Nope. This is actually the main point of the changes they want to implement: Buffing underused skills so that more hell viable builds will emerge lol. Do you actually listen or read what the changes they want to do or you just disagree without even looking it up? lol.
Simple. It got boring quick. What's the difference between a lower level greater rift and a higher one? The numbers? The resistances that enemies have but are quickly circumvented by gaining some paragon levels or some slightly better gear? All that work to ultimately stay in the same place you were before. Ancients, Primal Ancients, they don't do anything. They have higher numbers, but don't actually change your play style.
You got me. I just hate things without even bothering to look into them. You seemed to have noticed that post previously too, so
To each his own. I personally enjoyed doing high Greater Rifts when I played and I can tell you, every upgrade you put into your gear is significant. Your playstyle on lower GR's will definitely change once you go higher. You will be more mindful of the monsters' increasing health and damage that you have to properly utilize your cooldowns, area damage, elemental rotation and stacks etc. It's not always about increased paragon, often times it's about the strategy and how good you utilize the build and gear. You'd see this in leaderboards where there are guys with thousands of paragons but still far behind in progression against some dudes with lower paragons than them. It's the strategy and playstyle that makes the difference.
You are right about finding the most efficient way to play your character in D3, but the caveat is there is a ceiling where it becomes completely unsatisfying. What I mean is when you are blasting through GR 100+ and clear entire inventories worth of useless legendaries. Sure it's nice to get a primal here and there but at a certain point it is just number go up. Once you complete your build in D3 you really don't have much to look forward to other than higher stats if you have mastered playing it efficiently. It's fun with friends for a week or two a season but loses appeal way too quickly.
I played the classic D2 and the Expansion around the year they were released but I didn't play in to the endgame. It's in D3 and D2R that I did. What I wanted to happen in D2R is to be able to play the build that's true to the lore of the class without being too gear dependent. Eg. The Assassin. People are forced to play the Trapsin which for me is just lame. I wanted to play the martial arts assassin up to hell with efficient monster killing power. I don't like the idea that you're required to create an alt farming character that you dont enjoy playing but you have to in order to farm for that rare and expensive gear that your main character needs. Every friend that I know who plays a Paladin is a Hammerdin lol.
That's what I find so insane about how people play D2. There are people who will play hdin exclusively and can be satisfied with that. If you have the gear for an hdin, you have the gear for just about any caster in the game and there are plenty of other casters who can efficiently farm hell. Bone/Summon necs, wind druids, any type of sorceress, get a titans and a shield and you have an amazon. The gearing is so universal that you can get just about anything with ease and move your Enigma/shako/spirit/jewelry between characters with only very minor tweaks.
People like their single class autism. People remember that Hammerdins were the kings of Chaos and Baal runs back in the day and that no other class could come close (due to a lack of investment and a more accommodating system for trading gear between characters). Thus, people want to indulge that power fantasy of being the big dick Hammerdin able to curbstomp everything by shitting Blessed Hammers all over the screen.
Feedbacks are quite positive from what I've been seeing. Players are excited about the balance changes and new runewords.
"Don't you guys have phones?" and "No, we won't have a PC release" is not a great point to pivot on years down the line after your market has had plenty of time to be pissed off at you for both your initial statements and other things that have happened in the interim. I will be very surprised if this is anything other than a complete disaster.
Textbook definition of "too little, too late."
Is she suppose to be a crusader or paladin?
So what do I need to play as cute yt paladin?
