MXL 2017 first impressions

I went back to hatred, been farming act bosses vanilla LOD style, as they drop guaranteed TU's. At level 65 i can faceroll grind hatred, got the TU long staff with apocalypse (median 2008 sorc skill) and lolnado on rmb, can clear stuff really really fast.

Got quite a bit of unique gear that i will use on other characters. Its like tier 2-3, so its equippable at lvl 16-25, which is good cos you can get to that lvl with nearly no gear at all. Ill farm until i have enough gear to equip all slots and uptier it to a reasonable level (not all T6 cos that requires a ton of attributes which you don't have without twinked ubercharms)

Still i don't really want to play melee until heavily twinked via shared stash.

I think this is the way M2017 is supposed to be played. You're meant to hit gear checks and progress walls on first toon, you're not supposed to just rush through all the way to 120. On n-th character with heavy twinking yes, it will happen. In fact most of my old MXL characters were played this way: I twinked all the gear and charms, were grinding Hatred ubers up to like 80 (even higher if duncraig was grindable), then breezing terror like it's nothing. Now it's not the case.

I don't think the goal of median, regardless of the version, was to twink gear to new characters. I can understand why you do, but the whole game is based on character building.

The game is more enjoyable when you overcome some challenge by creating or finding your own gear or earning a charm with a tricky mechanic or method with that character, as opposed to just giving it everytbing.

Maybe it was, but that approach is very 90's. It does not cater to me at all anymore.

All modern games are based on your account and you can twink stuff as you wish. Heck, the prime example: Diablo freaking Three. Yes, first character is slow and you can't be too cocky with pushing difficulties. But once you have gear and grind paragons? You just make character and it's level 70 in almost no time.

Heck, D3 even went ahead and allows you to completely remove level requirement from all those OP items! You can equip the best ancient legendaries on a level 1 character. It requires lots of grinding (the recipe consumes high-level legendary gem iirc) but it IS there.

Trying out new builds and specs is the prime source of fun for me. It always has been. Not grinding like hell with every damn character. I'm past the stage of spending entire days glued to my computer. Twinking via shared stash reduces the pain a lot.

That, and finding rare stuff in ubers. I made a shared stash that contained every SU and SSU item from Median XL. Many, many legacy items too. The file ended up at like 300 KB. I still have 220 KB version as I was cleaning my basement lately and found a hard disk that has been rotting there since 2011.

I can send you this via PM. It only works in Laz's Median XL releases tho. Not Ultimative nor 2017.

Well the point still remains that the admins know everyone and their grandma wants a shared stash on TSW. There's a lot of things that need to be done and not enough manpower (I think marco said one coder is working on the stuff) or time to be able to give everything that everyone wants within a week of the release, ya know?

A New Start wrote:

. And don't even let me started on the melee issue, barbarian received the one of the most bullshit change to his skill tree, seriously? who the heck gonna use the sword tree when they can use the axe tree instead, axe has better DPS than sword anyway. And god blesses those new players who like playing with sword and get gangbanged half-way through hatred cause they can't use thunderslam. I just don't understand marco balancing philosophy, how can giving skills weapon restriction help build diversity in anyway?

Iron spiral is probably my favorite barb attack... i still use an axe and just oskill ancients hand because tslam has been a staple of barb melee since forever.

Hey i didn't even asked about the realm stuff. I don't play on TSW and even if i would be, i'd just accept the no shared stash thing. On realms it's different cos you can trade with people and use mules for your gear. It's crude but it has been working since vanilla Diablo II release in 2000.

Esubane wrote:Hey i didn't even asked about the realm stuff. I don't play on TSW and even if i would be, i'd just accept the no shared stash thing. On realms it's different cos you can trade with people and use mules for your gear. It's crude but it has been working since vanilla Diablo II release in 2000.

PlugY still works in SP...

ChuckNoRis wrote:you can find some info for LC1 here: viewtopic.php?f=40&t=491 . open the spoiler for General gameplay tips and give youreself 2 minutes to read them all , it won't hurt.

good luck !

Thank you very much:) nice tips there:)