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euphronius posted:I’ve only done pulverize Druid and it’s a blast I found a perfect 100% shockwave aspect now I feel obligated to run pulverize once I reach endgame
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:My highest character is a level 61 Necro, and while she's good so far, the endless wailing and gnashing of teeth from those further along is not very encouraging. The latter.
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Jun 18, 2023 22:27
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I'm doing a Frenzy Hammer Barb build but I think a Bone Spear Necro or Sorc is next.
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Jun 18, 2023 22:27
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it took getting 60% basic attack speed but I finally understand why people like lunging strike. at base speed it feels way too clunky but at this speed it's definitely better than frenzy
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Jun 18, 2023 22:39
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:My highest character is a level 61 Necro, and while she's good so far, the endless wailing and gnashing of teeth from those further along is not very encouraging. You can take pretty much anything through the story/WT2, and a lot of complaints are more about the 70+ stuff. Bone necro is definitely really solid all the way through. Blood seems doable but weaker in comparison. I think *most* of the complaints for Necro revolve around minions, their terrible AI, and the minion paragon board nodes have been broken since launch so they feel super weak later on while other builds keep scaling. I've been doing what many others have opted for, which is picking bone or shadow as a primary and then doing a side of minions. Like pretty much every character right now, if you can stack vuln damage (and crit, if going bone/blood) and enough defenses (armor/hp) to survive, you can corpse tendrils succ/vuln your way to victory with whatever main damage skill you like. Rack 'em and smack 'em!
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Pain of Mind posted:Might take a few characters to get all of the altars, but since the stat upgrade is for the account, I just made a level 1 guy to run in and grab them. I recommend beating the game first so you have a horse and can just warp to a closer spot. It took me 2 level 1's to get the 3 shrines in the lower PVP area since there is pretty high mob density near them, but for what its worth I did not see another person. Cant u just get the altars without marking yourself for pvp? I thought pvp state was completely voluntary or when you extract shards? I just ran in on my 50 sorc, not that I saw anyone anyway.
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Jun 18, 2023 22:54
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Mikojan posted:Cant u just get the altars without marking yourself for pvp? I thought pvp state was completely voluntary or when you extract shards? I just ran in on my 50 sorc, not that I saw anyone anyway. Being able to attack others is voluntary. Anyone can attack you at any time in the pvp areas, whether you've marked or not, but you can use the altars either way.
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Just dropping in to mention the hilarity that is pulverize druid with a base 97% Dr from armor lolol
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Jun 18, 2023 23:00
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if you’re at 85% or higher there’s no practical effect unfortunately. swap out skulls in jewelry for diamonds
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Rogue AI Goddess posted:My highest character is a level 61 Necro, and while she's good so far, the endless wailing and gnashing of teeth from those further along is not very encouraging. I'll offer a different answe than anyone else: the problem with the necro is its jankyness. -bone spear needs some setup otherwise you'll fire 4 spears and go out of mana, and builders either hit for 10x less than bone spear or... -...corpse explosion covers with a black mist everything; -minions are functional but have a bad overall feel due to a lack of control and being totally reliant on autopathing and autotargeting which has never been usable in this kind of games; -you need corpses to start up anything, you're forced to fit a corpse generator in the build; -this is personal but corpses add visual clutter ymmv.
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harrygomm posted:if you’re at 85% or higher there’s no practical effect unfortunately. swap out skulls in jewelry for diamonds Really? Boooooooo
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harrygomm posted:if you’re at 85% or higher there’s no practical effect unfortunately. swap out skulls in jewelry for diamonds there is if you're pushing sigils, your armor reduction is for equal level enemies
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victrix posted:there is if you're pushing sigils, your armor reduction is for equal level enemies that was the unknown for me. i haven’t looked at people pushing lately, have they confirmed that it scales well vs just the various DR affixes ( in the case of gear affixes)?
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Stux posted:wanted to see what the hgihyl esteemed guides would recommend in the same situation It's not wrong. Each of the top 5 are essentially dipping into a different damage bucket which is good. The average player knows nothing about damage buckets and something like this helps players aim for something and seeing number on screen(if they play with them) to get bigger. Honestly it's probably as close to optimal itemization as you can get with 5/6 being the same bucket and being interchangeable.
