Finally someone with my concerns. :p
I saw someone do the math though and the paragon stat boost isn't that significant. It's like 300 main stat 200 vit or such. Something like having an extra items' worth of stats. It helps and will make things easier, but it's not really night-and day considering how much grind you need to do for it, feels like a drop in the bucket next to 2k+ stats through gear.
But yeah, effectively eliminating MF just feels silly. I don't like that the "solution" for MF Gear swapping is to go grind till 99 and enjoy a stupid mechanic or keeping up with script swappers in the meantime. Plus you'll never have to make the gear tradeoffs that might have kept farming Act 1 useful for your high level paragon toon. Meanwhile the free gold find is going to inflate things badly for newcomers, while repair costs sinks do not really keep up, again newbies feel the pinch here while experienced players can just faceroll.
I saw someone do the math though and the paragon stat boost isn't that significant. It's like 300 main stat 200 vit or such. Something like having an extra items' worth of stats. It helps and will make things easier, but it's not really night-and day considering how much grind you need to do for it, feels like a drop in the bucket next to 2k+ stats through gear.
But yeah, effectively eliminating MF just feels silly. I don't like that the "solution" for MF Gear swapping is to go grind till 99 and enjoy a stupid mechanic or keeping up with script swappers in the meantime. Plus you'll never have to make the gear tradeoffs that might have kept farming Act 1 useful for your high level paragon toon. Meanwhile the free gold find is going to inflate things badly for newcomers, while repair costs sinks do not really keep up, again newbies feel the pinch here while experienced players can just faceroll.