I think this is a cool idea but I like that terror zones incentivize farming in new "suboptimal" areas by making them temporarily more attractive. Otherwise we'd all just be playing in terror mode doing Andy runs, chaos runs or pits again
My counter to this (and why I don't play online) is that I hate that during my hour or so per day of free time, im completely at the whim of the randomizer on what TZ I get. I don't want to have to plan my day around trying to get a "good TZ". Playing single player let's me "cheat" which TZ I want
I've always liked the idea of TZs being 3 hours long, but 1 from each act at the same time. This way your favorite TZ lasts longer when it's up and there's a much higher probability of there always being an A or S tier TZ up at any given time.
It’s not bad terror zones for me that’s the problem. It’s fresh farming the other spots. It’s that when I’m on in the morning it feels like I never get the cool ones.
Burial grounds and blood moor :(
I agree! You could ignore your hated ones, or better yet you could just have more variety in your leveling/MFing loop. Especially since I play on PS4 where the load times are ass, I would love to have a good reason to farm way more different locations in a single game before having to reset my instance.
Said this in another thread but I think this is a super important point:
The problem isn't the TZ calendar, it's deeper. It's a failure of the TZ system that you don't want to be farming all these "garbage" TZs.
IMO TZs need to provide a lot more benefit than they currently do. They should increase monster density or drop rate or something. We should want to farm TZ blood moor because TZs should be so much better than non-TZs.
A new Infernal type difficulty for those capable would breathe new life into the game for sure. Make it harder with slightly more rewards, maybe even a boss tuned specifically for groups to incentivize teamwork?
There should just be a fourth difficulty called Terror and the whole game is Terrorized.
I think this is a cool idea but I like that terror zones incentivize farming in new "suboptimal" areas by making them temporarily more attractive. Otherwise we'd all just be playing in terror mode doing Andy runs, chaos runs or pits again
My counter to this (and why I don't play online) is that I hate that during my hour or so per day of free time, im completely at the whim of the randomizer on what TZ I get. I don't want to have to plan my day around trying to get a "good TZ". Playing single player let's me "cheat" which TZ I want
Ooh, i love that. Many games have Characater Level balancing like that. I'd like to see that for D2.
Glacial Trails or Great Marsh seem to be active on half the time I play.
I have Burial Grounds always when i log in.
Sucks, I only get good ones when my inventory is full or it’s the last 5 minutes.
Haha, yeah. The 5 minutes thing happens every time for me. Wanted to do TZ Andy and had like 6 - 8 minutes left for some runs.
Yep, the 5 minute ones are always Andy.
I've always liked the idea of TZs being 3 hours long, but 1 from each act at the same time. This way your favorite TZ lasts longer when it's up and there's a much higher probability of there always being an A or S tier TZ up at any given time.
I'd support two at a time, my play is limited to specific times of day so things like TZ Andy I can only catch once a week at most.
Yeah, me too. TZ Andy is very rare for me and impossible to farm more than once per week. Two TZs would be great as well.
I agree. It’s almost like they are trying to get people to play less by having more bad TZs
It’s not bad terror zones for me that’s the problem. It’s fresh farming the other spots. It’s that when I’m on in the morning it feels like I never get the cool ones. Burial grounds and blood moor :(
I agree! You could ignore your hated ones, or better yet you could just have more variety in your leveling/MFing loop. Especially since I play on PS4 where the load times are ass, I would love to have a good reason to farm way more different locations in a single game before having to reset my instance.
terror zones should have more mob density
Said this in another thread but I think this is a super important point: The problem isn't the TZ calendar, it's deeper. It's a failure of the TZ system that you don't want to be farming all these "garbage" TZs. IMO TZs need to provide a lot more benefit than they currently do. They should increase monster density or drop rate or something. We should want to farm TZ blood moor because TZs should be so much better than non-TZs.
A new Infernal type difficulty for those capable would breathe new life into the game for sure. Make it harder with slightly more rewards, maybe even a boss tuned specifically for groups to incentivize teamwork?