I’m just about fed up. Played every season since release. I’ve purchased every battle pass, I’ve purchased armor sets.
The old battle pass was far superior to the new Reliquaries. I applaud you trying something, this isn’t it, bring back the battle pass and try again.
Leveling. I’ll tell ya what, I MUCH preferred the old system of leveling a character to 100. It allowed me to see each character I played each season grow in power and get “finished”. I enjoyed the hell out of that. Now, I level up my first character, start an alt, blow through 1-60 and bam, I have 200+ Paragon points. I also hate the absurdly high amount of paragon points we can earn.
Season 5 might have been the best season. I actually leveled all 5 classes to 100, plus an extra Rogue. I’ve only bothered with 2-3 alts since. I’m not sure I’m going to bother “finishing” one character this season. I probably will, but I don’t have much desire to gear up another one.
Now, I know many dislike the Reliquaries, so I hope those improve. I’m probably in a minority on the level cap thing, I guess it is what it is.
Now, why I’m just about fed up? This stupid freaking master working mechanic. Tempers are bad enough, but the frustration and farming that is necessary to get that triple crit master work is just frustrating the hell (pun intended) out of me. In past seasons, you actually could get away with just hitting 2 crits for most builds, 3 was a luxury (note, I detest the Pit and only run it enough to get glyphs to 46, the Pit level measuring contest is of no interest to me). Now it seems like you have to craft that perfect build to reach torment IV. Is that really what you want? Players like me to get frustrated with one character and not create 4, 5 or 6 each season.
My suggestion if you really want the RNG crafting and not something a little more deterministic, let us pay some amount of mats/gold to lock to the last crit tier. You hit 2, you can lock the item, so when you reset it, it goes back to the Tier 2 stats. I’d still not like it, but I can live with that.
I may not be the typical player, I might be. I’ve tried the other ARPGs out there. They don’t quite scratch my itch. PoE and PoE2 are NOT for me, I’ve tried, I just do not like those games. Last Epoch’s last season held me for a little while, but I keep coming back to D4. I don’t really want to play through an entire season, I like that I have been able to over a few weeks get 3-5 characters “done”, and then do something else for a while. I got over season 8 pretty quick, and Season 9 I’m about ready to throw in the towel.
If this doesn’t get better soon, the likely hood of me buying the next expansion is going out the window, and that means I just won’t be playing anymore, or buying battle passes and armor sets.
I think season 5 was the peak for D4 and while the Expansion was cool, the continuing seasons have made things worse, not better.
I have no idea if you’ll look at this or take it to heart, but I honestly feel you guys are moving in the wrong direction.