WOW! Those cooldowns for the Crusader pisses me off.. >_>
So I just played for the first time after the patch, and I absolutely *hate* it. All the game is now is getting swarmed by mobs, and I am playing on only hard difficulty. My demon hunter that was kicking butt previously on the second difficulty level now seems terribly underpowered. I remember hating Oblivion because it leveled the monsters to that of the character, but this seems even worse.
I was seriously thinking of getting the expansion pack, but have pretty much decided against it, because I cant imagine going through an entire game like this.
True but the Crusader is poop. Yes, it's a fun class to play because it's new but I don't care what people say, the class stinks!Probably why there's so much cooldown reduction now built into the game.
I reset quests on my level 60 monk, did not get to play this weekend, still in act 1. (D'oh!)
So I started a crusader this morning, is fun so far.
Not looking forward to Act 2, the desert is annoying...
LOOK! More hidden footprints!
Newegg canceled my pre-order due to not having enough in stock. First time I have had an issue with them. Guess I will just buy it through Blizzard today and miss out on the pre-order stuff.
I don't agree with cap, because all she did was go off when she read how you "hate" the game, but I do think you're being a little melodramatic. You're entitled to your opinion, but you seem a little confused about how the difficulties have changed, and the loot. They've been completely rebalanced, and you're insisting you shouldn't have to make any adjustments with a sub-60 character you used to play. There is no equivalent to the old "normal, NM, hell" difficulties...that concept no longer exists. It's now just monsters scaled to your level + (renamed, rebalanced) monster power to provide more challenge and rewards. If you dropped down to normal difficulty for a while, you'd be back up to hard/expert/master in no time.
I started a HC demon hunter after the patch to get a feel for how things are for fresh characters. For the first 30 levels or so, normal was pretty easy and I found pretty good drops, but hard+ provided a decent challenge due to the increased mob HP/DMG. Somewhere in the 40s, my DPS shot up so that expert/master seemed like a better challenge, except I came dangerously close to dying a couple times against elites, so I turned it back down (being on hardcore). Regardless, the drops I found on normal after small number of hours were perfectly viable for letting me progress to harder difficulties without any issue.
For the record, I hate oblivion and it's scaled mobs as well. I don't feel that way about this D3 patch though because gear increases your strength waaaaaaay above a default level X character. Normal mobs eventually feel like puny ants, but not until you've collected some good gear...go figure.
Thanks for the useful reply. Perhaps "hate" the game was an overstatement, but after playing through the story many times already, I just don't know if I have the energy to go back a level just to grind more loot to get back to where I was before the patch. I had sort of burned out on the game, but was enjoying playing a new character and mindlessly plowing through the game like a bad ass.
Sadly, work is going to be particularly awful today. Not much sleep!
You get the pre-order stuff as long as you activate a key by 3/31.