1.0 Nerfs = Less Players

dont let yourself influence your opinion by loud trolls/haters/whiners

most of those "nerfs" seems reasonable once you fully understand them and their impact. Some of them are (with combination of other changes) actually buffs

this game transformed from beta with big changes, and beta players will have to adapt. Its not a first time big changes were introduced. Most of them proved being good in time. GGG know what they are doing. They work on this game for long time and its getting overall better with every patch

That's funny, the amount of people on my friends list online has doubled from around 10 to currently 22 online.

Bit early for doom and glooming isn't it? A lot of older players have no reason to play again until additional content is added, but there is certainly more new blood than ever before right now.

Will they stick around as long as the initial batch of open beta players? Probably not. They are here now though.

You play with people who would quit if their power trip was interrupted for the good of the game... you all wont be missed.

You must be playing in legacy leagues. Nemesis has 1-3 pages of public teams on every act

my friends list is bulging at the seems

it seems....

Not all players have the same problematics.

I was playing a level 83 LA BM Ranger and was already having hard times on high level maps. I can only play 1-2 hours a day and so I'm not rich, time is really important is such a game.

Now I've made a few simulations, on my own and with builds posted on the forum and I'll be even more weaker. Weaker in defense or in damage, choice is mine :(

And yes as I've seen on other threads it will be fine if I change my gear but you must be rich for that, I'll need at least a 6L or 1-2 good uniques I can't afford.

And yes I play solo so it's a fact that GGG wanted to privilege groups, intended or not the results are here.

So basically I can't move forward and don't have time to build a new char. Going to wait and see how the game evolves, too bad cause I was having a really good time on it.

And sorry for my poor English, learned it with Led Zep ;)

I'm just gonna weigh in here on why I think H3rp3s is a lot closer to being right than many of you either realize care to admit. Yes, there are a TON more players right now. It's release, there is press, it's on steam, and people are coming back to try the new content. Why did I embolden that? Because new content only lasts for a few short amount of time. After that, keeping players in the game is all about replayability.

This patch did almost nothing to help replayability. That is why the people you see the most unhappy with this patch are the ones who have put in INSANE amount of hours. Now, I love how the game looks after this patch. It's polished. I'm happy for GGG. As far as everything else goes, I don't like a single bit of it. What keeps someone grinding the same content over, and over, and over again? For maybe 100 people in each league, it is to try and reach the top of the ladder/100. For people like me, it's the quest to get the right combination of items and skills to make a character completely OP. Then I get to play as OP for a week or two until I am bored, and then I reroll.

This patch killed off anything ever considered OP. It nerfed dps by an incredible amount for Casters, Cleavers, Dischargers, Totems, Aura Stackers. It killed off almost all (voltaxic and aegis live on) uniques that if one drops for you, you get up and dance for a minute because it's fucking awesome. It didn't REALLY make it any easier to get experience, if you follow an experience chart, and it didn't do anything about map drops. Drops were actually DECREASED for the early part of the game, I haven't had a chance to do any boss runs yet as I rerolled.

So why am I still playing this game? Because I love(d?) it and of course I am going to try out the new content.I've been waiting for it forever. The question is, will I be playing this game in a month? Two months? I really don't see that happening in its current form. The game has turned back into take a shit ton of lifenodes and a couple of defensive nodes, because there is just too much wasted space between notables for anything original. There will be no more "OP" after you've put in the hours (Except legacy leagues), it will just be the grind.

Maybe you just don't think like me. Maybe you haven't put in near the hours I have. Maybe you've put in more. Whatever the reason, a large portion of the already established players will leave in a month or two if there aren't changes, simply because the game will start to get stale. Will the new players stick around and fill in the holes? Only time will tell, I suppose.

TL;DR? - Then you aren't who I'm talking to, you needn't bother.

Broken shit was fixed

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