I love SSF mode in D3. Played it again this season. Love not having to power level ppl. Would love to see it in D4 too
Except for getting key stats as greater affixes. For my summoner I need GA Skeletal mage master, skeletal warrior mastery and hellbent commander on at least 4 legendaries, and the other stats cannot be crap, they need to be either maximum life/int/crit/attack speed. That is a tall order, and at paragon 279 only leveling through infernal hordes (lower xp much much more GA loot) and not the pits I still have not found GA skeletal mage mastery on gloves.
This basically makes diablo.trade mandatory to fullfill my gear goals this season.
I would just like them to add an ingame AH which checks item ID’s to delete dupes, sure this doesnt solve gold farming bots… but they don’t effect me as long as I sell my items for gold which I then buy other items I need with.
I think the main issue is that Blizzard designed the game with trading in mind, leading to ridiculous gold sinks and an increasingly frustrating gear chase each season. Not everyone trade in game!
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I’ve been playing SSF since the closed beta. Only recently I grouped for the Dark Citadel. But other than that, solo. And I never traded. I hate it. If it was up to me, I would disable that s**t.
And yes, it does solve some (!) D4 issues. But you can already play SSF, so why dont you?
SSF mode needs to come with increased drop rates and gold acquisition.
At the moment, trading is the only way to keep progressing your character in the endgame.
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Some players were forced to care this season after Blizz drove ancestral item acquisition into the ground that also bore stingy affixes, extra class restrictions on item usage, removing legendary drops from uber boss fights, just to name a few reasons.
So the lived experience in a nutshell went something like this:
“OMG I can’t find the item I need for my build, nothing good is dropping like it had in past seasons, I never had to grind like this before → wonder if I can trade someone for what I need → OMG look at these prices! where did all of these 3 and 4GA items come from anyway? → OMG ppl are duplicating these really hard-to-find good items and others are paying real money for this? → that seems unfair to me, to the forums!”
And here we are. But the root of the problem is what Blizz did to items and how they’re acquired this season.
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There are lists of duped items and who sells them. Like there is a duped sorc amulet with GA rolls on devouring blaze and glass cannon that’s super popular right now. It’s a complete joke.
Not to mention that the in-game trade chat has been a brick wall of RMT links these last couple of days.
Plus gold caps and crafting costs and anything that has to do with RNG is balanced around the credit card warriors as well as the SSF players. THAT is why they should be separate. I don’t want to find a crappy ancestral 1 star every three days because most of the population is wearing full 3-4GA gear in a week.
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Other people have already said this, but I want it said more.
It effects drop rates. If Blizzard thinks most people are getting gear on their own, they think their drop rates are fine. The reality is, without playing in groups, especially in groups who do use trading, drops are almost non-existent and you can see how far behind you are by not using 3rd party websites when you go to overworld events.
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You would have to understand basic human psychology to understand.
Diablo 4 forums are not a good outlet to learn such things.
I disagree. I think a lot of people know whats going on. Just because they dont come to forums dont mean they dont know whats going on. These RMT companies are offering 2 grand to streamers to post one tiny ad in one YouTube video. Im not even talking just the big streamers. Im talking mid streamers with not many views too. The RMT companies are making bank. That means a ton of people are partaking in it.
These guys arent even posting items for gold anymore. They are posting them for cash/crypto, because gold no longer has any value due to dupes.
The longer Blizz lets this stuff go on, the more people will just say F it and do it too. The integrity of the game must be maintained. It isn’t. I don’t care about some mental gymnastics of pretending we are alone and no one else matters. It needs to have integrity.
People ask why care what someone else does? Well because that effects the open world. It effects the tuning of drops. It effects the tuning of mobs. It effects the tuning of grind. It effects people that want fair trade. When you spend a ton of money on an item and it goes poof it effected that person. Etc.
If anything, D4 forum is fairly decent case study into human psychology (and so are multiplayer games).
Sadly not. It is effectively impossible to play this game solo. You would have to never enter the overworld.
Very much not a fairly decent case study of anything.
Too much randomness for any kind of control group.
Everyone here has very different reasons.
Some are reaching out for help.
Some are trying to become celebrities.
Hmmm…maybe all clueless perhaps.
If that doesn’t describe modern society, I don’t know what does 
The problem is the game is oppressive to solo players. SSF solves many issues, but doubles down on existing issues. They’d have to fix boss rotas (so solo players don’t get 1/4 the loot of party play), make Dark Citadel playable as a solo player (make the 3 NPCs who aren’t your dedicated Merc follow basic scripts to do multiplayer tasks), as well as make some behavioural changes to activities such as Infernal Hordes (events spawn in 4 distant locations, massively favouring 4 man parties), among other things.
The issues I cited above are blatantly obvious if you’ve ever done every activity in this game solo shortly after doing them with a friend or two, or have grade one mathematics knowledge. They’re even more readily apparent if you’ve played other ARPGs which don’t treat solo players as second class citizens.
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It doesn’t solve the repetitive content or the lack of depth in character progression. Those are the major issues with the game, and they haven’t been touched yet…
Blizz already made a statement about this. They remove dupes and ban people on a weekly basis and they patch out dupe methods as soon as possible.
Now I can’t verify this information as I don’t personally go to RMT sites or look for the methods of duping. I’m also not going to sit here and speculate that duping is still going on or not going on without solid proof. RMT will always be a problem though with or without dupes that’s a given.
Duping method wouldn’t affect the tuning of anything except how to fix the code being exploited. Blizzard has the data, they are actively headhunting, it wouldn’t make any sense to alter game drops in anyway other than to maybe disable trading. Which I personally believe should’ve happened day 1 since a dupe was discovered.
The longer it goes unfixed, the more likely some one will unknowingly trade with some one who has dupes, then wake up to find those items missing. Yes it’s a problem.
Now I don’t care about RMT or duping personally, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want it fixed and those responsible to go unpunished. We’re all on the same side here.
Yeah and CoD makes statements about their Ricochet anti cheat as well. Its meaningless. The stuff is still happening on a large scale. I disagree with you. This is a problem whether you want to think so or not. Duping and RMT absolutely affects that stuff.
I never said it wasn’t a problem, not sure where you’re getting this from. I said I don’t care about duping and RMT, not that it isnt a problem, big difference. We’re arguing the same point with a different perspective.
My bad. I had like 6 different threads open. Thats what I get for skim reading.
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