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Pvt.Scott posted:The unfair difficulty was exactly what their customers asked for in D3, A very small, albeit vocal, minority. The overwhelming majority of D2 players did not ask for a difficulty level that is literally impossible without months of grinding.
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Zurai posted:
Comparing anything to D2 now is unfair, it's gone through so many changes, but you kind of made my point. You needed specific runewords or uniques to make whatever build possible. If you wanted to make your own build, or if you were just following somebody elses, you cherry picked the best options out of the hundreds of uniques available and combined them to get the effect you wanted. Before the top builds of any given patch were found people spent hundreds of hours testing and playing with different uniques and skills to see what actually worked the best. In diablo 3 it's just whatever set you're using. Sure you will have some uniques outside the set and maybe some of them are sorta important, but 90% of what you want is just that set. There is no testing, no theorycrafting, no creativity or inspiration. Just a god drat 'collect these 6 items and roll your face on the keyboad'. Though I do agree with you about the whole 'sombody might still enjoy making builds that don't matter thing' I did state in the video I was simply giving the reasons I personally don't enjoy D3. I think some of them are ubiquitous and others are more specific. They ruined builds for me with their skill system for the reasons I said in the video, whether other people can enjoy them or not doesn't factor into my own reasons why D3 is such a bad game.
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May 7, 2017 22:17
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Suspicious posted:A very small, albeit vocal, minority. The overwhelming majority of D2 players did not ask for a difficulty level that is literally impossible without months of grinding. Yes, I realize that. It was still amazing to witness that vocal minority dash themselves on the very rocky shore they had mapped for themselves. Probably not the smartest business move, buuuut, crunch time is stressful and you can only take so much histrionic screeching before snapping. So petty, but I'm sure it was very satisfying for some of the devs.
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Agent355 posted:In diablo 3 it's just whatever set you're using. Sure you will have some uniques outside the set and maybe some of them are sorta important, but 90% of what you want is just that set. There is no testing, no theorycrafting, no creativity or inspiration. Just a god drat 'collect these 6 items and roll your face on the keyboad'. Hell, when I stopped playing Diablo 3, I still had a grand total of like 10 high-level unique items across all my characters and they were ... not very good, for the most part. One of the things they did really wrong was to turn off the Skinner Box. What's even the point of playing an endless loot grind when you can't actually expect to get any of the cool loot?
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Zurai posted:Hell, when I stopped playing Diablo 3, I still had a grand total of like 10 high-level unique items across all my characters and they were ... not very good, for the most part. One of the things they did really wrong was to turn off the Skinner Box. What's even the point of playing an endless loot grind when you can't actually expect to get any of the cool loot? If you watch the GDC Postmortem, the game director for Reaper of Souls highlights that they didn't actually turn it off, they just planned for people to still be getting upgrades 8-10 years down the line. Thus the scarcity of drops in the first couple of years. The astonishing thing is how no-one apparently realised what a terrible idea that was until launch. I don't agree that you have to stick rigidly to the 'best' build, though, unless you're planning on being in the top 1-5% of players. In this Season, I just finally got a ring that lets me get Set bonuses with 1 fewer pieces of a Set (i.e. you get a 6-piece bonus while wearing only 5 pieces), which let me drop my 2-handed weapon for a 2x 1-handed weapon set, while keeping a 2-piece bonus from another set. So now my DPS has gone up by ~20% which should let me progress a bit further.
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May 8, 2017 06:40
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ssmagus posted:I've got a character that I made just to follow the LP, so I'm up for guesting. It's a level 40 at start of epic, so do I need to level it or push it forward to some place? I can't remember what level we are currently and I'm not at home to check but we'll be recording tomorrow (and next week at some point etc) if you want in give me some contact info like a steam ID or skype ID (we record audio on skype) so I can hit you up and see if you're available when we're recording. Same goes for everybody else, PM me if you don't want to post your info in the thread, I'll be just sending out mass-invites to everybody who wants to play the same day we're doing our recordings. Whoever happens to be around can play.
