Mrllamas take on "Pls put PLOOT"

Diablo II: Resurrected General Discussion
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My thoughts:

  1. It is fine that MrLlamaSC does not care for personal loot.

  2. His comments on the issues on differential ping are interesting. He acknowledges that ping is a factor in getting FFA loot; however, he claims it works out in the end because his ping is sometimes more and sometimes less than others. The reality is that with everything being equal, those further away from the data center that hosts the game will always have more ping. Therefore, the FFA loot system has inherent inequity.

  3. He discusses Baal runs where he indicates that players tend to stay away from Baal until Baal is near death to get loot. Therefore, my conclusion is that this is an acknowledgment that FFA loot lead to immersion breaking.

  4. He states that he is worried about implementation of an optional personal loot system and the fact that in the same game you might have two loot systems. Rod has already stated that if an alternate loot system was implemented it would be option, be at gam creation, ad require opt in. As such, I think his trepidation is misplaced.

  5. He also acknowledges the inherent inequities caused by FFA games of melee versus ranged character where the solution is use enigma (I know that they’re other options such as teleport weapons). As we all know the enigma is a level 65 runeword.

  6. He also is worried about an affect on the trade economy. Since total drops are constant between FFA and personal loot mutliplayer games, this fear seems misplaced.

  7. Unless I missed it, he never mentioned FFA loot and D2 cheaters (bot/pickit/macro/auto-clickers). These cheats benefit from FFA loot.

  8. Personal loot would be optional if ever introduced and require opt in. Therefore, for his enjoyment of D2R, he could just pick FFA games.

EDIT: MrLlamaSc in his youtube comment section wrote: "So now the question becomes…does this monster all of the sudden drop 8 items? " He literally thinks that personal loot means up to 8x drops. Holy :cow2: . He does not even understand what personal loot means or that PoE exists where total drops are constant even though players can choose FFA loot, timed loot, or instanced loot.

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