RoS sales is a sign that millions are still searching for a better arpg playing experience. .

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tmaciak wrote:

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Fruz wrote:

In such a system, why would anyone bother changing area since anyone could farm twilight sand or the coast and that's it ? :s.

In current system, everybody is moving on path Ledge-Fellshrine-City of Sarn/Docks-Lunaris. There is not point in spending more time in any other locations, this game could as well consist of only those 4-5 location leveling characters spends 90% of their time in.

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tinko92 wrote:

Again, because of GGG's idea of atmosphere, players suffer.

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LSN wrote:

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mazul wrote:

A major point you miss to consider is that there are people who feel that there is an intrinsic value to acquiring something through crafting or looting. Which means, that at the point where crafting and/or looting are sufficiently good utility-wise in comparison with items you could trade for, people will find crafting and/or looting to be a viable progression path.

The thing is I don't miss anything. You in fact do.

Obtaining items from crafting and looting is possible now. Trading is cheaper this is what ppl complain about. Increasing orb drop rates would not change anything about that. Get this in your head god damn :D

In any way even selffound charackters do not benefit from more orb drops long term. Why? The result would just be that the item average quality of rolls would be set higher. What then? Crafting a 60% quality item with 5 orbs per week now is equal as difficult as crafting an 80% quality item with 10 orbs per week then. It would not make crafting more rewarding in the long term at all because players now have 60% items and want 70% ones and then would have 80% items and would want 85%+ ones. It would just make you have better items on average and still be stuck on unrewarding/luck based crafting. If you want an isolated single player experience go play something else like skyrim which has crafting e.g.

All you would do is making the game easier by people getting stuck on the 80% quality item levels instead of the 60% one that it is now. Crafting would not change at all. To maintain difficulty that GGG wants in their game they had to increase monster strength after all which would shift back the whole thing to the now state.


Please!!!! Get this in your brains, seriously.

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Fruz wrote:

Even with trading, saying that a brand new player ( with no initiate PoE knowledge ) would casually get very quickly to the end-game and get a gear to map in higher map levels straight away is a damn lie, you all know it.

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Jojas wrote:

"It’s been a little over a week since Reaper of Souls launched and we finally have the sales figures.
Over 2.7 million copies have been sold since launch by brick-and-mortar retailers and online sales."

Considering that only about 15-20% of all those who bought D3 jump on its expansion I find that number a bit underwhelming.

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Fruz wrote:

Even with trading, saying that a brand new player ( with no initiate PoE knowledge ) would casually get very quickly to the end-game and get a gear to map in higher map levels straight away is a damn lie, you all know it.

Oh, I wouldn't say that, if you're fine with doing what you have to do you can pull it off.

I know a guy I met on a general chat near the start of OB, he used to ask for tips all the time, mostly asking 'does this work' and 'does that work' or 'recommend me a good build', once the 'good stuff' was pointed to him he reached merci and started to farm docks and later moved to piety, once he amassed some wealth he started flipping and was quite good at it.

When he left the game he was incomparably wealthier than me and could do high level content easier with his steady mapping group, it's notable that except for trading prices he still didn't have much clue about how the game works.

It's a curiosity that he's an avid MMO player too and had never played any diablo game as it was a bit ahead of his time..

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Fruz wrote:

That's still better than choosing the best tileset and farming it all day imo.
you know that if you let players the choice, they'll pick the easiest/more convenient one, not what could look like fun because of the atmosphere most likely ( this is somewhat sad ... but that's the case ).