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+300% = x4 dmg = ~10 more grifts

I don't think that that's enough, honestly. Wastes set is really bad right now.

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All blizzard had to do is a stronger and more efficient dimishing return, so sfger lets say 1500 Paragon it gets EXTREMLY hard to gain more paragon levels.

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I like the idea, but alot of the "choices" would be ignored and a cookie cutting build would still be the outcome, Personally id like to see the 50 point restriction higher on the current paragon system and possibly for 1 paragon to give 1 point.

Honestly who cares, elitist jerks can do their cookie cutter thing, while the rest of us fun gamers enjoy a bunch of random experiments.

I love a lot of these suggested changes, but above all, what I think needs to happen is that each week should gate how much paragon level can be used inside of a GR. You can continue gaining paragon levels, but lets say you are paragon 350 and week 1 only allows 100 paragon inside of a GR, that is all you can use, end of story. Each week you increase the amount allowed by 100 (100 is arbitrary, it can be whatever the Devs deem reasonable) until the end of the season. If we can expect 3 months, we can expect 13 weeks, meaning that the highest usable paragon would be 1300 paragon during the last week of "the push".

This simply gates the leaderboards to allow the 95% of players that do not bot to actually feel like they are accomplishing something, and it punishes the botters since they will not ban them. Yet the system makes sense in a competitive stand point as well. Almost every leaderboard game has weekly point limits, rating limits, etc.... and many of these games are extremely successful, and I think it would be in D3 as well.

If you pair this sort of progressive gating system with the changes to paragon point distribution above, I feel many people would absolutely fall in love with this game even more so than they are now.

Also, for D3 Xpac 2, which I feel we will get summer of 2017:

-Removal of Paragon system

-More gated progression, or static runs. ( I want a few items in the game that are equal, to see who truly is the best, not just the luckiest)

-Increase in follower gear slots. ( I love followers for solo play, but feel they are a little drab. Allow them to equip up to 13 items like we can)

-Addition of another follower type (I was thinking that instead of a new class of Necro or Amazon, two old classes in Diablo, they are followers)

-Addition of a new class (I like the idea of a Blood Mage, something that fuels their power off Blood Shards as a resource, and is more of a melee caster)

I have several others, but those are a few I really like.

Quote from JAH8177»

Thanks for taking the time to put some ideas together. Some of those I really like, but bleu42 brings up some valid concerns. I think it would be nice to have a slider for the TX Difficulty to scale up, let's say it goes as high as your highest gr solo completed. This way you can farm mats and get more Xp. Melting t10 is fun, but that progress bar hardly moves at higher paragon. Overall voted for some of your ideas.

At this point, I refuse to play "Meta" it is burdensome, it ruins the game. This game is meant to be fun, thrilling, about killing monsters, and support to some extent is okay, but a full action bar of support doing no damage just is not what any "Meta" of an ARPG should EVER be.

The game should simply limit action bars to allow a single support spell, that is it.

The other option is to remove "infinite" from the system entirely. Because without "infinite" there will not be a need to find every way possible to reach a higher number for ones own ego stroking.

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serious, u wont receive the free set on second character?

i rolled a WD thinking its good, but now i am disappointed with it, i was thinking to go DH/Crusader, but now... :/

better farm more death breaths then to do what the guy said here

WD is very very strong, might not be the top individual class,but they are around 3rd in raw power, and they have an absolute place in the 4 man meta due to their strong support.

Why are you disappointed with a WD?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/felipao-1426/hero/71371859

any advices for me?
its even hard to solo gr 37

Quote from Bagstone»

You must have it somewhere in your stash, probably accidentally socketed in a weapon when you switched items in your stash around or so. Also check your follower. If you don't have a gem, it immediately drops in the next GR you clear (but of course only one of the ones you don't have yet, at random).

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For Solo would you still recommend going for leorics crown?

I did not do tests with it solo but the SK can be reached in just under 19 minutes by speed runners. They run starting at lvl 1 though if you switch to campaign around 19 or 20 should be able to reach him in less time. In the end I think it would save you a bit of time or at worst end up being roughly the same either way.

Quote from JunoBug»

Doing bounties is better for XP than doing rifts because of the new action combat system. It is multiplicative with all other xp bonuses. So if you average 1.5x action combat you are getting pure 50% more xp per time spent while NOT in a rift.

On the other hand rifts have 100% better chance to get legendaries so might even out in the long run.

Don't be afraid to spend time doing bounties, it will be good.

Quote from Demonmonger»

Given what Brevik said:

"For 20 years, Diablo-like games have evolved & surprised us. I'm proud to be the adviser for the game that pushes this genre to new
heights."

Oh I'm definitely excited in some fashion, and I don't think anyone is arguing that there won't be some sort of 'content' reveal.

