Quote (musclemagic @ Jan 11 2023 04:07pm)
Nah, almost everything you find is a rare (potentially the bis) at lvl 100. Gear that drops before 100 is not really worth keeping.
In the endgame beta, the content wasn't engaging enough to demand you to optimize gear. Once you semi-optimized skills/Paragon it was like.. okay I'm good now.
A part of this was also due to exploration/glyphs/sockets each being high value, more valuable than gear in some cases.
I'm sure they're doing some tweaking though to make it feel right. The world and all the systems are so well thought out, I have a pretty high faith they'll get it ironed out even if it's not in the first season.
That is very, very bad news to see them go down this weird Diablo 3 road again. If gear before max. level is not worth keeping, it means ONCE AGAIN that the whole levelling phase is just there because Blizzard says so. It serves no purpose.
Look at the great ARPGs like D2 or Path of Exile. One of the reasons why they are so good is how they implemented the Levelling phase into their game.
First of all the way to max. Level is the ultimate goal in both mentioned games, which makes A LOT of sense.
Secondly and more importantly, items do not scale with character level or anything else which means that an item, once it can drop due to Area Level, you can get it.
In D2 you can theoretically get a Stone of Jordan in Normal Act 5 if I'm not mistaken, so basically when you character is not even Level 30 most of the time - and this adds a sort of sense to the levelling phase because you can get shit that is worth keeping. Not only Uniques but also blues and even white or grey bases. You can get all this shit pretty much at any point.
Once you reach an area in which specific affixes can drop, you can get lets say charms which include them and they might be best in slot forever.
Uniques DO NOT CHANGE with your character level in D2, they have only one form. They are what they are.
You find a great Unique with Level 50 in D3 or D4? Well thats bad news for you, because its downscaled crap that sucks ass a few moments later.
If nothing before lvl 100 is worth anything then whats the point? You get where I am coming from?
They need to stop doing this character scaling bullshit. I wanna be rewarded, not punished until I am Max. Level. That is ridiculous.
So tell me again, what so great about their system, cause it sounds like crap.