I really want to see the affix being removed completely. Not just on new items, also from all existing items. MF became a stupid requirement and created an extremely artificial gap. There was even no choice in whether or not to get MF.
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Sep 19, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Confirmed: D3 Will Stay Online, iOS Update May Reset Authenticators, Clarification on the AH, Paragon 2.0 Q&APosted in: News
I really want to see the affix being removed completely. Not just on new items, also from all existing items. MF became a stupid requirement and created an extremely artificial gap. There was even no choice in whether or not to get MF. -
Sep 19, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Confirmed: D3 Will Stay Online, iOS Update May Reset Authenticators, Clarification on the AH, Paragon 2.0 Q&AStill no word on MF/GF?Posted in: News
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Sep 17, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Diablo III Auction House is Shutting Down on March 18, 2014Posted in: NewsQuote from phuzi0n
A piece of the puzzle is still missing. Even with loot 2.0 and the mystic allowing you to reroll 1 stat to be better but making it boa, there will still be items that are better than others. If they leave trading in completely then people will just start using 3rd party sites to find the things they want which will just make scams rise. Maybe they will also restrict trading to only be with people that are in your party when the item drops like WoW does for most bop gear.
There's no problem with 3rd party sites, trading through forums (official trade forum, D2JSP, DFans trade section), trade channel, or occasional trading with friends.
The problem was that "in your face" mentality that the AH was literally easier to enter than a new game (1 click vs 2 clicks). Imagine all the new game-breaking items of Loot 2.0; there's no point if you can just buy everything in a split second.
Of course you can get all of this through other trading channels. But it's spread everywhere - some will use public trade channels, some will use 3rd party scam sites, some will use the official forum, some D2JSP, ... and so on. Items will be everywhere, there won't be one central source for distributing everything anymore.
Furthermore, people will stop to put up everything. Right now, people even put up items that yield 3000 gold (I bought a really nice amulet for my friend's monk for just 3279 gold last night, simply winning the bid as only bidder). With the additional hassle and the required time investment, all items below a certain threshold will just disappear, which in turn will slow down item dissemination. There will even be people salvaging really good items because they don't care. I played D2 for 10+ years and never traded publicly, I probably threw loads of items at Gheed that were worth many PGs or even high runes, but I didn't care, and I still don't.
In the end, we will go back to something similar as in D2: many people are so annoyed by the D3 AH experience that they will go back to D2 self-found (incl. trading with friends). Many will miss the AH and create a new, unofficial AH (eventually, one popular website will become the new AH, and it might very well be D2JSP, unless they make some huge mistakes). Some might occasionally trade since they have tasted what it's like now; so the trading community will be bigger than it was back in D2, but not as big as it is now. -
Sep 17, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Diablo III Auction House is Shutting Down on March 18, 2014Posted in: NewsQuote from Grafikm_fr
*writes a bunch of [censored] stuff, deletes*
Josh Mosquera has just lost 95 points on my respect scale. Pity, he was looking much more promising than Jay Wilson.
No worries, he earned over 9000 points on my respect scale. -
Sep 17, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Diablo III Auction House is Shutting Down on March 18, 2014Posted in: NewsQuote from Venaliter
Not sure why everyone is celebrating. This could easily be the worse thing possible to happen to the game. Does no one understand how reliant we'll be on crafting mats in RoS? Does nobody remember how annoying trading was in d2, with all the spam? Does no one remember how absolutely FRAUSTRATING it was to find the low level dueling peice? How about all the bot spam?
On the other hand, The AH-barons really, really ruined the game and it was the "correct" way to gear up, which really sucked.
I don't care about AH barons, the annoyance of trading, bots, spam, and whatever. But the AH made loot too easily accessible and whenever you found an item, it was just a question whether or not it's worth enough to put it up on the AH. It wasn't about "does this item improve my character" but "does this item yield some gold on the AH such that I can buy another upgrade".
There will be AH alternatives, many of them. But there will never ever be a system again that is so easy and "in your face" like the AH right now. And that is good.
