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Gergenheimer and Elendiro: Thanks for two more posts that completely, absolutely, 100% miss the point of this thread. Maybe you can create another thread to post your random "L2P noobs" stuff around? That'd be great.
@Shinna: So, wizard's answer to CC is Teleport. Sweet, because I always have Teleport in any of my specs. Unfortunately, it has 15s cooldown. And we're not talking about a pack that has 1 CC ability but overly annoying packs that come with 2-3 CC abilities.
(@Elendiro: You can't TP out of Frozen, but you can see it and TP away in time. Well, sometimes, if there's a free spot on the ground nearby.)
I guess I'm leaving this thread. Some of us were interested in a serious discussion about game mechanics that are designed a bit unfortunate, but the last couple of dozen posts really made me sad as some players felt the need to throw some "L2P" stuff in here instead of reading what this thread is all about. Sigh.
I didn't miss the point of the thread - I was speaking the truth and the truth is: claiming that a game mechanic is "wrong" or "broken" is an OPINION. Plenty of people play this game without experiencing the chronic problems you and others are describing, because we have adapted our builds/gear/play style to manage the spikes in difficulty that occur from certain combinations of monster affixes. If adapting your builds and/or play style is unacceptable to you, then play on a lower difficulty or stop playing the game - but don't ask the developers to "fix" something that not every player agrees is "broken". From what I've read on here, the people who claim that the CC mechanics are broken show no willingness to adapt to the game, but rather think the game should be changed to suit them.
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I still think we will most likely get a fusion of druid and necro, like a corrupted shapeshifting dark nephalem, ofc another pet class making use of taskers and enforcer could work also, but the archtype we are missing atm is indeed the shapeshifter...
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I fail to see what's the achievement here... everyone and their mother can do TX vaults by now...
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I would be really surprised if one is not revealed at blizzcon, it's the perfect oportunity and tbh what else can they reveal this year?
OT: Awesome work, i expect a class similar to this but instead of summons it will use different shapeshifting forms, like a druid which has survived the corruption but is now tainted by the dark powers and will use them vs hell.
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pull more, most ppl that ask for help with nice gear don't know how to do grifts, you must always be pulling more mobs and never backtrack your steps, always forward.
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Now that we have seen enough of the ptr patch there is no island that feeds, maybe it has something to do with those pages that reference the lost tv-show? maybe using them with something else on kanai's cube will take to the island of lost xD
Edit: a few more strings from the datamine related to the island:
Conv_Lore_Bestiary_P4_Leviathan
today. This apparition coughed up a seething mass of crustaceans before
it disappeared beneath the waves. I watched these things dismember and
consume everything they encountered. I have named them amputators, even
though I am not sure they are real.
Conv_Lore_Bestiary_P4_Mermaid
by the island's emanations. They are vicious beyond compare, but I have
found, through painful trial and error, that if their idols are not
disturbed they will keep to the caves. Their particular evil must wait
until I deduce a way to eradicate or control them.
Conv_Lore_p4_Forest_Cleric
found that can compare to our worship. Very few grasp the transcendent
relationship between the rituals and our goddess. I... I know my son has
the true sight, and, one day, he will once again embrace our faith
completely.
actually believes our sacrifices cruel, but we are all simply
instruments of Nereza in this life. I pray that he will come to
understand how important they are, for the goddess must be fed or evil
shall prevail. Perhaps tomorrow's ritual will open his eyes to the
truth.
Conv_Lore_p4_Forest_Hero
has finally come. Tomorrow I wield the sacrificial knife for the first
time. I am certain the goddess Nereza will find me pure when she gazes
into my soul and receives my offering.
to my stomach. During every other sacrifice I have witnessed, I only
experienced the joy of the offering. But holding the knife, looking into
their eyes as they die... for the first time, I doubt my faith.
what our religion truly is, I cannot let it continue. If Nereza knows
what is in my heart, then I am already damned, so I might as well do
something worthwhile to earn it.
Until that moment, I was unsure whether I could really do it, With a
clear conscience, I turned the blade on my father and freed the girl,
who I now know as Sara. Fortunately, the worshippers were too stunned to
stop our escape.
eyes, but her visage was more that of some hideous demon. And when I
killed her, I felt that evil flow through me into the very island
itself. Then, it... it took Sara.
things that I have, and for what? They think that I have freed them, but
I have damned us all.
is my fault, therefore I must set it right and do whatever it takes to
keep this evil from spreading and poisoning the whole world.
Conv_Lore_p4_Forest_Shipwreck
rocks, and now we are stranded. Could the old myths actually be true?
Regardless, since our plan to study this infamous place was the talk of
many, I am certain we'll be rescued before long. In the meantime, my
research awaits.
hear screams on the wind—but no one has lived here for millennia. We've
only been here days, but my crew has the look of men who have been
stranded for months. I find myself contemplating the impossible: is this
island truly evil, or am I going mad?
madness, some have disappeared, and some have dropped dead for no
apparent reason. And who or what is the crazed hermit with his bizarre
rituals? When he attacked Smythe I was forced to kill him, yet I saw him
this morning, alive. Terrifying.
that our plan was ill conceived at best. Being the last survivor, it
falls to me to rid this world of that madman if it's the last thing I
do. I have lost count of how many times I have already killed him; I can
only pray that this time it takes.
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Not to mention they (thud users) know where clusters of monsters will be and what powers incoming elite packs have before what they would normally know without it.
Thud users will try to mask it as they can, or justify it's use but the point is that it allows too much advantage over non users and while blizzard aproves add-ons in wow they do not in diablo and THUD is nothing like old wow add-ons, (although i've quit wow a long time ago so i can't really say much about those nowadays anyway).
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Your saying that being able to die and lose everything and the risk involved in HC REMOVES THE FUN? lolol that's what makes it fun, if anything THUD removes the fun and makes it a dull game almost job-like...
I'm currently in the top 150 sc wiz (142 last time i checked) it's not TOP but i'm proud of it because i never used thud or bots or anything like that,
i've accepted the fact that with a paragon below 900 and no bots or cheats i'll probably never be in the top 10, but the fact that i have legitimacy over my records makes it feel so much better and FUN to do.
I'm not trying to undermine your achievement, but you're kinda undermining yourself defending cheats like you are,
THUD is not an addon like in wow or other games, it a cheat, plain and simple, and you're defending it, how do you expect to be respected?
oh and blaming game design is even more ridiculous since the game is the same for everybody regardless of IMBAANARCHSOMG... GL with it though.
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It applies to the EU clan also, we are currently doing the same there.
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So you say D2 druid had elements of wow's druid? more like the other way around since Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction expansion came out in 2001 and wow in 2004.
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Obviously it's the "Shapeshifting half demon half nephalem corrupted NecroDruid"