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Quote from Number1337

No its not a Photoshop, just a regular old Print Screen. The main mob was a super-unique or whatever they call the purple ones. This may be something only he has, and it was from last night, so its 1.03, hence why i ask if its new.

I ran into several packs of elites and rares last night that didn't display any affixes on their status bar (that was fun to figure out initially!). Likely a display bug on both accounts.

Quote from Gulaji

I agree with bokchoykn. This should be unpinned as it portrays this as the "only way" to play a barbarian. I came on here today to see what other people were saying about builds similar to mine (see: http://www.diablofan...sker-whirlwind/) only to find NOTHING because you all think that you absolutely have to be a revenge spammer with tons of resist and use frenzy with LoH etc.

Seriously, people, play the game. Try out new shit. Don't rely on other people's ideas. Take bits from their ideas and come up with your own! I'm not so arrogant to think my build is the best. In fact, I'm nearly certain that there are other builds that could be made to work. Mine might not be as good as some I haven't seen on here or thought of myself, and maybe it's not as good as this one, but FOR ME it's way more FUN. Plus, it still works... so quit flinging about this nonsense "you have to use this spec".

An important line you apparently missed when reading the OP:

Here are the abilities that I recommend using and that I find best. Of course a lot of things depend on your play style and personal preferences, hence I will later list other viable skills that you might choose to use.

So yeah, this isn't some "this is the only way to play" guide - it's quite literally an introduction to the inferno barbarian for those aren't necessarily veterans of Diablo or gaming in general. Just because you're well enough versed to make your own viable build doesn't mean everyone is.

This guide does exactly what you try to offer up as sage advice in your own: take bits and pieces and see what works for you.

Seriously, a little reading comprehension goes a long way.

The tl;dr version of the OP:

A small percentage of people were farming the hardest content because they got stupid lucky with drops, put in tons of hours early on, or are relatively talented compared to the player base at large (or a combination of the three), and as such were raking in hundreds of millions of gold at an alarmingly fast rate.

Meanwhile, the other 95% of the playerbase was farming for what amounts to a pittance of the necessary currency and gear to progress beyond Act 4 Hell and Act 1 Inferno (even if you are a very skilled player) because the economy was in absolute shambles thanks to gold being nearly worthless from the aforementioned farming class raking in the dough.

So what did patch 1.03 do? It allowed the vast majority of the playerbase to actually have a chance at moving beyond the same content they've been grinding for weeks because it was incredibly difficult, aside from winning the loot lottery, to move beyond that content. The other side-effect? The "elite" group of players who got stupid lucky in the first two weeks of release crying about how they actually have to share the spoils now; how, heaven forbid, anyone else has a chance to play the same content in the same gear as they do

Quote from Hmmnaatz

Only good characters should be farming the latest content of the game. A good MF set isnt even THAT expensive. I probably spent only 10mil on mine (without weapon), and im running 292% MF (templar, no buffs) with 120k dps (with SS). Can farm A3 just fine with that.

You should clear the game with normal gear, then you can focus on getting MF gear with dps stats that allow you to farm the content and get absolutely amazing gear, instead of spending 1 million at a random point in the game, and being a sick MF machine by pressing 1 button just before the elitepack dies.

This guy gets it.

The problem is people are so impatient and just see ACT 1 ACT 1 ACT 1 I AM FARMIN and mostly forget the big picture - there is a progression of gear and even if Act 1 is better than Act 3 with the absolute best gear available (which would certainly be hotfixed), what about Act 2 or Act 4 or Whimsyshire?

If this is a serious topic, instead of going into it with a conclusion and then tailoring the math (conveniently leaving out factors for "simplification," etc.) to fit that conclusion, why not do an exhaustive study on farming & MF throughout all four acts? Maybe with sufficient data we can see where the equations give us important data, etc. Maybe then we'd understand WHY certain things aren't worth farming, we'd understand how all the coefficients come together, etc.

Thusfar all we get is "I left this, this, and this out for simplification and that means Act 1 > Act 3 if they nerf gearswaps." Which, while perhaps hinting at a problem, really isn't thorough enough to demand something be done.

Thought I'd share this with you.

