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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I have found zero bone spear aspects or items that buff bone skills so I'm currently using a Blood Lance build because I do have two pretty good Blood Lance Legendaries. I can clear most crowds and Elites pretty easily but the capstone boss just mulches me and I waste a ton of time not having Essence to keep casting Blood Lance, so I end up spending a lot of time running around dodging his attacks because Necro is a glass cannon and my cannon is a peashooter. I looked up a Blood Lance build and I'm pretty close to it but even with two of those three Hearts you're listing I'm getting wrecked by the capstone boss. All the bone spear aspects are in the codex as of season 1 fyi. Well not ossified essence but that is the least important early on (but still super powerful when it comes online later)
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Also if you are playing blood necro don’t hear for glass cannon, gear to be able to facetank anything. It plays similar to pulverize Druid
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Jul 30, 2023 14:03
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Any reason to keep my Eternal characters around? I like my character selection nice and tidy so I'm gonna delete them all. Seasonal only in my harem tyvm
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Jul 30, 2023 14:22
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Time posted:All the bone spear aspects are in the codex as of season 1 fyi. Well not ossified essence but that is the least important early on (but still super powerful when it comes online later) Time posted:Also if you are playing blood necro don’t hear for glass cannon, gear to be able to facetank anything. It plays similar to pulverize Druid
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Jul 30, 2023 14:23
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harrygomm posted:beat the wt4 capstone at 56 on necro. this is a stupid class Landlside/trample/poison creeper build. I didn't even have a Barber heart
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If the paragon stuff for Necro's minions are fixed, are minions viable at 50+ in WT3? My wife LOVES having minions but also doesn't like dying as we move up through difficulty tiers.
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Jul 30, 2023 14:27
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I’m a freak and I enjoy D4’s itemization. It’s cool that certain armor can have gently caress-off levels of DR/hp and defensive aspects and I hunt them. It’s cool that I gotta find big move speed on boots and amulet. It’s cool that I have uniques to hunt on druid (make it true for other classes blizz!) Managing gold and souls and veiled crystals is cool. Building up a bank of aspects and mats and hearts for alts is cool. Grinding tunnels if I want to min/max hearts is cool. Keeping interesting rares for jewelry is cool. idk it’s tickling my biscuit to think about in between big bear slams.
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Jul 30, 2023 14:41
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My only real major issue is how loving long it takes to pour through all the goddamn stats on all the gear in a full inventory (Especially with all the extra info on) I really want to be able to set up loads of custom filters that auto mark loot as trash for salvage and trash for vendor and that would immeasurably improve my life, the downtime while I have relatively expensive potions or a helltide timer ticking away causing constant time pressure is killer. I know I've accidentally mulched upgrades trying to go fast. Hell it's an arpg, so make that an unlock from rerolling or upgrading or salvaging or vendoring things with certain stats if you gotta. Cool, you rerolled to crit on gloves X times. Now you can auto filter all items with no crit on gloves etc. Etc. Mebh fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I have found zero bone spear aspects or items that buff bone skills so I'm currently using a Blood Lance build because I do have two pretty good Blood Lance Legendaries. I can clear most crowds and Elites pretty easily but the capstone boss just mulches me and I waste a ton of time not having Essence to keep casting Blood Lance, so I end up spending a lot of time running around dodging his attacks because Necro is a glass cannon and my cannon is a peashooter. I looked up a Blood Lance build and I'm pretty close to it but even with two of those three Hearts you're listing I'm getting wrecked by the capstone boss. You are doing something very wrong if you are not invincible as a blood lance necromancer. Necro is definitely not a glass cannon. Mine was able to go into Elias at level 61 and mulch him within a couple overpowers on hardcore.
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Rufio posted:Any reason to keep my Eternal characters around? I like my character selection nice and tidy so I'm gonna delete them all. Seasonal only in my harem tyvm In d3 I just kept them until I needed a season slot, they might add rebirth which seems pointless but eh nuke em
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I finally got to WT3 last night at 44, even carried a buddy through it. Gonna just hang in the NM dungeons now collecting gear and upgrading everything to sacred + imprints to get ready for paragon grinding and even more leveling.
