A few ideas of how to save D3

[MongoJerry]

There is a world of difference between one or two aspects of the game being broken, and the whole game being broken.

One or two? Wow, how memory fades. Class balance in D2 and LOD on their releases was either a couple of completely overpowered builds that allowed players to clear 8-player mode solo with ease or skills so terrible that they couldn't kill a normal mob in 1-player hell. People remember the corpse explosion necromancers and lance barbs, but how about my being able to static field whole screenfuls of mobs down to a sliver of health in a few seconds? Or for that matter, my sorceress being able to kill Diablo in 8-player hell solo in 3 seconds? Or the great bow bug limited Amazons at first and then when the bows got fixed, the great multi-zon uber builds. Or the fact that Paladins had no comparatively effective builds in the beginning, and then later smashed through everything with hammerdin after certain bugs were fixed and skills altered.

How about people's ability to get to level 99 on the first day of LOD without threat by running the first level of Act V over and over? Or being able to get all the best gear in the game without threat by running Pindle over and over?

What about the fact that the game was never hard? Ever. My God, I no geared no skill assigned punched a sorceress through Act I and someone else at the Amazon Basin managed to do it through all of Normal difficulty?

What about all of the dupes and bots running around destroying what existed of a trade economy?

And then, there was all of the incredible server instability that I would have gladly exchanged for what the D3 servers are going through.

D3 is a *far* more polished game than D2 has ever been even after years of patching. No, D3 is not perfect and can never be everything to everyone. But we already know about some changes coming down the pipeline (pvp, legendary changes, etc.), and I feel good that Blizzard is going to continue to support the game. And the fact that D2 managed to stay popular despite how broken it was makes me feel good about the prospects for D3, which is already a better game than D2 ever was.