I been paying a closer attention since i went with a fire build. 78% fire damage so far. At first i though i was just mistaken when i keep noticing 80-100 million white damage ticks every seconds on elites/rare/bosses where i have decent uptime on(they can stand still for like 2 seconds). Eventually it happened at the best end of a boss and i could clearly see the number 97 million something. Eventually i had a power rune and i made it to 390 million a tick on a rift boss. I couldnt mistake such a large number for anything else lol.
Im assuming its Fire starter, i dont see anything else it could be since it only happens during AC, 35% is a good buff, but not enough to make such a difference from the regular numbers i see?
OK, I understand your point, basically you want trading back. But that opens the door to the third party sites selling stuff. Its kind of a trade off, and while I do miss trading I also dont miss people buying their items off of websites.
Honestly you should check out Path of Exile, the trading game there is strong as hell and you really have to understand the economy to trade effectively. It was this strong trading aspect of the game that ultimately led me to quit as I was spending HOURS bartering. D3 is better for my lifestyle as a Dad, just my 2 cents.
Its not trade that i miss exactly alot of it was a chore, its more what it unabled as a goal seeker that i prefered. Im sure theres more than one way to do it that might not involve trading. Crafting for exemple could have been one of them, but they made crafting pretty poor again. They made it poor because they made crafting only short term goals and quick. It could have gone another way.
What do you mean crafting is short term and quick? You have to farm all the mats and sometimes re-reroll many times. For example I have made three sets of reaper wraps that didnt roll the way I wanted, this is a long term goal I am working on for my character. What changes exactly would you like to see in crafting. Seems like you have a feeling you want the game to have but no specific ideas about how to achieve that goal.
Crafting is pretty quick compared so say farming enough to trade for a windforce or make your own rune words in D2. Thats why crafting items are mostly just to patch yourself in D3 and not exactly the strongest or containders. Reaper wraps being one of the exception, it suffer the same deal in general, its instant gratification because they are easy to craft, you see many of them. Its more of a short term goal really.
OK, I understand your point, basically you want trading back. But that opens the door to the third party sites selling stuff. Its kind of a trade off, and while I do miss trading I also dont miss people buying their items off of websites.
Honestly you should check out Path of Exile, the trading game there is strong as hell and you really have to understand the economy to trade effectively. It was this strong trading aspect of the game that ultimately led me to quit as I was spending HOURS bartering. D3 is better for my lifestyle as a Dad, just my 2 cents.
Its not trade that i miss exactly alot of it was a chore, its more what it unabled as a goal seeker that i prefered. Im sure theres more than one way to do it that might not involve trading. Crafting for exemple could have been one of them, but they made crafting pretty poor again. They made it poor because they made crafting only short term goals and quick. It could have gone another way.
I'm pretty sure the more you play the more you work towards that goal - Look at all the top streamers - Yeah they might play 10x more than you but their gear is a clear indication that you do work towards a goal long term. Yes RNG is RNG and you may have awful streaks of bad luck but you just stick with it that is the type of game Diablo 3 is and when I played Diablo 2 I remember farming months for a Windforce.
Except as i explained RNG wasent the whole equation in D2. It is now, the time some of these streamers played this game so far is multiple years to me. The thing is that its only random now, even if i do play these years to catch up, i might never get it. In D2 i turned it around by trading with others what little i found. Like i said it took me months to finish Silence in D2, but i was guarantee to finish it eventually. You farmed months for a windforce, but because of the way D2 is setup the resources you gathered could have went toward trading it. Thats how you make long term gratification, something D3 fails at. You guys call what im talking about instant gratification, while its the opposite. D3 is the instant gratification, it shower you with stuff, mostly crap but it randomly showers you in it.
I didnt say someone else cannot enjoy the game, but someone from my demographic that plays with goals in mind and which is how i used to enjoy these games. D3 became the opposite of that, it went for instant but random gratification. Drop more loot, but high chance of never having what youd care for anyway. Some people dont need to set themsleves goals and thats fine, but i do and i used to be able to pursue them in D2, game had issues as well, but it had that at least. The series clearly just drifted away to a territory that does not appeal to me even if i been a fan for over a decade.
