Diablo 3

[Warspite]

Difficulty levels are meaningless unless expressed in real terms. How hard is Diablo 3 in 1985 prices?

[The Brain]

Tuppence.

[Syt]

Well. I've switched to Master, and it's definitely more fun and slightly more challenging this way. Though with the increased XP I also made it from 25 to 35 ridiculously quickly. I try to have a somewhat effective build, but the ability/runes combos I like and the ones that synergize well are not the same.

[Grey Fox]

Adventure mode, right?

[Syt]

Actually doing campaign at the moment, because it's been a long while and as silly, over the top and melodramatic as Blizzard stories tend to be, I kind of enjoy them.

[Pedrito]

Honest question:

should I bother building a seasonal toon, if I'm not interested in competitive play?

otherwise, the difficulty levels are available for normal, non-seasonal toons, am I right?

Ah, I'm playing vanilla, not Reaper of Souls.

L.

[Grey Fox]

You could do season for the simple fact of having more people to play with.

[Syt]

Finished the story on Master this weekend, reached level 70 with my wizard and switched to adventure mode. And now I'm bored. Doing bounties/rifts to get better gear to get to tougher levels to get better gear to .... blergh. Not for me.

[frunk]

I think your options now are:

Stop and play something else.  A good choice if you have other things to play.
Switch to a different character and playing through the campaign again.  They all have their charms.  Witch Doctor will be easiest if you kept much of your older gear around as much of it will be INT based.  One of the melee (Monk, Barbarian, Crusader) characters will be best for the biggest change in play.
Keep playing with the same wizard and reset the campaign.

[Syt]

Thanks for the tips, but I think I'll just stop and move on. When the game came out I played a barbarian (I tend to prefer melee classes), and I've toyed with the other classes before. Main reason I went wizard this time was because I normally never play casting characters in RPGs. Just by doing the campaign I hit all Season goals for Part I-III, and some for Part IV. I might make another run with a monk or demon hunter at some point.

I spent half my Sunday doing bounties and rifts and at the end I felt like I had overfed on sugar - lots of stuff happening that's satisfying to see (enemies blowing up by the dozens! and dropping loot!) but I felt pretty unfulfilled in the end, and almost hungover.

But yeah, I mostly play games (with a few exceptions like Euro Truck Sim or Bejeweled 3) for the stories - either a scripted one (RPGs, adventures, campaigns in other genres) or one that emerges during play (many strategy games, rogue likes, open world games, sports managers). There are only few games that hook me on mechanics alone - mastering a game for its own sake or chasing achievements is just not my thing.

I still like watching people playing stuff like super hard "I wanna be the ..." fangames, but I wouldn't want to make it through myself.

[Grey Fox]

I'm with you Syt. The appeal of simply redoing the same over & over & over doesn't appeal to me at all in D3.

[Syt]

Yeah, it's why games like War Thunder or World of Tanks are fun for a while, but then become boring for me.

I'm not saying that these are crap games, mind you, just that they're not for me.

[Grey Fox]

No, they are for you. You played it, enjoyed it & now it's over.

That's ok. Not everyone is a single game player.

[Syt]

Fair point.

[crazy canuck]

For me the allure of the Diablo series was always running those randomly generated areas to keep getting better gear and (in D2) to try to get as close to max level as possible without getting killed - I played on Hardcore.  If playing on softcore then I think a lot of the excitement leaves the game.