05-06-2003, 02:12 PM
I figured I'd chime in a few of these points too.
More interesting play experience and not impossible for non-uber characters can actually work together. What is the last normal monster that killed you besides a Frenzytaur (Moon Lord, Death Lord, etc), a stygian doll, or an oblivion knight (which are classed as champions anyway)? Are there any normal monsters that really pose a challenge? The things that kill people are bosses and even then it isn't all of those that are a challenge, and some of them aren't fun at all, only really annoying. So, if you up the power of normal monsters and lower the power of the bosses you can get where you want. Bosses are still going to be more powerful because they will still have minions and those minions will be even tougher. This means you may have to worry more about seperation. Having bosses that might be able to kill you in some fashion besides a one hit kill would be a good thing too. Make them hit faster and better but for less damage, so instead of dying in one hit, you die in 4 but those 4 hits come a lot quicker, possibly locking in you place, but still giving you a chance of getting away (the thing will still have to miss, or a party member could stun it). This would also take away one of the greatest annoyances of the game. The whole cruise, cruise, cruise, oh crap an extra strong, extra fast, fanatic boss! oh no an MSLEB! Hopefully with tougher more varied monsters you aren't really cruise cruise, cruising anymore, and then with slightly weaker bosses (or stronger but not one hit kill fear types) things are as stupid as they can be now.
Items. As was said if there are some new items for the lower powered, smaller chars, better rares, some more accessible runewords and crafts, that will help a lot. It would be nice if the drop system could be tweaked so that you can find some of the little uniques when you can still use them. While something like hotspur can be used on a few variants, finding them from Rakinishu the first time you kill him in normal is cool, because they are generally way better than anything else you can get.
Just some thoughts. I do agree that the gaps are one of the biggest problems, and closing some of them will fix a lot of issues.
More interesting play experience and not impossible for non-uber characters can actually work together. What is the last normal monster that killed you besides a Frenzytaur (Moon Lord, Death Lord, etc), a stygian doll, or an oblivion knight (which are classed as champions anyway)? Are there any normal monsters that really pose a challenge? The things that kill people are bosses and even then it isn't all of those that are a challenge, and some of them aren't fun at all, only really annoying. So, if you up the power of normal monsters and lower the power of the bosses you can get where you want. Bosses are still going to be more powerful because they will still have minions and those minions will be even tougher. This means you may have to worry more about seperation. Having bosses that might be able to kill you in some fashion besides a one hit kill would be a good thing too. Make them hit faster and better but for less damage, so instead of dying in one hit, you die in 4 but those 4 hits come a lot quicker, possibly locking in you place, but still giving you a chance of getting away (the thing will still have to miss, or a party member could stun it). This would also take away one of the greatest annoyances of the game. The whole cruise, cruise, cruise, oh crap an extra strong, extra fast, fanatic boss! oh no an MSLEB! Hopefully with tougher more varied monsters you aren't really cruise cruise, cruising anymore, and then with slightly weaker bosses (or stronger but not one hit kill fear types) things are as stupid as they can be now.
Items. As was said if there are some new items for the lower powered, smaller chars, better rares, some more accessible runewords and crafts, that will help a lot. It would be nice if the drop system could be tweaked so that you can find some of the little uniques when you can still use them. While something like hotspur can be used on a few variants, finding them from Rakinishu the first time you kill him in normal is cool, because they are generally way better than anything else you can get.
Just some thoughts. I do agree that the gaps are one of the biggest problems, and closing some of them will fix a lot of issues.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.