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McCoy Pauley posted:As a sorcerer, if I'm slotting a spell into an enchantment slot, do I want to rank up the spell, or is having a single level of the slotted spell going to give me all the benefit I need from slotting an enchantment? ranks don't matter for enchantments, a single level is all you need
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McCoy Pauley posted:As a sorcerer, if I'm slotting a spell into an enchantment slot, do I want to rank up the spell, or is having a single level of the slotted spell going to give me all the benefit I need from slotting an enchantment? The sadly inevitable answer is: it depends. Some are there to apply a status effect so one level is fine, some (fireball) are there for damage and benefit from levels
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Tarnop posted:The sadly inevitable answer is: it depends. Some are there to apply a status effect so one level is fine, some (fireball) are there for damage and benefit from levels Thanks. Fireball was the one I wanted to know about, so I guess I know what to do with my next 4 points.
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Oct 26, 2023 20:40
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Fireball enchantment's usefulness will eventually fall off but until then it's absolutely worth 7 points, especially this season with the density in Blood Harvest
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Oct 26, 2023 20:47
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Yeah it was night and day when I hit 30 and put in a max level fireball.
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Oct 26, 2023 20:59
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Tarnop posted:The sadly inevitable answer is: it depends. Some are there to apply a status effect so one level is fine, some (fireball) are there for damage and benefit from levels I wish the ice armor enchantment increased from 5% with levels  It would probably be op though.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The silent chests you need for season chapter 3 - are the maps online up to date? Tried looking some up and travelling to those spots but couldn't find any. Do they randomly spawn around that area, do they spawn at certain times of day, is there something I have to do to get them to spawn or are the maps just out of date? I don’t have hard data, and haven’t referenced any online maps. Here’s some anecdata: they seem to show up randomly, but I’ve felt like I’ve seen a lot of them during helltides vs vamptides.
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Oct 26, 2023 21:22
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huh, last night i rode to the world boss and i didnt the nearby waypoint in nostrava so i specifically went there and got it on the way to the boss. today i dont have the waypoint again and missed it :/
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Oct 26, 2023 21:32
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Tarnop posted:Caches still smuggle the bad loot through the filter and yes it's dumb that blues and whites still drop as items in later tiers Tree caches go off level for gear tier I think. So they sneak in junk.
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Oct 26, 2023 21:51
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sorting equipment once you're near endgame is still absolutely dire they either need to stopgap with some really high quality loot filtering ala last epoch, or totally rethink affixes, or both sitting around in town with eyes glazing over after another three screens of junk dropped in a vampire boss farm is not fun, the fun part is killing all the vampires it's the one remaining major point of friction for me - unfortunately I don't see them fixing it before whatever the first expansion is unless they pull a surprise out of their hat
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Oct 26, 2023 22:30
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victrix posted:sorting equipment once you're near endgame is still absolutely dire 100% The vampire zone drops way too much trash. I'm at the point where I don't even look at affixes unless it's over own level 900 because then at least it's a little faster. Still, real bad.
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i feel like a loot filter/auto-trash is the only thing stopping this season from being literally just 15 man afking at the vampire event to 100 and perfect gear (where you then grind nmds angrily until you're done) theres something else wrong with the system when "we have too much loot, and the solution is to turn most of it into dust automatically with a filter". like those are obvious, positive QoL things that no good person could say no to, but it sorta reveals a flaw in the game deeper than that i feel like d2 did a really good job about this and d3 tried to reproduce that and failed, and now its been "increase the loot hose" since then and it hasnt fixed anything
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Oct 26, 2023 22:54
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Suburban Dad posted:100% This. 925 or blacksmith.
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Verviticus posted:i feel like a loot filter/auto-trash is the only thing stopping this season from being literally just 15 man afking at the vampire event to 100 and perfect gear (where you then grind nmds angrily until you're done) D2 accomplished this by having a very small set of items that you wanted and could identify from the ground. It still dropped a poo poo ton of garbage that we just visually loot filtered out. D3 ironically got it closer to an ideal state once RoS was released. D4 just feels like a step backwards
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Verviticus posted:huh, last night i rode to the world boss and i didnt the nearby waypoint in nostrava so i specifically went there and got it on the way to the boss. today i dont have the waypoint again and missed it :/
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Oct 26, 2023 23:43
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An item filter to just filter out bases and itemlevels would already be a major improvement. Like, just show me ilvl 900+ amulets and rings or something. One step up would be actually filtering affix combinations like last epoch. But on the other hand, theres so many affixes that do the exact same thing that it will all look like a giant jumbled mess anyway
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Oct 27, 2023 00:02
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The biggest problem with D4's loot is that it presents the illusion of complexity, but when you break it down, like 85% of the affixes are just "slightly more damage with conditions" and some of those are things you are doing literally 100% of the time anyway, so who wouldn't want to use those. You're not making meaningful choices that give your character any sort of strategy or flavor, the impact of a single piece is barely worth a paragon point in most cases. In an ARPG getting sick loot should ALWAYS be the ultimate objective, but here it's just an annoyance. Who creams their pants over "+6.9% more damage to Injured Enemies," compared to "+2 to All Skills" or "+20% Faster Cast Rate" or you know things that most human beings can actually visually quantify and enjoy.
