Truly, I had a huge summary of what I wanted to vent about here today but It's gone. LOL
I don't know how I feel about the item squish.
As a game design major, the lack of numbers didn't really matter to me. The lack of numbers meant that the programmers were cleaning up the mess and instead of increasing values, decreasing them allowing more efficient processing. That doesn't matter to me. What matters is the percentage of damage dealt, healed, resisted, etc.
We don't have hit rating anymore. Fine. We've only had it for fucking 10 years and randomly, it's gone. Okay, I get it - they need change. But seriously, multistrike? Seriously? Dear lord, I wish Steve (my Game3 teacher and one of the lead designers for D3) still worked with Blizzard because I would've picked his brain like you wouldn't believe. My aoe dps seems to be slightly more effective, percentage based (as far as # of npcs down in x amount of time), but not really.
On another dps note, the damage dealt on my chaosbolts are designed differently than previously. Well, my dps is just different. Prior to the stat squish, if I had 4 embers, my doomguard, immolate, rain of fire, popping trinkets, I would do close to 250k dps. Basically if I pulled everything out of my ass and it all procced, I had screenshots of it at 275k. Ok, I'm not even going there. Just the chaosboltsx4 alone, would easily get me over 200k. My concern was, that even after the chaosbolts, my dps would go down to about 150k. That's a 50k differential not using my biggest spell. What happens now is that I unleash 4 chaos bolts, get around 20-30k dps, then it drops down to about 5-10k dps. That's significantly lower percentage drop than what I used to get before. It is a NERF.
It's still early on and I still need to look at the numbers, but comparatively, I seem to be doing less adequate consistent dps. It's frustrating.
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On another note, there are some aspects of the game that I really appreciate.
Toy Bin.
Reagent Tab.
How HD the new characters off EVEN when i have the new models turned off.
Like seriously, I kept the old models, but she looks so crisp.
No offense to the artists at Blizzard, I'm just not into the new models. Probably because I have so many memories with the previous models that I don't want to replace. Plus, the quality of the 3D models doesn't replace gameplay and/or storyline for me. I don't care if my human has boob physics now. I could give a shit less if the human males look less like they have a harelip.
I think it's funny that the new model for my gnome looks a bit like me though. She has big brown eyes and freckles, lol. :P
And as you see in the picture, I am demonology right now. I'm not sure how i feel about it. It's totally lacking - DPS and gameplay.
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Later on today, I'll create a list of things I want to accomplish in this game. I need to do something like that because I'm getting bored of the game.
We'll see. :) I'm just going to continue playing and see where it takes me.
xo
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