Everything was said… game ain’t going to be ground-breaking, it will be fun for 3-4 months ( solid 5/10, you judge if you want to spend £60, I did).
Crafting looks like copy-paste from D3 (for now)… you have an option to change a single modifier for a increasing price. I was hoping to start caring about white items, but no. There is also an option to upgrade item, adding a fraction of % stats, but that is it.
The amount ([censored] tonnes) of crafting materials looks suspicious. Perhaps battle pass will give you some rare crafting materials, which otherwise attainable through weeks of grinding dungeons (the same dungeons). Technically it is a not pay to win.
But where the [censored) are runes? From what I remember we (we the players) should have been able to make our own rune words… quite exciting system of skill/power rune and modifier rune supposed to give us an option to create unique (truly?) items.
so uniques are in the game although they didn’t drop,
is it confirmed runewords are not in this game?
They said the game isn’t launching with runes, same thing with set gear I believe.
Runes are due to come back later
Apart from uniques there is 2 more rarities but uniques are the top one
But microtransactions would be available from the day 1?
Deer god I hope they ain’t do the same thing to runes they have done in D3…
Runes socketed make a return but now follow a combo system of one rune is a condition and the other is the reward. Freeze an enemy = 15% CD refunded
This was an alpha example mind you and we don’t have the full scope.
Also D3 runes are already in the game but much more limited on the talent tree, some abilities you may just ignore making the choice.
runes will come in the future, i’ll wait and see how they are implimented before i comment on them, hopefully they let us know the direction they want to go with runes/runewords and get our feedback first before releasing, I am also looking forward to how they impliment sets and set items.
They already showed how runes are going to work. It was part of the deep dive last year.
i thought they scratched that idea for runes and thats why they are being delayed so they can come up with a new system