Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls

[schild]

OH THANK GOD

[Signe]

I was going to patch and play this today but I can't because of stupid hacker stuff.  :(

[Ironwood]

Not here yet ?

Is today not tomorrow ?

 

[schild]

Seems to be patching now.

[Rokal]

Servers should be live around 4pm EST, allegedly. Ladder Season 1 doesn't start until late Friday.

[Signe]

Yes, I finally got it patched.  It's too late, though.  I might make a new character for it.  I haven't tried Wizard yet.

[schild]

That's weird since the only available class in my copy was Wizard. I had to buy the Special Tristram Dungeon Runners Challenge Pack for the other characters.

[Signe]

That's weird since the only available class in my copy was Wizard. I had to buy the Special Tristram Dungeon Runners Challenge Pack for the other characters.

Are we talking about the same game?  Do I have to call your wife and have her check the size of your pupils? 

It could be me, but I don't think so.

[schild]

No it was a joke about the Wizard being the only complete class and probably the only class worth playing.

Also, this patch did nothing but make them better. I have no clue if the other classes got the same treatment because my special patch notes only showed wizard shit.

[Hutch]

I logged on last night and dusted off my Wizard (I've been playing a Crusader lately).
I fired up one of the new discount Rifts (seriously, only 1 key now?) and then started going TO TOWN.
I was facerolling T1. Next time I'll step it up a notch.
I got about halfway through the rift, then ported out to clear my inventory.

I'm going from one vendor to the next, minding my own, when out of nowhere a big swarm of Lizards romped through the place.

I hope they catch those little fuckers soon, I'd like to be able to play a Blizzard game for longer than an hour without getting thrown off 

[Ironwood]

I'm hearing a lot of instability.

Looking forward to the patch now.

/green.

[schild]

Instability is from the silly ass DDOS for no purpose.

Once we got in last night everything was dandy except for one moment of a hiccup. Literally a rubberband. Otherwise, it's just good 'ol stable Blizzard.

[Ironwood]

 

[schild]

I don't know what to say, I have a very fast internet connection.

[Ironwood]

Yeah, thanks to BT infinity, i do too.  But i remember the dark times....

[Ingmar]

I like the fancy rifts; I'm not sure I like having to do a regular rift and then a wave trial thing every time I want to start a new one.

But, I got a legendary gem that increases pet damage and life is good.

[schild]

I haven't bothered using any of my legendary gems yet, or upgrading them. Not even sure how that works. I've just been upgrading Keystones.

[Ingmar]

Basically when you either time out on a rift or decide you want to stop advancing, you talk to the ghost merchant that pops up and she'll upgrade one of your gems 3 times. Supposedly as the gem gets higher level, there's a chance it will fail based on its level vs. the rift level; I stopped after a level 14 rift and upgraded the base gem 3 times with a 100% chance of success each time. Gem went from 15% damage to pets to 15.9% damage to pets by doing that, so the improvements are kind of incremental. But there's a new power it gets at rank 25, so that would probably be the target.

It's not clear to me if you can upgrade a gem after it is socketed, so I haven't done that yet. Also you don't get a riftstone back after you do that, so you have to do the process over again.

[Malakili]

The new system is nice.  I like that they back load all the loot in greater rifts onto the rift boss. 

My only concern with the system is that it isn't easy to play with friends unless you are both at the stage of having a trial stone.  It is worth noting that you can have more than one trial stone at a time however, so it may be worth doing some regular rift runs to stock up.

[schild]

The greater rifts turned Diablo 3 into Diablo 3: The Gauntlet Edition.

Best Gauntlet ever made, imo.

[Polysorbate80]

Four regular rifts got me 2 greater keystones that I wound up running solo trials with; one wound up 11 and the other 14.

I ran the level 11 solo and got two gems.  One increases damage by 20% for 30 seconds after killing elites and at level 25 adds 15% damage to elites.  Upgraded that three times, it added one second to the duration each time.

