Angelus Errare
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T_T...so true.
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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls |OT2| Enchantress: Look! More hidden loot!
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T_T...so true.
Bingo, that's what I've been doing.
Git on my level IceMarker and Zenax
Curses!
Fenderputty
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Haha. Yeah. I take my mink out every now and then ... It's rare though.
I...Yeah, that's true, I will.
You have to take the time to farm the new sets just to appreciate those 'game changing' skill adjustments.
Which may take even longer with the ever increasing pool of available legendaries/sets.
I feel they eventually may have to make a stronger system than kadala for specific legendary farming.
Yeah I'm gonna use it to level up a HC season toon.
This actually isn't a bad idea, just to get the season 1 transmog for HC.
RIP Oswin
You were a valiant paladin, but the demon pack in the chaos sanctuary right before Diablo proved to be too much for your shield to bear and so you got burned to a crisp.
I died so many times to that pack in the past haha. Worst is Conviction aura, especially when they come charging and you don't notice it until it's too late, but this time it was Spectral Hit, which doesn't even give you any aural or visual cues. My HP globe just depleted instantly.
Rolling a sorc now! I'll just pewpew them whenever the time comes. Assuming I survive Duriel. That shit was brutal for my pally. Can't imagine it not being worse for a sorc.
You were a valiant paladin, but the demon pack in the chaos sanctuary right before Diablo proved to be too much for your shield to bear and so you got burned to a crisp.
I died so many times to that pack in the past haha. Worst is Conviction aura, especially when they come charging and you don't notice it until it's too late, but this time it was Spectral Hit, which doesn't even give you any aural or visual cues. My HP globe just depleted instantly.
Rolling a sorc now! I'll just pewpew them whenever the time comes. Assuming I survive Duriel. That shit was brutal for my pally. Can't imagine it not being worse for a sorc.
Dreams-Visions
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experience points. meh.
I think the AH backlash is still fresh in their minds. I doubt we'll see this in D3 ever.
As for the double XP....LOL
Valkerionseven
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Think I'll grab this expansion sometime this weekend/next week. The $20 price on amazon is just right 
And Warframe is getting on my nerves
And Warframe is getting on my nerves
after 830hours-.-
Should've been that Kadala thing from a few months back with the cheaper shit.
What's the fastest way to hit 70? I doubt I actually care enough to do it (unless I can knock it out in an hour or something), but I never even bothered to make a season character to get the transmogs.
Fastest would be to get someone geared up at 70 to powerlevel you by doing torment 6 games that you host so that they'll be at your level. Solo, only option is to just do bounties and rifts.
You'll die plenty even at your own level at T6. Trust me, I tried to rush a few people on HC and T6 is not the most effective way of powerleveling.
You don't need to follow the powerleveller to gain exp. Just sit at the waypoint after the coast is clear. As long as your are in the same zone, you collect all exp from kills no matter how far apart you are separated.
Also, you should generally run bounties instead of rifts. Pick 3 Acts and complete all 15 bounties, but do not speak to Tyrael until the host dings 70. Once that happens, Tyrael will give you level 70 caches. This way, the powerleveller will still get something out of it for his time.
Season end FAQ:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/17152343/end-of-season-what-to-expect-12-30-2014
"So when can you expect the end of Season 1? The earliest the Season will end is February 3, 2015. While it's possible this date may shift, we will do our utmost to adhere to it. If any scheduling changes occur, we will be sure to provide an update."
Well, there's our 30 days' notice.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/17152343/end-of-season-what-to-expect-12-30-2014
"So when can you expect the end of Season 1? The earliest the Season will end is February 3, 2015. While it's possible this date may shift, we will do our utmost to adhere to it. If any scheduling changes occur, we will be sure to provide an update."
Well, there's our 30 days' notice.
Season 2 should have started like, a month ago. Unless they do drastically more with Season 2 then they've currently shown/announced I think I'm pretty much done. Got over 1000 hours in so I can hardly complain, but they significantly dropped the ball post ROS launch. At the very least they made a pretty huge turnaround from what the game launched as I suppose.
If seasons were only a month long only maybe one or two people would find that good ancient furnace and dominate the leaderboards no matter how badly they play.
Blizzard wants more people to have a chance on the leaderboards.
Dreams-Visions
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I think 4-month cycles would be optimal. 3 seasons/year. Fresh content every 4 months. They can do that.
