1) The teleport dmg debuff lasts like 1 second or slightly less and it's not 50%... lightning sorc can get it down to around 25-30% with just 1 hard point into it and + skills/skillers
If you are doing 5-6k dps, 30% lost of that is a TON in a map that has 15k life per monster... It is totally destructive for any sorceress and makes sorc totally not viable in the late game, unless it ... walks.
2) There were a couple of days where the servers were crashing but it's been patched by the devs and servers are quite good now
A ton of people died due to this, and the servers are now scaled down to infinity, since there are no further donations coming in, Senpai must optimize costs, and the people are the ones that suffer it.
3) I don't know whether this is true or not, so no comment
4) What rookie mistakes? They constantly update the game every season
- Read the change log in their Discord... "oops sorry, you killed Dclone and got not Overlord helm, but the garbage worth 5 wss, our bad" for example
5) Maybe there are a couple of classes which are better than the rest theoretically, but all classes/builds are viable to some extent
- To what extend? Paladin is garbage, Sorc is garbage, Druid is only good for bosses - unplayable in maps, Necro is viable for low level bossing - unplayable in maps, Amazon got gutted, Assassin got gutted, Only BARB is playable right now as the feature on the season shows.
6) Hmm maybe this is the only point I would concede, but the trading site isn't bad by any means... at least there is 1, unlike D2LoD/D2R
the player base was around 10k first week of season, now it's dropped off admittedly but still around 2-3k daily 1 month in --> maybe 10k the first 2 days? I started day 3 and trust me, it never exceeded 4k players, and right now 1500 is average total, with 90% being Softcore...
I played D2 lod for years back in the day and D2R 3-4 seasons, PD2 is much more refined in many aspects imho, it's what D2R should be
You never played and it shows.. just this season there are 20+ viable super strong builds.. just because there is the obvious cookiecutter build (barb this season) does not make it the best.. i know alot of people that clear maps faster then the fastest barb.