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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls |OT| Once again! The Sound of HAMMERS is GLORIOUS!
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TurtleSnatcher
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So the other day ... there was no way in hell I could solo Malthael on Torment 1. I would die within the first 20 seconds of the fight.
Tonight I got this. May not be special for many but man.. It feels good. So much better and easier now.
Also my Witch Doctor looks amazing. Like a transformer or something.
I've really upped my DPS on my pets. My fetishes/sycophants are now hitting for about 1.5 - 1.8 million damage. Torment 1 has become really easy now.
Profile:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/PezRadar-1470/hero/41161133
I mainly spec'd a ton of my gear to have +Physical Damage and/or +Firebat Damage. My Fetish/Sycophants are my main attack along with Vampire bats. I use Piranhado to suck them all in and can vamp bat them down in seconds while spawning a ton of pets. I also Spirit Barrage for the DPS boost
My Damage is actually at 527k. Not sure why it shows less on the profile page but most of that stuff can be boosted if I want but I rather not lose my +35% Physical and +20-30% on Firebats that I have on some of those items. (Also profile isn't showing some of them as they were done by the Mystic and the profile doesn't show the enchant stuff)
Tonight I got this. May not be special for many but man.. It feels good. So much better and easier now.
Also my Witch Doctor looks amazing. Like a transformer or something.
I've really upped my DPS on my pets. My fetishes/sycophants are now hitting for about 1.5 - 1.8 million damage. Torment 1 has become really easy now.
Profile:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/PezRadar-1470/hero/41161133
I mainly spec'd a ton of my gear to have +Physical Damage and/or +Firebat Damage. My Fetish/Sycophants are my main attack along with Vampire bats. I use Piranhado to suck them all in and can vamp bat them down in seconds while spawning a ton of pets. I also Spirit Barrage for the DPS boost
My Damage is actually at 527k. Not sure why it shows less on the profile page but most of that stuff can be boosted if I want but I rather not lose my +35% Physical and +20-30% on Firebats that I have on some of those items. (Also profile isn't showing some of them as they were done by the Mystic and the profile doesn't show the enchant stuff)
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
Wizard got Black Hole - sucks enemies in and can be runed to suck in (and remove) elite affixes (arcane beams, waller walls, etc)
Demon Hunter got Vengeance - for a short period of time you shoot off extra projectiles (kind of like the "Options" in Gradius)
Monk got Epiphany - every attack teleports you to your target and you get some healing and a lot of spirit gen..basically makes spenders almost free. Lasts for a short time.
Barb got Avalanche - call down a bunch of rocks from the sky
Witch Doctor got Piranhas - summon a pool of piranhas. Enemies hit by it take increased damage for X seconds.
They also added several passives for each class. Check the game guide for more info.
Arrogant Bastard
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Why is this difficult to understand?
Guys, listen up. This is a loot based based game, ok? You are not supposed to rain the best items from the sky during the first week or month of gameplay. I play this game a mega ton, we are talking on avg. well over ten hours a day right now (I do not want to hear judgment calls, mind your own business). The more you play the more items you are going to get, the more items you get the greater the chance that they are going to be good items. It isn't a complex formula.
Blood shards are there as a way to try for items that you are just not getting through normal drops. Expect to spend 250 shards before you find something remotely usable. Understand that this varies based on how good your gear is. If you have good gear, expect to spend 500, 1000, etc.
Yoshi is right, you can and will get good items from gambling; but, if you go in with 25 shards expecting to pull a solid item you are kidding yourself. Luckily you can re-roll stats, you need to start thinking outside the box. Look at the items, look at what can be re-rolled, profit.
I've pulled 4+ upgrades from the shard vendor today alone.
940k dmg, 9m toughness, buffed of course. Melting T1 like butter.
Kssio_Aug
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How hard it is to drop the higher jewel plans?
I already crafted some decent stuff, and am with a level 70 azurewrath with 115% crit emerald. Still, my DPS is only 350k (when buffed) and my toughness not higher than 2.5m. Am I doing something wrong, or it just takes more time to get nice geared?
