Cheno wrote:Yea, I realize that I gave that impression, but it was honestly more in regards to your motivation to play median or that lack of motivation. I used to play on various wow private servers and on one server we were incapable of clearing a raid for a month, due to a bug. My group of friends ending up taking a break from said server, partly because of the bug. My point is that having to tp to town to enable a WP or doing a 5 minute quest in order to fix a bug, seems very trivial to me and I find it interesting that it affects you so much but dying more than 100 times to hell Andariel doesn't affect you. I don't understand your perspective, that's why it's interesting to me.
I apologize if I sounded too harsh. Don't get me wrong, they should fix these problems, no doubt about that.
Okay, let me try to explain. This will be a long story:
For the past few weeks I've tried thinking of new possible builds, but somehow I lacked the motivation to continue them. And since I usually start completely fresh with every build, that leads to certain fatigue when it comes to the general gameplay you have to get through, which means normal and nightmare, since there's not much interesting stuff to do/see there.
I had this character for a few weeks already, even before 1.6 was released with the idea in mind to continue it at some point. It was at the beginning of hell. Then one day I felt like continueing this build and started it again. I had no issues with any boss on the way, nor the ubers. But then I hit andariel, which killed my VK instantly and I thought: this revival bullshit is so annoying. (Frustration level +1) Thinking that my damage is too low to kill that enemy VK, I gave up for that day and thought to myself: Alright I'll continue tomorrow (since it was late already and I didn't want to waste so much time to kill both her and VK.)
The next day, after I mustered up the desire to continue, I went back to Andariel, this time with VK unsummoned and with a mercenary instead. Bit by bit I took some of Andariels life away, not wanting to give up even though it was a long and boring process. (Frustration level +1) I tried out different skills while fighting her to see if it makes any difference, but it didn't. So I just continued with Death Shards, while reviving the mercenary over and over again for a little more than 10k Gold. Then suddenly I missclick once. Not in the Andariel fight, but in the Kashya menu. (Frustration level +10) In an area where a misclick shouldn't matter. So I was left with 3 choices: Remake the game and wasting more time and gold (frustration level +3), Heading to bloodraven and wasting more time (frustration level +2) or continue trying to kill andariel with the fact in mind that I can only do so little damage until I die against her, alwas scraping away a tiny amount of health as if she was uldyssian until she finally dies. (frustration level +10)
And at this point I thought: Hold on, is this even still fun? Knowing that this build has neither a good boss killer ability, nor a quick way to farm (since it relies on the sacrifices to be placed, which takes more time to do some damage then literally any other build in existance aside from Batstrike sin. Though that might be incorrect since Assassin has a really quick attack speed). Since the combination of all those frustrating mechanics and bugs and the expectation of this build being no good anyway outweighed the fun I expected to have from playing this game, I considered this build not worth my time anymore. Which is a pity because I only made this build to try out Buckshot for bosses.
I agree that many bugs can be overlooked. The waypoint bug for example is now that I know of the solution not an issue anymore. But when I first started playing this game it was already annoying because I consider this wp one of the more important ones in case I die to the boss and forgot to cast a tp, which happens more often to me than I'd like to admit. The solution is quick and doesn't take even 10 seconds. In case of Kashya it's a whole different story though since it takes way too much time to fix it by yourself when you're focused on something you consider important.