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coelomate posted:I’m a freak and I enjoy D4’s itemization. I'd like it a lot more if they maybe toned it down on some of the affixes. Like do we really, really need; -%Damage -%Damage to Slowed -%Damage to Stunned -%Damaged to Crowd Controlled -%Damage to Unstoppable -%Damage to Unstoppable Bosses you Staggered -%Damage to Unstoppable Bosses you Staggered that just came out of Stagger -%Damage to Unstaggered Staggerd Bosses someone else Staggered for you -%Damage to Bosses who got Staggered Facing North with an Easterly Breeze with a High Chance of Rain Later this Evening
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Good ol' Carbot says what we're all thinking I've started skipping a lot of events in dungeons as my brain associates them with "same loot, 3-5 times slower."
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I'm trying to decide if I want this game. I'll play it couch coop on a PS5 with one other person, but years ago when I did that with Diablo 3, we got bored on our first playthrough by there being basically zero difficulty, and the story not involving the characters we were actually playing. Should I bother with this one?
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Doomykins posted:Good ol' Carbot says what we're all thinking lol amazing
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The writing is better. Your character is still fairly generic, though they have a (stoic, altruistic, nicely fearless) mild personality. The supporting cast carries a lot better than D3. The difficulty depends. It's gonna be similar to D3 boss design: a big imposing monster slams AoE markers down. I think D4 boss design is overall better and there's a bit of a nice challenge for an ARPG campaign going through World Torment 2(WT2) to start. WT1 is sleepwalk mode. WT3 and WT4 make things harder but are definitively post campaign and also paradoxically become super easy as you gear up in their new tier of drops, then you make the game as hard as you want trying to push Nightmare Dungeons until a Super Boss rematch with the last boss. The campaign is distinctly better than D3, the issue is if you think it'll be $70 worth of better. It took me awhile to decide to take the risk and I've found it barely worth it, but I personally hate paying release date prices.
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Gort posted:I'm trying to decide if I want this game. I'll play it couch coop on a PS5 with one other person, but years ago when I did that with Diablo 3, we got bored on our first playthrough by there being basically zero difficulty, and the story not involving the characters we were actually playing. It's better, but definitely don't buy D4 for the story imo. Your character appears in cutscenes but there's a handful of them and a whole bunch forgettable fodder bookended by two amazing cinematics. Difficulty is a weird one, because you won't really be dying until higher difficulties (after campaign), but monsters will take considerably longer to kill than D3. Vic fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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Yeah D4 writing is better in that everybody is grateful we didn't get a Diablo 3 or Shadowlands tier disaster. It's goodish for a video game in a genre where the story can be skipped in a blind playthrough. Watching Carbot vids I think Blizzard needs to get on voice packs in the shop that let me use better sound design from older games. Sorry D4 devs, you did a good job in a lot of places but I have a Pavlovian response smile to hearing D2 Barb noises.
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I actually think the sound design is a place were D4 shines super hard, especially while playing as a Barb.
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The sound and graphics in D4 are amazing. The soundtrack isn't super memorable but atmospheric as gently caress.
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EC posted:If the paragon stuff for Necro's minions are fixed, are minions viable at 50+ in WT3? My wife LOVES having minions but also doesn't like dying as we move up through difficulty tiers. They were before this patch. My eternal necro was 74 and melting wt4
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Doomykins posted:The writing is better. Your character is still fairly generic, though they have a (stoic, altruistic, nicely fearless) mild personality. The supporting cast carries a lot better than D3. $70 in 2023 money is worth $55 in 2012 money.
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th3t00t posted:$60 in 2012 is worth $76 in 2023 money. But 2012 was only...  I'm a big fan of the part of the hobby where you can get any game for $30 or less if you wait a year to play it.
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Doomykins posted:But 2012 was only... Unless you like Nintendo games lol. BoTW was a launch title, had its direct sequel released a few months ago and is STILL its original price.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:i think it depends on if the guide author has actually been testing out new things in the season or if they just rushed it out for clicks, ive been collecting aspects fopr a minion necro using a maxroll guide and its changed several times since the season start and doesnt use disobedience anymore Yeah between the blizz aspect and the crowd controlled one its 25+25 Dr can't see how to beat that for two defensives
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I got the freeze gloves on my rogue last night. Seems like the first unique I’ve gotten that might be useful. I’ll have to look up some stuff for it.
