04-19-2012, 08:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-19-2012, 08:49 PM by FireIceTalon.)
On D1, even though there was no MF, it was common for people in the end game stage to run Laz and Co., and 16, to farm all the best gear - in order to make the strongest char possible. After all, beating the game is hardly the point at the end of the day in my opinion - the REAL ultimate goal is to make the most badass char possible, regardless if its D1 or any other game of the same genre. The same will be true of D3, eventually. Sure, the object for a while is to beat the game on all difficulties, with all classes, but eventually the real goal will to be design the ultimate char of each class - be it for personal satisfaction/enjoyment, or for mastery of PvP which often requires more high end items/builds than PvM.
There is a lot of criticism towards making "cookie cutter" builds, and I can see why people may not like this, but for me at least, it really adds to the games re-playability - especially if you love PvP like I do. In D1, I ran countless Laz runs/16 (easily in the hundreds of thousands, possibly even a million) to make all my chars near perfect. I think D3's system will be a nice compromise for those who dislike high use of MF and making cookie-cutter builds, and those who dont mind it or actually enjoy it. You can use ALL the skills in D3 (even if only 6 at a time), and with the runestone system applying to skills nows instead of items, the amount of builds possible will be almost endless. The Cookie Cutter builds will be there for sure, but at least there will be a lot more of them from what I can see, then there was in the previous two games. I think this will help to create a more diverse range of playing styles among the D3 populace in both PvM and PvP. It will be really interesting to see what skills work in PvP and which do not, and developing the essential skills and tactical elements for each class in this realm of the game. The item drop system on "Inferno difficulty", however, has me pondering a bit. ANY monster on that difficulty, apparently, can drop top notch gear. In a sense, this is a good thing, because it means there is more opportunity and chance to find great stuff. But on the other hand, it seems like it may also take longer to find stuff since it would now make sense to clear an entire game, rather than just run Laz/Baal like in the first two games. I realize they are trying to make people play "all" of the game instead of just one section repeatedly, but for those who love to farm stuff this could be quite time consuming, especially since it is on the hardest difficulty, while difficulty on D1 did not matter when searching for the high end items (i forget if it mattered on D2 or not, and dont care).
There is a lot of criticism towards making "cookie cutter" builds, and I can see why people may not like this, but for me at least, it really adds to the games re-playability - especially if you love PvP like I do. In D1, I ran countless Laz runs/16 (easily in the hundreds of thousands, possibly even a million) to make all my chars near perfect. I think D3's system will be a nice compromise for those who dislike high use of MF and making cookie-cutter builds, and those who dont mind it or actually enjoy it. You can use ALL the skills in D3 (even if only 6 at a time), and with the runestone system applying to skills nows instead of items, the amount of builds possible will be almost endless. The Cookie Cutter builds will be there for sure, but at least there will be a lot more of them from what I can see, then there was in the previous two games. I think this will help to create a more diverse range of playing styles among the D3 populace in both PvM and PvP. It will be really interesting to see what skills work in PvP and which do not, and developing the essential skills and tactical elements for each class in this realm of the game. The item drop system on "Inferno difficulty", however, has me pondering a bit. ANY monster on that difficulty, apparently, can drop top notch gear. In a sense, this is a good thing, because it means there is more opportunity and chance to find great stuff. But on the other hand, it seems like it may also take longer to find stuff since it would now make sense to clear an entire game, rather than just run Laz/Baal like in the first two games. I realize they are trying to make people play "all" of the game instead of just one section repeatedly, but for those who love to farm stuff this could be quite time consuming, especially since it is on the hardest difficulty, while difficulty on D1 did not matter when searching for the high end items (i forget if it mattered on D2 or not, and dont care).
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)