It's been quite awhile since I've played any meaningful Diablo 3 content. When the game originally launched, I played through, but was quickly bored with the grind and steep difficulty curve. (And, at launch, the real money auction house and a couple of classes that were nigh unplayable).
It's been several years, and Blizzard has continued to tweak the title and make incremental improvements. A friend mentioned that Season 16 had commenced, so on a whim I popped in and rolled a fresh Crusader.
What became clear to me is that:
a) after several years away, the core satisfaction - smiting oodles of baddies - is very much still there, and in some ways amplified.
b) after several years of playing board games, D3 offers a really great dungeon crawl on par with Shadows of Brimstone, or the tabletop RPG that we played last week with friends (D&D5E). Sure, the pacing is different, and D3 is far more mindless, but the but it's been a really excellent way to scratch the same itch, and do it in ways that WoW or GW2 simply can't.
So, anyway, that's this week's distraction. I'm sure it won't last, but I'm enjoying the ride for now.
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