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Did they get rid of the butcher? I’m level 71 and haven’t seen him once.
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MarcusSA posted:Did they get rid of the butcher? I’m level 71 and haven’t seen him once. no, I saw him when I was playing last week in WT4
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May 6, 2024 18:29
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Wrex Ruckus posted:no, I saw him when I was playing last week in WT4 Ok! I’m just unlucky so far then!
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May 6, 2024 18:35
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It does feel like you go long stints without seeing the Butcher or Son of Malphas, but then they'll show up like 5 times in a row. Random gonna random, but it seems like once you can beat them easily they stop showing up for a bit until you push into higher tier NMDs / Vaults.
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May 6, 2024 19:06
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MarcusSA posted:Ok! I’m just unlucky so far then! I've been unlucky this season too! He hasnt appeared at all for me in season 3.
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May 6, 2024 19:06
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Paying2Lurk posted:It does feel like you go long stints without seeing the Butcher or Son of Malphas, but then they'll show up like 5 times in a row. Random gonna random, but it seems like once you can beat them easily they stop showing up for a bit until you push into higher tier NMDs / Vaults. Yeah I’ve seen I think 3 sons so far the first one caught me off guard because I thought I had triggered something. I said come in! posted:I've been unlucky this season too! He hasnt appeared at all for me in season 3. 
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May 6, 2024 19:17
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As someone in this thread so eloquently put it - "Malhpas's Large Adult Sons" That was actually a lot of fun - I had to keep moving around to find more packs of enemies to kill to generate more corpses to keep the Bone Spears flying at Malphas's Large Adult Sons. I gained at least two levels from just that encounter because it took so long to chew through their walls of HP. I think what happened was that I got a Large Adult Son of Malphas at level 60, then shortly thereafter hit 61 which I guess refreshes the chance of him dropping in and... he did.
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May 6, 2024 19:33
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Last time I played necromancer, focusing on overpower was a viable strategy for hitting hard with blood based build. Is that still the case? Thinking of going necro this season.
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May 6, 2024 19:44
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I said come in! posted:I've been unlucky this season too! He hasnt appeared at all for me in season 3. same. i've been doing vaults to get my glyphs capped and i see a son about every third vault. i'm glad i got all the drops from butcher already, what a dry spell
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May 6, 2024 20:01
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Ersatz posted:Last time I played necromancer, focusing on overpower was a viable strategy for hitting hard with blood based build. Is that still the case? Thinking of going necro this season. they're being debated in S4 from what i can tell because there are fewer ways to guarantee them iirc. that's what i remember a recap video from one of the maxroll guide guys saying. i don't have any firsthand experience with the PTR though
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May 6, 2024 20:03
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I’m going to miss the vaults. I realize they aren’t to everyone’s taste, but I vastly prefer them to normal NMDs for speed and convenience.
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May 6, 2024 20:04
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What's the deal with the Malphas mobs? I haven't played this season.
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May 6, 2024 20:25
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harrygomm posted:they're being debated in S4 from what i can tell because there are fewer ways to guarantee them iirc. that's what i remember a recap video from one of the maxroll guide guys saying. i don't have any firsthand experience with the PTR though
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May 6, 2024 20:28
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Blood Lance gets a guaranteed overpower via a skill, if I remember correctly? So that specific thing should still work. I'm not sure about the other blood skills. Ersatz fucked around with this message at 20:57 on May 6, 2024 |
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May 6, 2024 20:49
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Aexo posted:What's the deal with the Malphas mobs? I haven't played this season. i don't think we know why they look like that. they serve as a The Butcher surprise mob for the vaults. they are the sons of the seasonal boss i guess AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Blood Lance gets a guaranteed overpower via a skill, if I remember correctly? So that specific thing should still work. I'm not sure about the other blood skills. i am woefully underprepared to talk about necro other than quoting other people. maybe this is the season i'll say S3 is going out on a sour note for me, more than it would. i farmed up a full inventory of whispers caches and got 9 total summon mats from all 33 caches. so there goes any big farming ideas
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May 6, 2024 20:50
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When I made my first character last year, I was attacked in the first dungeon, the tutorial I guess, by the butcher. I immediately died of course. I had assumed that was scripted to always happen. But I haven't heard anyone else mention that happening. Did I get incredibly unlucky?
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May 6, 2024 20:57
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yeah. i got attacked like that on the pre release event my first time through the game but my partner did not. lucky, unlucky, who can say
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May 6, 2024 21:00
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I'll miss the Vault of Stone. Fast xp for everything and I can run it in my sleep. I killed Duriel at level 94 so now I just need to get one more challenge done for the Seasonal Journey.
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May 6, 2024 21:23
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Lmao bitching works my first nightmare vault of the day and I get the butcher.
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May 6, 2024 21:27
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The Butcher is true RNG especially if you are on a second character and skip the campaign to immediately go open world. Dude has no problem kicking the door open on a sub 10 character(even sub 20 or 30 is rough and pretty low build power) and tearing you in half.
