Audioboxer
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Good points, thanks. Especially on the buff part, I enjoyed using the Barb health/armour buffs to help her Wizard.
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Diablo III |OT3| Turn On Elective Mode, Get an Authenticator
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Good points, thanks. Especially on the buff part, I enjoyed using the Barb health/armour buffs to help her Wizard.
Original Decursive was ridiculous(ly awesome for lazy people like me).
Didn't they openly state they balanced the game with the AH in mind a week before they said they didn't?
Why is loot dropping thats marked up for a character between 10 and 15 levels below the one you play? (Well I guess its arguable that loot is there for vendor fodder I suppose, which I could understand).
Well if you think screwing players in co-op is acceptable then by all means.
I'm sure you defended the monster damage increase on launch too.
Not entirely true. Decursive functionality was broken because it took decision-making out of the game. On the other hand, equipment managers have survived every patch, until Blizzard decided to implement the functionality into the game itself.
Krauser Kat
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servers should be up in 6 minutes hopefully they are.
cpp_is_king
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It's detectable in the sense that they can detect that a program is running in the background that is known to automate various processes. If you wrote the program yourself and haven't released it to anyone, different story maybe.
That being said, in the grand scheme of things it's not a hugely game breaking bot. But it still falls under the normal definition of bot, and if they decide to take a black and white approach, then you can't really complain if you get banned.
*hours
Sax Russel
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Been playing the past few hours, just set your system clock forward.
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No way in hell that's worth 250k, or even 100k. Probably more like 25k or less.
When it comes to 2handers, you can find decent 1k + DPS rares for under 100k now.
echoshifting
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Server seems to be up! Happy to eat crow on that one. How unusual.
edit: yup I'm in game. Had to go through a new ToU agreement
edit: yup I'm in game. Had to go through a new ToU agreement
CarbonatedFalcon
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Hah!
If I set it to a few years from now, do I get to play the expansion?
echoshifting
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Awww, AH is down
Diablo 4 is pretty good but they didn't seem to remember anything from D3's fifth expansion :/
Story sucked too.
1k+ rare crossbows and bows are a lot harder to find for cheap than the other weapons, so if you find something like that its worth more than you think.
echoshifting
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CarbonatedFalcon
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Yeah, game is up, AH is down.
I'll be updating the OP with news once that is up and working (or later anyway if it's not.)
cpp_is_king
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Game up, Auction House down. Still not sure if RMAH is/will be live
7 dollars to start with, eventually 2 dollars. :lol
You bet you do. Leah is back, and you get to hear all about her stupid adventures with Uncle Deckard.
The Templar is back too, and my personal favorite, JAAAAAHNNDAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH, whom you have to fight as the last boss.
Edit: Last nights lag spike killed my alt Monk and my friends Wizard on Hardcore. We were working thru Act 4 normal so it's not that big of a deal in terms of time lost, but it still sucks hearing about everyone else that lost their characters. Two nights in a row around the same time - big lag spikes
. Really hoping it doesn't happen again tonight.
It's still a decent xbow, you can't compare it with just any 2h.
cpp_is_king
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Here's the thing. I'm guessing they may have fixed the cancellation problem sot hat the server now rejects requests. People are going to lowball right off the bat to make sure their inventory clears. Especially people who are just casuals looking to sell a few million gold, and to whom they don't really care about the difference between $5 / mil and $7 / mil.
If they price too high and they can't cancel their auctions, they're stuck for 2 days, with the risk of gold being worth $1 / mil by the chance they are able to relist it. So I think we'll see a race to the bottom coming out of the gate, and then a correction where everything begins to stabilize after most casuals have dumped their initial stock and the exploits become harder and harder to find.
If you're willing to spend RM, there will be some really good fucking deals if you're fast. That's JMO though
Bomber Bob
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so this rollback is gonna happen?
can continue playing d3 without any worries?
can continue playing d3 without any worries?
Probably. Last I read, people were selling gold in general chat for $6 a mill lol.
I just got rolled back so hard I landed in WoW.
Bashiok (community manager) stated that the game was balanced around the auction house. Jay Wilson (lead designer) stated that it wasn't. You can read that how you will.
As for the levels of item drops, that's always been the way these games have worked. In fact, the lowest quality items dropped in Diablo 3 are much closer to the player level than they were in Diablo 2. (Yeah, yeah... I know Diablo 2 didn't have strict level requirements to equip gear.) In addition, before max level, the level requirement to equip gear is generally several levels lower than the average level a player would obtain these items. This allows a player to fight in areas a few levels over their own level, but still obtain equippable drops. The flip side is that it allows players to use the auction house to twink themselves out with equippable gear from higher-level areas. Finally, keep in mind that with the way the drop system works, tightly limiting the level range of the drops would also severely limit the possible legendaries which could drop. For example, if Inferno couldn't drop level 53 loot, it would be impossible to obtain a String of Ears in Inferno.
cpp_is_king
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Eh, Zombie Cain as Diablo is just Metzen being Metzen at this point.
Sky is falling etc. etc.
cpp_is_king
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So what are the prices like?
There's no gold at all on it right now
StickSoldier
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wtf?
I don't think he is, from my own experience, this tends to be the case as well. While playing with my friend (both of us with 0 MF)- we get a fraction of the rares we would get when playing alone. At first I thought it was a fluke, since things are random, but we've since tried several times, and it's been consistent.
We'd do a particular run for X amount of time and record how many rares we'd get. Then do the same run alone. The solo runs would always net more rares. I'm not sure why this is, but I'd like to hear others experiences.
SnakeswithLasers
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You're going to have to do thousands of runs to get anything beyond anecdotal.
Haha. This should be fun.
They got you already. Oh, bite you will.
You'd ideally want 100 or more runs per sample and rather than "X amount of time" it would be for "X amount of kills" with no variance there. That is, 100 runs each solo vs grouping and each run is precisely 50 kills of the exact same enemy types with the exact same MF.
SnakeswithLasers
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So this is it: The game has a good chance of losing me after this week depending on how this RMAH changes things.
Just my personal opinion, and I may be in the minority, but I don't like the 'game within a game' of the AH--I want to play when I log on to play--and if the RMAH adds even more of a barrier to entry (real money to progress at a decent pace), I'm probably done.
Just my personal opinion, and I may be in the minority, but I don't like the 'game within a game' of the AH--I want to play when I log on to play--and if the RMAH adds even more of a barrier to entry (real money to progress at a decent pace), I'm probably done.
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