Any one who feels like D3 will NEVER be good due to the lack of making builds?

Jay Wilson

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DaleWinters wrote:

Jay Wilson

Exactly.

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Antilurker77 wrote:

You aren't making sense. You would never use Frost Nova because it's a terrible skill. Even if you built your character around Frost Nova, it would still be just as terrible. You spent 30 hours building a terrible character. There is no reason to ever pick a crappy skill in PoE.

I disagree completely. If I saw a guy running around and doing well with a skill that most people don't touch, in this case Frost Nova, I would think thats really cool and be somewhat jealous that the person has a cool unique build that not many others use.

In D3 you feel required to only use the universally awesome builds to actually be able to farm inferno decently. You have a bunch of no life kids who got a hold of their moms credit card running around with top of the line gear that they bought on the RMAH and the think they are soooooo cool.

I have no idea if Frost Nova could be viable end game or not but my point is that it would be awesome if someone pulled it off. The point of POE is to have fun, the point of D3 is to farm the highest content possible with cookie cutter builds and to be pretty bored while doing it.

In D3, because everyone can instantly change their spec, there is no incentive to make them balanced... because you cannot balance them all without making them all exactly the same, players will always gravitate to the best combinations.

In POE, this is not true. If someone makes an Ice Nova build, and the build is sub-par or even bad, they can tell the GGG team that it is bad and potentially get a fix. Other players will not be able to readily change to this build if the fix makes it OP... they might not even know the build unless it was made public.

There is a hidden upside that players sometimes find frustrating, but players are encouraged to try different builds and new characters both with builds in general, and new temporary leagues. Some builds are going to be better than others... and this is part of the gameplay.. figuring out the system. This provides additional opportunities to play through the game in different ways... something that really does not exist if you can readily change between the most OP builds.

I'm just very curious about, how the sales for their expansion will go.

would have thought this topic would be buried already. The short answer is yes but does it even matter at this point. Its slowly trickling down the drain and I question the motif for the remaining trolls on the bnet forums.

The game is slowly trickling down the sewers, you don't even hear about D3 from any gaming sites so what is the reason? Hope? Every patch that comes out I see the numbers rise a little bit and then take a huge nose dive.

Because hatred is all we have left?

Jay Wilson doubled it, and that can never be forgotten or forgiven.