Explosive arrows (question)

[LiquidDamage]

Next time you sit down to play Monopoly with friends ask the following two questions:

1. "Don't you guys hate it when you run out of money?"

answer is likely to be a chorus of "yes!"

2. "How about we each get $2000 instead of $200 when we pass Go!?"

to which, if the answer isn't "you've gotta be kidding!" then I suggest you try it and find out why this is an awful idea.

I do not see the comparison at all. What you suggest sounds like I am asking them to make 1 skill point in firebolt deal 30-60 damage. Am I asking for my power to be increased tenfold? No, I am asking for my power not to be nullified if it is not above some overly high level.

My first Blade Fury assassin had maxed Claw Mastery and used an ethereal Strength wrist sword. This really is far from variant material, it dealt equivalent damage to a 100% ED elite weapon with 25% crushing blow, and I had a decent AR and damage boost from my skill. Despite this, she took about 2 or 3 minutes to kill pretty much any single monster in act 2 Hell in a 2 person game, because of monster regen. I really think that a 100% ED elite should be enough, in act 2 hell, to actually kill at even a slow rate, considering that you practically have to be there just to find such an item, without farming act 5 NM.

I know that scarcity makes things valuable, but does it make things fun? I find limited options to be limiting, not fun. Knowing that with one small change, I could play many other builds, as long as I had the patience, irritates me. I could play a bow using assassin with venom. I could play a teeth necromancer. I could play a glacial spike/fireballghtning bolt sorceress, or a pure Shadow skills assassin. I cannot do any of these without PMH, and applying PMH with all but the bow assassin would be a serious pain in the neck, and my teeth necro would practically be a poison dagger necro, considering all the stabbing he would have to do.

You know, all the posts responding to me so far in this thread seem to suggest that I am either "bored with challenge" or that I want all my characters to be ridiculously powerful. Where do you get this idea? All I am saying is that I think monster regen should be removed because it does nothing to affect the ubar l33t players, it only hurts variants. I say this because it makes certain builds unplayable past a certain point, depending on how much damage the build deals over time, unless they have a particular item modifier, that must be applied via a physical attack.

I have no interest in petitioning Blizzard, I just felt like expressing my opinion on monster regeneration, and then was suddenly accused of not enjoying challenge. I explained that I enjoyed challenge, but that monster regen simply created a brick wall, and now my opinion is compared to asking for 10 times the money for passing Go in Monopoly, which is ludicrous. Monster regen, in D2C, around 1.03, was totally managable (Sirian's Firebolt sorceress only dealt about 50-60 damage, and killed things in act 4 Nightmare), and I don't recall the game being too easy because of it. Why do you find my opinion so unreasonable, Crystalion?