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May 6, 2024 21:27
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Lost a few HC characters to the Butcher for sure. At least it was quick!
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May 6, 2024 21:31
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I knew my Barb was good when I could handle the Butcher on NMDs 30 levels higher than me. My Ice Shard Sorceress was fun as hell and could run the same level of NMDs but definitely could not handle even a same-level Butcher.
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May 6, 2024 21:44
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Excited to try Minion necro if it is indeed good
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I believe the Butcher has a boosted chance to appear in the first few Dungeons you run on a new Character. Including Hardcore. All ~8 characters I've played have seen a Butcher within the first three dungeons
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May 6, 2024 21:56
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queeb posted:Excited to try Minion necro if it is indeed good From the ptr players : they are OP. They inherit 100% of your stats now. They are “you”. So 9 minions is a 900% damage increase (not calculating mechanical deceases due to the AI)
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May 6, 2024 21:58
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Ersatz posted:Last time I played necromancer, focusing on overpower was a viable strategy for hitting hard with blood based build. Is that still the case? Thinking of going necro this season. Blood lance will be in a worse place than season 3 because the Dominate glyph and Banished Lord's Talisman are getting nerfed Dominate Glyph Bonus Overpower Damage per 5 Willpower reduced from 39.9% to 14.9% at Glyph level 21. Banished Lord's Talisman - Updated visuals and sounds to indicate that your next Core Skill will Overpower. - Critical Strike Overpower damage reduced from 80-120% to 20-60%. - Resources needed for guaranteed Overpower reduced from 300 to 275. Blood Surge + minions + the unique that makes your minions echo your Blood Surges will be better than S3, because minions are buffed (everything else about the build stays the same)
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May 6, 2024 22:30
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I heard folks talking about bone mages who can bone spear real good. That should be fun. I also saw people talking about infinimist being better this season but I did that for a bit and found it real boring.
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May 6, 2024 22:40
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Kaysette posted:I heard folks talking about bone mages who can bone spear real good. That should be fun. I also saw people talking about infinimist being better this season but I did that for a bit and found it real boring. I’m doing the bone spear thing this season and while it’s fun I am definitely going minions next season purely for survival.
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May 6, 2024 22:45
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Kaysette posted:I heard folks talking about bone mages who can bone spear real good. That should be fun. I also saw people talking about infinimist being better this season but I did that for a bit and found it real boring. Actually what I should have said in my post is that Blood Lance will be in a better place than last season because even with the nerfs you can just have a bunch of skellies following you around doing tons of damage, but then that's just a bad minion build Bone Spear minions, on the other hand, is a legit build
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May 6, 2024 22:47
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I'm doing a druid werewolf bro build I don't care how long it takes
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blood mist might be fun if for no other reason that instead of a speed malus they've changed it to a speed boost
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May 6, 2024 23:48
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Corpse tendrils is apparently huge now? Robb has l lazy necromancer build up that was easily clearing 200 pit and the corpse tendrils were pulling like a screen and a half to either side
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I still don’t believe they made minion Necro a powerhouse but god dammit I have to try
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May 7, 2024 00:06
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queeb posted:Corpse tendrils is apparently huge now? Robb has l lazy necromancer build up that was easily clearing 200 pit and the corpse tendrils were pulling like a screen and a half to either side
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harrygomm posted:blood mist might be fun if for no other reason that instead of a speed malus they've changed it to a speed boost
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harrygomm posted:blood mist might be fun if for no other reason that instead of a speed malus they've changed it to a speed boost It's normal speed by default, there's an aspect to make it go faster (the aspect that used to make it normal speed) e: quote:Blood Mist
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May 7, 2024 00:24
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one day i'll bother to look poo poo up before i post it, but it wasn't today. thank you.
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Little bummed that there's no big seasonal gimmick but all the core updates in this patch look great so I'm looking forward to trying. Hopefully the Pit is compelling enough of an addition that it feels like a new seasonal thing. It sounds like they basically transplanted D3 rifts directly? I snoozed out on S3 when it launched buggy, apparently I screwed up by playing a barb in S2 and missing out on cracked OP Charge Barbarian. Don't want to make another Barb so trying out a Necro seems like fun, sounds like minions will be good.
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May 7, 2024 00:29
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Tarnop posted:It's normal speed by default, there's an aspect to make it go faster (the aspect that used to make it normal speed) Oh that’s nice, will definitely feel better.
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As far as I can see, the differences between Greater Rifts and The Pit are: - no progress orbs to collect - a portal to a boss arena opens rather than the boss spawning in the map you're in So they're pretty much identical There's also the question of entry cost which is currently up in the air since the cost was apparently lowered for the PTR as well as the key items dropping more frequently. We don't know what the ratio of Pit to non-Pit content looks like when you're trying to sustain
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