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Jun 18, 2023 23:28
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Wait max stash tabs is 4? That's barely enough for a single class. Am I missing something? Aspects need to not be individual items if that's all the stash space you get. A lot of this loot design stuff just seems half baked.
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I hope whoever came up with the nightmare affix "ranged attacks burn 16% of your primary resource" gets a big, big raise during the next round of salary negotiatons. That's some out-of-the-box thinking that needs to be recognized and rewarded. Just clump some ranged mobs together, or - better yet - spread them out nicely, maybe even give them mobility and fast projectiles and you got yourself a winner in the fun department. I try my best to burn those sigils immediately, but when I miss one and realize what it is halfway through the run, it always puts a smile on my face and I think to myself "drat, that's good game design!" Edit: Welp, green archers out of a cursed shrine. End of run. mcbexx fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Zotix posted:It's not wrong. Each of the top 5 are essentially dipping into a different damage bucket which is good. The average player knows nothing about damage buckets and something like this helps players aim for something and seeing number on screen(if they play with them) to get bigger. yeah i was laughing cos its the same as what i said mcbexx posted:I hope whoever came up with the nightmare affix "ranged attacks burn 16% of your primary resource" gets a big, big raise during the next round of salary negotiatons. lol ive started rigourously double checking after i used two back to back "all elites are cold enchanted" sigils without looking
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bamhand posted:Wait max stash tabs is 4? That's barely enough for a single class. Am I missing something? Aspects need to not be individual items if that's all the stash space you get. A lot of this loot design stuff just seems half baked. yeah whoever said that aspects should just go to the codex when they're extracted and be single use entries in there was right. having a separate inventory tabs for them but making them take up stash space is stupid
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mcbexx posted:I hope whoever came up with the nightmare affix "ranged attacks burn 16% of your primary resource" gets a big, big raise during the next round of salary negotiatons. Yep it's the absolute worst loving thing. It's an affix which means you cannot play your class, brilliant.
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Yeah after leveling two characters to 60 it feels like a game that's been released early. I'm mad at myself for believing the reviews. I like the direction they're taking it, but it's so loving tedious right now.
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Char posted:I'll offer a different answe than anyone else: the problem with the necro is its jankyness. I think most high level Bone Necros have moved away from corpse consumption completely, myself included. The only method I have to generate corpses is the passive chance to spawn them, but Bone Spear does a good job of making corpses on its own. I have a generator in my build but I rarely use it, its definitely not needed until high level nightmare dungeons if you have Umbral Aspect, which seems to be pretty rare. You can codex it, but its way worse. That being said, I was spamming corpse explosion for a very long time before dropping it, and a lot of that time was before Fueled by Death got nerfed. The biggest problem I am seeing in high level dungeons is I just can't survive. I grabbed every defensive node on my paragon boards and was using some defensive glyphs and still getting 1-shot at 70+. I am now trying to re-do my setup to go back to being high damage because I think my only option at my gear level is to offscreen mobs before they kill me.
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Stop trying to save everything, just keep 1-2 good rolls of an aspect of it's a good one and call it quits You don't really need to have a full set of aspects for every possible build. You'll get those when you play that new character.
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Kaysette posted:it's only 40ish gb without the high res textures if you have the choice, not sure how all platforms work Maybe they patched this, but be aware that a few of us were getting really bad freezes on menu screens until we installed the high res textures, even if you aren’t actually using them.
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Are we at the hype cycle phase of wishing the game was diablo 3, a game we all hated 3 weeks ago?
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soscannonballs posted:Umbral Aspect, which seems to be pretty rare. ive not seen it drop still, its crazy
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Vic posted:Yeah after leveling two characters to 60 it feels like a game that's been released early. I'm mad at myself for believing the reviews. I like the direction they're taking it, but it's so loving tedious right now. Yeah, now that the honeymoon period has ended, its obvious Diablo IV is actually not that good at all. The end game is pretty terrible. Hoping the season 1 release will bring a ton of improvements, but if it doesnt then its a dead on arrival season and that won't be good for the longevity of this game.