I already crafted some decent stuff, and am with a level 70 azurewrath with 115% crit emerald. Still, my DPS is only 350k (when buffed) and my toughness not higher than 2.5m. Am I doing something wrong, or it just takes more time to get nice geared?
I did not notice that any of the major characters, townspeople or questgivers shared voice actors.
Not sure about the books.
So who did they reuse?
Why would there be accents?
MegaKungFuRadio
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Are you playing hardcore? 13M toughness is insane. I have no trouble surviving T1 with 5-7M and 1M DPS.
Much appreciated.
It's not. Gamers are not the same as they were when Diablo II came out. They want more and they want it now.
Part of that is there is an increase in age for your average gamer. These gamers have less time to spend playing and want gratification in the limited time that they have to play the game.
The other part is game design in general. We're so saturated in games now with smartphones, tablets, handhelds, home consoles, and PCs. As more and more games compete for the attention of gamers, they resort to almost gambling-like psychology to hook their gamers. Push a button, get a shiny. When they don't get that shiny, they go somewhere else to get it.
The generation has changed. Look at WoW and what it's become. Blizzard is guilty of this design decision as well.
I DO agree with what you're saying, though. I hadn't seen a single legendary in my entire Diablo III career until 2.0 and then I got 3 in one session. People seem to like it though.
Arrogant Bastard
Banned
Once you are level 70 you should not see any items drop that are not level 70.
MegaKungFuRadio
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Funny how paragon points turned movement speed on items from one of the most exciting stats to one of the worst.
Laieon
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If you watch the "Making of" DVD/BluRay they say that originally you were going to fight Imperius this expansion (along with Malthiel), but they couldn't really find a way to make that work.
Impeccable
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I generally find one level below what I solo is a good level.
So I do Torment 1, in a co-op game I'd probably go Master.
davidsaurus
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Yes. Normal is a joke.
Kssio_Aug
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Normal is meant to be easy. I wouldnt recommend it if not to farm items. If its easy you can rise the difficulty, till the point you get the right balance. However I dont know how it may be for low level, 0 paragon, and no high gems, but if its too easy right now, do not worry to rise it.
Hey_Blinkin
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Anyone else having trouble soloing in torment? My Wizard is currently at 500k damage and 5M Toughness and is taking forever to kill elites and bosses. Just took me like ten minutes to kill a rift boss at Torment 1.
This is the third class i've taken to 70 and it seems like Torment is much tougher than it was at 60. Not that i'm complaining, i'll just need to farm more legendary items in Normal i guess.
This is the third class i've taken to 70 and it seems like Torment is much tougher than it was at 60. Not that i'm complaining, i'll just need to farm more legendary items in Normal i guess.
Yeah, we're pretty much flying through mobs. Not even bosses give us any challenge. I've only died once in a huge pack of elites and they activated those purple lasers.
Does loot get any better on higher difficulties?
Gave this a shot and it's pretty decent, I haven't got much +physical gear, but with my Mask of Jeram my Sycophants crit for around 1.3m.
Kssio_Aug
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The loot get better (higher chance to drop stuff), but its more effective to loot killing fast at lower difficulty than loot killing slower at higher difficulty. For experience however, you should play where you can still kill fast, but at a more challangening level.
And you dont have to worry about farming loot right now, the gear you drop along the quests and some crafts at the blacksmith will be enough by now.
That's pretty much what I'm doing now, making some crafted gear and salvaging stuff I don't need/use.
TurtleSnatcher
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Yeah .. Loving the build. Was struggling to find something when I first started but switched to Piranhado today and now I'm in love
Yeah me and my girlfriend have been playing since tuesday for 2-3 hours each evenings, and we just killed the 2nd boss
Adria
TurtleSnatcher
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Yeah .. Loving the build. Was struggling to find something when I first started but switched to Piranhado today and now I'm in love
Also I never have issues with Mana due to Spirit Walk and of course regenerating 1% per kill which I can get 10-20+ sometimes per kill with Piranhado and Vamp bats killing the small cluster or my pets killing guys.
