He doesn't have a 'good point' though. He whines that items are "boring" because he can name a few good D2 legendaries and a few junk D3 ones. He fails to realize that there were a ton of junk items in D2 AND if it didn't have +skills, it was junk. Plus, D3 is much harder than D2. Thus, all those "good" items and builds, weren't really that good. They were okay, but that doesn't cut it in D3, where the higher difficulties are difficult.
People feel the need to tear it down because it is wrong. It is trying to use rose colored glasses to paint D2 as oh so superior.
Zzzzz, you again. Come to jump on the hater bandwagon instead of actually responding to anything that was said about your last completely brain dead post. Would you care to explain yet what it is exactly about wanting more varied and interesting item design that is contributing to the down fall of gaming? No? I'll give you a few more days to collect your thoughts.
There are three places in which D2 items are even mentioned, and always as specific examples to compare D3 items against, and never in 'oh look how great D2 was' fashion. Seriously, what else would you expect? What else is there to compare against? The graphic is not an ode to the glory days of D2, its an analysis of the current state of D3 itemization. Pull your hate blinders off for a second and look at the actual content of it instead of just seeing 'oh D2 is mentioned, must be all about how great D2 is and nothing in here could possibly be valid because he brought up D2'.
How about you actually address the real concerns in the graphic instead of straw manning it. Heres a quick list for you, feel free to respond in any order.
- Stats that are specific to a class on an item that cannot be used by that class
- Completely obviously useless stats (miniscule amounts of damage reflect, which btw is sadly not limited to the Nailbiter weapon in the graphic, I've seen several others since Loot 2.0)
- Legendaries/sets that have
literally no unique stat on them at all, not even a common stat that usually can't be found on that item (I have 8 of these in my stash atm, and a number of others that have been salvaged already, all found since the start of Loot 2.0)
- Legendaries/sets that have a single unique attribute that is completely worthless (gold find, magic find, and damage reflect are the biggest offenders here, and they are quite prevalent among legendaries and set items these days)
- Sockets on weapons being the absolute top tier affix, to the point where it outweighs the usefulness of every other affix on the weapon combined, and is basically mandatory for a weapon to even be considered top tier
- Even the good legendaries/sets are, for the most part, regular rare items with boosted main stats (str/dex/int/vit/damage) and a single unique attribute (this is BORING)
Now before you respond, remember that you can't bring up D2 at all, since that is apparently taboo (and notice how I pointed out all of these issues without a single reference to D2 either). I don't want to hear about whether any of these issues existed in D2 as well, or whether any of these problems are better or worse in D3 than they were in D2. NO STRAW MANNING. You tell me exactly why any of this is exceptional item design (hell, even acceptable item design), worthy of what is supposed to be the greatest ARPG in history, made by one of the most successful development studios in gaming history, after 5 years of development and 2 more years in production.
Or just quit your stupid hate mongering.