Diablo 3 Discussion Thread

Finally got to Adventure Mode, and I can't believe how much better the drop rates are. It actually pisses me off a bit because in the base game the legendary drop rates are shit, even after 2.0/2.1, compared to running bounties, even on lower difficulties like Expert. Really shows how much they are pushing RoS.

Found a Gold Vault portal after only killing a few treasure goblins...went from around 6 million to 11 million (only on Expert difficulty) and got 3 legendaries out of that run.
 
DooLocsta said:
I really wish I could find some of the M6 gear, I currently am stuck in T2, anything further and I get popped.
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I was in the same place you are for weeks, had 5 pieces and couldn't drop RoRG or Carapace. Finally did some T3 solo bounties and ring dropped. It's frustrating to know there's a club out there that isn't joinable until RNG favors you. :(
 
AMD T-type said:
Or my Mask of Jeram I found on my seasonal Crusader
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It transfers over to non-seasons, so not really a problem?


And damn has gold become ridiculously easy to get. Just farmed ~40 million in like 20 or so minutes. On reg mode you could easily be getting double or triple that since T6 isn't really "scary".
 
I think he's saying Crusaders shouldn't find MoJ's since they're useless for that class.
Also it might have STR on it...?

For BIS pieces like MoJ I won't complain about finding them on the wrong character.
It's better than salvaging another Goldskin, Pig Sticker (?), Gladiator Gauntlets etc.

Just passed 2 billion gold today after a week of using my boon.
 
Boon so hot. Just got mine to level 25 the speed boost is a bit disappointing though.


Also i just got the parts for my first hellfire amulet....however I didn't want to use it on my wizard as I might get something like Glass Cannon so I have to level up another monk.

Level 0 to 66 in 37 minutes with help. there is some strange cap on experience when you join a level 70 players games as a level 1. but if a level 70 player joins a level 1 players game its just free experience. Start a level 1 torment 6 game and have your level 70 player kill everything and about 5 rifts later you are level 66.....best way I have found to level up so far.
 
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General:
The drop rate of Leoric's Regret, Vial of Putridness, Idol of Terror, and Heart of Evil has been increased on Torment I and above, to a maximum of 100% on Torment VI (9/9)

Figured this would happen. Time to start farming those Hellfire amulets.
 
strend said:
[LIVE HOTFIXES]

General:
The drop rate of Leoric's Regret, Vial of Putridness, Idol of Terror, and Heart of Evil has been increased on Torment I and above, to a maximum of 100% on Torment VI (9/9)

Figured this would happen. Time to start farming those Hellfire amulets.
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Sweet, I know what I am doing tonight :D I'll be on my Witch Doctor to keep things fast in T6, I will spam clan chat later looking for people.
 
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Omg lol. All those people who farmed the materials for days are gonna be mad :p

Were the key drops also increased or no?

Getting the keys is always the biggest PITA because that god damn Act 2 key warden is like in the middle of nowhere in a huge zone.
 
Yeah, farming the keys is still going to be a pain - but I really don't mind. At least with the organ drop rate buffed you KNOW you're going to be able to craft one for your effort. Getting a good one, well - I'm pretty sure I've used up all of my RNG luck, but I'll farm a few dozen of them out anyway.
 
A bit more random, but for DH is fire damage better than cold?
 
AFAIK there are good builds surrounding both elements, and in some builds both at the same time. I haven't seen much in regards to other elements for high-end games
 
Not really - without taking gems into account

Fire= Better single target damage (Because of Cluster Arrow-Loaded for Bear
Cold=Better Multi target damage (Because of Cluster Arrow-Maelstrom+Ballistics Passive)

Rockets - Including those from CA-Maelstrom and Multishot-Arsenal - will only target one mob per rocket/skill cast.

With gems though, things kind of change - a mix of fire and ice is more efficient.

Bane of the Trapped (Proced from Polar Station or Elemental Arrow-Ice Arrow)+Enforcer Pet Damage Gem are how most DH's are going for now.

