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Diablo III |OT4| Antiques Roadshow: Sanctuary Edition
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All the way up to Inferno all you really care about is as much +damage and STR as you can get and enough vit to survive. Maybe in hell you can start keeping your eye out for the all resists. The tip from Picklecannon applies pretty much only to Inferno, and then only to tanky builds with regard to str - if you want to do some damage you need both the survi and str.
SnakeswithLasers
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lol, ya, that's a solution.
toastyToast
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Got 5 stacks and did Reign of the Black King. Once I hit 5 NV champs where giving 2-3 rares with the highest at 62.
Nothing good though
Nothing good though
Did krippi not kill them solo as well? Can you join a friend in a later act if you haven't cleared the one you are on?... kinda wish I hadn't heard any of this, it kind of sours their kill
fierrotlepou
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Barb?
"-Every champ pack now has a 100% chance to be waller"
Should be on the patch notes.
Man, so discouraging to charge into stuff now and have nothing pop out. Or loot weapon racks with 334 MF and find gray weapons or even nothing. Haven't seen a iLvl 63 from Act I either, but will keep looking. And yes, my Barb looks so fucking slow now it's not even funny, It takes him like 2 days to give the second hit, which is kind of throwing me off with my MF gear on.
Should be on the patch notes.
Man, so discouraging to charge into stuff now and have nothing pop out. Or loot weapon racks with 334 MF and find gray weapons or even nothing. Haven't seen a iLvl 63 from Act I either, but will keep looking. And yes, my Barb looks so fucking slow now it's not even funny, It takes him like 2 days to give the second hit, which is kind of throwing me off with my MF gear on.
cpp_is_king
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Well I just straight tanked Siegebreaker without getting below 90% HP the entire time, but he enraged because my dps sucks now and I died with him at 2% HP remaining.
This is with a dps of about 13k as a barb (was 19k before patch)
This is with a dps of about 13k as a barb (was 19k before patch)
Intelligence is ok to have on items because it raises Resistances but It's not a substitute for Str/Vit. Just kind of a nice to have if some pieces conincedentally also have it.
BackdoorBeauty
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Magic weapon didn't get touched, they just added a counter so you could see when it is going to expire.
Still not feeling the fun after a couple of runs and pony clears. Even though Act III is easily farmable now it feels the same, just, you die less? Anyway, gonna cash out the rest of the way and spend my time on better things. Got a massive backlog that I might actually enjoy.
Treasure goblin did drop 4 rares which was pretty cool and unusual for me. They all sucked of course. And yes, reflect damage and waller affixes have most definitely been upped in frequency.
Treasure goblin did drop 4 rares which was pretty cool and unusual for me. They all sucked of course. And yes, reflect damage and waller affixes have most definitely been upped in frequency.
oh ya forgot to mention waller as well, lol
me and a friend have gotten a couple ilvl 63 rares. and i've seen a couple white archon gloves on the ground.
Yep, was my biggest complaint about the patch, they put enrage timers on bosses, which makes it really really hard for a Barb without 20k DPS, which is pretty insane.
Monk. 840 Resist All, ~8k Armor; I would wager that barbs can pull off similar things.
Enrage is when he turns all red, right?
Air Zombie Meat
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haha, thats a new one.
Ploid 3.0
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In titan quest particularly I remember doing a tough boss fight. It took me a long time, and I was fighting tooth and nail. When she fell there were blue and green colored item names and I was all giddy because I was sure they would be interesting. Rewarded, and it felt good. In this game I fight tooth and nail to take down two elites at the same time (where did this other group come from!!!) and as I stand over the bodies of both their clones I'm rewarded with NPC cash for loot items.
In this game I almost treat blues and yellows as if they are grey and whites of Titan Quest. Almost because I do end up picking them up. Legendary I kinda look at as if they are the first level of good item in Titan Quest. They will most likely suck but at least they can sell for a lot.
SUPARSTARX
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Why is it bullshit?
Because MF should have no benefit in this game obviously, flavor text only.
Rentahamster
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More like "stop treating this game as an 'abuse the rules greedy style' simulator" where the goal is to get the most money out of it with less effort, and start treating it as a game where you kill mobs for loot
This wouldn't have been a problem if Blizzard had designed the game properly in this aspect with their 11 years of development. It's especially puzzling considering that they specifically outlined that one of their goals is to reduce the "path of least resistance" runs so that killing mobs for loot (playing the game "properly") IS the path of least resistance.
Pre-release, I was confident that they had this shit figured out. Turns out that they didn't.
TheDancingWatermelon
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Man, RIP Colossal Golgors...poor dudes do nothing now. Even as a tank Barb I hated running into an elite pack of them, now I just sat in a horde group of them and went to work. :lol
cpp_is_king
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You actually get a skull and crossbones over your head and start taking DoT at an accelerating pace
I changed some pants to a set in my stash that had all strength gems in it and I was fine. Even after that, i realized I had forgotten my companion, even the second time when I killed him. Guess it's not too bad. Guess I'll start selling some resist gear and going crit% / crit dmg
Macro'd gear swaps are bullshit.
MF is a bonus for giving up other valuable stats on gear. If you can't kill the enemy in MF gear you shouldn't get the bonus.
ThatStupidLion
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finally someone else agrees that the game's maps are not random or mazey enough
Air Zombie Meat
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Because it gives people who use external scripts an edge and it makes decent gear with mf stats pointless. Why bother with that when you can just swap into shitty mf gear with the press of a button?
Even with a cooldown people could still abuse it.
While technically difficult, the ideal solution would be to keep track of changes to a player's magic find while fighting an enemy. When the enemy dies, drops are based on the lowest magic find the player had at any point during the fight.
Rentahamster
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I was saying this all during beta. Someone told me (was it a blue post or just some dude...I dont' recall. Probably some gaf poster) that it was just Act1 and the randomness would get better in the later acts since Act1 is the tutorial act.
Nope.
There are like 1-3 hand made layouts of every map and yes, it sucks colossal golgor dick that everything feels the same every time.
Thanks to the bots we lose this "Destructible objects no longer have a chance to drop items, and will only have a small chance to drop gold when destroyed" neat. Stay losing blizzard... because the bots are still going to manage... because they are bots and can go all day. This just ruins the fun for everyone else.
Probably a silly thing to get upset about but sometimes I wonder why they do what they do.
Probably a silly thing to get upset about but sometimes I wonder why they do what they do.
Blast Processing
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It's not a silly thing. They cut down the amount of chances you get for an item drastically by this.
Rentahamster
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Agreed. There are many potential solutions that can both deter botters, and leave the object looting for legit players. Blizzard is smart. They can figure it out. They should have figured it out.
Lost Fragment
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It's not much of an edge really. I have like 11 pieces of mf equipment that I manually swap in.
I agree that swapping in mf gear is dumb though.
ThatStupidLion
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not that i dont agree to an extent, this and most other changes in these patches are done just to keep the economy and AH running moderately correct.
Liferebooted
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