[PC] NOBDYH GVIE S A SHIT ABOUT DIABLO IIII

Trying to figure out if I'm having more fun playing the game or just doing auction shenanigans. Nothing like buying a bow for 2k gold and reselling it for 120k within an hour. I just wonder if people on the RMAH are this dumb.

Edit: Just logged on after not being on for a few hours and saw my 15 minutes of AH shopping, socketing with 100 gold gems and relisting got me 200k. Not bad for my max character being level 53, and being unable to farm properly. Let's see how an investment of about $20k and ten minutes turns out over the next day.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

I just wonder if people on the RMAH are this dumb.

People have bought things in the RMAH, so: yes.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hey Daravon,

I'm at work in the morning EST, but I'll probably be around in the afternoon. If I see you online I'll just pop into your game.

I've almost broken 2M gold for the first time ever. Got to the sewers in Act II also, although by the time I got there, I was down about 100k gold from when I started from repair costs. Fucking firebombs, man. And mortars. Fuck mortars.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Daravon: Past 4 PM PST I am down since that's the time I go home from work.

Act III still kicking my ass. If you're online, I'll join your game.

FELIPE NO

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.

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

The funny thing is my "normal" gear represents only about 1k dps difference to my mf gear right now. Which you would think means I could upgrade relatively cheaply, but I can't find jack that's under 2M, and the 2M is extremely marginal upgrades.

I suspect I'm doing it wrong.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Just finished act 1 Inferno with my barb, with minimal problems while playing solo. A couple of champion packs in the areas ahead of the Butcher were problematic, but otherwise I was good. Beat the Butcher on my first attempt.

Started act 2 and proceeded to get rolled by wasps.

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

Originally Posted by Hedonism Bot

The funny thing is my "normal" gear represents only about 1k dps difference to my mf gear right now. Which you would think means I could upgrade relatively cheaply, but I can't find jack that's under 2M, and the 2M is extremely marginal upgrades.

I suspect I'm doing it wrong.

What's your regular DPS at?

My regular gear puts me around 33k or so DPS with Magic Weapon/Force Weapon on. I get around 30k with some MF gear on (~150MF), but my survivability takes a huge hit. I lose something like 10k or 14k hp and my resists/armor take a dump. Finding gear with upgrades across the board can be expensive, yeah, but there's also been some inflation going on. 2M gold just doesn't go as far as it used to.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Still in Act 1 myself. I know I gotta try and find gear that's vit, dex and resist for my Demon Huntard. Good place to farm? Act IV hell? or should I keep trying Whimseyshire?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Sakabadger

What's your regular DPS at?

My regular gear puts me around 33k or so DPS with Magic Weapon/Force Weapon on. I get around 30k with some MF gear on (~150MF), but my survivability takes a huge hit. I lose something like 10k or 14k hp and my resists/armor take a dump. Finding gear with upgrades across the board can be expensive, yeah, but there's also been some inflation going on. 2M gold just doesn't go as far as it used to.

My resists are crap. =p I don't think any of my equipment has resists on it. I'm using prismatic armor vs. force armor because I don't think things are hitting me for 35% of my health THAT often. I took off magic weapon, so my build is charged bolt with piercing orb, arcane orb with tap the source, teleport with fracture, diamond skin with crystal shell, energy armor and venom hydra.

Basically I diamond skin as often as I can.

My DPS with "regular" gear is literally like 32k vs. 30 now. I think my critical hit chance actually DROPS with my regular gear, but my int goes up by about 100 points. My INT right now is something in the 1600's. My resists with energy armor is between 250-300? I think damage reduction is around 50% for both armor and resists. I've got around 29k life.

The main driver of my dps right now is critical hits. My crit chance is 36% with 150% damage boost. I think my regular gear ups the damage but drops the chance.

I had this fantasy of getting critical hit chance up really high and then putting critical mass on, and keeping diamond skin up forever.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I don't think Prismatic is worth it over Force unless you already have a substantial amount of resists already. Force Armor will at least keep you from being one-shot by most attacks and give you time to teleport/diamond skin yourself out. Of course, if you're trying to crit a lot to keep diamond skin off cooldown (a legit build) then that might be different...

Crit is definitely the popular way to go for now. I think I've got around 33% crit change with ~200% damage, myself. If I had higher crit chance and some AP on Crit gear, I'd probably switch to an arcane orb build.

One of my friends who plays wizard has a funky build which uses Energy Twister/Wicked Wind to crit a lot, with the crits reducing cooldown on Diamond Skin/Mirror Image/Frost Nova. It works quite well as a tank/disruption build, but he couldn't kill anything to save his life. So, there is a danger on having all your gear focused on survivability instead of DPS as well...

FELIPE NO

So I haven't played in about a week, and I load up and there's been a patch. Apparently now you can sell stuff other than weapons and armor in the RMAH. Now you can sell dyes, crafting mats, gems, etc... (still no gold yet). This is great cause now I can attempt to get rid of my excess Tomes of Blacksmithing (well I guess I could have sold them for gold, but I'm hoping to make some cash from them heh)

Well according to diablofans... you can buy and sell gold. Hmmm

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

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.

Basically, like Daravon, I just farm Act I for interesting shit but my interest is slightly waning. Sometimes I use my WD, sometimes Monk. Now I'm just trying to level 60 both Demon Hunter and Barbarian, then possibly Wizard to get the last achievement I'll probably do. Otherwise I'm here and there without any general direction to advance past Act III (my WD is getting slaughtered by Ghom every single time and Monk is basically meh-ish).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've taken a monk, wizard, demon hunter, and barb to 60, and taken the barb and monk to act 2 inferno. Here is my problem with the game. My barb and monk absolutely roll through act 1 solo. They can barely survive in act 2. I understand that inferno is supposed to be difficult, but come on, if I can dominate act 1, I should be able to at least compete in act 2.

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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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I have a goal of finishing act IV inferno. I suspect that once I hit that, I will drop the game hard. I may try leveling other characters, but hard-core is right out, so I feel I will lose interest pretty quick.

However, with a huge investment of cash, term and I seemed to make decent progress. We completed the catapults with only a few challenging areas.

I'd be interested in trying Ghom together. I bet we could take the bastard. Azmodan is really the only thing I'm actually worried about in Act III because he plays with the damage field thing way more than GHom does. Fuck that guy. Term, let's poop on his face.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Ghom literally rapes me in record time. The guy drops miasma like there's no tomorrow and I seriously went against him like a dozen times, to no effect. Maybe it'll be better together, why not!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Range is key. My strategy has literally been diamond shield to hit him and then run like a bitch until diamond shield respawns. We can do this. If you tank his heart-burn, I'll be all gastro-intestinal bypass on the mofo.

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Worth a shot. My WD was the one having problems against him, with about 2k life a second (or some shit) shaved off when he stands looking pretty amidst the gas. Hopefully my Monk can tank that motherfucker.

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

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

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.

Respecs I think are every time you start new game+ in the first act, if memory serves correctly. I think you can only respec once per playthrough though.

And yeah, in D2 you have to stick to a certain build which means if you screw up along the way, you'll have to finish the current game and respec in the next difficulty.

But yeah, what only gets me going now if levelling up Barb and DH to 60. After that, I'm pretty much done. I assume at that time, Borderlands 2 hits and I'll be using my 360 once more.

Funny. As I mentioned to my brother earlier, the game comes out May. By mid-July, mostly everyone's interest has significantly waned. So much for waiting for a decade.

Hope to see you later, somewhere. Hopefully Guild Wars 2.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

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

Yeah, I think I'm done too. I got to Ghom.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?