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Post by Phattso on Aug 6, 2023 11:05:54 GMT
Level 46 and I finally unlock the Golem on my build. It’s been unlocked for ages, but I didn’t know you had to add the command to the key bar thing. I thought it was only certain dead enemies that you could raise as a Golem, so fuck my life. 😬😂 I wouldn’t worry. The usual calculus is that it’s not worth the slot on your pad vs. the skellies anyways, so you’ll end up ignoring it regardless.  |
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Post by awimbawe on Aug 6, 2023 12:54:16 GMT
Because, as of right now, the game just isn't that good? It took me a while to realise it. But the reason I've barely logged on in the last few weeks, is because I'm just not having much fun with it. The level scaling, the crappy loot, the feeling that nothing in here actually matters. It's also possible that my tastes have just changed, maybe now that I'm older I'm more sensitive to games wasting my time. Either way I'm not super enthusiastic about returning right now, I'll come back in a few months and see how things are. I can very much relate but because it's Diablo, for some reason I'll keep playing as it's one of the few arpg's that the fighting / combat in feels fun. But I do think they really knackered up the loot and reward system. Still get that little thrill when legendaries drop but it's essentially a bumper sticker for your amulet or rings, gloves etc. It's just an awkward way of getting gear and levelling it as it just becomes a chore to get a good drop, then realise that it needs something tacked onto it and if it's an amulet or ring in this season then it needs to drop with the right socket too. When gear drops, I want to instantly know if it's good or something I've been waiting for, I don't want to have to look through all the atributes to see if my vulnerable damage does 5% more damage if the enemy is chilled but not frozen on a misty July morning. The biggest part of what I now realise is a rant is that you can't just jump on and have a quick game. Everything seems to take so long to do be it running nightmare dungeons or having to stop in town after every dungeon to junk all the yellows that may ( after studying and spreadsheets ) have been good. I kind of wanted the best of D2 and D3 combined but it's come out all wrong. That said, I'm enjoying Season 1 lots after switching from a Necro to a Rogue so maybe I'm just a big hypocrite. |
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 7, 2023 11:39:05 GMT
I finally got the blood mist aspect which leaves a trail of shadow damage. This actually procs a load of shadowy explosions and does some damage. I like it and oddly this aspect has now enabled me to safely handle baseline WT4 open world content, can still die quite easily if I lose my skelly shield but I have enough survivability and damage to make farming ancestrals much less of a ball ache.
Improved chance of ring of Mendeln dropping now (muffled laughter).
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 7, 2023 23:44:45 GMT
FML! ... level 66 and both the aspect and ring of dreams literally dropped within 10 mins of each other   |
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Post by JuniorFE on Aug 7, 2023 23:46:07 GMT
Improved chance of ring of Mendeln dropping now (muffled laughter). When taunting the RNGods actually works in your favour  |
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 8, 2023 11:40:51 GMT
Luckily I didn't waste a load of resources to put the aspect to use, I'm strapped and was only out farming gear to sell/burn for gold and mats so I could put the aspect on my ring.
I'm still out farming, but now it's so I can upend everything and move over to a mendeln build.
They've defo played with the figures on the backend because I'm constantly strapped for gold/mats. I think that yhe boosts we're getting from the seasonal ashes are just putting those values back to normal.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 10, 2023 9:11:07 GMT
1.1.1 has definitely improved density in the dungeons and overworld. Feels great ploughing through the mobs with my minion horde just exploding everything.
I'm spending my time farming the tunnels to get a barber heart, it's genuinely the only thing I'm missing now for the damage, the rest is now fine tuning gear stats, getting more life and the paragonz.
I haven't had any rubber banding but that could be down to lower player count as everybody fucked off to play BG3
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Post by quadfather on Aug 10, 2023 12:04:14 GMT
Seems right about the mats being stripped back though. I've got 3 aspects I need to use and can't afford any of them at the moment!
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Post by wunty on Aug 10, 2023 12:24:05 GMT
Same.
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Post by wunty on Aug 10, 2023 12:25:03 GMT
I met a world boss for the first time yesterday morning. About another 7 or 8 players were there. Quite a fight. Killed him with about twenty seconds left. He was bloody huge! Big dragon thing.
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Post by askew on Aug 10, 2023 12:45:31 GMT
Urgh. Difficult to get inspired when the weathers good and the evenings stay light.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 10, 2023 18:37:26 GMT
It's taken about 60 runs but I finally got a Barber heart today. Level 4 and nigh on the shittest roll it could be at 2.6secs (4.0-2.0) but I have it.
I replaced the heart in my Mendeln ring (odd quirk, you can't do it while equipped as it whinges, you have to unequip the ring first) and piled into the first mob.
Funny story, it took much longer to kill than normal. Wtf?
Thinking it was a wierd affix, I dove into the next one. Again, it took a while. Am I doing it right, this should be melting them? Forgot to put the ring back on didn't I ... FFS! /Facepalm
Now equipped and next group. BOOM! Phleeerphhh loot and corpses everywhere. Lovely!
