(06-20-2012, 01:01 AM)RedRadical Wrote: Are the changes made in Act 2 onward only? Cause I just logged on with my Wiz and tried to do a Butcher run and I noticed NO change in the difficulty. If anything it seemed a little bit harder, and the new repair costs just SUCK. Makes me want to play Inferno even less now, since they made the already harsh death penalties even harsher. Booooooooooooo.........
... how can you possibly describe the previous death penalties as "harsh"?
The only thing you lose is coin. I don't particularly like farming, so I have gathered maybe 2.5 million over the course of my entire D3 career so far (never having more than the 450k I had at one point), and I didn't notice repair costs when my gear was at 0 durability.
Patch isn't up in Europe yet, so I can't comment on whether or not the new costs are too high for me, but the previous cost barely amounted to a speed bump, let alone a "harsh" penalty.
The only death penalty that I consider harsh is the respawn timer, which has absolutely nothing to do with repair costs.... and which, to my knowledge, wasn't affected at all in the patch?
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