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Update from US Community Manager overnight:

"As you may have noticed, the latest Era did not roll as originally communicated on January 8. We have updated the Era end date to January 14 in light of this issue.

We apologize for any inconvenience and misunderstandings that may have occurred as a result of this miscommunication, and look forward to seeing you in the next Season and Era when they begin next week."

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I wonder how long it would take to every slot equipped? Longer than the age of the universe, probably.

Just check S10 rank 4 DH (Darkmoon), 6 out of 13 gear slot are perfect rolled primals. Season has been started since like 2 months, so not that long (-:

This is my experience of the 6IK+BK+Focus+Restraint, pasting my comment from another thread:

The Glass Cannon Build is very good in grifts too, I've completed Tier 49 easy without pylon on guardian, with rng maybe 51-52 is possible too.
Proof: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7613817/Screenshot034.jpg
Build: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/superxero-1877/hero/43446273
Profane shoulders maybe an option, and of course for Battle Rage Swords to Ploughshares
Already have an ancient IK weapon, but no Ramaladni's Gift, I'm very excited to put my character even further with the hybrid build.

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T6 clear is really fast, especially if you keep up the rings buff. Honestly, T6 farming has no fun at all if you aren't the fastest in the group.

QoL Changes:

https://imgur.com/a/piefM

Stash Overhaul:

https://imgur.com/a/ks58S

Witch Doctor & Pet Item Overhaul: (Added 4/5/18)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1N9b8xBVvAWEpukvw3jBPfvxKbzh58LvX

Barbarian Item Overhaul: (Added 4/11/18)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SAyoUKf7fTbsKqckbUXZbQVraK-WYllI

The point you are missing is;

Solo leaderboard is NOT actually solo leaderboard. Because lets say some guy plays supbarb in rathma speed groups 7/24. Other guy plays only solo. He can't afford for a group. Or he doesnt like playing in group.

First Barb's Paragon: 2500

Second Barb's Paragon: 1800

First Barb's Gems: Around 125+

Second Barb's Gems: Around 115+

First Barb's Playtime: 250 hours

Second Barb's Playtime: 350 hours.

Do the math for how much progress difference.

First barb crushes the solo leaderboard. But he actually get his everything from his group play. Insane amount of exp, top tier gems. great gear because of lootshare. Second barb is getting desperate because no group, or he plays much more but dont get any better in every aspect. Groupmaking is horrible. No auto match whatsoever. In 2017 we are still typing ''LFG 110+'' Good job.

Now please, if you don't know game's current balance and mechanics, Please don't comment like you know already. And yes, definetely we need SOLO LEADERBOARDS. But we won't get it. Nothing changes in this game for our favor. Because developers simply dont care. They are just moving to other games which will make them earn more money. Bad times for gaming industry. This game will be dumped soon or late forever like others. Specially in communities which are seperate and players dont even know what's going on.

There is a lot of discussion, arguments and suggestions relating to Primal Ancients and Blizzard has Ideas on making them more interesting as do I. As a 5 year member of Diablo Fans and lurking prior to that I've seen some awesome threads and some incredible photoshop skills come into play when a few people with a few good ideas come together and that's where the basis of my suggestions come from.

I personally like primal ancients, the idea of another step up, adding grinding on top of grinding and in my opinion that is Diablo but I also believe that they should be more than a % increases in number ranges and a few way to simply tweak them, add some flavor or spice to the items are listed below.

