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I actually think that they cut the gem because they are going to do a total overhaul on it and will not use this mechanic.

Dare I say, the gem received a...

...crushing blow.

I do agree that getting one shot with an unavoidable mechanic is not fun or interesting. However, I feel this way about all damage in GRifts. When a skeleton archer can one shot my sader, then the game is no longer challenging...it's punishing. Anything that can stop movement of my character should not cause damage (frozen/jailor). If I get caught in that, then the damage will come from the mobs hitting my dumb ass as I let myself get caught by it.

I would rather see damage dealt in GRifts cap out to some level that make me say "oh shit, that hurt" rather than "oh shit, I'm dead. What hit me?" The challenge to complete higher tiers would then be based on the ability to improve efficiency and stat improvements, rather than if I found a rift with more melee mobs and elites without instant damage spells.

I also think that this is where gems could be an improvement in jewelry by pushing leg gems into something that people can farm for in GRifts. The devs could create a new item (Gem Setting) that could act as the place to put legendary gems in jewelry. Then you could use the standard gems to increase immunity when socketed in rings and ammys. (red top tier = 5% fire reduction per gem, green = poison, blue = cold, purple = arcane, white = physical, orange = lightning). This could let you stack some immunity to help with uncertainty.

I think the set bonus could be changed to the following and have it work out a little better.

2 pc : whirlwind gains the effect of every rune

4 pc : rend is automatically cast after every 5 hits of whirlwind. Casting rend does not interrupt whirlwind.

6 pc : whirlwind deals 800 % more damage and enemies under the effects of rend deal XX% less damage.

Re-roll it to a hellfire amulet?

This is a pretty darn good amulet. I would say that you could re-roll the dex to crit hit damage if it gives you more dps than the dexterity. I wouldn't do it until you've confirmed it with math though.

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Lol, I see all kinds of rants about people crying over what the devs say and you are saying I am stupid. No kids, the ones crying about Blizzard "forcing" WOW on us are the thick ones. If YOU are so "thick" that you cant figure out who this thread is targeting, then you just need to move on.

Yeah I said all kinds of common sense things here, but apparently it has to be spelled out for some people.

...and then some "thick" people are railing me for stating the obvious cuz they cant figure it out for themselves. .

I don't consider myself a relatively "thick" person, but I still can't get to how you are arriving at your conclusions. In my personal experience, D3 was my WoW killer. I quit WoW and switched to D3 because it's a better fit for my life style and I don't feel like I'm losing money if I go 3 weeks without playing it. Actually, the only Blizzard game that I play is D3.

As for ownership, let's take a look at D2 for example. The Battle.net infrastructure that lets you play D2 through battle.net is still up and they are still resetting the leaderboard for seasons. They haven't taken down those old servers after this many years so the game gets supported for a while longer than most people will tend to play it. Have you ever purchased music or movies in itunes? You might be interested to know that you don't actually own that either. You purchased a user license for those songs that doesn't transfer to other individuals. So you don't really own that music either. Also, Apple can pull those apps off their store (and your devices) for any reason they see fit, so you don't really have control over your "property" either.

I can see how you can jump to the conclusion that the developers have a God Complex. They totally adjusted playstyles and set bonuses, weapon damage, consolidated crafting mat drops, added blood shards and gambling, GRifts, adjusted pylons to be more in alignment with each other, added additional affixes to legs that didn't have them, are creating new sets for future patches, are creating legendaries like the Shard of Hate and the new multi-element ring, added legendary gems, and adjusted the elemental types of skills because they purely wanted to do it. It had nothing to do with the thousands of pages of feedback that came into the forums and places like Diablofans where fans had provided constructive criticism and math-based evidence on how these things could impact the game.

Now, Blizzard as a business...

Yes, they are a business.

Yes, they do want to make money.

Yes, they do want to make that money by producing some of the most polished games that are released in the industry.

I see arguments that "we should be mad that Blizzard is trying to take money" as extremely juvenile and naive in structure. Do you get mad at movie production companies, publishers, Netflix, television networks, console manufacturers, or musicians when they try to make a profit off their work? They are other branches of entertainment too that are trying to make money.

