Majority plays in group
Bu...bu...but it isn't a Single Player game guise, it's an always online MMO.
Which point were you trying to make again?
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Diablo III |OT5| Finally out of Beta
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Which point were you trying to make again?
That a lot of people want to play by themselves, while a lot of the arguments was that it wasn't really a single player game before launch. It's right there in the image, and the split is almost 50-50. (54 to 46, wow, what a majority).
Sure, that doesn't mean it's a Single player game, the same way a majority playing groups in Diablo 3 wouldn't mean it isn't =)
Man the people in the b.net forums are really harsh on blizzard. Sure D3 wasn't as amazing as people expected, but I appreciate the fact that Blizzard has constantly been updating and improving it, not to mention I feel like they put a lot of thought into the process of making changes and improvements to D3
That's a prety significant difference. And it's an online ARPG. It's been a year already, deal with it.
Or at least be consistent and bitch that PoE is online only too (I haven't checked to see if you did or not)
4%? Hardly significant. I've "dealt with it": I bought the game, enjoyed it, still play it occasionally, might buy the expansions too. I just found it funny after all this time and people's reassurances that almost no one wanted to play by themselves. I find it funnier even now that you are being so defensive about this. I don't think I'm even criticizing the game, just what people said about it.
PoE is and will always be free to play, and that is a pretty significant difference. But be sure to go through my post history, I might've said something about it a year ago too.
Knowingly not fixing a bug that they themselves admitted to be a bug isn't fixing the game, it's keeping it broken.
I'm looking at trying to get my CM Wiz able to do higher MP runs. I can do MP3 now with no problems, but would like to get up to 10 if possible (for not a zillion gold).
What can I do to make him better on a budget of about 5 million?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Shagrath-1850/hero/15821800
What can I do to make him better on a budget of about 5 million?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Shagrath-1850/hero/15821800
They really haven't done much with the game. We had very small core updates and the rest was just "quality of life" stuff. Blizzard are awful at patching anything besides World of Warcraft. It takes way too long to have the smallest things. I'm glad that they are still trying, but they are the only one to blame for the game being in such a poor shape since the beginning. It's been almost an entire year and the biggest update was the Paragon stuff. And that wasn't even really "knew", it's an extra levelling layer. No new stuff, just some extra numerical stats. They applied a bad aid fix on the legendaries, which are broken again with 90% of the lot being totally useless.
In fact, I'd go as far to say that they have the worst update rate I've seen in a long time. 1.08 should have been here weeks ago.
Get chant set. You need to hit at least 2.31 aps for the first breakpoint. It doesn't look like you're there yet by glancing at your equipment.
Get gloves with crit% and asi, allres, and a little vit.
For chant wand you want to filter out by 2mil and then search for critd of 40%. Look for the highest dps wand you can buy that has 0.25 attacks per second. You can get away with .24 too but you're so low right now that having a h igher base will help you gear the rest of your asi cheaper.
Something like this:
(1.5m)
Will help a lot. Pair it with a chantodo's force.
For that I would search for avg dmg 245 and crit% 9.5 (10 is probably too expensive and you need as much crit% as you can get). Look for one that rolls 9% asi that's good since you'll be able to skimp on other pieces to hit the first breakpoint.
Look for one with a random STR roll or a STR/DEX roll since it'll boost your armor and dodge. Vit is probably too expensive.
(1.5m but probably overpriced. Good str roll though; should help you hit 4k armor)
I have seen skorn tr build with stun bell soloed mp10 übers. Looks pretty easy, just hit and run
edit: here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcq3s4orEIQ
CM is fun stuff, let me know if you can't afford a decent starter Chant's and I can give you some money if need be.
Incase anyone has not read it yet, the patch is available for download on the PTR. Although Blizzard has not posted the patch notes on the website yet, it is readable on the client. Read it here - http://www.diablohub.com/news/466/public-test-realm-patch-108-notes/
Ugly copy paste of the notes! (Blizzard just posted official link so here it is: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/9425564/public-test-realm-patch-108-notes-4-8-2013 )
Ugly copy paste of the notes! (Blizzard just posted official link so here it is: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/9425564/public-test-realm-patch-108-notes-4-8-2013 )
Video of identify all in action. It's free and happens pretty quickly.
Also made a video of the increased monster density in Act 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n0a4h0sQ2Q
Also made a video of the increased monster density in Act 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n0a4h0sQ2Q
I feel relieved by this. Just bought it over the weekend and I feel...somewhat annoyed at the thought of playing with more people.
Bu...bu...but it isn't a Single Player game guise, it's an always online MMO.
michaelius
Banned
I wonder how this poll will look like when there's clear benefit to farming in groups after next patch.
At last, identify all and "tooltips in the Auction House will now show an item comparison for a player's currently selected character".
These 2 "features" should have been there from launch. Better late than never I guess. Curious about the density increase, think I will try the PTR. All in all, a good looking patch.
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Just saw the videos put up by Svafnir. Looks good
Eh?
Holy crap that is a lot of monsters. Fuuuuuuuuck I hope this goes out to the live game soon.
Fixed =/
Damn, that monster density vid was great.
Tested PTR act1 for about an hour. Reeeaaally like the monster density increase. You can get 50+ monster kill combo often without trying too hard. It´s like they looked at how the monster density was and than doubled it
Anyway, don´t think I will be playing act 3 for a while.
Identify all... sooo good. Felt weird that I could just identify all and than scrap/sell within a minute or so and than back to killing monsters.
Dissapointed with crafting. Tried crafting 20 shoulders, but it only crafted one at a time. What´s the point? Why not 20 at once?
Couldn´t test AH as it was not working properly.
Anyway, don´t think I will be playing act 3 for a while.
