Any way to check map mods on Zanas daily before entering?

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I do play HC. Not that it makes a difference. There has to be a challenge, yes, and something that can actually still get players killed, in part any game is not just about the "congratulations, you won!" screen but also about the "game over!" screen.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

You went wrong when you tried to evaluate me based on your limited experience with life.

I've been playing HC longer than you've been alive. I played computer games HC before we had monitors. "Crystal Cave Adventure". Totally HC. I'm not afraid of dying.

But the game is designed without regard to how HC is played. Too much content is locked out. Players cheat to get by this lock, and don't even realize it. They're actually proud of it. I'm ok with that, but I'm not ok with a game design that requires that you cheat. More and more GGG is requiring that players use equipment that the character using it couldn't possibly have found or made with resources that that character found. That's why I might quit... not out of fear but out of lack of a design philosophy that includes self-found play.

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plasticeyes wrote:

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I do play HC. Not that it makes a difference. There has to be a challenge, yes, and something that can actually still get players killed, in part any game is not just about the "congratulations, you won!" screen but also about the "game over!" screen.

Shagsbeard is right.

I was pretty excited about master hype. And then i find out i can't possibly get ONE of them to level 8 before the league is over. That can be tweaked though, i'm still glad that GGG added them and made things a little better if you want to go self-found.

Many of the "challenges" in the game are centered around the decidely not- casual player. I was in a level 70 map, yawning my way through it, rogue shows up. 1-shot me before i could even run. so the boss of the map couldn't one-shot me but a random rogue showing up could. that's not even remotely challenging. that's freaking annoying. that's just bad design.

many of the "challenges" are like that. it's basically you die 50 times to figure out what the strategy is, because you die too fast to figure out what's going on, or somewhat often, find out that your build simply can't do that "challenge".

saying that you should run a build that can do "any" mod, means you are doing a build that can do any mod, instead of the one you want to play.

here's an idea, how about a pool of mods that doesn't lock out certain builds ?

When people asked for endgame, they got atziri, they still complain about not enough endgame. Now we get casual/solo/SF masters and people still complain. Next expansion we get new nice fun stuff and people will as always, complain.

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Iluvthu wrote:

...popcorn...


On a side note, one of the posters said something about turning off aura's when entering a zana daily because of the BM mod. Does this mean that the BM mod can kill you when you are CI and have all your aura's turned on when entering a map with BM mod?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

You went wrong when you tried to evaluate me based on your limited experience with life.

I've been playing HC longer than you've been alive. I played computer games HC before we had monitors. "Crystal Cave Adventure". Totally HC. I'm not afraid of dying.

But the game is designed without regard to how HC is played. Too much content is locked out. Players cheat to get by this lock, and don't even realize it. They're actually proud of it. I'm ok with that, but I'm not ok with a game design that requires that you cheat. More and more GGG is requiring that players use equipment that the character using it couldn't possibly have found or made with resources that that character found. That's why I might quit... not out of fear but out of lack of a design philosophy that includes self-found play.