06-28-2012, 06:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-28-2012, 07:33 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Blizz likes to punish the players for playing the game. Every little tactic that players find to help them progress, Blizz says "nope, thats an exploit!! You cant do that!!!". Nerfed. Very very annoying. I can understand things like bots and hacks being prevented, nobody likes cheaters (except other cheaters), but for Blizz to constantly force what THEY think is fun on the players isn't right either. Just let us play already, and stop castrating us everytime we find something useful that helps us progress. It's already bad enough that the design philosophy is based around cheesy mechanics that remove control away from the player, along with the insane repair costs, enrage timers and an annoying auto-hit system because Blizz thinks dodging attacks is un-fun (even though its really the opposite, being able to dodge attacks adds dynamics to combat). I mean, progressing, afterall, is the object of the game is it not? I really don't want to invoke Godwin's law here, but Blizz is bordering on it right about now.
I don't want the game to be a cake walk, I just want it to be fun. I completed hell difficulty the other night on my Monk, and that was fun (most of the time). Didn't faceroll it, but I was able to progress fairly comfortably, and many elite packs were challenging but beatable. Only maybe a handful of times between Act 1 and 4 did I have to skip any packs (combos like Frozen, Molten, and Shielding were just a bit much for me to handle but otherwise it wasn't too bad). My Barb DID faceroll hell, but that was different because he was over geared and had very high DPS throughout. My Monk had a nice challenge in hell mode, but it rarely felt tedious or unfun. Now, I'm not saying Inferno shouldn't be harder than Hell, but I just think it needs to be a lot more reasonable and less item dependent than it is. In hell, I felt like it was a combo of player skill and gear. Sometimes when my Monk struggled, I just needed to change some skills and make my tactics tighter, and I was good to go. Other times, that wasnt enough, and a direct item upgrade (usually dps) was needed. In Inferno though, it just feels like its all about gear and gear only. That just sucks. My Wiz is waaaaaaay over geared for hell now, but under geared for Inferno. It is of my opinion the gear I have now should be good enough for me to progress without it being tedious, and I just make upgrades until my char can dominate it. Then I move on to the next char. I realize Blizz wants a challenge to always be there, but all things must end at some point - except time itself of course. After a char is strong enough to faceroll Inferno, you can try new builds with that char or re-roll a new char, or play PvP.
I don't want the game to be a cake walk, I just want it to be fun. I completed hell difficulty the other night on my Monk, and that was fun (most of the time). Didn't faceroll it, but I was able to progress fairly comfortably, and many elite packs were challenging but beatable. Only maybe a handful of times between Act 1 and 4 did I have to skip any packs (combos like Frozen, Molten, and Shielding were just a bit much for me to handle but otherwise it wasn't too bad). My Barb DID faceroll hell, but that was different because he was over geared and had very high DPS throughout. My Monk had a nice challenge in hell mode, but it rarely felt tedious or unfun. Now, I'm not saying Inferno shouldn't be harder than Hell, but I just think it needs to be a lot more reasonable and less item dependent than it is. In hell, I felt like it was a combo of player skill and gear. Sometimes when my Monk struggled, I just needed to change some skills and make my tactics tighter, and I was good to go. Other times, that wasnt enough, and a direct item upgrade (usually dps) was needed. In Inferno though, it just feels like its all about gear and gear only. That just sucks. My Wiz is waaaaaaay over geared for hell now, but under geared for Inferno. It is of my opinion the gear I have now should be good enough for me to progress without it being tedious, and I just make upgrades until my char can dominate it. Then I move on to the next char. I realize Blizz wants a challenge to always be there, but all things must end at some point - except time itself of course. After a char is strong enough to faceroll Inferno, you can try new builds with that char or re-roll a new char, or play PvP.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)