Remember that they'll increase the legendary drop rate by a factor of 6. With the AH in place, everyone would have access to every "game-changing" legendary item immediately. -
Sep 17, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Diablo III Auction House is Shutting Down on March 18, 2014Posted in: NewsQuote from Wildthood
Jay Wilson: In the end, it was a mortal heart that saved two worlds from ruin and casted down AH forever. A new day breaks for both Blizzard and fans. For mankind's greatest champion, Josh rose to confront the darkness that we in our pride would not face. My brethen, I will take my place amongst you once again but this time not as lead designer. Since justice has been met this day I will now stand as one of Titan's developer. on behave of those who risked all to save us, forevermore, we shall stand together Blizzard and fans in the light of this glorious new dawn.
Just FYI: long before Josh became game director, Jay Wilson admitted in an interview that the AH was the biggest mistake ever made and if they could, they would take it back (he wasn't game director anymore at the time). -
Sep 17, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Diablo III Auction House is Shutting Down on March 18, 2014Posted in: NewsQuote from maka
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EDIT: I have to mention, MOST awesome items ingame in RoS are going to be soulbound so trading will just cut down in general.
Nope, with the removal of the AH there's no need for BoA anymore. Many people (including me and all of my friends) will not use any dodgy 3rd party trading sites. With the "in your face" trading system absent, I'm officially completely back to self-found, finally.
Trade with your friends, you tight arse!
Oh sorry - trading with friends was always included in my broad definition of self-found ;-) Like in D2, we always had matching characters so that someone could always make use of an item, but we never engaged in public trading. So all this upcoming QQ about the uprising of bots and trade channel spam... couldn't care less
Man, this is so awesome. I haven't been that excited since the day D3 was announced. -
Sep 17, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Diablo III Auction House is Shutting Down on March 18, 2014Posted in: News
I think this means the Loot 2.0/Paragon 2.0 patch will happen on 3-18-14. RoS May/June. -
Sep 17, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Diablo III Auction House is Shutting Down on March 18, 2014Posted in: NewsQuote from t0luene
EDIT: I have to mention, MOST awesome items ingame in RoS are going to be soulbound so trading will just cut down in general.
Nope, with the removal of the AH there's no need for BoA anymore. Many people (including me and all of my friends) will not use any dodgy 3rd party trading sites. With the "in your face" trading system absent, I'm officially completely back to self-found, finally. -
Sep 17, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Diablo III Auction House is Shutting Down on March 18, 2014YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!Posted in: News
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Sep 16, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Legendary Build Changers, Travis Day on Paragon 2.0, Travis Day on Paragon in Ladder, Lylirra on DataminingPosted in: News
Yeah, exactly.
If people would just watch "Game of Thrones" and get the reference... they've been saying "Winter is coming" for 3 seasons now, yet the sun is shining every day in King's Landing. -
Sep 15, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Legendary Build Changers, Travis Day on Paragon 2.0, Travis Day on Paragon in Ladder, Lylirra on DataminingPosted in: NewsQuote from Azjenco
Stupid question: How will the ladder work?
Do you create a ladder character or are all your characters automatically part of the ladder? The reason I ask is, I'm a slow player, I enjoy taking my time, and I have no intention to rush through paragon levels, not now, not when RoS launches. So the idea that they will periodically scrape the paragon leveld I've been accumulating is a very disconcerting thought.
It's not a stupid question, it's a very good question!
Thing is, before Travis's post no one at Blizzard even went so far as to mention the word "ladder", afaik. So there is absolutely no word on that.
I, too, hate to lose progress just for some kind of artificial reset once every few months; I don't play 24/7 so the game doesn't wear out as quick as for those who reached p100 on one (or multiple) chars.
