Even those who play seasons for 2,000 hours can’t find gear in the game. Even those with their skill level are helplessly throwing up their hands. Average players won’t complete a single build this season and will abandon it as soon as they realize what a scam awaits them with green gear, given the time-to-benefit ratio. This season is simply a waste of player time, which the developers never valued. Such decisions would have been appropriate in a cheap MMO from the 2000s; doing so now is not just bad form, it’s shameful.
And spires in Horde are a particular pain for most builds, where the player is forced to either use abilities or run. Those who run using abilities while running are always 1,000 Ether ahead, thanks for another stupid decision.
Boss keys? - No, no one has heard of them. You need three mythical items in every build, but you’ll only get to the bosses after a year of boring grinding.
Overall, this season is dead and hammers another nail into the game’s coffin. We can assume that 90% of the audience will play Battlefield and spend money on it instead of buying skins in this uninspired game.
Another day, another classic player ‘skill issue’ drama. I play ssf and Im already blasting t4 and pit 90+.
The game is already too easy as it is.
The OP is being hyperbolic but it’s fair to say that if you grind trying to get optimal gear, you are playing a losing game.
Drops basically shut down now after you manage to single GA everything two or three days in. At least that’s been my experience for the last three seasons. But nice if there was some continuing feeling of progress but there’s not.
I believe the worst season is the seasonal theme from S6 because there is nothing there other than a slow Realmwalker. It wasn’t obvious because if you got the xpac, you’d feel fine with the xpac content and activities that are only available for xpac owners. S1 is probably up there as one of the worst because it’s all Barber heart.
I played for 50 hrs and i have alrdy completed everything.
Ofc i can find better pieces but i have completed everything that needs completing.
That is pit 100 and the season journey
Gear is easy to find if you just play
Well, the season is only a few days old. Nothing will change as this is how it has been.
Quality over quantity once again produces another satisfied customer.
Like group play they keep doubling down on it.
My favorite part of this season is - spoilers incoming - playing a mage who’s just thumped the daughter of a Prime Evil and who, not at all expecting any reprisal from the angry forces of Hell (because, hey, really, who in Hell cares, amirite?) subsequently encounters Shyan, a mysterious, hooded gal dressed all in black, sporting a pair of swords, who sez she’s heard of me.
Yeah huh; I just killed Evil Mother L, lady, I’m sure all sorts of folks have heard of me. Nothing to fear here, of course.
Employing my clever video game logic skill, and passing a sanity competence check, I agree to meet Shyan who, as fate would have it, is an assassin from the Viz-Jaq’taar, a secretive order of mage-killin’ specialists. Fortunately, no one from Hell has ever thought about pulling a fast one on the Viz-Jaq’taar and hirin’ (or corruptin’) one of them to kill pesky mages, so my character has nothing to worry about.
More to the point, Shyan has set up a keeno science fair booth in - wait for it - the boomin’ mine town of Yelesna (for some reason), and again Hell seems entirely indifferent to or completely unaware of these developments. No wonder Team Heaven - even when led by utter boneheads like Imperius - keeps winning.
From here, things plod along fairly tame and predictable terrain: Shyan passes along a series of “go and do-s” and my character content to go with the flow goes and does, and Shyan even comes along for a bit and tactfully trails behind and watches all the fireworks, politely and without comment - and perhaps pointedly too - not doing any of those nifty assassin skills well remembered from a game or two ago, if only not to contribute to the colorful, eye-dazzling, eye-exhausting Disneyesque explosions that have probably stunned one or two RL players right out of their deluxe gamin’ chairs at some point, photosensitive epilepsy being what it is.
(Me, I’m not even watching the screen anymore, just keeping an eye on the minimap. Haven’t died doing this, so all is good)
To be fair to Shyan, she does bump off some poor rando in one of the towns while in dressed in mufti, but since no one notices or particularly cares about yet another random death anywhere in Sanctuary, rando or not, one wonders how exactly the Viz-Jaqtaar fund-raise these days, and why they bother to dress in mufti when they’ve got a booth or two set up in plain sight.
Oh, yeah, Shyan also has a safe house/science lab in the middle of swamp Nowhere Particular for some reason. All the excitement going down everywhere in the middle of a Helltide, and there’s Shyan making a batch of homebrew.
Should be the basis of another Netflix series… kinda like Breaking Bad only with 100% more demons and explosions.
Yeah, okay, I’ll roll along with this, I think. Can’t get any weirder than it already is, only it does. Turns out there’s this guy named Bartuc (AKA the Warlord of Blood, the evil brother of Horazon, a guy who specialized in controlling demons and the guy who likely gifted the Viz-Jaqtaar with the Cut-Throat, a really nifty Diablo 2 unique claw that was highly sought after by melee assassins), and because he’s, you know, an evil demon he has to die blah blah blah.
And die he does. Many, many times. Alas, tis I - or more technically my character - who does all the killin’, not anyone from the Viz-Jaqtaar because (a) they already possess the Cut-Throat and (b) they presumably have other really important things to do like setting up science booths in out-of-the-way locales and passing along grindy step-and-fetch-its to assorted passing heroes who have nothing to fear from Hell, assassins or the boredom associated with grinding.
