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[MicroRNA-1507]

@Drium-1319

Micro also keeps pushing for toggles at game creation instead of character creation, without any acknowledgement that this would create severe balance issues and make the toggles mandatory for efficient and correct play.

Your perception is not correct, relative to my actual position.

For clarity, I think there are QoL changes that can be handled by toggles but my opinion is that it would be best to have separate game modes: status quo and modern. In this thread, I even provided a quote earlier in this thread from February 28 to show the longterm consistency in my desire for either separation at game or character creation.

Here are a few examples:
Feb. 28

@MicroRNA-1507

There is no reason not to introduce a separate mode where there is personal loot (either selected at game creation or character creation based on what Blizzard decides). The original global loot mode remains. Old school D2 players get the game they want. Other players can choose to have a different experience.

March 15

@MicroRNA-1507

If they keep FFA only loot and introduce an option for personal loot, the game is both preserved with FFA-only and has a selectable option for non-FFA that can be segregated at game or character creation.

April 21

@MicroRNA-1507

Also, I am not advocating for the removal of FFA loot. I am advocating for a second option either at game or character creation. If it is at character creation, it would be an option just like choosing ladded/non-ladder or hardcore/softcore.

May 3

@MicroRNA-1507

The first survey asked if players were interested at D2R launch in balance changes to items/skills and personal loot instead of FFA loot. Personally, I do not want FFA loot removed. I want the option to select at game creation or character creation personal or FFA loot.

@Drium-1319

Micro also keeps pushing charm inventories as if it were an agreed upon statement that those of us asking for charm inventories are actually asking for half-inventories, effectively a nerf in charm-carrying capacity.

Your perception is incorrect, relative to my position.

If you look at when I have discussed charm inventories, it is almost universally in response to another poster claiming that charm inventories make the game easier. I have been clear that in terms of easy/hard, it depends on how the charm inventory is implemented. I use as an example a half-charm inventory to illustrate that this would in fact make the game harder not easier.

Again, I can provide multiple quotes to demonstrate this but for brevity’s sake I will give just one example.

@MicroRNA-1507

@Spekkio-1591

How can a charm inventory be an option? Optional cheats to make the game easier for people?

It depends on how a charm inventory is implemented. Many people fill their inventory to the brim with charms, increasing their character’s power. If the charm inventory was only half the size of the current inventory and charms only “worked” in that inventory, the game would actually be harder not easier.

@Drium-1319

Micro likes to talk about “personal loot” as if it were a system of automatic loot distribution, which is not how 99% of those of us talking about personal loot actually mean it.

I have no idea what this even means. Personal loot is not automatic loot distribution and I have never said anything along those lines.

Please search loot automatic and my username. You will see that I never said that personal loot was “automatic” loot distribution.

If you want to see the common loot nomenclature, I made this thread as a simple primer.

Simplified Primer on Loot Nomenclature - Diablo II: Resurrected / General Discussion - Diablo 3 Forums (blizzard.com)