Diablo III - New patch 2.1 Coming Aug 26

[Shawnski]

Originally Posted by Rathji

... wrist movement boost is hard to replace.

Have you been thinking about Fotze's mom again?

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Shawnski

Have you been thinking about Fotze's mom again?

If I was, I wouldn't have needed a boost, would I?

[CubicleGeek]

^ This conversation reminds me of this:

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by Rathji

That makes me a ton happier about accidentally salvaging half my MF gear the other day.

I doubt I will give it much thought going forward. I think killing faster and getting more loot / exp is a better overall plan. I have felt hamstrung sometimes by having a piece of gear with MF on it that I didn't want to upgrade with something I probably should have. I think I do the same thing with movement speed as well. My lacuna Bracers are quite outdated, but wrist movement boost is hard to replace.

I've replaced almost all of my MF gear but am holding onto them instead of selling atm. Kills are coming faster.

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by Rathji

That makes me a ton happier about accidentally salvaging half my MF gear the other day.

I doubt I will give it much thought going forward. I think killing faster and getting more loot / exp is a better overall plan. I have felt hamstrung sometimes by having a piece of gear with MF on it that I didn't want to upgrade with something I probably should have. I think I do the same thing with movement speed as well. My lacuna Bracers are quite outdated, but wrist movement boost is hard to replace.

Don't forget you can augment you movement speed through paragon points. Movement speed caps at 25%.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Komskies

Don't forget you can augment you movement speed through paragon points. Movement speed caps at 25%.

yep, been dumping them in there as I get them.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Blizzard still really sucks at this whole patching thing. Don't even know why they give out times for maintenance windows when they push the window further out 3 or 4 times for every patch

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by Rathji

That makes me a ton happier about accidentally salvaging half my MF gear the other day.

I doubt I will give it much thought going forward. I think killing faster and getting more loot / exp is a better overall plan. I have felt hamstrung sometimes by having a piece of gear with MF on it that I didn't want to upgrade with something I probably should have. I think I do the same thing with movement speed as well. My lacuna Bracers are quite outdated, but wrist movement boost is hard to replace.

Yeah the only gear I haven't outright replaced yet were ones with movement speed increases...it's more valuable than an extra 10% health to me in T1 anyway.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Gah trying to get this game loaded up after not playing for probably over a year. Launched it yesterday, and it took hours to patch. Booted it up again today, got a new launcher, and once again it looks like another hour long patch.

It seems ridiculous, but I guess this is what I get for not playing for so long.

[secol]

i switched to heavier damage and t2 hasn't been too bad.

[Oling_Roachinen]

Spent awhile killing Torment 6 Skeleton King with a full tank skillset. Got a terrible Compass Rose for my troubles.

Down to play with anyone doing pretty much anything.

[Swayze11]

Joined the community.

If you have legendaries from pre-2.0 sell them now. I have been selling items that just didn't sell for millions

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Wow played Act 2 Torment 1 for an hour, and already got a set of legendary shoulders. They're still not as good as my old yellows, but that's a good sign of things to come! Good timing for Loot 2.0 since I'll be stuck in Winnipeg all next week.

[Hemi-Cuda]

The only issue I have with the new patch and the inability to trade legendaries is for sets. How insanely lucky must you get to be able to get all 3 or 4 drops to complete a set? Especially when you're cursed with getting several doubles of legendaries you already own like I am

[dammage79]

Alrighty. So I've spent a couple of days with my Barbarian and a few things.

I either really need to get my damage up for him or whirlwind is so dwarfed that it isn't even feasible to play Barbarian anymore.

Even Earthquake is gimped hard. I'm not sure what else to do . I do not really want to go into another build as I have the most fun with and Earthquake/Whirlwind build.

So my build is this:

Primary: Frenzy w/Maniac
Secondary: Whirlwind w/Wind Shear
Tactics: Warcry w/Invigorate
Defensive: Ignore Pain w/Ignorance is Bliss
Rage: Path of the Berserker w/Thrive on Chaos
Rage: Earthquake w/Molten Fury

Passive skills: Boon of Bul-Kathos , Weapons Master and Tough as Nails

That build you will not die....Ever......as long as you are in scores of mobs. Not the best build for single bosses like the Butcher though.

But I've found in this patch, there's piles of monsters to plow through and keep going.

Now this is where my issues with the Whirlwind dwarfing come in. I can sit there, full health and full fury (seriously, its never ending in this build) and take five to ten minutes on a pile of monsters. Really sucks and slows the progress down.

