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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That was my most recent regret of a buy.

For those of you who are enjoying Diablo 4, good on you. I sadly could not. There are too many things that I've been shown a better way on thanks to other arpgs that is rather spend time on than one which seems intent to have me spend significantly more time on for less. It felt awful to pick up entire inventories of loot and have absolutely none of it be worth while for my character. Literally hours of running from thing to thing to not hit a single upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which other ones would you recommend? I've played a few (PoE, which wasn't for me, Grim Dawn, which was more fun). I went back to D2 after getting bored with D4.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've really enjoyed the depth and customization available in path of exile. It's so strange to me that in diablo that equipment is either a good roll or completely useless and there's no fixing it. In path of exile, I just need to find a decent base normal item (white rarity) and I can work it into something worthwhile.

If that's not your cup of tea for whatever reason, I've heard good things about the last epoch, though I haven't played myself.

As for path of exile.. A lot of people assume you need as a beginner to follow some kind of guide or a step by step thing. I've found that as long as you don't neglect defense in that massive skill tree, you'll do just fine while doing your own thing. Doing that and keeping your various resistances up are the keys to success.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's one of those games I need to bounce off of two or three times before it clicks for me. The skills from gems confused me, but maybe I'm just judging it too soon?

I was also trying to play it on my Steam Deck, and had some difficulty getting that to feel right, so maybe that's a factor too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Is it just acclimation to a new concept that is similar in some ways to putting gems/runes in your gear from Diablo?

I remember taking a moment to understand that the skills are all from gems, but afterwards It's pretty nice to be able to swap out skills as you play, trying new stuff to see if you like it before you really go all in on something. This most recent league(season) I found a skill I didn't know about before and it has worked wonderfully with everything else I'm working with. Once you're a bit over halfway through the campaign the game drops an npc that has nearly all the gems for sale, so you can really spend a lot of time trying out stuff to see what you like.

As for the controller version of the game, I like some things (I found it way easier to use potions), but others were a bit more frustrating, especially the inventory management and item collection... Which is a rather large part of the game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you checked out Last Epoch yet? Fantastic ARPG even for being in Early Access (which I don't usually invest into), though the 1.0 release is at the end of this month.

I can't recommend it enough!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have a vague memory of trying this a year or two(?) ago but gave up trying again after I couldn’t get my account to transfer to steam, which I guess is required now. I’ll definitely be trying it again once I figure that out though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Definitely reach out to their support if it's still giving you issues, I'd imagine a lot of people are coming back for 1.0 so it could very well be something they're able to easily/quickly fix now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You weren't stoked about the gloves that give you +2% critical strike damage against pirates on alternating Tuesdays with skills whose names contain three or more vowels either, huh?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

The amount of fluff stats was simply amazing.