The worrying question that needs to be answered if there is ladder-only content, though. The low-level runewords were the reason why I played ladder in D2, even though I dislike the concept of progression reset, which is against RPG concepts. -
Sep 15, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Legendary Build Changers, Travis Day on Paragon 2.0, Travis Day on Paragon in Ladder, Lylirra on DataminingPosted in: NewsQuote from Tilgare
Paragon 2.0 will add up all the paragon EXPERIENCE of your characters is what he said. BIG difference because P500 today will be more more than likely be something like P200 in RoS because of the level curve.Quote from stebo88
It's great to know that the Paragon system 2.0 will add up all the paragon levels of our characters to a sum.
Just one small thing to add: we have also no idea if they keep the scaling the same, like an insane exponential curve, or if paragon levels equal paragon points in paragon 2.0. The idea is that two players who have similar paragon experience get about the same paragon points, that's it. So, if you have one paragon 100 char and your friend has 5x paragon 50 chars, you'll probably end up with about the same paragon points in paragon 2.0 (roughly). Note: since Travis informally confirmed ladder including resets (see OP) today, it might very well be that paragon 1.0 experience doesn't matter after all. Those people who are interested in a rat race right now will probably enter ladder anyways.
(Btw, there are some hilarious videos by some streamers who did funny Excel charts "predicting" the paragon 2.0 experience curve, and I feel it's important to let people know that for every citation of these curves as "fact" an innocent kitten will die.) -
Sep 14, 2013Bagstone posted a message on Diablo III - Reaper of Souls Datamined Class Changes - including even more Crusader abilitiesPosted in: News
*Archon change. It's even more powerful now, it's just not permanent anymore. And Archon wizards get to use more than one spell now, yay!
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Oh it will in some form or another. Blizz has said time and time again that they want to get rid of perma-archon and wotb. I hope they nerf CMWW as well.
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Aug 30, 2013Bagstone posted a message on New Reaper of Souls Info, Blue Posts, Console Version Playtesting Highlights and ReviewPosted in: News
That guy isn't reading DFans, Jaetch posted a screenshot of some B.Net forum hero :-/ - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Just highlighting this thread - and updated the title to include posts and threads as well. I went through the history and we had exactly one false positive, so it's not like this happens commonly, but in case this happens... here's the PSA. Mods have this thread subscribed, so posting here will notify all mods (rather than if you PM a single mod about this issue).
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Fixed! It's visible again now. I've also moved it to the barb forums (but left a redirect) so it gets more visibility.
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Thanks for the feedback, we'll take this into account if possible in future development (can't promise anything yet, but I'm hopeful ;-))!
I'll just add something else that came up on Discord, because it's a well-known old issue that we've covered on those forums before: by default, weeks are sorted by "top of this week" first when you visit the build site, but "top in this patch" on the front page, and that inconsistency has confused many people over the years. Hopefully we'll be able to find a better solution here as well!
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So.. this is 1.5 years old, but I'm gonna bump/necro this. Obviously with the change to Sage's set, things become a bit different; while Sage's set in my opinion wasn't as good as just getting more damage and going to higher GR tiers (because it only added one instead of doubling it), now with up to EIGHT DBs per pack on T16 it becomes a different story. Also, since I did my initial sampling over two years ago, since then power creep has changed a lot of the variables.
I'm not sure if I want to re-do all of it, and I probably can't, due to time constraints. But I'd be interested in picking some of the "top Sage's builds" and take a closer look at them again. So:
1) What are the flavor of the
monthpatch Sage's builds? (Links appreciated)2) Are there any completely new or fundamentally changed builds compared to what I tested initially?
(Obviously no new sets have been introduced, but maybe some of the revamped stats have shifted powers or even enabled new supplementary items to shine.)
Edit: Nevermind. I got a ton of responses on Reddit and pretty much everyone agreed that it's just not worth it anymore to run Sage's - the bottle neck is elsewhere (mainly yellow mats).
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I have no idea what's happening. But clearly, *something* was missing. Let's see what the future holds! Anyone still alive and kicking?
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SAME HERE. I think that's why all of that makes it so sad/bittersweet.
I want Jamoose to show up. Because tomorrow he has his... FUCKING 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Gogo, Jamoose!
