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totalnewbie posted:How capable is impale of clearing 110s "comfortably"? Say, 6-7 minute runs? With augments and paragon maybeeeeeee? Barb and monk can both do it faster and easier if you're only going to play solo. Impale isn't as great at trash clearing, so you're losing a lot of progress unless you team up with someone else. It can be RGK in speeds up to 130ish for group stuff.
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:you would've thought that's a good way to get people to try the new sets Impale is a very easy build to get up and running because you always have a 1/2 chance of crafting a Karlei's in the cube and even the 2pc set bonus is incredibly powerful for clearing the season journey. It's also just an incredibly versatile build for every aspect of the game. Bounties, speed runs, solo or group GR. The Shadow knows (a little bit of everything)!!
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Thanks - I guess DH's new set is most similar to wwbarb? Is it also best at clearing solo GRs or would another set fill that role?
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Bleh. I always forget about the stupid Set Dungeon part of the Journy. One more reason to make a Barbarian, then. I can Whirlrend my way through the Cursed Chest, and I can IK my way through the Set Dungeon. I know it'll never happen, but I'd love it if they'd remove Set Dungeons, or at the very least, remove them from the Season Journey.
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Every class has at least one piss easy set dungeon. If I know which one it is I'll collect an alternate set just so that I can knock that out at some point.
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I understand what many of the words in this thread are, but lack a cohesive grasp of what they collectively mean. Planning to play DH in the next season. What's a good build for soloing my way through rifts? I have no idea what equipment I should prioritize when the season gets going. Same question for Barbarian, since I'll need something to play with the RL friends who have less covid time off than I do.
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Pixelante posted:I understand what many of the words in this thread are, but lack a cohesive grasp of what they collectively mean. Demon Hunter is pretty much the best start this season, because Imaple is a stupid easy build to put together. For Barbarian, you'll either want to farm up Wrath Of The Wastes set for the Whirlrend build, or Horde Of The Ninety Savages set for the Frenzy build, depending on if you want 100% mindless (Whirlrend), or 90% Mindless (Frenzy).
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DH next season- Unhallowed Essence Multishot, Shadow Impale, GoD Hungering Arrow all are good options for solo t16/GRs. Barb is all Wastes Rend/WW variations for soloing. Sorry about the WW guide being fairly old but none of the relevant gear or skills were changed between s19 and s21, and s20 WW had different gear requirements/options with 2-3 rings in the cube and Focus/Restraint equipped. The frenzy set is very good and can push pretty high on solo GRs but it comes up short of WW for both speed farming and pushing. KenBearlLOLOL fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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Diablo 4 Quarterly Update There‘a some cool new information here. I’m not quite sold on what they’re doing with the overworld / open hub / mmo lite thing they’re aiming for but as long as dungeons or rift equivalents remain random and endless I’ll be fine. Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I’m not quite sold on what they’re doing with the overworld / open hub / mmo lite thing they’re aiming for And that activity heatmap they show gives me the feeling of vast swathes of empty space for the sake of space. Similar with the idea of a mount - you shouldn't really need an overland movespeed thing in an ARPG imo.
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I'm more worried about itemization and the talent trees. But yeah that's also questionable.
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Pixelante posted:I understand what many of the words in this thread are, but lack a cohesive grasp of what they collectively mean. The free seasonal set for DH is very good for soloing, and easy to play. It's also the easiest to gear for. When you upgrade a yellow 70 dagger in the cube, DH has a chance of only making 2 daggers. Lord Greenstones Fan or Karlei's Point. Karlei's buffs Impale damage massively, which is the skill your season set uses as a damage dealer. After that you'll want to gamble and spend blood shard until you get the Demon Hunter quiver that compliments the set; Holy Point Shot. There are rings/amulets and bracers needed also, but they are nowhere near as crucial as those two items to making the set "work." In comparison, other classes have to farm / gamble for one specific item before their set feels complete or at full power. Necromancer, for example, are all reliant on a single ring which is a pain to farm/gamble/upgrade for. The free set is obtained through the seasonal journey. And if any of that sounded like gibberish, here is a really good guide on the season journey, leveling, and gearing. Though a bit longwinded. Watch at 1.5x speed or something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFLAIecF_sE
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I'm really curious how they're going to make PvP work. A free for all zone where you get one shot sounds particularly awful. If they add modes like CTF it sounds thematically ... goofy, consider the return to grimdark mood and atmosphere. Ultimately I don't care as long as it's fun.
