...is missing endgame content

Do you know any other game where people want to be in a game with 7 other people, without playing together with any of them?
people just play together because more xp or better drop rates wihtout the need of ever interacting, it's so stupid.

...is missing build diversity

Start of ladder: sorc or hammerdin is just the most viable and most efficent. ever see a fire druid? bowzon? leap barb? balancing is so outdated. why even have these skill trees if noone is using them?
Even if you decide to go for bad charackter like bowzon...you have to go faith...windforce is okay, if you cannot afford faith...that's it. why not give option to upgrade, craft, corrupt?

...needs reasonable mechanics/rng

So I need to sell 100 sojs on a certain fucking IP to have diablo clone walking and get an anni? sounds reasonable.
I have to do 500 cow runs to find one HR on average? yeah, makes sense.

I came back to d2, after 15 years for some nostalgica - which was okay. Back then I did not really think about these things, but time has passed and let's be honest: who is playing this game? it's the same people who played it 15 years ago. Ofc we want the same experience, but game design has evolved and it's just not done with a few quality of life features.

worst thing is there are mods like pd2 which do all these things better (btw pd2 season 4 starting dec 3), but blizzard just lost it's touch. so any extension with these addons will most likely never happen.

I think it is us players really...we are all 20 years older and the same thing doesn't thrill us any more-even with a few qol changes.

D2R is as lonely as D3 with no chat and no reason to be in game with other people they just pick your loot!
i got sick of doing countless solo runs with zero luck at finding anything decent
so i made some public baal runs for a change figured id get better XP/Loot and second wave on second run a fuckin Ohm rune dropped and some noob swiped it so fast
i yelled "FUCK" as loud as i possibly could
@bbs12 dont hate the player hate the shitty stupid game

In all seriousness, Shower With Your Dad Simulator has more engaging gameplay and pvp than d2:r

lmfao

Rofl he was stuck for 2 days "I had to help him"

You guys were all complaining about changes that could be made to a 20 year old game and how it would ruin everything, and now you're complaining cause you're bored and hate grinding?

This is why veteran D2 players are some of the stupidest gamers on the planet. Anything that could create longevity to the new game gets backlashed. But the very thing people want kept is the reason it's only a small pool of people who play this game for a long period of time and nobody else gaf after their char is done.

Fun fact, the real reason why D2 is fun is because Magic Finding is addicting to many, and finding items that have relative value is half the reason people play. Take that out by screwing with the atrocious odds and you lose 75% of the population. The rest are bored and left to PKing or screwing around with meme builds.

Speaking of which, want PvP? Well, this game was never meant to be a hardcore PvP game. It just so happened that certain mechanics work well enough to make it fun. It's the reason why the game needs a grocery list of things not usable so that it's "fair".

That's exactly why I'm open to them making balance changes. If I wanted to play an unbalanced game with all the same mechanics, I wouldn't have paid $40 for a graphic swap.

agreed man...no doubt