Baller. PhD
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It's like that for everybody, has been for almost 8 hours now. I have no idea why Blizzard hasn't taken the AH down. Everyone must be off work for the holiday weekend. There's nothing you can do.
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It's like that for everybody, has been for almost 8 hours now. I have no idea why Blizzard hasn't taken the AH down. Everyone must be off work for the holiday weekend. There's nothing you can do.
Damn. I feel bad for you. I just lost 45,000 gold. The items I bought haven't shown up. Has Blizzard responded to this issue?
So many bloody issues. D3's launch has been a bit of a joke. It's a great game though... when you can play it.
Baller. PhD
Banned
DAY FUCKING REDEEMED. After farming magdha/zultan miniboss in act4 almost all day, I just got my first 1000dps weapon (1h) that has both int and vit
Can you tell me how you got into the position to farm this? Build, gear, etc? How are you doing this?
RapidCancel
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Damnit...didn't know the AH was having problems. Used up some of my money haha.
Dreams-Visions
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legit upgrade, or keep looking?
-Pyromaniac-
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it's happened to me twice and both times the item showed up a while later.
harriet the spy
Member
Sorry for asking what is probably an obnoxious question...(since the answer most definitely depends on the person).. but is there any sort of consensus on the most fun class to play? or at least, one to avoid? I don't want a superpowered class. I played Diablo II as a spellcaster because it was kind of fun to shit up the screen with big spells, and for a change, i went with Witch doctor. But after an hour, I am kind of dreading that I'll spam the darts more than half the time till the end of the game.
Not going to lie, this is beginning to kill the interest for me.
Maybe its better at max level, but I've pretty much gone the entire game without finding a piece of gear that was a solid upgrade for me.
I found some decent stuff, made probably a million gold through sales. But I've never went WOW look at that! That dagger is so much better then [whatever I bought 3 levels ago from the AH).
Diablo 2 had huge draw to me because you never knew what you were going to get; even if the majority of it was junk. However, now I feel like I'll never find anything outside of the AH relevant to my character.
I don't feel like I'm item hunting so much as gold farming : /
D2 was not all that different. If you wanted to gear your character properly, the majority of your items would come from trades, not self farming (especially when high runes came into play).
Baller. PhD
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It's way, way worse at max level. You will find absolutely nothing usable.
When I played D2 all I did was farm bosses and I pretty much had the BIS gear. Only trade I remember doing was a SOJ for buriza. Like I previously said, the D2 experience can be alot different depending on when you played it.
Dreams-Visions
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neither?
Gem dealer. Gems are useful and you'll want to upgrade it to keep your gems competitive. The blacksmith is fairly useless because you have the auction house.
-Pyromaniac-
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I've been at 60 for a long time and haven't found a single piece of equipment that was a good upgrade.
Alex
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I didn't at first, but I love the auction house now. Originally I was very bummed at how rare finding loot that was actually good for me was and I felt like I was cheating the game. Later on I started to get addicted to finding decent loot, period, listing it up, hunting down good bargains and the general ebb and flow of it.
I always liked MMO/ORPG economy stuff and this is the most involving in awhile.
Some people just want to totally keep to themselves, and I totally understand that, I've never been one of these people who thought that it was bad to treat Diablo as a single player game, however I really like this setup. It's ultimately going to meet the same ends but be less (absurdly) random and far more interactive along the way. It's just fun to contribute and benefit from it.
I just want them to make the itemization a little more broad and to KEEP THE AH WORKING.
I always liked MMO/ORPG economy stuff and this is the most involving in awhile.
Some people just want to totally keep to themselves, and I totally understand that, I've never been one of these people who thought that it was bad to treat Diablo as a single player game, however I really like this setup. It's ultimately going to meet the same ends but be less (absurdly) random and far more interactive along the way. It's just fun to contribute and benefit from it.
I just want them to make the itemization a little more broad and to KEEP THE AH WORKING.
I don't think I ever equipped an item that I found myself after I beat normal in D2, traded for everything. My problem is that trading item for item with other players is far more social and fun than the AH. That's what kept me playing D2 for years. I love this game but I dont see myself playing it a year from now. But im also an adult now with far less free time.
