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I think the "nerf' to One With Everything is good for balancing. However i feel as though Dex not giving dodge anymore feels out of place. When you think of Dexterity based characters, they should be nimble and fast - i believe that if Dex doesn't give dodge anymore, Monk's and Demon Hunter's shld have base 20-25% dodge at least - because dodge is actually more useful that it seems. I've cheated death more than once being able to dodge molten explosions and other things.

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Anyone in the Beta that can give us an update on gem crafting prices? Playing self-found D3V, I am really worried that I will spend my entire time just trying to scrape up enough gold to make a marquise. I understand those will be common drops RoS endgame but I hope that their enhanced versions don't still cost 50m (as I saw a while back).

Honestly, playing self-found D3, why would you ever be interested in making a marquise in the first place? Spending 50m gold to get +4 to Vit? When your character probably already has about 2000 Vit anyway? That's not even talking about the thousands of Tomes of Secrets you'd need to get the Radiants before that. Fuck that.

Unless they scale the gems up to ridiculous power (I'm talking like the next tier gives you double the stats the previous did) it's not worth going above the basic Star, maybe even Radiant Square. Socketing is a fucking chore in self-found, the only reason I upgrade my gems is because crafting doesn't give you crap, with gems you're at least guaranteed the +4 stat after all those tomes and gold you spend. With crafting you sacrifice materials, gold, tomes, more gold (since salvaging items means you're not selling them for cash) and after 3 acts you still have no upgrades.

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So, is this what they're implementing with the server shutdown that just happened?

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the motivation for playing (high) torments just ripped. i basicly have almost all the items i want (just missing 2 setitems) and got most of them from farming expert mode...within 6 weeks of the beta btw

i hope they will introduce something new with the next beta patch (besides tuning and class changes) and give us a motivation to play on high torments besides a higher drorate for legendaries...(i wonder when they will reveal how much the legendary find chance increases with every slidertick)...

i think i will start on HC when Ros comes out, with this item system softcore is getting so boring after a coouple of weeks. i hope hc will be a bit more time consuming

btw i have a bottomless potion, if i use it my life after kill is increased by 5000 for 5 seconds...so legendary! ._. the only bottomless potion with some kind of "legendaryness" is the one that allows you to walk through waller walls but i havenf found it yet
and i can confirm that those potions are identified on drop and arent tradeable (not even within 2hours)

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Something tells me Blizzard might bend and put the Necromancer in the next expansion.

Yea i'm interested in seeing what they'll bring in the next ex-pack. I knew this time it would be a STR user as it balances things out with 2 of each resource user per stat.
Hey you never know, they may surprise us by giving us 3 classes next ex-pack. One for each resource i.e. Druid (STR), Necro (INT) and Assasssin (DEX). Not only would it balance the resource users again (yes i know they don't HAVE to) but it would go a long way in increasing the re-playability of the game.
Doubt they will do it but hey, i can always dream.

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Not as good as the necro concept from awhile back, but still cool.

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We want low drop rates for the good stuff. I don't want to join a public match and see the same 3 douche bag classes with the same build and the same glowy sword everyone has (transmog aside, i'm talking cookie cutter item standardization)...

I think this sums it up right here.

One HUGE factor, if they raise drop rates too high...is that the more legendaries that drop, the more selectivity people can have with which legendaries people see as "awesome and/or must-have" and which ones people see as "garbage." I mean, one only has to look at what the Auction House has done in that regard. Anyone with enough gold or real world money can go to the Auction House right now and have literally the entire library of D3 items open to them at any given time. And look what happens any time anyone links a legendary in chat...what do people say within seconds? "brimstone"..."vend"..."trash"..."no X? [where X is the one stat it needed to be "good"]"

Yet, when drop rates are low, people have more incentive to make happen what they can with what they have available. They find a legendary that gives them a nice stat boost, but not a lot in terms of superpowers. They can brimstone it, sure...or they can make it into something good however they can for the time being.

Plus, as I've been saying lately...low drop rates of legendaries also means more emphasis on Paragon Point allocation synergizing with Rares, as well as Enchanting Rares in the expansion. If legendaries are dropping a few times per hour, why bother picking up Rares for anything but salvage? If legendaries aren't dropping often, there's much more incentive to look closer at what Rares are dropping, and even sometimes...yes...TRADE for specific Rares that have stats on them that synergize with Paragon Points and existing item buffs.

The more legendaries that drop? Far less incentive for any of that.

I mean, look at the video clip of the Boulder Barb. His gear isn't using anything insanely special. Skorn, Lacuni and Andariel's Visage...IK belt, maybe Blackthorne boots...nothing OP, really. Yet he's put together a really cool build that uses smart skill choices and Paragon Point synergy. Very well done.

I don't know, personally, I think gambling with Kadala is pretty much the same as gambling in D2...it just presents a different/additional form of gear acquisition. The idea comes up of people farming Bounties and Blood Shards on Normal in RoS, but how is that any different than high end characters who can faceroll Hell difficulty in D2 farming class-specific items in Nightmare (with lots of skill buffs) to sell for oodles of gold that they take to Gheed for gambling? Granted, not sure how many people did that specifically, but to me, it feels like basically the same idea. And by restricting the available high end items Kadala can produce, it provides more incentive to push oneself to go to those harder difficulty levels to get those better items.

