So a D2 player and a D3 player walk into a bar, after four or five jagerbombs they start talking about their in game acolades, conversation as follows:
D2 player: So I was rushing this druid through hell for his hell forge, during the rush I had a windforce drop!
D3 player: No kidding? I had a windforce drop for me yesterday too?! small world, let me buy you a shot
D2 player: thanks! I'm getting kind of tipsy, check out these stats:
http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/WindforceD3 player: check mine out
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/windforce,
See? That's why I don't think I'd like Diablo 2. They didn't even put enough care into it to make proper tooltips.
D2 player: what do you mean?
D3 player: Well look at your windforce, they didn't even include what percentage chance of knockback it has!
D2 player: Chance to knockback? What chance? It just knocks the monsters back
D3 player: Like all the time?
D2 player: well it doesn't work on bosses, but in general yeah.
D3 player: The windforce I got rolled kind of low so I won't be able to get much for it on the auction house
D2 player: Rolled low? what do you mean?
D3 player: Well it has the chance to to go from 112-224 minimum damage and 149-298 maximum damage, Mine rolled low so it only has 603 dps.
D2 player: You mean on top of the RNG of getting it to drop, you have RNG on all the stats on it? That sounds like a frustrating system
D3 player: It's not that bad. I mean I found the windforce, but I already have a much better bow
D2 player: I heard they didn't implement runewords, what's better than the windforce?
D3 player: I found this magic bow with 1100 dps and it boosts my damage a lot more than that windforce
D2 player: Wait a second, A blue bow is better in D3 than the best bow from the previous games barring runewords?
D3 player: Yeah, but it's only that way becuase of how items work now, all your damaging abilities are tied to your weapon dps and your main stat.
D2 player: Main stat?
D3 player: Yeah, Monks and Demon Hunters use dexterity, Wizards and witch doctors use int, and barbarians use strength as their main stat
D2 player: Oh, okay. So you look for gear with your primary stat on it? That shouldn't be too hard to find
D3 player: Well, it's pretty hard. You have to look for gear with your primary stat, vitality, all resists, crit, and crit damage
D2 player: Wow, that's a lot of stuff to look for on gear, you have to hope all those stats are on a piece of gear that drops then on top of that hope that those stats roll decent numbers? Talk about getting some rng in your rng.
D3 player: It's not like it's hard to find, thanks to the auction house I can spend real money for my gear so I don't have to grind that stuff out, speaking of which I'm a little strapped for cash, can you get the next round?
D2 player: I would but I really have to get going. My friend in game is going to grush this strafe zon for me and in turn I'll take him on some cow runs. It's funny hearing all their moos when you completely mow then down with multi shot, 60 cows on screen? boom none! I'll buy you a drink though.
D3 player: Sigh, I'll take a whiskey. Make it a triple
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Ok some day this year I'll give D2 a try.