Here's the source: http://www.gamefront...rom-the-future/

July 10

• In order to eliminate all quest turn-in exploits, the rewards for completing quests have been removed
• In an effort to reduce resplendent chest farming, resplendent chests will no longer spawn
• In order to bring their powers in line with each other, the Critical Hit Chance, Critical Hit Damage, and Increased Attack Speed affixes have been combined into a single affix: Lethality
• Champions, Elites, and Uniques will now dynamically move 75% faster than the player
• In order to balance the affix with life leech, life-on-hit items will now return 95% less health in Inferno
• In order to rollback the achievements players received via bugs and exploits, all achievements have been reset. This should also encourage former players to replay the game in its entirety.
• Enrage timers will now be named Awesome timers to promote a more positive message about them
• Radius of Desecrator, Molten, and Plagued effects have been doubled. Because **** you, that’s why.
• Followers will now preferentially target Treasure Goblins over other on-screen monsters
• In order to combat botting, breaking more than three objects in a 30-second period will disconnect you from Battle.net for 10 minutes and report you to the RIAA, because you’re probably a music thief, too

July 17

• In order to combat auction house bots, the gold auction house is being taken offline until patch 1.1
• In order to reduce server load after maintenance, players who attempt to log in more than twice in five minutes will be IP banned for 30 minutes and blocked from complaining posting on the forums
• In Inferno difficulty, the Warden will also gain the Vortex, Teleport, Arcane Enchanted, Extra Health, Fast, Frozen, Knockback, Missile Dampening, Mortar, Nightmarish, Plagued, Vampiric, and Waller affixes, in addition to Jailer, Fast, Desecrator, and Molten
• To address complaints regarding swapping to Magic Find gear before delivering a killing blow, items can no longer spawn with the Magic Find affix. This should encourage vigilante moderation in the forums and discourage players from complaining about anything else.
• Monsters will no longer target followers, ever
• To encourage cooperative play, all games will now be public games. You will also always be matched with a player who is either AFK, under-geared, or Leeroy Jenkins.
• Fixed a bug that allowed for near 24/7 server uptime. Servers will now go down every night from 1am to 8am PDT to ensure players continue to go to work and make money to spend on the RMAH.
• Karyna, the spider cave woman, now walks 75% slower
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to trade in-game. All trades must now take place through the auction house, as intended.
• Pots of ashes in Act I and vases in Act IV will now exclusively drop dozens of white items
• Maximum chat message length has been increased to accommodate gold spammers

July 24

• Error message number codes will now be randomized, and an achievement has been added for finding all number codes: “To Err Is Human”
• Tyrael no longer deals damage. He now follows behind you, shouting “JUSTICE.”
• In order to compensate for the guaranteed rare drops on bosses when players have sufficient stacks of Nephalem Valor, all rare items now have a 95% chance of being unusable by your class
• Fixed a bug in which player input was immediately and reliably recognized and executed. Inputs are now delayed by 2 seconds and ignored 50% of the time, as intended.
• Zoltan Kulle now laughs 75% more often
• Added in-game lore description of position desync bug (aka “rubberbanding”). This has been explained to be a consequence of Tyrael destroying the Worldstone in Diablo II.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to have other games installed on their hard drives
• The Templar is now 65% more glorious
• Fixed several gold and leveling exploits. Players can no longer earn gold or XP.
• Kiting was an unintended game mechanic. Players will now be unable to move for 1 second after attacking.
• Soul Rippers and Soul Lashers no longer move faster than other creatures. Instead, they instantly blink to players from up to three screens away. This effect has no cooldown.
• $25 will automatically be deducted from your Battle.net balance if you don’t use the RMAH for a week. If your Battle.net balance is empty, your account password will be given to gold thieves.

Enjoy.

Personally I'm not really sure I like the idea of changing mf, but Blizzard seems intent on changing it anyway. So if changing MF is the only option then here is my personal solution. I like option 4 the best, but it has too many downsides, such as swapping a regular non-mf piece of gear and being penalized for 3 minutes. So here is my proposal. Make it so only when you equip an item that increases your mf you are penalized for 3 minutes, and remove the part where your mf drops to 0% for the 3 minutes. Here are a few examples:

Your total mf is currently 100%.
Take off an item with 15% mf on it.
Exactly what you expect to happen happens. Your mf drops to 85%.
Now you are at 85% mf.
MF was not increased and no penalization was incurred.

Now put back on item with 15% mf on it.
Your mf remains at 85% for 3 minutes.
3 minutes later you are back at 100% mf.
You switched an item that increased your mf, and are penalized for 3 minutes.

Now you are at 100% mf.
Switch 15% mf gloves for gloves with 10% mf.
Your mf drops to 95% without having to wait 3 minutes.
Your mf was not increased and no penalization was incurred.

This modified option 4 will basically minimize any negative secondary affects that may impair your gameplay due to the mf changes. Please comment and state whether or not you like this change and discuss why. Thanks.

Quote from Bandyto

This is a toilet thread now!

Drop rates affected by burrito consumption.

Quote from overneathe

"808 days in the top 100"

Enough for me.

Thumbs way up.

Did you know that The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd stayed on the charts for 741 weeks starting in 1973 and ending in 1988? It's, by far, the best performance any single album has had on the charts.

I hear that Pink Floyd sucks because The Dark Side of the Moon is no longer charting according to Billboard. Sorry to bear bad news guys, but if you like Pink Floyd you're fanboys!

