The Illusion of Choice

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Inkarnit wrote:

I just want to point out that the guy who called bullshit on me and requested me to post never came back and commented after I posted my build and gear. Did I prove him wrong or did he think my shit sucked too much to comment on?

No I thought your gear was above mediocre. Also we share similar life nodes through our build and you do have more than me, but my gear has more life on it total. When I called bullshit on you it was because you didn't specify how many life nodes and you made it sound like you had very few, like 3-5. You have 17 life nodes, that's not just a few.

The problem is that yes, you have a build that I will believe you in that you can solo with ease, but are all builds like that and how many viable builds total are there. It's subject to a lot of opinion because what is viable boils down to how much shit you're willing to put up with and what you define as viable. Viable to a hardcore player and viable to a default player who doesn't care how much he dies is going to differ dramatically.

It also matters as to what is fun. I'm not going to debate that for some, the hardest of challenges brings the greatest of thrills. That's true, but not everyone wants that. Some want a challenge, but they don't need the deck stacked against them twofold in order to be challenged and provide the same experience. I used to love the challenge of this game in closed beta, it felt perfectly balanced and aside from some overpowered builds and paths through the tree it really didn't need to be changed. Along comes open beta and they do their new scaling for act 3 and all of a sudden mobs hit like trucks and stacking life nodes and going all defensive is really the only way to go unless you want to die like crazy or over level everything by 10+ levels. That right there says that something is unbalanced with the passive tree in terms of it's efficiency when scaled with the game.

I'm not super hung up about it, if the game loses it's appeal I'll stop playing. I figure why not voice my opinion in the forums, least that will happen is I will get flamed by a bunch of angry neckbeards.

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Zalm wrote:

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Inkarnit wrote:

I just want to point out that the guy who called bullshit on me and requested me to post never came back and commented after I posted my build and gear. Did I prove him wrong or did he think my shit sucked too much to comment on?

in his mind....probably the latter. You know how these elitist pricks are. They think unless you use their builds, you suck. Then they feel the need to have more OP build to chose from.

Though he could have missed the post...I dont know.

Far from trying to be an elitist bastard.

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funshynebare wrote:

Was just hoping it would have been more than something that lasted a few weeks.

It is, but nor for someone like you. Go back to D3.

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Windays wrote:

Far from trying to be an elitist bastard.

Sorry...maybe you didnt catch my last statement, but I was being sarcastic.

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Zalm wrote:

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funshynebare wrote:

Was just hoping it would have been more than something that lasted a few weeks.

It is, but nor for someone like you. Go back to D3.

Gotta love elitist pricks.

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funshynebare wrote:

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Zalm wrote:

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funshynebare wrote:

Was just hoping it would have been more than something that lasted a few weeks.

It is, but nor for someone like you. Go back to D3.

Gotta love elitist pricks.

Says the guy complaining there arent enough choices for OP chars.

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Zalm wrote:

Says the guy complaining there arent enough choices for OP chars.

There aren't enough choices.
You've even said there aren't enough choices.

That's not being elitist. That's pointing out the obvious.

Being elitist is telling others to go back to wherever. For someone who calls other people elitist pricks, you sure are a hypocrite.

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Zalm wrote:

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funshynebare wrote:

Was just hoping it would have been more than something that lasted a few weeks.

It is, but nor for someone like you. Go back to D3.

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Windays wrote:

Far from trying to be an elitist bastard.

Sorry...maybe you didnt catch my last statement, but I was being sarcastic.

Oh, I thought you were just trying to be an asshole, my mistake.

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Windays wrote:

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Zalm wrote:

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funshynebare wrote:

Was just hoping it would have been more than something that lasted a few weeks.

It is, but nor for someone like you. Go back to D3.

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Windays wrote:

Far from trying to be an elitist bastard.

Sorry...maybe you didnt catch my last statement, but I was being sarcastic.

Oh, I thought you were just trying to be an asshole, my mistake.

Maybe I was...you never know

/sarcasm

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funshynebare wrote:

See

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Mysterial wrote:

I think the part you are having trouble understanding is that if making the "right" build choices beforehand makes the game easy, then the supposed "challenge" is invalidated. Many people don't like the idea of having to handicap themselves to make the game challenging, nor do they like finding out an entire supposedly supported playstyle inherently makes the game much more difficult relative to people who chose differently simply out of personal preference and not superior planning or skill.

you are focusing on numbers to much and not enjoying the actual game that's there in front of you, stop that. Stop being afraid to fail. There is value in loosing every once and a while, you know.

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Zalm wrote:

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Windays wrote:

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Zalm wrote:

Sorry...maybe you didnt catch my last statement, but I was being sarcastic.

Oh, I thought you were just trying to be an asshole, my mistake.

Maybe I was...you never know

/sarcasm

*golf clap*