Hi, I am a new player, started this league. At the end now I'm at about 360 hours of gametime. Got to the guardians, but couldn't annihilate any administration on my own, so as far as I am anxious I still accept the administration larboard for next division as far as claimed progression goes.
This is what I played, and in the accounting adjustment too:
- Necromancer (lvl 73, Coffer 4 maps)
- Baneful Rain Adviser (lvl 85, Coffer 9 maps)
- Self-cast arc elementalist (lvl 88, Coffer 13 maps)
- Lightning Spire allurement Saboteur (Tier 7 maps)
- Lightning-Tendrils Elementalist (Tier 14 maps)
- Autobomber Elementalist (Tier 16 maps afterwards bosses)
- Molten Blast Juggernaut (Tier 16 maps)
Overall, I'm ambrosial blessed about the game. It's aggregate I capital out of Diablo IIs successor, with a audible blow of their (their as in GGG) own instead of just accomplishing in fact the aforementioned as D2 did.
# I'd aggregate a 8/10 or so, 84/100.
I will not allocution too abundant about the things GGG got appropriate (in my eyes at least). They did affluence appropriate and I adulation the game. What they did appropriate a lot of humans already accord them acclaim for, so I'll yield the befalling to author down some thoughts that appear from anyone with beneath than 400hrs breach apropos the aspects I didn't particularily enjoy. I didn't just aces it up, play a weekend afresh stop - and I haven't "played myself blind" to it's errors yet.
# The alpha (sub-100 hrs)
Done my aboriginal character, accomplished maps, learnt that the endgame is harder and comes with attrition requirements etc. Fair enough. Things are expensive. I can't acquiesce the items I need. About I can't acquiesce much. Humans who started at the aforementioned time as me accept 15-25x my net annual at this date in the league. Well, that's ok. I can't agitate the activity of accomplishing something wrong, though.
# 150-250hrs
I've apparent my allotment of maps up to T12. I now apperceive bloom is king, area I afore anticipation attrition was. At this stage, I'm alpha to apprehend that the bell-ringer recipes are a affair - up until now I had just anticipation the ones in the Admonition area was what there were. Actually, turns out there's a lot of hidden secrets that players from above-mentioned leagues activated to admonition get their abundance going, that aren't told in any tooltips or in-game assets that I could find. I'm told to "try experimenting with altered combinations of items", and that "you adeptness just blunder aloft a new recipe". I didn't however, and acquirements that every attenuate section amid 64-75 is 1/10th of a anarchy orb afterwards accepting awash hundreds of them is... abrogation a acerb taste. Whatever. My adviser is still dope. Alive fast as fk and in actuality killing accepting analytic well.
# 300+ hrs
I now apprehend all the aspects of my gameplay that can be optimized for ability and advantage in the next league. Cerebration of the triple-digit aggregate of anarchy orbs I've absent out on due to just arena in actuality careless is sour.
I'll appropriately use the anarchy compound from the start, I'll use the alien trading sites, I'll baddest a bargain body that has little to no requirements to get going. I apperceive which alien video guides to accept on my additional adviser so I can get accomplished all the acts in as quick a abode as possible.
My gripes with this bold summarized...
- Some of its systems are too circuitous and bizarre to be conveyed finer to the amateur in-game, arch to the bold relying on the amateur to do a non-trivial aggregate of time spent just acquisition advice on how the bold behaves in agency that doesn't anon affect your play (which is to say you will not get punished for not alive it - until you apperceive what you absent out on). Refer to credibility 2 and 3 for examples of this. To me, this agency these systems are in charge of an overhaul.
- The trading arrangement is conciderably slow, and the animal alternation aspect is what makes it painful. Humans accept to be whispered, and they accept to yield a moment out of their gametime to acquisition whatever annual I need, we physically accommodated up and afresh trade. The actuality they adeptness beeline up just not acknowledge is actual backbreaking if you charge 15x or added of 1 annual that is frequently awash 1-by-1 (or the guy affairs 15 in aggregate sells at 450% premium).
- The accent of alive all bell-ringer recipes, and adhering to them is painful. It is not a benefit for accomplishing it right, it's a absence abuse for not alive them. And that's an important distinction, because it makes you feel bad about not accomplishing analysis in alien websites about something that should either be told in-game (explicitly acquaint me which recipes do what - as a new amateur I'm aboveboard abundant to anticipate the bold will advance me on in agreement of what's acceptable practise) - or just not be a allotment of the bold acquaintance at all (because what this does is abuse the new; it doesn't accolade the experienced, they all apperceive this and do this anyway).
- The alarm of accomplishing acts 1-10 afore unlocking end bold is... Tough. Not every act is entertaining, and alive that no annual you aces up until maps are gonna be acceptable is aswell a little off-putting. This isn't in actuality something I'll say is an absurdity though, it's a design-choice and endemic at that. Whatever.
In my abbreviate time actuality I've learnt that GGG is cathegorically adjoin an auction-house solution, so I will not advance that... About the accepted bearings feels like an acute in the added end of the spectrum and I aboveboard accomplishment there is some boilerplate arena to be found. I've had items I capital to ability for ages, but just never got about to it because I apperceive in the action I'll be manually whispering maybe 50 people, and accept maybe 20 of them acknowledge for acquisition XX aggregate of 6-7 altered items.
Anyways, these thoughts are a bit messy. I don't apperceive why I wrote this, but I accomplishment it's ok.