Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls

[Threash]

What's the complaint? The proc is amazing, even if you don't use it yourself (once you gem that thing it will be better than your Monster Hunter) give it to Eirena and she'll wreck shit.

It's level 51.  That it's almost a perfect roll with main stat + damage + socket just makes it more painful.

[Merusk]

Yeah.  I had a fantastic roll on a level 9 drop, which I used for all of an hour.  Sucked to burn luck like that. Even if it was Level 60 you could use it in to your early 70s gear-outs.. now, not so much.

[Ragnoros]

I feel you, got Magefists while leveling my crusader around 50ish, with good stats to boot. Meanwhile it's Boj Anglers all the way on my main (I'm up to three pairs).

[Merusk]

Got a Serpent's Sparkler last night that I decided to use with my Myken's Ball of Hate that was sitting around, begging for a lighting build.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Merusk-1698/hero/38003513

It's... significantly less fun than the fire build I was using.  Probably because I'm lacking a lot of +lighting DPS.   I was at +130% fire damage or something equally ridiculous before.  Three meteor casts was enough to wipe out entire packs of T1 whites. Now I'm struggling to live through them.

[Threash]

Nemesis bracers + OP pylons = love.

[Selby]

I had to underclock my GPU a little bit to get the card to stop going nuclear (a 9800GT for crying out loud).  After doing that the game is actually very playable and still looks decent.  I'm happy and having fun with Diablo for the first time in a long time...

[Maven]

Your first Malthael kill is a guaranteed legendary. You want it to be a good one so it's best to wait until you're max level. That way you'll get a level 70 legendary that you won't immediately outgrow.

That is some non-intuitive bullshit design right there.

Pardon the vitriol. Thinking of the first-time player, this creates a regret situation born of normal product usage I would think Blizzard and good game design principles strive to avoid.

[Ingmar]

You can always do a Reset Quests and play through the entire storyline again to get the guaranteed drop again. 

[Maven]

Regarding the vitriol, I still have some unresolved negativity that unconsciously makes me harsher than is fair towards anything Blizzard. It appears to be the main reason I jumped in to reply in the first place.

I presumed we were talking drops instead of a quest reward. I was wondering how someone would come by the knowledge that they'd get a level-scaled legendary from the last boss.

As a quest reward, that makes more sense.

[Reg]

Your first Malthael kill is a guaranteed legendary. You want it to be a good one so it's best to wait until you're max level. That way you'll get a level 70 legendary that you won't immediately outgrow.

That is some non-intuitive bullshit design right there.

Pardon the vitriol. Thinking of the first-time player, this creates a regret situation born of normal product usage I would think Blizzard and good game design principles strive to avoid.

It really doesn't matter that much. Legendaries aren't rare anymore. After a few more hours of play missing out on a single level 70 makes no difference at all. For some reason, we all thought differently about it back when getting to 70 was a new thing. And it was a little silly.

[Ingmar]

It isn't really a quest reward, though. All the chapter-end bosses drop a guaranteed legendary the first time through on story mode, but you have to be level 69 or less for it to happen on all but Malthael. It used to be a bug on the Skeleton King where he'd keep dropping after resetting the storyline, then they moved it from him to Diablo (and later Mal) and turned it into a feature.

So you're not really wrong about it being some weird bullshit, that creates weird play decisions.

[Threash]

Does anyone else keep doing a rift after killing the guardian?

[Rasix]

If it's a Rift I like, sure.  Super prison or graveyard, I'll finish regardless of how early the boss pops.

[schild]

Super Prison gets 100% completion 100% of the time.

[Teleku]

Does anyone else keep doing a rift after killing the guardian?

Always.  End game Diablo 3 is 'leveling' up your character via legendary/set drops.  Legendary drops are increased in rifts.  There for (imo), it makes the most sense to spend the maximum amount of time in rifts, killing and searching absolutly everything(I think almost half of all my legendary drops have come from destroying barrels or checking bodies on the ground, often in rifts).

[Ingmar]

Does anyone else keep doing a rift after killing the guardian?

Always.  End game Diablo 3 is 'leveling' up your character via legendary/set drops.  Legendary drops are increased in rifts.  There for (imo), it makes the most sense to spend the maximum amount of time in rifts, killing and searching absolutly everything(I think almost half of all my legendary drops have come from destroying barrels or checking bodies on the ground, often in rifts).

Unless it's a particularly dense, awesome level, you should start a new rift. Killing in a rift that isn't making progress towards a guardian is less efficient than killing in one that is.