I have some really solid weapons and gear but my damage is at 81,361 but it feels like I'm in MP10 with MP3 damage. Really disappointing. I kind of feel they unbalanced Barbarian too much.

[dammage79]

I'm almost wondering if there's better two handed weapons out there than having a dual wield set up with this build. BUt I like my attack speed high, feels like Im going more.

[Mazrim]

Have you tried a boulder throw build? I've had some good results with that so far.

[Free Ben Hur!]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

The only issue I have with the new patch and the inability to trade legendaries is for sets. How insanely lucky must you get to be able to get all 3 or 4 drops to complete a set? Especially when you're cursed with getting several doubles of legendaries you already own like I am

This is what I just don't get about what Blizzard are doing. Not only do they not have any apparent guiding philosophy for this game and are pretty much making it up as they go along, the development path they now are (momentarily) enamoured with is fundamentally and severely flawed. The lock down of trading of account bound items and the shutdown of the AH is a slap in the face of anyone who has spent a single loonie at the real money AH. The only people these changes benefit are people that don't have jobs or go to school and can play DIII 20 hours a day. Not only that, the nerfing they've done to key weapon attributes, like life steal, have made my monk (240k dps unbuffed, 460 full buff) a scrub that can barely compete. It's unbelievable how badly they've messed this up.

Rant off.

[Regorium]

Originally Posted by Free Ben Hur!

This is what I just don't get about what Blizzard are doing. Not only do they not have any apparent guiding philosophy for this game and are pretty much making it up as they go along, the development path they now are (momentarily) enamoured with is fundamentally and severely flawed. The lock down of trading of account bound items and the shutdown of the AH is a slap in the face of anyone who has spent a single loonie at the real money AH. The only people these changes benefit are people that don't have jobs or go to school and can play DIII 20 hours a day. Not only that, the nerfing they've done to key weapon attributes, like life steal, have made my monk (240k dps unbuffed, 460 full buff) a scrub that can barely compete. It's unbelievable how badly they've messed this up.

Rant off.

I disagree with everything you've said here.

First, the RMAH shutting down between expansions is the best time to do it, and is not a slap in the face at all. Consider that any money you've spent at the RMAH would've been useless anyways with the release of the expac. Blizzard understood that while a small minority of players love looking for deals on the AH/playing the AH game, the vast majority of people prefer finding stuff in game. The removal of the AH and buffing of drop rates was probably the best thing that ever happened to the game.

The only people these changes benefit from are the people that don't have jobs? Are you kidding me? I played ~1 hour a day back near release. I never had enough gold to actually buy anything decent on the AH. I never found anything that would let me survive in inferno as a witch doctor. My DPS when I finally quit was approximately 20,000 and that was after spending what little gold I had on upgrades. I never found a single upgrade personally.

Now? I played the same 1 hour a day, and I'm already up to 50,000 dps, and can actually play through torment 1 and progress through the game. Frankly, considering you have 460k dps buffed with enough specific gear to use a completely broken and nearly exploitative build (lifesteal), it's pretty clear you are the person that played 20 hours a day.

Funny though, the 20 hour a day player is still going to benefit from these changes - with the fact that things are BoA, as mentioned it's extremely hard to complete sets. The top players will be able to farm for these sets, and be far better than casuals like me, who will have a mish-mash of legendaries and rares, but at least I can actually play the game and have fun, rather than using 6/9 blue items, all of which were purchased off the AH.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Free Ben Hur!

This is what I just don't get about what Blizzard are doing. Not only do they not have any apparent guiding philosophy for this game and are pretty much making it up as they go along, the development path they now are (momentarily) enamoured with is fundamentally and severely flawed. The lock down of trading of account bound items and the shutdown of the AH is a slap in the face of anyone who has spent a single loonie at the real money AH. The only people these changes benefit are people that don't have jobs or go to school and can play DIII 20 hours a day. Not only that, the nerfing they've done to key weapon attributes, like life steal, have made my monk (240k dps unbuffed, 460 full buff) a scrub that can barely compete. It's unbelievable how badly they've messed this up.

Rant off.

The fact that they have a huge number of people who are returning to the game means that you are in a small minority.

When I started again, my DH was kind of weak. I spent a couple days farming some gear and almost all my stuff has been replaced with better items and I have either changed my skills so I am clearing far more efficiently than ever.

I actually look forward to playing now.