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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls |OT2| Enchantress: Look! More hidden loot!
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Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Just turned 61 with my Demon Hunter, first hero at max level (don't have reaper of souls just yet). Completed the game on Master difficulty and got a pretty sweet set item (hand crossbow). What content should I be doing for now to gear up and get Paragon levels until I can afford RoS?
glaringradio
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I don't think I have any motivation at all to play after seeing the changes in PTR. There's quite a few legendaries that I have right now which I thought were fairly incredible, but oh no, now they can roll with 5 primaries instead of 4, so I'll maybe need to get the 5 primary stat version instead if I intend on lasting any length of time in Greater Rifts.
All I'm saying is that Seasons had better be something very special or else I'll probably be done.
Liferebooted
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Probably until the end of July at the earliest..
I can't play live anymore either, killing time with WOD beta and console RPGs until 2.1 hits.
It's probably going to be a while, I don't think seasons or legendary gems are on the PTR yet...
I know the feeling though, if it wasn't for RiF I don't think I'd done very many rifts over the past month. I just can't bring myself to farm rift fragments anymore knowing that one bounty run only nets enough for one rift. Can't wait for the change.
All you can really do is the story over and over if you don't have the expansion. I'd try to buy it asap if I were you. >_>
Say if I run into Keywarden somewhere on T3+, is there a community I can use specifically for inviting people to help me take him down?
On EU there is. Just search for uber or keywarden and something will come up.
Jezbollah
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Then perhaps they might pass on admin roles to those that are?
(not being arsy, just a suggestion. No point having a clan if it cannot accept new members)
Hard to pass if they are never online...
Boogalogist
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Finally got all classes to L70...thanks to character swapping before rift closing. I hate to level my characters normally...cause I hate getting non-L70 legendaries.
mylasthope
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Lol. Sorry, but it makes me laugh. Nothing better than grinding some t6 rifts than watching someone else do it.
Yoshi has promoted me to Officer now, if you (or anyone else) wants an invite just send me a PM (Akai#1649).
Reroll the CDR to %dmg?
No, with the new legendary consumable coming up to add sockets, you'd actually want to reroll the socket to something else so you can get a free affix out of it. (weird, I know)
With the usual "it's just in PTR right now" disclaimer.
Reroll the CDR to %dmg?
I'd roll the base dmg, since CDR is handy for lots of builds.
Interesting PTR monk bug:
The new Madstone spirit stone for monks applies EP to each target hit by SSS. When used with Sunwoku 4 pc set, it treats each applied EP as 75 spirit spent, so gives the bonus Sunwoku dmg for each EP.
(As)Use it while you can as I can't see it making 2.1 final in it's present form (unfortunately, as it's about the only build that makes 2-handers viable)
Vid of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yoRtf3bfPI&feature=youtu.be
TTOOLL
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wow, I was leveling my WD up and discovered something amazing. If you socket a nice ruby in the weapon you get really overpower. I'm level 46 destroying T1, I think I could do T3 but speed is more important now. Awesome. I might level up other classes to 70 now.
Why didn't anyone tell me this before? ='(
Why didn't anyone tell me this before? ='(
Boombloxer
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I've heard it does, but I haven't found a pair yet.
^^Red or Green doing more damage depends. I use green, but I've heard red works better for some builds.
^^Red or Green doing more damage depends. I use green, but I've heard red works better for some builds.
TTOOLL
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green works when you crit, right. Red works all the time. I mean, I had 4000 dps and when I socketed it jumped to 12000. I got a nice leg and it's now 21k.
partyphone
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yeah there's a certain threshold where crit damage makes more sense than raw damage since it's a % bonus.
you'll eventually want to get your crit chance up around 60%. at that point crit damage really explodes your DPS.
you'll eventually want to get your crit chance up around 60%. at that point crit damage really explodes your DPS.
For leveling up, definitely red gems. But for 70, it's pretty much all emeralds all the time.
TTOOLL
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Boombloxer
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I haven't heard anything concrete, no.
I understand why, but it does make things trickier. There should just be some restrictions.
Too much gear that someone else could use.