I don't use either one of those. Am I missing out? I've tried both of those abilities and I don't really like them. I use leaping spiders and rain of frogs. No animation time on rain of frogs and they come from the sky so it's instant long-range damage spammable for AE 120% damage per cast...right now that's about 25 mana, 480% damage for 100 mana. The leaping spiders do good damage (3 attacks over 4 seconds for 19% damage each is about 230% damage per toss) and don't depend on having a target since they'll leap to what's available and will leap 25 yards past the edge of the screen if that's where you throw them. Works great for kiting bosses around.
Between the both of them, I do really well so far at 52, but my dps has dropped off and my AH items I'm still waiting on.
The Dire Bats seem to drain my entire pool in 3 casts. I didn't really like that.
I don't know, I got rickrolled pretty hard in a Hell 4man earlier. Then again that may be my gear.
HolyshytSaw this on reddit:
Isn't that a one hander too?
I beat hell with 8k dps so you probably just need to adjust your build/strategies. More damage always helps, but yea.
Multiplayer Scaling
1 player = 100% so 4 players should be 400%. Only in Inferno do monsters exceed this rule. So only in Inferno do monsters actually become harder to kill the more people you add. It should also be apparent that if you play with more people you require much more defense in all post-normal modes. Soloing Inferno should technically be easier than grouping (especially on HC where you cannot Rez).
Dog Problems
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Wait for the RMAH and give it to me.
Yeah, that's what I'm holding out on. I'm just so tempted right now.
While that's a good point, there's really no way to know how they got it. I use to buy money for the game Anarchy Online and as far as anyone knew it was made either the legit way or by finding an exploit. There were never widespread issues of account hacking.
As mentioned above, I got use to doing in that other game so I guess I have the idea in my mind that it'd be fine. But that is a good point.
It's not necessarily for better armor and weapons to get through Inferno, although I would definitely upgrade my gimped Monk. The million would be meant to be used over a long period of time. If I ever need to upgrade something it's nice to know I can afford it.
I've tried this but I can never seem to find good armor that includes it. I may find a piece with high Gold Find but it has terrible stats for everything else. Or a good piece of armor with very low gold find.
Shining Sunshine
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D2 was very different in that itemization and character stats weren't shit.
krameriffic
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Found Zoltun's head yesterday on Inferno and it hasn't been half as hard as before after switching to my new build.
DPS is rather on the low side and 91 arcane power is a bit sad, but I'm able to kite elite packs easily and my K
32k hp, 19-20k DPS, ~40% resistances. Wizard.
I started having immensely more success when I took out diamond skin in favor of teleport with fracture and illusionist passive over astral presence. DS just doesn't scale worth a damn into inferno and as long as you're tanky enough for force armor to activate on every hit, you will always have a blink with 2 mirror images at your disposal when an enemy inevitably gets in your face. Stack about 1k HP/s life regen and you can kite away and regen almost endlessly.
Wizard can be a slippery bugger with illusionist and teleport.
cpp_is_king
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So earlier today, unless I was dreaming, I put an item on AH, and now it is not in my active sales window, nor is it in my inventory / stash, nor did I receive any notice that the auction had completed. Has this happened to anyone?
BTW, the "plagued" attribute on elites. Fuck that shit. Is it poison damage?
BTW, the "plagued" attribute on elites. Fuck that shit. Is it poison damage?
I guess someone wasn't carrying their weight then, elites were having their way with us like a couple of drunk girls at a frat house.
xxjuicesxx
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Just started Hell, noticing a pretty big bump in difficulty.
Some of these elite bonuses combos are pretty ridiculous.
Some of these elite bonuses combos are pretty ridiculous.
Dreams-Visions
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Found Zoltun's head yesterday on Inferno and it hasn't been half as hard as before after switching to my new build.
DPS is rather on the low side and 91 arcane power is a bit sad, but I'm able to kite elite packs easily and my K
32k hp, 19-20k DPS, ~40% resistances. Wizard.
Build seems quite reasonable for a good portion of the time. I imagine you're fucked when you come across a fast +invul/jailer/waller/whatever pack. Oh, and that build's effectiveness ends at the Act II boss.
