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Reply #1190 on: June 18, 2014, 11:40:01 AM

Ah, I see... so no special Whimsy Chest that I missed or anything like that... just a random skin.
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Reply #1191 on: June 18, 2014, 11:40:31 AM

There is also a cow Rift Guardian that can spawn, called The Lord Of Bells, which is the rarest of the RG's and will probably be the last one you get in the "kill all RGs" achieve.

Don't think there's any special drops from either that boss or the level though.

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Reply #1192 on: June 18, 2014, 11:41:05 AM

If the Whimsyshire level itself spawned, it is possible you missed a Piñata. They're creepy and hard to miss and typically in one of the 4 corners of the map (NE, SE, etc).
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Reply #1193 on: June 18, 2014, 01:30:15 PM

I believe the Cow Rift has special music? Don't think anything else about it is out of the ordinary other than the monsters.

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Reply #1194 on: June 18, 2014, 01:42:49 PM

Mine was a regular Act I or II dungeon with pink ponies and stuffed animals (that slice into Flintstone era brontosaurus steaks); I was not expecting that, is all.
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Reply #1195 on: June 18, 2014, 03:49:42 PM

I believe the Cow Rift has special music? Don't think anything else about it is out of the ordinary other than the monsters.

It does. Banjos and shit. Also the guardian is always Lord of the Bells.
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Reply #1196 on: June 18, 2014, 04:31:28 PM

Cow rift had me running the same tileset in tiny levels over and over again.  I think it took 9 rift levels to even spawn the boss.  Decent amount of loot, however.

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Reply #1197 on: June 19, 2014, 12:18:29 AM

cow rift is actually pretty awesome. all chokepoint, plenty of easy destroying, simple and straightforward enemies with no surprises.
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Reply #1198 on: June 20, 2014, 08:40:51 PM

I did it. Got my RoRG.

Now have max Tals, max Vyr's, and the 4pc firebirds bonus.

So, +1000 int, +100 all resist, +2 arcane energy a second, +5% to 4 elemental damages, I can resurrect once every 300 seconds, and cold/electric/fire/arcane damage each drops a meteor of the same type every 8 seconds sidfhgsf
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Reply #1199 on: June 20, 2014, 08:41:52 PM

The Meteors are unfucking real. Those alone took me from T1 to T3.

Samprimary, hit us with a link of the toon again.
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Reply #1200 on: June 21, 2014, 04:27:42 PM

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Reply #1201 on: June 21, 2014, 04:39:54 PM

Our characters are a fart away from eachother. I have not optimized rerolls on my quadfecta RoRG for example.

We should team up and just crush T6.

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Reply #1202 on: June 22, 2014, 01:25:09 AM

You casters with your 6.6 million toughness......  Int giving base +resist all is broken.  You have more Resist all simply from your int then any of my other charactrers do with all of their combined resist gear + trying to scrape together Resist all on gear whenever i can get it with good stats to match.   Being an Int class seems like a pretty good recepy for getting the best Bonus Survivability simply for collecting your primary stat.

My demon hunter is squishy as fuck.  At least the new patch coming will give me armor for Agi instead of Dodge, which is useless.
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Reply #1203 on: June 22, 2014, 02:23:55 AM

You casters with your 6.6 million toughness......  Int giving base +resist all is broken.  You have more Resist all simply from your int then any of my other charactrers do with all of their combined resist gear + trying to scrape together Resist all on gear whenever i can get it with good stats to match.   Being an Int class seems like a pretty good recepy for getting the best Bonus Survivability simply for collecting your primary stat.

My demon hunter is squishy as fuck.  At least the new patch coming will give me armor for Agi instead of Dodge, which is useless.

The non demon hunters have 30% built in damage reduction to make up for it. The armor change should pretty much take care of DHs, honestly.

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Reply #1204 on: June 22, 2014, 08:02:53 AM

This is my Wizard, although not as nice as Schild's or Sam's it still gets the job done.

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Reply #1205 on: June 22, 2014, 03:37:49 PM

jesus. 30 million dollars worth of gems and enchantments later, my amulet got that massively important 9-10% crit

fuuuuuucccckkkkkk why is crit so vital in this game. it jumped my damage up 250k and i'm finally back up to that crit cap with Pinpoint Barrier.

I also dropped the 4pc furrburd bonus for the 3pc Aughilds, after spending two skadjillion yellow mats on aughilds helms.

