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Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2220 on:** August 22, 2012, 09:42:31 AM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on August 22, 2012, 08:21:31 AM

Quote from: Borys on August 22, 2012, 06:45:41 AM
Gotta buy Diablo 3 now that it's fixed

Diablo 3 got an iPad release?

Murder

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2221 on:** August 22, 2012, 10:57:32 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on August 22, 2012, 09:42:31 AM

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on August 22, 2012, 08:21:31 AM
Quote from: Borys on August 22, 2012, 06:45:41 AM
Gotta buy Diablo 3 now that it's fixed

Diablo 3 got an iPad release?

Murder

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2222 on:** August 22, 2012, 02:57:52 PM »

FUCK THIS GAY EARTH

As I suspected, I can clear most of Act 3 with no issue. Also as I feared, Ghom rapes me no matter what.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2223 on:** August 22, 2012, 03:27:58 PM »

Dinged level 56

Brehvolution · « **Reply #2224 on:** August 22, 2012, 04:10:12 PM »

7 sided strike is really powerful now. It can take an elite mob down to half health before I lay my first lick down. Magda was a pussy and Belial couldn't hold my jock. Neither of them dropped anything useful either.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2225 on:** August 22, 2012, 05:16:00 PM »

I'm thinking of making a new char...

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2226 on:** August 22, 2012, 07:44:16 PM »

Jay Wilson talks Brevik-gate and D3 in general:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6398870250?page=1

My gut impression is, like I said earlier, that this patch helps but doesn't do enough with items. If you get a wand, it shouldn't be able to roll str or dex before it rolls int. Same with a hand crossbow or mighty weapon or fist for a monk. Make class restricted items like this less RNG, plz.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2227 on:** August 23, 2012, 01:45:21 PM »

Used some of the proceeds from the mediocre-good rares I've sold in the past few days to get my first real upgrade in forever. Finally got a better source, I'm now just under 50k with all my buffs AND I'm getting 9 arcane power per crit, which considering that my crit rate is 40.5% is often

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2228 on:** August 25, 2012, 01:35:27 AM »

Himu · « **Reply #2229 on:** August 25, 2012, 01:43:22 AM »

holy shit

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2230 on:** August 26, 2012, 12:36:17 AM »

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2231 on:** August 26, 2012, 09:09:11 AM »

Finally got a bad ass legendary... Fire Walker boots with 160 str, 170ish vit, 12% move speed, 4% melee reduction and about 170 bonus armor. If they had all resist instead of the 40 or so fire resist they have, I could have sold the fuckers for over 100mil. As is, I put them on the gold AH for 50mil. They really are the best barb firewalkers up there right now so I expect to be virtually rich later today.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2232 on:** August 26, 2012, 07:12:48 PM »

I played for an hour or so yesterday and still got some shitty drops

I think the best I got was a 705dps crossbow, or a chest with magic+gold find.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2233 on:** August 26, 2012, 09:08:28 PM »

Played some Act 3 with Treesong earlier. If you can at all, PLAY ACT 3 TO FARM FOR GEAR. Treesong got a ridonkulous legendary Monk helm and a couple of awesome weapons, I got a pair of gloves with 200 dex, 70 all resist, 30 cold resist and like 38% critical damage. Act 3 was also where I got those Fire Walkers yesterday. You don't even need any extra MF above what you have from NV and paragon levels. The drops are just really good.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2234 on:** August 26, 2012, 10:21:04 PM »

That Monk helm only sold for 4 million. FTGE. :'(

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Bringing my total gold to 4.2 million.

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Brought my armor up to 5k and my resists up to 500-600 apiece, plus about 50% more Magic Find. It cost me about 3k DPS so I'm back down to 27k. Still have 2 million left in the bank so it was pretty smart shopping. A Monk Helm saved my life last night.

