I don't love it tbh, i had a better time with D2:R.
It just feels grindier, the gem collecting is less fun (and costs gold), the male sorc looks just awful all the time (level 55), and the items are generally just less interesting somehow -- it feels like work to dutifully collect all golds just to sell without even looking at them because i only care about legendary, which are rare and mostly not even useful for my build. I dunno.
Plus as a solo player, having other capable heroes running around in this hopeless world... Like, it breaks the whole concept of the main quest for me. Why can't that guy help some of these people. It's like RuPaul's Boy Scouts, a bunch of fabulously attired competing queens running around solving mundane village tasks, apparently. I want to be the only one! Plus who are all these people standing around my stash?! Go rent your own room at the inn!
it feels like work to dutifully collect all golds just to sell without even looking at them because i only care about legendary, which are rare and mostly not even useful for my build.
That's not quite right. Legendaries are usually only useful for their aspects. The rares are the ones you want to be looking at. You find a rare with 3/4 good affixes, reroll the last to something good, imprint a legendary aspect on it, and you've got an excellent item.
I think I'm not at the part of the campaign that unlocks rerolling an affix yet :( But otherwise fair point, i have recently started stripping my useless legendaries for their aspect. But still struggling to find any rares worth attaching to, but I'll commit a bit more to that strategy and start paying more attention to them i guess.
In my experience there is a lot of interesting yellow gear, take a close look before you sell and consider the impact of upgrades and rerolling stats...
Is there stuff later in the game that requires a group? I'm still in wt3 working towards beating the 2nd capstone dungeon, but so far solo has been fine (and I really prefer not to need a group).
Got to WT4/LVL 100 solo perfectly fine. Couldn’t beat Uber Lilith without a group though. Player skill issue mostly, I didn’t have the patience to learn the patterns behind the one-shot-kill mechanics.