Dreams-Visions
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Diablo III |OT3| Turn On Elective Mode, Get an Authenticator
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what does that staff do?
NullPointer
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Sarcasm? Or has Blizzard trained their customer base just that well?
It opens up the secret level.
Macmanus
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Have their been reported incidents of people who use the weekly update feature getting hacked? I haven't heard of one.
A friend of mine spent an entire evening running it non-stop and I used it as an excuse to leech EXP (on that note, +EXP/kill is glorious on alts). Didn't get the drop. I started up the next morning to finish up Act 3 NM, saw the cave and decided to run it one more time and got it.
...still haven't gotten the rest of the stuff for the staff. Mostly because I don't care, I guess.
RPGCrazied
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Haven't been there yet. I got the rainbow thingy, but none of the other stuff, nor have I seen that stuff drop, course I'm still in nightmare.
MELEEEEEE
(Not doing Critical Mass build until I have problems with this one)
There are definitely some runes I could swap out. I should probably take shortened cooldowns on Frost Nova and Diamond Skin but the ones I have are a bit on the swingier side and I like that. I run lots of Life on Hit (yay AH) so Spectral Blade/Explosive Blast/Arcane Orb AOE do a lot to keep up my HP. But I'm lvl 44 or 45 or so in act 3 of NM and I am hanging in there pretty well.
Yep we're all viral marketers for the 6 dollar fob. Blizzard pays me enough to buy a bigmac every 2 weeks.
Jesus christ, just want our fellow players to be protected. I'm tired of trying to warn people if people are going to get defensive about it.
I don't think they can do much other than make him despawn if you die but that actually seems difficult given the followers work. Can't really do much with his tanking because that's mostly with the monster's AI.
I haven't read any news of that.
UnblessedSoul
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Athene has the same pass for pretty much all his accounts dafuq
Bullshit. It will prompt you for your authenticator code everytime it detects that you are logging in from a different IP, it won't bother you much otherwise.
Am I understanding MF correctly? The specific number and kinds of items dropped (axe or helmet, ilvl 60 or ilvl 61) are based only on the monster in question (mlvl and then whether it's an elite or boss or chest or barrel). Then MF determines the quality of the item, so that if with 0% MF you have a 1% chance of a drop being a rare, 100% MF gives you a 2% chance that it's a rare. Elites seem to guarantee some number of blues, and I assume they have a higher-than-normal chance of dropping rares. Does 100% MF double the number of rares found from elites? How worthwhile is it to carry around a bunch of MF gear and swap to them all right before you kill the last of an elite group?
Also, why do I find tons and tons of hand crossbows and quivers but never wands and sources?
Also, why do I find tons and tons of hand crossbows and quivers but never wands and sources?
Give him some HP so he doesn't tank forever?
So good. Makes the last bits of the grind not so bad and then just get rushed to the next difficulty.
Out of like 7 Izual kills, I've seen the plans drop 6 times.
I don't believe this is true. When Blizzard first implemented this feature in WoW, they stated that the reason it doesn't authenticate you every time is because it recognizes your IP address. If you were to try and log in from a different IP, it would require an authenticator code.
fluffydelusions
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what does general chat consist of? It said 98 people in my general chat. People in the same area as me?
MY STEAM ACCOUNT!
I like how they all yell out all these possible accounts instead of putting the stream down and making sure he changes everything without yelling out a service he's registered to before checking on it.
Good thing steam has good protection (which blizzard should adopt)
I was under the impression that MF boosted both the rate of drops and the quality of the drops (as in, better rolls for affixes/more affixes).
Who doesn't? I just memorized one complicated as fuck pass for everything I use lol.
For NM i had a lot of fun with this build:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#ZRSTjl!YWX!bYZZaZ
You can cast ray of frost nearly free with this build (The rune in the website says it reduces RoF to cost 0 but in-game it reduces it to 12 arcane power).
Hydra is a very arcane-power to damage efficient spell, just cast and let it work its magic. If you haven't got frost hydra yet, arcane hydra is good with its slight AOE attack.
blizzard is used to slow enemies and deal good AOE damage
the other 3 spells are there to buff damage / reduces arcane costs
If you aren't good at dodging / kiting you can replace Familiar with Diamond skin. Combined with the slowing of the cold damage you should be fine.
the passive are there to max out your DPS
the way I play is I drop a blizzard and hydra right in the middle of the group and start blasting with ray of frost. If the enemies are beefy then I will kite and drop blizzarfds/hydras in their path to snare them and use RoF when I can.
The problem with gems and jewelcrafting is that gems will drop like candy during the play through so the cost simply outweighs any benefit, its easier to farm them.
I duno how this works in Inferno as I'm still stuck on Act 1, are you required to craft past perfect square gems ?
I've just upgraded my jewelcrafter to radiant square and its 40k a gem :S
I duno how this works in Inferno as I'm still stuck on Act 1, are you required to craft past perfect square gems ?
