Trickster
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Only mobs from the sewers that I take note of are the snakes though
Maybe it's because I'm a ranged class that kites?
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Diablo III |OT4| Antiques Roadshow: Sanctuary Edition
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Only mobs from the sewers that I take note of are the snakes though
Maybe it's because I'm a ranged class that kites?
Because I'm spending more time sorting out shit loot than actually killing elites.
Oh wait, that's true for every act.
Only mobs from the sewers that I take note of are the snakes though
Maybe it's because I'm a ranged class that kites?
Hmmn.. I think the mobs name Accursed or something. Those ninja monsters that can teleport right next to you and kill you in 2 hits. They made my wiz their bitch for some hours. lol
Yeah, I've been farming Act I for awhile now. But it gets boring ya know, so I wanted to try Act 2 and Act 3, its been so long since I've seen a new environment...
those things are annoying too because when they die they pop and spew noxious gas
Air Zombie Meat
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Just seen a weapon on the ah that has a bid on it for 110 million:
Damn..
Damn..
The UI needs so much work.
Some trivial but important changes:
1. An additional column for potions and gems that don't move. Potions should be able to stack 999 here.
2. Gems and potions should auto-loot like gold
3. Starting at latest in inferno, rares should NOT have ? marks.
4. There should be an option at the vendor that sells all, except for the stuff in #1. And an undo button.
This is trivial, trivial, entry level 3 week project stuff. Absolutely no reason not to implement it.
toastyToast
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Fuck arcane enchanted
RNG is a way for anything in a game to be random.
http://www.wowpedia.org/RNG
Loot, dodge, and parry,whatever.
The stats on Diablo 3 loot are "random", thus they use RNG.
They allowed gear to be so crazily random and for you to not find much or no gear for yourself because you're meant to use the AH.
Thus, the loot RNG is affected by/considers the existance of the AH. An no, it doesn't mater what's currently on the AH. The values in their programming matter whether the AH is live or dead.
It's simple man.
The D3 and WoW community, Blizzard community, are going to use the same terms.
I can say loot RNG over itemization if I want.
Actually, you must like to argue.
simple solution is just to not pick up <lvl 60 loot, except for rings/amulets. 99.9% chance it's shit anyway, compared to 95% for ilvl 61+. I don't even pick up potions or gems, either. no need to sort, just salvage everything
plus, for example in act 2, you're identifying ilvl 63 every 4/35 instead of every 4/100 so psychologically, it feels like you're getting better loot more often
BigBlackGamer
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finally got a legendary drop that wasn't shit...
never seen an eternal union with this much strength. actually doing a search for rings with 200 strength only 4 rings show up. might keep this for my 2 hand barb tank I'm fucking around with.
never seen an eternal union with this much strength. actually doing a search for rings with 200 strength only 4 rings show up. might keep this for my 2 hand barb tank I'm fucking around with.
Just seen a weapon on the ah that has a bid on it for 110 million:
Damn..
That int needs to be str or vit then it's perfect.
SuperLurker
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In the space of about 20 minutes I found 2 rare rings with the exact same stats, the odds of that happening have to be pretty dang low.
Yeah I know, I'm talking about people complaining that Act 3 isn't giving them good shit when they die 5 times a run.
Yeah I haven't been too convinced about usefulness of Smoke Screen. I don't get the hype. The discipline cost is too high for a mere 1.5 seconds.
Smokescreen is basically needed for Jailer. If you get any gapclosing affix with Jailer and you don't have SS, you probably will die.
It's invincibility, not just invisibility. As soon as I'm taking any bit of damage, like I realize I've been desecrated, or jailed, or I am about to get cornered and need to move back through to the other side of the pack to start my kite again, I pop it and run. But since Evasive Fire is my hatred generating attack of choice, I also use the passive to give me 2 seconds of +65% run speed when I use either one. I only need a second of invincibility just to move myself out of damage range, so I usually choose the 12 discipline rune to squeeze maybe one more SS before I run out.
