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Since Civ 5 policies uses a similar RPG system of skill points, why not take the idea of synergies there?. If its is possible to fix the game, lets take a page from the book of Peter, and instead of nerfing the things we love (Policies!, ICS!, etc!), buff those we dislike, or hate, or just never use.Īm I being naive?, well, yeah, Peter Hu was fired from Blizzard and the patch was released years after the release of Diablo 2 and Diablo is a completely different game than Civilization V, and the lead designer of Civ 5 resigned/was fired for some reason. Even today people still play this extremely outdated game and talk of Diablo 2 as post patch 1.10. Peter had the right idea at the time, he was a big fan of Diablo 2 and his patch is a love letter to hack and slash. To add variety into the game, areas that were boring to play were buffed, and skills that nobody used were retooled under the mechanic of "synergies", which allowed lesser skills buff more powerful skills.
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In comes Peter Hu, who comes up with the idea that instead of nerfing left and right (like the previous 20 something patches did), he instead left the popular classes pretty much the same, instead buffing the overall skills of the remaining classes and skills in the game, even twitching the popular ones to make them even more fun to play with.
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The state of Diablo 2 on those days was shaky, although there were 7 classes to play with, only 3 were playable (Sorceress, Amazon and Barbarian), the remaining 5 were "interesting" (yet not nearly as easy to play) and the game had degraded into players playing just 3 specific areas of the game (the infamous "secret cow level" being the poster child of this). Anyone remembers patch 1.10 from Diablo 2?, the patch that positively fixed almost every issue within the game.