Rather comprehensive feedback (not kidding), because some people were asking for it

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moozooh wrote:

Managing difficulty and tactical involvement.
So far the game has pursued the enemy attribute design that is best demonstrated by races such as BLAMT: dumb monsters that hit like trucks. Obviously this encourages simplistic, brutish approaches to dealing with them more than anything else; it becomes a war of attrition, a war of numbers. Instead, intelligent enemies that counteract or avoid your skills and use several different skills on their own, depending on the situation, are so much better. Remember how Half-Life's marines were a shocking contrast to Doom- and Quake-styled zombies/demons/shamblers who just blindly attacked you the moment you entered their line of sight? Smart enemies > tough enemies.

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moozooh wrote:

* The legacy item situation and unique item balance in general.
Needless to say that it's something that not only plagues permanent leagues immensely, but also has great effect on temp league economy.

People who have had the time and determination to accrue the needed amount of currency buy out blatantly overpowered items such as Mjolner regardless of whether they actually need them, but to have a leverage in case these items will be nerfed at some point later, still during the temp league or otherwise. This artificially inflates prices for these items. I'll point this out one agant: legacy item situation is particularly biased towards the rich who have already accumulated a number of these items, so their wealth grows exponentially compared to the rest.

Many legacy items are very strong in the current meta, enough to propel some builds into immortal status. Again, the major division here is mainly time of admittance.

The solution would be to forcefully reroll all uniques, bases, and whatnot to their current value ranges, and do this upon every patch that introduces the relevant buffs/nerfs. It would make a small percent of oldtimers pissed but will only do well for all the rest both—now and down the line. Many players who do use the legacy items regularly, like myself, understand and accept it. In no way or form are older players entitled to absurdly overpowered versions of already (mostly insanely) powerful items just because they started earlier. It will stop the ridiculous price gouging on everything that's "about to become legacy". Excuses such as "we don't want to bring the servers down for a few hours while the DB updates" are ridiculously weak; this isn't Gmail or anything else people are relying on for work or something equally urgent. Vaal orbs trashing some of these items have been the only saving grace in a long while, but clearly they aren't enough.