If it took you 20 hours to level to 100 before, and now it takes 10- just make a new character and it’ll be the same thing. Getting the strongest gear should always be (and finally is) the main focus of the game
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Well, I assume that because the sooner you get to max level, the sooner you get to the good gear.
When I can level as quickly as I can, it feels like a minor inconvenience that I just want to blast past as quickly as possible. If they slowed it down a bit it would feel like more of an experience. But I’m not too phased.
The gear grind also takes no time
I like the leveling processing and feeling like im progressing.
Not long into gearing in d3,4 you are looking for 1 or 2% increases on a gear piece and thats it
It really feels stale and boring only working for that and nothing else
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Uhh…what? Getting all Greater Affixes, perfect stats, and 3 crits on your preferred Greater Affix while Masterworking? On all of your gear!? Yea…no. That’s not “no time”- it’s almost impossible and an extremely time-consuming chase. Those Masterworking crits aren’t 1 or 2% increases either, they’re extremely significant.
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We’re almost there. In a few more seasons we can just transfer Eternal Realm character to the Seasonal Realm.
For me it all depends on what the game is going for. Right now D4 is going for getting the player to endgame content as quickly as possible. D3 did the same exact thing. D2 didn’t have any endgame content, so leveling was in fact the game, along with gear finding.
If the leveling process was more enjoyable and served a purpose other then a means to an end, I could see having a slower leveling process, but that’s currently not how D4 is operating, and I doubt this will change based on all the changes we’ve seen since launch. The Diablo franchise has evolved, for better or worse, to spend less time leveling and more time refining your gear once you’ve hit endgame activities.
Taken from the perspective of a casual gamer, and the majority of their player base, this makes sense though. More time spent finding gear and killing enemies rather then worry about where to invest the next point after literal hours or days of grinding just to get 1 extra level.
What experience? It’s a boring grind that isn’t even fun like monster hunter mat farming.
Well, loot hunt wasn’t gated behind horrible mat farming, maybe it was toward the end, I wouldn’t know I stopped before that point.
Also the fact that you can customized your own character, making all sorts of different build was actually great, more build variety more longevity IMO.
Also I’d say the end game is PvP, you get enough great from pve then it’s just dueling all day everyday lol
Well i mean torches did require keysets which were alot rarer then any D4 mat. D2 also had much lower drop rates on every single item compared to mythic items which are common in the comparison.
I think they happened after I quitted the game, so I can’t comment on that.
Whatever it is, I’m pretty sure I’d hate it.
I’m so sick of boss mats farming
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I mean I wouldnt mind them dropping mat requirements and reducing drop rates.
Yeah I’d much rather have lost drop rate without mats gating.
When I play arpg I just wanna log in blast for 30 minutes then log off lol
It cost 4 hours leveling to 100. It’s so difficult to do leveling. I’m burning out.
Personally, leveling up is one of the most fun parts of the game because it involves character progression.
I understand that D4 is going in the same direction as D3 and this is a philosophy that I think Blizzard will adopt in the next games in the franchise, reaching the maximum level right away to go after some equipment.
I would like Diablo 4’s leveling up to be something a little more similar to what we have in PoE and LE (not a copy or as difficult/slow as it is), that the character progressed at the same level as the search for the perfect items, that the endgame started before level 100, that those skill points from level 90 onwards were the refinements in the character’s skills, something a little more balanced.
It already is like that. You can start getting perfect items when you hit wt4. You don’t need to be 100. Endgame does start before 100. Paragon points that start at level 50 is refining the character.
Maybe I just don’t understand what you are asking for but it seems like you are asking for things that already exist.
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I’m crazy bro, I just wanted to say that it could be a little slower because it’s a fun part of the game if used well.
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Personally I like leveling. I didn’t like the slow slog of 70-100 at launch because it was boring and meaningless but otherwise I like it. I wouldnt want to do a long slog grind of it every season though.
I think right now the beginning and end is fine. Just wt3 feels pointless right now. It could use tweakage still. Probably will be with the expansion, lvl cap rework, and stats squish anyhow.
As it is in the current season for me it is great, I wouldn’t like to have more exp bonuses, there is always an event in the middle of the season with more exp, I think that with more endgame activities for us to level up it will end up becoming more and more fun and less repetitive
This game was never designed about the leveling process. That is why they continue to speed it up. They want you at max level in no time where you truly start farming for the gear (which rains down from the high heavens like it is going out of style).
The reason for this approach is to keep season lengths short and new “seasonal” content coming in to give the players something new and plus more battle passes to sell sooner rather than later. Season 5 will be interesting because the Infernal Hordes activity will be released into Eternal as well.
Personally the most enjoyment I get is the 1-25 leveling. After that once you start getting some good Legendary drops its like (enter speed mode on your crocs) and just ZIP ZAM ZOOM and then next thing your entering World Tier 4 at level 60 or sooner.
Which then yeah you still are leveling, but let the NMD runs begin until your glyphs are max and then go to do the lovely greater rifts I mean pits over and over and over and over for a week or 2 and stop playing.