Necroglycerin wrote:For the respecs, I really dont understand the fuzz about it. I basically read one guide and killed Baal with it, without having any other knowledge about game mechanis. But even if you don't read a guide, I am pretty sure you can get to the end of terror with just common sense and a little bit of time investment to run mephisto in each difficulty to get your TUs, so you can get some belladonnas and respec all you want.
well ofc the stuff pre ubers is pretty easy to do without many/any respecs. and idk about the ppl who are silent but it seems for many and for me the problem doesnt exist early on. im already lvl 120 with all ubercharms except 2, and i only dont get them because getting them would reduce my motivation to play by a lot (also i did most ubercharms on another char already and watched multiple streams getting them, so there, not that fun to do it over and over again), its
not because i dont have enough respec pots for the ubers. instead now i focus on farming more stuff and trying different builds for fun. i want to have fun doing that. except its not so fun anymore to do that because it means that im constantly low on belladonnas and the best place to get them seems to be the cow level so i spend time in the cow level just to get them, all the while hating it because its a waste of time.
and then i see ppl say "oh its so fine i dont have a problem in terror" lmao me neither, farming respec pots doesnt stop sucking when your char is maxed out btw, sure its faster but its still a waste of time. or i hear "oh the drop rate isnt so bad i dont see a problem here", well good for you if you dont experiment all that much by yourself, others see it much differently, and while you dont suffer from bringing back ez respec, some people are pissed off during this patch with this rng respec mechanic. so you can consider that it would not be a problem for you in either situation, so overall more people would be happy if you just let the people who are annoyed with this have their respec while for you there is no difference.
and btw, more about gg players, they are lvl 120 in less than 8 hours after each reset (you saw it this ladder too didnt you?) and farming cow level. they are the first to find multiples of belladonnas just by killing tcows at /players 4+, but even /p 1 is fine, and nobody who has basic knowledge of the game will get stuck before that unless they play some completely new char, which gg players generally dont do, gg players generally play some build that they know well (look mr malice who only plays necro and is probably the most knowledgeable about nec out of all the players. he was also the first 120 this ladder iirc) and generally gg players have the same routine every time, so they already have a skill plan in mind and if they cant build around the 3 akara respecs + additional belladonnas then ill be damned.
and while in my case the problem doesnt have to do with respecs to do ubers, if the goal for a later point in time is to make as many ubers as possible any-build friendly, so respecs arent needed, then look at this patch, where there arent all that many significant changes to ubers, and see that it doesnt make sense to limit the belladonnas at this point because apparently those changes have not been sufficiently implemented yet
it looks like the only decent argument in favor of this mechanic is that it promotes sociability in some cases because new players are begging for those belladonnas, and ive seen those games on realm, some lvl 40, 80 chars, some generally lower level chars that are in need for those pots.
so pls come up with some more convincing arguments