LONG READ!!!
I have played D1 D2 D3 and D4 all expansions and I love the game.
D4 has underwhelmed me and I do generally appriciate the changes comming to Season 4 its def. going the correct way.
I am what you would call a min/max one trick pony - by that I mean that I enjoy (with my limited game time after my 3 wifes 11 kids and 3 jobs) to play only ONE read ONE character per season using 1 spec only.
That means that I at the start of the season go to Maxroll or Icyveins and select a spec and a class I wanna play for the entire season and then I try and min/max that character with the BIS gear I can farm in that season.
In D3 I played ALL the season from Season 3 up until and including that final season. I made Guardian each season and I loved D3.
In D4 I never made it past max 2 weeks in each of the 3 seasons - I made it to level 100, cleared NM dungeon 100 and maxed out the glyphs for my spec and then I was done with the game till next season.
There are 2 main reasons for this.
- Endgame
- Itemization.
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The Endgame seems on track now since the PIT will kinda be a Greater Rift push I just hope the levels are unlimited and that we will get some kind of eternal growing power like Paragon so we can just keep farming.
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The itemization - What I got from this campire chat is that we reduce affix with 1 item per gear and then we put it back on with crafting.
What really put me off min/max in D4 compared to D3 is spending my time in town looking at gear in my bags.
I play the Diablo series for 1 reason only - SLAY MOBS.
In D3 I played DH Multishot build ONLY for ALL seasons I played (OMG YOU ARE SICK IN THE HEAD) yes I know.
So if the gear picked up was no the unhollowed set or Yangs Bow etc. then I could just dismantle it ALL instants and start a new rift.
That made my “kill” time in D3 to be around 99% of my play time.
In Last Epoch I have setup my Loot Filter to show at LEAST 3 of the 4 affix I need for my specific gear item in each slot. This means that I can play for DAYS without ever seing a loot but WHEN I see a drop I know its 99% certain that I can use it and it is most likely and upgrade for me to equip.
That also means that 99,9% of my game time in Last Epoch is KILLING MOBS and not looking at gear.
The current changes to the gear in Season 4 will maybe decrease the amount of trash for me to delete, but it will still be A LOT I have to look at which I don’t need for my 1 spec 1 trick pony approach.
Where is my loot filter Blizzard please?
Once I get my loot filter and an end game that I can grind like greater rift for min/max my season character and I can just farm and farm and not use time in town or in my inventory then you have one happy customer that will happily buy all future expansions and D5.
But even with the comming changes I am afraid that after 2 weeks in Season 4 I will get tired of looking at gear again and will most likely burn out early in the season like the others.
And as a final note - can you for the love of God remove the freaking summoning materials for the bosses its such and obvious time sink with ZERO fun in it .
I don’t care if you make it so that Bosses summoned with materials have a 2% drop chance for uber unques and bosses summoned without have a 0.2% chance or something - as long as I can just farm without having to do stupid material farms - they are pointless, obvious time sinks and you are taking the piss out of your players keeping it in the game.