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I agree, plvls is not at a good place right now, it's mainly the only thing keeping players to the game atm, well those few that are competitive, but it's not really helping the game as a whole. if you don't have 10 hours a day to farm, you can't be competitive, it's not possible. You need to be same plvl as those guys, farm grifts 24/7, get those 1% gem upgrades, get those 1% item upgrades. It what makes a HUGE difference in the long run, someone who has a job, likes to play another game too etc has a hard time just making it into the leaderboards cause he isn't playing as much as those players that are farming 24/7. And that shouldn't be the case, you should be able to play half as much as the highest player, and yet be competitive and be able to beat him on leaderboards. But there should also be other factors for the longtivity of the game, but something that isn't as much game changing as it is now.

I just hope Blizzard actually does realize this and adresses this in future patches/expansion.

It's gonna depends on your type of farming, efficient fast farming T6/lower grifts(I was doing mid 40s easily) you'd want to go with bul kathos weapons. But going for high end grifts you'll be using IK weapon. Even if you go with 6p wastes set. Since 4p ik is just too good to give up on, especially with the bracers.

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There's no point in clearing the regular Rift after killing the Rift Guardian is there? Instead of clearing it, wouldn't you be better off just starting a new one?

I usually only continue after RG if I get a good map, chest maps etc. I leave asap if I see a spider cave or realm of the banished rift map. There's a few maps i just hate and rather just start a new rift, but I prefer to continue through the rift till the end, but only do that if I get a map that I like.

Also noticed that after I re-rolled barb after playing a monk, I chose to clear more maps on the barb then I would with the monk cause many maps I couldn't be bothered with on my monk I don't mind doing with my barb. Just personally preference really, I guess you should just do what you want. I think no matter what you do, exit after the rift guardian, or continue going through it's all gonna be quite equal when it comes to legendary and blood shards, since you can encounter an blood thief goblin and that's 300 shards(3 rifts worth of shards). And I encounter those goblins quite frequently, at least frequently enough. Also, who knows if you find the item you really want if you decided to actually continue after the RG, maybe a Furnace or whatever you're looking for might drop in 1-2 levels after RG, never know.

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having more stash space is an advantage? you mean it's a competitive advantage? lol

See, this is what I mean: people have entirely different opinions on this issue, and I think there are good arguments to be made on both sides. If I have more stash space than you, and we both like to play a lot of characters, I don't have to make as many choices as you do about when to salvage gear that I might otherwise want to keep. I can have a couple different gear sets/combos for each character if I want, depending on how I play them. To me, that is an advantage, however slight it may seem to you. Inventory management is not nearly as important in D3 as it was in D2, but it is still an element of the game. I can, however, totally understand how others see this as merely a "quality of life" improvement, and not a gameplay advantage, hence my previous post.

(By the way though, why shouldn't every player's "quality of life" improve without having to pay? Cosmetics aren't quality of life, but I feel that if QoL improvements [like stash space and character slots] come to the game, they should be part of free content patches or part of a flat-payment expansion, as they have been in the past.)

Well, if you're filling up 5 stash spaces, and since I doubt you play more then 6 character, and 15 slots exist. That means you can make 9 mules. And If you're filling up all that, I'm pretty sure you can easily gain 50% of the space back by wasting 25 minutes going through useless items you have no use for, or you're doing it wrong. Cause if you can fill that all up and you actually want it, then even 20 more stash spaces wont help you. I usually play all the classes my self, mainly play 2 of them as mains but I like to jump on other classes to play for fun. I hoard potential items, I have a hard time filling my stash, and when I do I make 2-3 mules. No one will be gaining an advantage over others, I mean I don't think useless item hoarding is a competition someone participates in, but I might be wrong. So yeah, if you want the extra 1, 2 or maybe 3-4 extra stash spaces, you could probably get them for cheap, and look at the bright side. That money might actually allow the diablo 3 team to make the game better and bring more content and updates.

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nope. paying for cosmetics is awesome. paying for stash space is less awesome because everyone should get more stash space for free. paying for BOOSTS? thats pay to win and a huge NOPE

paragon has little to do with how high you can go in GRs

lol no. once you break the plvl 800 barrier and every point goes into mainstat 10/20/30 lvl CAN make a difference! when it comes to very high gr's, even little movement/placement mistakes CAN ruin your dream rift. this little extra dmg CAN save your butt... you see it in real life also: look at professional (competitive) boxers for example. every calory too much or too little, every change in their daily training routine can cost them the win, so is with plvl points

tl;dr: every plvl point matters and is gamechanging in the long run

Fractions of fractions of percent DPS actually matter exponentially less than a well-rolled rift. 150 mainstat on 15000 mainstat is a tenth of a percent. For that to matter you need to be finishing rifts within moments of the timer running out.

So no. It doesn't really make a difference.

On the other hand it's a terrible practice in its own right. Which is why it's on Asian servers where that kind of stuff is expected. In the future? The American playerbase is much less likely to buy into the system so it won't present any real profit opportunities.

And that 150 main stat on top of 15.000, which is not tenth of a percentage, but actually 1%. And 1% more main stat is 1% more damage. And 1% more damage can mean, instead of failing a rift with 9 second overtime, you succeed the rift. If it was a tenth of a percentage, it would mean if you fail a rift by 1 second, you would've succeeded with that 0.1% main stat. I have personally been in a greater rift I managed to beat with 1 second left, also been in one I missed 1-2 seconds to succeed. I bet many people who progress have missed 1-2 seconds of reaching top 10, or even top 1. So, a perfect rolled rift can matter. But, it doesn't mean you'll succeed a perfect rolled rift, getting that extra few stats can actually help you succeed the perfect rolled rift. And It might even end up being the reason for someone to claim the first place at the end of the season.

