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The site says coming 2014.
But by Blizzard standards that can mean it'll come out as late as 2015.
But by Blizzard standards that can mean it'll come out as late as 2015.
The site says coming 2014.
But by Blizzard standards that can mean it'll come out as late as 2015.
I can't wait for more info on this. The stat allocation stuff is by far the most interesting thing I've seen about the expansion. If you could get must have stats from the paragon system instead of being forced to buy gear that has it, a giant chunk of equipment suddenly becomes viable.
Stats are separated into Core: Str, Dex, Int, Vit
Attack: Crit Chance, Crit Damage, Attack Speed, Cooldown Reduction
Defense: Health %, Resist All, Armor, Dodge %, Block Chance %
Utility: Run Speed, Magic Find, Gold Pickup Radius.
About this weapon-
I really want to know what those stars are about. There looks to be three stars after the weapon name, and the Dashing Strike stat has a star by it. And also what they did to it to make it account bound. Did they go over this somewhere yet? This thing needs to come out because its got me excited for the game again in a way I didn't think was possible.
Oh, and as far as other new stuff for stats goes, there is also a new gem, Diamond, that gives
​Weapons: increases damage to Elites (3% @ Flawed)
Helms: reduces cooldown of skills (11% @ Flawed)
Armor: increases All Resistance (10 @ Flawed)
The blue modifier is just ordinary stats.I really want to know what those stars are about. There looks to be three stars after the weapon name, and the Dashing Strike stat has a star by it. And also what they did to it to make it account bound. Did they go over this somewhere yet? This thing needs to come out because its got me excited for the game again in a way I didn't think was possible.
So, I've grown tired of playing my wizard like a melee character. I've been a CM wizard for so long now, getting into melee range and mashing all of my buttons as quick as I can. Chucking nados, dropping meteors, popping diamond skin, explosive blasting, yada yada yada, it's not how I ever envisioned nor wanted to play a wizard. Yes I know it's the fastest most efficient way to farm the highest MP levels right now. I don't care, I'm tired of it.
So I spent the weekend trying out new skills and builds. Not reading about them online, just creating my own builds and synergies between skills and trying to find a playstyle that I enjoy but that also works for me.
I really wanted to make a frost wizard, using lightning to regain AP and throwing blizzards, frost novas, and cold hydras around, and using cold passives to boost it all. It played fun but didn't seem to be all that good even down at MP2. It was great on trash but I had difficulty with most elite packs, and even bosses gave me trouble.
Next I worked on an all arcane build. I loved using arcane orb while leveling, so I decided to try to make a build around that. Used seeker magic missile as my main coupled with arcane nova orb, while running with both magic weapon and familiar up. Arcane hydra is on A while teleport is on S to get me out of hot spots. For passives I have glass cannon, illusionist, an temporal flux. Temporal flux slows down all enemies by 60% whenever I do arcane damage, which all of my skills are doing. Since I have 24% run speed, and I have a good amount of LoH and APoC, this build is actually a lot of fun to play. It allows me to kite very well, the hydra slows mobs down if I need to run a bit, and then I turn and chuck orbs that explode into arcane novas on impact. I literally tear up trash packs, and surprisingly it seems decent against most elite packs too. Teleport with illusionist allows me to handle jailers and wallers fairly easily.
It may not be as effecient as the old standard CM build is, but I sure as hell am enjoying it more. And it's really good in groups, as I get to simply sit back and chuck hydras, orbs, and missiles from a distance.
Narrow choices only emerge due to the need for the tippity top in effecient builds. When people find the most effecient build for a character the other builds fall to the way side. Samething applied to the DH at the start of D3 when Nether Tentacles were broken which basically made every other Hatred using move shit in comparison.
WW Barbs and CM Wiz will most definitely get a nerf. Would not be surprised to see a OWE nerf as well. However we will be seeing way more buffs than nerfs... at least I hope so.
Narrow choices only emerge due to the need for the tippity top in effecient builds. When people find the most effecient build for a character the other builds fall to the way side. Samething applied to the DH at the start of D3 when Nether Tentacles were broken which basically made every other Hatred using move shit in comparison.
WW Barbs and CM Wiz will most definitely get a nerf. Would not be surprised to see a OWE nerf as well. However we will be seeing way more buffs than nerfs... at least I hope so.
Oh, and as far as other new stuff for stats goes, there is also a new gem, Diamond, that gives
​Weapons: increases damage to Elites (3% @ Flawed)
Helms: reduces cooldown of skills (11% @ Flawed)
Armor: increases All Resistance (10 @ Flawed)
11% cd reduction at flawed seems like an awful lot. Even if you gain only, say, 1% per gem grade, we're looking at 20-25% cd reduction for marquise diamonds. Add even more cd reduction with paragon levels and we're looking at some insane numbers here. Not that I'm complaining, but I'm surprised.
