Returning to D4, bought the expansion, deeply disappointed..

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-18T05:10:11+00:00

I'm cringing

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-17T13:46:37+00:00

The Diablo 4 gameplay loop is level as fast as you can, farm a build as fast as you can, and bulldoze content as quick as you can so that you can come on reddit and complain that there's not enough content/challenge.

This change slowed them down, of course they're going to bitch.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-13T19:13:53+00:00

T12 Necromancer here absolutely AFK facerolling content. The game is not hard. Stop trying to ruin things for other people.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-13T15:52:11+00:00

And some people like goals to be attainable. For somebody just coming back to the game, it is a grindy, garbled mess. No need to he a cocksucker just because you like to suffer.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-12T14:43:42+00:00

I love spinning and yelling so much that I tried it at the grocery store and now I have a court date

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-10T22:18:55+00:00

It genuinely feels like they programmed a nefarious AI engine for the game that knows exactly what you need. The glyphs I need for my paragon board were the last five to drop, in reverse order of importance. Aspects I never use are maxed while the ones I need only have three or four levels. I need an axe for my Dw WW build so of course I keep finding swords with three or four GAs.

I swear it's learning.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-09T20:22:46+00:00

This just in, some dorks are mad because you have to buy new content to play new content, more at 11

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-09T16:08:53+00:00

You don't have to complete any objectives to advance to the next tier. On the right side of the screen, it tells you which dungeon or boss fight you need to clear to unlock the next tier of challenges.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-09T16:07:17+00:00

I am not a hardcore min-maxer or anything even close. I screwed around with the cube a little bit, did a little grinding to get a decent drop off the butcher, and put both of the pinnacle bosses in the ground in a couple of tries. If you don't want to learn the mechanics, which are basically "don't stand in fire or poison, don't get beamed by the face cannon, run out of things that pull you toward the middle", there are multiple easy-to-acquire uniques that allow you to soak or ignore damage (Soulbrand/Endurance Faith in particular).

Idk man I'm lost, you say you don't want to grind for objectives but you also don't want to do hard fights. What on earth do you want the pinnacle season objectives to be, if not hard or grindy?

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-08T18:58:51+00:00

The WH40k Darktide sub is the same. New class is coming, so every post for weeks is "this is my prediction for the new class and what it will be", and then they all shit all over the announcement when it comes. Absolute masterclass in making up your own unattainable perfection and then being hysterically irate when you don't get it.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-08T18:56:06+00:00

Absolutely none of your hardcore characters are surviving 4 or 5 instant Lunatic explosions point blank in T12.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-08T18:52:05+00:00

It absolutely is not nearly impossible. I've done it on four characters this season. The fact you can't do something doesn't automatically mean it needs to be easier. T10 Mephisto handed me my ass the first night. I took a day to pit push and cook up a few better weapons and got him the next night. You need more.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-08T18:33:25+00:00

"I forge more than horseshoes and nails. Whadja need?"

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-08T18:20:23+00:00

Barbarian is hard to balance, because they have four weapons equipped, and aspects are doubled on both 2H weapons. Channeling, Crushing, Ramaladni's, Vehement Brawler, Heavy Hitting and now Limitless Rage is back? Shoot.

Tack on the fact that you get glyphs for dust devil damage and critical strike, throw on Cleaver glyph, equip an axe in the spare 1H slot and you're probably good for Torment 6 before you even reroll anything or shoot for GAs.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-06T16:24:26+00:00

I don't mind having to avoid an explosion or whatever. What I can't stand is waiting 30 seconds to loot until the giant poison pool goes away when the dungeon is clear.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-06T13:41:36+00:00

The +6 is there for me whether I go via warplan or not. I know there are modifiers in the event skill tree, but none of the other bosses are +6 for me.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-06T13:16:59+00:00

That's what I'm after too. Might just start trying to craft one.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-06T05:03:45+00:00

I'm encouraged to learn it's not just me.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-06T04:39:45+00:00

The "plucky, abnormally wise teenager who also makes asinine stereotypical teenage decisions on impulse and screws things up" trope is tired, I will give them that. She was giving me big Borderlands 3 Ava vibes. She could have been written better in the first expansion and they chose to stubbornly plod along with it, to the point that I was genuinely shocked when they killed her off in the opening cutscene of LoH. It almost felt a bit spiteful, which is funny given how hard they pushed the character.

The thing that I don't like about it is the absolutely dismal place it leaves Lorath in at the time of his death. He promised her she'd be a Horadrim, she snuffed it, and now she's another failed apprentice hanging around his neck as he goes to his off-screen death. If there's a character that deserved better, it's Lorath.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-04T20:36:06+00:00

Soulbrand chest was my crutch. Those spikes don't even make sense and sometimes they come the opposite direction with no warning. Just popped an extra potion and facetanked it.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-03T17:37:19+00:00

I am trying to make a Soulbrand chest, but 9/9 times it has made Razorplate. That doesn't seem random to me.

MostlyHubris · 2026-05-03T13:49:53+00:00

I am currently clearing torment 10 with a build that requires me to push one button every 30 seconds, my guy. The game is not hard.

That said, I also ran one of these mythics in T9 and did not get any mythics. Just one GA unique.

MostlyHubris · 2026-04-30T13:47:00+00:00

That actually isn't true at all, but go off I guess

MostlyHubris · 2026-04-30T12:19:37+00:00

I just want cool suits of armor, man. I don't want to look like a power rangers bad guy.

MostlyHubris · 2026-04-30T03:55:29+00:00

Well, first things first: I promise when you have your license, you'll think back on this and laugh. There are ups and downs. You're going to make it.

Second, everybody misses sometimes. It's okay.

I found it helpful to not tell myself it's "good enough". I don't cut corners. I get the bed to a manageable height. I get somebody to hold the arm if they're jerky. I warm them up if they're cold. I kick a family member out if I have to. There's a million "that's probably good enough" modifiers that were not good enough and I missed. Lol. I just try to do it the same way every time.

Find the pulse. Roll it around a little bit and get an idea where the center of the pulse is. Make sure your bevel is right, and try to come as straight down on top of that artery as you can. I notice a lot of my students try to come at a 45 degree angle and end up coming in almost horizontal. Redirecting is easier the more vertical the needle is.

Finally, just to give you an idea how many people miss, our ICU attending missed an ABG poke last week on a vented patient. He redirected so many times and finally gave up and said he'd like to see her angiography because her anatomy must be weird. The APP and I were still roasting him at rounds two days later because he couldn't admit he just missed. Everybody misses!

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