nikkisexx
02-03-2009, 11:31
Hey guys, brief intro here. Im a 21yr old guy who started my D2 addiction somewhere during 2001. I know I have zero post counts to boot, but rest assured Im not trolling. I consider myself quite a competitive gamer and I just wan u guys to see things from my point of view.
So heres a summary of my story:
1. Started off with singleplayer. Fun for afew weeks then it got repetitive eventually. Managed to get to act 2 nightmare with no outside help
2. Started Bnet a year later when I got my internet. The fun part of the game was trying to find better items. Heart never fail to skip a beat when a golden item drops.
3. Within 6 months of hardcore gaming, and help from my friends I became pretty rich(windforce, vamp gaze etc.). The fun of killing monsters with other players started to detoriate. By this point of time, my lvl80+ amazon can solo ANY monsters in hell(baal and frens, cow lvl etc.). I dont see the challenge in PvM anymore so I started to dwell into PvP.
4. I did reasonably well in PvP, able to beat 70% of the pub people but theres still better players out there. Continued to trade, MFing more so that I can get better gears so I that I can beat the other players. Rinse and repeat until a year later when my account got hacked(long story).
Conclusion: Its not much of a challenge to be able to clear the game PvM. But its an endless experimentation with builds, skill points, items , tactics to kill the very best PvPers.
Its a publicly known fact that most competent PvP builds will have little trouble clearing PvM. However, a regular PvM char will have a hard time going against a char built solely for dueling.
I figure that PvM will be more appealing to the casual player, but the competitive players will get bored of PvM eventually and want to pit against real life opponents instead of AIs.
Solution: If blizz really wanna make PvM more fun/challenging they need to make the minions stronger. Stronger to the point where u need the combined efforts of all the players in the game to beat the monsters.
Its not that fun when my D2 PvP chars at their peak(take for eg. barb with enigma, botd berserker, dual leech rings) can solo hell with 7 players in the game(the more players in the game, the tougher the minions).
But STILL, taking PvP away from D3 can only be a big turnoff for players who wans a competitive edge in their game. We didnt do MF 24/7 to find top end gears so that we can slay minions which can be beaten with mediocre gears.
So heres a summary of my story:
1. Started off with singleplayer. Fun for afew weeks then it got repetitive eventually. Managed to get to act 2 nightmare with no outside help
2. Started Bnet a year later when I got my internet. The fun part of the game was trying to find better items. Heart never fail to skip a beat when a golden item drops.
3. Within 6 months of hardcore gaming, and help from my friends I became pretty rich(windforce, vamp gaze etc.). The fun of killing monsters with other players started to detoriate. By this point of time, my lvl80+ amazon can solo ANY monsters in hell(baal and frens, cow lvl etc.). I dont see the challenge in PvM anymore so I started to dwell into PvP.
4. I did reasonably well in PvP, able to beat 70% of the pub people but theres still better players out there. Continued to trade, MFing more so that I can get better gears so I that I can beat the other players. Rinse and repeat until a year later when my account got hacked(long story).
Conclusion: Its not much of a challenge to be able to clear the game PvM. But its an endless experimentation with builds, skill points, items , tactics to kill the very best PvPers.
Its a publicly known fact that most competent PvP builds will have little trouble clearing PvM. However, a regular PvM char will have a hard time going against a char built solely for dueling.
I figure that PvM will be more appealing to the casual player, but the competitive players will get bored of PvM eventually and want to pit against real life opponents instead of AIs.
Solution: If blizz really wanna make PvM more fun/challenging they need to make the minions stronger. Stronger to the point where u need the combined efforts of all the players in the game to beat the monsters.
Its not that fun when my D2 PvP chars at their peak(take for eg. barb with enigma, botd berserker, dual leech rings) can solo hell with 7 players in the game(the more players in the game, the tougher the minions).
But STILL, taking PvP away from D3 can only be a big turnoff for players who wans a competitive edge in their game. We didnt do MF 24/7 to find top end gears so that we can slay minions which can be beaten with mediocre gears.