3.19.0c Patch Notes and Update on Community Feedback

Is this for real?

Didn't think this train wreck could get any worse. Apparently it can.

The league mechanic is fun. It's just too bad that the game is not worth my time at the current state. :/

While I am disappointed with most of these improvements, I feel that the "you will find more high level armours" is a step in the right direction. Better loot, instead of more loot.
This step is far too short though. Better loot is not about finding more high level bases. For rares, higher content needs to roll better stats, so actually finding good rares on the ground becomes a thing. Higher ilvl needs to prevent low tier mods from rolling (just like low ilvl precents high tier mods from rolling). Nobody cares about that vaal regalia whith T25 energy shield. Stuff like that just shouldn't drop in red maps.
Now you won't find your endgame rares like that, but you will still pick up rares of the right bases, because there is a realistic chance they are rolled well.

This doesn't adress the currency and div-card situation, ofc, but it would lead towards players picking up rares and actually finding a usable one once in a while.

I'm not a streamer follower, I'm not digging into Reddit threads, I'm just a solo player doing my thing. I'm never going to juice enough for loot explosions, I'm never going to be fast enough to be a racer, I'm never going to min/max enough to one/two hit bosses. I'm pretty ok with grinding out game play...so long as I can feel progression, get to level 91/92, complete the atlas. This league and subsequent patches don't really provide an opportunity for any of that.

Just completed a Harvest and had 2/4 plots drop 0 life force. At least the two plots that dropped life force dropped enough for the lowest end crafts this time. If you hate Harvest that much, just take it out of the game.

Can't sustain maps at all. Few map drops, few alch's, fewer chisels.

In short, the game currently stinks. It sounds like top end players hate it. I'm a low to a middle end player and I think the current product is terrible. I'm sure it's been said by others, but I haven't found less rewarding game play since the launch of Diablo 3. Not company I'd think you all would want to keep.

Friend hasn't played in a few leagues and asked if it was any good...

I will not play for a couple leagues and ask you if it's any good...

Is this live? Screen shows 3.19.0b version, launcher does not find updates even after restart and tablets still feel like absolute garbage.

Wow, that is amazingly underwhelming. Let me go through the big issues.

Item, currency and map drops are broken and it's not even mentioned. Seriously, map sustain is horrible and I've never been this poor.

Minion defense is broken. If you take all the defensive minion stuff there is, and your most tanky minion (AG) is killed in a second in a modless map, that is not ok. Check Ghazzy's vid for details. And again it's not even mentioned.

Essence monsters, especially with multiple mods, are super dangerous and super tanky. 30% less life with one mod is a good start, but what about three or four mods? And what about their stupidly high damage?

Harvest to me is effectively dead. The idea was good, but you removed the good crafts and made the other ones so stupidly expensive that you'd need to increase drops by like ten times for it to feel good again. I know you won't do that, so it will remain dead. And the harvest mobs remain way more tanky and rippy than the map they're in. Why?

Rares have way too much life, and 15% less for 2/3 mods and equal for 4 mods is an insulting suggestion. What about the six-mod rares I regularly see in white maps?

Kalandra rewards were a joke before, but since you say it was massively buffed, I would like to check that out. So good.

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My suggestions? I would still advocate to remove the archnemesis modifiers, but since your ego doesn't seem to allow that:
- Restore droprates. Seriously, this is priority one and should be done asap.
- Increase minion defense to where it is playable
- Remove archnemesis modifiers from essence mobs. They are strong enough without them.
- Make harvest crafts much much cheaper. Have the good crafts return and make them expensive.
- Halve the extra life rares get from multiple modifiers

guys you are destroying the game with poorly tested changes... you nerfed so many interesting builds. with what purpose? do you understand not all of us are challengers.
started 3.19 with one of old build, and just faced it was "fixed" too. What to do - respec or leave??

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AlexIngeras wrote:

Is this live? Screen shows 3.19.0b version, launcher does not find updates even after restart and tablets still feel like absolute garbage.

I can't find anyone who actually has 0c installed. After all, you can't even check in game. You have to be logged out.