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- MugsyAU
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Aug 27, 2016
MugsyAU posted a message on Minor Patch - August 25th, PTR Server Slam - OptimizationsPosted in: News -
Aug 20, 2016
MugsyAU posted a message on BlizzCon 2016 Hype, wudijo's Support Wizard GuidePosted in: News
My guess is still that at Blizzcon, they'll release some sort of DLC pack with an Act 6 campaign; whether free for paid. Finishing off the D3 story with one of the hand drawn styled cutscenes is kinda crappy and this will at least make the game somewhat complete. They don't have a game director atm so I doubt that it'll be the release of a fully fledged xpac with an increase in character level, new skills, new class, etc. There's a lot of work that follows post release with balancing that stuff but a new Act is doable.
Meanwhile, they'll probably showcase some legendary powers for the remaining items with no powers, and maybe another round of 6pc sets, one for each class, to look forward to in 2017... maybe an increase in stash tabs to 15? These things are small scale enough that someone at Wyatt Cheng's could oversee it.
There might be a tease of D4... maybe introducing the new game director if they've hired the person but I seriously doubt they'll be showcasing anything, just announcing that they're working on it and that it'll be released when it's ready.
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May 20, 2016
MugsyAU posted a message on Bugged Grotesques, Fallen Pennant Clarification, Witch Doctor 2.4.1 Meta BuildsPosted in: News
I'm guessing the pennant will drop from either Bashiok or from the fallen corpse that drops Wirt's Original leg.
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May 5, 2016
MugsyAU posted a message on Conquest: Boss Mode GuidelinesPosted in: News
My group did Boss Mode and it was definitely quite fun. Though, we each took A1, 2, 4, and 5 (my barb was specced for a bit of speed so I took A5... didn't stop me from being last to our respective bosses each time). Went to one boss in each of those act per round and did the TP and waypoint trick as suggested in the article. After the 3 bosses in each of those acts were done, we then split up A3.
Done with 2min spare.
Between this and the 350 kill conquest, they're definitely the two easiest to do in groups.
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Apr 23, 2016
MugsyAU posted a message on First Look at Season 6 Journey, 2nd Batch of BlizzCon TicketsPosted in: News
And this is why so many NS are up in arms about those stash tabs being bound to Season.Quote from Archangel2736»
2 pieces after reach lvl 70 (I agree); Defeat Izual at lvl 70 on T2 or higher (not agree), should be T6 or higher, last 2 pieces should be at least GR45....Players can do around at 400-500 Paragon, GR70+ solo even non ancients ( I did in S5) and after need to farm more paragon, augments and you can do speed GR70-75+ solo, etc...
As primarily a NS player, The current implementation of Haedrig's Gift does allow me to get that tab in under a week then go back to NS play. I hit ~P400 in S5 when I got my tab but still helped out clan mates with getting their tab so ended up at ~P600. I did not want to hang around seasons more than I needed to with the exception of attempting some Conquests simply because I had the gear.
But making the seasonal journey easier for players like me will dilute the experience for players who play seasons for seasons. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Personally, I think cosmetics are the way to go... isn't game breaking and lets seasonal players show off their accomplishments without breaking the game.
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I also found it useful for min/maxing to do seasons... playing 40hrs with that one class seems to improve chances of dropping what I needed. Got tonnes of upgrades for my UE DH set up in that I now have all ancient UE gear, ancient hunter's wrath, and better DML to use when I get back to NS. Also found an ancient zoey's secret with dex, vit, AR and 9% leg affix roll.
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Just got my stash tab for two accounts. Bit over 2 weeks time but I was also on holidays for 4 days of it. NS player here proving it can be done in 40hrs or less if you plan properly and play efficiently.
But I don't agree with the snobs saying that NS players who don't want to do seasons don't deserve more stash space. C'mon, it's stash space... space that's needed if you were to hold all 24 sets, with different stats in key item slots and complimentary legs - probably more applicable to NS players. It is what it is but the tabs should be unlockable in both modes.
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TBH, leveling up a character from lvl1 isn't the chore that it sounds like if you set things up well. Join an active clan with knowledgeable players and the 1-70 experience can be quite fun when you do it in a group.