PuppetSlave
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Call me crazy but wouldn't it be better to have a emerald in your weapon? You have around 1/4 critical chance at least.
TurtleSnatcher
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I will call you crazy.
Critical Hit Damage on pets are capped at 50%. Anything above it is excessive and a waste so Pet Builds for Witch Doctors use Ruby's instead.
PuppetSlave
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Oh did not know that. If you think about it with all the pets it would be pretty major OP if it was not so.
Yes. I found two Butcher's Carvers and they were both at different ilvl.
The RNG gods really wanted me to test out a few things today. I got FOUR one-handed legs over a few hours. Three of them are Crusader-only.
1 of them) Removes resource cost of Blessed Shield, and has Wrath regen. I was testing this out with Blessed Shield as left click and Heaven't Fury (with the rune that removes cooldown in exchange for a 40 Wrath cost). It was fun, but the damage on those two doesn't seem nearly as good as it should be considering they're both spenders.
2nd one) Gives you an 18% movespeed buff for two sec every time you cast Justice. It'd be neat if you're just flying through things to get them done as fast as possible, but I can't see how it'd be that useful for combat.
3rd one) was not Crusader-only. It was King Leoric's Mace, and every 10 kills you release a large poison nova that does 1000% weapon dmg. The nova is amazing, but it seemed like it didn't fit my playstyle. I have trouble killing single targets/bosses, not waves of enemies.
4th one) gives Blessed Hammer the Dominion rune (causes hammers to orbit you instead of the place you cast it), which is cool because you can then add an additional rune, like Endless, ice hammers or flaming hammers. I don't really like "hammerdins" but this is my favorite of the weapons that dropped for me today.
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I have come to the conclusion that Iron Maiden (passive) + Iron Skin (reflective skin) is the best way to take down elites. I can pop Iron Skin whenever I'm near a constant damage source, like poison ground, molten ground, desolated ground, etc. and elite packs drop like flies. Works on some bosses too, like the Larder, who I can kill in about 10 seconds on Torment 1.
Doesn't seem to work on Malthael's clouds, though. I was hoping I could use it to farm Malth for Reaper's Fear, but he takes like 6 minutes per run on T1, so it's just not happening.
1 of them) Removes resource cost of Blessed Shield, and has Wrath regen. I was testing this out with Blessed Shield as left click and Heaven't Fury (with the rune that removes cooldown in exchange for a 40 Wrath cost). It was fun, but the damage on those two doesn't seem nearly as good as it should be considering they're both spenders.
2nd one) Gives you an 18% movespeed buff for two sec every time you cast Justice. It'd be neat if you're just flying through things to get them done as fast as possible, but I can't see how it'd be that useful for combat.
3rd one) was not Crusader-only. It was King Leoric's Mace, and every 10 kills you release a large poison nova that does 1000% weapon dmg. The nova is amazing, but it seemed like it didn't fit my playstyle. I have trouble killing single targets/bosses, not waves of enemies.
4th one) gives Blessed Hammer the Dominion rune (causes hammers to orbit you instead of the place you cast it), which is cool because you can then add an additional rune, like Endless, ice hammers or flaming hammers. I don't really like "hammerdins" but this is my favorite of the weapons that dropped for me today.
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I have come to the conclusion that Iron Maiden (passive) + Iron Skin (reflective skin) is the best way to take down elites. I can pop Iron Skin whenever I'm near a constant damage source, like poison ground, molten ground, desolated ground, etc. and elite packs drop like flies. Works on some bosses too, like the Larder, who I can kill in about 10 seconds on Torment 1.
Doesn't seem to work on Malthael's clouds, though. I was hoping I could use it to farm Malth for Reaper's Fear, but he takes like 6 minutes per run on T1, so it's just not happening.
