Diablo 3 ROS MVP critiques

[ShadoutMapes]

thankfully we have other great ARPGs on the market

We do?
All A-RPGs so far seem to have some major flaws in one direction or the other.

Sure, older games like D2 did so too, just easier to ignore back then since it was so new and different.
But I'm really not impressed by the general quality of A-RPGs today.
They tend to do some things great and other things terrible. Cant we ever get one that does some things great and everything else at minimum "okay"

 

[HardRock]

Yeah, Borderlands (it\'s what you meant, right?) is on of my favorites. I\'m just waiting for Gearbox to stop with the DLC release sillyness to start playing through BL2 in coop.

 

[djolar]

Well I think there are a couple of perspective twists on some of the facts represented in the OPs.

I can\'t believe they are arguing about lack of finding gear for companions. Yes it is true that there are less drops for companions with a main stat opposed to your stat. However, they neglect to mention that your companion can be equipped to do like 100x the damage they could in vanilla. For most of my leveling a newb PTR DH, my companion was doing half my current damage and at level 60, I have been able to gear him up to nearly the same amount of damage as me. The key to finding gear for them is to check the vendors in town for items high in their mainstat. *done*

I do agree that making normal gear more viable by salvaging it has had a detrimental effect on crafting because I feel it is wasted time filling up inventory when I can get decent gear from adventuring and combing the vendors. (i.e. having fun!) And this is stock PTR not RoS so bounties etal should help even further.

 

[Steven Hazani]

You mean removing the 85% damage penalty? Well that's nice, but even with prime stat * 2.5 they still only get 4 or 5 slots instead of 12 or 13.

 

[HardRock]

The main limiting factor of their damage is still that they don\'t attack continuously like players do. I don\'t mind this at all though, I\'m perfectly fine with them being supports with heals or CC.

 

[Steven Hazani]

The main limiting factor of their damage is still that they don\'t attack continuously like players do. I don\'t mind this at all though, I\'m perfectly fine with them being supports with heals or CC.

Actually, now that you mention it eDPS is also a factor. When they attack it's mostly auto attacks with an occasional low damage high cooldown ability (only noteworthy on live because it bypasses the -85% penalty). Even half decent player builds have dps multipliers of 5, the good ones are 10 or more.

 

[koko]

Yet, you could run progman instead of explorer as your shell to get the Win 3.1 program manager instead of the start menu (progman.exe works until XP I think). In Win 8 it is not possible. Since the new start screen looks like Win 3.1 progman, I prefer win 8 UI.

 

[koko]

Always disliked followers (I do my killing alone) and pets (stupid DH's pet which engages treasure goblins). It would be nice to have a bonus for leaving them in town, but blizz has more important stuff to fix before...

 

[Nodders]

I haven\'t played since last January and was looking forward to getting back .

After reading that post I have decided against it . I normally buy the CE of everything Warcraft / Diablo , not this time .

This time I will wait 6 months or so and see what happens .

The game in it\'s current state will not change , it\'s about to go gold , they are still asking for feedback but really it\'s useless at this point .

No thanks .

 

[Raesene]

Always disliked followers (I do my killing alone) and pets (stupid DH's pet which engages treasure goblins). It would be nice to have a bonus for leaving them in town, but blizz has more important stuff to fix before...

This nonsense is why we were stuck with that ridiculous 85% penalty to begin with.

 

[softshack]

<pre> Each subsequent patch has diminished on that experience and failed to capitalize on the gains made by the new additions. <pre>

After listening to each podcast, it sounds like this a lot . . .

 

[HardRock]

\"After reading that post I have decided against it.\"

Many people like the game as it is. Why not try the PTR? It\'s free. It\'s always best to decide for yourself when you can.

 

[HardRock]

\"It would be nice to have a bonus for leaving them in town\"

There\'s a bonus, you won\'t have to listen to them.

With the exception of Lyndon I really don\'t like to listen to our Followers. I wish we could mute them.

 

[HardRock]

Personally, I barely used the Start Menu in the past few years. My most used programs start with the system and run constantly in the background and the rest is on my taskbar. I rarely see even my desktop.