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Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2235 on:** August 28, 2012, 12:56:01 PM »

I had to settle for selling those Fire Walkers for a measly 10 million $:-\$

I then promptly used half of it to buy a better piece of chest armor- this one has 3 sockets, better base INT and 50+ all resists. I had to sacrifice about 150 regen/second, but whatever. Still a massive upgrade.

naff · « **Reply #2236 on:** August 29, 2012, 08:47:53 AM »

Beat Ghom in Act III. Ghom was a surprisingly good boss fight, first time I've really had to think about strategy; I completely re-specced for the fight to play to Ghoms weaknesses and kite him around the edge of the arena. Act III is still pretty tough though, but I'm fairly confident fighting packs in the first part. Currently specced with a very average monk crit build - 30k DPS, 620 all res, 6150 AR, 25k vit, 26% CC, 220% CD and 20% IAS (1.82 hits per second). Couldn't afford CC/CD rings so I went with the now much cheaper IAS + relevant stats, if I had weapons with better LoH my build would be waaay better.

As it is I die fast against act 3 elites unless I can kill them faster than me so I've kinda relegated myself to solo farming. As soon as I play with friends it becomes a lot tougher due to low survivability.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2237 on:** September 05, 2012, 11:10:17 PM »

Oh god what am I doing here I am not good at the melee

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Triumph-1211/hero/8925444

Got bored of Wizarding and used my bank (around 5 million) to kit out my barb with a new main hand, gloves, bracers, belt and chest piece. Now I can haz whilrlwind plz. Farted around with it for about a half an hour at the beginning of Act 1 and even with my shitty armor/resists/life I still cut through everything with no problem.

I used this informative guide if anyone is interested in a Whirlwind build and hasn't actually tried it yet:

It's pretty informative and thorough. I'm about -200 on vit, -5k on life, shitty crit chance and all resists. It's fun to play, and is a good diversion when I'm not wizarding and while waiting for Torchlight 2/Borderlands 2.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2238 on:** September 06, 2012, 02:38:17 AM »

I'm going to start whirlwinding with my barb in the weeks before TL2. Seismic slam/hammer of the ancients sucks at single target damage and isn't cutting it where I am.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2239 on:** September 06, 2012, 02:51:44 AM »

Kripp makes Whirlwind look so badass. Then I try it

I'm still looking for a good offensive attack to add, can't make up my mind

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2240 on:** September 06, 2012, 06:34:35 AM »

Still having fun with D3 post patch 1.0.4, but I gotta be honest I am really looking forward to T2 just for a change of pace, even if that change of pace is presented in a queer cartoony manner.

Yoritomo · « **Reply #2241 on:** September 06, 2012, 03:48:01 PM »

I unfortunately have become adept at converting in game gold to money.

Every item I see on the auction house is now rendered in dollars rather than gold when I look at it even on the gold auction house. My brain does the conversion and I just can't spend money to get anything.

Then again I've made $700 or so off the RMAH or flipping items on the gold auction house then selling either gold or a item that sells quickly on the RMAH.

Now I just log in every 2 days when auctions have cleared and use my rolling 80-100 million gold fund to fuel my item flipping for about 20-30 minutes.

I haven't logged in to play for a long ass time :/

Due to the bugged legendaries, botters can now run act 3 which is driving the market down FAST. Gold peaked 2 days ago and has been following it south as people quit or have less need of gold due to the prices being driven down on the Gold auction house.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2242 on:** September 06, 2012, 06:13:28 PM »

Cohen and I just wiped 5+ times against Inferno Cydea.

demi · « **Reply #2243 on:** September 06, 2012, 07:21:00 PM »

Beat it, moved on. Last Act was pretty wack, and they made Diablo a butch lesbian with tits. Shame this game took so long to come out...

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2244 on:** September 06, 2012, 07:23:35 PM »

good to see I wasn't the only one who looked at Diablo and thought "dat asss

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Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2245 on:** September 06, 2012, 07:43:42 PM »

Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on September 06, 2012, 06:13:28 PM

Cohen and I just wiped 5+ times against Inferno Cydea.