Oh, she also eventually tosses a bit of loot your way too (which, frankly, if you think about it, is an unusual way to distribute stuff. For example, my character received Mother’s Blessing in the form of a hat… you know, the “mother” I just killed because, yeah, she was an evil demon that left these shrines all around, made a bunch of rings (and now hats too!) and my characters are happy to make use of 'em all… but not for the furtherance of evil but to defeat evil by taking up stuff distributed by Team Evil).
Makes sense. I. guess. 
Full credit to the voice actor - is she credited anywhere? - who does the best with a pretty lean bit of writing. Now that the character has been established, hopefully she - along with the rest of the Viz-Jaqtaar - will be given more to do in a few future events.
You poor thing. I cant imagine having such a weak victim mindest. Only you can value your time. Its a video game, lol. Its probably time to toughen up a bit.
I could/would dissect this entire topic sentence by sentence, but I’ll refrain from doing so (THIS TIME).
However, the only issue I’ll just point out (because we have several here), is that you can’t speak for anybody but yourself.
I also easily close level 100 pit and also completed seasonal quests a long time ago. I’m talking about assembling a real build, not what players are forced to play with. There are current builds, and completing them is practically impossible. It’s much easier to get five mythic items with a star in a given stat than to get a specific item of clothing.
Each class has approximately 12 items of personalized clothing and approximately 15 items of shared clothing. From this pool of items, you should find a specific one that fits into a helmet, armor, arms, pants, or boots.
The introduction of GAs and the fact that almost everything is RNG is what is deflating. Progression feels good, but D4 does not handle this very well and there is a point where progression is rather arbitrary when you can easily 1 shot all T4 content and stuff just flops over before it fully spawns hoping for an item with GAs.
I think a better system is one that has both RNG and incremental horizontal progression. The itemization in D4 is feast or famine. You either find a Unique (now Chaos Armor) with the “right” GA or GAs and a Max Aspect, or you keep facerolling until the lottery turns up. Once you find that item, the only hope is finding the same exact item but with more GAs.
There is no real such thing as “high rolls” and varying item qualities. A Maximum Affix is so far inferior to a GA that it almost makes it pointless.
The linear quality of the itemization is also shallow. Hit the Armor Cap with as little investment as possible, Hit the Elemental Resist Soft Cap with as little investment as possible, stack DR with as little investment as possible, and EHP through Max HP/Barrier/Fortify etc. Then, grab as many multiplicative damage buckets as possible and make sure you can have all conditionals needed with a 100% uptime. Proceed to stack higher and higher Multiplicative Damage sources to escalate in The Pit, which has no real value outside of bragging rights.
Oddly enough as you progress, The Pit is scaled in such a way however how you feel less and less powerful so much so that it requires EXPONENTIALLY MORE offense to progress even a single Pit Level. This feels particularly terrible when some broken Meta comes along who just happens to be fortunate enough to have more Buckets and higher Buckets than you are capable of obtaining make you feel like you are hitting with a wet noodle. We are not talking about a little disparity, but MAGNITUDES OF POWER DIFFERENTIAL. That is pretty defeating.
Don’t worry though, if you struggle in the game at all it is set up to be an AFK loot collector as you can join a Party and just collect rewards as all it takes is 1 Meta player in a Full Group to completely trivialize the game.
this has got to be a troll thread…
right?
Yep. I already finished out my season. Took 3 days. Did not bother with the chaos armor. Did not care about armor and resist either. I got my pet from the season journey and called it quits. Very boring season.
Every torment level is the same. If you’ve done one of them, you’ve done them all. hell tides, seasonal activity, pits, bosses.
That’s it.
I completed the entire season Journy and unlocked all the reliquaries in 24 hours.
I thought I’d get 100+ hours in this season, but I was wrong because the chaos gear either doesnt drop or you get the same sh%it mothers embrace on all the pieces you do find.
Absolutely dumb design to make it so rare and have crap like mothers embrace drop more common.
Oh and me and my son are playing D3, hes never played it i have about 1500 hours in it (last played 8 years ago), we are loving it especially compared to D4.
bye, see you next season.
We need more to achieve and strive for each season than the current season journey and the pit.
i was about to jump in, thanks for the heads up. maybe next season will be better, or maybe ill just wait for the crusader/paladin.
Best season if you like D2 over D3. Thumb up. You are basically grinding zones and dungens for a chance instead of spamming bosses for uniques and pits for glyphs. I’m having fun, Builds are viable even without chaos uniques. If you are looking for chaos unique for particular slot (chest) - gambling is your friend. I’ve got several by gambling
Chaos armor tetris is way too hard. Im nearing the breaking point as I cant get chaos fist of fate pants to drop so I cant use anything else that is chaos. I need chaos pants to make it work. Chaos tetris sucks. We should have had mythical versions of chaos armors that could polymorph for any slot like a chaos armor joker and had 2 GA at min.