There has to be a catch, like i64-70 mobs having high resists to procs or something.
To quote myself from the last page, that stats you can use paragon points on are:
There seems to be a cap of 50 for most if not all of them.
Core stats go up by+ 5 each point.
Attack speed, CDR, and Crit Chance all go up by .2 per point (which means 10% maxed out.) Crit damage is 1% per point.
Resists are +5 per point, health and armor are .5, and dodge is .2.
Movement speed is .5, MF and pick up radius aren't fully known.
The word is that the stars are ranks/levels, and that you can roll higher levels/ranks of the same legendary. Higher rank/level means better stats.
Oh, and as far as other new stuff for stats goes, there is also a new gem, Diamond, that gives
​Weapons: increases damage to Elites (3% @ Flawed)
Helms: reduces cooldown of skills (11% @ Flawed)
Armor: increases All Resistance (10 @ Flawed)
New Diamond gem is looking really good particularly that Helm ability to reduce cooldown on spells. That's a big affix they are rolling out in the expansion.
Nephalem Valor now starts earlier in the game level wise meaning no more reaching lvl60 to experience it. I guess that's a buff for casual players. Every new boss also guarantees a legendary.
Also Enchanting gear makes it account bound. Very smart change.
Making gear account bound on enchantment is awesome too.
AH is still going to be a very powerful tool especially if the crafting/enchanting mats are expensive. Plus of course who knows how valuable those Diamonds are going to be. I think Rubies and Emeralds are still going to be on top.
BTW there is a very interesting Crusader passive. He gets 34 resistance for each type of gem he has on and he gets an additional bonus if he has all 5.
So he can have up to 204 All Res from that passive alone if he uses all 5 gems (if I am reading this correctly).
There's already gold sinks in the game, the crafting is a considerable gold sink as it is especially if you are doing like thousands of crafts. The good thing is that the better crafts now require Demonic Essences which require you to actually play that game. Now THAT is a smart mechanic added to the game. In fact I think more crafting materials should be account bound like Brimstones. Speaking of which we definitely need better Legendary crafting recipes.
There will be a reset but those who are already on top will remain on top. It's a soft reset at best especially since your current Paragon levels will be converted.
Money is not an issue, people who use AH/Bots will always have a shit ton of money. You just need more mechanics like BoA or Demon Essences where actually playing the game is required to get the best of the best. AH is fine for Low to Mid tier stuff though.
Also Ladder is still a must. Curious to know what the Bounty/Exploration features are.
Over abundance of items plus botting plus AH ensures an obscene amount of gold in the economy. Simple gold sinks will not solve that issue.Money is an issue. Maybe not as large an issue as an over abundance of items, but still an issue. IMO, a constant money destructor is needed as well.
Also Ladder is still a must. Curious to know what the Bounty/Exploration features are.
I'm new to GAF and looking to expand my D3 friends list. I have a 61PL WD running a 0 CD sacrifice zombie dog build.
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all that leak noise
STUFF
Hey guys I was on a Diablo 3 podcast discussing expansion hype.
Enjoy, let me know what you think.
http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-podcast-107-d3ros-gamescom-review-part-1
I was listening to this last night, and greatly enjoyed it, except for two things....
a. The part with the wow-Bashing was kinda frustrating. Especially when it comes to expansion gear-upgrade process: those who had great gear (and that means anyone in D3 who is capable of surviving MP6+) did not upgrade their epics to the first blue, and usually only threw away the items around the middle/late parts of the levelling content. And pandas are cool
b. What is up with Flux and his negativity regarding Reaper of souls launch? Yeah, people tend to forget that "this is blizzard", yet, it seriously seems like RoS is already in a very advanced state, they are not launching a beta for figuring out if the lv1-14 content is great or not. They have a known system, they play the game, they pretty much have the content from the looks of it - there is no way in hell that the game slips to 2015, and I would be shaking my head if this becomes a 2014 fall game either - because that is a timeslot for the new Wow exp , if not a bit sooner.
Excited to get home from work and play my Barb. Forgot about maintenance -.-
I'll giveaway the Echoing and Skorn if anyone here wants it. Also was listening to Jrmints podcast pretty good so far but I'm headed to bed I'll wakeup and Diablo tomorrow morning and stream and listen to it again. Everyone should join.
I'll giveaway the Echoing and Skorn if anyone here wants it. Also was listening to Jrmints podcast pretty good so far but I'm headed to bed I'll wakeup and Diablo tomorrow morning and stream and listen to it again. Everyone should join.
If I had that 1h mace I almost think I would reinstall. Would fix all my Monk issues.