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Topic: Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls (Read 381990 times)
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Quinton
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I hit level 69 while killing the final boss in Act V. Then I did 5 quests in adventure mode and a rift dungeon, hitting 70 just before the rift boss arrived. Liking adventure mode so far. Can you hop into adventure mode with characters that have never finished the game? Also, I'm loving transmog -- pretty inexpensive way to tinker with the look of your gear:
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KallDrexx
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Can you hop into adventure mode with characters that have never finished the game?the look of your gear:
Yeah, I saw a youtube of someone using adventure mode pure to level a new HC character.
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Quinton
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Also, yay the Mystic. Taking a decent rare item with +15% to lightning and making that +14% arcane (or whatever) is way useful and not super-spendy. Legendaries are costly to tweak (at least for me for the moment).
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Ironwood
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Can you hop into adventure mode with characters that have never finished the game?the look of your gear:
Yeah, I saw a youtube of someone using adventure mode pure to level a new HC character. Yes. Unlock it with one Char, it's unlocked for all. Which is just such a relief and makes it a shame that there's fuck all point of leveling other chars due to the shitty skill system.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Phildo
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Buy it, you silly ass scrub.
I don't know if it's ever come up before, but as fun as these types of games can be, I'm a casual and not particularly into grinding loot or grouping. So the most I'd get out of this is a single playthrough with the new class and maybe running through act V with one or two other characters before I've moved on to something else. Not worth $40 to me. E: Also still feeling tons of bad will from the launch.
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KallDrexx
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By the way, my 61+ 2-hander drops have been Very good DPS, so maybe Blizzard was right and it was a 60 only issue.
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Draegan
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Played for a few hours last night. Got my crusader up to 22 before bed. Good times and there seems to be some interesting Crusader builds. I think one that creates an army of Avatars might be interesting.
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Ironwood
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By the way, my 61+ 2-hander drops have been Very good DPS, so maybe Blizzard was right and it was a 60 only issue.
They explained all this ; the level 60 ones were using ilvls that were entirely wrong (in a sense). Once you start leveling again, it ought to be ok. Also, it should be ok as you level from 1 onwards. I certainly noticed a massive difference in my crusader using a single 2 hand versus a 1 hand, as it should be. I think the problem was mostly people being butthurt that legendaries were using ilvl <60 rather than the ilvl 63+ they were used to...
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Ironwood
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Wait, why am I defending these cunts ?
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schild
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Buy it, you silly ass scrub.
I don't know if it's ever come up before, but as fun as these types of games can be, I'm a casual and not particularly into grinding loot or grouping. So the most I'd get out of this is a single playthrough with the new class and maybe running through act V with one or two other characters before I've moved on to something else. Not worth $40 to me. E: Also still feeling tons of bad will from the launch. You played Eve for what? 67 Human Years? "Casual" - hardly.
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Fabricated
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Get through the campaign and play adventure mode for a while and let me know if this is good enough to burn $40 on.
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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KallDrexx
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Wait, why am I defending these cunts ?
Well since your resolve not to buy the expansion lasted just as long as mine, I blame the brainwashing.
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Ironwood
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Still haven't bought Heart of the Swarm.
Oh God, I'm so worthless.
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Hawkbit
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I had a couple of moments last night that reminded me of playing D2. That didn't happen in the base D3 game at all. The new direction for this game is good.
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Lantyssa
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It's a brand new computer though. I got it in December.
Infant mortality. Hardware tends to either die quickly or after years of working flawlessly.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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It is fun.
Finished Act 5 today. Really enjoyed it with my Wizard - I started T1, dropped to Master on first boss, then dropped to Expert by the end of Act 5.
Even @ Expert the mobs still take a little to mow down. Not sure if its because I'm level appropriate for the first time in 18 months or if the mob scaling tuning is like that, I suspect the former.
I'm L69 now and would recommend that if you are like L69 and a bit when you're getting close to Mathiel, to go ahead and level to 70 before hand - he drops a guaranteed legendary and you'd rather something that is max level than L69.
Bounties are cool - you get 5 bounties per Act and can do them at your own pace. Each one is to target an event or a boss and then there is always one that is kill a main boss of an act (did skeleton king). Each bounty you complete gives you xp+gold+rift fragment the latter of which you need 5 to do a rift gate.
Found...5 legendaries and a legendary recipe during my Act 5 playthrough, so about 1.5 per hour. Demon's Breath seems rare because its used to level up your craft dudes but that is permanent so after that I'm sure there will be plenty around.
Also, GEMS EVERYWHERE!
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Ironwood
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Wife and I will be continuing the Reaping tonight if any Euro Inclined people want to jump in.
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Phildo
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You played Eve for what? 67 Human Years? "Casual" - hardly.
Relative to Eve, I was reasonably casual.
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Ingmar
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Keep in mind that if you start a new character and jump straight into adventure mode, you will be missing companions; those only unlock through the story.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Segoris
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By the way, my 61+ 2-hander drops have been Very good DPS, so maybe Blizzard was right and it was a 60 only issue.
