Adjust the difficulty to the highest where you're able to kill stuff reasonably fast, that's the rule of thumb for SC. As for the talent, think of all the hardcore players - they're the ones who used it the most.
Well, at least until Greater Rifts hit console - when you're pushing as high as you can, the penalty for dying in a Greater Rift is resurrecting at the entrance to the floor rather than on corpse, and running back takes precious time (there's a 15 minutes limit on Greater Rifts)
What difficulty are you playing on? Also, it seems rifts can be slightly more difficult than bounties.
We're playing Expert right now. Just finished A3 in Adventure mode. I think we're both ~P25. How high do people bump the difficulty? Like, are we taking it too easy on ourselves if we're not dying hourly, or what?
Apart from the forthcoming grifts, I guess the only penalty for dying is the increased repair bill for gear? How do I even determine how much durability a piece of gear has left, and what happens when it hits zero?
No way I would ever spend time exiting the game because I got shit from shards. That's wack.
The biggest problem with this game, after tons and tons of rifts and bounties, are Legendary drops with no sockets. I bet 95% of the Legendary weapons I find do not have a socket. Completely fucking worthless weapons. No matter what it is or how great the rolls are, there are no damn sockets so it's junk. Instead of enchanting a stat to make it awesome, I have to waste the enchant on a fucking socket.
I'm almost ready to bail until the patch hits with the item that adds sockets.
Seriously, it's possibly the dumbest thing possible. How in the world did they think it's ok to have lvl 70 Legendary weapons with no socket?
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the reason you never get drops with awesome stats
and a socket is because the gear has awesome stats
instead of a socket.
So say you have some sword with CHC and thorns, and you think it would be perfect if it had CHC and a socket instead, but that never drops for you. So when you go to get it re-enchanted, you then need to give up the CHC if you want a chance at a socket.
But that's why you never see CHC and sockets drop together; they occupy the same affix slot in the weapon. If they lived in different affix slots, then you
could replace the thorns with the socket, or just wait until that combination drops as loot. Follow?
The point is to maximize what you can using what you have. This opens up different combinations and possibilities due to the restrictions- you'll see what you are actually looking for. That's the fun of it. Picking the skills that align with your gear, combining skills that work well with what you prioritized with your gear... it's not about having the gear right now.
Hear hear. I do think gifts are pretty cool though.
