Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
You misunderstand, he means use blood shards to gamble on the slot you need an upgrade the most.
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You misunderstand, he means use blood shards to gamble on the slot you need an upgrade the most.
prodystopian
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haha no, sorry. You can reroll a stat at the mystic (costs vary, usually crafting staff and death's breath). I meant gamble with blood shards for whatever your worst slot is (belt, helm, etc).
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
I originally really liked this idea but the more I think about it the more hilariously exploitable it sounds.
Put on all your toughness gear and movespeed / CC skills and set the game to t6 and do chest runs for high rolled yellows.
Sure it goes along with the whole "play your way" ideology, but that sounds kinda lame. Especially since it sounds good to do.
I think T6 is fine as at is, I really get the feeling that blizzard balanced the game around most players hitting T3 as end game.
Ricerocket
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Started with 440k dps 2.6m toughness on my DH two days ago which I made just for quick farming act 2 normal for gloves of worship.
Today he's at 857k dps 5.8m toughness and no gloves of worship...
And afterwards on to act 3 for Prides Fall. Ahhh it's actually nice having specific things to farm rather than just completely random.
Today he's at 857k dps 5.8m toughness and no gloves of worship...
And afterwards on to act 3 for Prides Fall. Ahhh it's actually nice having specific things to farm rather than just completely random.flashbacks to launch Inferno Demon Hunters farming weapon racks
Fenderputty
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Kssio_Aug
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no. i don't know what he is talking about. blood shards are for kadala only.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Yeah the first thing I thought of was actually jar farming in act 1 so I could buy a armor with all resist off the AH since I actually couldn't kill anything fresh out of hell into inferno.
God release diablo 3 was a horrifying place filled with exploits since the game on inferno was borderline unplayable.
When people found out about way point glitching and having tyrael kill things for you in act 4 I was so happy!
D
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I like it.
By watching things on the other monitor instead of watching the game.
It's mostly because farming all the "hey, cross three zones and search this entire place for one dude it'll be cool" bounties take so much time on my Crusader that it's just not worth it when I need to open somewhere around an infinite number of bags to get the drops I want with the stats I want.
I will get that goddamn -1 Set Ring as a trifecta roll so I can abuse all the crafted sets.
Tip of the day:
Change your screenshot hot key to Ctrl+PrintScreen and you'll get the item affix ranges on your screenshots more easily. (still need to ctrl-click linked items, but it helps a ton for mousing over stuff and taking a screenshot without having to send the link to yourself)
Change your screenshot hot key to Ctrl+PrintScreen and you'll get the item affix ranges on your screenshots more easily. (still need to ctrl-click linked items, but it helps a ton for mousing over stuff and taking a screenshot without having to send the link to yourself)
I have a firebird's talons with 750int, 8.5 crit, 49% cd, and 7IAS =p
So I heard that the T6 Arreat Core Chest Runs were giving lots of legendarys, and decided to try it out, and it was pretty crazy, this is my haul for about three hours of runs.
Elaborate, I would like to know more.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Listen here kid, you're going to spill the beans and tell me exactly what you're doing so I can do it before it gets nerfed.
SPILL
THE
BEANS
please
ezekielpacman
Member
FWIW I got 2 pieces of my set (Marauders) in 24hrs so my opinion of the drop rates is much better. As always, RNG can be a bitter sweet experience.
Mother of god. I know what I'm doing when I get home
Pretty sure you're lying. They don't exist~!
Listen here kid, you're going to spill the beans and tell me exactly what you're doing so I can do it before it gets nerfed.
SPILL
THE
BEANS
please
T6 Core of Arreat, pop all the chests, reset game. It's new age weapon rack farming.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
hellmonkey
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Listen here kid, you're going to spill the beans and tell me exactly what you're doing so I can do it before it gets nerfed.
SPILL
THE
BEANS
please
1. Set game diff to T6
2. Zone to Core of Arreat
3. ???
4. Profit
??? in this case is ignoring the enemies and only opening chests and moving as fast as you. Clear the Core, exit game, rinse repeat. The core is pretty small, so I would imagine this would get boring pretty damn quick.
Nah the chests are plentiful. I'd just do the area before Azmo.
Kssio_Aug
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Worth noting this is part of the reason why Rifts don't lootsplosion Legendaries all that often: Less breakables / chests typically and those have the really good drop chances.
Yeah, it's just an extension of how the loot system works really.
Yeah, it's just an extension of how the loot system works really.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Awesome, will pile on all my toughness gear and gotta go fast skills and do this.
Yup, definitely not my thing.
Meanwhile, slaughtering things in T4 rifts gives about 3 or 4 in the same time frame. Reward in this game is so badly messed up.
Oh well, time for me to bite the bullet and try those out for a while.
The trick is to have a tanky, high speed character and forget about DPS. Killing anything is just a waste of time.
