Tantalus

I didn't stick with Diablo 3 for very long, but I'm almost 400 hours into Fallout 4 and still waiting for Heavy Combat Armour with any Legendary effects.

I guess it's just me and Nalex with unresolved video game issues. 
Not one of you ran Molten Core in Vanilla WoW?

Finally got the ring to drop this weekend.  Then I realized Blizzard has stealth nerfed the mechanics of several items causing my build to fail spectacularly.  

I'm fine with a tooltip telling me how a certain item is restricted.  I'm less fine when Blizzard creates OP items (when used in concert), and they decide to artificially limit an item without any way for a player to know the item or mechanic is hindered.

Item A - Hit an enemy 10 times per second
Item B - Any enemy hit 15 or more times per second is stunned for 2 seconds
Item C - Every hit you do actually strikes the enemy twice.
Stealth nerf - enemies can only be stunned once every 20 seconds.

The OP build you just spent two weeks designing and collecting for is now pointless.

So now instead of Tantalus, I feel like coitus interruptus.

I miss Diablo 2, where you'd just go into the trade channel and trade a few chipped/perfect gems for a Manald Heal ring. Was a lot easier. Of course, a duped Raven Spiral was a lot better.

I have played all the Diablo games and I've been on-again off-again with Diablo 3 as they've gone through all the changes of the past couple years.  I don't understand the huge following D2 still maintains.  I played it but I never really got into it as much as other players seem to have (obviously).  I've been enjoying D3, but there comes a point where grinding the same dungeons over and over for the same loot just gets... boring.

Zoomie said:

I have played all the Diablo games and I've been on-again off-again with Diablo 3 as they've gone through all the changes of the past couple years.  I don't understand the huge following D2 still maintains.  I played it but I never really got into it as much as other players seem to have (obviously).  I've been enjoying D3, but there comes a point where grinding the same dungeons over and over for the same loot just gets... boring.

To be fair D2 got pretty much ruined when they brought in Patch 1.10 back in 2004. While it fixed a lot of the problems with hacked items on the servers, a lot of the new features/items and game-balances it introduced were just as bad if not worse than the hacked items we were dealing with.

D3 (from when I played it) failed to incorporate the same sense of item-value that Diablo 2 did. Diablo 2 had an interesting dual-dynamic with PvE and PvP. People who played PvP (legit) sought after certain specific Unique items and even magic items with certain properties driving the prices of those items through the roof.

Even if you never ever attacked another player in the game, it meant by just playing the game you could hit the jackpot and get a Stormshield or a Windforce or a Cruel Collossus Blade of Quickness or some other uber-powerful item, then you could trade it off mass amounts of the common currency items (SOJ's or Rare Runes) and buy whatever you wanted.

Which brings me to another aspect of D2 which was great, trading. Trading was completely social, there was no AH, you could barter, bargain and even scam people if you were slippery enough. It meant not only could you hit the jackpot just by killing monsters in the game, you could also hit the jackpot just by trading with people. If you encountered someone with an item they had no idea of its value, maybe they were unaware of some kind of meta-change to PvP or some kind of discovery in the game, for whatever reason they might have under-valued an item that was worth many times more what they were asking.

Basically you were hitting the jackpot left right and center, it was like fucking crack.

D3 on the other hand, at least in the version I played, there was no PvP so items weren't so "valuable", PvE unique items just lacked any sort of personality making them less sought after, the AH killed off social trading, the item progression was controlled too much, simplified progression system, simplified character building system.

There's just too many minor things that D3 did wrong imo. Overall the game is decent, but those factors make the difference between a game I might want to play and a game I can't stop playing.