The bottom line is that you would not be playing any video game if it didn't make that company money because they wouldn't spend the resources to make the game or improve upon it. Also, cross promotion of their other IP in D3 is a good advertising tactic to bring awareness to their other products. If someone see's Kerrigan's wings, takes a look at StarCraft and wants to play it, then good for that person. If you're like me, I had fun with the vanilla SC game in single player but I suck at it too much to make it in multi-player, so I gave up on it and didn't buy the xpac. I made the choice not to buy the expac. I don't have any interest in playing any of the other Blizzard games at this time, but I will sure as hell buy the next Diablo expac because they have done such a great job with that game.

In the end, I am a grown man who can make his own decisions on how to spend my money and time when I want to be entertained. Blizzard would be doing a poor job as a company if it didn't encourage me to spend more money on their products, but that is not a conspiracy on their end. That's just good business sense.

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Remember that one time when Brian Williams was trapped in the Nakatomi Plaza and he was fighting those terrorists?

I really am using this quote in my footer. Thank you for another gem ruksak.

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No changes to Roland set.

No changes to Akkhan set.

No changes to class.

No new items till season end (yet, you still will rather stick with stampade build)



I'm really disappointed.

How about you guys? Are you also disappointed from sader pov?

I love that your avatar reflects how I feel about the state of the crusader also.

My main concern is with Akkhan's set. Perma-Akkhan's is a broken play mechanic in my mind. (Much like perma-smoke screen.)

perma smoke screen is invulnerability. perma akkhan is not. perma akkhan is REQUIRED to play sader effectively. its broken in that it's required, not like smoke screen at all.

You said it better than I did. Needing it to play effectively is exactly what I mean by it being a broken mechanic.

I like the changes and have already found a few of the new goblins. DH feels more challenging and I actually have something to look forward to again when ID'ing a leg.

If it was me, I would load up all the info in this tool and see what nets me the bigger return on damage.



http://sentrycalc.dawg6.com/sentry-web/



For me, switching from a 2900 Nats to a 2450 Etrayu (18% cold) was 7% damage increase. Still trying for better damage Etrayus (for this patch) and Kriders (for next patch) though. Would love to see a 2700+ drop.

Trading is not needed, thank you very much.

Naturally, the next step will be Prehistoric items. These are items that roll stats exactly 37% higher than the base legendary and includes affixes that change the way you play.

Affixes like:

1. Your Call of the Ancients summons neanderthals that damages enemies with flint weapons but they run away from fire.

2. Your fetishes transform into various members of the Oviraptorosauria family of dinosaurs. Each dinosaur will catch and eat 10 trash mobs before they go extinct.

3. Your caltrops now transform into tar pits which capture and slowly drown up to 5 enemies over the course of 5 seconds.

4. Using Steed Charge changes your horse into a Deinonychus, which uses it's talons to slash at enemies as you run through them.

5. Your monk now strikes with the tail of an Ankylosaurus when using Lashing Tail Kick.

6. Your meteor now summons down a massive meteor that kills everything on the screen, including yourself.





In all seriousness though, the end game for Diablo is all about the search for that next piece of loot that makes you incrementally better. Also, it takes time to build legendary items that actually do change the way you play. Just be patient and continue to try to improve your characters the best you can.

Comparisons to nazis and rape and whatnot is never a good idea regardless of what side of what argument anyone finds themselves on.

However, the idea that people don't report things and let them get fixed, but instead stream them so that EVERYONE can jump on the "abuse the FotW mechanic" bandwagon until Blizzard nerfs it is exactly why these things get blown out of proportion. Again, I go back to the RMAH gold dupe bug. If the people who found that did the responsible thing and reported it, emphasized its urgency, and didn't stream how to do it there wouldn't have been damage to fix.

But the attitude of the community is "Blizzard introduced a bug, so I am justified in using it no matter what happens." And that's a damned shame because it turns bugs which could be fixed behind the scenes without any major issues creeping into the live game into total catastrophes. And it's all because some people feel so entitled to do whatever they want whenever they want that doing the right thing never even enters into their mind.

