Diablo 4 Hotfix Nerfs Dungeons Used For Power Leveling

@kejigoto: I’m enjoying myself and haven’t purchased any extra content. They want the game balanced to function as intended and Diablo 2 was also patched a bunch.

@kejigoto: Not even remotely. Game is great fun and the cash shop may as well not exist as far as anyone is concerned...not intrusive in any way, shape or form. It's literally just there if you want to reskin your toon for $7 or whatever it comes out to and if you don't want to buy anything, it doesn't effect the game 1 silly little bit at all. Frankly, unlike the real money auction house and games that let people buy xp bonuses etc., the gameplay doesn't seem to have been effected at all by their choice to have a skins shop. Making you play longer doesn't make you buy skins. Making you play the game instead of skip playing the game so you can pretend you played the game doesn't incentivize or force you to buy skins either. This isn't like a subscription situation where long dragged out farming processes helps make you pay another month of subscription. D4's gameplay design literally has no indication of being effected by the skins shop.

@esqueejy: Just not in a way Blizzard doesn't approve of because then you won't be exposed to all their cash shop antics. If you play like that then Blizzard has to bring servers down so no one else can play that way and fix the "problem" which is people having fun in their own way.

@mooglestar: Not really. Leveling up is not terribly slow in the first place. This nonsense is about people who wanted to play the game without playing the game so they could have max level characters without...playing the game. It gets nerfed and then they invent post hoc excuses for wanting to play the game without playing the game. It's silliness.

In fact, one of the ways they do it is by literally not playing. You share XP with group mates, so you can have a high-level buddy run the dungeon for your Level 1 toon while you sit at the entrance and it will level you up fast. It's the ultimate in cheat code mentality. Then they strut around with their high level character like they did it themselves, tell people to L2P when they don't really even know their class (and just did a cookie-cutter build from the intertubes) and whatnot. Same as it was in WoW and other games.

@lonewolf1044: Hats off to you, normally I don't see posts that mature when the topics of nerfs come up. I am in agreement, to me its not a big deal, sure it would be nice to keep in but I get it. If people are powerleveling through then they are also missing out on other content outside of dungeons like legion events and world bosses.