[PC] NOBDYH GVIE S A SHIT ABOUT DIABLO IIII

Also IIRC on that now that we can see item levels it has to be a Legendary that's iLevel is actually 61 or higher. Apparently pre-patch that was an issue as ilevel 60 legendaries won't always generate Brimstones, and Level 60 Legendary could actually be iLevel 60-63. I'm 99% sure I tested it post-patch with an iLevel 60 Legendary and I got 3 encrusted hoofs -_-. I've also read you can get them rarely from rares and very rarely from blues, but I Salavged a shitload of each and no go. Post patch if you're on Inferno it shouldn't take you that long to get one, and honestly if you just care about the achievement you could probably locate a shitty i61 Legendary of any type on the AH for like 50k or something.

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Spent 3.5 million, and I now have a full mf/gf set that's good enough for me to do the Act 1 run with and only die here and there. More of a pain in the ass than my regular gear, but with NO NV it puts me at 189% GF and 177% MF. Doing the Act 1 run still takes about the same amount of time (~2 hours) but in my first run with this gear I cleared nearly 500k in just straight Gold/vendor trash compared to 200-250k per run with my normal almost zero GF/MF gear. Awwwww yeah.

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Yeah, dual weilding 1h crossbow is generally only worth it if both of them are amazing, and you have crazy crit chance and damage. Only other thing I can think of that would be a bonus would be Max Discipline which you can get on one-handers, but you're probably better off going with a two-hander and a quiver. Get whichever you can get the best stats/DPS on, but generally DH's will roll 2h crossbow.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Interesting, I'll give that a go. The Watch Tower is definitely good and why people added the Highlands to the Act 1 run, but I've never had it spawn with the regularity he's stating. Also I'm not sure exactly how he handles the Cemetery, he makes it seem like he just runs the one crypt, but that's not the one that's always open and all of the crypts have 2+ elites. I'll give this a go right now and report back.

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I ran it a few times, it's a mixed bag. I only get the Watch Tower maybe about half of the time, but the Elite in the Cathederal is usually there. But he's right about the Tower, there's always like 5 or 6 Elites and a Resplendent Chest in there, it's pretty nuts. I don't know if it winds up being terribly more effective than the previous Act 1 run we're doing.

What I WOULD recommend we start doing though regardless is checking for the Watch Tower first thing, and keep re-loading until it pops since that seems pretty ridiculous. Then from there maybe check Cathedral 3 and then after that either proceed with pretty much what we've been doing, or we could run this list. It's kind of a toss-up for me, this way is probably technically more productive but whatever.

FELIPE NO

Made 8.5 million overnight on a ring, then spent most of that on this, awww yeah



About a 2500 Damage upgrade along with a couple extra thousand health. Would still be worth it for my main gear, but this will be a BIG boost for my MF/GF set which is 199% GF 177% MF with NO stacks. Obviously that gear is not as good as my main gear, so the DPS/HP boost from this will be a big boon for that setup, and will probably pay for itself fairly quickly. Ideally I'd want crit/dex/socket, but that stuff is super expensive, even way more than what this cost

Edit: Ooh, spent 200k for a pair of gloves that were a slight vit/dex upgrade on my mf/gf set, but also upped my mf/gf set slightly, up to 202% GF and 180% MF.

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I'm at work but I think in my full normal gear without SS (but with Archery) my Damage is around 43k.

ALSO more importantly I can't link to it on my phone, but everyone needs to check out the Blizzard blog, they basically straight doubled drop rates. ilevel 63 gear went from like 2.0% to I think 4.8% in act 1 alone. I'm seeing people on GAF report finding 3+ legendaries an hour, and apparently act 3 is now a ilevel 63 item paradise. Holy shit.

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I expect that as prices plummet people will begin to be able to actually clear inferno from drops and reduced ah prices. Then the bitching will begin about lack of endgame content and variety (completely randomized dungeons would have gone a long way here) and uber gear will become way more expensive. I do think that's ultimately better than where we are at now though, better to bitch about endgame than having the majority of your userbase being not even able to get there. By all accounts D2 (like a lot of loot games) was more about clearing the content repeatedly to get better loot just to get it and to clear even more efficiently, not grinding forever just to try to even progress a little which is what we had.