FARG. That's about where I am. I gotta work in 15 minutes or I'd try and help you dudes. Got any spare time this weekend?

demi · « **Reply #2246 on:** September 06, 2012, 07:47:24 PM »

Everything evil in this game was a woman, as well. Not a single evil dude, lol. Good to see Blizzard agrees that women are a plague of evil.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2247 on:** September 09, 2012, 02:57:57 AM »

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Treesong-1905/hero/14186648

I found a Legendary Axe (Burning Axe of Sankis) on the AH for 700k - a bit less DPS, but +500 LoH. However, with +30% Fire damage, I respecced my skills to Fire and have not really had a problem. Plus, it casts Ignore Pain from time to time... Is really helping my survivability.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #2248 on:** September 09, 2012, 06:40:40 AM »

I might actually get to Level 60 with my Monk. weeee, I guess

god I must be so depressed to have resorted to playing this game again

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2249 on:** September 09, 2012, 04:09:02 PM »

Finally took out Cydea and Azmodan in Inferno. I love this build (based around Legendary Fire Axe) SO MUCH that I went and bought a new one with more int, more DPS, and more Life on Hit. My overall DPS went up 4.5k. It's total BEAST MODE. Can't wait to play with Creepy Old Guy so we can faceroll elites. (Seriously, A1+2 Inferno mobs are just SPAM SPAM SPAM dead)

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2250 on:** September 09, 2012, 04:28:05 PM »

I might log on later tonight; feel like shit right now, gonna nap and then have a little bit of homework to do but yer on the left coast so yay time differential.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2251 on:** September 09, 2012, 04:39:51 PM »

Also- Act II farming is pretty dope. You can just do Forgotten Cave or whatever it is, Vault of the Assassin, and then all the shit in the Terminus for quick and easy elite kills and the drop percentage isn't that much worse than Act III, plus you mow through it way quicker since the elites are weaker.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2252 on:** September 09, 2012, 04:41:49 PM »

Yeah, Black Soulstone to Zoltun Kulle is my favorite farming path in the game. 3 easy dungeons, tons of elites, kill a boss, bob's yer uncle

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2253 on:** September 09, 2012, 10:27:54 PM »

Man, fuckin' Rakanoth. He will teleport and one-shot you ... from off-screen, so you have no idea that it's coming. Am giving up on this fight until I can try it with others.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2254 on:** September 09, 2012, 11:28:59 PM »

I AM KING OF THOSE WITH NO LIVES

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2255 on:** September 09, 2012, 11:52:30 PM »

Still getting some stupid elite mobs in Act II, mainly those stupid bees. Saw a group of them last night with molten, desecrate and jailer. Gave up and went to play Tropico 4.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2256 on:** September 10, 2012, 12:01:57 AM »

The only time I can run into those idiot bee things is when I'm running around trying to find the Cave of the Betrayer and Vault of the Assassin in the overworld, so I usually just run away if they have any sort of jailer/frozen/waller affix, because fuck that. Vault of the Assassin is so quality- it averages 7-8 elite/champions for me and they're all pretty much pushovers.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2257 on:** September 14, 2012, 10:27:29 AM »

Why hello thar 1.0.5 sneak preview. Seems like just yesterday 1.0.4 hit with all of it's deliciousness.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/7155880/Patch_105_Sneak_Peek-9_13_2012

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Defensive Skill Changes

In our eternal quest to promote build diversity; we’ll be making changes to defensive skills across the board while simultaneously reducing incoming damage. The net result is a survivability buff for players, and an increase in build options as defensive abilities become less “mandatory.”

New Event: Infernal Machine

The Infernal Machine is a device that will allow level-60 players to battle “uber” versions of some of Sanctuary’s most nefarious bosses. While the rewards for defeating these bosses will be great, some assembly is required.

