A detailed look at Looting and Respecs

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Worldbreaker wrote:

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iamstryker wrote:

Why do people keep saying stuff like this? As many of us have stated over and over we are fine with in game cons. Make the enemies tougher! Don't just artifically make the game more difficult by pitting us against eachother.

The game is dominated by single player and private parties in which the FFA "drawbacks" matter little to nothing at all. So whats the big deal?

Losing items is frustrating but most of us could ninja loot if we wanted to. We don't enjoy that playstyle. It really is that simple.

I stated the one con that would need to be in place for instanced looting to be balanced, with examples why, then you defend the fact loot % would need to be less. You still plow through mobs faster than a solo player and have no risk of your items being taken by someone else, there are still benefits to party play, albeit loot per hour would be the same as playing solo. I gave examples, there is social interaction, you may have built a character dependant on having another player fill a role or you are simply stuck. You still get more XP, and still move through the content faster.

There are many public FFA parties, it isn't dominated by private parties. If you don't want to find your own party and instead want to be in a group with random people who have no opportunity to take item. Public parties for instanced looting are a lot easier to assemble then a group for a share loot FFA party. If something is harder to do it isn't balanced with something easier.

If you choose not to take public loot after the timer that is your choice. You are the one removing the equal risk from yourself. If you make a system unbalanced it shouldn't be the developers problem.

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Sir_LogiC wrote:

Respecs- totally disagree with this ever being added, for completely different reasons to the OP. Building a character in this game is part of the fun, same as it was in D2. In D2 you could make poison dagger necro, summoner necro, Bspear or Bspirit necro, poison nova + CE + golem necro. Here it is very much similar. So the time it takes to make and build the character you get attached to it, the character has personality, respec points allow fixing small things or making small changes and that is good. D3 characters had no personality or character, you could respec on a whim, every wizard was basically the same as every other.