Games still has a ton of issues which is apparent from the hard buffs and nerfs we are already seeing so quickly, but short-term this is probably a good direction. By a lot of accounts the playerbase has been dropping dramatically and they had to do something. I already know a bunch of people who have dropped it already and I was on the verge, but this will get me back in full-time for at least a bit. Remains to be seen how they handle it past that though.

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Agreed, but on the flipside at high levels the gem gains are retarded. I spent around maybe 1.5 million to get Star Emeralds in all my slots on both sets of my gear and it was only like a 250 damage improvement when I'm at over 40k as-is. They need to really buff the higher levels or something. I've seen some suggestions that either the highest levels or at new added levels it should be % gains which could also work. Right now its basically just a gold sink, the highest level gems cost in the tens of millions last I looked and I'd get like a 50 damage increase from that. The fuck?

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Did an act 1 runthrough off and on tonight. Demolishing Act 1 with my ~250/270 MF/GF was fucking glorious. I was finding tons of iLevel 63 rares that I literally didn't know I hadn't found and didn't even recognize at first (helms, armors, bracers, etc). Found a good bracer that was just BARELY not an upgrade, but that was about it. But on a regular basis I'm finding 1h weapons more in the 600-700 range consistently as opposed to the 200-300 range before; half of the stuff I was picking up was actually decent. In my act 1 playthrough I probably picked up around 150 drops, and the vast majority (about 75%+) were rares, not blues, and half or more were at least 61 or 62, with a good amount of 63's. Also even though I didn't necessarily find a ton of stuff worth selling on the AH, since the stats are higher on the higher ilevel items I cleared about 350k on one run from gold and vendor trash, as opposed to about 250k on a run before.

Also the reports of killing goblins with 5 stacks guaranteeing at least 1 rare drop seems to be true. Not only did I seem to be finding WAY more Goblins than normal (could be RNG, but I probably found at least 5 or 6 in my playthrough which is way more than I usually get) but I can think of at least twice when I killed them I was getting 3 or 4 rares, and one time all 3 were ilevel 63's.

Amazing.

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*GET HOME FROM WORK AFTER HAVING 3 DAYS OF NO INTERNET DUE TO STORMS*

*DIABLO 3 SERVERS DOWN*

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I was speaking idiomatically.

Managed to play for a bit last night. Then today there was maintenance, then ironically right around when that ended our internet went down again. By the time it came back up I was balls deep in Theatrhythm soooooo.

So is anyone going to be around tomorrow who is down for doing some Act 1 farming? I can probably pry myself off Theatrhythm if there's going to be folks around.

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I'll probably hop in in a couple of hours then after lunch. I haven't really tried progressing in the game; I can do Act 2 mostly okay though with my normal gear. But my MF/GF gear is ridiculous (I think I'm up to 202 GF and 188 MF without any NV) and is good enough to get me through Act 1 with minimal issues, so I've just been running that. I'm sitting on about 6 or 7 million right now, and I could bump my GF/MF set up even higher, but we know that they're making some changes to MF/GF in the near future so I kinda don't want to invest in that. But at the same time I don't really want to blow most of that to get a single upgrade for my "real" gear if I'm not even really using it right now. So I'm just kinda trucking along atm.

FELIPE NO

You play a Wizard right? No idea honestly. My MF/GF unbuffed damage is like 30k, my "real" gear is I think around 43k. It's enough of a difference where I won't fuck with Act 2 in my MF/GF gear, at least not solo. As far as costs go for me to get upgrades for my real set I'm looking at 2-3 million at the least for small upgrades so that sounds about right I guess?

I did spend probably like 6 million or so on my MF/GF gear though, but it's also always hard to tell how lucky I got with purchases from either set. I definitely got an amulet for both sets and a pair of gloves on my real set that I should have paid 10+ million for that I got for less than 1 million, so there's always a random/stupid factor.

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No idea what tomes are going for, but apparently there's zero market in the RMAH for most craftables because there's a 0.25 minimum per item, and people won't buy even Exquisite Essences at 25 cents a pop (nor should they). Not sure what's up with gold right now, supposedly gray market prices have already dropped to something like under $2/million now, so I'm not sure there's much money to be made there.

