Segoris
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Fixed a bug that was causing Unique monsters to not drop the appropriate amount of loot when slain
That's...ominous.
My thought as well. I'm curious if it is another nerf but they don't want to mention any decreases at this time. Re underlined part: Blizzard should have done that in the same patch they increased repair cost. Now they are in damage control mode and have to placate players.
Even if they did do that in the previous patch they'd still be in damage control mode, just slightly less so. |
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Malakili
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Fixed a bug that was causing Unique monsters to not drop the appropriate amount of loot when slain
That's...ominous.
I thought as well. Fixed a bug where players were getting loot they wanted.  |
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Tebonas
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If they decided they still drop too much that would really be hilarious! If seen from afar. |
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Hutch
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Plant yourself like a tree
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
The sun will shine on us again, brother
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taolurker
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It was a page before this one, in this thread.
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I used to write for extinct gaming sites
details available here (unused blog about page)
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Ice Cream Emperor
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So I cancelled out of the updater because the download bar appeared to be stuck at 0% -- and now the launcher cycles through a variety of error messages which all sum up to 're-download our entire game for the third time, sucker'. It's one thing to code a patching procedure that fails 75% of the time -- but it's quite another to have it fail so inelegantly and indeptly that it repeatedly corrupts the game installation.
And I still cannot get over the fact that they gave me the UK patch because my language in Windows is not set to US English. Add it all up and it just boggles the fucking mind.
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Ingmar
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The way that is phrased it sounds like they weren't dropping enough.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
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Setanta
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I had to laugh at Blizzard for being totally fucking useless...
1) Log in after losing another (Aussie) night to server downtime.
2) Start up D3... hmmm no patch... I'm sure there was a patch supposed to happen.
3) Sign in (US where I play) "Patch is available, game will close and patch"
4) No patch
5) Rinse and repeat.
WTF?
Hmmm... go to my account page
Blizzard has set all my games to European downloads because THERE ARE KANGAROOS IN EUROPE apparently! Australia went all "fuck you Asia" and buggered off to hang out with the surrender monkeys and Pommies.
Seriously? You useless gits want to import our killer wildlife to Europe? Ok, they might have dragged you into a war or two, but holding a grudge this long and inflicting Aussies on them?
So anyway, uninstalled D3, reset my downloads to US (because hell, we might as well be little America except without the civil liberties) and downloaded the US version. Problem solved.
Interestingly I had to download my Blizz games just before the release of D3. I just checked the downloads, they are all US versions. Looks like Blizz changed them on my account page on D3 release, because SC/BW, D2, WC3 were all Euro as well, only WoW and SC2 still read US.
Blizzard are about as sane as an emu on acid I swear
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Tebonas
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Does that mean Austria was moved to the Asian cluster as an exchange program initiated by the geographically challenged?  |
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Miasma
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Does that mean Austria was moved to the Asian cluster as an exchange program initiated by the geographically challenged? As a twist it would be hilarious if someone moved Australia to Europe because they confused it with Austria. |
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Outlawedprod
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RIP Zoltan Kulle infinite quest turnin xploit.
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RIP Zoltan Kulle infinite quest turnin xploit.
I missed this... what was this about? Now that it is gone, I reckon it is fair game to mention? |
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Outlawedprod
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RIP Zoltan Kulle infinite quest turnin xploit.
I missed this... what was this about? Now that it is gone, I reckon it is fair game to mention? They nerfed the ZK quest turnin XP in the previous patch but it introduced a new bug that made it even better than the old method. People were dual boxing this with scripts for mad powerleveling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap60Q_jn91c |
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Ice Cream Emperor
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Yeah, I mentioned this one before somewhere. You can do it with any two-part quest, as far as I can tell -- though possibly there is something about the ZK one that makes it more effective/straightforward.
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Yegolev
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Booooring.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Outlawedprod
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Yeah, I mentioned this one before somewhere. You can do it with any two-part quest, as far as I can tell -- though possibly there is something about the ZK one that makes it more effective/straightforward.
The ability to exploit turnins with multiple people per kill did exist before. The main difference with this one is you needed to only kill once for infinite turnins. That was not possible before 1.0.3. The best you could do before was party of 4 kill once and alt turns in 4x. It's just funny that in their need to fix levelling exploits they created a worse one. |
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Miasma
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No patch but they put in a hotfix that basically doubles the rate of ilvl63 drops in all acts and buffs ilvl61-62 drop rates too. Also seem to have gone back to guaranteeing two rares with five stacks of NV on bosses. |
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Rokal
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No patch but they put in a hotfix that basically doubles the rate of ilvl63 drops in all acts and buffs ilvl61-62 drop rates too. Also seem to have gone back to guaranteeing two rares with five stacks of NV on bosses.  Those are great changes. I don't know if they'll bring me back as I'm pretty bored of the campaign, but it's nice to see them making substantial improvements. |
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Ingmar
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Hutch
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Plant yourself like a tree
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
The sun will shine on us again, brother
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Slayerik
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Yeah :(
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waffel
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Paelos
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I got a good chuckle out of the gold farmers.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Mrbloodworth
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noithing is the matter with the RMAH. the kid who made this video is just a minimum wage baddie.  |
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Rokal
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Summary:
-No monster health bonus in co-op
-No MF/GF averaging in co-op
-Nerfing champion/rare mobs and removing enrage/health regen
-Removing invuln affix and nerfing other affixes
-Increasing drop rates on normal mobs
-Increasing weapon dps max on 61 and 62 weapons
-Lowering repair costs
Legendary and class changes still to come.
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Lakov_Sanite
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I'm not sure they understand why people stopped playing.
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Paelos
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I'm not sure they understand why people stopped playing.
They are fixing the things they can in the interim while they tackle the issue of itemization. I think it's one of the biggest things to fix while also the easiest to screw up completely. Personally, I think all the changes are good, especially the removal of enrage timers. Currently, there is almost no incentive to kill regular mobs for loot. With the increase to their drop rates, and the decrease in elite health/abilities, it should provide a smoother curve. |
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trias_e
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The only thing that would make me want to play again is the skill revamp. We'll see how far they go with it, could be fun to try out some new builds once that hits. Everything else in that list is just kinda....meh.
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Miasma
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I'm glad they're getting rid of or reducing some of the dumber shit they did.
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Yegolev
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At the moment though playing solo is the clear choice, even for those who would prefer co-op with some of their friends.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Typhon
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I'm glad they're getting rid of or reducing some of the dumber shit they did.
agree. really glad they are giving me a reason to play with friends (my preferred style of play is co-op) |
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Mrbloodworth
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We don’t think they fit well into the general philosophy of the game, which is more about trying to farm as efficiently as possible. |
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