Those green pools of poison.
I know that pain. As a barb in HC, my health pool is higher but my DPS is like 60% of my friend playing WD. Vitality/Survival is too treasured and I've become the test dummy for progression and elite packs.
StickSoldier
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just finished soloing hell as my WD, 12k dps 26k health. Time to start inferno, see how fare on that difficulty.
user8503492
Banned
Shall we meet in ICC for this transaction?..
Played and bought credits in that game for about 6 years hehe.
Item duping fucked the economy up at first in 2001/02
Then Shadowlands came out...for the first year or so I think Hecks would drop ingots you could sell at the merchant for close to a million credits or more.
So..make a NT, Kite and nuke, loot ingots, make 10mil in a few hours.
People selling items for BILLIONS since everyone was fucking rich.
I would play hide and seek in Omni Ent. and give out 1mil credits to who ever found me I was so rich.
You had to have a second toon just to hold money once you got 999,999,999 credits.
Playing the game "legit" just wasnt an option after Shadowlands.
Woo-Fu
Banned
You can do Azmodan runs. Pick up a couple nephalim stacks in level 3 of the keep, then do the Azmodan run. You'll make money and you might get an upgrade or two, depending on your gear.
You don't really have many options to gear up for Inferno if you're not going to use the AH.
such a well designed game, in that case.
StickSoldier
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when does inferno start to get hard again?
Act 2. Each act in Inferno is a big jump in terms of damage dealt and monster health. Plus act 2 is full of bullshit enemies compared to act 1.
Dreams-Visions
Member
For you? What's your total damage?
the answer to your question is probably, "as soon as you set foot in the desert".
Dog Problems
Banned
Shall we meet in ICC for this transaction?..
Played and bought credits in that game for about 6 years hehe.
Item duping fucked the economy up at first in 2001/02
Then Shadowlands came out...for the first year or so I think Hecks would drop ingots you could sell at the merchant for close to a million credits or more.
So..make a NT, Kite and nuke, loot ingots, make 10mil in a few hours.
People selling items for BILLIONS since everyone was fucking rich.
I would play hide and seek in Omni Ent. and give out 1mil credits to who ever found me I was so rich.
You had to have a second toon just to hold money once you got 999,999,999 credits.
Playing the game "legit" just wasnt an option after Shadowlands.
Haha, that's crazy. I played the game off and on for a couple of years and never knew money was that easy to come by. But I was never very active in the guilds I was in and often ignored the chat. I even bought accounts at times, stripped the items, and resold them on eBay. Or bought an account with a high level Trader or Engineer and used them solely for crafting and buffs for my main characters.
What DH nerf?
kiunchbb
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Diablo 2 was the same thing, except there are no auction house and you forced to farm the previous difficulty. AH is actually an improvement, with that said......... I need more gold >_<
DH used to be able to stay invincible for 17 to 24 seconds with proper build.
I'm starting to grow tired of this game
I'm still only in Act 2 normal. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but every single encounter feels the same. I do the same thing basically no matter what I'm fighting. Equipment drops don't really do much for me - not that I've even been finding anything worth using (almost all my stuff is made at the blacksmith).
There's no real story to pull me forward and it's all just... I don't know. I'm not having that much fun anymore. It's not that I've burned out on it or anything. I only play on Fridays/weekends. Maybe I just need to play more co-operative? But strangers are scary.
I'm still only in Act 2 normal. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but every single encounter feels the same. I do the same thing basically no matter what I'm fighting. Equipment drops don't really do much for me - not that I've even been finding anything worth using (almost all my stuff is made at the blacksmith).
There's no real story to pull me forward and it's all just... I don't know. I'm not having that much fun anymore. It's not that I've burned out on it or anything. I only play on Fridays/weekends. Maybe I just need to play more co-operative? But strangers are scary.
Dog Problems
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I give in to IAP on iOS games pretty easily so I'm scared lol
StickSoldier
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I'm at 12k dps as WD and around 26k health. So far it's not bad, but of course I'm squishy as hell. I'm afraid to get to act 2.
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