05-25-2012, 06:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2012, 07:05 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Regarding the gold AH, it is a unfortunate necessity to use when you get to hell mode. I agree with you, finding your own loot is much more fun. The problem is, the drops in this game are piss poor (at least until you reach level 60 and get to inferno supposedly) in relation to the difficulty and time spent finding them. It is very imbalanced. I'm 60 but havent reached Inferno yet, and players are commonly finding themselves having to use the AH to upgrade their chars just so they can get through the higher difficulties w/o it feeling like they are banging their heads against a brick wall. The crafting system isnt really reliable either until you max out your artisans, and that costs A FORTUNE to do. Why would people do that when they can get a much better item (for much cheaper in the long run, without having to play "wheel of fortune") at the AH, and then just wait till they are 60 and only then max out the artisans? Normally I would say just get rid of the AH, but to do that, they would have to make the drops rates and the quality of the drops MUCH better (or nerf the champion/rare packs to some degree), and the crafting/upgrading artisan system would have to become less costly. I have found a few nice items in my adventures along the way, and I've upgraded an item or two by crafting them, but it has been my AH purchases that have allowed to get as far as I have. You expend far too much time fighting Champions and Rare packs, and you get so little in return, that the AH becomes a necessity just to get through the game on hell or inferno. At the moment, my DH does about 9.5k DPS and has about 25K life, yet toward the end of Act 3 on hell mode is still insanely hard. Nothing wrong with that, but without some of the upgrades I made at the AH, it would be impossible for me to get through it playing solo, or at least tedious to the point where the game would turn into more of a chore.
I agree completely with the chatrooms. They are awful, and we also need a CUSTOM chatroom system where we can go, as well as a custom game creation system like in D1 or D2.
Still, I consider this to be the best game in the series yet. These are serious flaws which Blizz needs to address, but everything else is really well done. I love the story, the combat system is spectacular, the graphics are very nice, and the skill system is vastly better than D2's in every possible way, although I am none too pleased that Blizz is already starting to nerf some of the defensive skill on certain classes.
I agree completely with the chatrooms. They are awful, and we also need a CUSTOM chatroom system where we can go, as well as a custom game creation system like in D1 or D2.
Still, I consider this to be the best game in the series yet. These are serious flaws which Blizz needs to address, but everything else is really well done. I love the story, the combat system is spectacular, the graphics are very nice, and the skill system is vastly better than D2's in every possible way, although I am none too pleased that Blizz is already starting to nerf some of the defensive skill on certain classes.
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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 (addressing the bourgeois)