I did not think I would find myself writing this, especially so soon after launch. I really enjoyed the campaign and recently made it to tier3 but the pace has slowed down to a crawl for me now. Exp gain seems much slower now which is odd considering you get 100% increased exp in tier3. For me, the game has just become a slow grind.
I only play for about 2 hours a night, maybe 3 if I feel like staying up late. I enjoy the barb, and the build I play, which is a bleed build. I am noticing that it is getting harder and harder to find the motivation to play every night. I think the grind is starting to get to me, and more so because it all seems to feel the same. I just can’t really figure out why this grind makes me feel this way since D2 and D3 were also a grind.
The best answer I can come up with is the sense of progression. While I have never had a problem with enemy scaling in other games, in D4 it seems to work against you. At this point, leveling up seems to slow me down more than help me move faster. To be fair, I probably just need to find better loot, and maybe that will change my perspective but the grind to get there seems to be eating away at my enjoyment.
I also notice that enemy damage seems to fluctuate a lot. Some fights, I seem to steam roll enemies and in others I get curb stomped. Even when Elites are involved, both situations occur, and I can’t figure out why.
My current hope is that Season 1 will renew my will to keep playing without having to convince myself to keep going.
I do also feel as though leveling begins to crawl later on.
Tons of people fee this way and I am positive they will address it. This is a product intended to generate revenue and if no one plays then it doesn’t do that. I think they are just waiting to patch most things in the first season instead of doing now so they can sort of grab those who are drifted away already with the “but wait there’s more” tactic. I sort of get not releasing the first season as the game dropped but a month and a half was maybe too much. In the end, I think a lot of people feel like this has been a “Beta test” so to speak and Season 1 is when the game will take off. If that’s the case, just try and see it from that perspective. I know the next line is that’s trash and we shouldn’t whatever and yaddi yaddi yah but there’s not a developer around anymore that won’t toss us all under the buss to be in the black each quarter….
In the end, the game is good but it’s rough edged. This community is hella split on loving D2, hating D3 or loving D3 and didn’t really get D2. End result, D4 has to offer some of both.
They’ll get it right eventually.
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Did you play diablo 2 at all or did you only play diablo 3? Just curious
I played d2. and this is definitely quite a bit more slow paced. Especially with enemy density. Which is why this feels more like a crawl as well. "here run 10 feet, slay a small group. run another 10 feet another group, rinse repeat. Especially in dungeons. And they seem to think reducing the density is a good idea.
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Enemy density is the one thing in this game that I really noticed.
Another thing I noticed quite a bit is my gear upgrades, and I use the term upgrades loosely.
Yeah… they claim to be fixing gear drops for later levels… but… idk. we’ll see. I’d rather put up with random generated map than this crap. The whole aggro range is complete bs too. If we can gather up an entire map, and slaughter all of them, we shouldnt be allowed to do such. But nope “You go thirty feet from this mob pack. its running away!”
I didn’t play D2 at launch. I tried it back in like 2015 and didn’t get very far. Around 2019, I picked it back up after watching some streamers playing and figured out how to play without getting crushed. Now I have played a few characters through Hell. My favorite was the Summon Necro. I only have like maybe 200 - 300 hours of play time. I also played D2R when it released. I spent much more time playing D3. I started that game from release and only stopped playing it maybe a year or so ago. I have no idea how many hours of play time I have in D3, but I imagine it’s over 1500 hours.
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They will with season 1 and XP buffs and I’m going to say shop XP buffs lol.
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I really love d3 it’s one of my favourite games. I didn’t play d2 as much, but eventually I will. I don’t know if d4 will be lumped into the d2 side or d3 side yet when it comes to feedback or a category of its own
In my opinion, D2 has the best itemization of any of the Diablo games. Almost every stat that rolls on items has meaningful impact on your character’s progression that you can visually see the benefit from during gameplay. Examples would be resistances, + to skills, etc. The only things I would personally change in D2, would be replacing absolute immunities with high resistance, and maybe slightly increasing drop rates for the rarest items so it doesn’t take forever to find end game gear unless you get very lucky.
D4 items have too many invisible stats that have minor benefits that are difficult to determine if they are having any meaningful impact since they get watered down once they hit the spreadsheet and are mixed in with all the other calculations that they interact with.
I think D4 is closer to D2 in terms of difficulty, but in terms of items, it’s somewhere in the middle, but not really a good middle seeing as most legendary items are just stat adjustments, which in my opinion is kinda boring.
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