I'm not surprised that they have lowered exp gain. I was thinking in the last few weeks that it's just going way too quickly and when the expansion comes out people are going to get their fill too fast. It seems lame to just run the same miniature dungeon over and over again to level up and it would be a shame that so many people will get their Crusaders to 60 in no-time and never have developed any affinity for certain skills because there won't be any reason to test everything out as you level.
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I just can't be into the game right now. I play my 60's and I'm like "what am I doing when they will go to 70 so soon?" and I play my barb and I'm like "what am I doing, I won't touch this when I can play crusader"
lol I just want crusader and adventure mode
lol I just want crusader and adventure mode
All of your gear is awful.
I realized this as I did my spring cleaning from my mules inventories yesterday. I had packed away tons of rares and legendaries that were just "Far to good to sell off". Yesterday I ended up melting and vendoring them all, because over time they have drastically changed the stats on items much higher and gave much better affixes.
Your damage and survivability is going to be awful until you get every slot up to what is now the new general baseline. The good news is, drops don't suck anymore, so just downgrade to Master difficulty or even lower, and kill stuff that you can. You will get tons of upgrades and be in Torment 1 in no time. You will also be gaining paragons in the interim allowing you to spend those points on passive bonuses that you want.
toastyToast
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It's the 24th in most places and according to this
It's 5am AEST on the 25th. That's 2 hours ahead of Korea
That's how I feel. Running CotA over and over looks like the most mind numbing activity I could think of in a game, I feel sorry for people actually doing it for hours on end.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
EU or US?
TatteredHat
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Apparently they blanket-nerfed white mob exp by 30-70%, that's a little bit much.
That would be true if you are playing on Asia region which I don't.
I'm only playing on American region because I want to have access to Australian server so I would have to wait til it's 3pm AEDT here.
So nerfing CotA results in not nerfing CotA.....wonderful.
They didn't care about CoTA specifically, what they want is to make sure everything is worse than bounties and rifts. It's plain and simple greed.
Nah. I got like 5 legendaries and 2 set items in the span of 2 hours tonight.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
So they really nerfed XP hard? Everyone's already like paragon 100... how the heck are you supposed to catch up?
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Yeah it was ROYALLY fucked. The issue here is that they wanted to stop CotA and ruined the experience for everyone playing, including the ones that played the story mode...
Robin64
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Reddit commenters are pretty unhappy, and have lots of examples of things. Yeah, the nerf was more than just areas like CotA and without the 100% on, things are going be slow as shit.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/211wnd/looks_like_the_experience_hotfix_is_live_what/
Edit: Fuck, I was taking my 45 DH through Arreat Crater on Hard, that's where she is in the story, and even with the 100% exp buff and a bonus exp altar, most stuff was not moving my exp bar even slightly. Fucking SHIT.
fluffydelusions
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Been playing infamous ss all day yesterday...when did this happen?
Visiting my parents at the moment and brought my Macbook Air. Installed the game (which took hours with the slow internet here) and it worked fine when the install was "optimal". Now that I finished the complete install I am not able to connect to a game. Can get inside the menu, select my character and then nothing happens.
So frustrating...
So frustrating...
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It just seems so silly to punish everyone because people are hitting high paragon levels via daily grinding of CotA. Everything's going to be worse once this buff disappears.
The nerf to exp gain doesn't appear to be quite as clear-cut as some may think.
Going by the Reddit thread linked, and a few other opinions on the Blizz forums, you have 2 factors - exp gains being cut across the board and the community buff not being applied at level 60.
Simple example done straight in line with the discussed values - say at level 60 a zombie gives 100 experience, as baseline. If we had a community buff of 100% more, you'd get 200 from him. Now if you nerf his baseline exp by, say, 40%, you get 60. But if the buff isn't applying, you only get *those* 60. Compared to 200, that obviously feels like a nerf of more than two thirds - in line with the 70% reduction people post.
So basically while exp gains have been nerfed, it's not *as* bad as it appears... unless the buff not triggering at 60 is intended, in which case shitfire.
But for a rough estimate, whatever we did yesterday - especially that run I was in with Yoshi with - will now take over three times as long. And once RoS hits, unless anything changes, we'll be stuck with this. A rough third of the exp rate we had yesterday.
Going by the Reddit thread linked, and a few other opinions on the Blizz forums, you have 2 factors - exp gains being cut across the board and the community buff not being applied at level 60.
Simple example done straight in line with the discussed values - say at level 60 a zombie gives 100 experience, as baseline. If we had a community buff of 100% more, you'd get 200 from him. Now if you nerf his baseline exp by, say, 40%, you get 60. But if the buff isn't applying, you only get *those* 60. Compared to 200, that obviously feels like a nerf of more than two thirds - in line with the 70% reduction people post.
So basically while exp gains have been nerfed, it's not *as* bad as it appears... unless the buff not triggering at 60 is intended, in which case shitfire.
But for a rough estimate, whatever we did yesterday - especially that run I was in with Yoshi with - will now take over three times as long. And once RoS hits, unless anything changes, we'll be stuck with this. A rough third of the exp rate we had yesterday.
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toastyToast
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Oh, god damn it!
3pm it is.
I don't know my eyes didn't scan to the bottom and see AEDT or that it was referring to the server regions rather than simply geographically. I was blinded by
What now?
TatteredHat
Member
Seriously, while CotA runs were a bit too efficient the rest of the game was perfectly fine. Now it's all fucked, apparently Blizzard does not test these fixes before implementing them.
So cota runs are crap now? I just got back to d3 and first day doing it... Cry
toastyToast
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Hmm
That's not so bad. The buff icon still being there is BS. Especially since it doesn't work and now reads 100% bonus lol
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Really? No one is seriously leveling up right now. 80000000000% nerf experience across the board
Finally more grind more hours!
TatteredHat
Member
Everything is crap now, not just cota runs.
Meanwhile, at Blizzard...
"Please welcome our newest Diablo III staff member!"
Fuck that loser
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
It's DEAD. EXP in general is DEAD.
Robin64
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RIP in peace EXP.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Every time you run CotA, your Crusader preemptively loses a level.
UnluckyKate
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Im confused. No more xp bonus? Not even 50% ?
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