Nobody likes to farm open world to search a portal to get to the vision. This will get old really fast… There are 2 options to make this a great addition.
- Add visions in rifts.
- Or make drops “better” add something like a guaranteed primal or perhaps ethereal or shards.
Add Altar only to season. This way non season doesn’t get wrecked and keeps season fresh and interesting. It would be a great addition this season with SSF aswell. Just to get a bit more power and qol stuff would make this season the best by far.
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Idk why they’d need to see this after all these years, they could simply use NS to get this data but perhaps the reason we have little to no power creep this time is to test how the paragon change and non-altar perform as a base and see where everyone lands for when the time comes to make it permanent, they might make some adjustments.
Players do not like having no power creep though so I don’t think they’ll be getting a lot of data from this, then again maybe it will be popular…who knows, is D4 really that bad that players will come back and play something knowingly inferior to Altar ??
As for your original statement, open world is fine. You can try getting a bounty done and baam, more bounty mats and loot. Notice they left out key things in there, like you cannot reliably get gems in these so there’s still a reason to do regular Rifts.
I had a similar thought: why would we even be out in the open world? Bounties… but then the portal rewards include bounty mats so it’s nearly a catch 22. Try to do bounties and hope for a portal so you can cut out early? I like the rewards as an alternative to bounties, though, especially for SSF. I’ll most likely be chicken bomb rainbow goblin hunting this season as it seems rather perfect for it.
I actually love this, so it’s like a double up really. The only annoying thing is it ports you back to town, so if you want to continue your bounty you either have to start over at entrance or quickly race back to the first level of the Enmity.