New System: Monster Power

Similar to the “Players 8” command in Diablo II, the Monster Power system is designed to give players more control over how challenging enemies are in each difficulty.

Oooooh, what's that? Looks like the Infernal Machine is gonna give some endgame stuff to do other than farming. My guess is the "some assembly required" caveat means you'll need to build it via drops like the Staff of Herding. Players 8 equivalent is good news too.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2258 on:** September 15, 2012, 12:23:21 PM »

New Dev Journal up

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/7155884/Dev_Journal_Defensive_Bonuses_and_Monster_Damage-9_14_2012

tl;dr version- some popular defensive skills are being nerfed, BUT at the same time they're nerfing incoming monster damage by 25% in Inferno... a future diary will go over the new "monster power" option, which is basically a reworking of D2's "players x" option that will allow those who want to have a tougher go of it to scale difficulty, I'm guessing. Hopefully more MF/better lewt is the reward for that.

Some highlights:

-Wizards: Energy Armor increase reduced from 65 to 35%; Prismatic Armor rune reduced from 40 to 25% resistance buff. On a personal level this doesn't bug me too much even though my Wizard has high armor/resistances for a wizard and benefits from those skills. The 25% damage reduction will more than offset this; I expect to be able to work in a few pieces of my MF gear honestly.

-Monks: most importantly, they're not fucking with One With Everything... yet. They want to but are trying to figure out how to do it without fucking over gear choices monks have made over the character's lifetime. Resolve drops from 25 to 20% dmg reduction; Seize the Initiative drops to a 50% Dex bonus to armor.

-WD: Jungle Fortitude drops from 20 to 15% dmg reduction.

-DH: a lot of bullshit that I didn't understand, DH's should click the link and read it

-Barb: HOLY SHIT. War Cry Impunity Resistance buff dropped from 50 to 20%; sell your WW it's all over. Leap: Iron Impact will also now only provide 100% armor per enemy hit for 3 seconds, down from a base 300% buff for 4 seconds. The War Cry nerf seems the most extreme to me; what's your initial thought, PD?

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #2259 on:** September 15, 2012, 04:27:18 PM »

I know I'm totally late on this, and I've been leveling up all my characters, so it's taking away time from my Monk, but oh my god I had no idea how addictive it would be once you got to Level 60/Inferno. HEY I HAVE 5 STACKED NV HOW CAN I EVER STOP PLAYING HOLY SHIT

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2260 on:** September 15, 2012, 04:28:33 PM »

definitely gonna play some tonight yo.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2261 on:** September 15, 2012, 05:10:47 PM »

I've been playing with Cohen over lunch quite a bit the last two weeks. I'm at 45k DPS + 5000 Armor + 550+ Resist All on my Witch Doctor. We can farm the first half of Act III pretty easily. The second half is okay in a group of 3 or 4.

I want to try to finish Inferno but HOLY SHIT do you need a good group of 4 to polish off the end of Act IV. Any other Boritos almost to the end of A4 Inferno? We should set a time and finish up this bitch.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2262 on:** September 15, 2012, 10:09:41 PM »

I can try and push through. I still need to beat Cydea and Azmodan in Act III tho. $:-\$

And yeah, Cohen's like Lv 17 paragon I was like whoa

pilonv1 · « **Reply #2263 on:** September 16, 2012, 12:09:28 AM »

Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on September 15, 2012, 12:23:21 PM

-Barb: HOLY SHIT. War Cry Impunity Resistance buff dropped from 50 to 20%; sell your WW it's all over. Leap: Iron Impact will also now only provide 100% armor per enemy hit for 3 seconds, down from a base 300% buff for 4 seconds. The War Cry nerf seems the most extreme to me; what's your initial thought, PD?