I'm now so precisely balanced on set bonuses that I can't move nothing around
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Reply #1206 on: June 22, 2014, 03:43:13 PM

How do you find good items? I'll spend 8 hours over a few days and wind up with maybe one minor upgrade - and my gear is really bad (on any character). I play a little here and a little there, but it seems either like slogging through mud, or just bo-ring, with little to show for it.

I can solo T1 on a couple of characters and not even that on others.

How do you gear up?
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Reply #1207 on: June 22, 2014, 03:43:32 PM

Yea, I need to finish up my Aughild's set and actually reroll some things but then I'll be capped out for the most part.

If I could trade gold that would've already happened since the wife has banked like $infinity.

Edit: Gearing up is mostly luck. Sets are so massively important. Even more important is RoRG.
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Reply #1208 on: June 22, 2014, 04:57:01 PM

jesus. 30 million dollars worth of gems and enchantments later, my amulet got that massively important 9-10% crit

fuuuuuucccckkkkkk why is crit so vital in this game. it jumped my damage up 250k and i'm finally back up to that crit cap with Pinpoint Barrier.
Yeah, tell me about it.   The enchanting costs for rings / necks is obscene, since you need to spend quality gems on them as well.

And it seems like crit is king for pretty much everyone, so you always want +Crit and +crit damage in every slot you can get it in.

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Reply #1209 on: June 22, 2014, 11:16:23 PM

How do you gear up?

Get yourself a Royal Ring of Grandeur by farming Act 1 bounties. Look for a community called "Split Farm Bounties" or something, join groups doing Act 1 Normal, build your character for speed and clear bounties in a few minutes repeatedly until you get your ring. Craft yourself a couple of pieces from sets such as Aughilds, Captain Crimsons, Cains. Two well-rolled pieces each of Aughilds and Crimsons plus a RRoG is a fantastic starter set of gear which will get a lot of characters into T2+ comfortably.

Then, group up. You'll have 100's of rift keys after all the RRoG farming so find groups through communities or join public games. Doing a T3 rift in 5-10 mins with 3 random strangers will net you massively more gear & shards per hour than soloing a T1 rift in 20 mins.

Spend your Blood Shards smartly. Here's a thread with a Google docs sheet showing the *average* cost of getting each item from Kadala. Have a build in mind and know what gear you want and with what stats and use that sheet to get the most bang for your buck. Generally save the difficult to get items (Wand of Woh, Fist of Az'Turrasq, etc) for specific build much later when you're already happy in T5/6.

Use the enchanter to tweak your gear - again, know what the optimum stats are on each item you have and, unless the item is extremely rare, don't be afraid to give up if you're not getting the roll you want. You can easily spend 10's of millions on trying to get that bloody socket etc, when you might be better off just getting a new item and starting again!

Find a clan too, some friends or whatever. It's a game that hugely benefits from playing with other people :)

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Reply #1210 on: June 22, 2014, 11:21:38 PM

BTW, anyone running out of gold? Why not try a Gold Doctor! 6m+ gold per rift on T6? Toughness varying between 100m and 1b on T6? Also sacrifices very little damage in exchange for ridiculous gold harvesting ability :)

Mine's still a work in progress, but it's kinda fun and a bit different.

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Reply #1211 on: June 23, 2014, 10:11:35 AM

Here's my wizard.

I didn't even know about RRG, and I haven't put together any sets yet. All of my gear is either drops or gambling.
I've done some enchanting, to try and get either +disintegrate or +arcane stacked up.
I'm pretty comfortable in T2 right now, which means that I should probably step up to T3 and see how badly it stomps me  Oh ho ho ho. Reallllly?

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Reply #1212 on: June 23, 2014, 11:41:32 AM




yeah to basically gloss over the points already made

- RoRG is a must. It's the single centerpiece of any build at a certain point. The single required setpiece for anyone. It's a non-choice 'choice.' You just have to get a RoRG.

- Bounties essentially should always be done as split bounties. Never go solo; you're getting a sixth of the caches you'd get per hour doing split bounties. Socialization is imba in Diablo 3. If nobody's available to split bounty, punt some public rifts instead until you can line up some help, 2 or 3 friends.

- When doing split bounties, get to know which bounties are fairly straightforward and which require a lot of meandering around. Skeleton King, for example, is a straight shot from the port-in, Butcher's pretty easy to locate from port-in, the Dataminer is easy to find, etc. Do these first. Leave the shitty wandering-around ones like the spider boss for last, as by the time you finished your straight shot bounty it now means that multiple players can tag-team hunting down the exit from the spider caves or finding the den of the fallen or w/e.

