It's time for preleveled/preascended characters to enter the shop or be made available somehow.

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Casual_Ascent wrote:

All of that would be too much busy work for those who'd actually want to use the feature :D
(And EWWWWWW, MORE lab requirements? No thanks) :D

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AceNightfire wrote:

So I could say I find it boring to level up from 80+ and beyond, because it takes forever. So should we demand finished lvl 100 characters? I guess not.

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AceNightfire wrote:

This suggestion will never ever happen and it SHOULD never happen.

Why you may ask? I'm not talking about pay2win or pay for convinience.
What I mean is, that it would be unfair for those who can't buy pre-leveled characters over and over again.

Now you may ask: Why would that be unfair if it's not pay2win or pay for convinience?
It's quite simple: As soon as GGG implements this, GGG has no reason to improve the leveling experience from 1-60 anymore. That means everyone who can't afford to buy a preleveled character is forced to play the boring content and GGG will probably never change anything about that, since people can buy (money talks) lvl 60 characters if they want to skip the boring content.

So instead of demanding pre-leveled characters, we should seriously think about making the leveling-process itself much more interesting and more rewarding. A player shouldn't think "leveling to 60 again, great~...", he should think "Ok, lets do it again".

For example:
- You can earn a map piece after finishing an act (map piece is random)
- That means 4 map pieces per difficulty
- If you manage to finish a difficulty, you should have a complete set for one map
- There are 3 different treasure maps, depending on the difficulty
- Those treasure maps are not exactly hard to play (not much harder then other tier 1-3 maps)

Now lets explain what those maps do:
- Map from normal difficulty: 100% quantity, 500% rarity, map size is twice as big as normal maps with twice as many enemies (especially, many magic/rare/unique monsters)
- Map from cruel difficulty: 200% quantity, 750% rarity, map size is twice as big as normal maps with twice as many enemies (especially, many magic/rare/unique monsters)
- Map from merciless difficulty: 300% quantity, 900% rarity, map size is twice as big as normal maps with twice as many enemies (especially, many magic/rare/unique monsters)

The reason behind this scaling is, that people shouldn't just farm normal difficulty for a great map, the cruel and merciless maps must be much better, so players invest the time to get these map pieces. The advantage of this would be, that the lvl 1-60 playthrough would bre rewarding, since these maps would have a VERY high chance for good drops. You could also sell the map pieces for good currency.

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gibbousmoon wrote:

Here's another idea, which has come up in the Feedback forums before: Make item drops for all the bosses the FIRST time you kill them more rewarding than subsequent times. Diablo 2 did this, and it's a feature worth imitating.

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Albinosaurus wrote:

This game is basically single player with an online trade function attached. Any notion of competition is completely arbitrary.

I mean this should really be completely obvious to anyone but I've went ahead and bolded the important bit for you.

If you're leveling 10x slower than everyone else because you're using glacial fucking hammer (lol), where's your currency for trading going to come from?

Also, remember when everyone asked for a self-found league so the game could be balanced around not trading? Yeah, everybody bitched about that and it didn't happen.

So here we are today, in a trading-based, trading-balanced game where you're telling people not to trade as an argument to the discussion.

When did I ever fucking say not to trade? I didn't.