Identify all... sooo good. Felt weird that I could just identify all and than scrap/sell within a minute or so and than back to killing monsters.
Dissapointed with crafting. Tried crafting 20 shoulders, but it only crafted one at a time. What´s the point? Why not 20 at once?
Couldn´t test AH as it was not working properly.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/8569328225
On PTR, Nephalem Valor now multiplies your experience bonus instead of adding to it. Confirmed by this blue post as intentional.
Also, previously confirmed by Wyatt - your exp bonus items are added in before the multiplication happens.
Now to see how this works with the group experience...
On PTR, Nephalem Valor now multiplies your experience bonus instead of adding to it. Confirmed by this blue post as intentional.
Also, previously confirmed by Wyatt - your exp bonus items are added in before the multiplication happens.
Now to see how this works with the group experience...
turnbuckle
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Bu...bu...but it isn't a Single Player game guise, it's an always online MMO.
There's a lot of enjoyment to be had going solo, but I think this poll is more a reflection of the way the game is currently balanced. Although they're taking some steps to mitigate the issue, at the moment it's generally more efficient and rewarding for players to solo all content aside from Key Runs / Ubers.
Having BIS items in a couple of slots be craftable and BOA takes away another component of fun from cooperative play too, at least IMO. I liked feeling like I could help out other players by hooking them up with some nice drops or a bit of gold here and there towards their AH purchase, but that was diminished severely for me in 1.07.
I think they need to pull the camera back another 20-40% (or at least give the option to do so), get rid of the movement speed cap, bump up the base movement speed by 10%, increase the range that players can get rewarded for a kill from their party member by another 40-60 yards, tone down the graphical effects of some skills, and give the option to customize the size/shape/color/behavior of the cursor. In a group it can frequently be difficult to tell what the hell is going on and the whole thing sometimes feels a bit cramped.
Unfortunately the game wasn't designed around that and those kind of changes might make the already limited explorable areas feel even smaller.
neoism
Member
WTF is a PTR even needed this patch... :/ man I hope its not for like 3 weeks or something this shit is just taking to long.....
you can't being over anything found in the PTR right....
blackprophesy
Member
A lot of welcome improvements. The monster density should help with variation for farming.
I just hope the itemisation improvements are following in 1.0.9 and not too far behind, the crap loot drops are just grating.
I just hope the itemisation improvements are following in 1.0.9 and not too far behind, the crap loot drops are just grating.
neoism
Member
At last, identify all and "tooltips in the Auction House will now show an item comparison for a player's currently selected character".
These 2 "features" should have been there from launch. Better late than never I guess. Curious about the density increase, think I will try the PTR. All in all, a good looking patch.
Edit:
Just saw the videos put up by Svafnir. Looks good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4my_yU9H0CU crap music.... should turn it down... not sure about act 1... but act 2 is definitely better.
Fenderputty
Banned
Dreams-Visions
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Auction House
User Interface
Tooltips in the Auction House will now show an item comparison for a player's currently selected character
WHY DID THIS FUCKING TAKE SO LONG
A year to implement a feature that's been obviously needed since the AH opened for business?
User Interface
Tooltips in the Auction House will now show an item comparison for a player's currently selected character
WHY DID THIS FUCKING TAKE SO LONG
A year to implement a feature that's been obviously needed since the AH opened for business?
WTF is a PTR even needed this patch... :/ man I hope its not for like 3 weeks or something this shit is just taking to long.....
you can't being over anything found in the PTR right....
Monster density feedback/tuning
Liferebooted
Banned
Finally, I'll start playing again.
For people who haven't seen: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1bzv51/fellow_wizards_108_ptr_teleport_mechanics/
Some of those teleports through walls. Wow. That will speed things up a lot!
Maybe I can keep up with op barbs and monks now!
Truth.
Quite awesome. Quite, quite awesome. I wasn't excited about this until seeing it in action. What's next? The ability to summon more than one hydra? Blizzard having a stacking effect? Lightning shield that hits all enemies at once, even off screen?!?!(PALADIIIIINNNNN!)
Did a run of most of Act 4 in PTR, didn't really notice any mob density changes, which is kind of a bummer since that act needs it the most.
Also I didn't see this mentioned (or I missed it), but in the options (in PTR) you can now also apparently turn off the notification for "are you sure you want to salvage this item" for rare/yellow items which is fantastic, but will also probably fuck someone at point, possibly me
Also I didn't see this mentioned (or I missed it), but in the options (in PTR) you can now also apparently turn off the notification for "are you sure you want to salvage this item" for rare/yellow items which is fantastic, but will also probably fuck someone at point, possibly me
Thanks for the video, I put some links to that over on the reddit thread. Trying to get people do organized reviews of zones, it actually worked out ok. http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1bzzv2/monster_density_feedback_megathread/
Shouta: Yes, they turned down the damage scaling on higher recently, maybe a month back
This may sound like a really nooby question, but what does mp3 etc mean? I've heard people say it but honestly have no idea what they mean.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Shouta
Member
Monster Power. It's the difficulty modifier after you get to Inferno. In exchange for increasing monster strength beyond the base level, it gives you Magic Find/Gold Find bonuses.
Thanks for the info Rati, I was wondering why my Monk felt like it was ridiculously buffed again, lol.
Did a run of most of Act 4 in PTR, didn't really notice any mob density changes, which is kind of a bummer since that act needs it the most.
Also I didn't see this mentioned (or I missed it), but in the options (in PTR) you can now also apparently turn off the notification for "are you sure you want to salvage this item" for rare/yellow items which is fantastic, but will also probably fuck someone at point, possibly me
A4 density never was really that bad. The problem is there are not enough elites and the act is way too short. They should double, triple, quadruple the density ther and double the elites or something.
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