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I would totally start playing again, this all sounds pretty sweet.

http://us.battle.net//d3/en/blog/19802338

Everything in that post makes me moist. I stopped playing because it felt like everything I liked doing in diablo had artificial constraints on it. Bounties became basically irrelevant except for farming a few specific items. Rifts were only good for builds centered around extreme clear speed because it didn't scale enough for normal builds, so you did Greater Rifts for that. But having loot drop off all the mobs was one of the cool things about rifts, along with getting stuff like treasure goblins, and the whole trials thing was a mess anyway (dashing strike build, for instance, is terrible at doing trials). I would do poorly on the trials, crush the keystone I ended with, and then skyrocket with that clear time to an insanely high key that I could only do in groups.

As for crafting, It's pretty stupid to look at an inventory with like 500 forgotten souls, 10k veiled crystal, 200 arcane dust, and 20 reusable parts (greater rifts play a big part of this, along with the fact that you have to basically stop and pop a lot of chests/weapon racks to get blue/white items in t6 rifts). I'm pretty confident they're going to solve that problem, because it's pretty obvious and the community has complained a lot.

Also, they didn't go into a lot of detail on the rebalancing rifts part, but I hope the combat changes really do fix the way you have to run greater rifts at high tiers. I like killing things, and having to jump around to find the right density packs and ignoring the higher health mobs just seems counterintuitive. I play ARPGs to run around and destroy everything...please don't punish me for it. They definitely alluded to fixing the fact that there's one specific composition (with a tiny wiggle room) that is incredibly superior to everything else, so that's all you see on the group greater rift leaderboards, so that definitely makes me happy (especially considering monks weren't in it T_T).

What do you guys think? Considering this will also drop my seasonal character down to standard league so I can play with you guys, I will almost certainly start playing again.