Quite sure that their market will never come back. When the AH shut down, people were so happy. Surely there were probably some people who saw it as a bad thing, but Blizzard needs a large audience for something to happen. I never saw any complaints about the AH being removed either.
We never know if they will improve the trading system though. Right now I don't even know why the option is still there. I think the closest we'll ever get is the sub forum on the official Blizzard forums. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/3354991/
Nope. They've affirmed the stance a few times too. Wyatt said they wanted to give the new system "room to breathe". I doubt they'll ever bring it back due to the increased support costs associated with loading the servers with commercial botters, support requests due to account theft, etc.
In the mean time, some botters are selling stacks of dyes as a way to transfer gold. Lots of people selling leveling services.
The whole account bound drops can be pretty annoying when you find that thing you know someone's been looking for, but have no use for it. But overall I'm okay with it. Encourages people to play together and gives you a better sense of ownership of your characters. Definitely glad they went this route and shut down the auction house at least, game is in a much better place now.
That's expected but unfortunate. This game certainly isn't for me; it seems the expansion really changed the game for the worse. I hope others are happy all the same!
I know virtually no one who still plays this game. Everyone who I knew who played Diablo quit because of the removal of the AH, including my own father. I think the D2JSP crowd (which is huge) and the non-AH crowd (also huge) simply cannot enjoy the same game, sadly. Our mechanical desires are directly opposed to one another, so design choices which benefit one group directly harm the other.
I have no idea what the population statistics are like these days. Are they averaging substantially higher than 1M/month now? The game sustained a very healthy population pre-expansion.
It's certainly the more complex and challenging part of the game, but that doesn't mean everyone likes it, and for many it wasn't part of the Diablo "tradition," which is fine.
Not at all, but to each their own. I did make $200 out of it though, so can't complain too much.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
I can't knock making real money off playing though, that was probably the only part of the system I respected. Some players were really running a professional hustle. Would have been great to more than cover the cost of entry for the game, which I know multiple GAF players did.
I appreciate the change more because for me it makes drops and loot more worthwhile. I wish I could understand the complaints for taking away the AH system but I don't really. There are other games that cater to complexity and strategy through player based economy, so I'm not sure why someone would pin their hopes on Diablo 3 for that kind of play.
Overall I guess it was something to make Diablo 3 more interesting. As it is, as much as I have enjoyed my time playing and will continue to do so to experience the expansion, it is definitely an overall disappointment in the series and as a game in general.
I appreciate the change more because for me it makes drops and loot more worthwhile. I wish I could understand the complaints for taking away the AH system but I don't really. There are other games that cater to complexity and strategy through player based economy, so I'm not sure why someone would pin their hopes on Diablo 3 for that kind of play.
Overall I guess it was something to make Diablo 3 more interesting. As it is, as much as I have enjoyed my time playing and will continue to do so to experience the expansion, it is definitely an overall disappointment in the series and as a game in general.
Hey guys,
Just wanted to add some tips that really helped me in terms of progressing to t1/t2 (casual gamers) and leveling from 1-60ish. I recently returend to diablo three weeks ago, so bear with me if these tips are common sense haha.
Some tips with power leveling:
Solo (from lvl 1, just kill/progress until you find a socketed weapon), immediately put a Red Gem with the damage boost and switch the game to Master or whichever torment level you can handle. Salvage the weapon as soon as you find a better socketed weapon and reapply the gem. Try to get a sockected helmet asap as well and insert a red gem for the XP bonus. Around lvl 40 or so, can probably switch the gem to life per hit.
Group: start a game on t6 with your alt and get a level 70 buddy to kill through everything, rinse and repeat.
After you hit level 70, I would suggest doing the adventure mode - bounties (act 1/act 3 are prolly the easiest ones) on master until you gather some fragments and eventually get all lvl 70 items with a couple of legendary/set pieces. After that, run rift groups on T1 and slowly start piecing items. Gems are reallly expensive, so I would omit Marquise gems and start with the Imeprial Gems before crafting the higher-level gems.
Just wanted to add some tips that really helped me in terms of progressing to t1/t2 (casual gamers) and leveling from 1-60ish. I recently returend to diablo three weeks ago, so bear with me if these tips are common sense haha.