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Oct 27, 2023 00:05
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I would really like if they just did the brave thing and completely scrapped the old series-long concept of these affixes as they exist, and start again from scratch. Make each affix do something totally unique and different. Like you have the +critical strike damage mainstay, and then another that does +area damage, which existed in D3, and another affix that does a certain lucky hit effect. That sort of thing. As it is, it's all 'do bigger numbers' under samey conditions such as vulnerable or bleeding or berserking...
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Oct 27, 2023 00:11
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D2 also had the notion of prefixes vs suffixes instead of just affixes so at least there's some competition going on under the hood. Fewer more impactful item mods would be a good idea. D3 item mods are boring but all the customization was in the cube in that game anyway.
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I have a new loot filter installed in my brain, it's set to ignore anything that isn't a legendary, unique, or duriel drop. it's pretty op in the current meta, of loot being sharted from the sky
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Oct 27, 2023 00:23
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Can't log in, server hangs. I take it this is because of the free trial? Haven't had a chance to catch up so apologies if this has already been discussed.
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haven’t heard anything about server issues on a broad scale, just individuals. also there’s a trial?
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m.hache posted:D2 accomplished this by having a very small set of items that you wanted and could identify from the ground. It still dropped a poo poo ton of garbage that we just visually loot filtered out. you could also identify which rares you didnt want by the base item (and thus ignore them as well) because they still had non-level scaling implications but now 'sword' has a different, more annoying meaning
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how is everyone's fashion in season 2
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Ehud posted:how is everyone's fashion in season 2 He wears short shorts Nair wears short shorts
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:I would really like if they just did the brave thing and completely scrapped the old series-long concept of these affixes as they exist, and start again from scratch. Make each affix do something totally unique and different. Like you have the +critical strike damage mainstay, and then another that does +area damage, which existed in D3, and another affix that does a certain lucky hit effect. That sort of thing. As it is, it's all 'do bigger numbers' under samey conditions such as vulnerable or bleeding or berserking... this would of course be ideal but it's an absolutely massive undertaking far beyond what just giving the game a decently functioning item system forged out of the current exceedingly mediocre item system would be. plus at this point in development, the affix system is inseparable from the game mechanics
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Ehud posted:how is everyone's fashion in season 2 mine is just big gray robes and beard bc his name is gandalf. it looked better with a staff but now he's using a wand and focus and it's RUINED EVERYTHING
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exquisite tea posted:Who creams their pants over "+6.9% more damage to Injured Enemies," compared to "+2 to All Skills" or "+20% Faster Cast Rate" or you know things that most human beings can actually visually quantify and enjoy. I got a good item which was like +19.8% Damage to Injured Enemies +22.4% Damage to Close Enemies +21.1% Damage to Healthy Enemies I was just nonplussed. How am I even gonna remember all that? Is it good? Idk? How close is close? Man idk i guess its good? Maybe? Later suddenly I dropped a thing that had just: 4.5% faster skill cooldowns And went gently caress YES!! That’s good! I want that! I need that! And when I equipped it I could tell the difference instantly.
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this image is old but it made me realize just how many near useless affixes there really are some of those in the last three columns are now actually good but you could remove like half of those
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Herstory Begins Now posted:be. plus at this point in development, the affix system is inseparable from the game mechanics Yeah I was thinking they are tied into all the boards and the leg affixes
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Well let’s see what they can come up with for Diablo 5
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Ehud posted:how is everyone's fashion in season 2 I take my "there are no hornt costumes" comment from last week
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Ehud posted:how is everyone's fashion in season 2 This guy goes to multiple edm festivals every year
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Kaysette posted:this image is old but it made me realize just how many near useless affixes there really are lmao so dumb
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Kaysette posted:this image is old but it made me realize just how many near useless affixes there really are ah yes, part of the blizzard "secret sauce" that makes their game so good aka stretching out the content... what an absolute poo poo list - it should be 1/4 of this so much random, useless, pointless crap.
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honestly I think the entire fountains of trash is a genre convention that needs to be tossed out the window, but baby steps
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Goons in this very thread saying bad and useless affixes is good game design because otherwise people would get good gear too quickly. Blizzard catering to those players since they complain the loudest.
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having a couple bad affixes is fine, but that big list is just transparently what happens when you've run out of time and need to come up with 50 new affixes in 24 hours or w/e
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Alright this is pretty goofy. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme...67b00c7e086780& Not crazy powerful or anything, but a fun change of pace from the usual. My only real complaint is that the uptime is so short. Gonna try and stack some CDR and get it so I can keep Hurricane up 24/7 and see if the boulders will stick around as well, but I'm seriously doubting that will work.
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