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Well I have been looking at D3 for the first time in months after everybody got all excited about the patch. I am not impressed.



First : legendaries : It's raining them now, great. They are still bloody useless though. I just hope that that will improve when we get the new legendaries. But the ones dropping right now are as useless as they were before loot 2.0.



Rares : well great, now rares almost always have the main stat i need and also a 200+ vitality roll added to it. The vast majority of it is still just for disenchanting though. Yes, the rares are more tailored towards your class. But they still suck. If you have 200+ of main stat and vit, you can be pretty sure that it will neither have all resist nor any damage stats.



So all in all I have not found one single item so far that was a slight upgrade over the items that I was able to buy in the Ah ( like back in november ) for a few millions. I just disenchant more items with the proper main stat now.



Things will not get much better after RoS hits either. There will be a little run while leveling, and then you will find some quick updates at 70, but i give it a week or two at max before we are in the same position again, that we have tons of drops and none are upgrades. At least back with the AH you could turn all this mediocre gear into some gold and buy an upgrade every now and then. Now we are just at the absolute mercy of the RNG gods.

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Picked up 2 4 packs of Monster, some unhealthy Doritos and enough Pizza Rolls to plug my arteries.

2 more hours to go!!!

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Now that you all have your pitchforks and torches...I really do mean that.

I would have preferred to keep the wings CE only and had given the Spectral Hound to Preorders. I like the idea of keeping all of the Wings tied to CE's. It would have gone with the pattern they were establishing.

Tyreal Wings = D3 CE

Blade Wings = SC2:HotS CE

I know many will disagree, but that's my opinion. I'm not going to fume and obsess over it though

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You cannot compare the old difficulty levels with the new ones. Everything changed: skill balancing, EHP requirements, healing (no life steal anymore), itemization, monsters' damage and HP.

Blizzard specifically said they introduced new difficulty names because you can't compare it.

You might wanna say that MP10 equals Torment 6 simply because they're both the highest difficulty level to strive for. But you cannot make a comparison in terms of "is it as easy to get to Torment 1 as to get to MP5"? Gear will be reset, so how do you want to make this comparison? Gear color? In D3V, you could reach MP10 with all rares (perfect quintfecta items and so on), for higher Torment levels you absolutely definitely need the game-breaking legendaries.

So, the answer is: You cannot make a meaningful comparison.

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Real easy...and they're on the PTR, too, not just the beta...I love those things.

They appear as yellow pools, in spots where a healing well would be, though they appear much rarer than you'll see healing wells. When you "drink" them, you gain a flat increase of 25% XP until you gain a certain amount of XP via the buff...and it goes away when that character dies. Meaning, your Barb can't drink a pool, then you log in with your Monk and he gets extra XP as well. However, it does last beyond logout. So if your Barb gets one, and didn't expire the XP buff when you logout...when you log in with your Barb again, it'll still be there.

And I believe it stacks 5 times. You still only get the 25% bonus XP, but the amount of XP until it expires grows.

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Yeah, I can think of a few. Diablo 2, Titan's Quest, Torchlight, Elder Scrolls games (with mods), the Disgaea series......that's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I can come up with more if I think about it for a while. None of these operated under the philosophy of "max level or die".

You *EXPECTED* those games to have 12+ months worth of content? I don't think so.

Most people I knew who picked up Skyrim, for example, played it for about 100-200 hours then moved on. There was absolutely no expectation that they'd be playing the game two years post-release. When I bought D2 I don't think I actually *EXPECTED* to play it for five years. I can't be sure because it was a damn long time ago but I sincerely doubt I picked up the box and said to myself "If I don't play this game for AT LEAST A YEAR then it's terrible." I know when I purchased Titan Quest it surely wasn't under the expectation that it HAD to last 12+ months otherwise it was a failure.

Hell, I just recently gave RIFT a shot... and RIFT is an MMORPG... and I don't recall going into it with the assumption that I had to play the game for a year. The point being anyone who thinks ANY game should last them that long needs to take some fucking medication because they are seriously delusional.

I mean, seriously, I played WoW for 8-ish years, and I played EQ for around 5 years. I never EXPECTED either of those games (and they are/were subscription-based MMORPGs) to entertain me for that long. For people to EXPECT non-subscription games to entertain them for 12+ months is lunacy.

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Keep the effing trolling out of this thread, will ya.

BTT: No word on open beta yet, and might not happen just because stress testing seems to have been done in December already. It's also just an expansion, so not quite rocket science. I'd love to see an open beta though, new people on 70 to play with... right now beta is dead and solo play just isn't fun with the (still broken) wizard right now. I hope there's another big wave after the next patch, and that said patch hits soon...