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If you're playing a M6 DH check out these useful threads:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12945884471
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/13271407601
http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo3Demo...6_theorycrafting_the_best_weapons_skills_and/
 
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xIronCrossx said:
Omg lol. All those people who farmed the materials for days are gonna be mad :p

Were the key drops also increased or no?

Getting the keys is always the biggest PITA because that god damn Act 2 key warden is like in the middle of nowhere in a huge zone.
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A bit...but luck was on my side. Only had to use 6 machines to get the 4 parts for a hellfire amulet...probably spent 3 hours on it.

this is nothing compared to how much time I spent getting legendary materials and then they just removed them....which is still a good thing because getting those was just tedious and stupid.
 
ocellaris said:
Sweet, I know what I am doing tonight :D I'll be on my Witch Doctor to keep things fast in T6, I will spam clan chat later looking for people.
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If I can get on at a reasonable hour I'll be game. I would like to take the barb to knock off the last couple levels on him and get tweak his gear some more. Or I can bring the sader and act like I can tank t6.
 
Any of you guys playing Season with hardcore? So far I'm just derping along slowly leveling. Wouldn't mind a level boost if someone has ten or fifteen minutes.
 
I've only been playing Adventure Mode for a couple days now, and found not one but TWO loot goblin portals. Got that weird chicken bow. I also got some sort of legendary gem that makes enemies explode in a bunch of gold. It has another ability but it says "Requires Rank 25"...which means what?
 
Hey guys,

I've just started back up again recently, but this time am only playing in hardcore mode. Are most of you part of the HardOCP clan/community in-game?
 
MavericK96 said:
I've only been playing Adventure Mode for a couple days now, and found not one but TWO loot goblin portals. Got that weird chicken bow. I also got some sort of legendary gem that makes enemies explode in a bunch of gold. It has another ability but it says "Requires Rank 25"...which means what?
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The effect that is associated with Rank 25 (20% speed increase or something like that) is only available once you upgrade the gem to Rank 25 through Greater Rift upgrades.
 
Oh my god, my HC seasonal Wizard died last night because I did something extremely stupid... He was level 64 half way through Act V. At this rate, I'll never finish and unlock Adventure mode for HC.
 
Armenius said:
Oh my god, my HC seasonal Wizard died last night because I did something extremely stupid... He was level 64 half way through Act V. At this rate, I'll never finish and unlock Adventure mode for HC.
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Here's what I would do, start a HC character in non-season if you haven't already. Then have someone group up with you and take you straight to matheal on normal and beat him. Then start a new season character and you should have adventure mode unlocked. That would probably be the easiest way unless you can find someone that played through story mode in the season, but I'm guessing very few have.

I'd gladly help but I'm at work for the next 5-6 hours
 
pretty bad luck on my 3 HellFire Amulets so far....30 forgotten souls down the drain.

Wizards was so bad it hurt and the passive was temporal flux.
 
Armenius said:
Oh my god, my HC seasonal Wizard died last night because I did something extremely stupid... He was level 64 half way through Act V. At this rate, I'll never finish and unlock Adventure mode for HC.
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I thought Adventure Mode was unlocked by default for seasons...it was for me and everyone else I've played with anyway.
 
Dark Shade said:
The effect that is associated with Rank 25 (20% speed increase or something like that) is only available once you upgrade the gem to Rank 25 through Greater Rift upgrades.
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Thanks, I haven't made it to Rifts yet. Still slogging around bounties on Expert.
 
PureBooYah said:
It is, if you already unlocked it in non-season play. If you didn't then it's not
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Wow, talk about an unlevel playing field...non-seasonal play isn't supposed to affect seasonal play at all; that's the whole point of starting over and having ladders.
 
Aix. said:
Wow, talk about an unlevel playing field...non-seasonal play isn't supposed to affect seasonal play at all; that's the whole point of starting over and having ladders.
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Well I'm not 100% sure about that. My Adventure mode wasn't available too me and I have all 6 classes though the story mode in none season soft core....but I played HC for the seasons so that might be why.

Story mode was fine it only takes about 5-8 hours to finish if you keep it on normal and just blast through.
 
