07-18-2003, 03:56 PM
I too am finding hell a boring game.
I was cruising with players 8 up to act 3 hell, then I got to the flayers and struggled through that but when I hit Kurast I was sick of the slow pace. I dropped it back to players 1, then hit the durance.
Every single pack is a boss pack and it's almost impossible to kill.
1.10 is fun up to nightmare but past act2 hell for me and an 82 necro with quite an army it's just to much hard work.
Bottom line is that it's not fun, sitting there and literally holding the mouse button down to kill a stoneskin boss is tedious.
I think someone described 1.10 as 1 blizzard employee's mod, and that's how it feels. I think we could have done with the bugs being fixed and the skills tweaked with a moderate increase in difficulty but from what I've seen it just borders on silly at times.
The randomisation in act5 is good but it just doesn't fit at times and looks like a mod. For instance imp towers where imps are supposed to jump up and fire inferno from, vacant because imps didn't spawn. It just feels wierd and wrong.
The regen rate for some monsters is beyond belief at times, and iam sure many off us have just thrown our hands up in disgust and decided to "leave that one alone" and run around a certain boss that was extra strong stone skin in hell..
Iam not exactly sure if certain builds can actually finish the game in hell at this time without serious cheating with programs like jamellas. All I can say is that the game seems to have been walking down this relatively straight road through normal and NM with some nice little additions here and there and then decided to not just take the left fork in the road at hell but jumped off the bridge aswell.
Can't help but wonder what exactly blizzard is trying to achieve here.
*Bemused*
I was cruising with players 8 up to act 3 hell, then I got to the flayers and struggled through that but when I hit Kurast I was sick of the slow pace. I dropped it back to players 1, then hit the durance.
Every single pack is a boss pack and it's almost impossible to kill.
1.10 is fun up to nightmare but past act2 hell for me and an 82 necro with quite an army it's just to much hard work.
Bottom line is that it's not fun, sitting there and literally holding the mouse button down to kill a stoneskin boss is tedious.
I think someone described 1.10 as 1 blizzard employee's mod, and that's how it feels. I think we could have done with the bugs being fixed and the skills tweaked with a moderate increase in difficulty but from what I've seen it just borders on silly at times.
The randomisation in act5 is good but it just doesn't fit at times and looks like a mod. For instance imp towers where imps are supposed to jump up and fire inferno from, vacant because imps didn't spawn. It just feels wierd and wrong.
The regen rate for some monsters is beyond belief at times, and iam sure many off us have just thrown our hands up in disgust and decided to "leave that one alone" and run around a certain boss that was extra strong stone skin in hell..
Iam not exactly sure if certain builds can actually finish the game in hell at this time without serious cheating with programs like jamellas. All I can say is that the game seems to have been walking down this relatively straight road through normal and NM with some nice little additions here and there and then decided to not just take the left fork in the road at hell but jumped off the bridge aswell.
Can't help but wonder what exactly blizzard is trying to achieve here.
*Bemused*