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Dpulex posted:Are we at the hype cycle phase of wishing the game was diablo 3, a game we all hated 3 weeks ago? They announced some rough timelines like expected QoL features for Season 2 so anyone not in this game for the long haul and some campaign fun, pushing the end game loop until they're tired, trying every class out and giving Season 1 a shot, so you know, three digits in playtime easy, possibly per character... yeah, you can start bitching any time now. Game will really kick rear end when the first expac hits! Edit: ^ lmao I didn't even finish my drat post
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I said come in! posted:Yeah, now that the honeymoon period has ended, its obvious Diablo IV is actually not that good at all. The end game is pretty terrible. Hoping the season 1 release will bring a ton of improvements, but if it doesnt then its a dead on arrival season and that won't be good for the longevity of this game. lol have you been lurking waiting for a negative post or something. u need a better hobby man
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Stux posted:ive not seen it drop still, its crazy I am 96 and have seen it drop 3 times, with one of those drops being a minimum roll. Could be bugged like some loot is for other classes.
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Dpulex posted:Are we at the hype cycle phase of wishing the game was diablo 3, a game we all hated 3 weeks ago? Nah, thank gently caress this isn't Diablo III. Its still better than that game by a wide margin, but that doesn't make D4 that good either. Much of its design, now that we are a few weeks in, have started to show that it wasn't that well thought out or tested like at all.
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Gone Fashing posted:yeah whoever said that aspects should just go to the codex when they're extracted and be single use entries in there was right. having a separate inventory tabs for them but making them take up stash space is stupid Plus the fact that the inventory interface and lack of search makes aspects absolutely rear end to look through. They don't even organize in any sort of sense as far as I can see. I had three aspects that granted "Critical Hits with Core Skills grant +x increased Attack Speed". All three have different numbers, but the sort function does not place them next to each other - it's not sorting by alphabetical or by ilvl or by anything I can understand (apart from sorting them into general categories). Making aspects all the same few icons along with the lack of a search function sucks balls. Edit: adding to my list of personal pet peeves - how the gently caress is there not a list of completed sidequests? My dumb monkey brain wants to complete the renown and make all the categories green but getting the last sidequest in an area can be a nightmare, since there are a bunch that are triggered by random drops in the overworld and if you don't remember which ones you've finished, good luck trying to farm it. Gully Foyle fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Doomykins posted:
Yeah that's every Diablo game for the last 20 years.
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Gone Fashing posted:yeah whoever said that aspects should just go to the codex when they're extracted and be single use entries in there was right. having a separate inventory tabs for them but making them take up stash space is stupid im hopeful they'll redesign it like that based on their upcoming gem change, but we'll see. might be a while
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I said come in! posted:Yeah, now that the honeymoon period has ended, its obvious Diablo IV is actually not that good at all. The end game is pretty terrible. Hoping the season 1 release will bring a ton of improvements, but if it doesnt then its a dead on arrival season and that won't be good for the longevity of this game. diablo 4 is a game for chudsas and if you enjoy thsi game you voted for donald trump (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I said come in! posted:Yeah, now that the honeymoon period has ended, its obvious Diablo IV is actually not that good at all. The end game is pretty terrible. Hoping the season 1 release will bring a ton of improvements, but if it doesnt then its a dead on arrival season and that won't be good for the longevity of this game. i disagree with this post and every identical post you've made in this thread. i can only imagine how quickly you suck the air out of a room in person with how naturally misery emanates from your core. eat poo poo
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Rly having fun now at 61. Game is good
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The game does have an overworld issue tho . Why is it so big. You just horse through 99% of it
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Yeah it seems like the only difficulty knob Blizzard has is how many effects one shot you. Or if they get really creative, CC you so that you are guaranteed to die. I can facetank the Butcher but a regular ghost archer can kill me in one hit.
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Gully Foyle posted:Plus the fact that the inventory interface and lack of search makes aspects absolutely rear end to look through. They don't even organize in any sort of sense as far as I can see. I had three aspects that granted "Critical Hits with Core Skills grant +x increased Attack Speed". All three have different numbers, but the sort function does not place them next to each other - it's not sorting by alphabetical or by ilvl or by anything I can understand (apart from sorting them into general categories). I also think the background icon color for rare, legendary and unique are all too close to the same shade, especially now that I'm seeing the sacred overlay now.
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