I would like to know the reasons and motivations behind playing right now and maxing out our characters when we already know that in a few days season 1 will release and wipe out everything and we have to start from scratch as level 1? So it is better to wait for season 1 instead of wasting our time now? Play other games while we wait for season?
Edit: Ok you guys have given me enough reasons and motivations to continue and keep playing my non season characters while we all wait for season 1. Cheers.
Season 1 doesn’t actually wipe out your progress. All your characters and their progress remains in normal play. In seasons you do start fresh, but all your characters at the end of the season will transfer and added to your normal mode.
I think they know that, the problem is the game being boring and slow to play. Not going to be the same as Diablo 3 seasons.\
Also not sure how the feeling of getting progressively weaker as you level in a season-based game is going to translate good into seasonal play when the loot for some classes is just abysmal. Why bother hunting skins for loot when the loot itself sucks.
Jesus Christ you people are insufferable. You DO not have to play seasons. You DO NOT lose any progress you made on the eternal realms. Your character is NOT wiped. You DO NOT start from scratch, you get all the renown upgrades on your alts and new character.
Why play Season 1 when everything will be wiped out for Season 2 and start at level 1 character? Perhaps you should skip seasons if your worried about that. Eternal realm will keep progress.
Its way faster to level now since the XP change, and the season pass will have periodic XP boosts.
It’ll be pretty quick to level. That will present a new problem, there’s nothing to do at 100 that you can’t do at 50, so what’s the point in leveling so quickly?
This right here IMO is why the entire concept of how they are doing seasons is flawed.
Rather then play the game now, you are waiting tell a time when playing the game will feel relevant to do so… this game inherently makes you feel like you are wasting your time playing it with how the mechanics work for seasons.
When season 1 drops my necromancer willl still be there with all her equipment, will still be playable and untouched. Then when some of the season mechanics transfer after the season is over she can benefit from them. So the character loses nothing and might even gain something once the season is over.
Well, as for myself, for D3-RoS I ONLY played hardcore. To me it’s just more fun to have to worry about dying and try not to do it.
But to do it in D4, I have to know everything first, before I make a hardcore. Need to know how to game plays, and it plays differently to all classes.
Gotta play it a lot to get comfortable hardcore for the game Have to learn HOW to do it, before I do it. All the ins and outs.
I have to learn HOW it’s easy, because D3-RoS hardcore was really really easy. It’s just no one knew HOW to do it easy, because they didn’t tell you how. Blizzard just said “when you’re dead your dead”, and left it up to us to figure out how to do it.
Once you learn how to do it in D3, you learned you were really only dead if you die 3 times within 2 minutes. You can actually die 100 times in a rift without being truly dead. Just had to learn how. Die twice, wait 2 minutes for the cooldown, then start fighting again. As long as you let the 2 minute cooldown on the cheat death run out, you’re not dead, you’re just waiting 2 minutes
D4 will have something that makes hardcore easy, I just have to learn what, first
seasons don’t wipe anything. you simply have to redo stuff with another char, and not even all of it. what you have with existing ones in eternal realm stays there. the problem is that since there’s no endgame and nothing to do after leveling and maxing a char, actually there’s zero motivation and reason to create a new char in eternal realm, after the first one: that would waste the only good thing about season, the chance to do that with fresh new content, albeit limited. the only way to make it last a bit longer is wait for season, to roll a new char there, and hope it is funnier and more pleasing and rewarding than this was. until it’s leveled and geared up and paragon filled and the little new content experienced (few weeks at best)… and then forget about the game til new season. it will become quickly a “forget about it after few weeks” game. park it, forget about it, “oh new season, let’s reroll a new class for few weeks, byeee”. until some far more interesting game able to keep interest far longer and more reliably will make even that “oh new season” remembrance moment vanish, and then bye bye til an expansion perhaps. but only after it gets released since no way many will go and fork the money upfront again after having experienced this slog.
Well said! thus ive stopped playing a long time ago and probably won’t pick this back up for a few years. if it still feels mechanized but its “fixed” i’m still done for good.
worst diablo ever. “Yay smooth launch!” thats a first, but that doens’t mean the game is good.
When Season 1 hits my Druid isn’t wiped out. Seasons, for me, are when I start on my alts. I play 1 character a season (if SC, HC might be more if I die) and then when Season X ends I’ll make a decision based on information if I want to play Season Y or work on “perfecting” my eternal characters.
How I’ve always played ARPGs and I don’t see that changing in D4
I think the whole point is we know we will have to start a new character for the new season. This inst a problem, ill be participating for sure. But knowing I wont be touching my current toon for roughly 3 months in about 2 two weeks makes it feel a little pointless to play.
I totally see how you are viewing it, at the end of the day its really how each person defines “a waste of time”. You are looking at the overall meta progression for non-season toons, as in when the season ends they get to reap the rewards. I’m looking at it as, once a season starts those old toons will never be touched again.
You also need to consider the time between seasons, has it been confirmed? What if its only two weeks, that means you will play your old non-season toons for 2 week stretches in between seasons. This is totally find if that’s how you enjoy the game.
This wasn’t an issue at all in D3 for me because creating a new toon and maxing them out took half a day. You were stacked with gear in a week and were able to really enjoy as much out of the season as you can before it ended. With multiple differnt characters. If D4 seasons were 6 month stretches, that would be awesome. Two seasons a year.