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Post by Danno on Aug 10, 2023 21:47:39 GMT
60 runs?? I have three and I don't know if it's worth bothering with for my rogue. It's only the occasional crazy set of elites in NM dungeons that can survive 2-4 Barrages
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 11, 2023 8:07:08 GMT
Necro bone prison summoner is just too .. slow, I prefer something more active so I've respec'd. Again!
I'm still a summoner but I'm using bone storm now and it feels loads more active as I cut through the mobs like a the Tasmanian devil, auto tendrillng and grouping them up to be cut down by my skellies. Feels loads better.
I'm huntin' for aspects again. I need a bone storm one that stacks. Again, never seen it.
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Post by quadfather on Aug 12, 2023 1:18:08 GMT
Ah man, I just hit 30 and put momentum as my rogue passive skill. Which is what I did with my eternal character but then I read the "victimize" passive and decided to give it a go. Oh my fucking good lord, its great! It basically has around 45% chance to make an enemy simply explode. Its not huge damage but its bloody enough to make the fuckers pop quite satisfactory!
It's got loads of faults this game, but I cant stop playing it regardless
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Post by quadfather on Aug 12, 2023 1:25:51 GMT
I think it's the music. It's bloody brilliant in this
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Post by wunty on Aug 12, 2023 7:15:15 GMT
I know what you mean. I just habitually turn it on for a small session each day and I still really enjoy it. Ours definitely managed to hold my attention longer than any previous Diablo. And yeah the music is great. A couple of areas in particular are just brilliant.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 12, 2023 10:45:58 GMT
I still keep loggin in and playing because it feels good mowing down mobs.
Can't remember if anything changed with the xp bonus scaling for doing content just above your level in 1.1.1, so I've stuck with T22 which puts the mobs at lvl76.
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Post by quadfather on Aug 12, 2023 12:09:16 GMT
I've got to get to around 35 to start doing the main stuff but I've got plenty to do to get there, then will see what to do next
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Post by quadfather on Aug 12, 2023 12:14:29 GMT
Oh I've come across a bug too. In one of the quests I need to do, I need to break down a gore soaked wall, but no matter what I do, the wall doesn't take damage.
Tried everything and then googled it and apparently its a known bug at the moment. Bit annoying.
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Post by oldskooldeano on Aug 12, 2023 12:54:44 GMT
Glad to see people still playing. I’m really digging it now with my Blood Lance, Blood mist, Blood wave Necro. Shadow damage and overpower damage. It’s doing very well. I have the blood artisans cuirass and howl from below. I pop off Bone spirits and my corpse explosions turn into ghosts. I think I prefer it over my eternal ice shard sorc.
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Post by Phattso on Aug 12, 2023 13:25:24 GMT
Oh I've come across a bug too. In one of the quests I need to do, I need to break down a gore soaked wall, but no matter what I do, the wall doesn't take damage. Tried everything and then googled it and apparently its a known bug at the moment. Bit annoying. Been there since the start too. I try it again after every patch. |
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Post by quadfather on Aug 12, 2023 13:31:48 GMT
Nice one, least I'm not alone then! I've tried a few things that people have advised but no dice at the moment.
I'll come back later then, cheers
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Post by SpiralScratch on Aug 13, 2023 10:30:23 GMT
Just read the patch notes from a couple of days ago
"An additional Stash Tab can now be purchased at the Stash with gold"
Wait..what i didn't spot that. Brilliant
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Post by gamecat on Aug 13, 2023 14:10:16 GMT
In other Diablo news, the final season (new anyway, there will be repeats seasons after this) of D3 is coming to the PTR soon, looks interesting. The progression tree is staying for good, there's a SSF mode, something about random instances popping up , which can have random instances inside too, I guess with fancy loots inside? There's a paragon cap now, so it just doesn't become a tedious paragon grind and the usual buffs nerfs etc. maxroll.gg/d3/news/season-29-patch-2-7-6-ptrSort of related to Diablo, Titanquest2 teaser came out the other day, no date and it's not being done by the original team (who went and made the excellent Grim Dawn), rather Grimlore Games who did Spellforce 3, a RTS/RPG thing that I've never played. |
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Post by quadfather on Aug 13, 2023 14:29:07 GMT
Yeah seems to be a surge of arpg stuff going on at the minute
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Aug 13, 2023 16:31:35 GMT
Yeah I read about the Titan quest stuff. I'm open to a new Dev but crate did a fantastic job with grim dawn.
It's still looks really good but has a fuzzy sheen over it. Might look into a reshade for it
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Post by uiruki on Aug 14, 2023 11:08:41 GMT
Spellforce 3 was really well received so hopefully they do a similar job of “getting” what Titan Quest was about too. Specifically, it’s the way that enemies are flung away with greater force the stronger the attack that kills them is.
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Post by wunty on Aug 14, 2023 11:24:21 GMT
I meant to get around to taking a look at Titan Quest after grabbing it a month or so back in a sale. Said to myself I would after i was done with Diablo IV but I don't seem to be ready to let it go just yet.
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Post by mikeck on Aug 14, 2023 21:30:03 GMT
Anybody else freak out tonight after getting an email saying you'd downloaded a free pack for Diablo IV. Hell of a way to announce a free download... Thought I'd been hacked and Immediately changed my PSN password.
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