- Eventually your skin will fall off or you will get a RoRG. It might suck but there you go. NOTE: If you get one that has a socket, keep the socket. Big socket changes for rings and amulets coming up soon. Hunt more if you can handle it / skin might hold out a little bit longer before falling off to get a better RoRG.

- Otherwise, assuming you've got one? Your new job is public rifting (or with friends if you're lucky and sociable). Punt rifts all the time. Public ones. Highest torment level you can barely passably exist in. Get into games to get carried, and feel no shame in swapping public matches if you aren't getting carried. Use conservative builds that allow you to survive.

- Salvage every blue and yellow item, every single one. Never sell for cash.

- Always convince the rifters you are with to let you close and reopen a rift every time the rift guardian goes down, as you get way more shards that way. Say you'll pay for the rifts (after all, you have a bunch of shards left over from split bounties). Bail on games where they insist on full clears, unless they're, like, wicked carries or something.

- Decide which set bonuses you want in advance. Look at all the gear pieces. Decide which piece you want first. Kill rift guardians until you have hundreds of shards. Spend every single Kadollar you get gambling for that one piece until you get it. Once you have it (from drop or gambling) start spending your kadollars on the next piece. Be methodical. If something drops that makes it better to change your plans, do that. But spend every single blood shard with an intent and endgoal in mind. Don't spend any blood shards on rings, amulets, or weapons until you have literally every other slot filled up with your desired setpieces (and they can't be substantially improved with better starting attributes).

- If you can, keep the amulet slot as a wash right now, since hellfire amulets are going to be a thing.

- Aughilds is sick, so incorporate that into your design if you can. All you need is 2 pieces with the RoRG.

- IF YOUR SKIN FELL OFF BECAUSE YOU AREN'T GETTING A RoRG DROP AND BOUNTIES ARE TERRIBLE: Apply antiseptic salve, stay out of direct sunlight. Do not dwell overlong on the fact that, yeah, the whole RoRG grind is the product of bad design.
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Reply #1213 on: June 25, 2014, 04:31:06 AM

Got my first RoRG today.

Too bad the stat rolls on it were almost completely and totally utter shit.  On the plus side, I got a really nice Goldwrap, Nemesis Bracers and Azurewrath in the process.

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Reply #1214 on: June 26, 2014, 04:17:35 AM

First build of 2.1 is on the PTR. Greater Rifts are in, some item and skill changes.

Patch notes at http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14569138/patch-210-ptr-patch-notes-6-25-2014 and DiabloFans has some more datamined info up.
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Reply #1215 on: June 26, 2014, 08:27:11 AM

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Reply #1216 on: June 26, 2014, 09:04:27 AM

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Reply #1217 on: June 26, 2014, 09:09:53 AM

Monks gonna die.

Though it needed to. What Monk in their right mind wasn't running it?

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Reply #1218 on: June 26, 2014, 09:10:51 AM

It's being nerfed because it would have been too good when coupled with the dex->armor change, I suspect.

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Reply #1219 on: June 26, 2014, 09:18:56 AM

So what's up with all the buffs to Wizard damage spells? I never felt like Disintegrate, Familiar, Meteor or Hydras were underpowered.

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Reply #1220 on: June 26, 2014, 09:21:28 AM

Well, bigger rifts are coming ; there's a lot of buffs across the board.

Also :

•A new Legendary consumable has been added •Ramalandi's Gift •Use on an unsocketed item to add the maximum number of sockets that item type allows

WTF.

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Reply #1221 on: June 26, 2014, 09:22:24 AM

Also, I just fucking dusted a LOT of legendaries because of lack of unique powers.

And now they're adding them.  Angel Hair Braid is particularly fucking annoying.

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Reply #1222 on: June 26, 2014, 09:26:42 AM

They aren't buffing the existing items, I thought?

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Reply #1223 on: June 26, 2014, 10:25:07 AM

Well, bigger rifts are coming ; there's a lot of buffs across the board.

Also :

•A new Legendary consumable has been added •Ramalandi's Gift •Use on an unsocketed item to add the maximum number of sockets that item type allows

WTF.


Is that in addition to the existing properties, rather than replacing one?  If so, I got a lot of gear that's gonna need replacing...

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Reply #1224 on: June 26, 2014, 10:32:12 AM

Yeah I'm not sure that's a good thing at all. It makes rolling a socket bad, if it just straight up adds a socket. If you just choose a property to replace with a socket or sockets, then that's reasonable.

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