GiantBombGamer
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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls |OT2| Enchantress: Look! More hidden loot!
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I second this.
S3 started on April 10th, and supposedly will run four months. So I'm guessing early August will be when the season ends.
Not Spaceghost
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Yeah honestly just roll the CHD till it's 100% seems to be the only reasonable option. Mad jelly of that neck it's quite tasty.
toastyToast
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My luck has been bonkers with amulets. Got a couple ancient ones like that with close to max stats too. Even found the Star of Azkanath or whatever.
Fenderputty
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I hate how a rift has to be tailored perfectly to a build for it to be a good run. It's like applying an RNG to leader boards. Looks like he needed channeling and power to accomplish it.
You only need that when you want to push the game to the limit. Every normal person doing high 40s can pretty much clear any rift.
Fenderputty
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Which is why I said it's like applying an RNG to the leader board. It's not just about how buff your toon is, but a combo of how buff your toon / how lucky of a rift you got.
It's a good example of the weird things that come out of a system like this. The person who posted the guide even said he'd rather have pylons taken out of the picture.
Since the one second freeze from CW:Tsunami doesn't work well on elites, the build just focuses on regular mobs. Why bother with the elites at all? I wonder if there are builds for the other classes out there which could use a similar strategy and clear higher rift levels as a result. It's cheesy, but it works.
I remember a long time ago the devs were talking about static "challenge maps" where everything is the same each time. I think that would be great. They could build layouts with interesting rooms that are set up differently with different spawn types, put a few specific pylons at strategic points, and have people compete for times to clear the whole thing on its own leaderboard. People could talk about clearing strategies and run the whole thing like a little raid. Lots of content coming out of something that could be relatively simple to implement. No more fishing.
Switching back to monk main for the rest of the season. It's better support for the speed rifts people have been doing and apparently it's essential for farming high GR keys.
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/di...ctuary/115843-trial-key-64-with-monk-in-group
Interesting note about the stategy with CoE there. Apparently trial rounds line up with the timing of the rotation well (20 seconds) so it's possible to hit each round with a palm cast with the cold bonus and keep that going.
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/di...ctuary/115843-trial-key-64-with-monk-in-group
Interesting note about the stategy with CoE there. Apparently trial rounds line up with the timing of the rotation well (20 seconds) so it's possible to hit each round with a palm cast with the cold bonus and keep that going.
xxjuicesxx
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I always see Juice, and I'm all like ...but I'm Juices.
Anyways S3 continues to screw me cant get an ancient Nats Slayer/Calamity or IKBB.
Anyways S3 continues to screw me cant get an ancient Nats Slayer/Calamity or IKBB.
I have 2 stars, 3 maras, aranoch, xephirian and cameo. They all rolled super shitty stats
Very much debatable about the Monk vs double DH for speed rifts. Personally prefer double DH, we were getting 49s down with 10 key upgrades.
toastyToast
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I did a 41 greater rift using the Natalya strafe build with about 5 minutes spare and thought might as well give 42 a shot. It was literally a billion times worse. Open the rift and there's a pack of phase beasts with reflect swarming. First off, fuck reflect. I'm in situation where I can get one shot by anything (or two shot every minute) and I'm not supposed to eliminate the threat? These enemies are designed to swarm on you, you can't kite them. Anyway, I just booked it to the next floor and it was the longest act 2 tunnel I've seen in my life. The whole way it was fallen shamans (the ones that summon other fallen and cast those obnoxiously large fireballs), sand wasps (lol) and those enemies that explode and leave the poison gas cloud (why didn't I wear my mara). So basically it was like playing a Cave shooter for a good 10+ minutes. By the time I got to the rift guardian the countdown was on and I killed it moments after. The rift guardian was legitimately the easiest part of the rift by an enormous margin.
Are there any videos of people doing straight up asshole rifts at high 40s/50s? All the high ranked videos I've seen are cherry picked babby rifts.
Are there any videos of people doing straight up asshole rifts at high 40s/50s? All the high ranked videos I've seen are cherry picked babby rifts.
