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I had one in a cow portal, but it was from a gobbo not a cube. I remember because I had one bounty to go.
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"Why am I on the leaderboard with that low of a clear?" Most of the classes have less than 6xx people that have completed a GR at this point. Only DH and Wiz had 1k+.
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Blech. I don't own the necro dlc and was hoping that they would do something with DH/WD since I never really touched those classes. Oh well, meteors ho...
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Sep 17, 2023 05:31
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WD gets the new Angry Chicken stuff, but it isn't the Haedrig's gift set.
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None of the HG sets are particularly useful in meta builds this time round - the Wiz gets Firebirds which is probably the least-worst, as it allows you to build around disintegrate. Disintegrate being to Wizard levelling what Chain Lightning is to D4 Sorcs, this is kinda handy. I looked at the tier lists and given that I rolled a Wizard, Necro and DH into GR 120+ last season, decided to say fuckit and roll a WD for the Angry Chicken build. Given I'm only doing this one on Switch, and with the Paragon cap and altar removed, I'm unlikely to see a GR130 for the entire season - so a speed-running build suits me fine. Only up to 40 from a couple hours playing, but I managed to luck out and pick up the Firebats staff fairly early on so it's been melting poo poo on Hard pretty satisfyingly with a random DIY firebats/zombie dogs/gargantuan/haunt/hex build. GF is rocking the Disintegrate build I levelled a wiz with a few seasons back and she's pretty clearly doing more than me with shittier gear, and the AetherWalker/In-Geom infinite teleport build is probably still one of the best effort/reward speedrun builds in the game, so you can't go wrong there. GoD DH is supposedly better for QoL with the mechanics changes, but if you did that in S27/28 it's still going to bore you to tears.
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Sep 17, 2023 09:35
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"Did you enjoy sifting through tons of mostly useless loot in D4? Well, here's season 29, where every single screen of the season gimmick will get you a full bag of loot. Sometimes a full stash tab full of it even. ENJOY!" At least sorting through it is a lot easier here. Pretty cool that no one seems to be doing Bounties anymore. Makes getting a RoRG and a stash of Caches for the Avarice Conquest not tedious at all. Do the elites in the season rifts a different damage scale? On T16 and 160m toughness I die a lot from random environmental damage. Especially the lightning strikes from above are hitting hard and fast. Hard to get out of without getting hit twice. Can't imagine hardcore players are having fun with the seasonal theme. A floor full of elites or triple Rift Guardians is murderous.
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Sep 17, 2023 13:46
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im still on expert but it feels like theres an insane amount of floor damage in the seasonal things
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Sep 17, 2023 19:50
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:im still on expert but it feels like theres an insane amount of floor damage in the seasonal things Is there any actual mechanic tied to that? I just figured it was a lot of monster affixes being spammed in a very small area that was causing so much passive damage.
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The least they should have done is keep the auto-dust option for blues and yellows from S28. I realize they would have come up with some sort of switch for it and no one probably was willing to put that in, but yeah, it's too much (crappy) loot. Just like in D4, they managed to make looting in a loot-based ARPG tedious and unfun.
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Sep 17, 2023 22:51
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mcbexx posted:The least they should have done is keep the auto-dust option for blues and yellows from S28. I realize they would have come up with some sort of switch for it and no one probably was willing to put that in, but yeah, it's too much (crappy) loot. It's not like D4 at all in that you really don't have to pick up everything on the ground. Anything you get from doing bounties and hitting the smash all button at the end of each rift will be all you need for crafting components.
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Sep 17, 2023 22:53
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TBH I don't think they tested the season mechanic on console. Because of the way the auto pickup/interact button works, it's really hard to not constantly zoom back and forth between portals unintentionally when they spawn on top of you. And yeah not picking up loot is a much trickier prospect unless you're happy potentially leaving gems mats and leggos on the ground. At this point I think I'm going to have to bind A button on switch to something I don't use as often and try to relearn the muscle memory because it's frustrating as hell constantly being yanked between levels like that. I do strongly recommend the trick of cubing a crafted lvl70 weapon and rolling level reduction on it though. I got to -14 before I ran out of DBs, but once I hit 56 I got a 5x damage buff and Expert/master are a total doddle even in the rift guardian heavy levels.
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everwake posted:Is there any actual mechanic tied to that? I just figured it was a lot of monster affixes being spammed in a very small area that was causing so much passive damage. The deeper you go the stronger the enemies become and the better loot they drop. I'm not sure what the actual scaling is or if anybody has tried to correlate it to GRs based on numbers, but it is very noticeable. And then you have Necrosis making everything hit harder. As for the excess loot I simply stopped picking it up. I really miss the pet, and sometimes the thing I want to grab is buried so I have to dig around, but it hasn't been D4 levels of fatigue because it's all trash and gets instantly salvaged.
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Sep 18, 2023 01:23
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Yep that's the ticket. No more picking up dbs, yellows, or whites for me. Unless in the portals, the dbs there are in mucho stacks.
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Solo Self Found is how I've always played this game, not because I'm a hermit but mostly because i don't want to disappoint other nerds with my poor GR efforts. As such I'm really glad I have this game mode.
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Completed season, finished up 3 on the ladder for the set I was playing (Manajuma). Changes were good, drat do I miss auto salvaging friend though. I was a bit worried about having to farm mats from bounties with the ssf mode, but I ended up with hundreds more of those than I used to.
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Sep 19, 2023 00:07
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PSA that the Solo Self Found Haedrig's set is separate from the regular seasonal set. Although for each mode, you still may only receive one set between both softcore and hardcore.