On D2JSP, people are doing the runs (as a tanky DH for example) and people pay to join, sit there, watch the map for legendary pings and port to the runner to get the items.
Uni on Everything!
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So this totally happened... was super happy that a Shard of Hate dropped as I'd been reading about how awesome the proc was. Tried 5 times to roll a socket and failed, then maybe about 15 minutes later while doing a bounty the Thunderfury totally dropped from a random chest in a cellar in Act 2. RNG gonna RNG, but I'm super happy right now!
Oh man. That's some Guildwars 1 Cathedral of Flames shit right there.
I don't really get the farming runs and stuff. It's like, you just do some mindless repetitive thing over and over again like Core of Arreat runs, or Manglemaw or whatever to get gear. So then you get gear - now what? I just play the game in a way that's fun to me (campaign, bounty, rifts, whatever) and then as I get gear it makes playing the game more fun - cool! I got a new legendary that adds 18% to XYZ damage I'll have to try that build!
To me just doing mindless shit for better loot isn't fun, and it also means that you won't have fun when you have all the best gear because then you won't have any reason to play the game anymore.
I don't know, certainly to each his own, I just don't get it.
To me just doing mindless shit for better loot isn't fun, and it also means that you won't have fun when you have all the best gear because then you won't have any reason to play the game anymore.
I don't know, certainly to each his own, I just don't get it.
Kssio_Aug
Member
Probably I cant do it with my Wiz with 4,5m toughness then! T-T
Maybe if I set the teleport skill?
sotodefonk
Member
I have 5 mill toughness and have a hard time in T3, T4 would be impossible unless you run clones with point of no return domes
I might try to swap out DS for Epiphany fire rune. Use combination strike with WOHF and Crippling wave fire rune that is like 200% fire damage and see how it is spamming crippling wave for 15 seconds straight. Epiphany with LTK is crazy.
So this totally happened...
So Jelly..I'd do a backflip with one of them. Shard if hate is incredible. Heard it is nuts running whirlwind Barb.
Kssio_Aug
Member
Damn! T-T
I will see tonight if the clan would like to do that run, probably with 3-4 together it becomes a little bit easier. I hope so!
prodystopian
Member
Epiphany with Tempest Rush is even crazier. I can't imagine a full CDR stack with those two running.
Begaria
Member
Man, Reaper of Souls is a blast. My Barbarian thus far:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Begaria-1359/hero/6395374
For some weird reason, the Armory hasn't updated the rerolls I've done on some of that gear. My character sheet Damage is like 498k, not the 466k shown on the Armory.
About a 1/3 of my gear I'm still working on including my shoulders, my rings, my leggings (Depth Diggers currently, which are just "ok") and my weapon. However, I think I'm honestly good on the rest of my gear (give or take the helm) for the build that I'm working on. Here's the neat stuff I've found thus far:
My quadfecta offensive gloves (super good rolls, nailed the 10% crit chance on my first reroll):
This super neat Barb belt:
At first the Belt might not seem great to the untrained eye, but this belt basically makes War Cry into two skills and two runes: it combines Sprint/Forced March right into War Cry. So my War Cry (with the rune I've got) does this: 20% armor, +10% life, +8200 life regen, 1% maximum life regen, +38% movement speed for 10 seconds to everyone in the group. It's ridiculously versatile. Add in the cooldown reduction I'm pumping paragon points into, and I currently only have to wait "8 seconds" (20 cooldown - 10 how long it lasts - 2 cooldown reduction = 8 seconds) to keep the speed up.
My helm:
All around good stats. Super high str/vit, max AR on it, and rerolled to 5% crit chance on my third try. I could keep rerolling to 6% crit chance, which I'll do, eventually when I get a stockpile of Forgotten Souls. I'm sure there are neater helmets in the game, but I haven't checked out the Game Guide too carefully yet.
Oh man, my awesome chest piece!
Cindercoat used to fucking suuuuuuuuuck. Let me tell you how awesome it is now. Not only did I get this on my first time killing Mathael, but this damn thing is everything I'm centering my build around. +% fire famage, and +%reduction in fire skills is amazing. The Str/Vit and rerolled to triple sockets is icing on the cake. Everything I'm chasing now is +fire damage and +skill damage on the skills I've put fire damage to.
This leads into my amulet that I found:
Awww yeah. The amulet actually came with the +fire damage, the attack speed, the crit damage, and the crit hit chance. Amazing freakin' rolls. Now, I could've rerolled the fire damage to more fire damage or +str, but I felt the offensive capabilities of this amulet were already off the charts, and rerolled the rather useless +monster experience into some resistances. I am super happy with this amulet.
By far the neatest thing I've found so far are these boots though:
GAME. FREAKING. CHANGING. If you don't have these boots (drops from Act 2 Bounty Bag), get them. Like, right now. Being able to just walk right through enemies is the most ridiculous thing in the game. No longer am I ever trapped by anything. I can just walk right into packs and rend everything for massive life regen (bloodthirst rune). Wallers do almost nothing now, if I have a way out. Getting surrounded means nothing since I can just walk right out of the pack. These are my "forever" boots. That affix is just...oh man, it's just so god damn good.