• Visual differences in-game i.e. different colored glowing effects, cosmetic variations of the normal Legendaries to add some eye candy. Not making these new appearances transmogrifiable (?) will give a way to show off or running into somebody with that Golden Wand of Woh or a Primal Tals set giving off an angelic aura will inspire you to set out on a new adventure to look as awesome as they do.
• Adding an extra primary or secondary attribute to the armor and weapons unique to primal ancients but not game-breaking OP abilities or stats. Some examples of this could be as simple as a permanent XP bonus or more exciting such as a randomly selected ability on primal weapons / armor such as the first attack on elites slows their movespeed by %15 for 2 seconds, killing an elite pack grants you %100 more gold, after being hit by a champion or elite ability they're stunned for 1 second, after reviving move through enemies unhindered for 1 second, after reviving nearby enemies are stunned for 1 second, elites and champions also drop 5 blood shards, elites and champions also drop bonus crafting materials, and many more to chose from specific to weapons or armor that can not be enchanted that also do not dramatically effect gameplay. Attributes such as stunning enemies would not stack but bonus mats and blood shards would adding some variation. Getting that well rolled primal would be exciting then to read "Awesome, elites drop some blood shards too!"
• Adding another layer of depth into these items may be difficult but an ability to "level up" primal ancients all on their own could be another cool aspect with minor rewards such as "per level primal ancients draw closer to perfect stats" if you got a really good primal ancient with the perfect attributes but terrible rolls the item would start at level 0. you can reroll one attribute through the mystic as per usual but the ability to level up the item as you play could but the rolls up ever-so-slightly towards perfect. In example I find a primal ancient balefire caster. Damage is good. Rolled everything I want but the dex is as low as possible. Usable, definitely. Now this item levels up very slowly, with every level it adds automatically adds to the dex. Lets say items can be leveled 100 times. 1 dex per level. Not game breaking and sure it adds more grind but unless you were perfectly geared you wouldn't specifically grind XP just to get 100 dex but using the item over time draws it closer to being perfect.
• Combining the two ideas of leveling Primal Ancients along-side the specific primal ancient attributes, at a certain level you could select the attribute you want for your Primal as it slowly and progressively levels with the item. For example, you've leveled your primal ancient to 10. I want more blood shards starting at 3 blood shards from every elite pack, every 30 levels on the item it adds 1 more shard for a total of 6 blood shards per pack killed stacking alongside other primal ancients. I believe minor things like this will add some fun and depth, nothing game changing, but something else fun to strive for.

3k paragon and you are saying you need some insight? How the hell haven't you gotten any insight in 3k paragon lvls? And it's not only 1 of you.. there's 4!

xD

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End game build diversity is the clear winner - number 1 problem as voted by the fans. Let's see if Blizzard manages to do this one right in their next aRPG projects.

I expect a big Blizzcon 2017 announcement - a new game, maybe WarCraft 4, maybe a completely new project. Whatever it is, let's wish Blizzard and Diablo a successful 2017. And let's hope they make an in-depth analysis with all the things that went wrong with Diablo 3. Happy new year to DiabloFans also - stay the best as always!

They could even fix it for every season moving forward with relative ease in D3.

1 - Remove rewards from the Greater Rift system, infinite scaling higher rewards is the sole purpose this game is beginning to fade.

2 - Make set item drop rates lower than an ancient item. But they always roll ancient. If you want them to be the best, put your money where your mouth is Dev Crew!

3 - As stated above, the devs want sets to be the focus, so make them all really good, but really freaking rare. Balance them within 10% of that classes strongest set, and keep it that way, ALWAYS. This means when a new item is released, you tend to set power again, and adjust as needed. It is not rocket science.

4 - Also, this means no more Haedrigs Gift, the gift ruins any phase of mid game progression this game had in the past. Terrible idea.

5 - Tune torment difficulties to actually scale with power creep. Right now, Expert, T2-5, as well as T7-9 are all rarely played difficulties. Remove these, whether you keep using torment or a new name, does not matter, just make it a 1 by 1 progressive scale to the highest difficulty. Allowing a player to skip entire tiers ruins a key component of character progression that is ultra important. A sense that EVERY STEP MATTERS.

By doing these 5 steps, you fix inflated xp gains, you fix diversity issues, you add a sense of accomplishment and progression back into the game.

Once the Necro pack launches, these things need to happen, or the Necro pack sadly will be a flop. But I hope Blizzard understands that their next title is not going to sell by name alone like D3 did. It is going to take a lot of trust rebuilding. The community is torn regarding this game, many are just burnt out, but when you have sales of 32 million copies, and peak periods of only 30,000 players logged into a NA server, you clearly have an issue.