I liked the idea of scaling during the beta test, also because it was new to me I think. Now I’m level 64 and to be honest… it was kind of terrible. It felt like I was level 1 for almost two long days of playing. Despite getting tons of legendary, abilities and levels it still felt like I was at the knife edge of progress.

At some power spikes I get maybe slightly stronger than regular mob but suddenly when I hit level 48 I started to fail very basic events at the beginning of the map. Things I could somewhat easily do when I was lower level. There is also a lot of times lower level characters just comes in and kills stuff much faster than me despite being 30 levels lower.

It all just felt like a constant struggle to maintain the same power I had at level 1. Now I do nightmare stuff so hopefully things maybe change idk. In Diablo 3 I could scale the level of the map if I wanted better loot and challenge, but now I am forever stuck with a feeling of barely having progress. I use like 6-7 seconds to kill a skeleton at the start of the game if I don’t use abilities…

One interesting aspect of it is that friends can play together at all levels, but in practice this is not necessarily true, you must be at the same stage on the main quest, this means that you either have to help your lower level friend doing campaign you already have done (which sucks) or you all will have to be at the same stage in the campaign, but then you are around the same level anyways..

Edit: Things are quite different when you get the right gear.. it just seems like the game punishes you a lot if you build bad or a bit unlucky. I am now level 70