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Agent355 posted:I can't remember what level we are currently and I'm not at home to check but we'll be recording tomorrow (and next week at some point etc) if you want in give me some contact info like a steam ID or skype ID (we record audio on skype) so I can hit you up and see if you're available when we're recording. Final tally is level 45 as of the most recent video. We already have one hopeful, WHO ELSE WANTS TO ENTER THE MEAT GRINDER?!? Realtalk if anybody has a high level archery character it would be cool to show off how dumb your one button gets. EDIT: Also having never played a Blizzard game I feel like this thread is leaving me behind 
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May 9, 2017 03:10
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Don't worry Yapo, you're better off from missing it. Unless you want to go back into the far far past when blizzard was good.
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May 9, 2017 03:35
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My ranger is 52 if that's not too high. I can add my wolves to the collective for fun time.
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May 9, 2017 05:33
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The original Diablo is Good if you play it as intended. If you don't remember or don't know, single player would only let you save and quit and if you died, that was it. The project started out as a roguelike, so it makes sense. Everyone played single player as LAN games or on Battle.net so they could die over and over again. Don't be a scrub; get good and murder Satan like a grognard.
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ratchild13 posted:My ranger is 52 if that's not too high. I can add my wolves to the collective for fun time. I'll probably get in touch with you if we catch up soon, or maybe just if we get stuck before then.
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Doublepost because I forgot it was Tuesday. We finally fight the REAL final boss! Also get to jam out to some sweet tunes.
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May 10, 2017 02:38
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So how far are you guys taking the LP? All three difficulties or something?
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May 10, 2017 11:52
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We talk about it a bit at some point but the current consensus is 'until our builds suck as much as they did in act 4 again'. Right now we're doing well in the next difficulty since the pets scale alot better now but if it gets that bad again we'll probably just stop. It was so painful.
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May 10, 2017 13:25
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Agent355 posted:We talk about it a bit at some point but the current consensus is 'until our builds suck as much as they did in act 4 again'. You could always ask for the "Free Goon Escort Services". Well, there isn't any real place for crazy four player shenanigans in TQ...
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May 10, 2017 16:02
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So i picked this game up again, and I think it has a few bugs?
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May 10, 2017 17:35
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That isn't bugged, it just means that all bleeds that you do have an extra 89% duration. The game only has that text format for increased duration on weapons.
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May 10, 2017 18:58
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Agent355 posted:We talk about it a bit at some point but the current consensus is 'until our builds suck as much as they did in act 4 again'. Yeah spoilers you won't be getting nearly as many videos for Act 1 in this difficulty, but so far a whole lot more shiny colors.
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Lime Tonics posted:So i picked this game up again, and I think it has a few bugs? Yeah, the +89% bleed time means the bleed will tick for that much longer. Each tick still does damage as if it were the original shorter bleed, so it's never a bad thing. Just no bonus damage in this case.
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 Our first real video in Epic difficulty. At this point with the pet boost and me remembering to use my cool rogue skills we're moving right along.
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Grim Dawn definitely has a lot of refinement over TQ. Sounds like your murdertimes definitely need a ranger to shoot things, makes it go fast. I have a pet build in GD around lvl 50something, and the pets have more functionality/utility there, on top of toughness and dmg. That thornbeast is pretty good.
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It's weird that your damage output went down so much. Like I really don't see the reason why, your Phantom Strike should still oneshot dudes. It's 200% dmg after all. You might wanna max out Lucid Dream, since this will improve your damage and electric burn dots. If you keep getting on low HP, take off Poison Bomb and use Flash Powder. Then once you get some cooldown-reducing gear, you should be able to keep stuns up on 100% of the time. Then unspec out of Flash Powder.
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May 13, 2017 23:08
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 This is basically our showcase of our crowd control abilities. Plague and group stun putting in so much work.
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I have come into great knowledge, And I have learned that Yapo's net will explode and 2 people shall enter the abyss SOOOOON. Will they escape? Find out on future episodes of Titan Quest AE: LP Edition!
