Not everyone can program. Your brain is either wired for it, or it isn’t. It’s like some people can play a musical instrument or paint and others can’t. Some may learn it to some degree, but will never be really great at it or fully proficient, and others will never learn it no matter what. It’s just the way the human brain works.
I retrained (from IT) 3 years ago into a different employment field, but sadly, this employment field (unknown to me at the time of retraining) is endemic for being under employed, and also casually employed (no sick or annual leave). At my age, and my health, there are times when I am simply unable to work, and that means lost income. I am currently working 30 hours per fortnight (when most people work 40 hours per week). It is incredibly frustrating. It is exceptionally rare to get full time hours in my new industry, and full time is even rarer. Do I retrain yet again, into another work field? I don’t have 5k spare cash floating around to retrain with another course. Very frustrating.
But, either way, I simply do not have the spare income to afford a new XBOX unit (even if you can get them!). My current role requires comprehensive car insurance (not cheap), road side assistance (not cheap), first aid certificate, CPR, renewing specific licences (2 of them) every 2 years and a LOT of KMs, of which I get little back from the employer. If I was a business, I’d be claiming huge tax reductions, but employees in Australia get screwed at every opportunity by the tax man. Businesses earn the biggest bucks and pay the smallest amounts of taxes, whilst the ordinary man is supporting the nation financially. It sucks. Sadly, most Australians are too stupid to vote out our crappy government and main political parties and support parties that want to balance things properly and support the little man and not screw us over.
Anyway, that is the end of my diatribe.
I’m not sure what “incorrect information” I have posted. A player with p3500 vs a player with p2100 gives an extra 1400 paragon. That’s 7k main stat. 13 rank 125 augments is 8125 main stat. So, the group player has nearly as much main stat as I do just due to the paragon advantage alone. When they have 13 augments, they have 7k more mainstat than me. That’s a near 30% DPS buff. Not to mention the toughness buff, which is even more important when pushing at high GRs. I’m not even taking into account the high ranked lgems - rank 150 vs rank 135 is a 5% DPS buff. Pretty hard to compete. It’s like comparing a heavy weight boxer vs a bantam weight boxer. Or, do you dispute the group advantage? I’m absolutely positive if he had the same paragon as me, I’d be beating him. Paragon shouldn’t be creating an unbalanced playing field. Competition should be level and down to player skill and experience. It’s hard though when the serious LB pushers are all group players. They don’t want to lose that advantage that group play gives them, and they have very loud voices, championed by streamers like Wudijo who don’t give a crap about solo players. If Blizzard listened to the majority of players, not just the vocal 5% heavy group players, things would be balanced VERY differently. However, Blizzard is inept and incompetent. I rest my case.
Blizzard hasn’t learned its lesson and/or doesn’t care - One only has to look at their attitude with D4. It’s One reason why I will NOT be purchasing D4 and financially supporting Blizzard. As a consumer, I am under no obligation to support a company that screws me over and doesn’t listen. And, I’m not even touching on how Blizzard has so poorly handled (I’m being ultra polite here, my real thoughts and commentary would get my post removed lol) console issues.
Let’s consider, as an example, reduced FOV on consoles (vs PC). We have situations like this tusked bogan charging me from off screen - on the PC version of the game I’d see it and see its windup animation and be able to anticipate it and dodge it. Not on console.
I’ve been saying it for several years, no comment from Blizzard. No fix. NG? MANY players have complained about it and wanted fixes, nothing from Blizzard. Not even a peep. Massacre bonuses? behindtimes has demonstrated this problem in several videos on his channel (nytegard), and nothing has been done. We go from level 8 to level 9, PC goes from level 8 to level 14. And this advantage continues. Coupled with NG (half damage) and monster health pre torment 1/lvl 70 being double that of the PC version of the game on consoles (meaning it is effectively 4x harder for us to kill mobs vs PC) and we get shafted with crappy XP rewards vs PC who has it MUCH easier. There’s a reason why players can get to lvl 70 on PC in like 35 minutes solo. It’s kind of hard to get NG when mobs have double health vs PC and we are hobbled with half damage. It’s also harder to get kill streaks (and thus massacre bonus). It’s why I unequivocally say that console players are BETTER than their PC player counterparts. And we have to waste time with collecting NG orbs, whilst PC players can safely ignore them.
Blizzard’s lack of response to us here in these particular console sub-forums is a joke.
It’s pretty obvious that Blizzard doesn’t give a crap about us.
