I cannot fully express how much I do not like the current itemization. I can’t stand having to study each stat on each yellow I pick up to determine if it’s an upgrade, or worth the investment to imprint. It slows down the entire NMD grind when I have to dig through my inventory of garbage praying for some major improvement, before trashing it all anyway and repeating the cycle.
I don’t want D4 to be a clone of D3, but yellows were just meant to get you by until a proper legendary dropped. That significantly lowered the amount of time you had to spend looking at your drops. Now I need to take an inordinate amount of time between dungeons investigating my inventory, because every yellow can become a legendary. Way too many stats to sift through.
I don’t know what game you’re playing but it’s never been that way. 99.9% of people have to sift through bag after bag of rares to find the one adequate roll which they then reroll to get the perfect roll, that used to be the case until they screwed enchanting but you get my drift and that’s literally d4 in a nutshell.
I honestly can’t imagine why anybody on the dev team thought yellows being better than legendaries (cheaper to reroll) was a good idea. I guess the other, more likely, option is they didn’t really think it through.
Ive been thinking about this also. There is zero excitement about loot. Infact its almost the opposite. I find its just better to look for upgrades every 15 levels. There is times when i double up on aspects and just let it ride out because i hate looking at yellows for upgrades
Yeah the itemization system is utter garbage. Essentially there is only one kind of item now, rares. The only difference is whether or not is has an aspect.
In D2 you had:
Grey (socketed)
White (with varying quality levels)
Blue (roll with less affix but higher rolls)
Rare(viable to endgame)
Set (some very interesting combinations)
Unique (end game viable)
and a TON of awesome runewords.
Not to mention Orange and crafted items.
All of these items were End-game viable and the best builds made use of all of them.
Despite there being so much more depth they were all INSTANTLY identifiable at a glance with no need to sift through piles of vendor garbage.
How they managed to move away from such an incredible system and replace it with utter ******* is completely incomprehensible.
It’s pretty easy. There is sort button in the top right corner of the inventory section.
Click it.
It will sort it by item type and then item power (high to low).
If you for example are looking for a 1hander with an item power of 800 or higher, you check the first 1H weapon you see. if it does not match your criteria then all other 1H weapons are going to be worse, no need to even check em, just sell em.
Now this does not solve everything when checking gear, but it cuts it down quite a bit in my opinion.
This is so wrong it’s stupid.
First of all, all one handed weapons are not the same. It you want lucky hit, you’ll look at one type, if you want crit damage, that’s on something else baseline.
Second, just because the first item is like say i800 with a bunch of crap affixes, doesn’t mean the next item down might not be i799 with Crit Chance/Crit Damage/Vuln/Main Stat.
So you have to look at every item, because unless there is a huge difference in straight damage, you are better going with something even a couple hundred dps lower if it had all the best affixes.
while i agree i also remeber a lot of ppl whinning about the fact they wanted magic items and rare items to be meaningfull… So i guess they listend to all the D2 crybabies and look at where we are now
So you want everything simplified to say “attack power”?
Pretty much. Too many complain (and still do) about “build defining items” not being available - well Legendary/Aspect is the solution. And here again people complain; “it’s boring”.
I can usually go through inventory quite quickly. Is it Sacred or lower? Vendor. Does it have 2 stats I don’t want? Vendor. Is it a Legendary with 2 stats I don’t want? Vendor. Is it a Legendary with an Aspect I don’t use? Vendor.
Yup, filters would be good. I support it. You can get in the habit of being your own filter though, takes me about 30 seconds to go through full inventory. I probably spend more clicks/time actually picking it up off the floor than going through it on a vendor.
