[PC] NOBDYH GVIE S A SHIT ABOUT DIABLO IIII

More power to him. I hope Blizzard sends him a W2.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

I still log on because I don't have anything else to put time into right now. Basically just waiting for Borderlands 2 to come out. I think I spend more time in the auction house than actually playing, since I'm kind of at that point with my demon hunter where any legitimate upgrade for any one item slot would cost pretty much all of my fifteen million gold. I think statwise, my character is probably ready for act 3 inferno, but I don't have the skill or patience to tackle that with her.

I did manage to sell a helm on the RMAH last week for $49.99 (net $41.xx), putting my RMAH total up to $106, which is more than I paid for the collector's edition of the game.

On a side note, I installed Diablo 2: LOD a couple of weeks ago and have been playing a necromancer on /players8. Cleared normal difficulty with no experience grinding, just playing the quests straight through, at level 45 with zero character deaths. I will most likely clear Nightmare with zero deaths as well.

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Ok, the Paragon system actually sounds interesting. This could be the first real, non-superficial improvement over Diablo 2 that this development team has managed to make.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I played for about an hour. Basically did an act 1 inferno farm run, plus Jailer through Butcher. I ended up getting about 3/4 of the way to my first paragon level and found a high quantity of yellows and blues, but I was also running with 200% base MF plus 5 stacks for most of it. Quality of my drops were better than usual, but nothing special.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

Act 3 is still rough, but I finally managed to kill Ghom (which I absolutely could not do pre-patch), but it still took me forever. I've started playing again, at least until Borderlands 2 comes out, so we should try to hook up. I'd imagine that we could at least get you as far as I am. Wasn't one of the things in this patch them removing enemy HP bonuses in multiplayer, or doing something with that?

Other than that I'm still having better luck rolling through Act 1 with my 200+ MF/GF gear then trying to do Act 2/3 with my "real" gear. Act 2 is kinda doable but a pain in the ass with my MF/GF gear, but I won't even touch Act 3 with that. Ultimately I'm getting way more rares doing Act 1 since I can do it so much faster, but the only downside is that most of the plans I would want for higher gems and crafting don't drop in Act 1 :/

Also with my DH I picked up a build that someone on GAF suggested which has been interesting so far. Instead of spamming Elemental Arrow (Lightning Ball) and Smokescreening anytime anyone gets near me, I've switched to Cluster Shot with the Rune where it drops grenades and does Fire damage. Then to up my Hatred regen to support that I've switched to the Bat (for 3 Hatred Regen/sec), and Entangling shot with the Rune that regens 6 Hatred per shot. I'm still on the fence about Entangling shot; with this setup being able to slow enemies is very useful, but it's slower and does less damage than Hungering Arrow. Also I dropped Caltrops for Gloom, with the Rune that blocks 65% of damage while it's active. So essentially I go into combat and with full Hatred I can get off two Cluster Arrows which will pretty much kill any normal mobs, and if it doesn't or I'm fighting Elites I'm regening Hatred like a motherfucker, and I pop Gloom which will allow me to tank maybe half of the Elites out there. And with Gloom active you get 20% of damage dealt back as health, so if I pop a Cluster Shot I'm doing 60k+ on normal and 130k+ on a crit so I'm healing fast. Then I still keep Smoke Screen for when that's not an option or it goes bad.

I'm still dying (that's the DH way), but this is a fairly interesting build. What the other guy is doing which supports this much better is he's got his natural crit chance at 30%+ and has max discipline + discipline regen with the Natalya set which makes all of that much easier. Additionally with his natural crit he can drop Sharpshooter and he picks up the Passive that reduces the discipline costs of the Cluster Shot grenades, and I think maybe ups their damage or something else as well. I'm not sure that I'm going to roll with this forever, but it is interesting. Without having his setup it's probably not quite as reliable as Elemental Arrow, but I'm doing HUGE bursts of damage in like 1-2 seconds. Also Entangling Shot is much more useful when playing in groups, so there's that as well.

One thing that you can do, because you have a legacy Nat's Mark, is wear four pieces of legacy Nat's set for the +2 disc/sec regen and replace the bat with Preparation with Punishment rune to instantly restore all hatred for 25 disc. Not much out there is going to survive four cluster bombs with some hungering arrows in between.