Reaper of Souls is amazing.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Begaria-1359/hero/6395374
For some weird reason, the Armory hasn't updated the rerolls I've done on some of that gear. My character sheet Damage is like 498k, not the 466k shown on the Armory.
About a 1/3 of my gear I'm still working on including my shoulders, my rings, my leggings (Depth Diggers currently, which are just "ok") and my weapon. However, I think I'm honestly good on the rest of my gear (give or take the helm) for the build that I'm working on. Here's the neat stuff I've found thus far:
My quadfecta offensive gloves (super good rolls, nailed the 10% crit chance on my first reroll):
This super neat Barb belt:
At first the Belt might not seem great to the untrained eye, but this belt basically makes War Cry into two skills and two runes: it combines Sprint/Forced March right into War Cry. So my War Cry (with the rune I've got) does this: 20% armor, +10% life, +8200 life regen, 1% maximum life regen, +38% movement speed for 10 seconds to everyone in the group. It's ridiculously versatile. Add in the cooldown reduction I'm pumping paragon points into, and I currently only have to wait "8 seconds" (20 cooldown - 10 how long it lasts - 2 cooldown reduction = 8 seconds) to keep the speed up.
My helm:
All around good stats. Super high str/vit, max AR on it, and rerolled to 5% crit chance on my third try. I could keep rerolling to 6% crit chance, which I'll do, eventually when I get a stockpile of Forgotten Souls. I'm sure there are neater helmets in the game, but I haven't checked out the Game Guide too carefully yet.
Oh man, my awesome chest piece!
Cindercoat used to fucking suuuuuuuuuck. Let me tell you how awesome it is now. Not only did I get this on my first time killing Mathael, but this damn thing is everything I'm centering my build around. +% fire famage, and +%reduction in fire skills is amazing. The Str/Vit and rerolled to triple sockets is icing on the cake. Everything I'm chasing now is +fire damage and +skill damage on the skills I've put fire damage to.
This leads into my amulet that I found:
Awww yeah. The amulet actually came with the +fire damage, the attack speed, the crit damage, and the crit hit chance. Amazing freakin' rolls. Now, I could've rerolled the fire damage to more fire damage or +str, but I felt the offensive capabilities of this amulet were already off the charts, and rerolled the rather useless +monster experience into some resistances. I am super happy with this amulet.
By far the neatest thing I've found so far are these boots though:
GAME. FREAKING. CHANGING. If you don't have these boots (drops from Act 2 Bounty Bag), get them. Like, right now. Being able to just walk right through enemies is the most ridiculous thing in the game. No longer am I ever trapped by anything. I can just walk right into packs and rend everything for massive life regen (bloodthirst rune). Wallers do almost nothing now, if I have a way out. Getting surrounded means nothing since I can just walk right out of the pack. These are my "forever" boots. That affix is just...oh man, it's just so god damn good.
Reaper of Souls is amazing.
Arrogant Bastard
Banned
You knew shit like this was going to happen when they shifted loot away from mob's to chests/breakables. It was a shit decision then and its a shit decision now. Guess what is going to happen? They are going to nerf chests and breakables and not revert the change. Overall we are just going to get less loot.
Side note, did this for 30mins got one leg. RNG is RNG, doesn't change the fact that they are going to adjust this.
Wafflecakes
Member
Came back to the game after a long time.
What do I get from Neph Rifts that I don't get just playing normal (besides heart palpitations)?
I have like a hundred of the keystones, but I see no reason to use them.
What do I get from Neph Rifts that I don't get just playing normal (besides heart palpitations)?
I have like a hundred of the keystones, but I see no reason to use them.
Well I got my binge playing in this weekend. Rolled through torment 2 Act V no problem and have all level 70 gear plus some legendaries and set items. Pretty much back to a grind for legendaries and crafting materials so I can use the mystic to get my critical abilities up.
Did three acts worth of bounties and a rift run. The rift run was actually great gameplay fighting multiple elite mobs and champions at once.
Time to go back to Infamous. I'll come back in a few months for another binge, but it's just the same old Diablo III. (It was still worth the purchase, got a good 15 hours in before getting maxed out as far as I care to be)
Did three acts worth of bounties and a rift run. The rift run was actually great gameplay fighting multiple elite mobs and champions at once.
Time to go back to Infamous. I'll come back in a few months for another binge, but it's just the same old Diablo III. (It was still worth the purchase, got a good 15 hours in before getting maxed out as far as I care to be)
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I just hope the don't nerf cursed chests. Those should always feel rewarding, even though I'm pretty sure come to think of it I've only seen 1 legendary out of them.
ACt 2 bounty bag you say?
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