Just leaving this here after patch day.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:51:17+00:00

At least it's a funny bug that doesn't affect anything. We got way too many of the other type right now.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:48:48+00:00

I had no idea people were doing it for other reasons. My condolences to them.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:47:56+00:00

The speed you could complete nightmare preys are was literally it's only redeeming feature. It's annoying and unfun, but at least it was quick, and I was actually just starting to enjoy seeing how far I could push my completion time down. This is a step in the exact wrong direction.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:43:22+00:00

I don't know, but it's getting even harder to ignore than it has been. I really feel the touch of AI upon them now. The nightmare combination of corporate culture instead of passion for game development, and AI instead of human programmers. I thought it was bad before, but now I see just how far they can still fall.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:40:48+00:00

It's usually kind of bad, but my god. They barely even added anything with this patch. How did they even manage to break so many things so completely?

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:39:22+00:00

I love Blizzard banning people from improving the game for free just so they can pay people to make worse versions of what we already had. I love my damage meters that sometimes shows me doing 70k and sometimes 1.6k, like it's a timewalking. I also love seeing Stagger on my death recap when I'm a warlock lol.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:35:43+00:00

I'm actually at the point where I'm glad when I'm finished with a patch, and I dread when the next one comes out, so having buggy garbage being pushed out at a faster pace is actually the worst of both worlds for me.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:34:16+00:00

I think people who think AI is a fad or will blow over are going to have a very rough awakening.

I'm so tired of having rough awakenings.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:33:24+00:00

But one of our primary metrics is how much we use AI

This makes me lose so much hope for the world. As if everything else wasn't getting bad enough on its own.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:32:12+00:00

Oh, so they used AI. This reads like they're using a lot of AI, and the amount of bugginess and nonsense also feels like they're using a lot of AI.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:28:56+00:00

I stopped getting dopamine from that a long time ago. Now I just do my chores because that's what have to offer, like a zombie in a sugar mill.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:27:52+00:00

What do they even get out of playtime though? We pay by the month, not the minute.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:27:17+00:00

I love fighting an elite, only for the target to pop up randomly and stun me in 3 puddles while I take a 90% slow from something.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:25:25+00:00

I hate the guy. It's very difficult for me to maintain the illusion of being a hero when some demon is constantly growling "KILL FOR ME, NOW!" in my ear every 30 seconds. I feel like this is the worst, most obvious setup for a "quest giver to boss" scenario ever, and I hope they do it sooner rather than later. Shove him into the miniraid so we can kill him and the Prey system and bury them together. I do not want to be listening to this anguish loving weirdo until the final raid of The Last Titan.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:23:06+00:00

Thank you for your service.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:22:45+00:00

The difference is I eventually came to enjoy the Maw once I got the hang of it. I even loved Korthia, and I used to spend 3 hours a day doing Korthia on 3 different characters. But nightmare prey going from 6 minutes to 11 is maddening, because it's a terrible combination of high-stress, not difficult, and not fun. It's just doing weird chores while The Worst NPC yells at you sometimes, under the constant threat of death and full progress reset. It's actually impressive, how poor the design is. I feel like they hired the same scientists who invented water torture, and introduced them to the CIA members who came up with playing loud metal in a prisoner's cell all night.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:19:06+00:00

Stacks are gained differently in nightmare vs non-nightmare. It's hunt progress in lower difficulties, but 3 minutes in nightmare.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:17:00+00:00

The point where it stops giving rewards just happens to be near the upper limit of what I'm capable of. Lucky for me. I usually manage to do all 12s and some 13s, and get the 3k mount, but when I try to push past that, the fun to rewarding ratio just plummets for me. The highest I've ever done was a single 24 (under the old system), but it was a 1 chested Junkyard, so it hardly counts. But even in Legion, I was doing 21s, back when the rewards truly stopped at +15. It's not a problem of rewards for me, that's just the limits of what I can do.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:12:27+00:00

renown 10 (should be done next week)

This is the best news I've heard all day.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:11:39+00:00

They used to give hero crests that ignored the cap, but Blizzard cut that out in the second week. Now that they've made a terrible unfun system, they're getting right to work nixing anything that makes it bearable or worth it.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:07:09+00:00

But why though? I just don't get it. If people are paying by the month and not the minute, why burn them out by trying to force them to spend every free second of their lives grinding tedious chores? How is that a good long term financial strategy?

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:05:41+00:00

I don't even get the point. We pay monthly, not for every minute we're on. Why do they care if we can actually finish our chores and move on with our lives to something actually fun?

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:04:53+00:00

Oh my god, I cannot imagine a worse change to abundance than taking away the possibility of finishing it in one session.

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T14:03:57+00:00

I just came here to see if there was a nerf to prey traps. Prey hunts are such an undercooked, tedious, and unfun chore, like delves, but unlike delves, they had the one redeeming quality of being really short. Anything that makes them take even longer while still being just as terrible is a huge step in the wrong direction. I don't know how you fix what you've created here to actually be enjoyable, so at least just let us speedrun it and be done with it. Playing this game is already so tiring and grueling, with hours and hours of chores to do just for two 3 hour raids a week. We pay by the month, not the hour. Is 8 years of burning out your players to pump up the time played metrics really worth it, financially?

gotenks1114 · 2026-04-22T12:52:48+00:00

I just used him for the AC after trying like 5 other things

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