Lots of +Discipline gear lets you use it pretty often and allows improves the value of Preparation.
Honestly, without Tactical Advantage Passive, it wouldn't be nearly as useful to me though. That passive turns it into a huge escape tool.
Trickster
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So are you advocating having both smoke screen and vault? Because I've tried using Smoke Screen, and it's definitely useful for avoiding those rare jailed deaths. But as a sole means of putting distance between you and a champion/rare pack, it is godawful. You bassically need to be able to kill them in like 10 to 15 seconds depending on how much discipline you have.
toastyToast
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As someone who dropped Vault for SS, you'll get a lot more utility out of SS. Vault even with Tactical Advantage won't save you from fast mobs.
Best bet is Caltrops with Torturous Ground for creating distance and SS + Lingering Shadow during emergency situations
Stack as much discipline as possible, obviously
Best bet is Caltrops with Torturous Ground for creating distance and SS + Lingering Shadow during emergency situations
Stack as much discipline as possible, obviously
Johnny2Bags
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if I have a source for my wizard that does plus 56 - 205 will another one on the auction house that is plus 95 - 324 be a large improvement?/! mine has better stats, but i'm at 33kdps... if it raises it by five thousand i'll buy it??
Please someone answer quickly i'd like to purchase this
Please someone answer quickly i'd like to purchase this
Johnny2Bags
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Or would I get a larger improvement from going from 886 damage main weapon to 917?
No, I don't run Vault. I run Caltrops and shoot at enemies slightly off screen. Only time that doesn't work at entrances.
Johnny2Bags
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any help would be much appreciated i'm afraid it will sell out
One can only grind the same (braindead easy) content for so long...
Act2-3 at least resemble a videogame for my characater.
during the 15 minutes i watched that video, it went from 1997 likes to 2072 likes (yes one of them was mine)
i think it sounds cool. i'm not too worried about endgame right now, because i'm still farming act 1 with 666 resists
Johnny2Bags
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Nobody knows which would provide the most bang for my buck? =(
I understand that, I say that to people who are consistently struggling in Act 3. I still run Act 3 because I have a chance of dying.
Good watch. Some neat ideas, I like the whole champion thing.. getting that little extra +1 stat or something just so it feels like your progressing. But who knows, they got our money already and there only job is to make sure we spend more on their game.
Wait.. why are you only killing 5?
BigJonsson
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They really need to archive the stats of items sold on the AH, I'm too lazy to screenshot everything I put on there and I hate not remembering what I've sold
The best way to figure this out is take your current weapon, let's say 500-1000 damage. Add the min-max damage together and divide by two (500+1000)/2 = 750. Then add the average source damage to it (56+205)/2=130 so 880 total. Now do the same thing with the new source which would get you 959 total. Now find the difference:
(959-880)/880 = 0.09 or 9% increase in damage
That's just base though. Having huge stat bonuses will make things more complicated but you can probably look for some dps calculator or something to help.
Pull the lever and hope you land on 3 cherries man. Don't salvage all your garbage until you check prices. If you haven't used all your slots you can at least beat the price on essences ... lol
I don't know about lot of his more specific suggestions... but he definitely got one thing right: The game needs a ladder system. The game is about leveling a dude and getting the loot... but if you're max level and have all the gear there's nothing to do... and it doesn't take long enough.
Which also brings up the point of tons of people complaining about it being to hard before 1.03... now tons of people complaining about it being too easy after 1.03... and then if they fix repair costs it's just gonna be that much easier.
blizzard has developed themselves into a corner it seems. Time to stick by there guns or fold like a cheap suit.
You'll definitely get more bang for your buck by getting your armor to 5k before raising your resists more.