I can't understand how you spend 5k shards and got nothing.I have kadala droping legends on daily basis,and almost always,out of 500 shards i got 2-3 legs.
What exactly do you want them to do, give you a legendary ever 500 blood shards, legendary every hour, diablo is a grind game, and is way less grindy these days than it used to be. Im sorry but for a guy in a similar position to you I cant really see what you are talking about.
Im not trying to insult you, but i believe my problem went over your head a little. Polrayne post got what im talking about correctly. Like you said D2 dropped less loot, but i could do more with that loot via trading. Turned into actual guarantee loot that i wished for eventually, something D3 cannot do. It took me months before i finished Silence, but eventually i finished it. Everytime i was trading i knew i was getting closer and thats what makes a fun game to me. D3 is nothing like this, im never closer to any goal, im just drifitng about, to me it just makes it feel like a waste of my time more than ever before.
Even if im showered in legendary if 99.99999% of them i destroy instantly after i identify is not what i want for a loot game. If the carrot is good id work months over time for it. If the carrot is randomly a piece of crap i wouldnt go for it even if it meant more carrots. You could set yourself goals in D2, you really cant here as Polrayne said they seems to have fully went only into the side of just play to play, no goals, you get what ever drops and thats gratifying. If anything this is the way to please instant gratification crowds, i want to work to achieve goals here. While the game just randomly showers people with green and brown beam that mostly sucks.
But diablo 2 had that, i could work toward a goal. I mean it wasent perfect but i could do that. I dont think either are mutually exclusive. They werent before.
It seems people on either side of " I dont find anything" or "RNG is RNG" both seems to lack perspective. The assumption that finding flaws into the general current loot system only meaning that you want instant gratification or even more ridiculous notion is that you dont want a challenge, is astonishing to me. When i come out and state these things someone usually attempts to tell me im just the new generation of gamers that dont want the 2 things mentioned above. Im past 30 years old, i have 2 kids, i still play video games with more limited times then when i was in college or a teenager, but to imply im some new gamer is funny to say the least.
Ill address the challenge part first. Diablo series was and is not challenging. Nothing in this game is hard. Random item drop is not a challenge to overcome, you can never get better at it. You or me gambling gives off random results, you cant be better at it then someone else in the form it takes in diablo 3. So when ever someone discuss this bringing up that a player does not wish to have a challenge does not apply here.
Instant gratification, granted im sure some people complaining about this fall into this category legitimately, it does not have to be relevant. There is ways to make long term gratification without hidding it behind walls so that anyone with less time can at least get something out of it. Diablo 3 fails at this concept pretty hard. I could only gather 7500(around that) blood shards since the game came out, i have gained 0 legendary from this. I read story of people farming 80k blood shards, its not something id have the time to do thats like years of gameplay for me.
See the difference with Diablo 2 is this, i never got many items, but i could trade for them eventually. I never asked of the game to give me the same stuff that someone that can farm 80k blood shard does. In diablo 2 you can play and not be the richest, yet still have exactly the items you wanted eventually trading what you had. I wasent rich in D2 and i didnt have all characters in the best gear, but eventually i had every item i wanted on my Amazon. D3 the same concept can not apply, its a huge drawback. I was assured in D2 that eventually i had to finish my rune words via trading. It took me a while, but the goal was straight foward and everytime i traded toward that goal or found something i could trade i knew i was getting closer.
D3 gameplay is nothing like this, i spend 5000 of my blood shards on shields alone, i never got a single legendary from it, let alone the one id want. I have nothing realistic to work toward and since my time is limited and i cannot assume that my time will ever reward with something i do want. There is nothing in the game for someone like me. I cant work toward anything.