JayHayabusa
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Been reading this thread daily. Casual Diablo player in that I don't read up much on builds and such. Can I get some advice/tips on how to improve my DH? Can handle Torment IV easy up until Act V.
Thinking of finishing act V solo (I'm at the last chapter) then tackling Adventure mode for better loot, since my current equips have been there for weeks.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/JayHayabusa-2672/hero/40811808
Thinking of finishing act V solo (I'm at the last chapter) then tackling Adventure mode for better loot, since my current equips have been there for weeks.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/JayHayabusa-2672/hero/40811808
While I was playing last night I remember unlocking the Templar.
I completely agree with your last point. Finding fat loot and then trading it, giving it or selling it away is at the very heart of Diablo.
They unlock as you level up.
Oppo
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This game really missed it's chance on PS4, for me. It's just fucking late as .. yes, hell.
I was really excited to play this as I quite like the console controls but Blizzard has yet again managed to extinguish all hype by just being fucking SLOW. I can't believe how slow they are sometimes.
Not that they care about me, they've made their sales. But goddamn guys. Pick up the pace.
I was really excited to play this as I quite like the console controls but Blizzard has yet again managed to extinguish all hype by just being fucking SLOW. I can't believe how slow they are sometimes.
Not that they care about me, they've made their sales. But goddamn guys. Pick up the pace.
Dinged 70 last night. Master is about the max I can handle. Killed the first boss Uzreil no problem (I imagine this is much easier as a ranged class).
The zones are so damn big though. I usually get 30min to an hour to play and I can't even get through a single zone in that time frame. I end up replaying zones over and over. I'm just in the marshes and already getting paragon levels again lol.
Gotten a few gear upgrades but still only around 180k dps and 1.5mil toughness. Maxed the jeweler. What the heck are these costs? 200k to make an imperial? 200k to remove two imperials from armor? ouch man.
The zones are so damn big though. I usually get 30min to an hour to play and I can't even get through a single zone in that time frame. I end up replaying zones over and over. I'm just in the marshes and already getting paragon levels again lol.
Gotten a few gear upgrades but still only around 180k dps and 1.5mil toughness. Maxed the jeweler. What the heck are these costs? 200k to make an imperial? 200k to remove two imperials from armor? ouch man.
Frankly, what they did doesn't work either ..... xD
Got that yesterday and was able to play through ActV .... and boy was that BAD from beginning to end ....
Only thing I kind of appreciated was the first big bossfight that was finally something else than pure faceroll.
I'm not one to be particularly picky about writing (Hell I can play Skyrim and not be bothered with it ...) but this expansion really is something else.
Imperius is just the worst character ever written, Malthael is a forgettable villain at best, Tyrael's only reason to still be here is to be the guy that gives quests.
So with Vanilla they served us a top down view Devil May Cry, in this expansion, they even took a page from the God of War book as Icing on the cake (
the fight on the battering ram .... really ??!?
Overall it really feels like a big DLC more than a real expansion pack, and boy this ending .... not even a proper cinematic and more cliche than ever .....
I'll stick with it a bit longer to test out the Templar and Adventure mode a bit deeper but really without any enthusiasm.
Speaking of Adventure mode I did a bounty run just to see what that was about, and it really feels like " we know our story sucks, let's skip it altogether " mode.
As we saw with vanilla it's not.
Stephen_drewz
Member
I just want to say, this game is fantastic!
If I take my DH into Adventure mode for a bit to gain some levels will I lose my place in Act V? I assume not, but I don't know anything about Adventure mode yet.
If I take my DH into Adventure mode for a bit to gain some levels will I lose my place in Act V? I assume not, but I don't know anything about Adventure mode yet.
So I took my WD to level 70 first. I almost died on hard mode fighting Malthael, was pretty damn scary (I only play HC) but it was awesome. Piranhado is freaking awesome btw. Working on my Crusader now.
What are your thoughts for best combination of passives for level 70 crusader?
What are your thoughts for best combination of passives for level 70 crusader?
The answer would be no, but you can't access Adventure mode until you beat Act V once.
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