Depends on what the new content is. If they just add a tile set and slap another 3000% dmg proc on some item and call it a day it wouldn't be enough. They should look at some of the leagues PoE is doing to get some ideas. I mean I love D3's gameplay but a new tileset and another thrown together set isn't really doing it for me contentwise. Haven't been keeping up with what's really coming in S2 though.
S2 is not going to have nearly as much new content as S1 did. As far as content patch goes, S1 patch was second only to RoS patch itself. Greater rifts, leaderboards, legendary gems, they were already in the works to go along with RoS, but weren't quite ready until S1 dropped. Looking back at entirety of D3, they patched in paragon, infernal machines, and brawling over the course of 2 years. Every other patch in between involved number tweaking (i.e. droprate, proc rate, skill dmg, monster density, HP/dmg, etc). That is what Patch 2.1.2 is, a number tweaking patch. There will be some new variations of existing builds, but nothing that will be fundamentally different. We will see new items trickling in, but I don't think there will be another huge influx of new items until the next expansion hits.
Problem is, unless they add in enough new items to dilute the current pool of items (somewhere in excess of 500 legendaries), S2 gear grind is not going to feel significantly different than S1. IMO, restricting drop pool will actually do a lot more. Cut the pool of two-handers by 1/4 for a Season, and now there's incentive to play Season for those wanting an Ancient Furnace. Rotate with other slots for each Seasons and make them short. As a non-Season player myself, this would compel me to opt in and out of specific Seasons in order to find the items I want.
Problem is, unless they add in enough new items to dilute the current pool of items (somewhere in excess of 500 legendaries), S2 gear grind is not going to feel significantly different than S1. IMO, restricting drop pool will actually do a lot more. Cut the pool of two-handers by 1/4 for a Season, and now there's incentive to play Season for those wanting an Ancient Furnace. Rotate with other slots for each Seasons and make them short. As a non-Season player myself, this would compel me to opt in and out of specific Seasons in order to find the items I want.
Fenderputty
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I didn't play a season 1 character and I doubt I'll play a season two. I'll continue to jump on for the occasional rift until a major patch or expansion happens.
Make sure you enable the Elective Mode option since the game restricts your skill choices to one per category with it enabled. You can get more powerful builds with it off.
Otherwise, I'd say have fun just playing through trying everything out yourself. The early game is pretty forgiving and there's a lot of fun (content) in that early exploration which you miss out on when following someone else's guide. Once you start bumping into the torment difficulty after level 70 and you want to find the optimal stuff, the class subreddits on reddit.com/r/diablo have some good guides. Check the links on the right side of the page there.
I'd recommend witch doctor for starting out. The pets are pretty helpful and their skills are interesting.
There's a console-specific thread here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=872639
Thanks. I turned off Elective Mode. And I'll start another run with a Witch Doctor and go back and forth until the Monk or WD win me over.
But yeah, I don't want to follow a guide. Definitely am looking forward to learning and exploring the game myself, just was curious about any newbie pointers/starter suggestions. What you provided is perfect, thank you.
As an Idle Thumbs fan, I always assumed I'd be the Wizard, but it didn't grab me. The Monk has been cool at the start. Just started the WD game. We'll see how it plays.
That makes more sense based on the tool tip.
And the Monk is more fun, so far. Think I'll stick to that for now.
Oops! Fixed
internet high five!
The monk is on a completely different level gameplay-wise for me. If I end up playing season 2 I'll probably play another monk.
Feeling kinda sad about this game.. I spent so much time and effort on it and have been playing on and off since launch.
Even after reading the upcoming patch notes, I don't think I will be playing anymore unless we get an expansion, or they do some DRASTIC changes. I'm 100% done with rifts. And bounties? The hell if I'm doing those anymore.
I really *want* to keep playing the game, but I'm so fed up with how repetitive it is right now. And sadly, Diablo 3 is what it is, and I don't think that there will be any future drastic changes. Surely there might be an expansion in the future (I mean, we gotta see Leah again, and Diablo never truly died) because Blizzard wants to milk a dead cow, but that's only temporarily anyway.
Even after reading the upcoming patch notes, I don't think I will be playing anymore unless we get an expansion, or they do some DRASTIC changes. I'm 100% done with rifts. And bounties? The hell if I'm doing those anymore.
I really *want* to keep playing the game, but I'm so fed up with how repetitive it is right now. And sadly, Diablo 3 is what it is, and I don't think that there will be any future drastic changes. Surely there might be an expansion in the future (I mean, we gotta see Leah again, and Diablo never truly died) because Blizzard wants to milk a dead cow, but that's only temporarily anyway.
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