Patch 1.05 Preview

[Archon_Wing]

I have mixed feelings about the patch. There's a lot of good, which has been pretty well covered. I really wish the game had been released with the current design principles, instead of totally warped - there are some weird gaps now.

I gave my old barbarian a spin. I liked the inventory management system better when I was only picking up level 63 rares. It's great that it only takes 1 sec instead of 3 secs to identify a rare, but I go back to town to do this more than 3 times as often. It's still almost all junk.

I can't say that was my experience. Yes, there was a lot of junk but the percentage of good stuff is higher. Stuff I'd consider giving to my friends, instead of just gold to gain from the AH.

I was picking up only yellow 63s by the end of 1.04, but to me that was a sign of defeat. An acceptance that 95% of the items are useless, and arguably the remaining 5% is mostly trash too. Now anything can be great. Jewelry is amazing and none are worth passing up as it should be. As it should be. I don't like forgone conclusions where you leave stuff on the floor because it might as well have existed.

I then put all my items in the stash and started hell act 1 with only the weapons armor from the first vendor and the rings/amulets from the 2nd vendor. It was a little rough at first, but surprisingly doable. I've quickly found items that make the game seem pretty easy. Granted 27 paragon levels and access to valor stack is causing me to find more items than a character playing the first time through, but wow hell seems easy now. I wonder what the point of having 4 difficulty levels is if the first 3 are all easy.

I agree that normal is too easy even for untwinked, but for hell I think it was fine. In any game, when you outlevel and outgear the content so severely, it will be trivial. If you entered hell in 1.04 as a plvl 27, that would have the same effect. That's not the fault of the difficulty itself though, and monster power can even out things.