Hey, I’m terrible at everything and these are the things that grind my mudflaps.
1.) Temper system sucks. RNG sucks. Gambling sucks. If I wanted any of that mess, I’d go play PoE.
2.) Basic attacks are way too weak, all of them should cleave and do respectable damage without heavy investment. Right now, most basic attacks feel like I’m stunning myself so the enemies can hit me, while doing almost zero damage to even the weakest enemies. Especially really early in the game. It feels like being punished when you use them. The only exception to this was Bash from the previous season if you were blessed enough by the temper gods.
3.) Too much build functionality is tied to gear, and not the talent tree. This makes leveling / upgrading your gear feel like a chore every world tier change. Like your character is a puzzle that you have to keep tearing apart and rebuilding… It feels super inconsistent/RNG based. Instead of being fun, it’s like a chore.
4.) The skill trees are for babies. There aren’t enough skills to pick from or ways to modify them. Even the paragon boards just feel about as complicated as a game of tic tac toe. Like… it looks like the sky is the limit at first and then you realize that it’s actually kinda brain dead too. It just looks like a lot. It’s just a few simple choices regarding which glyphs you wanna run, and which board leggos you wanna prioritize.
5.) HOT TAKE: I don’t really enjoy having to build resists/CDR/resource regen – and nothing irritates me more than not being able to push my buttons – either from getting stunned/frozen/cc’d/oneshot or not have enough resources to push my freakin’ buttons.
All they do is prevent me from doing the thing I do enjoy – which is printing dopamine by turning demons into bologna mist. I hate it even more when it’s 100% RNG reliant to get those things.
I think you guys need to shift a ton of the functionality on gear, over to the skill tree… not all of it… but a lot of it. Things that reduce CDR/Make you fast/Fix your resource problems… Make abilities actually useful/functional.
I think my biggest beef of all though, is that this game can’t make up it’s mind about who it’s for. Like, It’s clearly not for people who like PoE, because the skill tree is for toddlers. But it clearly isn’t for casuals, cause the game makes you waste hours of your life grinding while your character sucks just to get to a point where the game could be fun… and then yeets you into an infinitely scaling trainwreck that inevitably makes any character feel like garbage.
Like… Pick one. Either aim for the sweatlords, or aim for the couch commandos. I don’t even care which… just do it well. Right now it feels like all the complexity/time sinks are in all the wrong places.
Also my final note – whoever designed the druid character models… who hurt you? I don’t think I’ve ever fantasized about playing a character that looks like they ate ShockBOOM… or like I wanted to look like Rosanne from wish… but like… Wow.
I dunno what you guys have against people that just wanna maul things as a bear but it’d be super cool if you guys would let it go.
I just want my character to feel good right out of the gate, so leveling is actually fun. Instead of hoping someone with a functional build is grinding the Helltide boss so I can level via osmosis without actually dealing with how bad my character feels till I get gear I’m going to wear long enough that it feels worth the resources to customize.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. These are just my crappy opinions, what are some of yall’s beefs?