So the change was good, they went back to D2, which I think is pretty dope.

The "issue" I have:

I still only want defensive phys reduction values on all my gear cause for some reason resists are almost capped for me without equipping anything. Jewelery gives some resistance by default, the rest is done by passives and thats about it. Thats a bummer.

Drink a pot if necessary and all are capped out or even go over the limit.

In my opinion Blizzard should make resistances a more important gearing decision. We should have to make a hard choice imho.
We dont have to pay attention to them at all right now.

What do you guys think about that?

This post was edited by Modulok2405 on Nov 15 2023 12:57am

i think it perfectly matches with their target audience.
I used to finish the game on HC, 100% blind, with maybe only 1 "emergency" situation and decided to continue to lvl 70-80 iirc.
When I realized that I could have finished this Rodd Fergusson game the same way when I was 8 years old, swapping stuff without reading anything but the green numbers, I realized that it was an uninteresting piece of shit made for kiddos.

True for finishing the campaign, but you would hardly be able to finish High Level NMD or Lilith/Duriel if you'd play blind and just equip after green numbers. You would have to be a genius to pull that off.

Campaign is for casuals it's only like 1% of the game.

But you're right, the game could and should be more difficult but first they need better balancing.

Talking about resistances I am glad that you can cap it using paragon otherwise it would be a real pain in the ass considering items only have 4 affixes and the most uniques are kinda irreplaceable

This post was edited by Nymph666 on Nov 15 2023 03:36am

Which would make it interesting.

It really depends on your class. If you’re playing a sorceress then resistances are basically guaranteed. If you’re playing other classes like a barb for instances you do need to make some conscious decisions/sacrifices in a few gearing spots to get some.

They may still be too easy but some of the classes were definitely affected differently here.

Good point!

So if you get all your key passives you want from the paragon tree, would you say it's worth it to spend spare points aiming for the resist nodes?

Sure if talking about sorc paragon, there are 2 rare life/all resistances nodes in the starting board which I take and then a couple which gives all resistances on the way in other boards, with tal rasha's ring it is already 63 all resistances for me and with potent warding passive it is already more than 70 all res. On defensive rare armor I went for 2 damage reduction, armor and life affixes and have perfect skulls in my jewelry as armor is harder to get elsewhere. Of course there are different ways to do it, like if you can get fire/cold/lightning resistances easier on your paragon, you can go for example shadow/poison resistances affixes on your armor instead of damage reduction or place perfect gems of specific resistances (or perfect diamonds for all resistances) in some of your jewelry, but then you lose some base armor which I wouldn't recommend because it gets important not to get one-shotted in the end-endgame.

also dont forget that with elixirs and incenses you can boost any resistance your char may be low on...