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[Editorial] Diablo 3: I’m Glad I Waited for the Expansion

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129

Having a ton of games to play is certainly a boon, but it usually means that I’m late to the party on the newest gaming hotness (unless that hotness is an Elder Scrolls game).  In the case of Diablo 3, I’m actually kind of glad that I missed the boat on launch and waited until the Reaper of Souls release, because I skipped past the whole RMT Auction House and loot kerfuffle and am now enjoying a super polished and fun Blizzard game.

Read more of Som Pourfarzaneh's Diablo 3: I'm Glad I Waited for the Expansion.

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  • Sourmonkey1Sourmonkey1 Member UncommonPosts: 2
    Diablo 3 is great , the whole dungeon crawler loot driven system is fun , however after a few days it turns into when will that next legendary drop then a week later it's I'm not finding any upgrades to a few months of trying to get better gear to fiquring out you ran the same game a hundred times , with very few changes . Not knocking diablo 3 just needs more depth to its shallow loot grind
  • Cramit845Cramit845 Member UncommonPosts: 395

    I haven't purchased the expansion, but I have been playing the new update that was a pre-cursor and I have to admit that they definitely improved the game.  Although it seems so much easier to gear up.  I dunno bout anyway else but I've been getting quite a bit of loot recently with the new loot changes and it almost seems that it is to easy to gear, but I have only played maybe a total of 5 hours with the new patch, so it may just be me not playing enough.

    I'm interested in the expansion however for what you get and the price tag, I am not really feeling pushed or enticed to go out and purchase the expansion.  Maybe in some time I will get it but right now just don't feel the need.

  • BadSpockBadSpock Member UncommonPosts: 7,979

    Best played with friends.

    Very much fun tearing up Rifts in a full party. 

  • ThomasN7ThomasN7 87.18.7.148Member CommonPosts: 6,690
    Originally posted by BadSpock

    Best played with friends.

    Very much fun tearing up Rifts in a full party. 

    Agreed. Best played with buddies. The expansion was good.

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  • Dreamo84Dreamo84 Member UncommonPosts: 3,713
    Originally posted by Sourmonkey1
    Diablo 3 is great , the whole dungeon crawler loot driven system is fun , however after a few days it turns into when will that next legendary drop then a week later it's I'm not finding any upgrades to a few months of trying to get better gear to fiquring out you ran the same game a hundred times , with very few changes . Not knocking diablo 3 just needs more depth to its shallow loot grind

    Repeatable content and loot grind is pretty much what ARPGs are about. I think you are wanting it to be more like an MMO with new content every month or so.

    I feel you though, because I personally can't get into the loot grind a whole lot so I don't. I mostly play to enjoy the content then move on.

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  • reichtreicht Member Posts: 41
    Originally posted by Sourmonkey1
    Diablo 3 is great , the whole dungeon crawler loot driven system is fun , however after a few days it turns into when will that next legendary drop then a week later it's I'm not finding any upgrades to a few months of trying to get better gear to fiquring out you ran the same game a hundred times , with very few changes . Not knocking diablo 3 just needs more depth to its shallow loot grind

    Yeah you're right, that expansion which completely reworked the loot system (Yes, literally) and came out less than a month ago has already turned into "A few months of trying to get better gear".  

    Thank you for coming here, opening up your anus, and talking our of your ass for the whole world to see.  You're pointing out a problem they have acknowledged and fixed, next you could get on fixing our misunderstanding of the world being flat...

    Addendum:Edits should not be beholden to the re-post timer, this is a stupid system.

     

     
  • Glad you like the game. It's not Diablo, which I mourn, but obviously many do not.
  • reichtreicht Member Posts: 41
    Originally posted by Jeger_Wulf
    Glad you like the game. It's not Diablo, which I mourn, but obviously many do not.
     

    Twould truly be a better game if it were 2d, isometric, severely limited in classes and skills, gender locked characters, confined to one dungeon, possessing of a fistful of enemy types, and running at a blistering 640X480 or 800X600...  

    I miss back when Diablo was Diablo.

  • VicodinTacoVicodinTaco Member UncommonPosts: 804

    This is the same reason I'm not touching ESO until "second release".

     

    Whether it's that's big patch, expansion, or F2P or B2P I'm sure the game will be so much better at a certain point.  Diablo 3 became sooooo much better at 2.0

  • JimmyYOJimmyYO Member UncommonPosts: 519
    Most of this article is commenting on D3 itself, not really the expansion. Even at launch D3 had most of these features and was much better then T2 and PoE anyways.
  • AsamofAsamof Member UncommonPosts: 824
    I think all of us wish we never experienced vanilla D3. Sixty dollars for a crude alpha, followed by 12 million sales and 2 years to develop it into a proper functioning Diablo game.
  • Solar_ProphetSolar_Prophet Member EpicPosts: 1,960
    Originally posted by Asamof
    I think all of us wish we never experienced vanilla D3. Sixty dollars for a crude alpha, followed by 12 million sales and 2 years to develop it into a proper functioning Diablo game.

    Crude alpha? Oh give me a break. Vanilla D3 was a fine, polished game. The fact you would call it an alpha shows just how ludicrous you are, and exemplifies just how inane much of the hate it when is comes to this game, and Blizzard in general.

