Diablo III Options

[_Pax._]

Let's start with the elephant in the room the auction house, while the intention was good I think todays gamers have been drilled by MMOs into a gear thinking that simply isn't feasible in a RGN loot system, some people argue the difficulty curve was deliberately skewed to push people to the auction house. Bollocks people asked for soul destroyingly crushingly hard and Blizz set it to "Where we couldn't beat it in house then we doubled it", their expectation was for Inferno to last ages!

Yes and no.

I'll admit, the other day, I saw how cheap Gold was on the RMAH. I dropped ten bucks into my Blizzard balance, and grabbed myself about 39M gold. I'd spent twenty-five of it gearing my Wizard (currently level 58) and my g/f's Barbarian (level 57) with some really sweet legendaries.

Pre-RMAHing, her DPS was about 2K, and mine was just shy of 4K. We struggled against Elite packs, especially if there was a gold/yellow "miniboss" mob in the spawn. Multiple deaths, especially on my (glass cannon-y) part, were common.

Post-RMAH, her DPS is 12K, and mine has skyrocketed to thirty-eight thousand; she had a 500% improvement, whereas I enjoyed a 900% boost (and I've already got a L60 Changodo's set, waiting for me to ding twice, and jack that DPS up even higher!). And now ... we cut through ALL spawns so fast we sometimes have to stop and look at the bodies to even know what we just killed. This is on Hell difficulty, mind you. This morning we burned through Belial so fast, we both got "Good Eye" simply because he didn't LIVE long enough to drop any meteors at all!

That degree of difference is just ... holy CRAP, man.

So yes, I think the game was and is balanced toward where either you farm the ever-loving shit out of the game, and/or, you go to the AH and even RMAH.

The mechanics changes, I don't know I think the old school hardcore Diablo fans were just gluttons for punishment, personally I hated having to reroll to try a new build, skillpoints that only affected your numbers and stats that gave the illusion of choice.

I tried Hardcore in D3, actually. It was fun ... right up until the day before yesterday, when my L32 Hardcore Wizard got raped by a surprise, from-behind ambush by a pack of Champion demons, Act IV Normal. Onc ehte butthurt from that fades, I'm liable to try again. I just won't take my hardcore character very seriously, is all.

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[Lionhearted]

I was refering to the Diablo 2 purists that fought tooth and nail for the old skill system where you put points in where you either needed to reroll or beat the game to respecc, that means to the extent that if you missclicked the point was locked (meaning you had three total before reroll) the skill system also forced you to put 20 ranks in skills and their synergy skills to be any good, even then resistances could make your build useless in Hell.
Also you put out attribute points which had very much right and wrong ways of doing it.
Hardcore as a mode takes a certain kind of crazy, my wizard was killed at lvl 56 in act 3 hell. My heart sank and I started again, because it's just the way of hardcore.