But it's WHAT content that has some of us worried. There's absolute flaws in D3 from the base up that I know at least some of us really want to see addressed; Paragon needs a near complete overhaul. Gear acquisition is just ridiculous, between gambling and being able to almost target specific legendaries with rare upgrading, as well as an almost free complete set at the start of a season, the only time during a season that it's fun to see gear drop is right at the very start - because anything could be an upgrade. Difficulties as well - what are we, up to 17 separate difficulties now? And even at the highest, there's maybe a handful of monsters that you have to change your playstyle for, the rest just being AOE fodder. Sets being completely dominant and bottlenecking builds, numbers are already in the trillions, ect ect.

Hell, we might even see a brand new system for the next patch, maybe even something like runes and runewords! MAYBE even a new class! And I'd honestly be very excited for that. But solving just any of those problems that I mentioned will be a big undertaking (except maybe just a stat squish for the numbers). So while the news we'll get is probably for the next major patch, if it isn't addressing those issues than at least for me it'l be another *play a ton for the first two weeks of a season, then have all the gear and be done*.

So yea, I'm trying to have one of my feet on the hype train, while grounding the other. I HOPE it's at least an X2 announcement, because that'l give a lot of room to fix the core issues. But my gut says it's just a new patch with nothing else big on the horizon. Hopefully I'm wrong.

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It sounds like you already made your decision and then figured out a way to make all of the clues fit your idea. Confirmation bias to the extreme. None of the things you pointed out really seem that likely or obvious to me, as much as I would like a big and exciting announcement.

In the Dev Q&A on Saturday in the description it says "Answer any burning questions you may have." Now that is a leading statement. What burning questions could anyone have about Diablo III, that haven't already been answered, unless it is a lot of content coming to the game. More specifically content that would come with an expansion. Now maybe it is a full expansion or large content patches in the future. That said there is going to be a big announcement for sure because the only burning question for Diablo III right now is "when is Diablo 4 being announced?" We all know Diablo 4 is a long way away from an announcement.

*Disclaimer: Everything is speculation at this point!

Quote from Demonmonger»

I still think the demon looks like Tathamet from the very first cinematic where the angels are fighting the demons.

If this is the case, then Diablo decided to give in and truly "bond" with the other evils, becoming the true, PRIME EVIL - Tathamet reborn.

Considering Hell is made from Tathamet's remains and Heaven was made from Anu maybe Diablo found a way to get Tathamet's power from "the core" of Hell or something. Could be an ultimate Diablo who reanimated Tathamet from Hell itself. We would be fighting Hell itself. That would be a lot to ask from the team and something Blizzard would ask!

http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Tathamet

Kulle believed humans were the ascendants of Anu. There is definitely something there and this could easily finish the series.

http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Anu

The more I read into this the more sense it makes. If Diablo has found a way to become the true prime evil, Tathamet, and Kulle is right, humans are the inheritors of Anu, everything would come together. It would be Anu, naphalem, versus Tathamet, Diablo becoming the prime evil.

This very well could be it; it makes total sense!

It's not only the 45 minute block, it's the main one hour long event with the devs on the main panel stage that's the big deal. The one where the text states that they'll reveal new content and features, which is pretty explicit.

I'm a big confused. Are people upset because there's no chance of a D4 reveal or something? No matter how you slice it, it's pretty clear we're getting new shit, even if it's not an expansion. One hour is a long time to talk about a lot of things. The RoS/2.4 panel was an hour.

So Diablo 20th Anniversary is a primetime panel on the main stage. I would think something is going to be announced. Why slot the game that is, for a lack of a better word, "dead" for primetime?

On another note you can clearly see Blizzard's push for competitive eSports style games. It is speculated to be the future of sports.

What if they are doing a complete DIII overhaul and the new expansion will be version 3.0 with paragon 3.0 and loot 3.0 and many other 3.0 things. I have been thinking a DIII redesign is the big announcement at Blizzcon. They could wipe everything with upgrades, possibly a new engine (more work), and it would be more math than an entirely new game.

Think about it this could fit the D2 Remake. Instead of an HD upgrade of the game it could be a retelling of the story. Or more specifically when Adria mentions Diablo's return his brothers could join him. All hell could break loose in the realm. The story could be finished and that would give them time for something new. They promised all the original classes maybe they give them to us. There has been tons of 3d renders of old D2 bosses.

A total overhaul is not out of the question and could be easier than an entirely new game.

Everything is speculation a this point who knows but this shirt most likely is an indication of something Diablo 3 related at Blizzcon!

Quote from virpyre»

Spirit of Arachyr is really good with speed runs for bounties in T13 utilizing chickens and firebats called the angry chicken build. This set is also good for support roles, however highest GR is in the 50's area without help.