I played on Veteran with the Barbarian. 10-15 hours of gameplay. I only got to level 23. I played through the story and did side quests as they came up.
This is the first game I have played where leveling up felt BAD. The enemy level scaling made leveling up feel like you got weaker and not stronger. The single skill point into your skill tree did nothing compared to the increases in power that enemies got. Combat was slow and drudging. I died a great many times. D4 made Barbarian feel worse than D2 did, A feat I didn’t realize they were going for.
Yes, I realize that with the Arsenal system Barb will be powerful late game. In a game geared towards more casual players, how are they expected to make it to late game as a Barb? I foresee a repeat of D2 where nobody mains a Barb and instead plays better classes to “gear up” their poor Barb. Barb will be 3rd or 4th string pick for most players.
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You can play Barb without legys just fine and have 0 issues. There are so little possibilities to specc and if people can’t see obvious things they can’t be helped.
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This is absolutely not true. Such an elitist and gatekeeping take. I guess that is to be expected on an internet forum though.
I tested it twice without any issues and I’ve been always ahead of the descaling and kept my stats or increased them. That’s not elitist that’s just playing the game and testing options that are there.
Many skill build I WISH i could get working are plain and simply bad I’ll give you that but you can play with builds that keep you afloat of the descaling. Are they fun for everyone who wants to “Play his build and if not possible riot no matter how trashy the setup is!” most likely not.
Thern again it’s a simple truth: If you want to stay ahead and don’t be scaled down into oblivion you can do so with only yellow gear. When you pair this with meaningfull skill choices according to the current “meta” you are golden.
If you want to play a Barb who does it’s damage only with leap then the problem sits in front of the screen. This setup you might pull of with legys and even then it’s most likely bad.
D4 is the same as every other Hack and Slay in history: Play the meta or suffer by choice it’s up to you and the ammount of suffering you are willing to take.
You don’t have to be a meta slave to level up.
To the OP: When the game releases, abuse the dungeons for codex powers that you can imprint on gear. An advantage of this being an open world game is you can go anywhere and collect these and it will help mitigate bad RNG.
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Nothing but overreacting with scaling.
I know but it seems to went right over the OP’s head. I intentionaly leveld with a bad non synergistic build and it works. As soon as you have decent rares and enough aspects from the codex you rofelcopter through the game even when the first… maybe 5 levels… are a bit troubblesom and slow.