It's All About Them Buffs

Friday! Here we are the week is coming to the close and we are off wondering again what the weekend has in store for us. While you are trying to decide on this why not check out this week's Reader Post coming to you from Zendrak who has some thoughts on community buffs coming back to Diablo III. So sit back and have a read.

I miss the Community Buffs we occasionally got. I know other people do as well (I am sure there are some that will post here saying they don't... cant make everyone happy /shrug)

I remember a while back a Blue posted that they stopped doing the Community Buffs because they felt like it forced people to play during certain time periods and they didn't want to promote that type of 'forced' play...

Well, I have a solution, on whatever weekend that the buff is to be released have it sent out as an item... like a potion that everyone gets in their mailbox. As long as they pick up the item from the mailbox During the weekend they can Use the item to get the buff at any time. To keep people from just saving them up and using several at once set an expiration on the actual item as well, maybe a month or two.

Basically if Blizzard wanted to do a buff this upcoming Holiday Weekend, say Double GRift Shards, they would mail out an item to everyone. The item would be in your mailbox Only during the weekend and expire at the end of the weekend. So as long as you picked it up During the weekend you can wait and use it at anytime during a set period. Once you use it your account would Have the buff for the set number of days (or logged in time) the buff is supposed to last.

If it was done this way we could Have buffs every couple of months and no one would feel Forced to play, they could just wait to use it until they had a free couple of days.

So many buff possibilities I wouldn't mind seeing...
Double Greater Rift Keys...
Double Goblins...
Double Bounties....
Double Blood Shards....
Double Exp...
Double Legendary Drops...
The buff that added the Herald to the Queen (cow goblin) into the game...
How about a buff that makes the Rifts you open into something really special?

If they added this mechanic and used it we could have all kinds of Community Buffs that do many fun and creative things and they could make it easy to just use it at your convenience. And not all the buffs would have to be a "Double" buff or something that makes us more powerful / gives us loot. Just make them fun and creative!

So well what are your thoughts? I guess bonus weekends are a great thing to talk about coming into the weekend.