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Diablo IV |OT| Blessed Mother... Save Us

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
I play mostly magic classes, but was CC a big issue for barb/assassins for the past few seasons? The potion proc changes seem to negate making builds that minimize CC or at least make the skills that grant unstoppable/break cc less valuable (over simplification here) if I can just pop a potion when I am cc'ed.

I felt that the CC wasn't nearly as bad as it was at launch. I don't really have any strong thoughts on the S5 CC changes. If anything, the rare case of CC-chaining was annoying AF, but it wasn't that common.
 

cormack12

Gold Member
I felt that the CC wasn't nearly as bad as it was at launch. I don't really have any strong thoughts on the S5 CC changes. If anything, the rare case of CC-chaining was annoying AF, but it wasn't that common.
Tend to agree, the only thing I didn't like was a large pool of poison, then using your unstoppable to evade but right into a CC. I think it's a cheap fix for those moments
 

Nydius

Gold Member
My personal opinion is that paragon boards don't really offer meaningful choices. Everyone's board looks the same.

Paragon Bored.

Completely agree. They’ve just become an extension of skill choices which is to say they’ve turned into cookie cutter copy/pastes depending on end game build. There’s nothing truly exciting about anything on the board.

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The new unique effects look interesting. Hopefully they'll get some relevance above "completely useless".

I hope so too. I came back for season 4 and ended up with a ton of the generic uniques but didn’t use a damn one because none of them benefitted my incinerate sorcerer build and the fact that I couldn’t put any affixes on them made them a subpar choice.

Maybe if I had been playing one of the ice Sorc builds I would have had use of the pendant but, again, not being able to put anything on it made it feel like a waste of a slot.
 
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Zheph

Member
week GIF


We go again Sorcerers
 

Agent_4Seven

Tears of Nintendo
What the hell is wrong with this game? I literally can't play it long enough cuz my PC gets BSOD to death multiple times in a row. No other game does this. CPU is barely heating up and all GPU temps (core / memory) are at acceptable levels and within norm at full load and I'm not even playing at 4K.
 

Antwix

Member
What the hell is wrong with this game? I literally can't play it long enough cuz my PC gets BSOD to death multiple times in a row. No other game does this. CPU is barely heating up and all GPU temps (core / memory) are at acceptable levels and within norm at full load and I'm not even playing at 4K.
For the longest time I had an issue where my game "video" would freeze. Although the video frame would freeze, the game sound effects and my cursor would still work but I couldn't see it working. The game itself would still be running fine. Temp fix would be to drop focus from the game window and go back in (alt+tab/windows key).

However I believe I finally fixed this permanently (I think) by tweaking settings in AMD control panel. So maybe Google some stuff and see if anyone else has this problem and maybe it can be remedied in your settings. If you're getting bsod, have you tried googling the error code?
 

Agent_4Seven

Tears of Nintendo
For the longest time I had an issue where my game "video" would freeze. Although the video frame would freeze, the game sound effects and my cursor would still work but I couldn't see it working. The game itself would still be running fine. Temp fix would be to drop focus from the game window and go back in (alt+tab/windows key).
In my case, the game freezes with loud sound effect and there's only blank blue screen after that. I can't do anything but to restart my PC.

However I believe I finally fixed this permanently (I think) by tweaking settings in AMD control panel. So maybe Google some stuff and see if anyone else has this problem and maybe it can be remedied in your settings. If you're getting bsod, have you tried googling the error code?
I'm not getting error codes, the blue screen is blank + there's no minidump in the Windows folder to check what the hell is causing this even. I've checked online and there's various things that could cause this, but I can't check on my end since there's no minidump and event log not showing anything.

It looks like BSOD is a very common issue with this game and I'm not the only one.
 

Antwix

Member
In my case, the game freezes with loud sound effect and there's only blank blue screen after that. I can't do anything but to restart my PC.


I'm not getting error codes, the blue screen is blank + there's no minidump in the Windows folder to check what the hell is causing this even. I've checked online and there's various things that could cause this, but I can't check on my end since there's no minidump and event log not showing anything.

It looks like BSOD is a very common issue with this game and I'm not the only one.
That sucks. Since you got nothing to go on, maybe just drop all in-game D4 settings to its lowest settings and disable anything unnecessary. Like drop to 1080p low, disable effects, etc. Same thing in your GPU control panel. I dont know if you have amd or nvidia, but in the AMD panel there's shit like image sharpening, anti-lag, etc. Probably similar in the nvidia control panel.

That is, if you care enough to troubleshoot it lol

Do you have one of those affected intel 13th/14th gen CPUs?
 

Agent_4Seven

Tears of Nintendo
That sucks. Since you got nothing to go on, maybe just drop all in-game D4 settings to its lowest settings and disable anything unnecessary. Like drop to 1080p low, disable effects, etc. Same thing in your GPU control panel. I dont know if you have amd or nvidia, but in the AMD panel there's shit like image sharpening, anti-lag, etc. Probably similar in the nvidia control panel.