Some tips with power leveling:
Solo (from lvl 1, just kill/progress until you find a socketed weapon), immediately put a Red Gem with the damage boost and switch the game to Master or whichever torment level you can handle. Salvage the weapon as soon as you find a better socketed weapon and reapply the gem. Try to get a sockected helmet asap as well and insert a red gem for the XP bonus. Around lvl 40 or so, can probably switch the gem to life per hit.
Group: start a game on t6 with your alt and get a level 70 buddy to kill through everything, rinse and repeat.
After you hit level 70, I would suggest doing the adventure mode - bounties (act 1/act 3 are prolly the easiest ones) on master until you gather some fragments and eventually get all lvl 70 items with a couple of legendary/set pieces. After that, run rift groups on T1 and slowly start piecing items. Gems are reallly expensive, so I would omit Marquise gems and start with the Imeprial Gems before crafting the higher-level gems.
There are other games that do random loot drop / loot whoring, too. If the point is "there are other games to play!" you could have that sword swing both ways.
Regardless, my primary frustration is that my personal gaming preferences are always so out of sync with NeoGAF that I rarely find a situation where I seem to "fit in" gaming wise, as it were. I think games are awful at telling stories and think Metal Gear Solid is so horrifically stupid I'm embarrassed to watch the story unfold. I think Forza is derivative and fetishistic, I think Mario is boring, I don't enjoy Zelda, and I think Uncharted is an actively bad game. When I play video games, I play Chess and Go the majority of the time, which have absolutely massive communities but which are almost entirely unrepresented here on NeoGAF. My primary modern video game presently is Natural Selection 2, which has a very small community.
As such, when I do find a game I play that a large chunk of NeoGAF is also excited about, I'm happy. It's frustrating to see that the very thing I like about the game is something that everyone else here hates so much. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at this point, though.
None of this is intended to suggest you can't enjoy the game as is, of course. I'm only expressing and explaining my personal preferences. By all means, enjoy.
Regardless, my primary frustration is that my personal gaming preferences are always so out of sync with NeoGAF that I rarely find a situation where I seem to "fit in" gaming wise, as it were. I think games are awful at telling stories and think Metal Gear Solid is so horrifically stupid I'm embarrassed to watch the story unfold. I think Forza is derivative and fetishistic, I think Mario is boring, I don't enjoy Zelda, and I think Uncharted is an actively bad game. When I play video games, I play Chess and Go the majority of the time, which have absolutely massive communities but which are almost entirely unrepresented here on NeoGAF. My primary modern video game presently is Natural Selection 2, which has a very small community.
As such, when I do find a game I play that a large chunk of NeoGAF is also excited about, I'm happy. It's frustrating to see that the very thing I like about the game is something that everyone else here hates so much. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at this point, though.
None of this is intended to suggest you can't enjoy the game as is, of course. I'm only expressing and explaining my personal preferences. By all means, enjoy.
Boombloxer
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I'd say parts are better, parts are worse, depending on your class.
There's parts I like, but after playing some on PTR and realizing I'll have to re-gear everything on my Wizard, I'm probably done until the PS4 version in August.
That's tough. I thought about picking up Pure Chess, but I have no one to play with, so that was a bummer. If you enjoy Natural Selection 2, there might be a few more that could draw you in. Did you try Frozen Synapse?
Manipulation and comprehensive knowledge of the market. The real stock market is so efficient that manipulation of it is essentially impossible; you would have to be an inside trader to have any real hope of "gaming" the system.
The Diablo 3 AH was imperfect, however. Not surprising, of course, given that it's much smaller and the stakes were much lower. I enjoyed learning the market value not just of items but of specific stats and then applying this knowledge to profit from it. I turned 5 million gold (earned leveling up) into billions of gold simply by informed, prudent application of my knowledge of items and their worth to the marketplace at large.
I enjoy social gaming mechanics because they require knowledge both of people (how they work and what they want) and of the other game mechanics (what items are worth what? Why are they worth so much? What stats seem to be popular, and for what reason?)
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