Has anyone else noticed that you can have infinite rifts if you are playing with others? If the host quits while the rift is open, the game migrates to a new host with a brand new rift. Just take turns hosting and do not close the old rift. Not that it is hard to get more shards, but sometimes people are low and want to keep rifting.
I definitely wouldn't say they abandoned D2 after the expansion.
Probably depends on how well it sells. I don't think they currently have any plans to make more.
Just browse for your weakest piece of gear, and start rolling. Most of what you get will be useless just as most drops are but she can even give you legendaries and set pieces, so just keep rolling. Shards are basically free, so don't worry about wasting them. Just look at Kadela as a way to get focused drops; instead of a random assortment of gems, boots, and reusable parts, you can get nothing but gloves, to try to replace the pair you're not pleased with.
Dunno if you've already reached the same conclusion, but once I was a little ways in to Paragon, I stopped emphasizing xp++ on my gear, focusing instead on damage, defense, resource management, battle management, etc.
No, what I'm doing is acknowledging that LOK is factored into the formula at all, which essentially makes the figure pointless.
I see what you're saying, but at the same time, Blizzard know that a level is going to be 80% populated with 3-hit mobs that can kill you in 20 hits, 15% 10-hit mobs that can kill you in 15 hits, etc. They know how often health globes drop. They know it should take you 167 seconds to kill this elite given your current damage output, and that he'll be spawning 8 7-hit minions every 40 seconds throughout the fight.
I salvage most of them too because the rolls never seem good enough to replace what I have but that one is pretty solid.
Its the King of the roost. Play it solo all the way through, play it offline or online, explore and play any area on its own for kicks, or do randomized bounty runs, or campaign missions, or special Nephalem rifts. Play with your friends no matter what the level disparities may be, and every time you play, there are dynamic elements to keep you on your toes, not to mention 9 difficulties. You have a shared gold account and vendors and materials and a shared chest, and leveling doesn't end at 70 as you continue to gain paragon levels that apply smaller, hand-picked increases to each character you run. Legendary equipment is also more than just bigger numbers - most come with unique gameplay effects.
