05-27-2012, 05:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-27-2012, 05:57 PM by ViralSpiral.)
Yet, anyhow. That was my biggest regret of not getting to play D2 until a year after its release, I never got to play on Bnet before dupes took over. But that was my point in comparing to 1.10 two weeks after; almost no one had legitimately obtained elite uniques, high end rune words, or anything else we now consider standard gear. Heck, I have trouble looking for any 1.13 build guides that suggest anything OTHER than Enigma for armour (I have, in well over 5,000 hours of expansion play, not seen either of the high end runes necessary for it outside of 1.10 mods I used to play.)
My point being - let's see if these complaints about poor gear exist in six weeks, after people have had time to puzzle out where the good farming even is, or what gear is good. I bet there's half a dozen legendaries of considerable potency people don't even know exist yet, much less where to get them. People are approaching the game with the mentality of people who've played WoW/D2 for years and for the majority of the time knew most or all of what there was to know. We're still in the exploration stages here, and even I know it's too soon to judge.
Hell, I remember when LoD first came out and people thought there wasn't going to be any more viable solo-8 builds for Hell because of all the changes. That was a laugh three or four weeks later. Hell didn't get scary at all until 1.10.
My point being - let's see if these complaints about poor gear exist in six weeks, after people have had time to puzzle out where the good farming even is, or what gear is good. I bet there's half a dozen legendaries of considerable potency people don't even know exist yet, much less where to get them. People are approaching the game with the mentality of people who've played WoW/D2 for years and for the majority of the time knew most or all of what there was to know. We're still in the exploration stages here, and even I know it's too soon to judge.
Hell, I remember when LoD first came out and people thought there wasn't going to be any more viable solo-8 builds for Hell because of all the changes. That was a laugh three or four weeks later. Hell didn't get scary at all until 1.10.