If you are still in college and have the time to farm 80k blood shard, thats great for you guys, i used to have that time too. I just dont think i should be dismissed as not a fan anymore or some new generation of gamers, because i dont have this kind of time luxury. The pervious games are able to appeal to my limited time with goals i could work toward, D3 does not do this. D3 does many things better, but that part is fails at miserably. This game just drifted toward an end of the spectrum away from my demographic into a territory i cannot enjoy, i think i have a legitimate point of view. I beat games harder than diablo series over the years, my gratification and challenge are well in check. The difference, most of these games did not attempt to be my second job. If a video game wants to take so much of my time, it has to make it so i can achieve my goals eventually in some way that is guaranteed. I can wait 1 year before finally having the best crusader shield, if i knew that i was working toward it, but you cant work towards anything in this game.
Thanks it indeed works at it best when playing with players that knows when to start dpsing. I run mostly with my brother witch doctor and some wizards, elites just vanish out of existence.
Personally i have not tried thorns since i run in groups mostly. I dont think it has anything to do with your DPS, its all flat damage from what i saw hardened skin simply tripples your thorn. Mabye theres a legendary that helps it scale better, i dont know.
Apparently when I tried compensating the movement debuff with Paragon levels something went wrong (either I didn't equip my boots, or a bug in the character sheet happened), and I got the wrong info there.
You can compensate the debuff in movespeed with Paragon levels.
this only works in town, as soon as you move outside its back to 110% for me.
well the drawback is that its taking a passive slot AND 2-hand weapons are SUPER slow. you'll hit harder but regen wrath slower with ur primary skills. also it depends on what kind of drops you get....stick with the better 1H.
Making slower wrath is infact not a drawback, because slower weapon deals more damage per point of wrath spend and unlike say a barbarian, crusader is closer to DH where you regen wrath passively at the same time. Each of these points of wrath per second add ups to more damage with a 2 hander and so does all the slower wrath you make with your builder. You can take exemple on Demon Hunter, the fact that they prefer Slower and harder hitting weapons for the same reason, you deal more damage per hatered and spend it slower, same concept here.
The only real drawback is the movement speed into the talent, taking a passive slot is not a drawback, no other talent gives you such a damage increase. Unless you are very unlucky with the drops, its easy to find a average 2 hander that will beat most 1 hander with heavens strength simply because of the damage increase and the stats. Mine is a pretty average legendary i found with 2690 dps, 1 socket and 1000+ str, 1000+ vit. The good thing is it deals holy damage, so it scales better than a holy 1 hander would with Holy cause passive as well, holy cause is giving me 130k dps on its own.
I saw someone with a 2900 dps holy 2 hander legendary forgot the name, im at 800k dps right now, if i had that id break the million unbuffed. 2900 dps is just too high to pass up lol.
Once you start doing rift that mats is raining down on you. I just hit 800k dps, found some amulet with 554 str, 5% ias, 9.5% crit and life regen. Turned the Life regen into 92% crit damage.
Its entry gear, easy to gather reasonably quickly which is the intent.[[;/background]
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Entry gear... 700k dps and 12 mil toughness, c'mon
I played maybe 4 hours after getting to 70 and I found just enough crafting mats to level my 3 artisans to 12. So I'm just starting to earn some to enchant, let alone having the luck to get good enchantements.
I think he's right. I haven't had an issue getting to that amount of damage and toughness, but climbing up from that seems to be a bit more difficult. I even dropped some toughness for the -51% damage taken from blocked attacks shield, but still running 661k dps with 10,8m toughness and +42% lightning/Blessed Hammer damage.
The difference in our DPS is pretty much just holy cause, with my holy 2 hander it gives me a little more than 50k dps in the sheet.
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Im assuming its Fire starter, i dont see anything else it could be since it only happens during AC, 35% is a good buff, but not enough to make such a difference from the regular numbers i see?
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Its not trade that i miss exactly alot of it was a chore, its more what it unabled as a goal seeker that i prefered. Im sure theres more than one way to do it that might not involve trading. Crafting for exemple could have been one of them, but they made crafting pretty poor again. They made it poor because they made crafting only short term goals and quick. It could have gone another way.
