The idea was to fool-proof some things to eliminate the possibility of a “hopeless character” (with regard to top-level competition), of course this has merit…Though for players like me, who regularly play “low tier” for the added variety/challenge, this sort of game imbalance was never a “deal-breaker” (never mind that imbalance can be resolved, with proper time & attention).
If you wanna criticize something you should probably do something other and more than sound like one of the things you guys consider an example of its flaws.
“TWO GOOD! THREE BAD!!!” - T̶h̶e̶ ̶B̶u̶t̶c̶h̶e̶r Andrizzle
This is so sad. You have no idea whatsoever about game options, let alone game mechanics. Your ignorance is impairing your judgement. Either you are trolling or mentally stuck in medieval times.
Pretty much everyone that quit the game already. You know, those 30 million people that bought the copy and quit the game shortly after.
2012, notice how when you sign in theres only 5 people in general chat? I dare you to find someone playing on HC mode. Because bounty groups are literally impossible to form because no one is playing even on a bran new season.
How people are still defending D3 is beyond me. It’s as if they never played D3 vanilla and joined when reaper of souls came out.
And another one, no clue at all.
No one uses general chat anymore, especially since communities were introduced, which have thousands of ppl online at any given time.
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Your comments defending your pretty flashing superheroes of D3 is sadder.
All you say is bash other peoples opinions without argumentation or feedback 
sorry you fail dude.
Lmao this is your best argument? this is the biggest BS anyone in this forum has ever said, how old are you? 12?
I wonder why Grim Dawn, Torchlight and even PoE have better combat mechanics and have overall better reviews than d3.
Thats right because you have at least over 8 spells that you can freely use and switch whenever we want.
We can even keep auras active in PoE and switch to other spells while auras DONT GET DEACTIVATED.
Grim Dawn has longer cooldowns but at least you got 2 full slot bars of 20 to fill spells/potions and 2 additional for left and right click.
C-U-S-T-O-M-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N
F-R-E-E-D-O-M
Thats what D3 lacks.
That Skill auto-lock is for 6 slots the biggest mistake D3 team ever did.
You should ask blizzard to play the game for you next time if doing repetitive 0 IQ play is too hard for you.
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First off I guarantee that going as low as 5 is either an exaggeration or some singular, 3am, mid-offseason snapshot.
Second, if I’m not mistaken there’s much more than one “General” chat in D3 anyway, and they’re each limited to 99 players. To both talk to significant numbers of people and to get a better look at what those numbers are, you need to join Communities.
Third, as suggested above, reality is that there are plenty of players. In fact, the playerbase is growing again thanks to the resuming of development, along with new interest due to D4.
Finally, your line about people never playing vanilla and joining post-RoS is in many cases your own answer. And in many other cases, people are just willing to forgive the past in recognition of that present and the potential future.
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Oh…
You have just proven my point, and really sad ( or funny providing you are not mentally challenged, because then it would have been inappropriate) thing is that you don’t understand it yet.
Where in my post did you find me defending d3 ?
I was just pointing out your ignorance clear and simple for people who understand written word, clearly not you, sorry.
Elective mode option have been mention to you numerous times on this forum yet you just can’t seem to grasp it.
Clearly english isn’t your first language and is the reason behind your lack of comprehension, but it isn’t mine either yet i can understand what’s been said so no sympathy for that.
It’s obvious from your posts that this game is too hard for you to understand and play, and this, this is really funny given your comment about 0IQ required.
i for sure dont want D2, already played that for about 15 years.
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Nope nope nope. D2 is great. But D4 needs to be its own thing, and learn from all of the A-RPG genre, and probably outside of it too.
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You clearly havent, but what is worse you are directly flaming me saying i have no idea about mechanics you seriously deserve a silence or some moderator action for doing that.
Lmao no its you people dont grasp it im well aware of elective mode.
All that elective does is simple let you use out of all your pool of all “category” skills to FIX place them in your skill bar as you want, but thats only a TOTAL of ONLY 6 different slots.
