I guess they also addressed the farming issues, the 'boss' Leoric doesn't drop anything good after the first run through and all the Waypoints/quests are reset after you've done them so you would have to start from the very beginning to just to get to the 'boss' so the fastest way is to try to jump in on someone's game that's going for the quest. Since the loot is separated (ala guild wars) whatever drops for you is for YOU while anybody elses drops are hidden so jumping in on someone's boss kill doesn't ruin it for them.
I guess they also addressed the farming issues, the 'boss' Leoric doesn't drop anything good after the first run through and all the Waypoints/quests are reset after you've done them so you would have to start from the very beginning to just to get to the 'boss' so the fastest way is to try to jump in on someone's game that's going for the quest. Since the loot is separated (ala guild wars) whatever drops for you is for YOU while anybody elses drops are hidden so jumping in on someone's boss kill doesn't ruin it for them.
Wait...what?
Boss runs were the best part of Diablo.
It seems like the loot you get off them gets worse with each progressive kill. At least it did when I killed the SK on my sorc about 5 times, and the last one I don't think I even got a blue. I'm not quite liking it either. There should be some incentive for going after a boss over just farming random mobs in the levels.
It seems like the loot you get off them gets worse with each progressive kill. At least it did when I killed the SK on my sorc about 5 times, and the last one I don't think I even got a blue. I'm not quite liking it either. There should be some incentive for going after a boss over just farming random mobs in the levels.
think something like that was built into D2 to combat bot farming
wouldn't be surprised if D3 has it too
My guess would be this. They don't want you botting/running the same boss over and over. They want you to go hunting for treasure chests or unique minions.
I don't remember D2 ever having diminishing returns from bosses, though my memory may be faulty. Their primary method was to just temp ban you if you did too many runs per hour.
However, I'm kinda bummed that they're dropping the focus on boss runs. In D2, the Act bosses not only had higher chances of loot drops, but the fights were infinitely more interesting than the random boss packs. The random packs could be challenging at times...but that's usually only if their buffs were waaaay unbalanced. Then, they were usually more annoying than anything else...and heck, there were so many mob types that were simply annoying rather than fun to fight. If they manage to make the random boss packs fun in D3, my opinion might change. If I had to guess, though, I'd say D3 will have it's fair share of annoying, un-fun mobs.
An MMO game like WoW has to have pretty regular updates with new content to keep people interested. If they can truly make people interested in finding and fighting random boss packs, that takes a lot of pressure off needing new content updates. However, giving people incentive to explore random locations because of the loot spread does NOT equal a game worth exploring...I hope they've manged to do it, but I give them long odds.
and it happens to come on a busy as fuck weekend for me :thumbsdown:
Im not touching any of the betas neither am i watching any videos on Diablo. I want the disappointment to be fresh.
@Gorcorps LOL...Hope it doesn't turn out that way.
Does this have a single player mode?
Does this have a single player mode?