A list of thoughts on S7 so far.
1] Please double down on efforts to make sure season is working.
Right now the only psyche power that seems to work with The Coven is Aura of Misfortune. I really needed Lament to work. ITs a better aura and slow is higher and I needed it for resource generation but it doesnt work. The coven stacks wont go past 2 with it and with aura of misfortune they do. This bug really hurt me. Also whisper of flame was down for several days and ppl had problems with new characters while having VoH already making them do prologue or something something. Thumbs down. 
2] Hero imbalance is still at all time high. WE have several builds doing infinity damage like cata druid and 
necro. Meanwhile poor feature build BL sorc is begging for 3rd enchant slot still and comparing focus uniques in same slot and wondering if he can do a 80 yet with necro doing 100s naked.
3] Powers are fun and interesting in general. But growth is outshining everything for me by a large margin. The damage things dont seem to scale that well but stacking stats and growing minions does. The psyche powers are lacking I think and buggy. 
4] Legendary Gems are way too involving. By the time I get all of these I want I will be over 200-250 paragon and making a new character.
5] Secret powers are too hard to find. I would only have 1 if ppl dint share with me. Thanks to those ppl. These are so rare I seen ppl selling them in trade chat for 100M-1B gold. That should never happen. Bad design.
6] Fugitive heads are too rare. You have to be on tier 3 and 4 or it seems this never drop and lets make sure the draught works as I have used several and then gone 0 heads so I pray this doesnt prevent you from having them drop instead.
7] Loot is overwhelming. Way too much stuff drops. Lets tone this down a bit and have a bit more ancestrals dropping or something instead or give us more inventory room. Will still give this a positive because loot.
8] Legendary runes are way too rare. I sold a BAC last night for 750m gold. This is putting mythic crafting out of reach for many players. Also the rune tab should hold every rune.
9] New Zone has good density. Love the constant enemies. Good job here. My one gripe is the escort the deer part they get stuck.
10] Some powers are missing tags. Why does piranhado not have summon tag as its made of fishies?
Overall there are many misses here but I am having a good time so season gets a overall but the are piling up as well.
What are your thoughts so far?
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I pretty much disagree with everything that includes “too rare” or “too involving”. Diablo 4 has close to no content that requires time and considering how fast s7 is right now i dont see a reason why ANYTHING needs to become faster, or easier.
thats “eventually” the only part id agree on. They do feel a tad bit too rare indeed - as to a point that you sometimes wonder if they even exist. But yea, you found it out yourself, contact other people and splitfarm - actually thats an aspect i enjoyed from this.
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Im speaking on behalf of casual gamers. IF you can only play 1 hour a day or every couple of days you are never getting legendary gems. I will be fine as I have much free time but it does seem it will take too much time to get legendary gems because you need 4 other gems to make it along with hundreds of thousands of gem parts and thousands of rotten parts and 4 heads. Other gems are ok but legendary gems are not.
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hey thats ok. I still think that d4 is already WAY too casual - moving forward ill be pretty much against anything that goes into the direction of “faster” and “easier”
Im with you on many points btw, i enjoy the season itself, but its alarming how fast diablo 4 became. Id even go as far as to say that even d3 requires more time to gear up by now.
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Please ever return to where the Purveyor is occasionally giving Uniques and Ancenstrals or just remove it entirely.
Easily gambled/gotten over a thousand items from him/her and gotten zero Uniques, even simple Legendary ones and only two or three frankly terrible GAs.
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hmm, i got a unique from him actually, but i do feel like he got a nerf as well actually. of course i cant prove it but yea, got the same tummy feeling.
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Purveyor is pretty bad again and almost a waste of time.
My numbers I would use.
Magic - 0 chance. No longer offered.
Rare - 84.4%
Lego - 10% or 1 in 10
Unique 3% or 1 in 33
Lego Ancestral - 2% or 1 in 50
0.1% = mythic or 1 in 1000 purchases.
Done editing!
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Certainly agree with #8. The legendary rune drop rate is ridiculously low. Season will be over before I can craft a mythic and yeah the purveyor is a complete waste of time
You’re pretty much wrong, as usual. The good thing is that while you might be wrong to me you might be right to you. We call people like you outliers. You can probably drop 12 hours of play in one sitting.
Most of us can’t do that responsibly. So congratulations, you’re a time-rich induvial, but you bragging about how you can blast through the end game in a couple days is basically like me bragging about dropping 400K on my 4th car to people who struggle to keep up with Honda payments.
So spare us your “I’m so rich with spare time and time-sinks should be scaled to ME ONLY” arguments. I’ve seen multiple of these arguments from you specifically and it’s tone deaf.
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well, i guess you can be an elon musk then. I do for sure have spare time to play video games, as its a hobby of mine. If you dont have time for your hobbies it might be due that you change to a less time consuming hobby. eventually a 5th car is possible then.
only if you spare us with your “i got 17 kids, 5 wifes, and 23 jobs”, so i got no time to farm something in a video game. =)
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Boost yourself and lie about it? Too bad get rekt and boost yourself response? Not a great moment for u!
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well, if someone is talking about his income, his 400k cars, and cries about rarity, i guess thats the only option. I sincerely dont think that a game should be designed around people that cant spend 30 mins a day on it. its a seasonal online game. people also have the option to play eternal for that matter. if i had basically no time to play at all, id for sure wouldnt strive for a mythic raiding guild in wow.
well, to correct myself, some games should, like candycrush. the goal for d4, or any arpg, cant be to make things as easy as possible. We might as well just have an npc that sells us everything we want then.
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He wasnt saying he had 400k cars and such. HE was saying that would be like him saying that and hes right. There is a happy medium on droprates on this but I agree with him I think legendary gems are going to take casuals a large part of season. Items we get way too much. Casuals are going to take a long time to get to tier 4 and after this the struggle to get legend gems is real for them. I think the way this is balanced per difficulty needs to be smoothed out some and a bit more in front.
Current:
Tier 1: 4% droprate heads
Tier 2: 6%
Tier 3: 8%
Tier 4:10%
NEW
Tier 1: 6%
Tier 2: 8%
Tier 3: 9%
Tier 4: 10%
This would really help casuals while not affecting the blasters and powerful characters able to get tier 3 and 4 quickly.
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My thoughts are you can’t have 10 first thoughts. It is mathematically impossible.
I am having fun in the season, but I did move to HC much faster than any previous season. Not sure what that means, if anything.
Haha what a stickler for semantics. You got me!
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Some powers not working is unacceptable.
They need to do more than just 1 mid season patch. They should do multiple balance patches per season.
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I like the idea of the powers as a form of subclassing. I wish they’d bake it into the base game once they get the powers fixed and the season ends. Maybe they could experiment with new powers in future seasons to add into the base too.
The drop rates of the season powers/heads being so low makes no sense to me.
You can level up and complete the BP in 2-3 days (a bit more being casual) and reach T3 or even 4 (some builds are reaaly broken) without having any gem at all and unlocking all the powers, so the feeling of being rewarded is practically inexistent (im talking about the season theme).
When you complete almost everything in the game whats the point of farming heads and searching for powers?
so all your points about making an absolutely casual game even more casual?
Thank you, but it was people like you who brought this game to such a state, so be kind enough to spend more than 30 minutes a day playing the game, in which case many of your points will disappear by themselves.
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