The end-game activities themselves are a lot better than f.e. the end-game activities in Diablo 2.
But yet, I have no motivation to log in and do any of them for more than 15-30mins before I want to log off and play another game.
However I have hundreds and hundreds of hours doing mephisto, pindleskin, cows… the pit, and still wanted “one more run” before I had to go to bed/work/other.
Why? I believe that’s the questions the developers should ask and find the answer to.
I saw the new patch notes of today. I see a lot of good changes, but none fix the big issue… why should I log in and do these end-game activities. It’s great that the xp rewards from NM dungeons and helltides were buffed… but to be honest… logging in to grind levels and xp doesn’t feel good. I know almost nobody who likes the xp grind in any game. I never leveled to 99 in D2, never cared, never saw the need, that wasn’t the point of the game for me. I think my highest D2 character was 93 or something. Same for D3, when I played a season, sometimes I could stick to it long enough to get to paragon 1000, that grind just felt bad.
Leveling and grinding xp is something I want to get done asap so I can get to the good stuff…
What is the good stuff? Where is the carrot?
IMO, the developers messed up the itemization.
It doesn’t feel good to do a NM dungeon, townportal with an inventory full of rares that I’m already 100% sure I’m going to vendor. But I have to go through the tedious process of checking each one of them just in case there’s a tiny tiny chance they have the affixes I’m looking for AND with better values than currently equipped.
It doesn’t feel good… at all.
You know what also doesn’t feel good… getting a nice drop that may not be as good as my current item for that slot, but it would be great for an alt…
But my alt can’t use it, because its level requirement is set to the level of the character who found it, so it’s useless to my alt and I have to vendor perfectly good items.
D2 had it right, as long as a character has the str/agi requirements, it could equip it.
You know what does feel good? Seeing a high rune drop. Seeing a unique drop that I know is BiS for my character… or an alt. You know what also feels good? ID-ing said unique and hope for godly rolls.