D3 you could actually build a strong character. But in 4 I am forced to fight with little more than sticks and stones. No rare items or very very few. The one’s I do get are worthless. D4 is not challenging or fun, its just a way for me to get killed over and over and over. I like a challenge, but it be nice to win once in a while. They seem to have forgotten about those of us who prefer to play the game solo. Epic fail.
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It may be helpful to keep in mind that way back in the day, my friend’s friend died in the Den of Evil on Diablo 2.
lol now that’s a challenge!
I have died equally in every Diablo game…
A lot
Same on D4.
It would drop eventually like on D3. Unlike on D2, you spent 10000 hours and still not able to get Shako. Some Uber Unique items from Duriel has the same ridiculous drop rate. But the good news is… you dont need them to beat Seasonal challenge.
RNG is RNG. You might have gotten a BiS from other build but since you dont know what it is, you might have garbaged it. It’s meant to happen if you’re not familiar with the highend game. An example is a Legendary with Exposed Flesh Affix… or Legendary with perfectly rolled Shielding Storm affix. You could have garbaged it while others used it to destroy AoZ tier 10 and up.
This game could easily fool the gamer to fill up all his stats for DPS. But to reach the high end game, it’s not just DPS stats but also with Survivability stats.
I am Casual too… very limited playtime to grind for Tree of Whisper and Helltide for Duriel Mats. But I have enough at least to get to where I am. I started late on Season 2. I just reached level 100 few days ago. I think I already have more than 20x Duriel kills mostly Solo as there were few times my Buddy came up to provide me mats to kill Duriel together.
So far I am on NM92 … NM90 is on farming status. I just switched to Shadow DoT last night coming from Blood Lance who are doing the same NM difficulty. On Blood Lance, it seems I reached my ceiling as I am missing a key item from Duriel. On Shadow DoT, I just started and I think I could reach NM100 on it becoz is 100x easier than Blood.
Good luck to you. Also on me. Watch videos. See how others destroy AoZ. Figure out how they do it. Me, my issue with Blood was Essence and I have already figured out how to have infinite Essence. On Shadow DoT, I havent found what could kill me… yet. ROFL. One is if my Barrier went off and my bloodmist is on CD. I should be on Metamorphosis fleeing until I get my Barrier or Bloodmist back. Something like that. On Blood, is lack of DPS due to one key item. We will see what happens. I have up to January to play this.
BTW, look at how others beat the game. My Buddy has 300x Duriel kills now and counting. I might not be able to do what he did. Maybe up to 50 more Duriel kills on me. If no upgrades happen, that’s it for me. I have low expectations. But I am having a blast tearing down stuffs that I could destroy. It really depends on how much time you bring to the game. Dont expect much if you have very limited play time. The game wont adjust for you becoz you have no time for it. You are not that special. Casuals could stop on WT2 Campaign depending on how much time they could bring to the game. But me, with 2 to 3 hours a day 4 times a week, I will do up to how much I can. On World of WarCraft, such playtime could destroy Mythic+15 and Heroic Raid Final Boss which is enough for Casual.
Paying attention to armor and resist would fix that. Plus instead of whining about dying why not ask for help on survival or loom up a guide.
I swear this community is the most nihilistic thing I have ever seen in a game. Its like only Goth’s and Emo’s play or worse their offspring.
lets be honest no one died in d3
the only version of Diablo where i exclusively played hardcore lol.
my advice is:
Get res capped using tri res boots and res gems in rings/amulet.
Get armour capped either with disobedience and +% armour on almost all slots. If you run just legendaries and a shield, get hard NMD100 armour cap, if not just get level 100 armour cap with disobedience on top of that. caps are 9300 for level 100 monsters and 13300 for NMD100, and i think 13700 for tier 25 AoZ.
finally get some reduced damage from close/distant etc and have life on helm/chest/pants and ideally also on rings.
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Hate to say it but this feels like a you issue not a game one. If you are having that much trouble cobbling together a viable build there is always a guide , try Maxroll.
Best advice get your life, armour and resistances up. Chest, legs and helm are all good places to stack defences stats and affixes.
Best of luck in S3
Then dont die. That’s the challenge for you.
I never die in the game inside the World Map. The place i die is when i am not careful on NM100.