Don’t know if you all caught this, but they are nerfing every item item lv 540+ to item lv 540. Then they are making the new item lv cap 750. Meaning all your super good items are trash again in a few months.
This is 6 itemization updates in 15 months.
Apparently Diablo 4 is a game for people who only have no life.
To put it into perspective, world of Warcraft itemization updates outdate previous gear at a rate of 1 per year.
Jesus… when are they going to stop doing so many mistakes ?
They can not force people to start from scratch each time they start a new Season and expect everybody to praise them for that. They are simply playing with our time and patience.
Seriously, add the broken system of Tempering and Masterworking to the equation and everybody will quit the game soon.
It is simply not worth the time spent in the game with so many random things going on because even if you play non-stop and you finally get close to maximize your character - boom, new Season and new rules, you start from zero.
85% of the players are going solo and that means that everybody plays at their own pace. We have a job and a family - but making so many itemization in such a short period of time is just absurd !
By my count we are at 6 itemization changes in 15 months.
That’s 10 years worth of world of Warcraft itemization changes.
What’s worse is there is only 2 explanations as to why they don’t make eternal gear scaled to 750 instead of 540.
A) they want to decentivize eternal realm play as much as possible.
B) it’s harder for them to scale all existing gear to new 750 max. Because of the time deadline they cannot possibly do so. So rather than do so, they choose to blanket all existing items to a worthless item lv.
It makes no sense why they can’t make the eternal gear all scale to 750. Eternal realm has no effect on seasonal. All they did was invalidate over a year of player time again.
I have a question? all the “shining” items, you know? the good looking sword with flamaes, and the nice and shining white armour…are all in the shop? no “in game” “shining” items? I play for the loot, to see my player with that “shining” and cool gear…are all in the shop? no loot?..someone lvl 100 super soldier know?
all i heard this camp fire is " we listened to your feedback " and we made everything more grindy , more annoying ,. harder to play with friends , harder to get to highest tier to again play with your ubah friends, 20 years of WOW and stay still think flattening stats is a good idea. i am so not hyped anymore. for a DLC to play act 3 of Diablo 2 again 20 years later. add in MORE rng not less what are they thinking…
i am very happy with the change. low numbers but your still as powerful.
This is the correct take. I dont think people fully understand the reason they are doing this. Power creep has been a increasing issue for the past few seasons, im glad to see they are taking steps to prevent this game from turning into Diablo 3
they even give you a mercenary, runewords and let you lvl up your ultimate now. so i think your going to have more power. but there is also going to be more difficulty lvls. this is why casuals should not share there option. it’s not based.
So everything in the game is being modified BUT what this means is more and more BUGS and a major instable game!!! That’s the biggest worry!!! But then they will already have the money for purchasing the Expansion…so deal with it suckers!?
I’m a casual player, but I agree… There’s a reason why the season lasts for several months. There is time to plan a character, build it, and max it out. However, most of the people “crying” here want to have the best stuff in the game by the second day of playing, or ideally after just an hour-long session. Which is sad. It’s not a race, and if you want to compete, unfortunately, that’s not an option for casuals. What bothers me more is that the sorcerer class is still at a standstill. The recent changes in itemization have exposed a lot of logical flaws in this class. I’m hoping for a rework of the basics (enchants, paragons, and boards/glyphs).
you nolifers and your low numbers…
They should have two brackets. Well, three. Above 800 goes to 800, 540 - 799 goes to 540 and below 540 stays as it is. It isn’t such a hard concept. Now, 800+ → 540 is harsh, I’ll admit, yes. With that said, affixes are getting maxed out!
And Eternal isn’t the “core” realm anyhow. The game is a live service game and ER is here only because of technical(and psychological) reasons.
Also, I am perfectly peaceful and happy(something I didn’t think I would be seeing how I became like a Vessel myself). The number squish is a-ok if it preserves the spirit and the feeling of the current play.
That’s good. In 4 months when less than 1000 people log in daily world wide you are really gonna need that group finder.
