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Yeah, after my tough talk, I'll probably pre-order the xpac.
I'm not proud of myself. But fun is fun.
Fortunately some sort of bug with their authenticator is keeping me from logging into my battle.net account and I don't feel like jumping through the hoops needed to fix it so they've managed to ensure that I'm not coming back.
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Sjofn
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I preordered the xpac but I'm not someone who thinks Blizzard fucked my mom, so that doesn't mean much.
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Tebonas
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I just logged in the for the first time since the new loot patch and lo and behold I got my first legendary item ever on my level 33 Barbarian after two hours of playing. About time, but now it feels like a Diablo game.
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Soulflame
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It's not a Diablo game until you get your 10th Venom Ward drop.
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Ingmar
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Yeah, but as ever, that's on a loot curve. The crafting stuff gets less useful the more cool shit you find. And the shit is cool in this new patch...
To revisit the "is crafting worth it" question, at the very end of my session on Tuesday, I got the Hallowed Defenders set recipe. When my DH got to 60 last night, I popped back, crafted him the Hallowed hand crossbow thingy, and was rewarded with a 1350 DPS weapon with +1000 life on hit. It rolled without any agility, too, so I think if I had an endless supply of brimstones I could probably turn out something truly ridiculous eventually. So, the level 10 dropped recipes seem to be quite worthwhile, at least. If you have shitloads of gold sitting around those are still buyable on the AH for a few more days too.
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Ironwood
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That's different !
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Reg
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What about the Archon Armor whose plans you buy from the little girl merchant in Caldeum. Are they worth buying for 1.5 million?
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Ironwood
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It's Gold. What else are you gonna do with it ?
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Ingmar
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What about the Archon Armor whose plans you buy from the little girl merchant in Caldeum. Are they worth buying for 1.5 million?
They're pretty good. 6 properties and you're guaranteed a decent amount of the specific stat you want. You might want to just buy the vitality one, since Smart Loot means that you're very likely to roll your own primary stat on it anyway, and that way you only need to buy one recipe. I usually make a bunch right when I hit 60 until get something strong to start out with for doing Torment.
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Holy fuckballs the lag is bad tonight. And it's not just me, my friend on the other side of town can barely move and I just died twice due to it. Horray for online only
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Yeah it's been getting worse as the week's gone on. I suspect it's word getting out and more people getting on because there were 1,000 torment 3 games this afternoon where there were only 100ish earlier in the week.
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Reg
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Oh good. I was thinking there was something wrong with my connection. Every time I leave town I die because of the awful lag.
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I had some bad lag yesterday, so much that I stopped trying to play, but it was just fine today. There was a thread on their support forums that suggested the problem might be with specific providers.
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Haven't had lag, been playing all day. With the EXP bonus you get right now, wife and I got to level 43 on Master difficulty with new characters... in Chapter 1. Shit is absurd. We'll be 60 halfway through Chapter 2.
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Ingmar
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Soloing with XP gear stacked, I hit 60 just before the siege weapons in Act 3 playing on Master. Something like a 480% xp boost between difficulty, community bonus, Cain's set, and Leoric's Signet, plus usually somewhere between 150 and 200 xp bonus per kill.
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Ironwood
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Levelling is insanely fast at the moment. Possibly too fast.
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Finally got to play last night, and the complete turnaround in fun is unlike anything I have ever seen. I was just going to give it a whirl while waiting for some M2TS files to copy to my machine and ended up playing D3 instead of Dark Souls 2 for the evening.
Also schild was playing at the same time, so I had to stay. I don't remember the last time we played something together.
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Took 6.5 hours to get level 60 with the wife. Got it in the second area of Zoltun Kuul's bullshit dungeon of sameyness.
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Ironwood
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That Zoltan section is always utterly bullshit tho. It's where the utter retardery of the story shines through. A whole desert section with a Lord of Lies that can't lie for shit and a dead ghost necromancer. It's utter bollocks.
Cunt didn't even drop a legendary either.
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I can't wait until we never had to run story mode again.
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Merusk
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Levelling is insanely fast at the moment. Possibly too fast.
Nah, I understand the idea is this bonus goes away when the expansion hits, so level-up those other classes now and come back to do the real content later. Much like the approach they take with WoW.
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A dead ghost necromancer who doesn't even try to hide that he will turn on you the second he's alive again.
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He's still the coolest character in the story, and the one that makes the most sense. He wants to rule a world where angels and demons fuck right off.
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KallDrexx
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Nah, I understand the idea is this bonus goes away when the expansion hits, so level-up those other classes now and come back to do the real content later. Much like the approach they take with WoW.
Oh, the leveling will slow down once the expansion hits? That's good to know
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Soulflame
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Are you saying that Zoltan's last name is Winchester?
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schild
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Are you saying that Zoltan's last name is Winchester? God I love Supernatural.
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Ingmar
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Nah, I understand the idea is this bonus goes away when the expansion hits, so level-up those other classes now and come back to do the real content later. Much like the approach they take with WoW.
Oh, the leveling will slow down once the expansion hits? That's good to know The 50% promotional boost they're running now will end, but there aren't any other changes besides that AFAIK.
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A dead ghost necromancer who doesn't even try to hide that he will turn on you the second he's alive again.
And yet, he really doesn't actually turn on you, you just get with the face-stabbing immediately because he's going "wait, something is fucked up with my soulstone here." He warns you several times you're being used (which of course you are), even. I rather like him, really, his motivations are clear, his motivations make have the decency to make some sense, and he always seems to be having a good time. Is it wrong I am looking forward to seeing how completely stupid Act V is? Because I am. I want to see how stupid it can get.
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Soulflame
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I'm more or less not looking forward to that. I mean, you defeated the Prime Evil. What else could possibly pose any threat to you at all?
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I'm betting that angel that hates you goes rogue. I mean you saved heaven, but you were a dick about it, so you have to die.
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Soulflame
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Except that Diablo Prime Evil easily defeated that angel, and then you easily defeated Diablo Prime Evil.
Unless that angel went off and trained with King Kai or something.
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No he probably found the stone as it fell from heaven. Now he's the new evil.
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Soulflame
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I don't think the soul stone was incorporated into Diablo. I don't actually remember what happened to it though. The witch took it somewhere?
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Ingmar
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If you want boss spoilers you can always look at the achievements for Act V since they're in already.
Even without looking at it, the trailer cinematics for it spoil the final boss anyway.
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Merusk
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What Ingmar said. The trailer spelled out exactly which angel it is that fell and why it's called "Reaper of Souls" aka Death.
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