Diablo (series)

Ah!

I was living in China when Diablo 3 released, and I think I got lumped in as you probably are with Asia-Pacific. The performance was uniformly shite.

At Level 50 now and still mopping up sidequests before finishing Act V... I'm finding even in random dungeons, the end bosses are absolutely destroying my minions in two hits and then I'm Brave Sir Robin until Army of the Dead comes off cooldown, or I can somehow generate some corpses to resurrect the minions.

So it feels like I'm already going to be in trouble with a summoning build.

Ok, managed to dp the wt2 capstone dungeon to unlock wt3.

Do I have to do wt3 now then? That's a bit of a jump from wt1

So apparently this is a thing (I'm unsure if this is a spoiler but I'll put it in tags anyway, it's basically talking about some really rare items)

Just started doing some nightmare dungeons at lunchtime. I did a T4 (o ky have low levels because I keep forgetting about them). Anyway, the buff it gave me was poison damage, I drop a poison pot when I evade.

I was really enjoying the playstlyle of dodging around more just to drop a poison pot and watching the DOTs tick away (sucker for a DOT build).

I had a doctors appointment today so I had an early night unfortunately which means I couldn't play this.

So, sacred items. They any good?

And is the general idea to only really upgrade kit if you've got the best rolls and also not to rip the aspect off an item and instead store it for later when you do come across something with perfect rolls?

Or am I just theorycrafting too much here?

Nice one cheers, that's sounds sensible

I suppose as long as I keep an eye on cash and not get too low, I can salvage everything most of the time.

Though I'm buggered if I can find the mats To upgrade my bloody healing potion. That's doing my head in.

A codex aspect can be imprinted as many times as you like, gear item permitting. It'll always be the lowest roll possible.

An aspect extracted from an item can only be imprinted once because it can have random rolls.

Some aspects have static values regardless of level (eg 30-40%) or increase by 1 so can theoretically be used at any level.

Some aspects have a scaled range where it'll be x (y - z) which increase with ilevel. Low levels my be 130 (100 - 150) but higher might be 1300 (1000 - 1500). Obvs you want the higher ones for end game gear.

Be wary that some aspects will change the level requirement of gear so check it before imprinting so that you can still use it afterwards.

Aspects imprinted on a 2h weapon have their values improved by 100% and on amulets it's by and extra 50% so keep an eye out for this when imprinting. Any scaled values will likely be better on a weap or ammy

Here's a question for the more knowledgeable diablo hive mind- so I am messing about as a necro (still hoping for buffs by the sounds of it). I have been rocking a shield to dodge/lessen damage, which i quite like, BUT would i be better off with a folio etc in the other hand to boost my magic etc instead?

How are other peeps rolling equipment wise?

I'm using a 2 hand scythe no shield no relic or folio.

Respec or just roll another Druid to try a different build? Seems like they want you to make another character.

Also not sure whether to just wait for s1? Don’t really want to burn out but still have loads to uncover on the map etc.

Also I've been playing for almost two hours done some dungeons and shit. No Legendary drops. What's going on?

I did an hourish earlier and got a few Legendaries, but I've had literally 2 Uniques since we did that dungeon run what, almost a week ago?

Really hoping the season release shakes the loot up because nothing that's dropped has been an upgrade for at least a week now and I'm not exactly slacking in terms of playtime or what I'm doing to find loot -bar my Sunday to finish up the renown I've been hitting NM dungeons, Helltides and Whispers.

Can only assume the drop failire is by design (see the crazy rare uniques), so seasons will pull us back in Godfather style with sets, better uniques (and far better drop rates and levelling).

Diablo 3 was a learning curve I guess, but they've managed to avoid the utter shitshow of the first 2ish years of that game initially so they're doing the slow screw instead.

Season 1 really needs a step up though. I'm still enjoying it but my gaze will be swayed quite easily.