I remember playing games like Star Wars Galaxies / EverQuest / Diablo II / Quake III Arena / Unreal Tournament back in the early 2000s. It blew my mind. I used to think, “MY GOODNESS! Imagine what gaming will be like in 20+ years?!?”
I played this season much different than normal. I was chill. I didn’t look up any “pro builds” or anything. I took my time, made my own build that can comfortably beat Pit 100+, and played through the original campaign as well as the expansion / listening and completing all of the side-quests / dungeon lore. One of the only accomplishments I have left is to hit 300. But my goodness… I’d rather watch paint dry. Pit, Pit, Pit, Pit.
You have this big and beautiful world. Why not use it? Make a Pit Tier 100 Open World or something.
I like so much of this game and I want to play, but after running a few Pits, I start to think of unneeded projects I can do around the house…
You can also level up XP in witchtides fast, at least until para 280.
I got a druid at para 274 that can’t do pits 100 solo, permanently doing witchtides.
It can level +1 para roughly in 6 hours currently…
My RG can do pits 100, and it’s still in para 246.
Doing witchtides i can get +1 para in 2 hours currently.
Doing pits 100 it takes almost the same time to get +1 para…
S7 Witchtides are underrated, because players only want to do pits…
Pretty much what I do in every game. Typically I have to meet the game halfway though. Grinding out Pits is not my idea of fun, so I just choose not to do it myself. I’ll hit 300 paragon on the Eternal Realm in roughly another 8 seasons, I can wait for the mount.
This isn’t new. Neither are you. Why post sensationalist threads like this?
Cool. So ARPGs aren’t for you. Every ARPG uses some sort of iterative, repetitive content to progress, especially the Diablo franchise. There isn’t one that doesn’t.
The entire point is doing 1000x Mephisto runs (or whatever X content) to acquire gear to do Mephisto +X content.
Without that repetitive, iterative content - it becomes just a hack n slash RPG. Imagine every boss having set loot that’s 100% predefined. Kill it once, get everything. That isn’t Diablo.
And you should!
After all, it’s only a game. And you make the fun you want to play it.
Everybody only sees pits, pits, pits, pits…
I personally only do pits if i need to… ah, and dungeons, and bosses…
Everything else i roam around…
And i fdo just fine…
I did a Pit once, so I could unlock T1. Thankfully I’m not required to do any more unless I want to. I firmly believe that if Blizz unlocked glyph XP so you could level them anywhere, nobody would ever do Pits again.
One day, you might want to move to T2 and unfortunately will have to do another Pit .
Agree that moving Glyph levelling into the Pit is the only solution Blizzard found to make us all run it. Hard to believe but there are players who truly like the Pit. I am not one of them.
Yea, I’m intending to try it in S8, just to see for myself whether or not a Casual Andy playing ~5 hours/week on a non-meta build can get to T4 in one season. I suspect I can, & if I can, anyone can. But I don’t expect to play much of S8 beyond that.
It’s because there’s no reason for me to care about T2-4. Yes, raven bird pet; no big deal, certainly not enough to motivate me to do the necessary grinding. The only reason I’m going to try in S8 is to see if, despite all the doom-&-gloom prognosticating, I can do it.
I’m likely done with ARPGs after that experiment. I’m sick past my ears of grind.
Seems they don’t design it for this to need to be done.
Point on environment lacking (outside pit) compared to build power has been at issue increasingly with s6 for sb and s7 for more builds really shining a light on it. S8 will go a ways it seems, we’ll see…
This is why stash is such a pain, so you can feel like you’re doing housework in the game making space for all the loot all the time
God forbid they could rework stash and give us more tabs, fix duping and potentially address vram leaks at the same time. Let’s see that in the roadmap imo.
Um what? T4 is pretty easy, Its only the pit that challenges around 100. Your not going to end up with mythics otherwise. Maybe one. But I dont know why everyone is so negative? I’ve been having a blast. I haven’t even tried a second class since season one. Only Rogue. And the different builds every season have been fun. Ive gotten better each season. Its weighted against your build every time. Just increase the chances slightly with every reset. Blizz has listened to us complain and make changes and THEY HAVE DONE THEM. I don’t know what other game company has catered this much? I’m loving this and cant wait to trap Rogue season 8. I did it in PTR and its dope. Also I’m not gonna hit 300 either. I’m 268. T4 Pit100. This game is amazing. And we should say some good things. Have not even tried another class ONCE!
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