Gauntlet too easy increase game difficulty

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Zrevnur wrote:

I was responding to the "standard league" claim. The blinking part is obviously referring to Gauntlet.

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smtad wrote:

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Zrevnur wrote:

I was responding to the "standard league" claim. The blinking part is obviously referring to Gauntlet.

Even standard is not easy now. Because good items' prices are much higher than leagues. (ex. awakened and unusual quality gems)

Due to serial nerfs, you have to change a lot of items to keep your char's power in Standard. And ex/divine swapping made Standard players lost their most "wealth".

All my chars are unviable in Standard since 3.15' big nerf if I didn't upgrade them. And all of them still unviable for uber bosses because of no spell suppress. Changing all gears to spell-suppressed is huge cost, so I gave up.

There is only one kind of person would feel standard is easy - they ask people for gears and items at the end of leagues and use them in standard.

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Xtorma wrote:

I quit after ritual, because I didn't want to start back again like it was when I started, (rampage league) and assumed it would be as you say. I remade (with a few adjustments) my old golem necro build, just to see how it would fare.
I am running around now with a bunch of empty sockets, and not even cursing or anything. and basically, walking through the content. (I did die to a freeze corpse explosion strongbox, because I got overconfident) but other than that easy-peasy, and I am a below average player.
Granted I am using quite a bit of legacy, but that's what standard is for, and it is by no means difficult.
The very end game is always going to be a challenge, and it should be, but the journey is not that difficult.

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smtad wrote:

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Xtorma wrote:

I quit after ritual, because I didn't want to start back again like it was when I started, (rampage league) and assumed it would be as you say. I remade (with a few adjustments) my old golem necro build, just to see how it would fare.
I am running around now with a bunch of empty sockets, and not even cursing or anything. and basically, walking through the content. (I did die to a freeze corpse explosion strongbox, because I got overconfident) but other than that easy-peasy, and I am a below average player.
Granted I am using quite a bit of legacy, but that's what standard is for, and it is by no means difficult.
The very end game is always going to be a challenge, and it should be, but the journey is not that difficult.

I think you just not yet test enough. Try run maps with at least one damage affixes (extra elem damage, increased crit...), if you're lucky enough, you'd probably got oneshot several times by AN's modded mobs with no map damage affixes.

Try red or blue bosses influenced maps, try heist, try harvest, try expedition.... They're totally different from normal contents. some harvest mobs still oneshot my heavy defensed character.

Some of my chars could run 3 damage affixes maps before, but now even I upgrade them, I still re-roll to prevent damage affixes, due to too many oneshots.