Everyone KNEW that duping gold through the RMAH was wrong and that it was not intended. Yet how many people did they ultimately ban for it and how much duped gold did they have to remove from the game? That speaks exactly to what a segment of this community is about and why those people need to have punishments for their actions. They're finding things that 90% of the playerbase isn't even touching. But because they find it, it has to get nerfed. And while I agree with the nerfs, it's just sad that it lowers our XP if we level a toon in story mode, or whatever. It doesn't hurt us that much, but every single one of these things adds up over time.

And every time it comes back to streamers. Every time without fail.

I quintuple my legendary droprate by farting while leaning at a 17 degree angle to the left before opening the game. It's a foolproof method and all of my friends are jealous of how many legendaries I get.

Kadala is revealed to be the progeny of Belial, the Lord of Lies. The Blood Shards we have been collecting and trading to her by the hundreds for useless crap turn out to be fragments of the Black Soulstone, which she in turn uses to become a Prime Evil. In the final boss fight against Kadala, her moveset includes showering the player with piles of blues and badly rolled yellow items that deal significant damage if touched. The player must remain alive until Kadala mistakenly throws a worthwhile legendary, which, once equipped, allows the player to find and damage the true Kadala, previously obscured by numerous mirror images.

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Items need to actually be tiered through all difficulty levels, not just a jump at T1.

No. They don't.

They really, really, don't.

I'm really, really, tired of this "there is only one right way to play the game" arguments. First it was "killing monsters is the only right way to play" debacle. Now it's the "killing monsters on the difficulty that some guy on the forums has arbitrarily determined is appropriate for you is the only right way to play" argument.

I'm sure that Blizzard will tweak risk vs reward, but in the meantime the sky is NOT falling, Chicken Little.

The gates of AQ will open only when you've submitted enough linen cloth and various varieties of fish and random materials.

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first of all yeah of course the higher torment the better exp and higher chance for legenderies now basicly you can do higher torments with a good party and run it easly since every player that joins mobs get only 50% so with normal party you can run higher torments same speed and find more legenderies because of mf increase and mabye another player finds what you need and same thing as solo instead of torment 1 you can do 2-3 if you can do it fast enough but yeah i must say playing higher torments exp gain is insanely increased and drop rate is affected abit most noted when doing events on higher torments like jar of souls got alot of legenderies from it

lol try to read this post out loud

Quote from Artemix » Cannot believe the level of hypocrisy and ignorance of some people here...

I guess my time of posting in a forum full of fanatic and intransigent people is over.

No offense, but your complaint here is completely moot. "Game-changing" does not necessarily mean "you will find this item, immediately equip it and never unequip it." I have a pair of Nemesis Bracers that I have never used in combat because my Strongarm Bracers are significantly better (when I got them I switched followers to the Enchantress for her AoE knockback). I still feel that acquiring said Nemesis Bracers has, indeed, changed my game enough to warrant the two spaces in my inventory they are taking up.

While I would agree that these shoulders are LESS-USEFUL than many other legendaries out there, I would strongly disagree that they are UESLESS. And, really, that's basically the difference that leads you to call people "fanatics." You have no sense of degree. These are not the best item out there, but they're not complete garbage either. Yet, somehow, you manage to jump into it with phrases like "most useless legendary" and then calling anyone who disagrees with that kind of irrationally-severe assessment a "hypocrite" and a "fanatic."

That's why most people here don't see eye-to-eye with you. If you had started a thread discussing how to improve this particular item I bet most people would actually agree with you in some capacity. But you go to the extreme and call them completely useless and that's exactly why people disagree with you. They're NOT useless. They just have limited use. There is a chasmic difference between the two.

It simply amounts to a lack of perspective on your part that leads you to jump directly into the deep end over something exceptionally-minor in the grand scheme of things.

Quote from seraphim4 » its not just chests, works on bodies, lantern chains and pretty much anything you can click on, and the dmg is decent. i actually use the effect on that belt often on my hc monk

That is really good to know. I actually have that belt but I stashed it thinking "I don't find THAT many chests." If it works on breakables, corpses, chests, etc. then it becomes much more attractive.