Here is my feedback on S4 for the devs. I’ve put in about 200 hours into S4 by now. Playing long days. I love the Tormented Ladder Boss fights as they are very fun with all the positional fighting needed. Unfortunately, Stygian Stones are hard to come by so that’s a bit of a fun stopper.
Another problem I face is the summoning material shortages for Echo of Varshan so this is also a fun stopper that prevents me from going after Tormented Duriel etc.
Now we can get plenty of Living Steel in Hell Tides (love the hell tides) and you can easily walk away with 20 Living Steel in one Hell Tide session. This translates to 4 Shards.
Now… if I do all the Whispers during the Hell Tide then I won’t even get enough material to get a single Egg from Varshaan!!!
And we need 6 Shards (no worries) and 6 Eggs (?!) for the Tormented Duriel.
This means I have to spend a god-awful amount of time running regular Whispers, that has no action, you’re just running/riding around for 10-20 minutes to get 1 more piece of a head/femur/etc towards an egg.
It’s boring. I would love to do the cool high level torment ladder bosses fighting, it’s thrilling but we have to farm for 2-3 days straight to even get a stack of Eggs and get 8 torment runs out of that. Not fun.
Anyway, I don’t mind farming summoning material per say, but the Varshaan stuff is too slow. At this point I am going to be done with Season 4 until something changes. I might check back in a few weeks and level an alt or something, but other than that, I had a good time with S4 for the 200 hours I did play.
Going to be interesting to see what Blizzard comes up with for S5. Later 