I have yet to play the new season, but have been hearing it’s been called “the worst patch in ARPG history,” and wanted to know if this is the general consensus.
It’s pretty bad IMHO. I have no idea why Blizzard insists on making the endgame even longer and more mindlessly grindy than it already is when most players are clamoring for them to add actual challenge to the game. It really just isn’t all that fun for me. After the patch hit, I lost all interest in the new season because it feels like they’re just going to continue doing this kind of shit to the game instead of actually listening to their player base.
It’s not that bad.
For me all these resistance nerfs were compensated with the seasonal items (malignant hearts), they are really really powerful.
Redo the secondary dungeons and the strongholds to unlock the aspects are honestly annoying but I am not an hardcore player so I am not rushing for cap my pg
I never played the mage so I can’t talk about that nerf.
Games fine. This is nowhere close to even the biggest nerf in ARPG history (PoE easily claims that title), much less “the worst patch in ARPG history.”
People shit on D4 because shitting on Blizzard is an easy way to garner views. That’s the whole story, right there.
It’s bad but not that bad. It’s just boring, slow, and there’s not much to do.
The nerfs affected everyone across the bored in a way that just slows down game play that already existed since launch. The hearts help speed things back up, very slightly, but you find your 3 and you’re done with that season mechanic for the most part.
New uniques feel lack luster at best, glitchy and non-functioning as intended at worst.
More weird bugs…
Nothing new was really added content wise, you do the new short story campaign and you’re done with it.
It’s like they just wanted to slow the game down just to slow the game down. It’s no more difficult than before, everything just takes longer. Just feels meh overall.
I’d say it’s the most boring season of any seasonal ARPG (outside of just normal ladder rest seasons).
Still a fine game if you just want a Diablo game to play.
I think the game feels better now, my first character in the eternal realm either destroyed everything too easily in nightmare dungeons or died immediately if I went into one too high for me.
There wasn’t any middle ground at all. Not sure if there is now either, I haven’t done any nightmare dungeons yet, but I think the numbers are way too high. Still are.
One of the first settings I looked for is to turn off the damage numbers
