S6 is open beta for VoH. S7 will fix a lot of the bugs. Maybe.
I agree that there’s a lot to address, currently and long term. But they also need a weekend off. Hopefully we hear from them on Monday.
Where’s the campfire chat at Blizzard? It is time.
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Its not even a question. Season 5 WAS better.
Season 6 is good in someways but it heavily lacks in other ways. Particularly the progression and gearing.
After paragon 220, each level afterwards takes an ungodly amount of time to achieve.
The Seasonal reputation grind takes entirely to long and the rewards are horrible and not even worth going for.
Every activity whether it be, infernal hordes, nightmare dungeons, Pit, Hell tide, Undercity, uber bosses, Dark Citadel, you name it it doesnt matter. They all drop the same quality of loot regardless of whether you’re in torment 1 or torment 4
The drop rates for loot are horrendously bad. In no world should blue items be dropping from these activities by the time the player is in Torment 3 and I would even argue torment 1.
By the time someone reaches torment 3 Ancestral items should be garuntee’d to drop AND they’re the only items that drop. A 750 non ancestral item is completely useless to the player by Torment 3 and gets thrown into the scrap yard behind the blacksmith.
Im personally throwing entire inventories of uniques and legendaries at the blacksmith for scrap because none of them are ancestral. I dont even look at their stats. Its just "nothing in this inventory is ancestral, clicks scrap all items, next dungeon.
Ontop of this too, it feels awful to be running around dungeons, see a unique drop, notice it doesn’t have a star, indicating its not ancestral, and just leave it on the ground… Its not even worth the time and effort to pick the items up off the ground anymore. This should never be the case.
I cannot understand how we went from Season 4 and season 5 progression, where it finally felt like it made sense and it felt good, to Season 6, where the difficulty doesnt matter just play in torment 2 or 3, you’re not getting any better gear in torment 4. We might as well call Season 6, Season 1.2 because thats how bad the progression and gearing is.
Im creeping up on paragon 250 and my ring of midnight sun is still 750, non ancestral, because I simply cannot get it to drop ancestral… I’ve target farmed the uber boss for this ring an unhealthy amount of times and its just old at this point.
And another thing I want to point out. Just because an item does drop as ancestral, doesn’t mean its actually better than an ilvl 750 non ancestral. Ancestral items base line stats should ALWAYS be greater than non ancestral items, period. Their item level is quite literally higher, so their stats should be higher, but they’re not always. It makes the item level and label “ancestral” hold significantly less value since this is the case.
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Season 6 is pretty good for me. Yea They’ve had a few performances issues and bugs but They’ve put out several patches and hotfixes so it appears to me that they are addressing things and I’m sure this week will being more hot fixes and perhaps another patch.
You’ve invented this scenario in you’re head where they secretly agree with your opinions of the game but are deliberately holding a response back from you.
I honestly have no idea what OP is talking about, so Blizzard probably doesn’t either. This expansion has been a huge upgrade for the game.
Between a little server lag and the delicious salt from people getting their builds based on an obvious bug patched, most people seem fine with the overall state of S6.
Why would Blizzard say the season is a huge mess when the overwhelming majority of players don’t agree, or at least don’t think it’s bad enough to say anything? The vocal minority of unpleasable players get into these little echo chambers on the forums and think everyone is as unhappy as they are. We aren’t. Most of us are enjoying S6.
Overwhelming majority haha?
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Yes, overwhelming majority. There are, at most, 200 people on the forums complaining about it 
That’s barely a blip.
Like I said, vocal doesn’t mean people agree with you.
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The forums are the vocal minority, regardless of where they side on liking the state of the game…
And you’re being pretty vocal right now, i def dont agree with you 
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The main thing is that in S5 you could spam Infernal Hordes and keep progressing your build. In S6 you have to run between Helltides, Whispers and Kurast Undercity before you even get to do Infernal Hordes and it’s just 
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It’s even worse, because even if you do get the ancestral version of the ring, it WILL be trash and worse than your non-ancestral if it rolls sub-50% of its unique affix effect.
So now with uniques you’re not rolling on whether the unique drops itself, but then a low chance it is ancestral, and on top you have to pray it rolls the max threshold of the unique effect.
Starting T3+, Uniques should only drop as ancestral by default.
By T4, the mythics drop rate should be massively increased. The Dark Citadel and World Bosses should have the highest chance of mythic drops, since they are either much more sparse in runs or require more commitment.
Then there are mythics which I won’t even discuss. The mythic weapons are absolute garbage and it’s a disgrace that a unique quartestaff is infinitely better than the mythic glaive.
Every build is running shaco/tyrael/shroud of false death. All defensive armor items or the OP shroud of death and shaco which not only give defensive value through increased passives, DR, and skill boosts, but give damage on top.
So what’s the point of mythic weapons? Nesekem, Ahavarion, all worthless. No one but barbarians and maybe bone sacrifice necros run a mythic weapon. Is this not patently wrong?
Then there’s the matter of obtaining mythics. The drop rates are abysmal, and now the target crafting is a massive RNG grind with the specific rune requirements, so the only way I was able to get a Tyrael was to play the trading game on diablo.trade, an external third party website.
That’s the problem with this game. Since it has so many layers of RNG on top of RNG and lengthy grinds for RNG rolls, people just go to third party trading websites to circumvent the issue.
The game actually incentivizes you to not do it’s content, but rather maximize gold gains to buy the mats and items because the RNG is so bad and there is no deterministic/bad luck protection method to reach your gear goals.
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I am not going to give my exact opinion on this matter.
I am just going to say that in 2.0.3 they explicitly stated that the Agile Wolf’s 4th dash has been fixed; and in fact the 4th dash has not been fixed.
I mean yeah, they have some of the most shallow, weakly thought out content of any ARPG out there. I think Torchlight Infinite has more variety and that is sad af. Point being, they have to artificially lengthen the gameplay by intentionally wasting your time with nonsensical systems. Literally every change they made with this half-baked expansion has been to roadblock you so everything you do requires more hours.
INB4 the same 4 forum white knighters come in and tell you how they barely brick anything while tempering and have 15 mythics already so everything is cool. Oh and SB is new so you should have known it would be OP…which to them means the literal bugged interactions making them OP and the terrible, non-existent balance for other classes is cool beans yo.
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I’m sure they would love to do that. But they don’t want their paychecks getting the ban hammer.
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Put me on the couch instead i got nothing but answers
This…
Please can we just be able to craft infernal hordes keys again
I think a lot of people need to realize that the D4 team was decimated by Microsoft… I’ve read that roughly 50% of their development team was let go. So WHO are left? Are they the experienced and highly paid devs, or the lower paid, limited experienced devs?!? I think the fact that the game is still struggling with memory leaks, crashes, and other bugs says the latter.
before the patch, nvidias eat sh!t. after the patch: both amds and nvidias eat sh!t. clueless the bug, how to fix? s5 their server down because some sorcs, rogue use their skills s6 everything can shut down the game
my bet is they just keep silent cause you still keep on playing season after season so what
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