Here we go! Anniversary event starts tomorrow morning:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19083832/debunking-the-cowspiracy-5-14-2015
Relevant data mining: (SPOILER) http://www.diablofans.com/news/48359-ptr-2-2-patch-3-new-set-changes
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19083832/debunking-the-cowspiracy-5-14-2015
Relevant data mining: (SPOILER) http://www.diablofans.com/news/48359-ptr-2-2-patch-3-new-set-changes
Nope, sometimes you get lucky sometimes you don't. Nat6 has a horrible time with RD, like most glass cannon builds. I've had absolutely terrible rifts with 3 packs of reflect damage, mortars, it was terrible.
Fenderputty
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It's stupid. Running past elites to mow up trash is a good strat as well, but it's also stupid. I don't want to play the game running by elites I don't like the combo of because they'll slow me down.
I don't hate the GR system by any means either. It's just my one gripe with it really.
Cool. I actually saw cows on a GR for my fist time this season.
Eek and I had a run with 3 cow rifts within an hour recently. Hadn't seen one before that point and haven't seen one since!
I think it was 4. It's crazy because that's the only time I've opened rifts and gotten cows and it was all in one span.
Fenderputty
Banned
I've played a ton since the expansion too. I was starting to think there really wasn't a cow GR and that all were lying to me.
Gentle Rodriguez
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Tried to do a GR36 today, was a disaster. Normal enemies are completely fine but elites just destroy me, 2 elites had a thunderstorm/jailer combo that just destroyed me even though I have SS, I don't know if it was me not positioning myself well enough or just needing better gear. Still beat it in 22.5 minutes even though I died a billion times, I either need more damage or I need to play better as I don't think it matters how tanky I am(DH).
Fenderputty
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As I complained before ... A lot of times the best strat in a GR is to completely pass up an elite pack if it's got wild affixes. Just keep mowing down whites until you get to a pack that's manageable.
Stephen_drewz
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Looking at the anniversary event video it seems pretty underwhelming. Better then nothing I guess. Will probably do it once then forget about it.
Could be a nice change of pace if I needed to farm rift keys again but I don't.
Could be a nice change of pace if I needed to farm rift keys again but I don't.
The what? I don't see anything on battle.net or in the launcher.
Stephen_drewz
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A post on reddit from someone's twitch stream. Sorry on mobile.
Stephen_drewz
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Glad I am not playing a Monk this season because I salvaged a pretty damn good ancient pig sticker not too long ago, dropped on my DH.
You don't really need it. Flying Dragon works as well but Pig Sticker gives you bonus against Stonesinger which people try to fish for in higher GRs.
Slightly Live
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Just beat the Cow
Goblin level, slayed the Cow Queen and defeated the Cow King's herd.
So many chests, so much gold and gems.
So many chests, so much gold and gems.
Stephen_drewz
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Cool thanks. Something to keep in mind for next season when I plan to play Monk and Crusader!
Get home around 5pm tonight from my week away for work and there is maintenance starting 6pm and going until 10:30pm. Doh!
what? I thought it just made noises lol.
It does 30% increased damage against beasts and 30% increased damage against Humans/Humanoid. That damage is multiplicative. There are some Rift Guardian on which this applies to like Kulle, Rat King and Stonesinger which greatly cuts down your Rift times if you get those specific bosses.
How viable is a Shield Bash build for Crusaders and what gear does it take to make it work? I'm coming back to the game after taking a hiatus right before Season 1 started. My Crusader was a Darklight-wielding Firestarter build back then that can still clear T3 without breaking a sweat.
yup.
Stephen_drewz
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Told myself not to play more then two classes per season but I just got a Wizard levelled. Might make it 3 lol. Sigh.
It's the only place you can play with that eek guy. Hes such a great guy.
Fenderputty
Banned
The only reason I'm playing seasons is cause my old buddies are. lol
Also ... the other night I got a regular rift that had two goblin packs on the same map. Each grouping had its own shard goblin too. Good times.
Also ... the other night I got a regular rift that had two goblin packs on the same map. Each grouping had its own shard goblin too. Good times.
No. When doing bounties you might encounter a special enemy randomly. If you kill it, a red portal appears. Leads you to Not the Cow Level, which is full of cow enemies (duh). Honestly the only noteworthy aspect of that area is that it's got many chests. It's essentially like the goblin vault, except 20 times worse. Completely useless.
Yeah I just watch modz's video on it, how incredibly disappointing. Can't believe they didn't even do an xp/mf buff or anything.
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