Sounds like I'm done then.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2264 on:** September 16, 2012, 01:38:44 AM »

I'll have to try the new War Cry. Very interested to see how it holds up against elites.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2265 on:** September 17, 2012, 04:59:18 PM »

I wound up accidentally pulling an elite and two champion groups - didn't notice any major difference in the amount of dmg mitigated by War Cry. Really the only thing I noticed is that those flying enemies that shoot Banelings (in Act 2) seem to do more damage to me now, but that's it.

I've been testing out the Templar in Act 2 and oh boy, I need to go back to the Enchantress lol. He just stands in poison and dies haha

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2266 on:** September 17, 2012, 06:10:26 PM »

It's not live yet- 1.0.5 has yet to hit, so you wouldn't have noticed any difference

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2267 on:** September 17, 2012, 11:15:08 PM »

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2268 on:** September 18, 2012, 09:06:28 AM »

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/17/diablo-iii-patch-105-the-two-biggest-features-detailed

Not a whole lot of new info.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2269 on:** September 21, 2012, 09:04:38 PM »

Serious dick move, Blizzard

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/7155881/Patch_105_Now_Available_on_PTR-9_21_2012

PTR version of 1.0.5 goes live right as Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2 are released. I'm downloading it now.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2270 on:** September 22, 2012, 01:29:04 AM »

D3 is dead

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2271 on:** September 22, 2012, 01:30:58 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on September 22, 2012, 01:29:04 AM

D3 is dead

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2272 on:** September 22, 2012, 06:39:19 AM »

Just the whole single player first playthrough experience in D3 is totally botched and devoid of any challenge or tension.

This becomes very apparent when playing games like B2 or TL2 which arent afraid to kill you.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2273 on:** September 25, 2012, 03:54:03 PM »

lolzers, TL2 is way more faceroll on initial playthrough than D3, wtf are you smoking

"Here, HAVE ALL THE ITEMS."

I actually like that, but still you're insane and shit.

On the topic of the 1.0.5 PTR, it's a complete and total fiasco. It went live Friday, got taken down over the weekend, went back live yesterday, and now as soon as you log in you get disconnected. I know this is sort of a 1.0.5 beta but FOR FUCKS SAKES BLIZZARD. Quit jerking off your pandas and fix this shit so I can at least experience jankiness AS I'M PLAYING as opposed to TRYING TO BE ABLE TO PLAY.

Meanwhile, TL2, etc etc.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2274 on:** September 25, 2012, 04:40:56 PM »

Yeah, TL2 is fun, but to pretend it's harder than Diablo III is

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And I guess it has "better" itemization when measured in raw numeric stat budget per item slot.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2275 on:** September 25, 2012, 04:47:40 PM »

Like I said in the TL2 thread, D3 is the better game but TL2 is pleasing in different ways... it rewards you more for just showing up and hanging out as opposed to trying and putting effort into it. It's like a girlfriend who always tries to please you vs. one that will challenge you... while fun for a while, eventually you're gonna get bored with girl number one.

This is just my opinion on about half a playthrough of TL2. It could change on game+ but I doubt it. The core gameplay of D3 is so good that as more content is released, I will keep coming back to it and catassing the absolute shit out of it. I will probably play TL2 for a while as well but it's just not as rewarding imo.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2276 on:** September 25, 2012, 04:55:21 PM »

wow, I came up with the EXACT same analogy yesterday - TL2 is the girlfriend who is always telling you how awesome you are. yeah, it's nice at first, but eventually you realize it's just empty platitudes ... and that she probably says this to all the guys.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2277 on:** September 25, 2012, 04:57:42 PM »

TORCHLIGHT 2 GIVES SHITTY BLOWJOBS AND HAS HERPES, DADDY ISSUES

J/k, it's fun but yeah like I said.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #2278 on:** September 25, 2012, 04:59:41 PM »

I find it funny that the plot of TL2 is EXACTLY the same as the plot of Diablo II, down to the crazy retcon of the first game's protagonist

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #2279 on:** September 25, 2012, 05:01:16 PM »

THESE GAMES HAVE PLOTS??!?

Yeah, I noticed that too.

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