I’ve soloed my Arc Bitch sorcerer to 65 and a bit. I’m trying for WT4 and keeping coming back to the capstone to see if I’m good enough.
It’s actually fun. I’ll spend a few hours grinding nightmare dungeons looking for a piece of kit to make a small difference.
I’ll then pop back into the dungeon and see how far I get.
Not too far at the moment. I made it to the boss once.
Onwards and upwards.
I don’t love it tbh, i had a better time with D2:R.
It just feels grindier, the gem collecting is less fun (and costs gold), the male sorc looks just awful all the time (level 55), and the items are generally just less interesting somehow – it feels like work to dutifully collect all golds just to sell without even looking at them because i only care about legendary, which are rare and mostly not even useful for my build. I dunno.
Plus as a solo player, having other capable heroes running around in this hopeless world… Like, it breaks the whole concept of the main quest for me. Why can’t that guy help some of these people. It’s like RuPaul’s Boy Scouts, a bunch of fabulously attired competing queens running around solving mundane village tasks, apparently. I want to be the only one! Plus who are all these people standing around my stash?! Go rent your own room at the inn!
it feels like work to dutifully collect all golds just to sell without even looking at them because i only care about legendary, which are rare and mostly not even useful for my build.
That’s not quite right. Legendaries are usually only useful for their aspects. The rares are the ones you want to be looking at. You find a rare with 3/4 good affixes, reroll the last to something good, imprint a legendary aspect on it, and you’ve got an excellent item.
I think I’m not at the part of the campaign that unlocks rerolling an affix yet :( But otherwise fair point, i have recently started stripping my useless legendaries for their aspect. But still struggling to find any rares worth attaching to, but I’ll commit a bit more to that strategy and start paying more attention to them i guess.
Still doing campaign at level 55? No wonder it’s feeling grindy. Monsters cap out at level 50 in WT1/WT2 so you won’t be getting much in the way of experience and you won’t be getting better items.
Rerolling item affixes is done at the occultist (where you extract and inscribe aspects) and is called “enchanting”. You unlock this at level 25.
I didn’t know i was supposed to rush through it :( Finally new Diablo, i thought I’d savour it, but i think they didn’t design it for solo players.
This got me too, in games I always spend a lot of unfocused time exploring and doing side quests. Had no idea the game state freezes at 50. When I figured it out I had to focus myself and finish the story to open up the game.
Exactly, i didn’t know that either. I mean i can beeline it across the empty map directly to the markers already showing where i need to be, but i felt that goes against the exploratory design of the open world (vs D2 teleporting you to the next major hub). I felt like i was supposed to organically and slowly make my way there, but first i wanted to finish the zones i was already in. Plus i always played Diablo like this, i am neurotic about uncovering the whole map area! It’s like those powerwash simulator games.
It’s fine for solo but the issue is not everything is clear. With this game you really need to be following guides for builds and searching up things you don’t quite understand else youll stagnate. You could figure things out if you’re meticulous searching through each vendors menus and such but that would require a lot of thought.
I don’t necessarily agree with the builds thing if you are purely playing solo. As long as things are dying at a rate you’re happy with then that’s fine - you only really notice it when you are doing helltides and a wandering Druid obliterates everything in the blink of an eye.
I started off following a build (I play sorc) but I really didn’t enjoy the play style. I ended up doing my own thing and it’s turned out alright. I’m 95 now and I’m grinding NM at 48-50 because apparently going higher is pointless, general trash dies instantly/quickly in most cases, and I can still kill the butcher. I could kill things faster but I’d have to ditch a load of defensive stats and I’m already being one shot by random ranged mobs - but that’s the life of a sorc I guess.
I’ll look at guides later on when people have figured things out a bit better. Sorc guides seem a bit half-arsed atm because let’s face it, no one is playing sorc lol.
Plus… I’m totally getting some buffs today which will change everything, right…? Right…?
Please can I have some buffs? ._.
Aside from that, I completely agree, nothing explains how the game works which is frustrating and you absolutely need game guides. I was taking the scenic route through the campaign and then around level 30 I was thinking “when do I get that damn horse…” I thought it would be kinda like wow I guess, you hit a certain level and someone chucks a quest at you for your mount. Then I looked it up and discovered you need to get through a big chunk of the campaign, that pissed me off. Could have had the damn horse ages ago.
I’m 55 and still don’t have the horse :( I’m in Act 3
In my experience there is a lot of interesting yellow gear, take a close look before you sell and consider the impact of upgrades and rerolling stats…
(This is a lot less true after level about 75)
I can’t reroll stats yet. But i guess I’ll give yellow another chance. I’m level 55 i think, not yet started Act III.
Placing an aspect on a yellow piece brings up to legendary.
If a yellow piece drops with stats better suited for you (especially +ranks to your skills) than try to work it into your gear by placing a desired aspect on it.
I made a male sorc that is a pretty good approximation of Frank’n’Furter from Rocky Horror
That sounds like mine! When i said “just awful”, i meant that with the highest admiration and respect for transsexual transylvanian Tim Curry.
They really need a Group Finder.
Is there stuff later in the game that requires a group? I’m still in wt3 working towards beating the 2nd capstone dungeon, but so far solo has been fine (and I really prefer not to need a group).
Yep you can definitely solo everything. It’s just a matter of you would like to experience it with friends or not OR even with randos
Got to WT4/LVL 100 solo perfectly fine. Couldn’t beat Uber Lilith without a group though. Player skill issue mostly, I didn’t have the patience to learn the patterns behind the one-shot-kill mechanics.
That’s kinda where I was before I put the game down for S1. The payout doesn’t seem worth learning the dance