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May 16, 2017 21:22
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If you guys want to stop this and start a Grim Dawn LP, I wouldn't be opposed at all 
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Is cooldown reduction equipment just really rare? You guys have yet to find any I think. And just keep pumping, Distort Reality and its tree and into the Envenom weapon tree. If your damage is lacking, shove some points into your passives. IMO don't take shrapnel cause you don't have synergy with bleeding and more points in Poison Bomb means more range. Really though if you can get cooldown reductions then you can do some whacky loving poo poo with Phantom Strike 
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SSNeoman posted:Is cooldown reduction equipment just really rare? You guys have yet to find any I think. One of my big problems is that most stuff with cooldown reduction tends to be on INT gear, and my INT is garbage. My weapon damage is all STR, and Dream gives me more points in STR than INT even. Rouge wants nothing to do with that namby pamby casting spells poo poo. Junior G-man posted:If you guys want to stop this and start a Grim Dawn LP, I wouldn't be opposed at all Who says we can't keep this one going AND do a Grim Dawn LP? We've already recorded at least one episode of Grim Dawn
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poo poo. How far off are you on average? Cause you might just wanna dump points into int then cause if you can warp everywhere and one-shot poo poo, well gently caress strength.
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Sorry no update tonight. We've had a tornado warning for like 7 hours and some crazy lightning storms so my internet and computer have been unplugged from the wall. Hopefully I can get it up tomorrow morning.
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Blackmage Yapo posted:Hopefully I can get it up tomorrow morning. Hopefully you can get an episode of the LP out too.  I'm a bit behind on the episodes, so I only just watched the one with the Diablo 3 rant. It's funny, I also think Diablo 3 is awful... but for mostly different reasons. I actually quite like the art direction; for the environments at least. They have a nice painterly look. I'm not so fond of some of the character design though; that's where the WoW influence really creeps in, and I've always despised WoW's art direction too. I didn't mind being able to hot-swap skills - I think I mostly stuck to the same selection of skills anyway. I don't know, I didn't engage with the skills too much, mainly due to one of my main problems with the game; it's too easy. Far too easy. I didn't need to pay attention to skills. I played it through when it first came out and only died a few times in the whole game, from memory. The New Game + difficulty improved things a bit - it's what the normal difficulty should have been, I think - but by that stage I was burnt out and didn't want to play anymore. Simply put, it was boring without any challenge! A friend persuaded me to try it again after the expansion came out, saying it had been much improved with various patches. It was actually even easier than the first time, though. I don't think I died a single time, even after bumping up the difficulty as much as I could in the game setings (which I guess was added in a patch). The second big issue I had with Diablo 3 was the always-online requirement. Just let me make an offline character, guys; all I want to do is play this singleplayer game I just bought - not wait in a queue to be allowed to load it. I definitely shouldn't be experiencing lag in a singleplayer game. I think lag was actually the cause of a couple of my scant few deaths in that playthrough. The last big problem was that the equipment and loot system was incredibly dull. Everything was the same, no unique items, no decisions to make. Night and day when compared to Titan Quest, for example. Man Diablo 3 was disappointing. It might not have been to the same degree as Agent355, but I was really looking forward to that game.
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Disappointment of diablo 3 seems to be the main thing about this thread. Not this LP anymore, just people listening to Agents complaint podcast. http://www.titancalc.com/TitanCalc.asp?mastery=Paladin&master1=8&master2=5&sa=8&m1=32-0-5-6-0-1-8-0-9-0-0-0-3-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-0-0&m2=32-5-12-1-3-1-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-0 When the next episode is uploaded, that's my starting skills. I've also got +2 to all skills from equipment.
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Couple days late and probably a lot of dollars short, but I didn't get tornado'd! We get a special guest to join us as we continue to romp through the Greek countryside.
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I have the biggest nerves right now, hoping I don't sound completely retarded. End of Video Edit: Not having psionic touch on your second skill bar for all the video is bad form Yapo. ssmagus fucked around with this message at 23:03 on May 21, 2017 |
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May 21, 2017 19:34
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Think you guys can get through Egypt in one video?
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Oh god SSmagus, now I worry bout sounding stupid. If you guys are ready for more videos, I think at least one showing off the ludicrousness of archers would be appropriate, seeing as how much they are talked up.
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ratchild13 posted:Oh god SSmagus, now I worry bout sounding stupid. If you guys are ready for more videos, I think at least one showing off the ludicrousness of archers would be appropriate, seeing as how much they are talked up. FYI we all sound like idiots forever. It's the true state of LPers.
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 Sorry for the short video, but if you watch it through you'll understand why. SSMagnus continues to help us out on our quest.
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Now I'm all excited about watching you guys do a Grim Dawn let's play. 
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And thus we entered the dark abyss of Yapo's soul. I guess that It leads towards Grim dawn, As they recorded a long session after that softlock.
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