Seems my luck has started to run out. I keep getting those damn Marauder gloves. I have like 3 in my inventory right now. Although I do pretty much have a full set for gold farming now(everything just keeps rolling 33-35% extra gold :p). No SoJ or TnT yet. It seems like everyone BUT me gets their damn TnT's......
 
xIronCrossx said:
Seems my luck has started to run out. I keep getting those damn Marauder gloves. I have like 3 in my inventory right now. Although I do pretty much have a full set for gold farming now(everything just keeps rolling 33-35% extra gold :p). No SoJ or TnT yet. It seems like everyone BUT me gets their damn TnT's......
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I'm missing my TnT's but I fully expect to almost never find them as they are the BiS for a pet/sentry DH. I do fully expect to get a Carapace one day but so far RNG has shown to be a real bastard.

I seem to get tons of repeat Marauder gear, and Natalya's for that matter (have the full set now, not wearing it).. oh and the Shadow set.. annnd the Blackthorne set.... anything else I'm missing?

Just one Carapace RNG, just one. It doesn't even need to roll mainstat. :(
 
TnT's were the first lvl 70 Legendary I found for my WD. No Joke. Lucky as fuck
 
Got my TnT but can't find an eternal union or baleful for my pet sader. I keep finding kick ass barb and DH gear. Makes me sad cause crusader phalanx archers kick ass
 
Climber said:
Got my TnT but can't find an eternal union or baleful for my pet sader. I keep finding kick ass barb and DH gear. Makes me sad cause crusader phalanx archers kick ass
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Don't worry about Baleful, anymore. The pet build high rank greater rift (37+) crusaders use is 6 piece Rolands, Golden Flense, Phalanx shield (forgot the name. The one I gave you), Eternal Union, SOJ (or double Unity). Requires a bit of finesse to pull off.

Gems: pet damage gem, bleed gem (the one that deals physical damage and grants 3% frenzy at rank 25 for every mob bleeding within 20 yards), and most likely Bane of ____.

The idea is to go in and use Sweep Attack to generate the 6 piece Roland buff, which at 5 stacks is +100% attack speed. Your phalanx bowmen benefit from the attack speed buff. The bleed gem causes your bowman to get 3% Frenzy on top of the attack speed boost you're trying to maintain using deliberate use of Sweep Attack for the Roland's buff.

I tried it. Potential is there. I'm just not that coordinated.
 
Harkamus said:
Don't worry about Baleful, anymore. The pet build high rank greater rift (37+) crusaders use is 6 piece Rolands, Golden Flense, Phalanx shield (forgot the name. The one I gave you), Eternal Union, SOJ (or double Unity). Requires a bit of finesse to pull off.

Gems: pet damage gem, bleed gem (the one that deals physical damage and grants 3% frenzy at rank 25 for every mob bleeding within 20 yards), and most likely Bane of ____.

The idea is to go in and use Sweep Attack to generate the 6 piece Roland buff, which at 5 stacks is +100% attack speed. Your phalanx bowmen benefit from the attack speed buff. The bleed gem causes your bowman to get 3% Frenzy on top of the attack speed boost you're trying to maintain using deliberate use of Sweep Attack for the Roland's buff.

I tried it. Potential is there. I'm just not that coordinated.
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Good to hear. Got 4 piece of Rolands tonight and was considering using that as a buff for the bowman. I should have a Golden Flense, might have broke it down though :(
 
So I never seem to get anything worth wild from Kadala.

Do you guys save up max shards before buying anything from her? I usually have around 100-150 and buy as much as I can from her for say a glove and get nothing good. ever.
 
Ryan5508 said:
So I never seem to get anything worth wild from Kadala.

Do you guys save up max shards before buying anything from her? I usually have around 100-150 and buy as much as I can from her for say a glove and get nothing good. ever.
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I don't have the discipline to save up 500. I get too eager and just spend em after each rift now, unless my group clears really quickly. It takes a while to get good stuff. I can't even count anymore how many damn Marauder gloves I've gotten from Kadala just this weekend. 90% suck, and even the good ones aren't useful for me anymore.
 
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