While I completely respect your opinion, the Greater Rifts are the most exciting part of the game. Torment 6 is no longer a real challenge, and it really wasnt prior to the patch either. Now, the game is extremely challenging. GR25 is a great goal, but is only equivaliant to T6. Going higher requires godly gear, a good group, or both. Plus, many times I get 2-3 legendaries from a GR run, and thats a pretty good rate for 10-15 minutes of work.
It could be that in season play I am only at paragon 80 and playing a Crusader without optimal gear. But at the moment, the GR process is a trial run that starts me at around GR level 12-14. I can opt to play though and take my chances with a deplorable gem upgrade chance, or I can blast through this GR level in 8-9 minutes, and upgrade until I reach my GR limit, which is only about 18 now with my Crusader. If I do opt to improve the GR key to the max I can handle, the final GR run takes the full time allotment, and I don't get anything until it is over.
I don't have anything other than anecdotal evidence, but my rate of return on my time seems much higher with regular rifts than with a GR. At this point, I am merely farming for specific gear and raising my paragon level along the way.
The GR implementation is fine, but I'm a hundred hours of playtime away from it being useful and fun to me now.
I wouldn't mind seeing a patch that either increased density or made each level exactly the same for everyone. So level 5 is always the same, level 10, etc..
Then there would be an optimal way of doing them. Ironically in order for them to remain fair as a whole they need to be completely random. The only downside is the better your luck the further you'll go. But that has always been the nature of Diablo. How lucky are you and if you aren't lucky how much time do you have to spend on rerolls?
Density does need to be increased. I'm sorry, but it's no fun running running running stopping to kill one or two monsters then repeat. Too much dead time between too thin packs.
And the uneven levels tick me off even more. They either need to allow you to respawn where you are with a time penalty or add checkpoints to the long-ass windy tunnels that go forever.
Edit: I should also add that there should be more XP per monster kill on the higher grift levels. There doesn't seem to be. And for regular game play, any chance of a Torment level 7? 3200% XP would be sweet right about now.
Density does need to be increased. I'm sorry, but it's no fun running running running stopping to kill one or two monsters then repeat. Too much dead time between too thin packs.
And the uneven levels tick me off even more. They either need to allow you to respawn where you are with a time penalty or add checkpoints to the long-ass windy tunnels that go forever.
Edit: I should also add that there should be more XP per monster kill on the higher grift levels. There doesn't seem to be. And for regular game play, any chance of a Torment level 7? 3200% XP would be sweet right about now.
Amen.
I have lost several Grifts because of RNG, so damn frustrating.
I've watched him a lot lately on live stream. That team is so powerful. I never see their monk lose HPin fights either and they cc enemies for minutes at a time. Insane theyre completing 51 already.
Was nice groupin with some of the seasonal players here. Crash course on playing a Barb is fun....I like the playstyle to be honest, but i believe my gear is a far cry from good. lol just want to do leapquake cause thats probably the coolest build ive seen to date from any class.
For sure. Too bad the servers started getting whacky last night. I jumped off and watched some TV with the wife for an hour and then logged back in and they were back to normal.
Powerleveled Apples' witchdoctor to 69 before going to bed. I dont think anyone has been playing WD in the seasons yet?
Anecdotally that did seem to increase my rorg drop rate (relative to my friend who opened after every run) BUT that theory is only applicable to the old-school normal bounty runs.
Since the buff it makes most sense for geared characters to farm higher torments where the legendary drop rates are 50/60/75/90/100% for T2-T6 (compared to 1.5% on normal-T1) and any hidden buff isn't going to make a difference. T6 is guaranteed leg, it's just a matter of which one you get (and whether you get life regen on the RoRG again in my case).
