With MP out I'm excited to ramp up the difficulty and start a new "non AH" character. Only use what you find, craft, or buy from merchants. Increased MF, exp and difficulty should make it a lot more fun and viable than before.
Anyone else thinking of doing this? What MP will you play at?
I plan on doing this with the 3 characters I have not leveld yet. Since the hellfire ring no longer has a level req, it will give me an excuse to level all 5 classes.
Started my new non AH barb today on MP10. Normal difficulty gets pretty hard, but I'm excited about everything that drops and crafting is useful again. Huzzah!
I've been playing self found since day one (overg-1771 if you're interested in checking out my monk). I started out on MP3 Act 1 last night. It was doable, but the time & death / elite ratio wasn't particularly fun, so I dropped down to MP2.
It will be interesting to see how the increased magic find from monster power affects my gear progression. In 1.04 I hit the point where I was very rarely seeing major upgrades, with character improvements coming from very small upgrades/sidegrades and just mix and matching various pieces of gear I've saved in my stash to see what works best. I didn't find any upgrades in about 3 hours of play last night, but it did seem like I found a few more "almost an upgrade" pieces than I typically would in 1.04.
I'm loving the fact that it's now viable to farm all Acts. Even at my gear level Acts I and II were too easy to be interesting in 1.04, so the fact that those are now viable areas for me (not to mention Act IV, which I could beat but not at any reasonable speed) is great.
My hope/goal is to do a complete MP2 runthrough, and hopefully find an upgrade or two which will allow me to progress through MP3 at a more tolerable rate.
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Anyone else thinking of doing this? What MP will you play at?
I'm playing a WD since release, without touching the AH, and I hope this change will impact in a good way, lets see what happens.
It will be interesting to see how the increased magic find from monster power affects my gear progression. In 1.04 I hit the point where I was very rarely seeing major upgrades, with character improvements coming from very small upgrades/sidegrades and just mix and matching various pieces of gear I've saved in my stash to see what works best. I didn't find any upgrades in about 3 hours of play last night, but it did seem like I found a few more "almost an upgrade" pieces than I typically would in 1.04.
I'm loving the fact that it's now viable to farm all Acts. Even at my gear level Acts I and II were too easy to be interesting in 1.04, so the fact that those are now viable areas for me (not to mention Act IV, which I could beat but not at any reasonable speed) is great.
My hope/goal is to do a complete MP2 runthrough, and hopefully find an upgrade or two which will allow me to progress through MP3 at a more tolerable rate.