The Auction House III: Evil is Back

[Quark]

There isn't going to be a rebalance of the primary factor involved, which is ramp up of mob levels.

If you've ever played WoW and tried to fight mobs above your level, you quickly realize how painful it is unless your toon is way OP for its own level.

I doubt the Diablo level gap is that harsh, but there can be no doubt that the biggest factor in the "increase" in "difficulty" of Inferno is the level of the mobs. Every single one of them is higher level than you, and this gap grows significantly the farther you progress.

This isn't true in the slightest. In addition to the Armor penalty for level (which s

Act 1 Level: 61
Act 2 Level: 62
Act 3 Level: 63
Act 4 Level: 63

Armor mitigation %: Armor / (50*Level + Armor)
So the constant changes from 3050 to 3150. In practice, my mitigation drops from 51% to 50%.

Resistance mitigation %: Resistance / (5*Level + Resistance)
Constant from 305 to 315 (this is why 1 resistance = 10 armor at even gearing). In practice, my mitigation drops from 30% to 30%.

The Armor formula from WoW has a steeper change between levels (instead of 50*Level, it's essentially 467.5*Level), but more importantly WoW has a formula completely missing from D3: To hit. To hit in WoW was affected by both attacker and target level. It hits pretty harshly once you get into 3+ range on level.

Meanwhile, I'll quote this from another forum.

I went through the damage numbers in the Brady guide.

If the numbers are to be trusted:

All monsters have base damage determined their level, and a multiplier determined by their class.

Base damage is approximately: 9k for level 61, 13k for level 62 and 56.5k(!) for 63.

Later the same guy showed a graph of linear progression of monster health and damage between levels 1-60, then hyper accelerates with a much steeper linear progressing in 61-63. They specifically changed the damage ramp up for 61-63 to be harsher than all other levels before.

IE: all they really have to do to make Act 2 not as nuts, and Act 3/4 not as insane, is reduce the effect of their own kludge.

Edit: late noticed missing sentence finish.