... when it's reached this point, it's time to cheat. Like. Seriously. Shit drop rates and functionally mandatory grinding is why we have invented inventory editors and whatnot. Maybe fish around to see if there's a mod that ups drop rate, too.
Why people do that to themselves when there's a simple solution to the problem of bad game design, frumple will never quite comprehend.
I agree heartily. Especially since all I play is single player. With multiplayer on Diablo 2 you can trade with other players, and there's an entire economy set up over it, as well as various items only available when playing online, and various meta-tactics centered around online play. So it's easier to work around the drop rate and get the equipment needed.
But I'm single player, so getting good gear is limited to the whim of the random number jesus. Farming can be fun and a relazing way to kill some time and unwind, if the drop rates were better. It can also be frustrating and addictive and frustrating and timewasting. Buuuuut, having also tried modding with third party save editors (game's been out for ~14 years now, of course these exist) and savescumming (because I'm singleplayer and it's my save games and I'll do what I want, cheating or no), I've found that save editing also kinda takes the fun out of it.
It's satisfying to take a character that started with nothing and get them up and through the hardest difficulty all through your own hard work. Less satisfying to get most of the way there, struggle because your gear is rubbish, and then mod the good gear in and find that you were being held back because rng just didn't give you what you needed.
I should just stop playing for a while at this point but I have a problem and that problem is vidyah gaem addiction. yeah, I was frustrated at the game for being a stingy prick and frustrated at myself for not stopping when I should stop, and so I vented and posted.