10 wishes

[kandrathe]

Ah, but if it is in 1.11, and free, then why would I buy DIII? If DIII is just another DII, then I would stay with DII. In thinking about DIII, you need to be willing to abandon the DII we know for a vastly improved *New* game. The real question is "Does the world want another 'Moria' on steroids?" Esentially, the 3D othogonal projection dungeon crawl, or to quote Pete, "shoot, loot and scoot".


IMHO, DII in its current incarnation, has just enough monsters, that require too little strategy, and drop too much cheezy treasure.

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Some things I don't like about D2;

1) Monster AI, these monsters need to be much more savage, aggressive, and generally faster. I think the casters and ranged weapons monsters need to be much more deadly.

2) The existence of Nightmare, and Hell difficulties and the disconnected transitions they impose on character leveling. I don't like repeating Act 1 - 5 three times, I would rather have had 15 acts in increasing difficulty. That would have offered more continuity and a deeper story.

3) The shops suck. I can buy a cruel colossus blade from Larzuk, but nowhere can I find a non-magic item in a store past Act 3 Normal. The stores should have inventory sections that sell almost every normal item, a selection of magical items based on your level, and a very limited selection of unid (gambling). The unid items have a small chance of being unique, but the store should only change inventory once per game.

4) Item drops.
:( too much cheese (esp. uniques, and some set items).
:( too much stuff drops making everything less valuable.
:( the way the items are built is stupid due to the lack of minimum
and maximum values and appropriate attributes on items. I would
change it to choose the iType, then iLvl, the attributes would then
appropriate for the item and be in ranges based on iLvl. Ergo, no
more rare wrymhide boots with +2 life, +10 mana and 10% faster RW.
:( it is stupid to have items (esp. Sets) that have a 1 in a billion chance of
dropping. I agree with the concept of treasure classes, and assigning
some of the best treasure classes to the hardest bosses in the game,
but if I kill Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal 1000 times in hell difficulty (as stupid
as that is) then I should have a pretty good chance of seeing most of the
best items in the game. Unfortunately, the game is weighted too much
toward powerful items. I would rather see items be secondary to skills
and strategy, rather than just twinking with powerful items which allow
you to saunter through Hell difficulty without a challenge.

5) Some boss drops are ridiculously generous (Mephisto), while others who are harder to get can be meager (Diablo, Baal). I would revisit all the logic for Boss drops. It is too random now, and that means the bosses usually drop useless items. #4 above makes this worse.

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