War-Plan slection path made me quit Diablo 4 after 7 days reaching paragon 220 or so. The problem is not War-Plan table filling thats actually cool and fun to get more options and that can be supported and extended in future. BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT the selection path of the WAR-Plan is the worst thing possible to do in Diablo 4. What I mean with that ? Lets say I come after work and want play Diablo 4 and my mood is different every day depends on stress level. So now I want just chill in hell tides farm cinders and open chests for getting legendary items for new aspects or GA or what ever. The point is at this day my mood is just to chill in helltides and mostly at BloodMaiden. So what is the problm ? Can I do that ? Yes I can do that. But I make no progress because I am not filling up the warplan option tables to get better gear later. So my mood changes to oh I am forced to play the warplans path or I make no progress. The real problem with the War-Plan path selection. Lets say I am in the mood only to play at this day helltides but War-Plan is all time changin from 1 activity to another activity in which i have absolute no interest at this day perhaps another day but not right now. And I am forced to play it or no progress. Same feeling with pit. One day I wanted only do pit. To max out all my glyphs. Again same problem with War-Plans. I can’t select only pit all time because it changes all time activites which I don’t want do at this point. And if you play the warlock which is super slow and clunky compared to a sorc or barb then you get frustrated even more that you do have to play activites which you don’t want do at this point at the time. SOLUTION suggestion : Just change or add the option that the player can choose the path selection he want do. For example today I want just do helltides. Ok so I select in warplans just 5 times helltide. Next time I want just do pits. Ok I want just select 5 times the pit. …. Right now the warplans made me quit the game fast because it feels like work and more frustration.
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Death by wall of text
OK short version : Just let player select in warplans the activity instead jumping from random activites to other activites which I don’t want do at this point at time.
fair enough, twenty chars
one suggestion use . and split the text up. This type of text walls make people stop reading. No intent to bash you but just a suggestion to get more peopel to read.
war plans advantage is they make you go through a variety of content
war plans disadvantage is they make you go through a variety of content
Sometimes it can be nice to grind just one thing over and over
In fact, when they said something like “plan your next task” or something like that, I thought it meant you could choose freely, but it turns out that’s not the case. They tell you “this one or this one,” and if you don’t like it, tough luck.
I see it as much worse now. Before, at least you did what you wanted, period. Now, as you rightly say, if you want to progress, you have to go through what they tell you to do. I, for example, hate the hellish waves. They’re slow and boring, but I have to put up with it because that’s what they decided.
I found another problem with the war plan which is also anoying. When I create another new character then I have to play sometimes the pit which gives me 16% chance which means just wasted runs. So again player should select the activites anyhow.
I’d prefer Helltides not to be a selection at all tbh, which is why it’s not up to a single person’s opinion. Helltides are the worst endgame content in the game IMO and everytime they are on the warplan I choose anything else, even if the Helltide has legendary loot options.
I guess it’s the same point you are making but in reverse.