Quote:That's what I find funny so far - you hear "The monsters are way too powerful and hard to kill" on one end, and "these new items are sickly overpowered, WTF" on the other. I don't know myself if there's a middle ground, but things have to be seriously tested out first.
I'm not rushing to judgment either, and I've only been in normal difficulty of 1.10 so far (which has been good), but this dichotomy worries me. It seems like Bliz is repeating the LoD fiasco. I use only items that I find myself, with a very few exceptions, and despite playing D2 since it started, I haven't seen many of the standard "mid-level" items, let alone all but a few of the "high-end" ones that are common as dirt on b.net. Has Bliz balanced hell to be really hard, but not impossible, for characters stuffed to the gills with duped "legit" (or, for the few dedicated players, non-duped really legit) high-end gear, and a bit easier for those who have apparently-almost-impossible-to-obtain-in-any-legit-fashion-sickly-overpowered-wtf-items? I don't know yet, but if so it looks bad.