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Switched from a chain lightning build to an ice spikes build for my sorcerer and now she’s melting entire screens at once. What a dramatic difference. A+.
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:its annoying that you cant just replace a wrathful heart on a piece of armour thats equipped and you have to take it off. Either I was really tired last night when I did this or there's some weird special case for wrathful hearts, because I remember simply swapping in a new heart into jewelry I was wearing without needing to remove it? There was a confirmation dialogue that the existing heart would be destroyed but I'm pretty sure I didn't remove it.
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Dallan Invictus posted:Either I was really tired last night when I did this or there's some weird special case for wrathful hearts, because I remember simply swapping in a new heart into jewelry I was wearing without needing to remove it? There was a confirmation dialogue that the existing heart would be destroyed but I'm pretty sure I didn't remove it. There’s a weird special case for wrathful hearts, you have to unequip the jewelry to slot a new one in.
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Doomykins posted:Good ol' Carbot says what we're all thinking I don't think I've ever successfully completed the one where you have to keep at least one person alive. They just die too fast to some random bullshit.
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I'm not sure how the wandering soul one works at all Not the one looking for something, the one where you have to kill imbued stuff or whatever while it wanders around
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Rufio posted:Any reason to keep my Eternal characters around? I like my character selection nice and tidy so I'm gonna delete them all. Seasonal only in my harem tyvm The main use is to test builds without having to spend resources in season. Edit: There's also a decent chance they become far more powerful than anything possible in season thanks to legacy items etc. The Huge Manatee fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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hawowanlawow posted:I'm not sure how the wandering soul one works at all The gimmick there is that new imbued stuff only spawns after you kill the existing ones, so if you're not focusing down imbued enemies you're not going to kill enough of them before time runs out
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hawowanlawow posted:I'm not sure how the wandering soul one works at all One mob will have a sort of greenish glowing aura around it, you kill it and it fills up the bar and a new one appears. It's actually one of the better ones. Except it doesn't end with an elite I guess.
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hawowanlawow posted:I'm not sure how the wandering soul one works at all Gotta kill the purple enemies. They've got a sorta aura thing. It's hard to notice, but only one of those can spawn at once so if you wanna succeed the event you either have to do absurd full screen clear or focus on the specific purple enemies. So slow, I am so so slow
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pork never goes bad posted:Gotta kill the purple enemies. They've got a sorta aura thing. It's hard to notice, but only one of those can spawn at once so if you wanna succeed the event you either have to do absurd full screen clear or focus on the specific purple enemies. yeah focusing on one enemy is not really my build's thing, but I did not notice the glow before so I will try it now
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fknlo posted:I got the freeze gloves on my rogue last night. Seems like the first unique I’ve gotten that might be useful. I’ll have to look up some stuff for it. I got those the other day and love them. 2 levels below me now, but them help my rogue hitting above her weight when when tend to freeze everything around me. With their help I was about to get through the first part of the T4 capstone at 58 and could get Elias down to the last potion mark. Ended up going to town and recruiting some people that helped me beat him. I just wanted out of T3 to get some better gear. I'm really getting burnt out on the game this season though. A lot of it is due to the slow grind for XP. They seem to think that grind will increase the engagement, but it's just driving people away.
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The one that you have to kill is a red dot on the mini-map too.
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Tarnop posted:Have they fixed the blood orb corpse tendrils bug I don't know why people keep thinking it's a bug. They didn't change anything that would make it be a bug. They nerfed it with no documentation, likely for the same reason they nerfed blood lance for 1.0.4 https://www.wowhead.com/diablo-4/news/diablo-4-hotfix-patch-1-0-4-blood-lance-nerfs-333892 too many blood lances spawning from blood orbs and gore quills aspect causing server issues. I agree it's incredibly loving annoying, though, because I'm still playing blood lance and it was fun as hell before they deleted the corpse tendrils ability to spawn blood orbs. Now you have to rely on massive attack speed to get any blood orbs.
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