I’ve bricked my fair share of items in tempering, and that is not particularly fun (though it doesn’t bother me as much as a lot of people I see posting about it). I was thinking how much more difficult it must be for the credit card warriors to get all the best gear now that they can’t just outright buy it. Someone could spend hundreds of $ on gear and brick it all. It made me wonder if that was part of why Blizz made this system the way it is.
What do you think? Is tempering designed to be an anti-P2W measure?
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if that is the intent it makes me like tempering even more and hope they never change it
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i agree. this makes tempering the best mechanic in game. i hate the p2w cc warriors that think they are good. tempering is perfect as is
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I don’t know if it’s even worth to spend any money on gear, just for a fact that Season ends and your gear will be worthless when the new Season comes up. Tempering is kinda a good way to make things harder for them. Not that I care about them anyway. In the end there’s nothing to win, you more likely gonna lose than win.
Idk why do you guys even care about RMT.
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These CC warriors dont care. They will spend over a billion gold on reseting master work gear just to get the 3 boost on one stat. If they run out of gold they just RMT for more gold.
diablo 4 immortal has people that spend over 100,000 dollars on that game
masterworking and tempering are two different things…
How does a system encouraging you to spend MORE money on it by virtue of having a failure rate act as an anti-pay2win measure?
Logic where?
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They can buy well rolled multi GA bases instead. Naturally a base, that would still have to be tempered, is cheaper than a finished item would be. I dont believe there are any anti RMT measures at all. Besides with all the bugs in, its never been as much about ptw in D4 as exploit to win. With the way uniques and uber uniques have been devalued, what even is there to win?
No lol it’s a way to get more engagement and make more money by selling cosmetics. Tempering doesn’t detract cc warriors at all as they just buy more gold and buy another item from d4trade and keep rolling until they hit that perfect temper.
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Presumably there is some level of money completely wasted on bricked gear that would cause a person to stop buying gear and give up. Obviously this amount would be different based on the individual.
Popular streamers wouldn’t really be affected by it as they can spend massive amounts and still make money from it.
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no
its an anti-fun measure
it doesnt matter if your fun came from actually droping the gear or rmting it
conclusion: its a completely unbiased anti-fun measure
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In the end, this game is also a MMO, even if people don’t wanna accept it. Take away all the online features, nobody would buy a single skin (Hyperbole)
Tempering = p2l play to lose
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dont worry in a year the popularity will be at 5k people again and blizz will need some season of the loot theme to save them out of a hole. especially with the upcoming games .
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I always wondered if Elon:
- Bought gold/gear.
- Had an intern train a ai model to farm stuff in d4.
If you don’t know what I mean, Elon Musk has posted several times on Twitter, in the past, about playing Diablo 4.
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He is a D4 fan, he even stream sometimes lol.
In my opinion, no. If anything people that do that sort of thing will be encouraged to buy bulk instead of the one BiS item they need.
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There’s plenty of games out there that offer ‘skins’ for characters that don’t have online play/features what so ever. If people like them enough, they’ll buy them.
JRPGs, Simulator type games, action rpgs, racing games, sports games, etc.
No, I don’t think so. If tempering were easy then the CC warriors would only have to buy a specific item once. The way it is now, they likely brick that item so they need to keep buying them.
Tempering is Blizz way of keeping people playing longer. They aren’t creative at adding chase gear and end game systems to the game so this is what they came up with.
I actually think the idea of tempering is a good one. It does feel bad to brick items though. I think adjustments will be coming.
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