jim2point0
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Doubling the legendary drop rate.... I wonder if that includes kadala.
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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls |OT2| Enchantress: Look! More hidden loot!
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Cool that it's official. Double shards is nice, but 100% increase is such a tease. 100% * (mystery blizzard infinitesimal number) = something difficult to get excited about.
On the crusader front. I'm at work and can't test it. But a though occurred to me, since the nerf to BS/shattered has anyone tried just straight up blessed shield runeless? I imagine it would do some decent damage since the initial shield does decent damage now, with a jekang 5-6 hits might be ok?
Thanks for the kind words! For those interested I'm Chucker#1641 on bnet
Leviathon007
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You're getting double shards- that's effectively doubling Kadala without actually doubling her.
robotzombie
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but legendaries actually have a pretty good drop rate, double what it is now will actually be awesome
I got 6 drops and 4 plans yesterday in about three hours. I'll take double that. (Other people in party were getting similar drop rates.)
jim2point0
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True.
If they go live with the double shards but DONT fix the level 1 expoit... that's going to be insane. People will be getting 400 shards per 10 minutes O_O
Actually it's double rift fragments NOT double shards.
gutterboy44
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It's double Rift Fragments, not double Blood Shards.
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Edit: Beaten
The announcement says we'll get double "Rift Fragments" which I would read to mean key fragments not shards
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14005211/
someone correct me if they said double blood shards somewhere
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time to get 1000 rift fragments a day for the rest of the week and never have to bounty again. might try to set up a group to do split act 1 and 4 on t3 while i do act 1 on t6 and try to capitalize on the bags in eachothers games. pretty easy to pull off with a group of 2-3 willing to do that.
robotzombie
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yup, I got just about the same yesterday (now, the amount that were actually good is another story...)
We know the plans were intentional- I wonder if they stealth-fixed higher Torment droprate multipliers as well.
KINGofCRA5H
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Yeah I farmed T5 for weeks with the charge set before I managed to finish the leap quake set. Charge/Hammer/Overpower with bloodshed/area damage excels at clearing white packs nearly instantly, it's just not great for sustained single target damage.
The Lamonster
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What's RiF?
SneakyStephan
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So while they're too busy nerfing people's enjoyment into the ground with new patches because they're worried someone might be able to run t5-6 in a reasonable time with near best in slot gear, they do let dead obvious exploits like the lvl 1 t6 rifts through
2x double danetta dhs = 2 min runs, 2500-3000 shards an hour
got 3x frostburn (good trifecta one too), 7 magefists (a near perfect trifecta among them) , vyr boots, 2x firebird gloves, godlike trifecta vyr gloves in a few hours time.
More upgrades in an afternoon of exploiting than in 2 weeks of 'bugged' (cowards) fun quake spec rifting.
2x double danetta dhs = 2 min runs, 2500-3000 shards an hour
got 3x frostburn (good trifecta one too), 7 magefists (a near perfect trifecta among them) , vyr boots, 2x firebird gloves, godlike trifecta vyr gloves in a few hours time.
More upgrades in an afternoon of exploiting than in 2 weeks of 'bugged' (cowards) fun quake spec rifting.
sure if you like burning out on the game early
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Deleted member 325805
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Just got my first cow rift, I guess they stealth buffed the chance?
Same.
Anyone willing to invite my Crusader to a story mode Malthael kill on T1 for my free legendary?
yimc808#1960
Not fair. I'm at thousands of Shards just to get a Jarem Helm. You know what they did. Trolled me with the fake Jarem set one
My guess is they'll prevent rifts from being opened by <70 and have rifts level generated at time of opening. If the latter is not already done, I wonder what kind of performance hit that could take in loading rifts. Or just make that rift obelisk thing not available if the game was started by a level 1.
PenguinPoacher
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Or you only get rift shards in games at or above your level.
Or have Shard drops scale with level. No reason why a LVL1 game should be giving 100 Shards any way.
I still don't think this will fix the problem with RIFs. Fixing lvl1 T6 Rifts will just result in people doing T4-T5 Rifts which give 80-90 shards per run and then you just RIF it. You can have 500 shards in less than 10 minutes easily even without using T6 level 1 method.
And again... this is a problem mainly because you can now get class set items from gambling. They have now created a system where you can get good gear (ie. T6 capable gear) really fast without much effort.
I still don't think this will fix the problem with RIFs. Fixing lvl1 T6 Rifts will just result in people doing T4-T5 Rifts which give 80-90 shards per run and then you just RIF it. You can have 500 shards in less than 10 minutes easily even without using T6 level 1 method.
And again... this is a problem mainly because you can now get class set items from gambling. They have now created a system where you can get good gear (ie. T6 capable gear) really fast without much effort.
KINGofCRA5H
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T3. a ring and pants for him out of around 9-10 bags. the legs rolled really weird though. their stat ranges weren't correct until he tried to reroll them. the armor range was 373-393 instead of 370-599
I see your point but then again it's a none competitive game in which you can't trade in , obviously T6 level one stuff is a joke but limiting people of the way you gain gear is bad design, players need a way to gain items out of pure RNG , yes Kalada is RNG but it's specific RNG.
No you misunderstand me. I am perfectly fine with being able to gamble sets through Kadala. That's how it should've been from the start because the game is BoA and there should be some type of targeted farming.
What I don't like is the whole RIF thing. I never really liked it but it had its place before. Now it has just gotten silly and out of control.
Game isn't competitive now but soon it will be and such mechanics get in the way of that.
What I don't like is the whole RIF thing. I never really liked it but it had its place before. Now it has just gotten silly and out of control.
Game isn't competitive now but soon it will be and such mechanics get in the way of that.
racketpunch
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They should just remove torment levels from anything prior to level 70. Its only used for shard farming and power leveling anyway.
jim2point0
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I'd be perfectly happy if RIF went away but we got more rift frags from doing higher torment bounties.
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