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Diablo III |OT4| Antiques Roadshow: Sanctuary Edition
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So I haven't really been focusing on the game too much, so I'm still at the nice point where I'm sub-60 still with my highest character (witch doctor lol) and at Nightmare Diablo.
He pounded me, solo, but I also just got the Staff of Herding (regular and upgraded to Nightmare version).
Two questions since I haven't heard a lot of people mention it.
Is Whimsyshire worthwhile to visit at this point? And can we bring friends?
He pounded me, solo, but I also just got the Staff of Herding (regular and upgraded to Nightmare version).
Two questions since I haven't heard a lot of people mention it.
Is Whimsyshire worthwhile to visit at this point? And can we bring friends?
TheDancingWatermelon
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As far as I understood, the hotfix is in effect but they haven't updated the hotfix blog with the details.
*beaten by Duesy*
*beaten by Duesy*
Fenderputty
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Completely anecdotal, but this morning I was farming Act II before work and got very few iLVL 60 items and below. I even got a rare iLvl 63 one hand weapon with 700 DPS and 100 vit and str.
I'm curious to see the patch notes. Even if they didn't increase the higher drop rates for act II, it felt like they lowered the chance for absolute trash to drop as well.
Who knows though ... I'm curioous to see if I was just semi lucky this morning.
I'm curious to see the patch notes. Even if they didn't increase the higher drop rates for act II, it felt like they lowered the chance for absolute trash to drop as well.
Who knows though ... I'm curioous to see if I was just semi lucky this morning.
HungOverOnATues
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Yes, you can bring others in with you but I don't think whimsyshire in nightmare is worth the gold at that point. Save up to buy better gear when you need it and worry about whimsyshire later when you've got a bunch of gold to spend. I upgraded my staff to Nightmare and went a couple of times and never went back - I was better off just running through hell. I'm guessing it doesn't pay off until inferno.
It will just mean Snakeswithlasers sucks at the game and never understood its skill portion (yes I'm referencing his bitching thread)If Kripp beats Inferno with his budget barb, this just means you guys totally don't know how to spend money.
And that monk farming Act 1 and Act 2 with those budgets, man, life is easy now. If you guys can't scrounge up 1-2mil to get that kind of gear, then I'm sorry.
Fenderputty
Banned
That was my experience from Act II this morning as well. Maybe not more iLvl 63 stuff, but it felt like less 50-59 items for sure.
If Kripp beats Inferno with his budget barb, this just means you guys totally don't know how to spend money.
And that monk farming Act 1 and Act 2 with those budgets, man, life is easy now. If you guys can't scrounge up 1-2mil to get that kind of gear, then I'm sorry.
It was sort of like that pre-1.0.3 to be honest. Maybe not as cheap for Act 2 but Act 1 was really cheap. I think most my characters barely upgraded from Hell to tackle Inferno Act 1, honestly.
I've noticed this too. Every single rare has given me at least 1 60 now, it's a little more tolerable.
Fenderputty
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The price of essenses are going to tank.
Everything will go down in price, I imagine :x
Probably not, especially since it was announced it wasn't getting changed (the 4 piece set). The prices have gone up quite a bit where as the need for a stormshield has gone down.
Fenderputty
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I knew I wasn't going crazy this morning when I thought Act II was dropping less 59 and below stuff.
This is how I imagined 1.0.3 in the first place.
Right, I know. I just meant it seems weird that they removed the one drop from bosses and gave +1 to all elite packs ... and then gave the bosses that drop back again.
I've seen no change in my act 2 farming. Still 96% < 60
Edit : Just bad luck then! But did get 2 ilvl 57 rings already. I REALLY wish they'd do something about that. It's infuriating.
So they reversed the boss drop change.
The ilvl 61+ Drop rate change isn't likely to change much, people will just reach a different area on the drop curve where it takes too long for them to find upgrades and items that sell for high amounts of gold to afford upgrades, then start complaining again.
The ilvl 61+ Drop rate change isn't likely to change much, people will just reach a different area on the drop curve where it takes too long for them to find upgrades and items that sell for high amounts of gold to afford upgrades, then start complaining again.
Whoa. On another note, does it seems like Blizzard doesn't believe in minor tweaks? eg. SS gets cut in half, IAS gets cut in half, drop rates get doubled. What happened to 20-30% tweaks?
Which I think Blizzard said would happen :x
Though, if people can get to the point of comfortably farming before that wall happens, I imagine the complaints might slow down. Might.
8% -> 10% would probably go largely unnoticed by people, honestly.
Well, it was an idiotic thing to do in the first place, make bosses drop less good shit that random packs. They said it was because when they buffed some of them, people started skipping bosses altogether and they didn't want that either.
The truth is, Blizzard are too fucking hasty about these changes and probably have no idea what to do to stop people from bitching. The game was kind of fucked in the first place, but they should've waited and properly tested some changes before hotfixing shit like this. I believe this double rate will bring new unexpected problems to the economy. My friendlist is already empty as it is...
maabus1999
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There is a noticable drop in the playerbase, and I bet the majority still playing has fairly decent gear on the high end. Throw in more drops now, so you have high supply, low demand, and everything that isn't perfect will be very low in value.
Now on the flip side, anything perfect will be ungodly expensive to due rampant stores of gold on many characters.
You want more complaints eh?
Now that high-end equipment are dropping like flies, everyone will clear Inferno easily and people will quit in droves because there's no more to the game!
You guys and your econcraft.
maabus1999
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Very "beta" like is it not? Not like Blizzards old and slow changes is it?
Which means either A.) Blizzard's QA / game development process is changing, B.) They knew the game was no where near stable "statistically" or C.) The playbase has dropped so badly they are doing drastic changes.
Or D.) All of the above.
PvP is really overdue.
They're trying to fix things for people that are complaining but not much is being looked at from a long-term perspective. Though, I suppose that long-term perspective is irrelevant to most the people complaining.
Fenderputty
Banned
Drops for Normal - Hell are more than enough to progress but people still complain that AH stuff is vastly better despite all of those being overkill for what they're doing :|
Inferno 2: Electric Boogaloo
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