what I mean is the pker never host you. and he is likely same lvl as you, not necessarily a high lvl.
Same thing happens in d3 HC too. he is well geared, he walks around, draws bunch of tough mobs, you walk with him, and you dead.

Thanks again for info. I didn't not mean to cause an arguement. My bad.

You didn't Taurean did.

you're not "required" to have serveral thousand FG, let alone 1 million fg.

play small if that is fun for you, it is for many.

Same thing really, he still has to return to town to hostile you which gives you time to prep



Thats kind of what I meant really when I mentioned pvp and rush games

This post was edited by kai_jph on Jan 7 2019 10:54am

no, because mobs kill u, not him. he doesn't host you, he just just stands there watch mob swamps on you.
d3 can not escape so this is very effective. d2 you can just escape. however new players may not realize it was a trap.

If ur lvl 1 and die in hardcore its literally takes 5 seconds to return with New lvl 1 char.

Anyway. I could never play hardcore, i die all the time. I always rush in any game.. It's really hard to get good in a game if offense is something every1 Else is doing.

High rune drops are still ridiculously rare even after they improved drop rates.
This scarcity for these runes that are considered an essential part of the game is good for pvm balance, as runewords in general took most of the interesting itemization decisions out of walkthroughs

It's not so good for battlenet play where players have less interest in improving their pvm character and just want to have something to show for their time.

It's still quite easy to make giant piles of fg without bots if that's what you care about doing, I'm just not sure why you would want to

This post was edited by Worrywart on Jan 7 2019 12:06pm

2019 Diablo 2 has about the same issue for a lot of PVM'ers that Diablo 3 had. u can MF for 12 hours straight and get fuckall for it. that's mainly for NL. unless you want to mule away shit loads of mats and spend all day selling stuff for 1 fg per.

but it's a binary problem. if u kill bots u can make MFing very worthwhile for a lot longer on refreshes, but you'll also kill ladder PvP. i'd personally be ok with that because ladder pvp and 20k fg FPK chars on ladder has always been a head scratcher for me. but that's a hypothetical if, im not suggesting they can kill off bots permanently.

It doesn't just hurt ladder pvp. The last couple ban waves also targeted utility programs like loaders and namebots which decimated nl pvpers.
Even though they can detect whenever people are using certain dupe methods (for example, whenever a player imbues, personalizes, or sockets an invalid target like jewelry or a charm) they don't ban for it.

The most helpful thing they could do is actually have people who have actually played the games work on them (or at least consult people who have done so)

This post was edited by Worrywart on Jan 7 2019 12:17pm