Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

Zaphid_sl said:

It also has serious power creep problems, the power curve surges when you obtain legendary weapon/ancient legendary weapon/whole set are crazy and infuriating when you can't get the right item to drop and it's the only thing holding you from bumping up the difficulty. PoE is much better deeper.

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The cube helps a ton with targetting specific drops though, much more than say, targetting specific high profile uniques in poe which involves a stupid amount of grinding and currency trading, or complete randomness(though there's cards now, but the droprates of cards seems to be only very slightly better than the actual items, so fairly unrealistic in general, not accounting for the fact a lot of them are shitty areas to farm for a long period of time too). You can easily complete sets by just spamming the set recipe and you can target specific slots a lot better than the shitty gambling system with the rare > legendary recipe for other stuff(for example voodoo masks or one handed fists or whatever, rather than just helm or 1H weapon).

But I agree, gear progression is kinda weird and in massive increments where you go from full rare leveling garbage having trouble doing torment 1 to instantly jumping to torment 3 fast clears with most 2pc sets or an ancient legendary weap, but then it evens out a decent bit, and there's stuff like guaranteed progression on legendary gem leveling and paragon levels which might bump you a torment until you get the right item and shit.

I'm looking forward to this season at least, the cube is really great to target specific gear and actually not get stuck too long, I agree the previous season I played(S2) I ended up getting stuck at some point and just stopping cause it was too annoying to mindlessly farm and then hope I could gamble a fucking starmetal kukri(especially with weapon bloodshard prices) or tasker and theo to see real progression and I also had trouble finding my 6pc set shit cause I kept getting the fucking boots or whatever. I won't play very long, but I'm sure I'll have fun for a week or two, and that's perfectly fine.

Edit: Deathwing it does allow respecs, but full respecs are extremely expensive and not worth it. That said, it doesn't take too long to reroll so don't think it's much of an issue. You can hit like 80 in a couple of days if you use twinked gear and stuff, so it's not so bad.

Oh the numbers and shit are all fucked for sure, but really you went from 20 to 33 in GR and the top tier is like 65 currently, so all in all, it's not a HUGE jump in terms of the game's progression. It's just the scaling is so weird, you hit for literally billions of damage on top end, when you're still hitting for like a few millions when you hit 70, shit's pretty crazy. And before RoS and shit you could still tell someone's relative power based on their damage number in the paperdoll(though it was inflated with certain passives and shit), while now the number is basically completely fucking worthless since 90% of your power comes from your set bonuses and temporary buff/elemental bonuses that reinforces the set.

On PoE's engine, it's good, once you get gear. It starts clunky as shit, but as you get cast/attack speed stats, it gets smoother and a lot better imo. It just plays like D2 in that regard where you start feeling like some robotic slow ass shit but as you upgrade, you become a quick motherfucker. Game plays fairly similar to D3 once you're nearing endgame in terms of movement/damage and shit, though the animations still look stiff and kinda weird at times, unlike D3. D3 is still the game that feels the best to play by far in the genre imo, but PoE's strengths are elsewhere so it's not a huge deal.