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Ok swapped over fully from blood surge necro to Infinimist necro. Is it better? Yes. Do I miss the screen shaking waves of blood shooting out of everyone and a wall of numbers appearing on the screen? Also yes. It’s funny because you basically don’t have to care about both health and essence with this build it’s just making sure you manage cooldowns a bit
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Nov 6, 2023 19:44
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Nobody knows yet, leaks say 'spiritborn' that uses glaives but could be outdated info Fingers crossed it is, because it sounds stupid as gently caress.
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Nov 6, 2023 20:00
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Spiritborn sounds like one of those weird Titan Quest subclasses you get from mixing two improbable skill trees.
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Tokubetsu posted:Yeah I remember liking it in the beta with blight as the secondary but channeling in this game seems to just be bad overall. Sorcs have the same problem with incinerate just not stacking up even after all the changes. Sucks because all the wizard beam builds in d3 were cool. Yes! Bring back beams!
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Suburban Dad posted:Do any of the developers play this game and understand how stupid any of these decisions are? Like getting a bunch of blood at the end of the journey when you haven't needed it forever? It's mind boggling. Granted, if I worked 40+ hours per week on a game the last thing I'd want to do is play it in my free time. Still, talk with content creators about this stuff or I dunno, think critcally. if you're on the goon discord, i brought up this up a lot earlier in the development (lol) as so much poo poo was tedious, not working / worth the time, etc. a goon who supposedly works on d4 condescendingly responded that why yes the devs spend a ton of time playing this game and promptly dismissed my comment. so apparently they do? but are too dumb / bad to fix these poor decisions and design choices? as some of their recent videos have shown, basic math is really hard (along with qa reviewing) so asking them to create more thoughtful seasonal rewards is probably a pretty tall order. but the game is becoming more fun so at least we have that in the meantime. counterpoint, considering how blizzcon went, looks like things will (hopefully) continue improving until next year when we get charged $99 for a new expansion, everything breaks again, and we go back to square one, an alpha test (because lets be honest no one's testing any of this poo poo).
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Nov 6, 2023 21:16
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I took a few months off and just hopped into Season 2. Holy cow they've made some outstanding improvements to basically every aspect of the game. Good poo poo I dunno if there's much of a reason to hand over tenbux for the season but that's a good problem to have, IMHO Wegovy the Cutting Glutton is my first time on a necromancer and it's real fun
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Nov 6, 2023 21:30
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Last King posted:if you're on the goon discord, i brought up this up a lot earlier in the development (lol) as so much poo poo was tedious, not working / worth the time, etc. The season journey completion requirement is probably coming from management/bean counters/business analytics/player engagement czar and less the 'actual' developers.
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Nov 6, 2023 21:34
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I took a few months off and just hopped into Season 2. Holy cow they've made some outstanding improvements to basically every aspect of the game. Good poo poo save your $10 and put that towards the $70+ expac instead.
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Nov 6, 2023 22:33
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Last King posted:if you're on the goon discord, i brought up this up a lot earlier in the development (lol) as so much poo poo was tedious, not working / worth the time, etc. Well, now I have to join the discord.
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Nov 6, 2023 22:37
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Do you think the expansion is gonna be like an lod or RoS overhaul or is it just gonna be another 8 hrs of lovely story line you mash escapr through while we get drip feed of item fixes etc.
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Nov 6, 2023 22:38
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It’s going to be a dating simulator.
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Last King posted:save your $10 and put that towards the $70+ expac instead. Holy smokes! It STARTS at $70?
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I would pay for a DLC that let me get those on demand. I'll never understand this behavior
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Suburban Dad posted:Begrudging I did the 5k seeds for one of the earlier journey steps but the last one is just too much bullshit. And it's dumb to gate content like that IMO. I really wonder what % of players have completed the journey. If you flag yourself for pvp you can open Chad only chests that drop a lot of seeds at once. I was able to get 22k seeds in about half an hour while leveling my character. Maybe it’s more annoying if you run into other players, but I’ve literally never seen anyone else in the pvp zones on hardcore.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:It’s going to be a dating simulator.
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Day 406: still no gravitational aspect. Build still works tho.
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Tokubetsu posted:living steel the most annoying boss mat to get Helltides continue to suck
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Nov 6, 2023 23:24
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My general impression of Blizzard devs themselves based on playing Diablo and Overwatch is: generally well-meaning but also incompetent in absolutely bizarre ways. And obviously hamstrung by miserable management.
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Nov 6, 2023 23:26
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Helltides continue to suck  and it's gonna continue being that way because they can't be bothered to do the helltide farming loop. if they were forced to do the grind from scratch using a fresh character and actually completed the season journey, they'd know instantly how poo poo it is.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Ahhh.... Butcher-kun...
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Well I just hit WT3 at 46 with my twisting blades rogue, and am currently 54. Ran the blood tides thing a bunch, killed Zir, decked out in sacred gear. Just did my first NMD and honestly have no desire to do many more. It's way more fun to level than to grind the same poo poo over and over to level glyphs or whatever.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Well I just hit WT3 at 46 with my twisting blades rogue, and am currently 54. Ran the blood tides thing a bunch, killed Zir, decked out in sacred gear. Just did my first NMD and honestly have no desire to do many more. It's way more fun to level than to grind the same poo poo over and over to level glyphs or whatever. Yeah, I think I go to 15 on a few and move on to something else for a few days so I don't burn out.
