Yup. Finishing now means zip. It rains legendaries (although I have yet to see one!) and all elite packs are beatable since they don't regen (not to mention much easier in general). Act3 Inferno feels like Hell did. It is all just about filling the XP bar at this point.
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Yup. Finishing now means zip. It rains legendaries (although I have yet to see one!) and all elite packs are beatable since they don't regen (not to mention much easier in general). Act3 Inferno feels like Hell did. It is all just about filling the XP bar at this point.
What's the ring's name?
Played almost 5 hours yesterday when I got home after work. 0 legendaries. Nice way to welcome me back after more than a month Diablo.
If legendaries are really dropping that fast, they might as well stop working on 1.1, cause no one will be playing the game by the time it's out.
UnluckyKate
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Got a 950dps, Two Hands sword, with 450 str, 200 vit, 1500 LoH.
Good god. I feel that DPS is kinda low now for a two handed.
Also, playing all day and no legendary yet
Good god. I feel that DPS is kinda low now for a two handed.
Also, playing all day and no legendary yet
Impeccable
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Everyone will have OP weapons within two weeks between legendaries dropping a lot (people complained about them needing to drop more, ignoring how many were already on AH) and the buffed 61/62 weapons.
I personally think they should have nerfed the drop rate of legendaries.
I'm not complaining, I'll just hold my cash out for a couple of weeks and get really fucking overpowered cheap.
Yeah I'm not even close to being uber-geared but I'm getting the feeling they just went way overboard with making it too easy. I can't see people staying interested when they've completely done away with any challenge. The XP bar might help keep my interest for a bit but how fun is a game if you barely have to focus on it at all to kill the hardest stuff.
BigBlue1974
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Had a lot of fun playing last night. Great to see that experience coming in for the Paragon levels.
I played a couple act 2 runs. One thing I noticed in addition to the mortar/ice ranges that are now shown is that the damage radius on Belial's fists are shown. Makes that an even easier fight as sometimes I couldn't quite tell where to escape to on his double fist slam.
I think I might just start farming Act 3 from this point onwards for the increased drop rates for the higher level stuff.
Oh and is it just me or is there a lot of whining from people in here if they didn't immediately find 10 legendaries last night? I didn't find any, but I played for maybe 3 hours or so. Come on people, some players haven't found any legendaries sometimes in 100+ hours of play and you expect instantly to get perfect rolled rares/godly legendaries.
I played a couple act 2 runs. One thing I noticed in addition to the mortar/ice ranges that are now shown is that the damage radius on Belial's fists are shown. Makes that an even easier fight as sometimes I couldn't quite tell where to escape to on his double fist slam.
I think I might just start farming Act 3 from this point onwards for the increased drop rates for the higher level stuff.
Oh and is it just me or is there a lot of whining from people in here if they didn't immediately find 10 legendaries last night? I didn't find any, but I played for maybe 3 hours or so. Come on people, some players haven't found any legendaries sometimes in 100+ hours of play and you expect instantly to get perfect rolled rares/godly legendaries.
UnluckyKate
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Use all passives that makes your crit and crit damage by 5 and 50%.
Look for a str + vit + crit dmg Mace as first hand and whatever you want as second hand. You don't need life one hit for act 1
Use that passive that gives you 10% crit chance with a Mace in the right hand.
I went from 40k HP and 15dps to 55k HP and 37k dps with about 500k gold two week ago.
I'm currently right before Azmodan in Inferno. Do I need LOH?
Edit: this is my dude: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/tjohn86-1840/hero/1818746
Melville
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Nooo, I dropped that ring one week ago
Anyways, I checked this source I found on the AH, and the cheapest one corresponding to the stats was like 30M. Is arcane power on critical really that valuable? (I haven't really played with my wizard in Inferno yet, not really too savvy about this class at high level)
Here's the item:
Nice.
I'm playing with crappy leftover gear I had in my stash after selling everything and drop the game and I'm doing act 3 runs pretty easily with less stats than you. You will rolfstomp the game with those stats/gear now.
I'm definitely aiming to get good gear for a WW barb though, can't really go back to a tank barb. It's way more fun and you farm faster.
What other builds are there? Tank barb, WW barb, ranged barb, that's all I believe.
Goblins that can gang up on you and steal your monies!
My barb build is currently:
Cleave with broad swing (more hits for LOH!)
War cry with 50% resist
Battle cry with damage boost
Revenge with 30% chance
Ground stomp with pull in enemy rune (very effective for revenge/rend/cleave)
And rend with life regen
Using the armor increase and elemental/ranged damage reduction passives
This is just using one 2 handed with 1200 LOH and 6% life steal
Going to start getting regen armor so I can kite (aiming for 2500-3000 hp/sec)
Hoping to have a pseudo aggressive/defensive combination
Nooo, I dropped that ring one week ago
Anyways, I checked this source I found on the AH, and the cheapest one corresponding to the stats was like 30M. Is arcane power on critical really that valuable? (I haven't really played with my wizard in Inferno yet, not really too savvy about this class at high level)
Here's the item:
30M seems cray to me, but the fact that it has int + 6.5% crit is probably it's best factors. It kinda has low offhand damage.