The other is +0.5 damage for 3 seconds after spending resources, stacks up to 20 times.  Level 25 power adds 0.5% armor per stack.  Don't know how that upgrades.

I wonder how feasible it is to solo a greater level 25 rift?  The 11th level one took me just over 7 minutes but mostly because it was the stupid limbo maze map, and the final boss only had 450million hp.  That's nothing worth even mentioning, but how quickly do the rifts ramp up?

[Ironwood]

Question (and I suspect I know the answer) :

I should be disenchanting all the previous legendaries, right ?

[schild]

If you're not currently using them, there's no reason not to.

Edit: I don't think many set items changed though, so keep them.

[Ironwood]

Righto.

[Typhon]

Wait, what did I miss?  Why are all of my "sort of good but not really but I better keep them just in case ... well, you know" legendaries suddenly obsolete?  (ok, MORE obsolete)

[Malakili]

Wait, what did I miss?  Why are all of my "sort of good but not really but I better keep them just in case ... well, you know" legendaries suddenly obsolete?  (ok, MORE obsolete)

They were always obsolete.

[Ingmar]

They aren't *all* obsolete. Two handed weapons almost certainly are, and a number of uniques in general that didn't have unique effects before have been changed to have them on new copies.

More subtly, stuff that triggers off of opening containers, picking up gold, etc., are now much lamer since most of that stuff doesn't exist in greater rifts.

[Stewie]

The difficulty ramp from a tier 21 to a tier 22 rift was pretty significant.    A friend an I rolled through 19 & 20, 21 wasn't too bad at all then 22 I think I died about 5 times. we completed it with 10 seconds to spare.
I was able to solo 19 in 10:20.

I like the new changes. I really like the temp gold buff :) but my favourite change has to be being able to salvage all blue or yellow items at once.

[schild]

Yea, wife and I completed 21 with 3 seconds to spare. There are lots of good quality of life changes.

[Pagz]

It's not clear to me if you can upgrade a gem after it is socketed, so I haven't done that yet. Also you don't get a riftstone back after you do that, so you have to do the process over again.

You can upgrade socketed gems and you don't need a gem to be in your inventory to upgrade them. You can never get the same legendary gem twice, so once you have the full set they stop dropping.

[Hutch]

It's not clear to me if you can upgrade a gem after it is socketed, so I haven't done that yet. Also you don't get a riftstone back after you do that, so you have to do the process over again.

You can upgrade socketed gems and you don't need a gem to be in your inventory to upgrade them. You can never get the same legendary gem twice, so once you have the full set they stop dropping.

Unless! You get two of the same gem from a single rift! I have two copies of Bane of the Powerful, which gives bonus damage after you kill an elite pack.
Hmm I wonder if I'm allowed to equip both at once? I need a ring with a socket.

Edited to add: Nevermind, the gems all say "Unique Equipped".

[Ironwood]

You know, it FEELS that there's far more changes than the patch suggests.  Or I haven't played in quite a while !

Did we get given anything free ?  I seem to have over 500 of every gem and about 12 million in gold I don't remember having before....

[Reg]

Has anyone else been through the treasure goblin dungeon yet? I got it yesterday and picked up 25 million gold, 3 legendaries, many imperial gems and one of the new gems for gold finding in about 15 minutes. It was a blast.

[Ironwood]

It's random though, yeah ?

[JRave]

Random chance to spawn the Goblin Vault when you kill a Goblin outside of a rift.  I have killed multiple goblins in rifts and never saw a portal, yet I've gotten 2 portals outside of rifts.  ATM Act 1 Halls of Agony Level 2 has a guaranteed double spawn somewhere on the level, so you can use that.  I also think you need to reset the game once you clear the vault.

The gem you get from the vault works in greater rifts (as do the massacre bonus gloves) which allows you to get gold and any bonuses(Goldwrap armor buff) from picking up gold in those rifts.