I start at the 'The Black Soulstone' quest. But I dont go collect the items and kill kulle right away. I portal around and run the deserts killing packs. Around Alcarnus, the ones just before where Magdas entrance is, the ones in the desert just outside of the Caldeum, hit the sewers then go collect the items for Kulle which have like 3 packs in each portal give or take. Then kill kulle, which leads right into killing belial immediately afterwards. Restart game repeat.
No actually he is taking RNG for exactly what it means. They arent letters, they have meaning Random Number Generator, and the WoW and Diablo community use it by that same definition. The man is right.
Death, what you are describing right here is itemization. WoW is itemized differently, what you are not describing is RNG. RNG is just /rand 100, its got nothing to do with the actual itemization. WoW works the way it does because it used fixed items with fixed stats, it then uses RNG to decide whether or not that item drops. Its itemized differently than D3 is. D3 doesnt use fixed stat items outside of select legendaries, but even those have randomly chosen stats on them with random values.
You are saying you dont like the itemization. Not the RNG. Saying you dont like the RNG in D3 versus WoW makes no sense, because random is random. You dont like the way the itemization is. /rand 100 is the same no matter the game, its the itemization design that differentiates the two.
blainethemono
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You can shift-click the gold icon in your sold items list to link it into chat
after you add the funds to your stash you can't do it though. they definitely need to change it so that you can see how much your shit sold for later on and what exactly it was
The thing that kills me is that it's all there!. I mean the link data for the item is in the coins, there are transaction IDs for everything... they just choose not to display any of it to you in an easy way. It's really apparent that nobody tested this shit or understands what a user would want.
I mean did any monks even playtest the AH? How did they find any relevant gear with the right resists using only 3 search parameters? :lol
This is my Act 2 farming routine:
Start with the Soulstone Chamber quest.
Take the way point to Black Canyon Mine and clear the area and caves, there should be about 3 groups of elites.
Go to Howling Plateau and do the same.
Take the way point to Road to Alcarnus. It's a small area that often spawns a goblin, so clear it.
Go to the first part of Alcarnus and clear the 1-2 elite that spawns there.
Take the way point to Path to the Oasis. Clear everything there and don't forget to check the 2 places where the Mysterious Cave might appear.
Take the way point to Ancient Path and see if the goblin is there.
Take the way point to the Archives and clear the 3 dungeons then kill Zoltun Kulle.
If you can comfortably kill Belial, then do the rest of the quest and kill him plus the elite right before him.
cpp_is_king
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How long does it take you? I basically do the entire act. takes about 3 hours but I kill way more champs than what you've described up there.
The main reason I do everything is because even if a few of the champs are in slightly inefficient to get to areas, starting over brings the inefficiency of having to kill 5 champs without 5 stacks.
I wonder how much of an overlap between the 2 there are. It is possible the people for which the game wasn't too hard have become more vocal while the other group was more vocal beforehand.
Anyone here selling their account ?
I'm in need for another account for my brother and just trying my luck here if anyone is done with the game.
You can keep the items ofcourse. Just dont delete the characters if you have any.
Just hit me up thru pm.
Thanks
I don't think people are going to sell their b.net accounts.
to add to your run:
- Sewers can have 1-2 elites and is very small.
- Desolate sands has the two ZK dungeons which can have 2-4 elites each and resplendent chests at the end of both (terrible drops but whatever). Avoid these if you're scared of tight places though.
- From Path to Oasis, drop back down into the sewers.. there is usually 1-2 elites in a small area
Also the area in between Alcarnus and the Khasim(sp?) outpost can have a goblin and 2 elites there too. There is also the necromancer side quest which always spawns a pack.
Also from Alcarnus, I'll run towards Magdha's lair and check for 1-2 packs. Then I'll go into Magdha's lair and TP back to Alcarnus WP and then clear backwards; TP and go to Khasim outpost, then TP and go to Black Canyon Mine.
I don't think people are going to sell their b.net accounts.
figured, just trying out my luck if there's someone out there who only purchased D3.
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