different people different demand. You like casual game play, you will enjoy D3. You like hardcore, you play PoE. D4 just don’t fit any of that. But I respect your choice.
While I really like the systems design of PoE (skill web, atlas etc.), POE got the same bad combat as D3, with screens full of enemies exploding constantly.
Oh, and trading, which is nearly ruining the game imo. The one great thing D3 did, was to get entirely rid of trading.
Personally, Id take D1, D2 and D3 (which I wasn’t a big fan of) over this junkpile.
D3 wasn’t laggy unless you have a wizard in your group, area damage for wiz was bugged and they never took time to fix it . My pc was a good power house so I never really noticed it as much as others with AMD CPUS lol.
wdym , I was always dropping legendary stuff for my friends where I didn’t need it on PC platform.
Unless you are talking about playing in season on console yeah you couldn’t trade in seasons on console due to the way the game was setup (to prevent hacked items in seasons).
in some ways yes but overall absolutely not
Copium isn’t good for your health.
Semi casuals? You normal people who dont have the kind of money to pay to win a game? I was there to an i saw items going for hundreds.
Casuals didnt ruin it.
Yes, D3 is a better game than D4. Even on release it was more polished than what D4 is.
I didn’t even like D3, but D4 is likely the worst diablo game ever created.
That altar would make renown in D4 worth it, if renown unlocked the nodes.
On release, D3 wasn’t perfect, but it was Blizzard. D4, like Dragonflight, doesn’t feel like a Blizzard game at all.
I enjoy d3 much more than d4, but d4 has years to catch up in it’s defense.
You probably don’t remember or you didn’t play much D3: in D3 all classes get one of their most powerful skill at level 69 and the 4th passive at 70, by this limitation end-game only starts at 70.
In D4 “end game” pretty much starts when you can do NMD 20+ which is around mid 60s, unfortunately it is boring and unrewarding.
Also, D4 tried the D2 formula, where you’re done with the character build at 75, but failed because paragon boards provide so much power spike that you really would prefer to get to 100 asap.
Edited: Added snippet about 4th passive in D3
You could still share items found in groups, yeah, that part is good.
nah i played D3 a lot and i remember this. And tbh this is not only reason why end game start only at 70 for example difference between gear on 69 and 70 was huge. I think this is bad design(cuz your leveling experience have 0 value), but you are right about d4 tried d2 and failed - that’s why they need to revise paragon board. Imho main problem about D4 leveling - you never feel like you playing end game before lvl 100 and on level 100 it feels already like there is nothing to do. The only power you get from 80 to 100 is your paragon board. And it’s just a bad itemization(D3 type itemization). This only proves that D3 mechanics will never work in D2 ideology. Idk how to fix this.
To me it is if you’d like to play Single Player, I think.
I love the new system and all for the most part, I just wish it wasn’t exclusively an MMORPG- unlike all the other Diablos that came before it.
Not all of us have good internet or just plain want to be locked into multiplayer.
Its laggy hell for me now. It was fine and played smooth for me for me until I unlocked the first Waypoint then POOF! MMORPG and lag.
Hell I started a new character hoping to play up to the first city and level as for as I could until I reached a soft cap- but nope, its still technically in MMORPG mode now no matter what.
I lag fresh at the start now.
I’d rather stick forks into my eyes than play d3’s graphics. Once you play D4 graphics D3 looks like a wet turd.
Its a different gane
Diablo 3 is a great game that you can ruin for yourself by minmaxing and adhering too closely to an established build. The trouble is that forgoing faceroll builds will eventually prevent progress into difficulty tiers that require literal 1000% multipliers only available through set bonuses. There isn’t really a down side to this except that it’s lonely and you’ll never be on the leaderboards. The odd thing is that it’s people who want to play offline who are most put off by all this. If you can wrap your head around stopping at Torment 6, and you don’t mind playing alone, you don’t have to follow any build. Not only can you experiment with skills, you can use most of the interesting loot that drops and rearrange your skills to take advantage of them.
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