


You know, some weapons give you AoE while others give you armor penetration. Likewise each gear slot can be considered as being roughly equal to an Ascendancy key node.īeing new to Diablo series, I find that gear in this game, but especially in Median XL, is more class defining than in PoE. So that each mo that you take can be considered roughly equal to a passive point on a PoE character. I don't expect everyone to agree with me but I think they are basically performing the same function. I'm curious how you think the PoE skill tree compares to Median XL's mystic orbs. The original Diablo was going to be a game like X-com except with Diablo characters. TLDR: People are doing for free what Blizzard can't manage to do for 100$ worth of product made on a foundation where the original development team literally hated Diablo 2. I'm really happy that it exists and once I square up real life money issues, I'm going to donate. It's Diablo 2 with "more", which is what a lot of people wanted from Diablo 3, which I've played off and on since release too. Median kinda gives me the game I wanted to play back. I've never felt that "oomph" or joy from it though I've searched endlessly. Still after all this time, there's only a couple builds or styles I like. I've bought a lot of stash tabs, but I've also played it for 800+ hours just on Steam, and much longer before it wasn't even on there. It's in a good state now and with the expanded acts, it's crazy how much of a high end product it has been for free.

Before PoE let you just outright buy skill gems from vendors, the game was far, far ,far, far ,far ,far (some more far) more tedious to play. They are just kinda stuck in this eternal balance of "nodes that are actually good things people want" v/s "nodes that are just kinda there". Leveling just isn't fun or interesting because of this, but it's far better than it used to be where the skill tree was actually way bigger and more bloated. I still loathe PoE's skill tree, because it's so bloated with a lot of "you must pick this" linear garbage. If I could put the flask system in D2 I would. It's kinda apples and oranges and they all have some great ideas. I've played Diablo 2 off and on since it came out and more recently found Median.