They explained all this ; the level 60 ones were using ilvls that were entirely wrong (in a sense). Once you start leveling again, it ought to be ok. Also, it should be ok as you level from 1 onwards. I certainly noticed a massive difference in my crusader using a single 2 hand versus a 1 hand, as it should be. I think the problem was mostly people being butthurt that legendaries were using ilvl <60 rather than the ilvl 63+ they were used to... No. The issue is 2h weapons are rolling their DPS stat as if they were 1h weapons. There is currently a bug with two-handed Legendary weapons sometimes rolling their minimum and maximum damage as if it was a one-handed weapon. We're planning on addressing this in the next patch, but it didn't make it in time for patch 2.0.2. It hasn't kept me from using my new Maximus, but it'll certainly be nice when they're all rolling damage in their intended range. Thanks for letting us know about the issue, and we'll see you in Sanctuary!
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« Last Edit: March 25, 2014, 11:30:41 AM by Segoris »
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Ironwood
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Just for legendaries. Ok. Fair nuff.
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Segoris
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Yeah, that is about the only thing I've paid much attention to as the rares haven't come close to being able to replace the legendaries (1h or 2h) I've been finding.
On a different topic, with transmorgify, if someone gives you an item and you give it back, you both get to keep the transmorgify pattern/unlock. So in friend groups, may as well let everyone have the item in their inventory while the items are able to be traded.
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Quinton
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I'm normally not a huge replayer of games, but something about the post-loot-2.0 D3 keeps me running through various levels trying different classes, getting more items, etc, and something that amazes me is that I keep stumbling over little dungeons and events and things I haven't seen, even after a bunch of times through the various acts. I think I finally hit the all the dungeons in Act I achievement a couple evenings ago.
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Polysorbate80
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The 2H damage isn't always rolling bad; my wizzie got a l70 2600dps Butcher's. I just entered the Pandemonium Fortress, and the fight to get in is the first thing to make me consider dropping out of Torment. It's the first time my wiz has ever started to feel undergeared--about half of her stuff is still 60-62 though. The Templar is squishy as hell again, I wonder how my WD pets would hold up. The "Aliens"-looking scavenger dudes in Pandemonium suck (especially as elites), the rocket-jumping flamethrower angel is goofy, and the plot is predictably "whuh?", but I'm still enjoying it
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Keep in mind that if you start a new character and jump straight into adventure mode, you will be missing companions; those only unlock through the story.
False. Just unlocked Templar via Adventure.
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Ingmar
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Huh! I have been lied to.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Also, you can invite friends to your Adventure mode even if they haven't finished Act 5.
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Ironwood
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Act V is really, really, really a LOT more Diablo like. Which is double plus gud.
Wife and I had tons of fun last night as two rocking wizards. While some are finding Black Hole not useful due to DPS, I think it's more a utility skill, to be honest. Having it pull everything in for ease of double frost orbing is a bonus.
I was playing on Torment 1 and despite not dying all that much, I cranked it down a level ; the monsters just take waaaaayyyy too long to kill, especially at 150+ DPs for the pair of us.
But it's a lot of fun. They did all right. Can't wait to unlock AM.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Just did my first nephalim rift. It's pretty fun with the randomized tile set and you can apparently stay in there as long as you want to clear even after you beat the boss, so long as you dont leave and turn quest in. Everything was going fine, I was killing my random mobs and then I saw it.... A treasure goblin, yay right? Not even close to yay for as I approached I noticed the RNG machine had created AN ENTIRE PACK OF 10 goblins. All of them, packed in tight in a short hallway, just itching for a blackhole/deathbeam combo and then.... I had to take two trips to town just for that one pack.
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apocrypha
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How tough are the rifts? I've just had my first go at Adventure Mode, which rocks, great fun. I also had to turn the difficulty down a couple of times on my way to Malthael. I started Act V on Torment 1, turned it down to Master somewhere around Adria and by the Pandemonium Fortress I was on Expert. Really liked Act V, although feel free to spacebar all the dialogue, it's drivel. Blow things up, get loot, ignore story, win.
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Yegolev
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You god-damn fuckers are going to make me spend more money on this expansion.
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KallDrexx
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Am I the only one who has trouble killing a treasure goblin before he ports away, even on master (granted I'm still levlling but still) :(.
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Rasix
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My witch doctor doesn't have the deeps. Still leveling as well, so I'm not seeing the 70 drops. I imagine that's when my gear will start to make a bit more sense.
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Ironwood
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The amount of TG's that have fucked off into their wee portals just as they were about to die is annoying. Another reason to turn the difficulty down.
Also, Yeg, be aware that it still has the same problems, ultimately. It's just a lot more fun getting to that end game death, to my mind.
The fact I am actually having fun given my view on D3 should speak volumes.
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dd0029
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Am I the only one who has trouble killing a treasure goblin before he ports away, even on master (granted I'm still levlling but still) :(.
Nope. These things are stupid giant bags of HP. If you have a stun or a knockback though, you can interrupt there portaling though. For a first, I actually failed to get bonus loot on one of those kill X events.
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