10-27-2004, 06:02 AM
LochnarITB,Oct 26 2004, 11:32 PM Wrote:Ah, but how many times have you escaped an encounter by the skin of your teeth? That extra 3-4% can be that skin.
This reads to me as someone expecting the game to be set up for power gamers. Like has been said by others, different strokes for different folks. When I play the Diablo brothers or any of the many variants of the genre, my sense of fun with the game is to clear every map, pop every container and complete every quest I can get my hands on. Maybe that speaks to my having played dungeon crawls for 30+ years. (? Wow, I'm old! I remember wasting study time [who needed to study??] playing such things on a 120 baud teletype in the back of the math lab.) It seems that the power gamer's only thrill is to build their character to uber skills level. "I had to waste an extra hit on that last bad guy. This character sucks!" That is the reason I have a hard time playing with most of the current D2 populace. "What do you mean you're at the waypoint already? I'm still sorting through the loot from that first mob we hit." :blink:
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Indeed. While I don't do the full-clearing, I do get every WP and every quest. That includes the truly pointless ones like the palace cellar WP and the Blood Raven quest in nightmare/hell. So being rewarded for doing this is just a nice bonus, not the reason for doing it.
If you do look at it in terms of effort vs. reward, though, the current skill/statfe rewards are really plenty. There's simply no substitution. The only way to get a skill point is by doing one of the quests or by gaining a level. Both of those can be done only a finite number of times. So there are a finite number of skill points available, and if you don't do the quests, you're permanently missing out on them.