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I didnt say someone else cannot enjoy the game, but someone from my demographic that plays with goals in mind and which is how i used to enjoy these games. D3 became the opposite of that, it went for instant but random gratification. Drop more loot, but high chance of never having what youd care for anyway. Some people dont need to set themsleves goals and thats fine, but i do and i used to be able to pursue them in D2, game had issues as well, but it had that at least. The series clearly just drifted away to a territory that does not appeal to me even if i been a fan for over a decade.
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Even if im showered in legendary if 99.99999% of them i destroy instantly after i identify is not what i want for a loot game. If the carrot is good id work months over time for it. If the carrot is randomly a piece of crap i wouldnt go for it even if it meant more carrots. You could set yourself goals in D2, you really cant here as Polrayne said they seems to have fully went only into the side of just play to play, no goals, you get what ever drops and thats gratifying. If anything this is the way to please instant gratification crowds, i want to work to achieve goals here. While the game just randomly showers people with green and brown beam that mostly sucks.
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Ill address the challenge part first. Diablo series was and is not challenging. Nothing in this game is hard. Random item drop is not a challenge to overcome, you can never get better at it. You or me gambling gives off random results, you cant be better at it then someone else in the form it takes in diablo 3. So when ever someone discuss this bringing up that a player does not wish to have a challenge does not apply here.
Instant gratification, granted im sure some people complaining about this fall into this category legitimately, it does not have to be relevant. There is ways to make long term gratification without hidding it behind walls so that anyone with less time can at least get something out of it. Diablo 3 fails at this concept pretty hard. I could only gather 7500(around that) blood shards since the game came out, i have gained 0 legendary from this. I read story of people farming 80k blood shards, its not something id have the time to do thats like years of gameplay for me.
See the difference with Diablo 2 is this, i never got many items, but i could trade for them eventually. I never asked of the game to give me the same stuff that someone that can farm 80k blood shard does. In diablo 2 you can play and not be the richest, yet still have exactly the items you wanted eventually trading what you had. I wasent rich in D2 and i didnt have all characters in the best gear, but eventually i had every item i wanted on my Amazon. D3 the same concept can not apply, its a huge drawback. I was assured in D2 that eventually i had to finish my rune words via trading. It took me a while, but the goal was straight foward and everytime i traded toward that goal or found something i could trade i knew i was getting closer.
D3 gameplay is nothing like this, i spend 5000 of my blood shards on shields alone, i never got a single legendary from it, let alone the one id want. I have nothing realistic to work toward and since my time is limited and i cannot assume that my time will ever reward with something i do want. There is nothing in the game for someone like me. I cant work toward anything.
If you are still in college and have the time to farm 80k blood shard, thats great for you guys, i used to have that time too. I just dont think i should be dismissed as not a fan anymore or some new generation of gamers, because i dont have this kind of time luxury. The pervious games are able to appeal to my limited time with goals i could work toward, D3 does not do this. D3 does many things better, but that part is fails at miserably. This game just drifted toward an end of the spectrum away from my demographic into a territory i cannot enjoy, i think i have a legitimate point of view. I beat games harder than diablo series over the years, my gratification and challenge are well in check. The difference, most of these games did not attempt to be my second job. If a video game wants to take so much of my time, it has to make it so i can achieve my goals eventually in some way that is guaranteed. I can wait 1 year before finally having the best crusader shield, if i knew that i was working toward it, but you cant work towards anything in this game.
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The only real drawback is the movement speed into the talent, taking a passive slot is not a drawback, no other talent gives you such a damage increase. Unless you are very unlucky with the drops, its easy to find a average 2 hander that will beat most 1 hander with heavens strength simply because of the damage increase and the stats. Mine is a pretty average legendary i found with 2690 dps, 1 socket and 1000+ str, 1000+ vit. The good thing is it deals holy damage, so it scales better than a holy 1 hander would with Holy cause passive as well, holy cause is giving me 130k dps on its own.
I saw someone with a 2900 dps holy 2 hander legendary forgot the name, im at 800k dps right now, if i had that id break the million unbuffed. 2900 dps is just too high to pass up lol.
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800k dps and 13 million toughness.
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