Haedrig's gift also makes getting back to higher Torment levels much faster and usually by P300 I have all 4 sets for the class I'm playing.
I pick classes I want to devote a bit more time to, usually because I've neglected playing that class in NS for a while.
Season 5, I rolled Sader. The Invokers set was revamped that patch so it was quite a fresh experience. Season 6 I played Barb. Never played with Raekors and I also set up a WW barb too for farming. Also completed my BK swords set in ancient. Play DH on my alt account in S6 as that class was easy to get the tab with.
This season, despite playing some DH already, I decided to roll DH on both accounts just to make getting the tab easier. And despite playing a lot of UE DH in NS already, I got the chance to find missing ancient pieces of UE, and also get my alt account an ancient Yangs, Nat Slayer and Manticore too. I'll also be trying out other builds like the N6/M4 and S2/M2 builds.
Next season, I'll probably roll WD on my main account. Arachyr is a set I've yet to play with properly and it has an easy set dungeon. It is also sufficiently powerful to get the tab. Alt account, I'll roll Barb... IK is another easy set dungeon and I'd like to top up on some Barb gear on the alt account.
Will I continue to play seasons after unlocking all my stash tabs? Probably not. I might get a powerlevel and do the first 4 chapters at the back end of seasons to get the portrait and cosmetic item but that's about it. This year has been an inconvenience more than anything to get the full set of tabs in my stash but I admit it's something different. I wouldn't want to play the hours I have this year though after my stash is fully unlocked.
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Though, I do think that with some proper planning all players can get their extra stash tabs unless they play less than 40hrs per season.
I've just come to accept the situation. My guess is that the dev team needed to show their changes and ongoing work required with the game is successful and Seasons was the biggest addition so participation needed to be up there to justify to Blizzard management why the game needs to continue being supported. Whilst this isn't the perfect scenario, we at least have an option for getting more tabs. It could have been worse... we could have been stuck with just 5 tabs still.
And this is coming from someone with two D3 accounts so I have twice as much work to get my tabs unlocked.
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How long has RoS been out for? Over 2yrs? If someone was only able to for 1hr for some wind down time, every second night of the week, I'd deem that to be rather casual. Guess what? Before this year and having to unlock the stash tab via seasons, that was me. And guess what? I had a full stash and full character inventories with almost every set for all classes as well as decent complimentary legendaries. It was full to the point where emptying one character for seasons meant I couldn't play NS until I unlocked the stash tab.
Some of us have been playing D3 since day 1 and despite being casual, we rack up a fair few good items too which we need space for. We may not put 10hrs in per day... why would we? We don't repeat the same thing every 3 months... we have lives to get on with so we plan ahead, keep good gear so we don't have to unnecessarily hunt it down again and still get to enjoy the game. We know how to follow a bloody gearing guide and do better than GR75 still.
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Or you can get a rank 30+ hoarder, 10-11k gold find and do the cursed peat event on one of the new torment levels instead of farming up 100 or more bounty caches.
And agree that it's around 40hrs to get the stash tab. As a primarily NS player, I've gotten mine already and am doing it for my alt account too. And I've had a 4 day holiday on the Monday to Thurs after season started!
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Ironically, it's because I don't have much time that I prefer NS. It allows me to chip away... an hour or two per night and show results. That play rate in seasons with the reset just doesn't get anywhere before the next season starts.
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And as you are aware, the AU server is tied to the Americas region, but even if the AU server was tied to the European region in anyway, if the host of the game is outside of Australia, you will still get bad ping. This because the game instance is hosted on the server closest to the leader of the party. And if you were the host on the AU server, all your EU friends will have bad ping so someone will lose out because of the geographical distance.
But I concur with the advice on getting out and about more while you're in Australia, and just spend the 40-60hrs getting the stash tab in Seasons so you don't miss out.
And yes, there are lots of animals in Australia that can kill you... you just need to be mindful of these things depending on where you're venturing to.
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It's times like these I know why I buy so many Humble Bundles... back up games to play.