Just an example of what that extra 1% main stat can actually help someone. Doesn't mean it will, but it can, and probably will for someone. Weather they'll be reaching top 1, top 10, top 100, or just reaching the leaderboards/personal best.

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nope. paying for cosmetics is awesome. paying for stash space is less awesome because everyone should get more stash space for free. paying for BOOSTS? thats pay to win and a huge NOPE

paragon has little to do with how high you can go in GRs

Wrong, paragon has a HUGE factor in your character strength and survivability.

Someone might attempt to reach top 1 in greater rifts, but fails to kill the rift guardian in time, missing 2 second to succeed. Now if that player would be just a little bit higher paragon level he might've succeeded. So he failed the rift he would've succeeded if he was higher para level.

Also Paragon leveling is a competition to many people, hundreds of players actually. To be rank 1 world, EU, US, Asia etc etc. To be rank 1 at the end of the season, first to reach 1500 or 2000 para levels. And it forces them to buy it, so it's making it a pay to win, cause they had to pay, to win what they wanted.

If it would've been an xp boost for 1-70, that wouldn't be as huge, but still lame. You only have to level once 1-70, it usually takes 3-5 hours for those speed leveling. Technically it would be an unfair advantage if you could but 100% xp boost, cause it would mean you would be 2 times faster to reach 70 in seasons, thus getting a 2-4 hours head start of everyone. Not gonna matter at all for end game, but would for some seasonal conquests etcetc, people might be going for. So that could be looked as pay to win too. Cause if someone wanted to be first to complete 35 greater rift conquest for example, or be top 10 even, he would have to buy the xp boost.

It's not gonna give anyone an advantage over anyone. Cause I doubt Blizzard want's Diablo 3 to become a pay to win game, I think they'll add cosmetic/vanity items and maybe something cool. I mean it's probably something that's not gonna be expensive if you need that extra stash space, or character slots. Or want to get that cool transmog or those cool wing. Like 5-10$ I'd assume.

But here´s what people fail to understand:

Developing a game and patches/expansions requires programmer, designers etcetc. And when a game doesn't make that much money(like diablo 3) they have a small team of people making the content, and putting out content at the speed that is possible. But with microtransactions, they will have more money to make more content, and more content is better, right?

So in a sense, microtransactions isn't a content on it's own, but might end up helping the game get more content and patches. As well as bigger expansions with more features. So technically we should get more content cause of it. Unless Activision goes "Hey, fuck Diablo 3, we're taking all the money. I want to buy a new yacht!" or whatever. But that shouldn't be the case.

If they use microtransactions to make even more content and updates, there will be more people coming to the game, and more people buying the expansions. And that means more money for them.

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All exploits are based on T6 difficulty. In original game T1-T6 is locked before you get a level 60 character. For some strange reason this rule does not apply to Seasons. In fact, no one will ever use T6 for legit leveling of their first character. It is used for exploits or for being boosted (it's really fine if you need to level your first seasonal character without any boost). Also, there can be some boss-runners on T2-T4, though it seems to be a bad way of leveling. So, there is no sane reason to leave Torments unlocked to the fresh seasonal characters.

Exactly, I think it would be fine if they locked it till 60, cause imo, unless really lucky with drops and crafting 60 weps with reduced lvl req at 45-50, you're not going into torment for leveling, even in a team. At 60+, I can see some classes going into t1 or mostly t2 with 61 gear and gems, maybe some nice rerolls and legendaries. Also depends on the class I guess, some are more leveling friendly then others when it comes to efficiency. But leveling solo, or at a fast pace legit, i think expert or at most master will be just enough. Though I assume most will be leveling on hard. For more XP/H because of efficiency,

Personally, even though I hate leveling, but I think first seasonal character should be leveled legit, sure people might find clever ways to level, like certain bounties etc. But using exploits and playing in a difficulty you can't handle, but because some quest doesn't require much effort at t6, that's not fun. And gives them advantages over others, for racing to 70, conquests etc. Cause they'll reach 70 2, 3 or even upto 4 hours faster then majority of players giving them a huge advantage.

I personally know the leveling exploits, but I'm not gonna do them. I used miner's gold and miser's will back when season 1 started, but it was no way a fun experience, do the same bounty over and over for 3-5 hours. What I personally like is that when leveling, you use different builds then you would ever use at 70, that are actually efficient and fun while leveling due to lack of required item you use at 70 for farming or locked runes you haven't unlocked etc etc.

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I'm saying you could have +Holy damage but no +Lightning Damage which could account for the major part of that discrepancy. Then you factor in that the per-hit damage is going to be a maximum of roughly 40% of the Smite hits, split over two visible ticks (20% of the smite damage).



So if you have a 2000% damage smite, the hits assuming you have no +% holy damage messing up the calculation, deal 34.4mil at max. However if you have, for example, +60% holy damage it's actually 21.5mil. And if you assume half second tics that's a max displayed value of 10.75mil. Course that's assuming those large smite hits are done without crits.

So. Do you have +Holy Damage? Is your Mirinae above level 1? Are you sure those damage values are without critting?

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Like I said, it could easily be a damage type discrepancy. Without knowing what you're using it's essentially impossible to tell, and just saying "it should according to my calculations" doesn't help in either way.

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I only have 4 Jade Set pieces (speed farming T1), and I am thinking about my future choice of skills.

The OP chose:
Haunt + Locust Swarm
Spirit Walk + Soul Harvest
Piranhas + Horrify

So, no meat shield (dogs or fetishes).

Is it enough with the Horrify+ToTD+Grave Injustice+Spirit Vessel combo to keep you alive at high torments?

I like the idea, but I think if you miss a Harvest, you are in a dangerous situation...

Actually, I have Homunculus and ToTD, but no serpent.

P.D. Sorry for my English 0:-)