Personally , I think Infernal Hordes are one of the best features they’ve added to Diablo ! They are alot of fun, ensure you are properly leveled and geared, for the difficulty you are doing them on (can’t really carry people on IH’s they’ll be 1-shot if under geared). The rewards are very good, although they do kinda make doing nightmare dungeons pointless, since you get so much more obducite from IH’s.
I think they should add a buff that lets you add on a round though. Cause anyone that does IH’s knows the last couple rounds is where you get the lionshare of aether , since you usually have hellbornes, increased aether events, and the lords spawning. So would be really nice occassionally be able to add another round or so.
I also believe they should add another spoils chest, that costs like 500 or 1000 aether but it gives a couple guaranteed GA ancestral legendaries and perhaps the same chance to get a mythical as Andariel or Duriel give. Heck the Infernal Horde takes alot longer than those boss fights do, in the current environment.
I liked it last season but Im kinda burned out of it now. It drains the piss out of me doing 10 waves more than a couple times. 6 wave ones are the ones I like now if I do them. Im weird and actually prefer NM dungeons. Most people hate those. Except the ones with a million doors in them. I hate those ones.
not sure about that, you can get easy 5000+ obducite per 10 waves of infernal hordes, nightmare dungeons has dog shieet density, don’t think it tops infernal hordes
I understand nightmares don’t top the horde in terms of obducite but I like them better than the horde this season, personally. Also get lots of other mats while doing them and if running the materials opal, they’re not so bad. Maybe my preference for nightmares is why I never ran into a materials shortage this season too, not sure.
Is that all you do? Just troll every thread you see? 1500 is low for 10 wave. With good boons you’re looking at close to 5000. 10 waves takes about as long as 4 or 5 NMD. For good players, but I’ll bet you suck at the game.
I like Hordes myself… all but soulspires, they can die in a fire. They just suck for melee players, and the mobs know it and rarely enter the circle. ugh.
The real solution to this is to actually make Horde’s a finite activity (while of course removing/tuning the RNG when trying to get hellbornes lol). Funny enough they actually said this would be the case but for some reason I have 20 keys in my stash and whenever i run horde’s i just get even more of them out of the equipment cache + from whispers. You can run this crap infinitely.
So yea, it’s supposed to be something rare. Ideally let’s say if you are playing 12 hours in torment 4, you’d maybe find 2 keys. And then simply improve the rewards in proportion with the increased rarity. Instead of 2-2.5k obducite from a run, maybe it gives 5-7k. maybe you get a guaranteed 2 GA item.
It’s simple tbh if you ever played or even just take a brief look at any other ARPG. PoE divine orbs and reliquary keys would be an example… or puzzle rings in d3, although they ended up not being very rewarding lol, but the principle is the same.
Edit: It’s also the same case with bossing. They want you to do 3000 runs when they could make that number 1/3rd of what it is while tuning the rewards to be in proportion with the current rarity. Horde’s and bossing is not supposed to be a place where you spend 50-70% of your game time, it’s supposed to be a reward activity that you accumulate from playing the rest of the game and when you do go and run it you can feel good about being almost guaranteed to get an upgrade or a mythic unique or whatever in a short time.
I don’t like that at all. Limiting content forces you to play a certain way and that’s not fun. If I want to spam IH or bosses, let me spam IH or bosses
IH is arguably my favorite activity, why shouldn’t I be allowed to primarily do my favorite activity in the game?
Same. I used to enjoy them last season, plus with LS sorc then it was a blast. Now they wear me out, even on SB. And I have to be in the mood to run them. It’s not as bad with a friend or two, but I’m usually solo most the time lately.