Why are you rewarding botters vs skills and loot hunting? It’s dumb, will see botters topping the charts again. Maybe have it capped at 2000? But having this open ended crap is gonna have bots running exp up to 12k levels.
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Why do you want to punish legit players in order to try to spite botters?
From what I saw, all the Cap did was chase away many, many legit players or massively reduce the time they normally play during the season. This is most likely why there is no Cap in S30.
A Cap does nothing to botters. Instead of paragon, they simply farm Visions for mats.
Cheaters gonna cheat. If you want the cheaters to go away, Blizz needs to ban them.
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Hopefully Microsoft will employ a massive amount of AI/machine learning to analyze the patterns of players and compare them with baselines of bots.
(For future games anyway, doubt it will ever happen for D3)
Lets go, Skynet.
Reason why I didn’t play almost at all was because of my TV. After I got new one I didn’t want to spend 10 hours/day just to get OLED burn-in.
This. And honestly, at this point who cares? It’s a ten year old single player game. Let people have fun.
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Add the altar and visions to NS like people expected.
Who gives a flip about bots
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Instead of playing for around 3~4 weeks like i always did on seasons, i hardly played more than 4 days i dint even bother with finishing my season journey it was really lack luster for me since i dont care about leaderboards and all i wanted was to have fun and farm some paragons.
I played on SSF.
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Paragon cap is not “punishment” in the least if anything but it. It was a reward as it allows you to climb in power so quickly to represent your character at paragon level 5k at the uncapped system. However, even thought I don’t like it, the answer of its removal is simple; cap is removed to balance the addition of Altar and pairing that with the overpowered Season theme.
I can see the Paragon cap returning with a weaker theme in terms of power creep such as, constant free RoRG effect, constant LoD effect, unrestricted equipment slots or fourth slot for Kanai’s but I believe it won’t be soon.
Expect to see Paragon cap returning with anything but something overpowered just like Ethereals, Angelic Crucibles, Soulshards, Pandemonium, Trials of the Tempest and maybe Shadow clones.
Now, let’s be real; I don’t expect Pandemonium to return so soon until they release D4 expansion pack, but until that time we have plenty of Season themes to go around. On the second thought, it could be a long while until they tweak and dim the visual effects of Tempest theme elemental unleashes. So if any of you miss those Seasons there could be a long while 'til you play those themes again.
I have a small question though, perhaps out of curiosity butI wonder if they plan a season theme with Asheara’s now that Followers of Sanctuary is part of the game now.
Similar can be said about Echoing Nightmares because their experience reward got a nerf after Seasonal and I also wonder the interaction of Shadow clones theme with the Pylons in the trial chamber of Echoing Nightmares. Normally Nightmares spawn Shadow Clones periodically as an enemy and when they die, they devastate a large area to clear a large burden of monsters with them. I wonder if that would apply to our Shadow Clones too when they finally vanish.
Dude 800 was lame! I quit way earlier than I normally would, I like the idea of never ending leveling, I’d argue the vast majority of the current playerbase did not prefer the 800 cap.
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Ya, the loot hunt is over so fast it isn’t nearly enough to keep me engaged after about 2 weeks. Visions are fun, but they are like Greed portals, they get old after a while if they are the only content to do.
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I was for the idea, but without an evolved itemization or reason to keep grinding, it’s not that viable.
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Please stop with all the “But the Botter’s” threads - It is what it is.
The Bots are pretty much gone now and this game is Fn-12 years old, enjoy the game for what it is or play POE
I’m so tired of reading all these “But the botter’s are ruining my game” threads.
Its a game ppl, ignore the cheaters and just enjoy the game.
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The paragon cap was last seasons “theme”.
And the reason why it was the lowest participation of any season …yet.
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Does it really matter?
The paragon cap was an interesting idea BUT I highly doubt it would deter bottting!
If the aim was to get a more competive leaderboard it could be achieved through the challenge mode, that was an idea I threw but now isn’t the time or thread to go deeper into that.
What was cool about that concept was the 200 point allocation concept. Like others said above, it did bring power early on. It would be interesting if there could be a way to bring that back uncapped. I wouldn’t mind if leveling after the max level of paaragon points started to give diminishing returns.
But unfortunately I doubt we will see many changes from now on.
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Agreed! It was an interesting, one time theme. Having said that, once I passed 800, and could push no higher on the leaderboards, I also ended my season early.
There are plenty of legit human players going above both paragon 800 and paragon 2000. The cap was removed because it’s horrible.
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Think of it not as botters being rewarded, but as not punishing legitimate players.
There are many players who legit earn 2-5k per season.
Hell run 90s for an hour a day and you end up with thousands of para a season.
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OP you appear to be new to the forum so just a heads up asking Blizzard a question on this forum is a waste of time. The developers do not have anything to do with the forum.
Yeah, they could call it Skynet and before you know it almost all the actual players will be banned and nothing but Bots left, because it will determine all the real players are nothing but toxic entities that harm the game. Lol.
Yeah, not going to trust AI to solve this one.
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