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Quinn2win
Nov 9, 2011

Foolish child of man...
After reading all this,
do you still not understand?
It's weird - I seem to have had the exact opposite experience as everyone else with D3. I played it at launch and had a mindless blast with it, ignoring the auction house and just fighting through the campaign and everything seemed pretty well-balanced. I just recently tried starting over with my brother and we got halfway through act 3 without ever once being mildly threatened. I was playing a witch doctor and even during major boss fights that used to be exciting and harrowing dodge-fests, I could just stand still and hold down the mouse button and ignore every incoming attack. It's like every enemy had its HP doubled and its damage output reduced tenfold.

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Quinn2win
Nov 9, 2011

Foolish child of man...
After reading all this,
do you still not understand?

Jobbo_Fett posted:

On normal? Diablo is easy peasy and the real gripes against it are at the end-game portions.

It wasn't exactly a difficult game, no, but when I was fighting, say, the Act 2 endboss, there were definitely attacks I needed to make some effort to avoid or take pretty serious damage. I fought him this time and neither of us dropped below like 70% health despite making no effort to dodge anything.

Quinn2win
Nov 9, 2011

Foolish child of man...
After reading all this,
do you still not understand?
At launch, I was playing on Normal. On the revisit, I was on the "you should only pick this if you've played the expansion and gotten all the sweet gear from it or you'll probably die" difficulty. I had not played the expansion.

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