06-20-2012, 01:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2012, 01:35 AM by FireIceTalon.)
(06-20-2012, 01:26 AM)Taelas Wrote:(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?
The fact the enrage timer EXISTS at all is a complete joke, so making the repair costs higher in conjunction with that (not to mention the respawn timer and full health regeneration of many/most mobs) compounds the death penalty to the point where there is NO incentive to play Inferno, unless you are the very top percentile in terms of gear. If you die even once, you are looking at probably upwards of at least 15k in repairs. It doesn't matter if they have nothing to do with one another or not, just the fact they co-exist means I no longer have ANY desire or incentive to try and progress. Raising the repair costs completely cancels out any good the nerfing of Inferno did in my eyes. The increased repair costs are a bad idea in a long, sad history of bad ideas by Blizz.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)