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Well, the news hit the frontpage, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who's shocked, surprised, and extremely saddened by it. I can sort of understand aspects of it - traffic has gone down, and from a mod view I can say that I have to remove more spam posts each day than I can enjoy reading new posts. Nevertheless, I thought this could've been a nice place to hang out even if the franchise is going downhill (is it though?). But well. Ain't gonna happen.
But instead of endless complaining about things we can't change, why don't we all revisit our past, share our memorable DFans moments, and take a look into the future? Look at your post history to go down the memory lane. So, I'll start:
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I joined Diablofans about six and a half years ago because I had a stupid question about making an Inferno tank barb to support my two DH friends. That kind of didn't go anywhere, so I switched to my other main char (Archon wizard) which should soon become my passion. To share some of the insights I gained from reading up and theorycrafting some of the wizard stuff, I wrote a guide which maybe some of you remember (RoS edition as the old one was from the old forum software and looks ugly, but the first one was written over Christmas 2012). I continued to make a few guides (see thread history, some I didn't even remember like an 1-70 leveling guide, lol) and also my small website (http://d3resource.com/), I think the reason for making D3Resource was that I needed a domain to host my CHD vs CHC calc.
I don't remember when I became mod, because that really didn't matter; what I do remember is the lot of awesome people that I met on Diablofans, ingame, or on both channels. Some of those have sadly long gone, like Jaetch and Loroese - the two best wizard theorycrafters Diablo had (pre-RoS). I also have to mention overneathe, who introduced me to the DFans mod world (without him I wouldn't be here), and his successor Zero(pS). We didn't just play DIablo - do you guys remember the Terraria times? That was fun! There are so many more names I can and probably should list, but many of them were unfortunately purged in the recent transition phase when Fandom took over, and many don't check this forum anymore. But if you do please say high in here!!!
Unfortunately over the years the forum became more and more inactive, and I prefer old-school forums much, much more than Reddit (I just can't deal with the strange thread style, makes it impossible to read "all new posts") and even worse all the video-based info (I'd rather read a long, well-written guide than watch a 10 minute video on Youtube). But I guess that makes me a dinosaur, I dying breed, one that doesn't like to play games on phones ;-)
So, what's up next? I will maintain D3Resource, at least for now. I might lag behind with some updates, honestly, but the best way to contact me is shoot me a Reddit message. I think I'm still behind on the S16 season overview but honestly... not in the mood right now, given recent events. Also, work. If I ever were to abandon D3Resource, I would probably zip all the source code and throw it to someone, so no worries, it won't magically disappear. But it's a static website and I host a lot of old stuff (like a forum that has a much older community, founded in 1997, with less than 10 posts over the last 10 years ;-)). No worries.
I'm not sure about my personal future in Diablo. To be honest, as I expressed here, my view on Blizzard/Diablo shifted. I literally played 8-10 hours for the last 4 seasons each (went online, got a power level, rushed to get Guardian done as fast as possible, delete). S16 took me a bit more than 7 hours to finish Guardian. I'm not sure it's gonna be more given that D3 feels a bit stale to me and PoE looks so much more exciting. I just recently started (~2 months ago) but If someone has a place for a noob (I just played up 3 builds and tried to learn as much as possible, but only tried Shaper once and no kill yet) let me know, I'm sort of looking for a guild, preferably with Discord (and potentially forum, haha, you know me). What a cheap plug, but well, gotta seize the opportunity! I'm also occasionally playing SC2 co-op which I really enjoy (and watching WCS). Once Dfans is gone, I'll continue posting on Reddit, I'm regularly in the chat channel of svr's Discord (where we discuss D3, PoE, and SC2),and maybe we meet elsewhere. See my battle tag in my forum profile (bagstone#2613) or PoE (bagstone).
Thanks everyone for making this a nice home for so many years! <3
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I find a bit dangerous to call it "healthy cutback". Also, Activision taking care of marketing is making me scared to the max - Activision has some of the most unhealthy, bad, and unsustainable business models in the industry (see Call of Duty). I'm not sure we want to let Diablo slide into that at all.
