc, but after they already buffed runes, it seemed pretty good to me. I got some decent ones my last season.
That said, the terrible decision to shorten the ladder season is where I could be open to changing things a bit. I would rather they kept ladder as is, but if it’s shorter, we need something to offset that.
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6 hours a day is not realistic for the vast majority of gamers…
1-2 hours a day, lets say 2, at your rate is 1 vex+ every 6 weeks, or 2 every ladder (assuming 3 month) are seen. Not picked up, seen. Thats ROUGH for anyone who can’t dedicate 25% of their life to the game. 6 hours a day is 25% of every day including sleep time.
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Drop rates are ok. No need to change them!
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Drop Rates are perfect right now, and Rune Drops were buffed in 1.13.
If the Dev’s F-This up it will be a instant refund, and years of bad publicity.
However, based on Blizzconline, I am optimistic that the devs know what they’re doing and they wont make a game for noobs and casuals, and instead do what they were hired to do, aka make a REMASTER.
Apart from Gold-Auto-Pickup and Console/PC Cross-Progression and hacked console items making their way to the PC economy, it appears to be on the right track.
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I agree that we don’t need the D3 system but as I like to point out to people, the difficulty of obtaining rare runes and drops, should be mitigated depending on how large our player base is. This is one of my reasons why not having cross play is a horrible choice, we are cutting the player base in chunks per console or pc. If they want to have global servers and 3 month ladders, we need a good player base.
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If you cant play more then 1 or 2 hr a day you cant be competitive in the end game that how this game has been and how it always will be. Its a old game where time spent = player power. Its like that if you dont want to play this game cause of that there are plenty of game out there that you can play 1 or 2 hr a day and be competitive in the long run.
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how its always have been? are u kidding me ? there are tons of bots and dupes that made it compatetive for almost everyone just becouse of those reasons alone.
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Drop rate have already increase since 1.11 you just dont play the game actively so you dont know…
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Drop rates for uniques is fine, maybe for bosses even too high.
But the chance that it is an crap unique is way too high.
IMHO the “Normal” / “Exceptional” / “Elite” rates should be more towards Elite in Hell.
Beeing totally equipped within a month sure takes the fun out of it, but having green Breast Plate droping over and over again is not fun either. Proper balance would be fine.
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im pretty sure iv played this far more than you. Do you really think i was talking about before 1.11? stop being a wise kid. also arent you the same guy in another post that promotes wallhack? map reveal? i mean you want it to be harder to get runes but in the same way you want it to be easier to get items. i dont get it.
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I dont think so LOL i have more then 20k hr in this game 20+ cdkeys. Truth is they buffed the R-W drop in 1.14 or 1.13 i cant remember but its 10x. And for the auto reveal feature if you played in the prime day of D2 you would know that literally anyone who played used map hack in 1.09 1.10 1.11 and still to this day btw the majority of the playerbase still use maphack… Before that it was way worst in 1.05 to 1.09 pepole were all duping. Then the rest is history with the great dupe wipe of 1.09. So as you can see the map hack issue was wayy smaller then earlyer. I was proposing an auto reveal feature for the future (Post launch) and i know it wont get in right away. Like increase drop rate wont get in. Like personal loot wont get in right away. Cause dev already stayted they are staying true to 1.14d for release with some basic QoL change (Shared chest, ect). And btw im not a wise kid… Im wise and im not a kid…
Yes! Also for instance Breath of the Dying is a lot cooler when you don’t have it yourself. This goes for a lot of things. This makes Diablo 2 beautiful. There is lots of stuff you never see, it gives the items much more value.
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