I'm still playing here and there, but honestly I'm not sure why. The end-game and general disappointment with it has been pretty widespread (I mean fuck, there was an article on goddamn CNN about it) and they've already said that it's not something that they can really patch and that an expansion isn't coming anytime soon. I'm still playing it when listening to podcasts, but the moment Torchlight 2 hits (or maybe when Path of Exile goes open beta or I can get into that) I'm out. I've been currently stuck in the exact same spot progress-wise for over 100 game hours despite upgrading a fair bit since I first got there, which basically indicates to me not only that it's broken, but that there's no point in trying that anymore. So last night I dumped almost all of my cash into further upgrading my MF/GF set that I can run Act 1 with as well as upgrading the MF/GF on my follower (Templar, also gave him that one weapon legendary that has MF on it). If I'm playing solo with my Templar and my ferrets out I have an obscene 230% Gold Find and 212% Magic Find without ANY NV. And this is a million times more productive than actually trying to advance in the game. It's pretty retarded. Between the problems it obviously has and Bashiok pretty much saying that most of these issues are beyond patching and will require an Expansion, I'm sure eventually it'll get there but not before the first expansion which I would imagine is at least a year off at the very, very earliest. At least supposedly Torchlight 2 is in about a month, hopefully they didn't fuck that one up.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm in a similar boat, but I get cockblocked hard in Act 3 instead of Act 2, 3 seems to be the biggest sticking point. I don't see a single person talking about Act 4 difficulty since if you can get past Act 3 it's a non-issue, which is retarded. Honestly I have no interest in leveling other characters though, because I know I'm going to hit the same wall.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I just don't think I can play this game anymore right now. It's just boring and/or frustrating every time I play now.

Word on the street is that Torchlight 2 isn't going to be until at least September (if not possibly later), so of course I just installed Diablo 2, and when I get paid this friday I'm getting access to the Path of Exile closed beta, which looks pretty rad and I've heard almost nothing but great things about. Outside of playing D2 for a few hours once about 5 years ago and a few weeks ago I've never played it, so it'll be interesting. It's actually kind of annoying trying to find specific information on the game, because the entire internet assumes you know everything about it. Only thing I'm not really a fan of is you can "fuck up" your character's build with stat/skill placement, which is one thing that's not a problem in Diablo 3. It looks like they've added a respec option in D2, but I think you have to do something to get more than one.

So yeah, I'll probably be fucking around with that and/or PoE until Borderlands 2 hits. If Torchlight 2 doesn't hit in August that ship has sailed for me, since it'll be nothing but Borderlands 2 and then Halo 4 for me until at least next year, especially since I'll need to try to squeeze in RE6, AC3, and a couple of other games in there as well :/. Godspeed gentlemen.

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I might check out Guild Wars 2, but I never played 1, and it's release date has the same problem as Torchlight 2's for me, so it's kinda a bust. I will be all over Borderlands 2 on 360 though.

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There's an open stress test weekend this weekend for Path of Exile, everyone should go check it out. I played it for an hour or two, and had more fun then I had in the last hundred hours I played of Diablo 3.

I was speaking idiomatically.

The Skill Tree is insane. There's a lot of the stat bonus stuff, but it's also partly so crazy because every class shares that same tree, you just start in different locations.

Also remember that is only for PASSIVE skills; you get active skills by equipping and leveling up gems which is a whole other thing (that actually is pretty interesting).

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1.04 preview notes here: 1.0.4 Systems Preview - Diablo III

I'm not gonna lie, I got a bit wet reading that. I might be back on board, rumored date is 8/20.

FELIPE NO

To be fair I'm pretty sure Torchlight and Titan Quest are much considered the same way.

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Holy Fuck: 1.0.4 Legendary Item Improvements - Diablo III

We don't even have full patch notes for 1.04, but it looks like they may have actually gone a long way in fixing this shit, I'll eat some crow on this one (I figured they would eventually get it, but not this quickly). There's also some detailed notes on Barbarian changes in 1.04, but none of this means anything to me: Patch 1.0.4 Preview: Barbarian - Diablo III

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Patch preview notes for I think all the classes are up. The philosophy seems to be that instead of nerfing anything, they buffed all of the currently unpopular skills. On the DH they upped the damage on Rain of Vengeance to 75% over 5 seconds to 715% over 5 seconds which is fucking hilarious.

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Hmm.

Unofficial Patch 1.0.4 Changes - Class changes, New Items, Affixes and More!! - News - Diablo Discussion and Community Forums - DiabloFans.com

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.