Honestly, I'm hoping that is their intent. An actual random dungeon mode of some kind that scales off your Paragon Level with Paragon Level restricted BoE loot (or some other trade restriction, I suppose). Having the grind is nice for that sense of progress but it would be even better if it worked towards a bigger picture as well rather than just the "At least I got some EXP" factor.
Every 5 Paragon Levels gives you an extra random floor to progress through that steadily gets harder and harder with better rewards per floor. Something like that, anyway.
Seriously, if they don't make use of the whole goblin portal thing eventually...
If they did, they forgot to enable it for me. And on top of that, I was listing two items on the AH last night, and it said due to heavy load, it couldn't process my auction. Then I lost both items.
Awesome start to the patch. No uniques drop, shit drops, and two drops that were meh, and probably would have gotten me maybe 40k tops are now gone.
UnluckyKate
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Fenderputty
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So if I was farming act III prior to the patch, it's now on easy mode for when I return?
Anyone farming act IV?
Anyone farming act IV?
I'm pretty sure the loot tables for act 3 and 4 are the same, and with the low number of champions in act 4, it's not really worthwhile. You'd probably be fine to try it though, just for something different. It does feel a lot easier.
UnluckyKate
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I hate act 4 : same loots, lower elites count, more anoying mobs to fights.
Here's an example - group farming act 3 was not worth it pre patch with me. Now, act 3 with 3 pieces of mf gear is doable for me. A monk.
Throw in a well rounded group, like a good WD utilizing pets, and it's amazingly good, and honestly, more fun not stressing so much about impossible elites.
UnluckyKate
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Grey exclamation mark on the battlefields. Talk to the guys. It's not a book it's just a guy to talk. I had to reload a game because it didn't pop first time. Second time, it was right there at the beginning of the battlefields
Fenderputty
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For the most part I enjoyed act III over act II VoA runs because it posed more of a challenge. Though I did switch back and forth to keep things fresh.
I was hoping they wouldn't neuter inferno. Just get rid of invulnerable minions and I'm happy.
O well ... I'll be happy to play regardless when I get back. Especially with improved group play and paragon stuff.
I was hoping they wouldn't neuter inferno. Just get rid of invulnerable minions and I'm happy.
O well ... I'll be happy to play regardless when I get back. Especially with improved group play and paragon stuff.
-Pyromaniac-
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ACt 3 is way better to farm than act 4. Tons of trash mobs that don't pose much of a threat, plus tons of elites to take down in tons of different environments. Easy access to all of them as well.
michaelius
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Cinder Trail + legacy Natalya = WTF was Blizzard thinking
Probably still worse than archon
I know that feel.
I've got nothing good yet either. And my wizard is extremely poorely geared. On the up side I found a good new build, Blizzard, arcane hydra, and the scoundrel are beastly together.
can probably get a few mil regardless, its probably the only slotted gloves in existence
I'm going to assume gems for it are just regular +Attributes?
Any idea what I should list this for guys? I haven't played in a bit my pricing is all off.
Anyone? Sorry I'm so poor I'd really like to move this thing.
BigBlue1974
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It's part of the new version of the set which is far inferior though yours does have nice rolls so I'm not sure what kind of demand. You can search for the exact stats though to see what others are pricing theirs at. If you want a quick sale, price below what others are selling similar items at.
Nah you can probably be fine with any build at this point.
I finished the game pre-1.0.4 without WW, tank or ranged build and my gear isn't all that great at all.
Haven't had the chance to play the patch that much yet (70% of first Paragon level) since I'm in Europe but seems good so far. Still need to play with my WD. Monk currently.
One of the best things about the patch is that it now plays really nice with my Retina MacBook in Fullscreen Windowed mode. Before it sort of stuck at 1440x900 so the pixels were large even if I set it higher... now the resolution actually is the one I set. And the FPS counter shows anything else than 0.
One of the best things about the patch is that it now plays really nice with my Retina MacBook in Fullscreen Windowed mode. Before it sort of stuck at 1440x900 so the pixels were large even if I set it higher... now the resolution actually is the one I set. And the FPS counter shows anything else than 0.
Backfoggen
Banned
Finally got past Cydaea. No idea if its cause of 1.0.4 but that's where I was stuck beforehand.
michaelius
Banned
Hmm have they nerfed elites on rakkis crossing ? i used to hit 3 or 4 on my way to siegebreaker there and this time 0.
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