    You strike me as the type of person who bought the absolute best gear you could find in the AH, then complained on the forums after an hour of grinding that you couldn't find any upgrades, that the AH ruined the game, blah blah blah. Guess what? The better the gear you have, the longer it will take to find upgrades! Wow, what a concept right?

    I swear the majority of D3 haters have the most ridiculous arguments and exaggerations.

     

    AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!

    We are born of the blood. Made men by the blood. Undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. FEAR THE OLD BLOOD. 

    #IStandWithVic

  • mari3kmari3k Member Posts: 135
    Its getting better, but still miles away from the greatness of Path Of Exile.

    Step in the arena and break the wall down

  • KanethKaneth Member RarePosts: 2,286

    I received D3 with the WoW locked sub thing, and I enjoyed playing through the game the first time around. I sat on it after though because of how ridiculous the loot system was because of (RM)AH. 2.0 breathed new life into the game and I am completely enjoying my badass Crusader.

    I'd say the game earned many of the negative comments it has received in the past, but much of those complaints are rendered moot in light of 2.0 and the xpack.

  • Originally posted by mari3k
    Its getting better, but still miles away from the greatness of Path Of Exile.

    I laughed so hard at this... 

     
  • UtinniUtinni Member EpicPosts: 2,209

    The only people still playing RoS are streamers and people who play 30 minutes a day. Everyone else is done as there is nothing to do.

    For those that dont know, aside from a few sets/potions, all the same legendaries drop in normal mode as in torment 6.

    There is essentially no reason to gear up for harder content as it pretty much gives you the same reward. 

  • dxsaoshidxsaoshi Member Posts: 18
    Originally posted by Wyrdfell
    Originally posted by mari3k
    Its getting better, but still miles away from the greatness of Path Of Exile.

    I laughed so hard at this... 

     

    Ya me too. It's so true. PoE is way deeper and more customizable than D3 could ever be. I could only stand playing D3 for 2 weeks tops but I played PoE for 5-6 months. Wish D3 had more going for it only being able to create one type of witch doctor is kind of boring. In D2 I had 3 different necromancer builds and they were all fun and viable.

  • sumdumguy1sumdumguy1 Member RarePosts: 1,373
    Originally posted by reicht
    Originally posted by Jeger_Wulf
    Glad you like the game. It's not Diablo, which I mourn, but obviously many do not.
     

    Twould truly be a better game if it were 2d, isometric, severely limited in classes and skills, gender locked characters, confined to one dungeon, possessing of a fistful of enemy types, and running at a blistering 640X480 or 800X600...  

    I miss back when Diablo was Diablo.

    Yeah lets go ahead and rip this guy since his opinion doesn't match yours.  This guy liked the game the way it was, great.  Not everyone agrees on what is and is not fun to them. 

  • sumdumguy1sumdumguy1 Member RarePosts: 1,373
    Originally posted by Utinni

    The only people still playing RoS are streamers and people who play 30 minutes a day. Everyone else is done as there is nothing to do.

    For those that dont know, aside from a few sets/potions, all the same legendaries drop in normal mode as in torment 6.

    There is essentially no reason to gear up for harder content as it pretty much gives you the same reward. 

    I did not purchase the expansion and I thought about it a few days ago but people have told me this exact thing.  I am glad I waited and now will wait for the big price drop before I buy it.

  • CaeSpockCaeSpock Member Posts: 14
    do you need the original diablo 3 to play the xpack?
  • Sunnyguy46Sunnyguy46 Member UncommonPosts: 91
    Originally posted by CaeSpock
    do you need the original diablo 3 to play the xpack?

     

    yes.

  • RelGnRelGn Member Posts: 494

    Diablo 2 was played as an rpg.

    Diablo 3 plays like an arcade game

    If you like arcade games you will like d3

    If you like rpgs you will hate d3

    Just my 2 cents

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  • abar095abar095 Member UncommonPosts: 1

    lies they have patched the thorns but if you got good thorns gear you can still do massive damage just not more instant killing ghom or rift bosses and stuff boss like but rare packs and elites plus champions yes they die in a sec but i think they balanced it so much better so you cant just go on t6 then instant ghom for tons exp

     

  • Originally posted by kairel182

    I'm sorry but the expansion thus far is a flop.  Not because of the story (which is decent), nor the new act (which is fantastic) nor the music/visuals/etc that are very well done (even though there's a SEVERE lack of cut scenes).

     

    The game falls flat in reward vs time investment and also in class balance.  There has been nothing but hotfixes and bugs/exploits being patched since day one, things that even ONE tester would have found and completely break the game.  An example?  Crusaders are using crits from thorns for over 600 million damage and they haven't hotfixed it yet...

     

    The main problem, however, is the loot.  Legendaries are better than they were in RNG from original, but they're still almost all worthless.  You end up salvaging majority of them because they're useless and most don't even have a legendary affix.  And the drop late is so low you never have enough of the Forgotten Souls to craft.

    There's a reason why so many people are running Normal instead of even Torment 1 because there's no reason to do anything harder because the reward for the time investment is non-existent.  I really hope Blizzard can turn this around and make these changes necessary because the game itself is fun but a lot needs work.

    It's all a bunch of lies. Don't listen to him.

  • oubersoubers Member UncommonPosts: 855

    pffft, the witchdocter was pretty original but the crusader is just the paladin from D2 with new gfx.

    meh.....not buying the exp.

     

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