Diablo 3 expansion announced! LOOT RUNS??!?!

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Wraeclastian wrote:

Guys... the expansion is going to be free for everyone who already bought the game.

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IceM wrote:

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ongZ wrote:

D3X will be as shitty as D3C. Terrible mechanics.

I disagree, d3's combat and the over all game is better then poe in every way except the loot itemazation, but I forget almost EVERYONE that plays POE just HAS to hate d3, its a requirement

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IceM wrote:

Watched the game play and opening cinematic, hate all you want. It will be what d3 should have been, and what the hell are you guys talking about coping POE? POE is a blatant copy of d2.

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iamstryker wrote:

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IceM wrote:

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ongZ wrote:

D3X will be as shitty as D3C. Terrible mechanics.

I disagree, d3's combat and the over all game is better then poe in every way except the loot itemazation, but I forget almost EVERYONE that plays POE just HAS to hate d3, its a requirement

LOL. That was hilarious.

BTW I decided D3 was terrible before I found out how awesome PoE was.

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IceM wrote:

Watched the game play and opening cinematic, hate all you want. It will be what d3 should have been, and what the hell are you guys talking about coping POE? POE is a blatant copy of d2.

Shouldn't the regular D3 be what D3 should have been? I'll never let Blizzard get my hopes up with a Diablo game again. D3 wasn't just the most disappointed I have ever been with a video game. I can barely think of many other things in my entire life that have disappointed me that much.

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Nightmare90 wrote:

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exorzist wrote:

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Nightmare90 wrote:

Will loot 2.0 make interesting loot in the low-level brackets available?

The thing I like in PoE most is the fact,
that I can find useful end-game currency even while making alts.

I know that this is less important in D3 as you generally don't make alts that much
but I don't want to feel the disappointment of loot in my first act 1 playthrough again.

all legendaries, for example, will be available also in lower levels.
so you can find Tal-Rasha/IK sets etc even when youre lvl 15 or 30.

the stats will be according to your level ofc.

Well, sounds good honestly.
It imposes however balancing issues.

Either balancing is rather more simple with the itemization currently present
or they give a crap about balancing, going the D2 route.

Either way, good to hear that low-level loot might be interesting.

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Septile wrote:

Based on what has been announced, unless the expansion is damn cheap(which it won't be), I'm probably not going to bother.

From what I've read of loot 2.0, blizzard is completely clueless as to why the loot sucks so fucking much. It has only a little bit to do with the frequency of upgrades and shittiness of legendaries, which seems to be their only focus. A lot of it has to do with the fact that none of your choices in d3 matter at all. It doesn't matter if you use a sword, axe, or mace, it doesn't matter if it's poison damage, fire damage or lightning damage, all you want is more dps more crit more main stat. Snore. And not to mention the AH that they outright refuse to remove, even though it has had absolutely disastrous effects on the economy and the overall gameplay experience. As long as the AH exists, the most efficient way to play the game by a massive margin will be to play the AH, and their solution is of course to adapt even more garbage MMO elements with this stupid "account bound" shit.

And still, there's absolutely no reason to make another character. There's no reason to have any sort of investment in your character because of how diluted/nonexistent/total shit the RPG elements in D3 are. The expansion pack just looks to be more of the same action-adventure WoWablo.

Maybe they'll announce significantly more radical changes later, but I'm not impressed so far, and obviously very cynical after getting burned the first time around.

Thankfully there are alternatives.

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IceM wrote:

Balancing issues at lower levels? Who the fck cares? It wasnt ever hard to begin with, POE in a group is a faceroll also. You people here have some serious issues, some people just want to enjoy games.