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paid money to post posted:I'm really curious how they're going to make PvP work. A free for all zone where you get one shot sounds particularly awful. If they add modes like CTF it sounds thematically ... goofy, consider the return to grimdark mood and atmosphere. Ultimately I don't care as long as it's fun. My guess is a free for all zone where player vs player damage is reduced by x% to prevent one shots. I doubt there will be any sort of organized pvp content, but if there is it'll be instanced match making I would think.
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bio347 posted:I'm still incredibly skeptical of this direction, too. Like, their description of the solo world boss experience as "solo players can walk in, help complete the event, and claim a reward" sounds pretty unlike Diablo to me. Really, "world bosses" as a concept aren't an ARPG thing, are they? What if, and I’m just spitballing here, change is good?
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They're obviously and somewhat openly cribbing elements of MMO design. Reading between the lines, I'm gonna speculate that it's heavily influenced by the experiences of low-ish population WoW vanilla servers, which would be quite fitting given Classic's timeline that it would color the dev teams' visions. But there is enormous room to implement those ideas poorly and only a very narrow range to do them well, so anxiety about them getting it wrong is certainly understandable. D3 at launch shows just how badly that can land but also shows that they have more of a willingness to dramatically change the game formula within the same title than any other comparable game I can think of. I can see how they probably want the "open world bosses" to play out. There's a possibility to wander into someone else using a skill/build you don't recognize or an item that looks really cool or a tactic you didn't know about that ignites more interest in the game. Or even just the random act of kindness of giving/receiving help to knock over a tough enemy and then part ways to probably never see each other again but that tiny itch in the back of your brain keeps hoping for an opportunity to return the favor. Could be really cool, but I have intense doubt that they'll get the recipe right before turning it out into the wild and scaling it up 10,000x, so hopefully they wire up telemetry and the ability to adjust it quickly at launch to tune it.
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if you took arpg itemization and on the left you have d2 and on the right d3, it looks like d4 is actually going to be to the right of d3. Idk how to feel. I really dislike that all the uniques they're showing are just skill-change uniques and I really hope that that isn't how 90% of the unique items end up because it's way, way more fun and more interesting when you're trying to figure out what items might synergize with your build versus the game just telling you the single use-case for the item in the description text. Depending on how it's implemented the open world could definitely be good or bad, though i feel like there's a real risk of breaking the core arpg flow of always being either fighting or about to fight. Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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Look no matter what happens the fact is that Diablo 3 is one of the best and most fun video games of all time and it wasn’t even a good or even that fun when it came out. I am not expecting Launch Diablo 4 to be a good video game, but I have every faith that it will eventually be a good video game that I hopefully put another couple thousand hours into.
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PSA to save challenge rift 158 that comes out 5 pm EST for Friday's S21 start. (Don't do it till then) Below is the discord link, mostly used for PCs. Console channels will be created if there's enough interest. https://discord.gg/YBk5dXX
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Free set of diablo 2 style wings if you log I today to celebrate d2 20th anniversary. Not sure if it is only for today.
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So I'm wondering if this is just me or are others getting this too, every time I start the battle.net client there is a Diab3 Update "pending" they only take a few seconds to do, but it seems like a bug. Are others also getting this constant updating?
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Im_Special posted:So I'm wondering if this is just me or are others getting this too, every time I start the battle.net client there is a Diab3 Update "pending" they only take a few seconds to do, but it seems like a bug. Are others also getting this constant updating? I'm not getting that. There was a patch for D3 and the BattleNet launcher when I ran it for the first time since mid-S20 on Saturday, and that's it.
