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>For example, in D2 the skills you chose were a crucial component of how well you did later in the game. So much so that a mistaken skill allotment would essen

>For example, in D2 the skills you chose were a crucial component of how well you did later in the game. So much so that a mistaken skill allotment would essentially render your character worthless later in the game. In the end, there really was one or two right ways to allocate your points. So I disagree. If there's one thing that Blizzard got right with D3 is the skill system. It's great. > But in D3 skills don't matter and everything is based on equipment How much skill do you think there was in D2? It was 100% grind.

jlarocco 14y ago
There was as much skill as you wanted there to be. Maybe not many people did it, but if a person wanted to, they could avoid the cookie cutter builds, think through their character's skills and come up with clever original builds using the less popular skills. Maybe they wouldn't be soloing through the later acts of hell, but they could still have a ton of fun dominating nightmare and early hell, and they could still help out in grinding hell leveling runs. That entire aspect of the game is basically gone now. You get lucky with items, buy items, or your character just sucks.
- Anderkent 14y ago
  You can still play on nightmare and early hell with crappy items in diablo 3, just as you could play on nightmare and early hell with a crappy skill set in diablo 2. The only difference is now you can take your character from suck to non-suck by grinding it, while in diablo 2 you had to start over and grind it.