In depth, *realstic playtest and rant

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All,

I dont know about anybody else; I never was a great player; but STILL, I could always plod along in Hell in Players 1 and make it past the game. I could always continue to play a character past Hell Baal, and slowly but surely, I could get up to level 80 or more.

So, I grab the beta and I tried 4 different (older, retired Single-Player) level 78-82 range characters in Players 1 Hell in 1.10.

I could barely kill *ONE* monster with any of them.

My old Meteor / Blizzard sorceress would barely even see one archer in the Bloody Hills, and I would die in 2 hits. Even with SLVL 26 Meteor and 27 Fire Mastery, as well as level 16 Fireball, I couldn't touch monsters in solo/Hell/1.

I tried my old trusty Holy Shock Bow Paladin; a Bone Spear / CE / Revives Necromancer; and an Axe Frenzy Barbarian. None of them could kill anything. I couldn't even get out of sight of the Gate of Haroggath.

OK, 1.10 is ridiculous, as far as I'm concerned. At least in hell. And its too bad because I'm having a blast with Holy Fire on a bow in normal. But Players 1 Hell ... I dont personally have the ability to do it.

I can't imagine teams working either in 1.10, even on the realms. I mean, if you meet up with 7 other strangers, what are the odds that your skills will compliment each other? Not very high. You'd have to plan a team of 8 from the ground up, instead of having chance meetings.

"Normal" (crappy?) players like me who could just manage to kinda struggle through 1.09D (and previous) Hell are in for a surprise. I personally expect to try the real 1.10 in hell with 1 new character, but I expect in the end I will revert to 1.09D so I can enjoy the gamel OR else I'll never bother to play past Nightmare, even 1 player.

Just me,

Lewis