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Does the current gear level of your character influence the ilvl of the gear that drops? Or is it purely based on clvl and WT lvl?
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queeb posted:yeah same, only 2 drops for me. Too bad it’s not a mace Still very nice
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Jun 12, 2023 00:07
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You can hot swap your skill bar for exactly that situation - if your LMB has a low CD then you should be able to swap then generate resource in a pinch
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Jun 12, 2023 00:07
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Miss Mowcher posted:Stripping aspects and adding it to items is mechanically better, but the unique/set items were indeed more fun to find. So loving true. Apologies in advance for the scatterbrain writing about my rose (or gold) colored memories. I had a unique monarch (my second one ever) drop 2 runs after a seeing a unique colossus blade (my first one ever) drop during my first or second month of playing d2r. I stopped playing d2 at 1.09 but the conditioned dopamine hit from twenty something years ago was massive compared to the Jah rune I had drop about a week day into playing D2R. My buddy who had only played D3, found a windforce in ancient tunnels 3 weeks in I kept thinking back to playing back in highschool and how many "tradeing soj for any skill charms with life" messages I spammed in public channels to get my very own unided hydra bow. Out of everyone I played Im pretty sure only I knew only one person to have self found windy. The second character I rolled after playing an axe barb for a year was an amazon because I found a Ballista from a chest during one of my 25 minute meph runs and was too attached to it to trade for the hellslayer I was dreaming about. The image of that word "ballista" in gold is burned into my memory and the high I had for days afterwords is something I will never forget. Pretty sure everyone who played d2 at release has a similar "completely unrelatable to anyone else" kinda story about their first ever bomb unique. TheAbortionator fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jun 12, 2023 |
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Jun 12, 2023 00:09
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I got back into bear pulverize. Just have to have an eye to timing up the three overpower procs I missed it when you’d get an overpower on ever 10th kill. That must have been insane
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Jun 12, 2023 00:13
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gorgeous meticulously crafted environments are good, campaign is good, outposts and side quests are good, half-baked MMO Lite post-campaign game with shoddy balancing is not good
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Jun 12, 2023 00:18
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it is okay for a video game to just be pretty good
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Jun 12, 2023 00:18
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How dare you
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Jun 12, 2023 00:24
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Wheeee posted:it is okay for a video game to just be pretty good Except this game is really good and I’m taking everyone who doesn’t think so to jail it’s the rules
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Jun 12, 2023 00:26
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The amazing thing is that Reaper of Souls took almost two years to come out and turn Diablo 3 into the genre standard. I think everybody understands that Diablo 4 has issues. It had to cut an entire region and act out of the story for this release date. The passive aggressive "well, Diablo 4 has issues with the end game, I guess it's over" shitposting is what's crazy. I think Blizz will figure out that they should adjust the numbers in their first balance and QoL patches, season patches, and the planned expansions.
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Jun 12, 2023 01:08
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Okay ngl it was pretty neat waltzing through the stronghold my sorc couldn't beat with my flurry rogue, and seeing it turn into a small town (sans waypoint unfortunately). Now to clear out the rest
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Jun 12, 2023 01:14
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Wheeee posted:gorgeous meticulously crafted environments are good, campaign is good, outposts and side quests are good, half-baked MMO Lite post-campaign game with shoddy balancing is not good correct except the side quests are not good.
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Jun 12, 2023 01:24
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Doomykins posted:The amazing thing is that Reaper of Souls took almost two years to come out and turn Diablo 3 into the genre standard. I think everybody understands that Diablo 4 has issues. It had to cut an entire region and act out of the story for this release date. The passive aggressive "well, Diablo 4 has issues with the end game, I guess it's over" shitposting is what's crazy. I think Blizz will figure out that they should adjust the numbers in their first balance and QoL patches, season patches, and the planned expansions. The ratio of normal to insane posting is much better in this thread and by that logic the game is a slam dunk lol. Considering where we are starting at baseline I expect good things. This series has always been an on and off fixation for me. Will probably shelve it after season 1 and keep an eye on patches. Really excited to see what they make of such a solid start.
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Jun 12, 2023 01:25
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crepeface posted:correct except the side quests are not good. Some of the side quests are good. Some are "you hit a rock and a gem fell out, go return the gem" and it makes me wonder if they had some moronic internal target for side quests to meet, so they half-assed it.
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Jun 12, 2023 01:29
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Just unlocked the barbarian expertise system thingy. So, if I want to use the 2h Sword bonus, and I equip it, will the expertise level up for it when I use other weapons, or do I have to be actively using a 2h sword for the experience? I'm thoroughly enjoying HotA but can't do that with a 2h sword and my expertise level is only 1 on that weapon type.
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Jun 12, 2023 01:31
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crepeface posted:correct except the side quests are not good. Yeah this is the kind of comment that gets you arrested around these parts. There’s a big variety of side quests, ranging from collecting bear asses, to “kill this thing to recover the macguffin”, to “I put my son in a mental asylum and now he’s haunting me”, but a lot of them have genuine effort put in and add a lot of flavor to the world.
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Jun 12, 2023 01:50
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Finding Lyndon again in Hawezar was pretty cool. It sounds like they got Troy Baker to voice him again too, which is surprising.
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Jun 12, 2023 01:54
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there are so many drat side quests it feels like they had a “side quest team” who hit their requirements in, say, 2019. and then just kept adding more while every other team tried to get their act together and finish the game
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Jun 12, 2023 02:04
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Ice Fist posted:Yeah this is the kind of comment that gets you arrested around these parts. Right. The good ones are very good, the bad ones feel like launch WoW quests.
