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Is there any benefit to resetting quests?

Honestly feels like you can get legendary items faster if you just went the normal route of farming in specific areas as opposed to going through the whole game again for 1 legendary guarantee at Diablo.

Right?
 

Sykotik

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Is there any benefit to resetting quests?

Honestly feels like you can get legendary items faster if you just went the normal route of farming in specific areas as opposed to going through the whole game again for 1 legendary guarantee at Diablo.

Right?

It also makes it so all boss monsters drop more items, which could yield more legendaries if you're lucky.
 

epmode

Member
So I know they wanted to make some gear only attainable in Torment or higher. Was there some sort of note about legendaries not dropping at all in normal? I've been grinding Cave of Frost for a couple of hours now and I've seen nada. Seems really odd to have gone this long before today and not see - something - drop.

I dunno, I was in the same place on Normal today and I got two legendaries and a set piece ring. I'm particularly happy with this: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/skycutter
 

Granadier

Is currently on Stage 1: Denial regarding the service game future
We are so close.

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Can someone please explain the use of "Spectral Hound Minion & Aesthetic Artifacts" that is part of the Digital Deluxe edition? Trying to decide whether to get the Standard or the Deluxe. I do play WoW but don't really care about pets and 1 or 3 packs in Hearthstone doesn't phase me as I am sitting on a chunk of gold anyway.

Much appreciated. Sorry for all the questions, hopefully I can contribute something better once I learn the game.
 

Nete

Member
http://i.minus.com/iTkl3rQ2EJb9j.gif

Trying to figure out why my damage goes from 420k to 130k randomly, using elemental arrow with frost arrow, using +cold and +elemental arrow gear.

Problem with that gif is the amount of damage sources: Wolf, Frost Arrows and, maybe, area damage. All them with regular and crit hits. It should be easier for you to test each thing separately, but in the gif I can see two damages.

-85k hits (130-150 on crit): Wolf attacks.
-130-160k hits (300k-420k on crit): Frost Arrows.

The variance is just your weapon "rolling" to see how much damage it will inflict on each attack, as it can have a XXXX DPS stat for simplicity, but the one it really uses is the "XXX-YYYY damage".

Can someone please explain the use of "Spectral Hound Minion & Aesthetic Artifacts" that is part of the Digital Deluxe edition? Trying to decide whether to get the Standard or the Deluxe. I do play WoW but don't really care about pets and 1 or 3 packs in Hearthstone doesn't phase me as I am sitting on a chunk of gold anyway.

Much appreciated. Sorry for all the questions, hopefully I can contribute something better once I learn the game.

The Spectral Hound is just a skellie dog that will follow you and nothing else, much like WoW-pets. Aesthetic Artifacts are transmog recipes for the Mystic, to transmog certain items (weapons and helmet) with these "exclusive" skins:

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oneils

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Can someone please explain the use of "Spectral Hound Minion & Aesthetic Artifacts" that is part of the Digital Deluxe edition? Trying to decide whether to get the Standard or the Deluxe. I do play WoW but don't really care about pets and 1 or 3 packs in Hearthstone doesn't phase me as I am sitting on a chunk of gold anyway.

Much appreciated. Sorry for all the questions, hopefully I can contribute something better once I learn the game.

The hound is just a vanity pet. The aesthetic artifacts, never heard of those. But the digital deluxe edition only has vanity items and extra slots for characters. It basically comes down to how much you think you will enjoy a pet following you around or a glowing effect on your character, and the extra character slots.
 

xero273

Member
Can I get some feedback on my wizard's gear and build? I think I may have put too much emphasis on damage and not on defense, making T4+ difficult.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Negator-1637/hero/960150

I realize this will all probably change in about a day, but I think it might be worth it anyway.

need to show screencap of your stats page so we can see your resists. but looking at your equipment, it's mostly single resist.
 
Replace Exploding Rune with Flesh is Weak for higher Torment. Otherwise stick with Essence Burn for lower stuff.

Get Cyclone Strike with Implosion rune.

Replace Fist of Thunder with Way of Hundred Fists (as you have a skill modifier for it).

If you want to keep LTK replace it with the Fire rune.

You can choose to drop Sweeping Wind if you want but only if you are changing Essence Burn as well.



You have +% Fire skills through your Mage Fists and +% Way of Hundred Fists through your pants.


But more importantly you seem to be lacking in All Resistance. You need to rectify that immediately.

That made a world of difference thanks a lot below is the update to my Monk.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/HerpDerpSt-1817/hero/803016
 

Ashodin

Member
I'm assuming the servers will be screwed for at least a couple days honestly. It's to be expected with any big launch.