My big concern with getting items from Kadala would be to gamble on specific slots to finish off Sets. The blue above says legendaries can be acquired through gambling, and I think that's pretty great. But most of my Blood Shards (unless I hit some cap or limit and can't get any more) are going to go toward finishing Sets. So even if the most powerful Set items aren't available through Kadala, that at least some set items are available through Kadala.

Just curious...is this "new" Hellfire Ring the NEW Hellfire Ring, or a different Hellfire Ring added as an alternative for crafting the existing Hellfire Ring?

Also...I find it interesting the reagents needed to craft it, as well as the Keys that craft the machines to (presumably) get them. The Key of Bones, for instance, implies the Skeleton King (as does Leoric's Regret, obviously), but Leoric is already part of the tag team with Magdha in the Realm of Discord.

Could this mean that Leoric is being lifted out of that tag team and being given his own "realm," of sorts? And if so, who would take his place alongside Magdha? Maybe she could team up with Uber Araneae, and the evil sorceress could team up with the Spider Queen? Not going to speculate on what that Realm would be called, ;-)

Anyway, the chances of Uber Diablo, and possibly even Uber Malthael, would be awesome. More huge and gigantic bosses is a-okay in my book, :-)

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Absolutely curious about Uber Diablo as well. I was thinking it might be cool if he were tied to Blood Shards/Gambling, in a similar way as selling SOJs brought Uber Diablo out in D2. Like, when enough Blood Shards are traded in, you get that "Evil walks the land" or whatever message, and if you're out in the wilderness, say hello to pain, ;-) Might be good to just keep that to Torment Difficulty levels, so that lower level characters don't have to deal with that as much, but I really think that'd add more of a sense of danger and unpredictability when you're out farming or grinding.

I'm not concerned about the implementation as much as the actual fight, and the rewards for doing it. I'd rather not go back to the D2 method, though, unless they make it more intuitive.My hope, long-term, is that they have uber versions of all 7 Evils, and possibly a grand final battle with all 7 at once. Will probably need to wait for the 2nd expansion to get anything like that.

InfernalMachine_Diablo_x1 -Infernal Machine of Evil

InfernalMachine_SiegeBreaker_x1 -Infernal Machine of War

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Boss_Strings.txt

• Uber_Diablo_Encounter_Name - Boss: Diablo

Uber_Diablo_Taunt_Text

- Defeat Diablo, Lord of Terror!

• Uber_Diablo_Join_Instruction - Triggered by {s1}

Uber_Diablo_Enter_Instruction

- You are about to enter

• Uber_Diablo_Info_Text - Your party will teleport in when everyone has accepted.

Bwa? This should be interesting.

Seismic Slam Cost: 30 Fury / Slam the ground and cause a wave of destruction that deals 550% weapon damage and 4 yard Knockback to enemies in a 45 yard arccone and knocks them up.

THANK. YOU. BLIZZARD. Knockback on a barb is so stupid. It's nice there's a rune for the people who want it, but removing it from the base skill for Bash and Seismic Slam is a huge plus for me.

Absolutely curious about Uber Diablo as well.

I was thinking it might be cool if he were tied to Blood Shards/Gambling, in a similar way as selling SOJs brought Uber Diablo out in D2. Like, when enough Blood Shards are traded in, you get that "Evil walks the land" or whatever message, and if you're out in the wilderness, say hello to pain, ;-) Might be good to just keep that to Torment Difficulty levels, so that lower level characters don't have to deal with that as much, but I really think that'd add more of a sense of danger and unpredictability when you're out farming or grinding.

As for Knockback on a Barb, I don't think it's stupid at all for a melee class to have an alternative way of placing distance between themselves and enemies. However, you are right in saying that removing it from the base skill and making Knockback more of a choice is absolutely a good thing. I can agree there, :-)

Looks like we got some Cursed Chest clarification.

I'm with a lot of people thinking that there was a way to grandfather Nephalem Trials into some kind of competitive multiplayer...even if they weren't a separate mode, and you just did them, and got a report at the end saying something like, "your performance in this trial was better than 43% of players today". However, this is still a cool way to do it.

Blizzard is clearly looking for players to have MORE avenues to get gear and items and loot besides just simply "killing monsters." I love killing monsters, and it's my favorite way to get loot, but getting it in different ways is kind of the key, as it's what people seem to be asking for. I can't wait to trade some Blood Shards and do some gambling for gear for specific slots, that should be fun.

Beauty is, the more different ways to kill monsters/get loot are put into the game, the more fondly we can look at specific ones WE choose as our favorites or preferred methods. For instance, I know a lot of us were excited when the Infernal Machine/Hellfire Ring/Uber Bosses were patched in. Didn't take long for Key Farming to get boring, though. I haven't done an Uber Run in quite a while, most of my time in the game is spent just farming certain spots. Then, when they announced Bounties and Rifts, my first thought was, "gee, I haven't done an Uber Run in a while, I kinda miss it."

The more different ways people can get loot and kill monsters, the more variety we get, and the less boring and monotonous the game feels.

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D3 does not need to be like WOW or any other MMORPG, and I say that as an MMO player. D3 isn't that type of game. The market hasn't changed, people still want a fun game with something to do, and hopefully D3's revamped loot and rifts and everything will be what is necessary. It's absurd to expect constant content updates in a game you don't pay a monthly fee to nor is there any way for them to get income relative to the number of active players, and frankly that isn't what the game is about.

Getting to be the most powerful character in D3 should be a goal you can never reach but a goal that is in sight. I mean an entire expansion 1.5 years after release is a great release schedule and I see no reason that Blizzard won't try to make that A Thing with D3.