I've just upgraded my jewelcrafter to radiant square and its 40k a gem :S
NullPointer
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I've tried a bunch of builds, even one with Arcane Twister. The most effective one I found was Arcane Orb + Arcane Hydra w/ Temporal Flux passive. If you have enough AP regen (especially AP on crit), you can get by even without a signature spell. Although my favorite signature spells to pair with this build is Shock Pulse (Piercing Orb) to deal with ranged attackers that Arcane Orb simply doesn't reach because of it's lack of piercing (unless you opt to take the rune for it). Great part about the build is that it not only does good dps, but you can literally deal with any type of situation. AoE, kiting w/ snares, hydra around corners/walls.
I've settled on Teleport (Fracture) and Diamond Skin as my preferred defensive abilities. Teleport with Illusionist passive is seriously all I really need when kiting with this build with Diamond Skin mostly as a backup. Last 2 skills are reserved for Force Weapon and Energy Armor, or swapping in one for a signature spell.
-Pyromaniac-
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IS this back up yet?
cpp_is_king
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I dont. Http://keepass.info
My passwords are 20+ characters long and contain every character under the sun, never the same password twice
Huh, so you're saying that MF makes your yellows better as well as giving you more yellows. In that case +100% MF should more than double the rate at which you find good stuff. Does anyone have something more solid on that?
Searched the thread and didn't see this posted:
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/31/korean-government-raids-blizzard-over-diablo-3-complaints/
Korean government raided Blizzard's Seoul offices.
"The FTC says it suspects Blizzard of violating Korean law on electronic commerce and commercial contracts, and it gathered documents and other evidence relevant to its investigation in the raid. Some Korean players were frustrated with Diablo 3's server issues at launch and asked for refunds, which Blizzard denied, citing its sales contract terms, The Korea Times reports. The FTC considers these terms to be disadvantageous to players.
"We have received many complaints from Diablo 3 users," FTC spokesman Kim Hyung-bae says."
Things are getting really bad for Blizzard. I normally have a ton of faith in them and I know that the first few days of release usually go away pretty quickly, but this is getting awful. I've lost a lot of faith in them as a developer after this release.
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/31/korean-government-raids-blizzard-over-diablo-3-complaints/
Korean government raided Blizzard's Seoul offices.
"The FTC says it suspects Blizzard of violating Korean law on electronic commerce and commercial contracts, and it gathered documents and other evidence relevant to its investigation in the raid. Some Korean players were frustrated with Diablo 3's server issues at launch and asked for refunds, which Blizzard denied, citing its sales contract terms, The Korea Times reports. The FTC considers these terms to be disadvantageous to players.
"We have received many complaints from Diablo 3 users," FTC spokesman Kim Hyung-bae says."
Things are getting really bad for Blizzard. I normally have a ton of faith in them and I know that the first few days of release usually go away pretty quickly, but this is getting awful. I've lost a lot of faith in them as a developer after this release.
Dreams-Visions
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Maybe his steam account was linked to the same mail than his Blizz account, and maybe the mail had the same password. Then he is truly fucked, lol.
dehydratedbabies
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"It's the Internet, they love this kind of shit".
Yes.
Athene is showing on the stream when he "fucked up" if anyone missed it.
http://www.athenelive.com/stream/42146/?Athene
http://www.athenelive.com/stream/42146/?Athene
lol, i was googling about his damage, then I came across people questioning why tyrael is black.
godamn people are hilarious.
So, how are you all fairing in Infernal? Act I is a Cake Walk with my 12k DPS Tanky Wizard (With Energy Armor on, about 6000 Armor and an average of 500 Resist, plus Diamond Skin and Teleport to tank a bit and get out of tight spots), but Act II still hits too hard.
Thieves Guild Guy. I guess he gave good loot.
Thieves Guild Guy. I guess he gave good loot.
Johnny2Bags
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But that statement is true?? As with anything with life, If you know about something or the risks involved with not doing something... and you are too lazy or (god knows why you wouldn't really) don't want to get an authenticator.... I'm in the camp that TRULY doesn't give a flying shit if you suffer the consequences... That person can place the blame on others all they want, but it's their own 'inaction that caused the hack...
Sure blizzard should have better security! Without a doubt my friend... BUT if you know there are problems, and there is something very easy you can do to protect yourself... sorry but, get the authenticator, or enjoy being hacked!
Lizard with a ladder
learnin' with the blacks!
Picked this up a few days ago, when I finally got my pc built. I'm loving every bit of it. Except one thing.
There really needs to be an appear offline mode. I'm tired of dealing with "wtf man, why don't you want play together" bullshit. Sometimes (when I'm hungover on the weekend) I just want to eat a huge breakfast and play solo.
There really needs to be an appear offline mode. I'm tired of dealing with "wtf man, why don't you want play together" bullshit. Sometimes (when I'm hungover on the weekend) I just want to eat a huge breakfast and play solo.
echoshifting
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Wowwww. That's...extreme.
You can set your status to busy or away in the friends menu. Works for me! Well...most of the time.
It does greatly.
They need to tone down monsters in group play. Having a group has no added benefit.
I just beat the Skeleton King solo in Act I and I have all flawless square gems. I'm having a pretty easy time so far, only died maybe 2-3 times by now.
Athene is showing on the stream when he "fucked up" if anyone missed it.
http://www.athenelive.com/stream/42146/?Athene
Did he really lose everything? Gold/Items/etc?
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