Strike exclusive loot, vendor refreshes, factions, faction loot, class specific weapons. The feeling of inspecting a guardian in D1, seeing some unknown weapon and wondering where the got it was exciting. I remember first running into someone with hopscotch pilgrim in the crucible and became so determined to grind for it and it was fun. Like what’s causing the difference between D1 and D2 as far as those things?
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Omg, I decided to grind for Hopscotch after finding out what a beast it was (weeks after I got my first one in literally my first PoE chest). I ran strikes endlessly for weeks… hundreds of them! My friends would joke with me every night knowing they could hop online and find me grinding away non-stop. I still remember the strike I ran when it dropped… haha good times. There has never been a weapon like that (when it first came out). I loved the game back then! Sorry, no good info to add… just good memories while reading and agreeing with your post.