Flaws to that graph:

1: xFire is known to cause Diablo 3 to crash. I wonder why there is fewer people using xFire now.... HMMMMMMM. That is a real head-scratcher.

2: The sample source is so small it isn't even worth mentioning. 130,000 / 7,000,000... that is literally 1.85% of the playerbase. OMG. THE GAME IS GONNA END!

3: Too many people expected Diablo 3 to be, out of the box, a superior product, on a totally new game engine, using a totally different graphic system (3D Modelling vs Sprites), to the 12 year old Diablo 2: LoD, plus all of it's patches, and time spent doing balance and tweaks.

I see the issue with people bashing games is because they just all jump on whatever big-title band-wagon is coming next, and the moment it doesn't meet THEIR expectations (which are beyond painfully high), it is time to start bashing the game dev's for whatever reason they can come up with.

Plus, I wouldn't be surprised to see usage stats come down a little the next two months. It IS summer, and people DO go outside in the nice weather.

I'm still playing. I'm still enjoying it. And I will be for years to come. Hell, I'm glad the population is dropping off. The AH will stabilize far better, and we will stop seeing items you want posted for 500,000,000 gold, just cause some 14yr old wants to troll everyone on the AH with "Haha! Look what I got and you can't have it!"

This community has, at best, 10K active users. 44% are on the fence or dislike the patch. Making it 4.4k people complaining. (I know the community itself is larger, only shooting for members who *own* the game - if someone has more valid numbers, let me know).

Even if you extrapolate that there are at least 10 fansites with 10k active posters, and Battle.net with 50k (being way generous), and extending that by accepting those users mentioned actually *own* Diablo 3 (since any other comments are opinions are worthless), you come up with 69K users complaining.

Again 7MIL+ purchases. At least that many, since we haven't had any news of additional sales since 1 week in. But again, being generous, as smaller total sales inflates the percentage.

Making it .0098% of active users vocally throwing a fit. Otherwise - a vocal minority.

Being fair, .0098% will translate into some larger % of the userbase being happy, that's how surveying a valid sample size works. Be very clear, however - the number of people playing the game is *far* larger than the number of people trolling these forums running on about how terrible the game is. Far to many entitled crybabies who, instead of accepting that not every game satisfies every need and moving on, think that they have to get back at Blizzard, and drive as many people as possible from the game.

It makes me sad that this is the state of gaming. Used to be, we looked at the box and if the features sounded like they would be fun we would try it. If it sucked, we tried again. If it was broke we returned it.

Now, thanks to mindless repetition of game series like CoD and Halo and MWx, people are so used to always getting exactly what they expect (because the games never truly change) that anytime a game comes out they don't like, they go running off raging. EA made it that much worse when they caved regarding the end of ME3. Players didn't make they game, they play it. EA screwed developers by setting the precedent that developers are just slaves to players now, and meant only to generate profit. And thanks to them and players like the ones that overpopulate these forums, you can expect the quality and uniqueness of games to deteriorate going forward. Because only the independently wealthy studios will continue to be able to make games as they want. The rest will be relegated to spamming out clones for the mindless drones this new generation of gamers has become.

For every person who does this - I hope life takes something away from you unfairly, to teach you some perspective. And maybe make you mature a bit.

EDIT: clarity, maths

1.0.3 hit me just like most of the community. I didnt like it very much because it had more nerfs than buffs (I think i can count the number of buffs on one hand). Of course, when you make changes there are always cry babys talking about quitting because things aren't going the way they planned. If quitting is your ultimatum then there is no stopping you, but I implore you gamers to try something new. Stop being so stubborn.

Diablo was never about 1 class/build fits all. Diablo was never about stacking a single attribute or looking for that "end game" item where everyone will eventually be wearing the exact same thing. Diablo has always been a reap-what-you-sow game and ultimately it all comes down to either time or luck. 1.0.3 balanced the game. That's right, no more belial power leveling, goblin hunting, botting, and stacking. "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" If it wasn't for this patch, I would still be running a glass cannon DH with 12k HP, stacking everything into DEX and Atack Speed. If I were stubborn I would have probably quit as well, but we are humans. Humans learn to adapt to challenges, work around obsticles. If we didn't have that in our genes we would have died along with the dinosaurs.

Fellow gamers, open your eyes throw away your stubborness. Stop stacking attack speed (ridiculously over priced) and single attributes. This is not a one build game, play around with the thousands of possible combination of builds and gears available. Read the class forums and try out other peoples suggestions. ADAPT. Find your own builds to post! THIS is the fun that Diablo was designed upon.

I for one, am no longer "kiting" packs with the fear that even a droplet of elite sweat could kill my frail glass canon DH. Instead, I can now stand and tank them. Now there are much more possibilities to try.

Have fun

Quote from Silvach

I wonder when people will bring New World Order conspiracy into this 1.0.3 changes.