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Jun 12, 2023 02:15
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pmchem posted:there are so many drat side quests it feels like they had a “side quest team” who hit their requirements in, say, 2019. and then just kept adding more while every other team tried to get their act together and finish the game Yeah, question for someone who isn't very far in the story. All side quests stay available no matter what? Or are there any that I could lose if i progress too far in the story/finish it?
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Jun 12, 2023 02:15
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They're always available forever.
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Come to think of it, I'm not really sure when the ideal time to actually do the side quests is! You get to level 50 just fine from doing the campaign itself, no side quests, and the rewards never scale up so you might bang out a side quest at level 100 and your reward is 1x basic leather (common)
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Jun 12, 2023 02:19
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Come to think of it, I'm not really sure when the ideal time to actually do the side quests is! You get to level 50 just fine from doing the campaign itself, no side quests, and the rewards never scale up so you might bang out a side quest at level 100 and your reward is 1x basic leather (common) I finished the campagin at 41, sooner or later you're gonna do them
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And I guess with the paragon points locked behind 'em, the open world exploration/side quests are a "there is no right or wrong time to do them and there are rewards relevant to any power progression at any point in the game" That's like... a GOOD thing? I have Bungie Stockholm Syndrome (destiny 2 player) so my brain is trying to reject this possibility of benevolent game design
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I do see value (or at least dev intention) for some of the randomly-acquired side quests. It can drive completionists to go out in the game world and farm resource nodes. Doing so in a concerted effort is probably less fun, but picking them up as you go is easy enough.GoGoGadgetChris posted:Come to think of it, I'm not really sure when the ideal time to actually do the side quests is! You get to level 50 just fine from doing the campaign itself, no side quests, and the rewards never scale up so you might bang out a side quest at level 100 and your reward is 1x basic leather (common) The resource caches are nice for item upgrades and enchanting, at least at certain points. The caches with gems absolutely scale up, which can be situationally useful. Provided they're sensible, I would like to see more uses for gems. After a while they're just trash. While this issue / design choice isn't unique to D4, an alternative would be cool. Even a high vendor value would be welcome
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Jun 12, 2023 02:34
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:And I guess with the paragon points locked behind 'em, the open world exploration/side quests are a "there is no right or wrong time to do them and there are rewards relevant to any power progression at any point in the game" I think they're fine but I don't want to have to re-do the same side quests every season, hopefully bliz will add more ways to earn renown or just leave them unlocked
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To me the best sidequests are the ones that take you to new waypoints. The worst are the ones that you have to revisit 20 times and there is no waypoint anywhere nearby, gently caress you Timue 
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You don’t need to do many of them at all, maybe any for max renown in each region.
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I appreciate the vast open world but I have found myself wishing there were way more waypoints lol.
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site posted:Okay ngl it was pretty neat waltzing through the stronghold my sorc couldn't beat with my flurry rogue, and seeing it turn into a small town (sans waypoint unfortunately). Now to clear out the rest Strongholds might be my favorite thing. I really hope they find a way to expand on them. Maybe as a variation of Legion events.
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If a sidequest doesn't give me an imbue, the ability to add sockets to an item, or a chance at a good rune I'm not doing it
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American McGay posted:I appreciate the vast open world but I have found myself wishing there were way more waypoints lol. Wow man, why do you play a game you hate?
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EVERY TIME GOING posted:Me 150 hours into exterminating gorgeous demonic flora and fauna around Sanctuary, looking at another 150: "I loving hate this game." ingame title: belligerent eater
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Blacktooth posted:Strongholds might be my favorite thing. I really hope they find a way to expand on them. Maybe as a variation of Legion events. Same here. Especially the strongholds that turn into towns. It's a compelling bit of worldbuilding to experience and have at least a little bit of agency over. I'd be excited if they introduced a seasonal/expansion mechanic where the demon horde overruns a town and sets it back to stronghold status. Or maybe a mechanic where you assist in the defense of a town (do 3x side quests to gather supplies/allies, eradicate a nearby dungeon to lower their numbers, etc) and if you fail the stronghold resets. Regardless, it's a cool concept that is ripe for expanding on and I hope they do.
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M. Night Skymall posted:Wow man, why do you play a game you hate?  I'm over here just mad about getting uniques that don't really fit my build. I've been debating switching my Rogue to Flurry from all the suggestions I'm also on the fence about starting a new char but I kinda want to wait til Season 1
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I wish they'd have a second build that I could swap to.. Weird that there isn't
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bought this yesterday when my coworkers wouldnt shut up about it and im having a good time just zooming around blowing up corpses. everyone having lovely eastern european accents makes the setting more depressing than the bleak colour scheme imo. probably wont look at build guides until the season starts im just really loving the necro skills sound design
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crepeface posted:correct except the side quests are not good. Delivering someone a missing invoice in a world filled with demons killing everyone is infinitely hilarious. Some of the side quests are good, "collect 69 bear asses" is not.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:
Different weapons have different attack speed based on their size and a dagger is very fast attack speed. Necro is the only one that can equip a shield (so far) and a shield increases weapon speed by 80%. There are also aspects that can increase necro's attack speed further by like 50% after Overpower procs. This tends to turn everything around a high level blood sacrifice necro into a 300 BPM rave.
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Ok I'm having no issue ditching the generator skill on my Shadow CE/Blight necro. It's a shame I could only get one skillpoint back, but trading a lovely skill for being able to have a golem is solid. Honestly I could probably even ditch Blight with how well CE + Tendrils is doing.
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