Also, while we're Diablo fans, some of us also care (or used to care) about Blizzard as a company. And while Diablo seems to not have seen as many cuts in this round of firings, this might be more because there isn't much to cut. The people that were let go were mostly non-developers, and Diablo doesn't have many of those (maybe one, in Nevalistis?). But the issue is a bigger one: Activision Blizzard decided that a record win was "not enough", they need more. That is unsustainable growth, built on short-term profit gains, and therefore the opposite of "healthy cuts".
What made Blizzard so great over the past 3 decades was the fact that they cared about their community. Their games were good, sure; but it was the support around the game that truly made some of them stand out. With the deafening silence about Diablo since Blizzcon that is already not the case anymore for our franchise, and it might now be equally silent for others. To understand the magnitude of some of those firings and why I think they're absolutely unhealthy and essentially confirm what we've already been talking about for a while - Blizzard as we knew it is gone - please watch this week's part from the Pylon Show where inControl and especially Artosis (bottom right), who's "one of the faces" of StarCraft 2, talks about the significance of some of the people that were let go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbu7pqk1QO0
As he says - the people making the decisions are "out of touch". Basically, community managers, people who improved the quality of the games and the support for it were let go; Blizzard is hiring, on the other hand, tons of developers. They're not paying above industry standard anymore though, they're have a ton of internships out (super low-paid short-term programming jobs), and they outsource development (NetEase collaboration). All of this points to a really dark future - maybe not necessarily for Diablo, if you just want a random hack'n'slay game; whatever comes next, some people are gonna love it. But the unique feel of a Blizzard family cannot possibly be maintained in this atmosphere of faceless programmers, working under the whip of a corporate overlord for average salary (living in SoCal is RIDICULOUSLY expensive, like you cannot imagine), and constantly in fear of losing your job if your short-term goals might fail. All of Blizzard's big achievements would not have been possible under such atmosphere.
All of this is really, really concerning, if you care about more than just the business. Again: if you just want a cool short-term Diablo game to play in between your Fortnite and LOL sessions, this is awesome news. But please understand that many of us aren't like that.
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I think your best bet is to submit a ticket to Curse account service...
https://curseweb.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
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Just noticed this interesting discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/akgtke/quin69_hcssf_shaper_with_zdps/
Some good points made that D3 is actually more mechanically demanding. PoE is more or less just about the patterns. As everyone always stresses, the games can't be compared, but if you do, you notice they're just very much different, there's no better or worse. (I currently enjoy PoE more, but simply because there's nothing to do in D3 other than paragon farming and getting better rolls on my gear; in PoE you still have items to farm after hundreds of hours. Season 16 took me 7:20h, thanks to powerlevel and boost, to complete to Guardian, in PoE that's the time needed for a knowledgeable player to reach endgame.)
Anyways, didn't really know where to put this, and it seems like the last thread was 5 y/o, so I made a new one. Still breaking into PoE and enjoying it, but don't think it's gonna ever rival my close to 5k hours in D3...
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I second Impale. In early HC seasons when powercreep wasn't as ridiculous and I had no clue about anything I always went for Impale for the high GR clears for journey etc, tried several specs of several classes but Impale was by far the one that was safest. You can beef up the defense indefinitely without sacrificing too much and be almost unkillable for GR70-80, so I think it will still be quite tanky on GR90-100, especially after this recent patch added some more power.
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Is it hate? I think it's just sarcasm to deal with recent events. Blizzard has a history of "keeping us waiting". It used to mean that they deliver better quality work, and the wait was worthwhile. Recently (and I'm talking years, not just since Blizzcon) the wait just results in even bigger disappointment. I wish they'd go back to the old standard of delivering quality - then there'd be no sarcasm/hate (or whatever you wanna call it). There was none of that even a few years ago, so this problem is entirely their own fault, and they can fix this, by giving us clear signs of addressing their consumers' concerns
We're the consumers, they want our money, so that's just my 0.02$ ;-)
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Some rollout issues on PC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/agc9vd/patch_is_live_on_console/ee56fal/