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What's a good monk build for gr soloing and group play this season? Have a small squad but want to be able to do both. This is my first proper diablo season so I'm interested to see how it goes without getting powerleveld to like level 200 the first time I played the game. I've been playing whirlwind barbarian which is just mindless fun so I'm interested in a bit of a change and 2 guys are already going DH
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Waroduce posted:What's a good monk build for gr soloing and group play this season? Have a small squad but want to be able to do both. Tempest rush builds are super good. You can build it with sunwoku or PoJ set both. PoJ is easier to play since it has endless spirit regen but this season you get the sunwoku set free from hagrid gift.
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Waroduce posted:What's a good monk build for gr soloing and group play this season? Have a small squad but want to be able to do both. DeadlyHalibut posted:Tempest rush builds are super good. You can build it with sunwoku or PoJ set both. PoJ is easier to play since it has endless spirit regen but this season you get the sunwoku set free from hagrid gift. The Wave of Light builds still work fine, AFAIK, and may scratch the non-WW itch appropriately. The Haedrig set is Sunwuko, which lends itself to both specs, so you can play around a bit.
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Just wanted to add that for group play monk is kind of relegated to a support role for g100+. And join the discord! E: GTJustin posted:PSA to save challenge rift 158 that comes out 5 pm EST for Friday's S21 start. (Don't do it till then) GTJustin fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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I did join the discord but i'm a dirty console player because i am too old and lazy to manage drivers and bullshit. I am considering buying a mid tier "gaming" laptop or tower but  e: thank you guys for the direction!
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Filthy console players, PC casuals, and tryhards are all welcome on the discord. I just finished off the builds lists for each class on there, linking to video guides when available (and d3planners if not) for basically every potentially relevant build for t16 rifts/bounties, solo speed GRs, 4p speeds/xp farming, and 4p GR120-150 pushing. I also compiled videos on fast leveling and linked a video and d3planners for going from fresh 70 through farming with the Haedrig's Gift sets this season.
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GTJustin posted:PSA to save challenge rift 158 that comes out 5 pm EST for Friday's S21 start. (Don't do it till then) Is it just me or is it still currently showing the Challenge Rift from last week? The horrible one with the barbarian? Maybe I'm crazy, but I thought there would be an updated one already; I think I used to practice (but not complete it) before the season officially started...
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wonderboy posted:Is it just me or is it still currently showing the Challenge Rift from last week? The horrible one with the barbarian? Yeah it's bugged. It's supposed to reset on Mondays, however this week it reset for like 2 minutes then reverted back to the barbarian one. This week was supposed to be wizard and it was super easy, I watched a streamer do it on an alt account to see what it was like. I don't know if you did the challenge rift last week that will prevent you from getting it this week while it's bugged, I didn't do it last week and I don't know anyone willing to test lol. Hopefully it is reset and you just have to do the barb one again.
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KenBearlLOLOL posted:Filthy console players, PC casuals, and tryhards are all welcome on the discord. I just finished off the builds lists for each class on there, linking to video guides when available (and d3planners if not) for basically every potentially relevant build for t16 rifts/bounties, solo speed GRs, 4p speeds/xp farming, and 4p GR120-150 pushing. I also compiled videos on fast leveling and linked a video and d3planners for going from fresh 70 through farming with the Haedrig's Gift sets this season. What about people who despise Discord, but know that it's the way of the future, and the future is now old man, so they eventually need to just get over it?  Field Mousepad posted:They're all horrible. Set challenges are fuckin bad No, you're thinking of Set Dungeons. These are the Weekly Challenge Rifts, where you play someone else's build, and only ~98% of them are horrible.
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Looks like they finally rolled over to the wizard challenge rift. Super easy this week, pylons in good places lot's of mobs and everything just dies to disintegrate.
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Dysgenesis posted:Free set of diablo 2 style wings if you log I today to celebrate d2 20th anniversary. Just got them a minute ago so that's still going.
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Tubgoat posted:Broke down and got D3 for Switch, it is a nifty little mobile game. What it lacks in mouse controls, it makes up for in being able to pause and sleep the console in the middle of combat and pick up anytime later without missing a beat. Honestly, I think D3 controls way better with a controller than it ever did with kB/mouse. After you get used to playing it with a controller I bet you’ll agree.
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