Again, sanding off the edges to allow for wider audience appeal isn't something most people would see as "woke". That is not an example of wokeness in Diablo 3 unless you are willing to dilute the definition of "woke" to just mean "anything company does that I don't like", which is stupid.

And even today, 2 decades + later, D2 still reigns king over PoE's itemization and loot. D3's too, and 99% of the other shitty arpgs

This post was edited by ChocolateCoveredGummyBears on Jul 22 2021 02:35pm

Your opinion is invalid.

Sanding off the edges is massive understatement. They changed so much that hardcore D2 fans that were dying for D3 simply ditched it after a short time.

You lost this debate already I don't get why I still come up with new arguments while you have none and only repeat yourself

1. I played hardcore and you learn quite quickly to avoid that shit once you get TPPK'd.
2. The 1.10 runewords ruined the game IMO from a pvp perspective.
3. I can't speak to LLDs.



I think if itemization forces dupes to exist, then there's a fundamental flaw in your design. There's also the aspect of 95% of items were useless which is another ding. How much flexibility does a hammerdin have in terms of chest? How many helms were used?

I think one aspect that was actually really good was the fact that SOME rares could actually be better than uniques.

Out of 100 people, what percent of hardcore D2 fans would say that political correctness was the main factor of them ditching the game?

Yes but at any time u can become rich. All d3 offers is a chance at a minor personal upgrade in gear

I'd also point out that we have contributed to our own demise.

Remember when you tested things to see what worked best. We had terrible skill tree choices. Gear that made little to no sense. Got frustrated when we couldn't figure something out and returned to it later.

Well not anymore. Now we google "Best X build" "How to solve X' "Quickest levelling route".

We don't want games that hand hold but most of us will google a guide that holds our hand.



This post was edited by SBD on Jul 22 2021 03:23pm

i put skill points into everything on my first paladin because the guide book basically recommended it. they lied to me i never needed conversion or resist fire aura lmao.

Now you have beta patch testers and the guide to the entire raid is posted online before the content is even released.