They actually say log in earlier in the day and keep yourself logged in to be able to play without worrying about logging in later.
 
I thought I'd quickly level a second DH tonight, completely forgetting how much less quick it is when I can't slap a -18 level require Butcher's Carver on something at level 42 and leave the setting on T1+ all the way through...
 

Joe Molotov

Member
Thanks for this link. Its fantastic.

So I started my first Hardcore character in 2.0.

I'm such a wuss, I played all day and only got my female barb to level 48 on normal. I'm sooo sloooow. Oh well, she's still alive at least.

I got my HC Barb to Lv. 60 today, Took about 11 hours for one pass through Normal campaign, then 4 hours of CotA farming on Hard.
 

Granadier

Is currently on Stage 1: Denial regarding the service game future
Well I won't be playing till Wed night due to a boat load of homework, so I'll be vacating this thread till then.

Don't forget to use spoiler tags after launch guys!!
 

Raticus79

Seek victory, not fairness
Found a spreadsheet with the Paragon level requirements.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Alf2fuRWlPArdGV6dDEwaURWaGJsbERPX2pkZFB3Z2c

(reddit thread)

Here's a summary:

Code:
| Level |  Exp for level |   Cumulative total |
|-------|----------------|--------------------|
|     1 |      7,200,000 |          7,200,000 |
|    50 |     77,760,000 |      2,124,000,000 |
|   100 |    166,260,000 |      8,584,920,000 |
|   150 |    218,280,000 |     18,199,440,000 |
|   200 |    320,280,000 |     31,714,440,000 |
|   250 |    422,280,000 |     50,329,440,000 |
|   300 |    626,280,000 |     76,645,440,000 |
|   350 |    830,280,000 |    113,161,440,000 |
|   400 |  1,136,280,000 |    162,478,440,000 |
|   450 |  1,444,320,000 |    227,097,480,000 |
|   500 |  1,852,320,000 |    309,717,480,000 |
|   550 |  2,872,320,000 |    428,343,480,000 |
|   600 |  4,912,320,000 |    623,979,480,000 |
|   650 |  7,972,320,000 |    947,625,480,000 |
|   700 | 12,052,320,000 |  1,450,281,480,000 |
|   750 | 17,152,320,000 |  2,182,947,480,000 |
|   800 | 23,272,320,000 |  3,196,623,480,000 |
|   850 | 29,392,320,000 |  4,516,299,480,000 |
|   900 | 35,512,320,000 |  6,141,975,480,000 |
|   950 | 41,632,320,000 |  8,073,651,480,000 |
|  1000 | 47,752,320,000 | 10,311,327,480,000 |

Total experience requirement roughly doubles every 100 levels once you're past paragon 200.
 

Kintaro

Worships the porcelain goddess
Kind of bummed. I want to play RoS with everyone when it activates, but I ordered the Physical CE and there's no midnight launch for this in my area. =(

Still trying to feel my way through equipment stuff but after Monday, it won't matter too much...

My characters:
Monk
Barbarian
Witch Doctor - Truth be told, I never really tried to gear the WD. I will in RoS. Both Wizard and Demon Hunter are 51. =D
 
My DH is ready! Got him to 60 plus another 10 levels of Paragon. I helped my buddy go from 50 to 57 on torment II today also.

This game is so good.
 
I think I'll be sticking with WD/Wiz for my magic and Crusader for melee. WD was always my main, but I fell in love with Wiz and leveled one to 60 after the 2.01 patch.
 

Dahbomb

Member
Is there any benefit to resetting quests?

Honestly feels like you can get legendary items faster if you just went the normal route of farming in specific areas as opposed to going through the whole game again for 1 legendary guarantee at Diablo.

Right?
Not really... I can complete D3 in 2 hours with my DH build on Normal and I get 4-5 Legendaries per run.

Well this was my best method to get Legendaries but then they made Set items Torment exclusive. I guess if you want a particular Legendary that isn't a set item this is the way to go.
 
My brother and I leveled new characters to 60 over the weekend, and now we're geared enough to play on Torment 1 and we're not seeing ANY gear.

It's weird, since leveling up it felt great... Upgrades at a solid clip the whole way, and now it feels awful.

We used to play the console version and that might have been more generous... I'm not sure though. We haven't seen any upgrades between the two of us in a long time.
 

Cipherr

Member
I used to run Torment 2 runs in public games, but Im at para 103 now, and the exp is just waaaaaay to slow. Cant take it. I get better exp soloing T4 than that. I guess Ill need to stop doing T3 and below now. Just doesn't move the needle anymore.
 
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