About the build diversity in Diablo 4 has been hotly debated at least since the release. Now a comparison is being made to Diablo 3 again, and a player believes: You want the old systems back.
On Reddit, the user Feather_Sigil writes on August 3rd that he feels players do not want to farm gold for hours just to change their builds. They also want to be able to experiment freely and, above all, a greater build diversity.
Players should admit it: They want the systems from Diablo 3 back (via Reddit).
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“Just admit it”
How does the player come to this conclusion? The Reddit post by Feather_Sigil is titled: “Just admit it: You want D3’s skill and respec system.” He summarizes what players of Diablo 4, in his opinion, criticize and demand the most.
He writes in his post:
You don’t want to have to farm gold for hours just to change builds. You want to be able to do it immediately without costs so that you can experiment freely and find out what works best for you and the loot.
You don’t want to wear out your fingers by clicking a skill tree millions of times just to get an illusion of progress. You want to have everything you can do clearly in front of you so that you can easily compare and switch.
(You also don’t want an enormous and incomprehensible skill tree, where you might be able to reset five out of hundreds of nodes, with a whole community required to figure out the optimal paths.)
You don’t want binary skill branches that only change how a skill behaves in the background. You want build diversity. You want 6 variations of each skill that influence how it works in gameplay and how it looks, sounds, and feels.
Just admit it.
Feather_Sigil on August 3rd via Reddit
What other players say about this: Currently, there are over 2,000 comments under the post in which users discuss build diversity and the respec system in Diablo 4. Many users comment that they find reallocating in the Paragon board tedious and would like to save their builds.
The refund also costs a lot of gold. To reset all Paragon points at level 100, you have to pay about 8 million gold, as a player reports.
Not only the high gold costs are a problem. Clicking each point individually to refund them is even more annoying. The effort is too great for many – so they would rather create a new character than to respec skills and Paragon points.
The developers say: At a certain point, it should even be better to start a new character.
Players criticize lack of build diversity in Diablo 4
The user nodlimax remembers “heated discussions” he had during the beta in the Diablo 4 forum: “People claimed ‘D4 has more build diversity than D3’, but no one could properly explain how or why.” (via Reddit).
According to nodlimax, Diablo 3 offered more options in builds just through the runes. He also noticed that Barbarian players always equipped the same 6 abilities. “I don’t see where the supposed build variation in D4 is.”
He adds: “It’s the illusion of choice. People aren’t really making decisions, but they think they are, which then makes them think that ‘there is variation’, while in reality, there is hardly any.”
Corwyntt notes that players in Diablo 4 have a choice between two paths for each skill. In Diablo 3, you at least had about five options for a skill. Individual users praise the armory from Diablo 3. It provided enough space to reserve chest slots in the season to switch between classes and different builds – without running into space issues.
Other users write that Diablo 4 does not give enough skill points to level skills up as they wish. Several users add that they wish for unlimited Paragon points, even beyond level 100, so they can still distribute them in the Paragon board.
The discussions about build diversity, Paragon points, and the lack of gold and space for items will probably not stop. Especially on Reddit, there is a lot of complaining about Diablo 4.
A player recently lightened the otherwise negative community with his post:
Diablo 4: Player pranks his wife, lightening up the community that otherwise just complains
