Dont take outdated games too seriously, i guess. Im avoiding multiplayer games because of terrible interface. I cant even browse games, wtf is that outdated crap?
Yeah, it just fundammentally change what works best.
With PLoot ranged MF chars will be far superior to any other play style.
Just chill in the backline with no risk invoveld.
Thats is āhaving the cake and eating itā.
Played Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 back in 2000/2001. Then D2 lost its appeal after it became more of a bot-landscape and it was so easy to fire up the bot (Sorceress) to do Eldrich runs all night and dayā¦ Then join bot-run public games āBlood runsā to level up quickly with almost 0 gear, the bot was typically a Multishot Amazon with a Buriza knockback and freeze - itās been so long, I now forget most details.
But, there was no point to the game after while. You killed Hell Baal, you were done. You would then make other builds, but the game had no new content. It was so easy to get rushed (Bloodruns) and the lack of respecs so punishing, that you would not play the campaign twice. Log on, run a few Eldritch/Pindleskin see what drops, or get/join a Hammerdin group and do Baal runsā¦ Bots typically reached 99. There were hacks and dupes, many dupes. Eevery so often Blizzard would batch-delete the dupes, āruststormā it was called.
There were many other games at the time, and the beginning of MMOs, I played quite a lot of SWG which had a good community (we had real council meetings every Tuesday I remember!!!), and of course in late 2004 WoW came out, but already we were not playing D2 by then.
Why do you have 500 mf? it makes your character weak and slow and the extra mf doesnāt increase your chance for uniques in a significant way.
Go for 250ish and have a solid character instead.
And? The loot drops for everyone. I donāt care if someone sits in the back. And even if, this can be solved easyly: You only will get drops, if you hold a minimum diastance to your group. (As it is for experience, afaik.)
Even with minimum distance, with ploot you never have to take any risik to get loot in multiplayer games. So building you charakter heavly towards MF will get way better then its right now.
Adding Ploot even as an option will influence the game on a larger scale.
So this goes way beyond āits just an option, donāt use it if donāt like it changeā.
We donāt have to agree on if ploot is for the better or the worse.
But pretending thats not a huge change is wrong.
As I said: AND?
I donāt pretend that this isnāt huge change. But several remasters out there did get huge changes. (all Age ofā¦ games, including Mythology got at least one additional DLC. That is something, I consider a huge changeā¦)
So why is this so bad?
okayā¦
Its favors a certain way to play and not in good way.
Now you have to balance survivability vs. mf and its is less important if you play solo or multiplayer. With ploot the game will favor multiplayer with a mf char over any other way to play.
It IS a huge change, but It none the less doesnāt influence the game in a huge way. Just annoy the ninja looters.
Your predictions are just nonsense. Nobody can say, how it will encourage play. And if you think you can MF-leech, then so be it. Instead, now you can Ninja-loot-leech, Where is the difference, besides that the players in the behind lines also have a chance to get their loot, as everone else.
And if the MF of the complete group is calculated as average to the whole group, this will lever out the MF leech. So you STILL have more loot, if you play solo. It will change the game, okay. But not in a bad way, but in a much fairer one.
You then can built a group, with one or two MFinders and get this as average for everyone. so everone in the group does some work for the items. The players and killers do the kills, while the charactes with MF provide the drops. A win-win-situation. It encourages Multiplaying in a multiplayer-game. And this is BAD?!?!
The backline have the same chance of loot, Just go in before the kill.
Well thats would mean to take a risik and can haveāt this? Can we?
Sure you have more loot solo since the you have also all risik (especially on HC) .
But unless you have really good gear you have to balance between kill speed, survivability and mf. Going heavy MF in solo limit what you can kill.
Thats not how MF works right now.
So you going to change this too to make you vision work?
It encourages to not socialize i would argue and this is bad.
All current mechanics of loot is based on shared loot. Switching to PLoot needs to change current mechanics.
With PLoot drop will be x8, meaning x8 more loot in the game ā much faster progress ā people will close seasons faster ā less time in the game ā less interest ā Diablo 3
Having x8 more loot maybe will require personalized items to mitigate fast progress
and even if they do ploot in some way that does not increase the amount of items the boss drops, they still will complain that they do not get more than 0 - 1 items per baalrun, then they will ask to add the same amount as solo kills and then they will ask to have BiS gear just by playing 1 week like in D3
Dude, this is diablo 2. You should probably play another game. You know, like D3. This isnāt a new game if you have missed it.
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Blizzard will be happy if you donāt play multiplayer. This means that you have less data traffic, less server load, etc.
Yeah must be sad not being able to leech both xp and items like in D3ā¦
Ive been mfing for like 2 weeks solo and barely got anything good. If you actually think whatever item you missed out on cause you clicked too slow is any good then think again. Go tanky build and use controller if you want items in multiplayer but prepare to be dissapointed if you think they are actually good items 99% of the time the time they are charsi food.
Have you ever tried the PlugY mod? Just because there is some QoL in having a few extra stashes and ability to kill the king and still open the portal doesnāt make it a different game. Iām pretty sure that cold immune glitch/bug is gonna get fixed. The ladder runewords are here until (hopefully) the actual ladders begin. Every act, every quest, every boss, every item, every runeword and everything else is the exact same, Diablo 2 is even in the name. Donāt come out here telling people this aināt Diablo 2 just because we get a few extra stashes (which is still nothing compared to the infinite we had in PlugY) and because we get to kill the king and still open the portal(which again, we had in PlugY) speaking of portalsā¦ You forgot to mention that Anyaās portal stays up after taking Halls of Pain waypoint, you might want to edit your post again. Anyway you aināt fooling nobody. This IS Diablo 2.
tnh d2 was always like this , thats why ppl tend later to join full games host everyone an kill bosses solo - me myself an i did this for a long time on d2 classic hc - im kinda sorry u aint used to this - cause i understand it sux - ud need like few friends whom u trust all playing different classes to devide loot - but then its only a small step to loot council an dkp 
the runewords WONT go away just because ladder is coming!
Telekinesis, man, thats the answer! thy should do this again, to pick up items wtih telekinesis. Bunch of wanckers, those blizzshiits, deleting chars but not able to make changes in order to enjoy the game.