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When s29 ends, what's the plan with SSF characters? - Will they simply become non-seasonal characters? - Will there become a division between never-SSF and ex-SSF characters?
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Oh, also you share your progress and items with other SSF characters i.e you can get blood shards on a geared character and gamble on someone else. I didn't expect to be able to do that.
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KajiTheMelonMan posted:When s29 ends, what's the plan with SSF characters? I have a feeling ssf will go core. Might as well, already put the work in.
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It's a good farewell season, with the usual shortcomings PLUS I miss the altar of rites. However annoying the repeating enmity portals are, the plentiful crafting mats are a consolation. Might mess around and do more than the usual 2 characters but we'll see how far I take it. I am really hoping they mash every theme into S30, I'd love to see that.
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Slum Loser posted:It's a good farewell season, with the usual shortcomings PLUS I miss the altar of rites. However annoying the repeating enmity portals are, the plentiful crafting mats are a consolation. Might mess around and do more than the usual 2 characters but we'll see how far I take it. I am really hoping they mash every theme into S30, I'd love to see that. Apparently for S30 Blizzard is going to be balancing, or I should say re-balancing ALL the classes, and ALL the builds, so we'll see how that goes... the "tier" list as we know it could completely be flipped upside down for S30 and moving forward, seems like a lot of work for an intern + janitor guy to do... I'm also going to expect so many bugs and broken things from this.
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Sep 19, 2023 19:30
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I'm fine with some class rebalancing in S30 as long as Wizards are at the top forever where they belong. And BRING BACK FB MIRROR IMAGE!! Seriously it's not even that OP nowadays.
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Sep 19, 2023 19:36
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As long as they nerf meteors, so I never have to play that eye cancer build again.
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I agree, there should be more meteors.
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Im_Special posted:Apparently for S30 Blizzard is going to be balancing, or I should say re-balancing ALL the classes, and ALL the builds I kept reading that as "for $30" - as in, "thirty dollars", not "season 30", and I was so confused as to what was going on.
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$30 for balancing is what Blizzard has planned for D4 so it's an easy mistake to make.
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exquisite tea posted:$30 for balancing is what Blizzard has planned for D4 so it's an easy mistake to make. This both is and is not a joke. And that's also what I was non-sarcastically half wondering while I was confused. The D4 monetization is so...everything...that I really thought that they might be charging for class balance in D3 for a minute.
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They're going to rebalance all the builds by giving them a jay wilson pass and calling it a day.
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Source was from Raxx, who has insider knowledge/talks to the dev(s), I have no clue were the timestamp was in the one stream he talked about it... he didn't say much though, probably doesn't know much, but the plan for S30 was that all the builds will more or less get a pass to become "more in line" with one another, so one could expect builds you'd never expect to play to be competitive, and maybe the current top tier ones might see some nerfs. I just hope it's not boring percentage changes like, 500% -> 1500%. There are still a handful of garbo legendaries that are prime to see revisions for build definition.
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Since I couldn't find a clear answer anywhere, I decided to bite the bullet, and find out for myself... Haedrig's Gift is tracked seperatly for Solo Self Found and Regular Seasonal.
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Im_Special posted:I just hope it's not boring percentage changes like, 500% -> 1500%. Expecting anything more than this will probably lead to disappointment. I assume they'll just bring bad builds up, not nerf much at this point.
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Can someone who's good with Diablo 3 explain why the Monkey Bells builds are all using Mystic Ally Boosting Gear despite not using Mystic Ally?
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Kheldarn posted:Can someone who's good with Diablo 3 explain why the Monkey Bells builds are all using Mystic Ally Boosting Gear despite not using Mystic Ally? I understand some of these words. Do you have a link to a youtube video as an example?
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You usually DO use mystic ally - air ally for the spirit regen to spam bells. Early in a season the leaderboards are often full of bad builds because someone got a really lucky GR with suboptimal gear.
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atomicvocabulary posted:I understand some of these words. Do you have a link to a youtube video as an example? Swilo posted:You usually DO use mystic ally - air ally for the spirit regen to spam bells. Early in a season the leaderboards are often full of bad builds because someone got a really lucky GR with suboptimal gear. I had to double check. It seems that GR Push builds drop Mystic Ally, but still keep the gear that boosts them equipped/in the Cube. Very odd.
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Kheldarn posted:Since I couldn't find a clear answer anywhere, I decided to bite the bullet, and find out for myself... Two Class Sets? Well that's nice.
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Kheldarn posted:I had to double check. It seems that GR Push builds drop Mystic Ally, but still keep the gear that boosts them equipped/in the Cube. I don't recall the name of the item off hand, but there is a monk weapon that makes your spenders get doubled during Epiphany. The clone spenders are considered mechanically as coming from mystic allies, and thus get those bonuses. I'm not playing this season so I can't look at the boards and confirm it, but that is my guess as to what you're seeing.
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Mind over Matter posted:I don't recall the name of the item off hand, but there is a monk weapon that makes your spenders get doubled during Epiphany. The clone spenders are considered mechanically as coming from mystic allies, and thus get those bonuses. I'm not playing this season so I can't look at the boards and confirm it, but that is my guess as to what you're seeing. That's Rabid Strike. But what I was seeing was The Crudest Boots with Bindings Of The Lesser Gods in the Cube, and no Mystic Ally.
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I accidentally did not click the solo-self found so now I'm waiting until the next challenge rift to play the game 
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Kheldarn posted:That's Rabid Strike. But what I was seeing was The Crudest Boots with Bindings Of The Lesser Gods in the Cube, and no Mystic Ally. Seems like the rabid strike clones get buffed by the boots and bindings according to Mind over Matter's description.
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