My feelings on that theme are from experiencing it. You kinda had to be there.
Things can always look better when someone puts together a video. It also matters when that video was made as they nerfed the effects several weeks in after many, many complaints.
Well, when the vomit is the screen flashing every minute and a half, I quickly got a headache from it. Normal gameplay does not do that to me. I leave the sound on, so I can hear for goblins. The chronic moaning when the effect was going to happen got very annoying very fast.
The actual mechanics of the Theme may have actually been fun to play with, but having to deal with all the audio/visual vomit turned me off to the Theme real quick. Even though they did heavily nerf the effects later on, I already had a bad taste in my mouth and a pounding headache, so for PTSD reasons, I didn’t come back to the season.
They are fine to repeat the Theme and probably will. It will simply be one I skip which is fine because I have other things I can do.
Everyone’s version of fun is different. It is nice we have a wide variety of Themes for people to enjoy. Some I play more, some I play less as with most players. Variety is a good thing.
Free RoRG is just a lesser version of 4th cube slot.
LON (free or not) is less than LOD. LON only applies to ancients, LOD also to normal legendaries (at least with half benefit).
And a LON season would be useless for anyone not wanting to play a LON build, most of which are inferior to set builds anyway. So this would scare away most of the few people still playing.
The only good thing about the LoN season was the ease of leveling (before the Altar). Get a few ancient legendaries and you were golden until you got the set you wanted if you wanted to keep your Gift for a secondary character, that is.
I’m thinking, that if Season 34 lasts 86 days, that we’ll find out what the next Theme is on Friday, April 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM PDT/CEST/KST. (Whether it’s a different, recycled Theme or the “loop” begins).
Free paragon allocation and a paragon cap (very short season for me)
Massacre bonus
Season of audio/visual vomit (auto skip for me)
Free LoN (doubt it)
Free RoRG (doubt it)
Triune circles (seriously doubt as it is part of the Altar)
Double bounties (seriously doubt as it is part of the Altar)
Double goblins (seriously doubt)
so 8 possible left with only 3 of them being very probable in my opinion.
We never know what Blizzard is going to do until they do it… No matter what they “say”.
But, my statement above was inaccurate. Because, if Blizzard stays on (their usual) schedule, we should know what the Season 35 Theme is by Friday, April 18, 2025 or possibly the 20th. Time unknown. (If Season 35 starts on April 25th).
Well, when they introduced the paragon cap it also had free allocation for the 800 paragon points as well as the Visions. They could just throw the cap with free paragon allocation as a theme. Probably not and hopefully not. It would definitely be a theme I would play very little.
