Current Events > How does Diablo 3 manage to be so boring

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Started a game as a demon hunter with my friend as a sorceress. I figured all the mobility would be fun.

Half my skills are variations of the same AOE slow projectile, and somehow my friend is literally face tanking everything. AS A SORCERESS. ON EXPERT. Where's the nuance in our play that's supposed to make us win by being better? Aren't you supposed to kite enemies as squishy ranged characters if you don't have a tank?

I guess they made it so you just breeze through the story mode so you can finally join the rat race infinite farm mode which people consider "fun"?
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Play on torment.
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I agree. It should be more fun yet somehow feels boring.
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You have total control over the difficulty. Words like expert and hard can be misleading. Just replace it with a number scale in your mind and tune it accordingly.

Melee oriented characters have a natural 30% damage reduction I believe, so wizard and hunter will indeed be squishier. However with the right setup and skills a wizard can indeed become a tank. All depends on your build.
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The base game was always boring. Most of the quality of life improvements have been made in support of the torment system.
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CapnMuffin posted...

with the right setup and skills a wizard can indeed become a tank. All depends on your build.

Not sure that's a good thing.

I guess we'll up the difficulty again though.
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Cartwheel_Kick posted...

CapnMuffin posted...

with the right setup and skills a wizard can indeed become a tank. All depends on your build.

Not sure that's a good thing.

I guess we'll up the difficulty again though.

Yeah, raise the difficulty. A) You get better and more drops and B) You'll get to a point where you're getting one shotted
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It's a loot treadmill game what do you expect >_>

That's another peeve of mine with ARPG games like this. There's very little middle ground between "fall asleep easy" and "literally everything one shots you no matter what so defensive stats don't matter."

Rexdragon125 posted...

It's a loot treadmill game what do you expect >_>

That's another peeve of mine with ARPG games like this. There's very little middle ground between "fall asleep easy" and "literally everything one shots you no matter what so defensive stats don't matter."

I dunno. I feel like D3 has a lot of middle area.

Normal: 100% Health, 100% Damage, 0% extra gold bonus, 0% extra XP bonus
Hard: 200% Health, 130% Damage, 75% extra gold bonus, 75% extra XP bonus
Expert: 320% Health, 189% Damage, 100% extra gold bonus, 100% extra XP bonus
Master: 512% Health, 273% Damage, 200% extra gold bonus, 200% extra XP bonus
Torment I: 819% Health, 396% Damage, 300% extra gold bonus, 300% extra XP bonus
Torment II: 1311% Health, 575% Damage, 400% extra gold bonus, 400% extra XP bonus
Torment III: 2097% Health, 833% Damage, 550% extra gold bonus, 550% extra XP bonus
Torment IV: 3355% Health, 1208% Damage, 800% extra gold bonus, 800% extra XP bonus
Torment V: 5369% Health, 1752% Damage, 1150% extra gold bonus, 1150% extra XP bonus
Torment VI: 8590% Health, 2540% Damage, 1600% extra gold bonus, 1600% extra XP bonus
Torment VII: 18985% Health, 3604% Damage, 1850% extra gold bonus, 1900% extra XP bonus
Torment VIII: 41625% Health, 5097% Damage, 2150% extra gold bonus, 2425% extra XP bonus
Torment IX: 91260% Health, 7208% Damage, 2500% extra gold bonus, 3100% extra XP bonus
Torment X: 200082% Health, 10194% Damage, 2900% extra gold bonus, 4000% extra XP bonus
Torment XI: 438669% Health, 14416% Damage, 3350% extra gold bonus, 5000% extra XP bonus
Torment XII: 961759% Health, 20387% Damage, 3900% extra gold bonus, 6400% extra XP bonus
Torment XIII: 2108607% Health, 28832% Damage, 4500% extra gold bonus, 8200% extra XP bonus
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Have you never played a Diablo game before?
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Have you never played a Diablo game before?

D2 was fun and crisp. This felt like slathering butter on a toast for hours. Sure it works, but it wasn't exactly a satisfying challengeCOVxy posted...
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Cartwheel_Kick posted...

my friend is literally face tanking everything. AS A SORCERESS. ON EXPERT.

This has got to be some kind of joke
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Spooking posted...

I love it at end game. You can be a Barbarian who 24/7 Whirlwinds at super fast speeds. Clear a rift in under 2 minutes without every stopping.

I'm currently playing a pet Necromancer for Season 13 and I'm having a blast pushing Greater Rifts. I was bored leveling up since you don't get to mess around with sets or have all of your abilities yet.

I'm rocking a DMO Frozen Orb build wizard right now. really fun to play. slow time literally everything and casually walk around projectiles it's fantastic.

I made an adjustment to the Icv Veins build that replaces the cube in the boots with the helm that gives slow time every rune and it fucking owns.
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D3 plays better than most ARPGs. The boredom is that unlike most other games, you don't have 734,462 separate skill trees, xp bars, and faction reps you are grinding for. Less dopamine crack to keep you goi9ng.
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