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I’d like to farm duriel more but twice now I’ve logged in and there’s been 5-8 mins left on a helltide. I’ve got lots of mucus eggs through…
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yea making helltides constant and cinders permanent like blood lures should have been the next sentence in the conversation after the decision to make boss summoning mats drop there like, surely it was and some kind of corrupted demon person interrupted and said "no, I want it to be bad!"
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This past Helltide I went to where a Living Steel chest was supposed to be, only it wasn't. I tried the usual recommended remedies (portal to town, enter a dungeon) but they did not work, so I went to where the second chest was… only it also was not there and I couldn't get it to spawn either. 
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MMAgCh posted:This past Helltide I went to where a Living Steel chest was supposed to be, only it wasn't. I tried the usual recommended remedies (portal to town, enter a dungeon) but they did not work, so I went to where the second chest was… only it also was not there and I couldn't get it to spawn either. I'm blown away this is STILL happening
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I'm mostly content to race my horse toward objectives in vampiretides, only for the objective to disappear just as I get there. Also the loot goblin symbol comes up every single time I get off my horse on my position, and then disappears.
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Name Change posted:I'm mostly content to race my horse toward objectives in vampiretides, only for the objective to disappear just as I get there. Also the loot goblin symbol comes up every single time I get off my horse on my position, and then disappears. I'm pretty sure it's a little icon for your horse that runs off after you dismount. My guess is that, at one point, your horse just stayed in the world instead of disappearing and the icon was to help you keep track of it.
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Name Change posted:Also the loot goblin symbol comes up every single time I get off my horse on my position, and then disappears. Holy gently caress I thought I was losing it
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Tonetta posted:I'll never understand this behavior Henrik Zetterberg posted:Well I just hit WT3 at 46 with my twisting blades rogue, and am currently 54. Ran the blood tides thing a bunch, killed Zir, decked out in sacred gear. Just did my first NMD and honestly have no desire to do many more. It's way more fun to level than to grind the same poo poo over and over to level glyphs or whatever. AAAAA! Real Muenster fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Nov 7, 2023 |
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Yeah, Glyphs will level up to 15 rather quick as long as you can do 65+ fast enough. I honestly don't really care about them until my character is at that point.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I would really love, like absolutely love, more game modes where I could focus on fighting for a while and all the loot would just be in a chest at the end. I'm sick of having to intersperse picking up loot off of the ground between murdering demons. Strangely, this is what greater rifts (the thing you're objecting to) are. They don't feature the exact horde mode mechanic from vamptides, so there's no life drain and you're required to move, but they're pure murder on random maps with random mobs and any loot drops solely off the final boss. They're technically speedruns, yes, but if you're infinitely grinding repeatable content everything is a speedrun whether there's a leaderboard or not. leftist heap posted:And obviously hamstrung by miserable management. As a general rule, aside from extremely esoteric actions like spending hundreds of hours pushing vertices to find bizarre speedrun-worthy glitches, I assume someone figured this out. Maybe they weren't important enough and mentioning it was a career-limiting move. Maybe they brought it up anyway and got shouted back down until they learned to keep this stuff to themselves. It could affect the microtransaction strategy, or the ship date, or somehow show content in a negative light that was the idea of a VIP. No matter the case they either knew to keep their mouth shut or had to learn to keep it shut the hard way. That's on top of the 2023 "Ok we shipped, fire all the QA" trend currently.
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Last King posted:if you're on the goon discord, i brought up this up a lot earlier in the development (lol) as so much poo poo was tedious, not working / worth the time, etc. 
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Last King posted:
helltides were one of the most fun and universally praised things at launch. they were also a fantastic addition to d2r. they should be updated to match current design, but they were cool as hell
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I killed Lilith on my level 99 rogue with a regular rear end end game double imbue twisting blades build on like my 5th try. The Uber boss end game loop is a hell of a lot of fun to do with friends because everyone is farming up mats and we get together at the end of the night to share our spoils. NMDs should absolutely drop a living steel at the end because I’ve been doing so many Helltides and vamptides that I’ve only got two glyphs at 21 and 3 at 15. I can’t wait to spend $140 for the DLC next year. Diablo is back baby awooo.
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El Scandelouse posted:I killed Lilith on my level 99 rogue with a regular rear end end game double imbue twisting blades build on like my 5th try. I think an awesome extension of your idea would be to have 40+ NMDs have a 50% chance on completion to drop a living steel, malignant heart, frosty-boi material, or exquisite blood.
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Glyph xp: it's less poo poo if you only do the A/S tier nmds on the maxroll glyph xp list. Some of the dungeons are just bad for speed clearing.
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harrygomm posted:helltides were one of the most fun and universally praised things at launch. they were also a fantastic addition to d2r. they should be updated to match current design, but they were cool as hell They may have been where all the density was at launch but now they're just like Neph rifts - a mandatory thing that exists purely to drop items that justify its existence. If they remove having to plan your game time like they did with vampiretides that will objectively be an improvement, but it's still a break from the progression game to grind rerolls.
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