No counter play to deaths

After hitting level 90, the number 1 issue, aside from the terrible honor system, remains the death penalty. And it's not the penalty itself, it's that the vast majority of stuff I'm dying to has no counter play to it.

Which wouldn't be bad enough if it weren't the fact that GGG doesn't even acknowledge it.

If I get a penalty from dying to things that have obvious ways to avoid them, I don't mind that. I'll take the L and learn from it, but that isn't what is happening. It's all s*** that isn't balanced, and it's getting really frustrating.

And then on top of that, other players, as wells GGG themselves, gas light us into thinking that it is our fault. I'm reaching my limit of what I can take.

The latest was being put into a bone circle I can't walk out of way and just being fucking pummeled with an aoe spell that covers the entire area. It is fuckin' bullshit that I die from being bombarded with an aoe spell I literally can't evade, and then having GGG say "get good". No, I don't have to get good, you need to balance the game. Again, by itself, not a problem, but then stop punishing me for your balance issues.

Did you try to break that bone circle with an attack/spell? From my experience all bone walls can be broken quite easily.

There is basically no things which can't be countered with knowledge and awareness.

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

There is basically no things which can't be countered with knowledge and awareness.

Sudden corpse explosion: hold my beer.

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

There is basically no things which can't be countered with knowledge and awareness.

early 2025 and you already got all your copium for the year.

GGG needs to start acting in the direction of what players want before a Diablo4 situation where people just hate the game and devs starts happening here too. In Xbox looking for party ,people to play with its almost empty, and Steam player count it's getting worth every day, i wonder what Tencem thinks...

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Hommit#3712 wrote:

Sudden corpse explosion: hold my beer.

Just press pause when you are holding beer :) Btw, more convenient to use Caps Lock as pause key instead of escape.

When you know there are those shamans on the map, you just look for the red mark on the ground (something like a pentagram) which will explode corpse after couple of seconds. There is plenty of time to get away from the corpse, it's only sudden if you are not looking for those marks.

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

There is basically no things which can't be countered with knowledge and awareness.

I ran into a rare that enraged and hit me with six meteors in one second. The first one stunned me, the rest finished me off. It was an essence-rare - there was no way to start at range. No counter.

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Lt_Qan#3192 wrote:

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Suchka_777#4336 wrote:

There is basically no things which can't be countered with knowledge and awareness.

early 2025 and you already got all your copium for the year.

Name one, ONE single thing you cannot avoid with knowledge or awareness that is NOT a bug. Just one.

A lot of the time, deaths in this game do feel very cheap, unexpected, unexplained.

Part of this issue is the core systems of hit point restoration and damage being the way they are. What i mean by that is, they operate very quickly on very small margins.

You can get hit either very soft or very hard, with not much in between, so when you heal with your flask its usually after a very sudden hard hit, which has quickly drained your HP. Now you hit flask, and you quickly restore your HP.

Flasks do feel better than ye olde piano flask, but still could be a just little better.

If you had a different system, one where you had more HP (so you can't die as quickly), but couldnt restore it as quickly like slower flask/ability heals, slower flask resoration, using flasks and taking damage would become more of a tactical decision . As you run out of HP and flask, you would almost feel yourself succumbing to death as it were, or climbing out of it to survive.

I don't know that its as extreme as do a 1 shot, or be 1 shot, but it does sort of start to feel that way.