Playing season 9 as a Rogue, continued

I am still only around level 25 out of 60 possible levels in Diablo 4 Season 9 and things are going along pretty well. The new story they have introduced is a good one and I am enjoying myself but there is one thing that keeps nagging at me as I progress in the "new way" of doing things with my new choice of rogue sub-class and that is that I miss the old rogue that I was using before.

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Part of the reason why I enjoy using rogue is because no matter how you decide to play it, you are going to have great mobility and generally just be really fast, which appeals to a lot of the various aspects of the game seeing as how a lot of things are quite long hallway oriented sorts of encounters or situations, and when you are slugging along as a Barbarian or Necromancer you are none-the-wiser until you have put your hands on the majestically fast-moving rogue.

There are a lot of different kind of rogues out there though but as I was trying out a lot of the skills without really paying attention to how effective they were as far as the Diablo experts are concerned, I was working towards a particular type of rogue that is ranged, because I want to.

Then yesterday when I didn't really know what to do with my skill points I ended up looking online at a forum that people generally believe in and discovered something that I wish I actually hadn't seen.

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While the new type of rogue that I am running in season 9 is ranked as an A-Tier, the one that I have such fond memories of and find myself missing quite a lot is S-Tier and if you are not nerdy enough to know what that means just now that S-Tier is considered to be quite a lot better than A-tier.

I feel tempted to change it over to the other style, which is much easier done now than later in the game when all my gear is specialized at that point, but at the same time I don't really want to just continue doing the same thing that I always have.

I suppose that the way that D4's characters are set up are kind of good in the sense that if you want to change COMPLETELY and no longer be a Heartseeker (which is what I am working on now) and switch to being a Dance of Knives (what I was before) then it is just a question of getting some different gear and then re-speccing your skills which is free and while it might take a few minutes, doesn't take a ton of time.

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I've come to be quite pleased with the simplicity of the skill tree in D4 because if I want a completely different character I can probably do so with just 20 minutes of changing things around. Compare this to say the skill tree of Path of Exile 2 and I think you know how near impossible it would be to completely overhaul your character in that game... Just thinking about attempting to do so makes my head spin a bit.

The point I am trying to make here is that starting over kind of sucks when I was previously doing around a million points of damage with my old character now if I ever do over 100 it is because I did a critical hit... lol.

At the moment I am resisting the urge to just re roll a character that I have already basically mastered because I just need to remember about how things with that toon became so easy that none of it really was difficult in any way. I had reached a point where the only way I could make anything remotely difficult would be to give the enemies such a massive HP pool via the Pit system that killing everything was just a matter of time, not any sort of real strategy.

Sometimes I am playing D4 and I wonder why I bother, but then I go to bed and I am still thinking about it. They really have done a super fantastic job of creating something that is strangely addictive even though - let's be honest here - it is repetitive as hell (pun intended.)

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I reckon in just a few days I will be at level 60 and searching for higher quality gear, just like I have always done with these games and while the payoff in the end might not be as rewarding as it might be for people playing a rather complicated and difficult game, for a casual player like me it is kind of just the sort of thing I am looking for.