That is, if you care enough to troubleshoot it lol

Do you have one of those affected intel 13th/14th gen CPUs?
I've 3080Ti (at stock settings, no additional OC and power tweaking) which is more than enough for 1440p at max settings with only RT shadows at max and the last two settings enabled - no RT reflections which are pointles in this game. As for CPU, I've 8700K paired with Z390 Aorus Master which is unkillable.

I'll try to go back to previous GPU driver and see what happens.
 
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Last noob question of the season, is it possible to get all three 25% masterwork bonuses to hit the same stat? I am doing the a Heartseeker Rogue build but most of the things I am looking at show people who have pants at +8 Heartseeker. I have them max rolled at +3, I assume the only way to get it to +8 is to hit it two or three times in masterworking?

I’m sure the odds are very low and the cost is astronomical.
 

MikeM

Member
Just noticed that D4 and the expansion bundle is $30 discounted on Steam. Tempting as i’m moving over to PC from PS5…

How is this running on PC these days? 7600x/7900xt for reference.
 

Antwix

Member
Just noticed that D4 and the expansion bundle is $30 discounted on Steam. Tempting as i’m moving over to PC from PS5…

How is this running on PC these days? 7600x/7900xt for reference.
Runs good for me. I had to fix an issue though awhile back that I had (described it a few posts up) by disabling radeon enhanced sync (iirc) in amd control panel. But it runs solid at 1440p/144hz with 6700xt and a 5600x
 

Bitmap Frogs

Mr. Community
Last noob question of the season, is it possible to get all three 25% masterwork bonuses to hit the same stat? I am doing the a Heartseeker Rogue build but most of the things I am looking at show people who have pants at +8 Heartseeker. I have them max rolled at +3, I assume the only way to get it to +8 is to hit it two or three times in masterworking?

I’m sure the odds are very low and the cost is astronomical.

yes!

new season soon, cant wait
 

iQuasarLV

Member
Just noticed that D4 and the expansion bundle is $30 discounted on Steam. Tempting as i’m moving over to PC from PS5…

How is this running on PC these days? 7600x/7900xt for reference.
A quick YouTube or Google search would have gotten you a visceral answer.
Here is a video showing you how it runs on multiple setups via a month ago. Timestamped for Diablo 4
 

splattered

Member
Yah, started 22 minutes ago (10am PST)

Wait what new season today???

I'm sitting here trying to decide what to play... new season worth jumping into or more same as previous season?

I know there were supposed to be changes coming from PTR but i haven't really been keeping up with all that.
 

Mortisfacio

Member
Wait what new season today???

I'm sitting here trying to decide what to play... new season worth jumping into or more same as previous season?

I know there were supposed to be changes coming from PTR but i haven't really been keeping up with all that.


Content wise, same as season 4 (drastically changed helltides and are far better) but an additional end game wave based horde mode.

Otherwise, just tons of class changes, improvements to existing endgame (such as can now re-summon boss ladder bosses without needing to leave the dungeon) and unique items got massive overhauls (some are going to be arguably going from garbage to BiS), new items/tempering recipes, etc.

If you haven't played S4, it's worth checking out for sure. If you did play S4, it's arguably still worth checking out for all the sweeping changes + horde mode. I have a feeling horde mode will just become a thing to grind once BiS geared and probably lose its appeal, but we'll see.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Gonna rock a sorc again. That and Barb are the most fun to me. I just alternate one each season at this point.

Rogue was initially fun on release but when I beat Uber Lilith with it I haven’t ever wanted to play it again. Druid was my first 100 but the class is so not friendly to run again. You have to go level all the guardian shit, farm the green orbs, etc. plus it’s still very unique dependent to do a build. I’d consider it if they can fix those.

Season 5 looks to be another low season. Odd season team continues to take Ls, but I’m ready for another run to 100 before the expansion.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Wait what new season today???

I'm sitting here trying to decide what to play... new season worth jumping into or more same as previous season?

I know there were supposed to be changes coming from PTR but i haven't really been keeping up with all that.

There's a lot of changes to how the game works and lots of new legendary powers and uniques that i'm interested in trying out.
 

splattered

Member
Hmm if this is a smaller season before the expansion coming i may just skip this one so new expansion feels that much better when it lands.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
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These are the "premium" armor sets for this battle pass season, with this horse armor to cap it off

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Some neat weapon and portal cosmetics too. As always, the free tier is mostly terrible.

The red looks ok. I could rock pieces I think. Not big on the bare leg look but the rest works.
 

amigastar

Member
Just watching Rhykkers livestream of S5 and he started the game with a new character and he got about 12 skillpoints at level 2 how's that possible?
 
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DavidGzz

Gold Member
Just watching Rhykkers livestream of S5 and he started the game with a new character and he got about 12 skillpoints at level 2 how's that possible?

Lillith statue rewards.


So, they do have all the tempers I had previously unlocked already. I'm a god for being level 30. Gonna do the capstone already. I bet they meant to do this since it's a 2-month season.
 
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Diseased Yak

Gold Member
It’s what I’m doing this time.

Same here, and I haven't played Sorc yet in D4 so the early survivability is giving me fits.
Along with Chain Lightning I picked up Teleport and Frost Shield, what other skills/spells do you all recommend I get into as I level up?
 
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