Dr Super Good
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The players? If they cannot progress because a single Enigma is unobtainable?Who fucking cares.
I played a lot of Diablo II. I only once managed to get an Enigma, and only because robots were still flooding the market so prices were low so I could trade unidentified Torches for high runes. After they banned all the robots it was economically not viable for a free to play person without winning the lottery to get an Enigma as the HR needed for an Enigma would require selling hundreds of Torches to obtain, of which at least 1/4 of buyers were scammers so a pain to deal with. Out of the thousands of hours I farmed hell mode I never had any valuable HRs drop.
At least in Diablo III I can speed 100 hours and be sure I will hit GR 70 solo reliably. Even if it is with a set different from the one I set out to get.
You know that is the very definition of "pay to win" right? When someone can go to a third party site and buy all the progress you spent 1,000 hours doing and rub you into the floor with it on leaderboards and PvP...Look at a game like Path of Exile, it gets by just fine and that's a modern day ARPG with a trading system identical to Diablo 2s. It's something that only matters if your prerogative is $$$. Nobody that actually cares about their video game is upset that their game is so popular that people will go out of their way to "cheat" to make money from it.
And a better system would be? Remember that "best in slot" is always a single item, so no matter how diverse your gear is only 1 item with 1 item type will have that award.Now speaking on items, Diablo 3 failed in every aspect. The game released with "Legendary" items being worthless, then RoS turned them into "Best in slot", to me both outcomes were equally horrible and lazy. The game design went from bad to bad, nothing changed. You can only bandaid fix a fundamentally flawed system so much.
Diablo II showed this very much. Sure the type of item that was "best in slot" changed between build and character but ultimately it still was just 1 item. For example Hammerdin, and most non-sorceress farming heroes, would always have Enigma as the armor because no other armor gave you teleport. Some choice right?!