[Teleku]

What’s the stated logic behind that?  The only advantage to a rift guardian seems to be the blood shards you get, which can increase the possibility of getting a targeted legendary from Kadala, but it takes quite a few to equal up to even one legendary.  There are usually plenty of elite packs and 1-2 more levels worth of monsters after a rift guardian regardless of density, so seems like you're passing up an a lot of opportunities for increased legendary drop chance.  Is there a significant increase in legendary drops from a rift guardian?  Haven't yet gotten a legendary from killing one.

Also, another silly question: 


Magic find does increase your chance to get legendary drops as well, correct?  I only ask because on that chart they separate magic find and legendary drop chance into two different categories.  I'm assuming that every time you get a magic item to drop, the RNG makes a decision on whether it’s a Blue, Gold, or Legendary/Set.  Or does magic find only affect Blue/Gold items, and legendary drops work off their own calculation?  The chart has me slightly confused.

Though I will say that chart is totally wrong about legendary crafting materials dropping at the same rate as Death's Breath.  I probably get about 15-20 DB's for every 1 legendary crafting material.

[Threash]

Does anyone else keep doing a rift after killing the guardian?

Always.  End game Diablo 3 is 'leveling' up your character via legendary/set drops.  Legendary drops are increased in rifts.  There for (imo), it makes the most sense to spend the maximum amount of time in rifts, killing and searching absolutly everything(I think almost half of all my legendary drops have come from destroying barrels or checking bodies on the ground, often in rifts).

Unless it's a particularly dense, awesome level, you should start a new rift. Killing in a rift that isn't making progress towards a guardian is less efficient than killing in one that is.

But that means spending more time doing bounties and less time doing rifts, which lowers your efficiency a lot more.

[Polysorbate80]

Though I will say that chart is totally wrong about legendary crafting materials dropping at the same rate as Death's Breath.  I probably get about 15-20 DB's for every 1 legendary crafting material.

You realize that some of the legendary crafting materials only drop from one mob in the game?  Therefore you have a percentage chance one time per game to get the drop, whereas the death's breath can come from any elite.  I have quite a pile of materials, but they're mostly for things I don't have plans for or just don't want.

Farming T3 for the mat for asheara's set, I killed the damn snake maybe 25 times for 5 drops (I made the shoulders, pants, and boots, but a couple of them rolled so shitty they weren't fixable with reforging)

[Teleku]

Ah, wasn't aware of that.  Guess I should start researching where to get the recipes for all this random shit I've found (so I can begin to craft a billion penders purchases apparently).   

[Threash]

Most of the recipes are random as far as i know.

[MrHat]

Most of the recipes are random as far as i know.

There is actually a vendor that spawns in Act 1 that sells random recipes and resets whats' available every 15 mins.  Recommend finding him before rifting for a hour. Do a rift, check vendor, do a rift, check vendor.

Dane Bright.

[Ironwood]

Once again, Euro's utterly fucked to play.

This always online thing;  still the turd in the punch bowl.

[Tebonas]

Oh, so its not only me.

Fuck that. Wasn't that just so you don't cheat in the AH? Since the AH doesn't exist anymore they can do away with it, can't they?

[Paelos]

Oh, so its not only me.

Fuck that. Wasn't that just so you don't cheat in the AH? Since the AH doesn't exist anymore they can do away with it, can't they?

They could, but they won't. It's part of their new launcher DRM plan. The kick in the ass is that you'll be able to play it on consoles offline. It's those dirty PC players we can't trust.

[Ironwood]

I have no fucking clue why any Euro is still playing Hardcore.

Seriously, it's like fucking Alderaan every time the servers shit the bed.

[schild]

Most of the recipes are random as far as i know.

There is actually a vendor that spawns in Act 1 that sells random recipes and resets whats' available every 15 mins.  Recommend finding him before rifting for a hour. Do a rift, check vendor, do a rift, check vendor.

Dane Bright.

[Threash]

I know i've seen that dude in westmarch commons before. 

[Ingmar]

Huh, I thought he was only supposed to spawn in Northern Highlands.

EDIT: Looks like there's a zone in each act where can be, though.

[Ironwood]

I think Northern Highlands is just easier to scour totally.

Which it totally is.  Fucking place is tiny.

[WayAbvPar]

So he is a rare spawn whenever you enter the zone? Trying to get a handle on how to find this bastard.

[Threash]

Man there are like 2-3 goblins per reset on that map.

[Threash]

So he is a rare spawn whenever you enter the zone? Trying to get a handle on how to find this bastard.

Look for him, if hes not there start a new game and look for him again.  So far no luck for me.  Well i have found 2 legendaries and 1 legendary recipe, but apart from that no luck.

[Ironwood]

Wife joined in the hunt and found a fucking perfect mirrorball.

Fuck sake.

[Yegolev]

Game needs larger stash.