04-18-2005, 01:56 AM
Skandranon,Apr 17 2005, 06:24 PM Wrote:IIRC, Brian Weissman's complaint wasn't that LoD was too easy, but that it was too hard. He posted during the beta, intensely frustrated that his polearm-whirlwind Barbarian couldn't slice its way through 8-player act 5. He was E-baying items, and made some absurd argument in its defense.
[right][snapback]74283[/snapback][/right]
Well, even though he was a bit premature in his assessment of the Barb, eventually the Barb did become a pathetically weak character, weak with massive twinking and completely useless without it.
He went from way too powerful when D2 just came out, to too powerful right before LoD came out, to just right when it came out, to way too weak without elite items in 1.09 and finally unplayable without the best gear and too weak even with it in 1.10.
The man was a prophet.
-A