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D2 Classic Players Won't Like D3
There's a good chance that the majority of people who played D2 Classic will not enjoy D3 as much as those who played LOD. Hopefully I don't go on for too long so people will actually read this.
There's a reason we played classic over LOD, and since the game is going from D2 Classic -> D2 LOD -> D3, we can assume that most of the things about LOD will be included in the first version of D3.
What made D2 Classic special were the rare quality items (yellow name). These were the items that were truly unlike anything anyone else had, because of their random mods. A few set items and uniques are okay, but LOD took it to the next level. Rune words and certain "uniques" were so godly that you couldn't really use anything else. Everyone ended up wearing the same stuff, generally.
D2 Classic was a beautiful thing because you could literally go out and not know whether you were going to find an item of extreme quality that nobody else has, or ever could have - and the item would be more than viable because there wouldn't be any obscene uniques or rune words.
I just pray that D3 will be more like good old Diablo II (when it first came out, classic), and less like LOD or World of Warcraft. The best items in the game should not be set/uniques/rune words (or at least not in every slot), but items that are truly one of a kind and randomly generated.
If the item of your dreams is something that you can find on the Blizzard website, it's not much of a dream. It's there, you just have to grind for it.
There's a good chance that the majority of people who played D2 Classic will not enjoy D3 as much as those who played LOD. Hopefully I don't go on for too long so people will actually read this.
There's a reason we played classic over LOD, and since the game is going from D2 Classic -> D2 LOD -> D3, we can assume that most of the things about LOD will be included in the first version of D3.
What made D2 Classic special were the rare quality items (yellow name). These were the items that were truly unlike anything anyone else had, because of their random mods. A few set items and uniques are okay, but LOD took it to the next level. Rune words and certain "uniques" were so godly that you couldn't really use anything else. Everyone ended up wearing the same stuff, generally.
D2 Classic was a beautiful thing because you could literally go out and not know whether you were going to find an item of extreme quality that nobody else has, or ever could have - and the item would be more than viable because there wouldn't be any obscene uniques or rune words.
I just pray that D3 will be more like good old Diablo II (when it first came out, classic), and less like LOD or World of Warcraft. The best items in the game should not be set/uniques/rune words (or at least not in every slot), but items that are truly one of a kind and randomly generated.
If the item of your dreams is something that you can find on the Blizzard website, it's not much of a dream. It's there, you just have to grind for it.