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Old 04-25-2014, 12:51 AM   #2541
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GD wasted RNG - got another Mask. At least it was 7% more pet damage I guess.
Damn you!!!

So apparently Whimsyshire can show up as a floor during rift runs! That sure was fun! I only wish we could have made the guardian appear there to see what it would come up as. Upon hindsight we should have filled up our bar on the floor below and topped it off in Whimsy Hopefully another chance will come up sometime!
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Old 04-25-2014, 03:36 AM   #2542
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K, thx guys. I guess I've just been unlucky, good drops have been bleak on T1 so decided to reach out to the community. Tho in all fairness my T2/T3 runs haven't been much better.
I had that impression myself playing and not being terribly lucky. However I finally clued in to the amount of farming people are doing, for example people were running for some ring that drops your set requirements by 1 in Act 1 normal bounties, they did upwards of 100 runs and were still going....

So when I look at the time I spend playing the game, a few hours a night max in comparison to that level of farming I realize why my gear seems so behind.

Although been very lucky on my crusader lately, he's now over 500k dmg with 10m in toughness and is now my main farming guy, which is sad I guess considering my wizard and DH still feel so week.
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Old 04-26-2014, 08:58 AM   #2543
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buy your gloves from Kadala. I have probably found magefist 5 times from her.
Yeah I was playing with my friends the other night and they all gambled a pair of magefist haha. They tried to give it to me but couldn't. I have spent over 1500 shards on gloves alone and still nothing. Oh well hopefully soon.
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Old 04-26-2014, 04:50 PM   #2544
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Yeah I was playing with my friends the other night and they all gambled a pair of magefist haha. They tried to give it to me but couldn't. I have spent over 1500 shards on gloves alone and still nothing. Oh well hopefully soon.
Wow that's crazy. I've spent maybe 1000 shards on gloves and have got 3 magefists
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Old 04-27-2014, 12:18 AM   #2545
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Yeah, I bought about 50 gloves today from Kadala and got nothing, and then tonight a nice set glove dropped instead in a rift...thanks game!
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Old 04-27-2014, 01:10 PM   #2546
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Logged in for an hour last night and got the Butchers Axe drop with 2600+ damage and 1100 strength good for an 8.9% increase in damage over all. Then got a legendary amulet drop that increased everything across the board significantly. The Barb is definitely getting better now.

I just wish my DH could take a hit or two so I could finish getting her to 70.

Jumping back in now to see if anything else nice drops.
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Old 04-27-2014, 06:37 PM   #2547
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You can level to 70 without much issue on expert.
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Old 04-27-2014, 06:41 PM   #2548
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Another sweet thing about this Butchers axe I have, 33.3% chance is causes 383% bleed damage per hit. At this rate in T1, When this thing kicks in, it's like getting 3 hits in one. Bloody helpful.
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Old 04-28-2014, 04:34 PM   #2549
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OK, I giggled myself silly last night after I changed my build around a bit.

First, I wanted to see what the final set bonus for the Tals set looked like. When attacking, it drops a meteor of the same damage type with an eight second cool down. Since I am now focussed on archon attacks only, I thought, what the heck, maybe it will help every eight seconds or so.

But what happened is that FIRE meteors were dropping too. I then realized my familiar was fire, and it was triggering attacks too. Cool. Two types now dropping, and when busy would average one every four seconds.

Thought I would change out my energy armour for Storm Armour, which then triggered lightning meteors. Very cool. Three types dropping!

What the heck, go for broke, so I changed out my Spectral Blades to the ice blades rune and added Cold. Too..... freakin'..... awesome.

Rolled an increased damage for Meteor, and voila... death from above!

Now, to do all this, did take a bit of toll on my insanely high toughness (for a sorc), but it is worth it. As I told Sled last night, I almost feel sorry for Treasure Goblins now! LOL.

Here is the current build.... http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/S...80/hero/254649

The left ring is giving me the final set bonus on three of the four sets I am wearing. Only have one item (gloves) for the last one.

Very, very cool and powerful. Running T3 with my enchantress (and her all skills released) quite easily. T4? bit of a challenge so far, but definitely doable. Edit, T4 is fairly easy too, if I don't rush to fast. Again, cool build if you can find the pieces.

Edit 2, just to be clear, the Storm Armour automatically triggers a lightning meteor and the Familiar automatically triggers the fire meteor. Upon my archon or spectral blade (cold) attack, they get triggered (all with the eight second cool down in effect), so I only have to worry about two.

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Old 04-28-2014, 04:40 PM   #2550
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man I wish I can find tals. That and Vyr's is the set I want. Cant find it at all.
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Old 04-28-2014, 04:43 PM   #2551
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Lol that's awesome. That'll get nerfed for sure.
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Old 04-28-2014, 05:12 PM   #2552
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Lol that's awesome. That'll get nerfed for sure.
LOL, shuddup! Shhhhhhh!!! Ferme la bouche!!
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Old 04-29-2014, 11:15 AM   #2553
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Just promote this then it'll distract them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wsBjMAK55s

Pretty cool shield!

https://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/jekangbord

Combined with

https://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/gyrfalcons-foote

Seems like a fun build.
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Old 04-29-2014, 07:05 PM   #2554
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Whats with all this Queue nonsense tonight to sign into Battle.net.

Found the answer.

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Old 04-29-2014, 10:52 PM   #2555
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I've had an amazing day! Upgraded my mojo, belt and boots. Finally drew a Mask of Jeram from Kadala with awesome rolls! Also, got some upgrades I wanted from re-rolls on my existing gear. All in the span of maybe 1.5 hours.

FYI, here are some notes on upcoming patch 2.05.

http://diablo.somepage.com/info/patches-future#pc-minor

Looking forward to the increased drops in T2+, and the reduction in gem removal costs. Also will be curious to see what changes they make to sacrifice.
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Old 04-29-2014, 11:08 PM   #2556
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Nice!

Do you guys usually clear a rift? Or just wait until the boss and then close it? I usually clear it, tonight finished the boss then got a legendary chest (which sucked) and a set boots (Blackthorne ugh, guess one of the other guys can have it) after that just clearing it.

Though I guess if it's random it wouldn't matter, and you're better spending less time between bosses since they drop more stuff.
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Old 04-30-2014, 02:51 AM   #2557
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I usually just clear the rift after the boss, I've run into way too many chests and elites to pass that up.
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Old 04-30-2014, 05:56 AM   #2558
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I normally quit out after the boss. I have a ton of extra Rift fragments, so no real benefit to staying in, as it just reduces the number of bosses I get for my playtime
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Old 04-30-2014, 08:36 AM   #2559
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It depends on the map if I clear or not. Although I have found that I have gotten a lot of my legendaries AFTER the boss.
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Old 04-30-2014, 08:37 AM   #2560
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Depends on the rift level, but generally I'll at least run until I find the the exit portal. At T1 I melt mobs pretty fast. All I usually need to do is cast locusts once and move on. The mobs just die behind me from DoT while I search for elites and the exit portal.

Just realized the link I posted above had notes on 2.1 as well. Not overly interested in tiered rifts. I think that really only benefits T6, since if I really wanted tougher rifts, I could just slide the difficulty bar up. But ladders sound like fun! A good reason to start from scratch. All xp at the end of the season gets transferred back to your main too.
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