Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

Grinding has a point when it deals with just levels or something that is reusable. Grinding for gear has always been useless, and the scale of grinding you have to do in pre-expansion Diablo 3 puts every other item grind I can think of to shame, even Monster Hunter Frontier's 1/2% HC Carves. At least those are a whole percentage, and at least in MHFO those weapons are required to get to the inevitable stronger gear. Literally everything people have done in terms of gear grinding in D3 has become completely and utterly useless to such an extreme that I didn't even do it and it annoys me slightly.

Of course it was bound to happen, an expansion was inevitable regardless of when they said it would be coming, so I feel less bad for them in that regard, but it's still hundreds, thousands, or even potentially tens of thousands of hours completely and utterly obliterated and useless. Hell, even in MS, when the next set of gear is released your current gear at least can still be useful. Empress gear is still useful even when compared to the other crap that's out now. However, that Lv.60 gear in D3....it's all pointless. All of it. I doubt you could even sell it off for a pretty penny[gold piece] at this point.

DFO had it pretty bad in my opinion, but than again it was a Korean MMO so massive grinding is to be expected in some form. The best way to gain more power was to dump gold on a machine that has a chance to not succeed at the lower levels, and break your equipment at the higher levels of power. You practically gambled your gears' existence and wasted hundreds of millions to billions of gold if you want to be stronger than everyone else. And even then it's not a guaranteed success. Way more depressing than anything D3 could have tossed at me. Even trolling me with crap stats on a Legendary/set piece.

True end-game gear (the right set increases your power at ludicrous amounts) was also either really RNG heavy in that you may never see the desired gear you want for months, or take a guaranteed route that still involved grinding the same dungeon for 50 days for one piece of equipment that's a small upgrade (~5-10% at most), for a total of 5 pieces (or 250 days of your life just for the whole set). It's just mind numbingly clearing the same place hundreds of times, making little money at all due to drop rates of anything valuable being far shi'ttier than D3 drop rates at 0% magic find. I'm being really serious here. ./end rant