Hi there. Took a week off from work to play. Have a 78 druid, 63 rogue, and a 20-something necro. Played a bit in both beta weekends, and have sunk plenty of hours into D2, D2:R, D3, and POE. Here are some thoughts. Fun game, overall. Solid foundation. Hopefully will be improved upon in the years to come. Right now, however, the game - very sadly! - doesn’t grab my attention like any other ARPG I have played. Few thoughts off the top of my head…
- Gorgeous environment. Pretty to look at but who cares when I in 80% of my game play run the same 15 repetitive dungeons… not taking advantage of well enough… yet…
- Hell - why aren’t there zones where we fight more in Hell?
- Duriel fight in the story - dude popped out of nowhere - went down, last we heard of him.!!! terrible…
- EXP - mobs at 10-15 levels higher should grant more exp than mobs at 5 levels higher
- Nightmare dungeons - worse concept than Greater Rifts in D3 because of the lack of layout, tile, and mob randomization; gets very, very repetitive… miss the mark here completely
- Dungeons in general - not enough mob density; why do they all feel the same? also, too much backtracking. Why do the waves of mobs that spawn usually after the first locked door not drop loot
- Open world - make mobs in the open world drop meaningful loot; too much of the MMO concept of “clear X to open Y treasure chest with loot”
- Unique drops - have seen maybe 15 or so uniques, to include 7 or 8 Vasily’s… made a druid to do a tornado build and still haven’t seen a tempest roar… and almost level 80
- Orbs - why can’t they drop uniques?
- Combat - kind of reminds me of a “Wolcen 2.0”… the whole game, actually, minus the open world thing
- Party Play - really? couldn’t give us a way to easily group up in game?
- Itemization - another fail in my opinion - chasing gear in this game just isn’t as exciting as other ARPGs
- Field of view - zoom out just a bit… please…
- Mob Scaling - I get it, makes every fight meaningful… but not when mobs don’t drop loot like other ARPGs… and after every level I don’t really FEEL that much stronger because the same mobs in the same dungeon are always near my level…