You cannot swap to another hotkey WHILE FIGHTING its FIX MAXIMUM of 6 Spells and nothing more, you CANNOT use for example 8 spells.
If you would read you would then notice that i am complaining that you CANNOT switch your skills DURING A FIGHT THOSE CHOSEN 6 SPELLS ARE LOCKED, you have a limitation to use your spells you are forced to either reduce your cooldowns of your 6 selected spells through items or paragon levels since those skills ARE LOCKED UNTIL YOU FINISH a fight against monsters and thats totally BS it restricts the player to adapt on given situations while fighting monsters.
You should be able to use all your spells from ALL your categorys at ANY given time.
No it seems i totally grasp it and people like you dont.
Take care not to drink too much alcohol it kills brain cells you know.
*I want d2.
There I fixed your mistype at the end there. You do not speak for anyone but yourself. Others may agree with you, but many do not. I want d4 NOT d2 just for reference. These d2 is the best posts are truly getting old.
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Can confirm that clans/communities are active and growing this season. The people claiming this game is dead haven’t a clue. I have no trouble finding and filling groups daily.
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i like the fluidity sometimes, but not all the time. I think combat should vari more…
I think D2 is great, but Diablo 4 still ought to be its own thing. For the people who want to just play Diablo 2 with newer graphics, they should just remaster the game.
I know it’s the thing to do for D2 fans to hate on everything that D3 is, but that game is not without some merits and D2 is not without flaws. There are also other games in the genre to learn from like PoE.
It’s not bad to look at other games to see what they did well. On the contrary: That’s how you design better games.
You just have to also understand why a mechanic might or might not work, rather than use the mindset of “This game was good so let’s just reuse a bunch of mechanics from it and our game will be good too, right?”.
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The problem mate is that a D2 remaster would most likely be pretty hard or quite unlikely.
Its been stated from Brevik that the coding files at Blizzard of D2 were lost before Blizzard North left Blizzard so they would need to start from zero if they ever plan a remaster.
Leaks are not certain, but its said that instead of giving a D2 remaster Blizzard will release D4 with D2 elements on it.
i’m not love D2
i love D3
Having some D2 elements in D4 is not bad, but there are plenty of people here that give the impression they wont be happy unless D4 is a near clone of D2 with modern graphics.
Which as much as I like D2, doing that is stupid when we already have D2.
I totally get it, the issue is that the diablo fanbase really love D1 and D2 those games were the big deal when they released.
D3 on the other hand could meet the expectations that the diablo playerbase desired after so many years.
We saw Blizzard release so much content for WoW add ons, even release new projects like Overwatch but when it came to Diablo it felt like Blizzard didnt really care about the old community.
Its been 20 years since D2 and since Blizzard is not able to release a proper sequel to the series the people just want back what they really enjoyed.
I bet the old playerbase would still enjoy D4 if the game delivered properly, and since Blizzard has no more the original developers of the series everyone is skeptical if its possible to get a proper new sequel.
Thats why everyone wants D2 pretty much remastered in D4.
There is ton of stuff that was shown at blizzcon and Blizzard promised to listen to feedback and update the game which is a good sign.
However people rage when they see that very much of the demo looks like D3 with a darker tone, so yeah it feels like Blizzard preffers to do the games their own way.
David Kim said that they are gonna bring elective mode back, and thats one of the reasons why i am arguing in this topic why it is a bad decision.
It feels like they want to implement too much of D3 into D4.
I get why people want D4 to just be a remastered D2, but that doesn’t really make it any less stupid to do when we already have Diablo 2.
It should take notes from Diablo 2. It should probably take more notes from Diablo 2 than it does Diablo 3.
but it shouldn’t just be a complete rehash of Diablo 2. Diablo 2 had its share of flaws and things that didn’t work very well, and Diablo 3 is not a game without any merit to it no matter how much people want to hate on it.
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