Updates to D2R to be announced on Feb 11th

My hope is that the 2 stash buttons will be dedicated to trading!

That would resolve a lot of frustration, endless clicking when trading thousands of pgms each weak and foremost make it safe to trade with eg. 200

Jah runes.

Anyone onboard with this wish?

Stackable items would be a wonderful QoL change but they'd make more money leaving items unstackable and selling stash tabs instead.

Other things I've heard on the grapevine - potentially new class, but not in this February release. Balance updates are being whispered about.

RackAnewShoe wrote: 9 hours ago

This is where I am at. I feel more trepidation than excitement. I don't trust modern Blizzard to not royally mess this up by going the D3 or D4 route. I would rather get nothing than get WoW.

This, at a lower intensity, is what I think as well.

I wonder if the design team nowadays is capable of adding new content to the game that isn't out of sync with the game's character.

I mostly lean towards "No" , even though I thought that the sunder charms were a nice addition, from a "good design perspective" , at least in theory (even if there are claims that it simplified builds, the "nuh-uh" gameplay element is almost never a great way to approach challenges in design, imo. ) .

(Further expanding on the above point, I find the very end game bosses of PoE1 to be tedious and way below the quality of the rest of the game, due to the invulnerability mechanics spam)

(I may be a new d2-r player, but I am definitely not new to gaming, I'm old).

I just hope they don't break the game and drop it down to the disappointing levels of "new Blizzard" and D4 and whatnot.

Realistic guess:
"Give us money for stash tabs!" plus slight wording change to a country EULA or two.

NestorasMaXno wrote: 3 hours ago

I wonder if the design team nowadays [...]

The team that made D2R is long gone (all let go, resigned or folded into the D4 team). It's currently unknown which team is actually making the changes to D2R, if it's some Blizzard Albany (formerly Vicarious Visions, who made D2R) team being allowed to work on D2R again, or if it's an entirely different team with no experience with working with D2/D2R.

The voices in my head say they created a tool where you can migrate your characters to Diablo 4 with equivalent strength items. They once said they wanted a level after Hell, and here it is, lol.

retepnap wrote: 7 hours ago

My hope is that the 2 stash buttons will be dedicated to trading!

That would resolve a lot of frustration, endless clicking when trading thousands of pgms each weak and foremost make it safe to trade with eg. 200

Jah runes.

Ha! This is such a rich person problem. I wish I had this problem.

Lava_Assassin wrote: 42 minutes ago

retepnap wrote: 7 hours ago

My hope is that the 2 stash buttons will be dedicated to trading!

That would resolve a lot of frustration, endless clicking when trading thousands of pgms each weak and foremost make it safe to trade with eg. 200

Jah runes.

Ha! This is such a rich person problem. I wish I had this problem.

It was just an example - could be 200

Perfect Gems ! or 200

El runes