08-21-2006, 04:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-21-2006, 04:55 AM by Hammerskjold.)
>Basically a Blizzard guy (NickJS) asks for suggestions and major concerns people have about the game right now, in case there will be a future patch.
Keeping in mind that bliz stated that there will be no more major (gameplay) changes after 1.10, and this is just a suggestion post and it doesn't mean that there will be a patch like you said etc.
I think it's not unreasonable at all of people asking for less division of offline and online contents. I personally don't quite like the way bliz balances and adds content for mostly online ladder, as if that is the only game in town. Security reasons is one thing, but the rest of the reasons just seems ridicilous. Online is probably the biggest or at least biggest looking game in town and therefore needs the most attention and priority. But it's definitely not the only one. But looking at past patches, bliz seems to have made their mind on the matter.
Everything from treasure drop probabilities and monster immunities seems to be balanced for a full party of 8 in mind. I might be the minority here, but I actually believe some of the runewords with cross skills is the best solution bliz has under the circumstances. If some players believe they're overpowered, I don't see the problem of not using it themselves.
Basically I'd be very satisfied if they just fix most of the technical bugs, and tear down some of the 'online ladder only' fence. I'd be ecstatic if they give some (affordable) Spear class specific runeword recipes.
Other than that, I think one of 1.10 best features was it more modder friendly, too bad the D2 game structure doesn't allow more modding something like a total conversion. And really at this point, I think my personal 'want' list can only be achieved by either a mod that hasn't been made yet, or a different game. But if this future patch just promises more pseudo MMORPG with more online only contents, with a dash of non-sensical nerfings (and nerfs disguised as buffs), and more ridicilously rare recipes\items that almost no legitimate player in the standard game can even hope to find. I'm happy enough with just playing 1.10 and some mods, offline.