but inferno as a whole is definitely easier now if you have decent equipment. essentially it's been rebalanced so that anyone will be able to beat inferno without having to spend a completely ridiculous amount of time farming, even if they're not great at the game or have one of the less favored classes.
But I thought the whole point was that Inferno was supposed to be an ******* to beat.
That only the small percentage of people willing to put in the time would conquer it.
I mean the entire idea of Inferno to me coming in was that it wasn't supposed to be the sort of thing you could even beat by yourself.
I assumed that I would clear Normal, Nightmare and Hell by myself. Then maybe gear up just a bit before Red, Chris and I (with whoever else happened to play with us the most) would tackle Inferno as a team. Not because we want to hold hands and sing songs together while we do it, but because it would be bloody necessary if we wanted to stand a chance at all.
And even then I didn't think it would be a matter of a few weeks to beat inferno but would rather be a gradual progression through the same content but at a difficulty SO much greater that we'd do a quest, get into "lets do this mode" and then rejoice upon reaching the next checkpoint alive.
I'm not sure that PvP is the answer as Krippi said, but it does feel like there is something of a lack in the satisfying end game department.
In WoW there are high end raids and it is my understanding that it takes large numbers of people a great deal of effort to achieve progression in them. But yesterday morning right after I killed azmodan solo, chris showed up and we basically just said "well I guess we're strong enough now, lets clear act 4". And so we did. Yes I was very wizard like and died quite a few times, but it was virtually nonstop progression start to finish. It did not feel like "this is the most difficult part of the game".
And yes I still enjoy act 1 runs and I'm still going to be squeezing those in during my spare time. And I like that I've made closer to 50 dollars on the RMAH now because I don't have money often and so it's nice to have, and I know I'm going to start putting some more serious time into a hard core character and perhaps actually start to seriously run a different softcore class, but I just wish it felt like there was something more difficult to accomplish.
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