Just a short note for the dev’s. Been playing Diablo from the start,1-2-3 and 4. I will not waste time playing a game to farm mats just so I can summon a boss that might one day drop loot I need. That it not a fun experience or exciting gameplay.
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Okay I guess. You dont need to and uncomon uniques are not BIS they are fomo items.
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I can tell you I’ve never farmed them exclusively and I do just fine in the game. I don’t have time to waste on searching for a winning lottery ticket. I enjoy what I can out of the game and go from there. More power to people that enjoy farming those bosses, it’s just not for me personally.
When I get bored I go to another game and wait for the next season to come out. You don’t have to do every single piece of content in every single game you play, nor should you ever feel obligated to.
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ok then dont play and play something else?
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Your words make me feel like I already wasted my money for Diablo… 
You dont have to though.
I personally only do duriel to get the regular unique, i dont seek the uber uniques because they are not required to do anything.
I only do the duriel with the mats i happen to find while playing as a play usually that’s all.
Uber are in no way mandatory
Agreed, this is in my opinion one of the very few things they have left to fix.
You guys don’t get it. It’s not just about the Ubers or having BIS gear.
It’s the mere fact that you have to spend hours mindlessly farming nonsense that is purposefully stalling you so you can fight a boss for a few minutes.
The Uber chase would be so much better if the main activity was the actual bossfights or even dungeons that even remotely tied the grind to the bosses.
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That’s right! Agree with you 100%…
If D4 still sticks to the ladder boss mechanism, it will be another boring season again…
We don’t really have a real continuous fighting game to get good items but we just waste boring time looking for summoning materials and then come back with empty handed (no Ubers drop or useless items)…
Not sure how it will work in S4. But problem with current Duriel loop is:
When you farm materials you can´t drop anything else
Activities for materials has to drop 925 gear also. Than we won´t have that feel our farming is worthless except tickets.
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It’s not a MUST thing to do… not sure why you believe that. Just have fun…kill stuff…make some in-game friends…hang out…join a clan.
Alright then.
I wish you the best in all you future gaming endeavors.
Good news!
Unless they adjust the unique stats you probably won’t want to use any of them.
it does feel bad, it feels so bad alot of players refuse to even engage in the system.
The reason why players farm Uber Unique is either compete in Gauntlet which cater for small community or to make the attack hit highest numbers in the Dummy room. The Dummy room is the ultimate end game content for D4 now 
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We each play for our own reasons. If you aren’t enjoying the game and feel like you wasted your money, chalk it up to a bad investment. I’ve made plenty of worse financial decisions than a 70 dollar game. It sucks of course, but hopefully we learn from it.
Farming bosses for cool loot is a lot of fun for many players and is a core part of ARPG’s.
People want to farm bosses in such a way that it is NOT a hamster wheel activity designed to waste time, where you have to farm materials for 100 times longer than each boss fights lasts.
Remove the materials requirement, buff the bosses, nerf the uber drop rate and build thematic and engaging dungeons for each boss.
Im not opposed to that but they would need to significantly reduce the drop rates. As of right now the reason drop rates are so high is because of summoning mats.
It still doesnt change the fact boss ladder is opional and uncommon uniques are fomo.
It would be great if they were removed. I would settle if the requirements were reduced significantly.
Zir & Beast 3 items vs the 9 currently.
Varshan & Greigor 1 item vs 4 or 5 respectively.
farming bosses ,yeah
farming items to summon bosses? nah
for example : tree should give u 1 summon on every box , not another pair of hands…yeah u can convert but why we need to do that?
is gets boring after a while having to farm to try again.
That is my take.
That is besides the point. Many players just want to farm the bosses for Ubers because it is fun, no fomo. Just because it’s fun.
The way it is designed now is antifun. Purposefully stalling players with mat farming to boost play time numbers because boss fights aren’t engaging and all bosses can just be oneshot is not fun.