You guys are simping for blizzard. The only people who win is blizzard. They won’t have to pay nearly as much upkeep for servers when their max player count per day is 800.
You guys don’t realize they are clintoning their own game.
You will learn in time, but clearly you have to experience it to learn. Some of us don’t need to experience stupid to know stupid.
This isn’t Blizzard anymore. It’s not even Activision either. It’s just a subsidiary of Microsoft. That’s all you need to know.
With that said, if you don’t go 100% serious into this, it works out very nice, especially for my playstyle(recreating alts etc).
It’s all good, me and many others have uninstalled all blizzard products as a result of this.
I can’t get a vos refund even tho it’s unreleased. Thats proof of their morals and ethics and proof of the quality of product they are releasing.
When you release quality product you don’t worry about refunds.
Tricking people into preorder then dropping this hard nerf on them was a planned business move. They knew they’d screw a group of their consumers.
The fire wings was just a way to fool more of us into wasting money on their garbage game.
I got fooled, I’ll admit it. But I’m done showing up to their circus.
I will spend the remainder of my life preaching about how immoral and unintelligent this company is. If I get other people to quit playing their games, Its a win for me.
I’ll cost them as much business as I humanly possibly can.
Blizzard has made a life long enemy by doing this. They cannot fix it either.
Tomorrow they could say “we decided to make all items go to 750 instead”
It doesn’t fix a thing, because we now know exactly what they want to do to our time and effort. If they can get away with it they want to send you back to square one as often as possible.
This isn’t a game, it’s torture. Self inflicted torture. Designed by a bunch of sadists.
The entire point of this genre of game is to build your character up over time. They have taken the AARPG idea and turned into into some amalgamation that resembles a moist wet horse 
.
What’s worse is loot reborn actually fixed the game. And now they think it’s better to revamp everything and send everyone’s items back to garbage.
Anyone left still playing this game after this, or any blizzard game for that matter, I truly feel sorry for you. That you value your time to be that worthless.
There is also a part of this topic I will not address in full, all I will say they chose very specifically who to have give us the news about all our items going to 540. They have plenty of people to choose from, and they picked someone who would stir anger on topics that have nothing to do with the game. Which is not fair to that person, their community, or us as the consumer. But again, they have no ethics or morals.
You can all worship their lack of any ethics or morals, just don’t expect anything to ever get better while you do.
It’ll be 4 years of them moving the goal post as often as they possibly can until you decide to quit.
And to be clear, moving the goal post isn’t the problem, it’s how often they are moving it that is the problem. Also the fact they treat eternal realm like it effects seasonal is the problem.
They’d be better off calling it seasonal realm A) and seasonal realm B. There is no eternal realm.
Thats not exaggeration. There literally is no eternal realm. This game would do better with just a seasonal realm.
If all your past seasonal characters and items got sent to the delete box automatically at end of season, at least the game design would match the execution.
Would it be a good game? No. But it isn’t a good game now either. And it’s not the game itself that’s the problem, it’s clearly the people in charge.
Diablo 4 in a vacuum is not a bad game. The only bad part of it is how it is being managed.
The people in charge are mostly people who don’t understand RPGs(like Rod, for real, Gears? oh and before iEdge ; that’s more up the immoral’s alley) or just a bunch of young people. Look at the Campfire. The average years of all those “lead this lead that” is like 35 at most. Lol.
Look at the campfire and look at the person they choose to drop the news about all gear going to 540. That should tell you who you are dealing with.
They gave the person who gets hate mail for their own personal life choices that has nothing to do with their employment the job of dropping the bad news.
That is an intentional choice. You don’t accidentally choose who drops the bad news.
Huh? Hate mail? Who?
Go back and look at who is talking about all gear going to 540. The person has a name.
That was an intentional choice.
Which proves their morals and ethics don’t exist.
The fact they’d make that person shoulder more undeserved hatred is insane.
It’s not Jevon(or whatever). It’s not Alyson … whatever. It’s not the PR guy either. It’s Colin, isn’t it?