FELIPE NO

Legacy Nat's is all pretty cheap except the ring, unless you start talking about getting critical chance on the hat and high dex on the boots.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I just found a 9% magic find, one socket legacy Beckon Sail on the auction house for 490k gold. I immediately purchased it. It was socketed with a Star Emerald, which is currently priced at roughly 700k gold to purchase from the auction house, and costs about 600k to craft if you start with perfect squares. These people are silly sometimes. Now I can unsocket it, sell the cloak for 50k or whatever, and either keep the emerald or sell it for a nice profit.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, it took maybe ten tries and a little equipment adjustment (trading about 6k dps for about 350 or so all resist), but I soloed Ghom tonight. The lower repair costs are far less frustrating now.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

For the most part, everything in Act 3 could one shot me if I didn't have Shadow Power/Gloom running. That wasn't a problem for melee enemies because they rarely got close enough to take a swing at me. Those flying, fireball spitting guys and the goat spearmen on the other hand were tough. Lots of vaulting.

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

I use one handed crossbows, so I don't even fool with attack speed. I'm straight critical chance + critical damage when I'm running my non-mf gear. My normal gear gets me something like 53% crit chance (including the archery bonus), and my character sheet dps shows mid-50k while using a 1050 dps hand crossbow. I picked up a 1200+ dps Calamity the other day for 20 million that put me past 70k in normal gear, but I decided to flip it for a quick 10 mil profit. Right now I'm considering just RMAHing my 40 million gold and pocketing a little cash ahead of Borderlands 2, since I know on that day, I probably won't pick up Diablo for months at the least.

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You need some all resist and critical damage. I would swap that blue ring with one that does 35+ all resist, 24+ critical damage, and 40 or 50 dex/vit. Those are usually pretty inexpensive. Also replace your blue bracer with one that adds critical chance, or perhaps a legacy (read: inexpensive) Lacuni Prowler with dex.

For farming act 1, you could most likely easily just load up on inexpensive 15% magic find/+dex items and survive fine.

Here is my guy. That is my magic find set and you can see that the only expensive pieces are the amulet (which I found), the helm (which I found), the right ring (which I found), and maybe the bracer (it cost me 1.5 mil a while back, dex+vit+all resist+critical chance on a mf bracer, yeah).

I was speaking idiomatically.

With my normal adventuring gear, I have 320 all resist, and really I think that in act 3 it wouldn't matter if I had 75, 300, or 500. It may be the difference between getting one shot and two shot, which isn't much of a difference at all.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

In act 1 farming, it is actually useful because the enemy damage isn't outrageous. I guess he did say that he was wanting to move up to act 2 though.

FELIPE NO

Basically, I bought another Calamity for 9 million and sold 30 of my remaining 31 million for real money. I'm hoping to resell said Calamity for 20 million, but if not, at least I have an 1194 damage one hander with high critical damage to use if I ever decide to turn this game on again after Borderlands 2 comes out.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I picked up Torchlight 2 using some of the money that Diablo 3 players put into my Paypal account.

How ya doing, buddy?

I started a fresh monk, set it to MP10, and played through 75% of act 1 solo, then opened the game up to public and we went four man from the spider cave, though the end of act 1, and all the way through act 2. My fresh monk is now level 27 after about 3 hours of play. That is exactly like Diablo 2, where you could set it to /players8 and reap experience, where the cost is only having to hit a demon 3 times to kill it instead of once or twice. When you look down and see you're getting 300%+ bonus experience, that is hilarious. It really is too bad I don't have a hellfire ring and/or Leoric ring to supplement my growth. At this rate, I might be past 60 when I finish Nightmare.

I like how when I stopped playing, a bad, low end Calamity was still a million+, now it is cheaper than +exp gear for level 15 characters. The game is definitely less terrible than it was before, and the fact that green and burnt orange items actually drop sometimes now is a plus.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'm having fun with this monk, using Fists of Thunder/Thunderclap and Sweeping Wind/Cyclone along with a 6/25 Won Khim Lau and about 2200 life on hit. Running MP4 inferno to start with, though I'm sure I will have to scale that back once I get towards the end of act 1 and into act 2, since I am basically geared on a budget and only getting about 50k paper DPS.

I had nearly a double legendary drop the other day, with one dropping about a full screen away from another. It was hell difficulty, so nothing to write home about. The other day, I found a low level legendary amulet, Squirt's Necklace, which has terrible stats but still sold for 2 million. Whatever, people are dumb I guess.

I just found a 272 str, 6% cc Immortal King's hat that is apparently worth many millions, and is probably the most valuable item I have found on the game. If I ever pick up my barbarian again, I guess I would regret selling it, but ehhhh, a quarter billion gold sounds better than holding some godly item just in case I ever need it in the future on a character I will probably never touch again.

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

What is the deal here, last week 150 dex Unity rings cost 500k, today they are 10 times that. Good Natalya's Reflections could be had for under a million, now the cheapest bad one on auction house is 850k.

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