It rolls with max. possible Sockets IF it rolls sockets. Primals are not perfect items, they are items with perfect stat rolls!
wrong. It was said primals will always roll with perfect sockets, which means no sockets for weapons and always max sockets on all other slots.
It's interesting how Zodiac ring is being dealth with. I guess it will just be an exception to this rule, because of its unique stat combination
This seems fairly simple. It rolls with the maximum number of sockets possible on the item. Perfect sockets on Chest is 3, so perfect on rings would be 3 too, but they can't get that many. Zodiac ring can't roll sockets natively, so it won't roll sockets. Fairly elementary.
Only chest pieces can roll with 3 sockets, only pants can roll with 2, everything else except gloves/belt/shoulders/bracers/boots can have 1.
A socket on a ring takes up 1 of its affix slots, I'm pretty sure primal ancients aren't going to break the maximum number of affix slots an item can have. Chest and leg items are weighted to roll more frequently with 3 and 2 sockets but can roll with 2 or 1 socket or none at all.
An item rolling with maximum number of sockets just means if it rolls with "socket(x)" as an affix it will always be 3 (chest) or 2 (pants) or 1 on everything else respectively.
As was stated Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac never rolls with sockets natively so it's still going to have aspd, cc, rcr, and cdr (at max values). It isn't going to break it's 4 affixes and suddenly have 5 affixes with one as a socket.
Just going to chime in here and say the "numlock" trick as it's been called has been around for awhile. Blizzard has to know about it and has yet to fix or remove it from the game.The numlock functionality simply replicates continually pressing an assigned hotkey with out having to actually press that key. It could be considered automation, it could not since no 3rd party software is involved unless you want to count your keyboard and mouse drivers which is a bit of a stretch.
If blizzard was that dead set on removing any kind of automation they would have removed the numlock trick long ago. While not necessarily a green light to use macros I would use the numlock trick instead until blizzard makes some kind of announcement acknowledging it as a bug and that using it is an abuse of in game mechanics.
Given blizzard's history of "creative" fixes for things, I don't foresee them removing the numlock trick until they either implement an automatic toggle in game for abilities that are necessary to spam or change everything around to where spamming isn't necessary.
I wouldn't consider a nerf to firebird's a nerf to wizards in general same with crusaders. Set balancing isn't the same as class balancing. Your title is pretty misleading.
So I've been rattling this idea in my head for awhile now but I think it's time blizzard moved past just jewelry slots for the legendary gems.
Yes we have Gem of Ease but that's one gem out of almost twenty and many of the gems we do have don't see much play. I think it's time we moved past gems that are just for the meta (more dps, more toughness, etc.) We need some adventuring gems, and another slot to do it in so it doesn't screw with builds. The whole having to switch gear/legendary gems is already annoying enough.
My thought was pretty straightforward, using one of the 5 slots that don't come with a socket (shoulders, bracers, gloves, boots, belt) that way you don't have to switch things out and can just keep your utility gem even though it won't have much effect in GR's.
Ramaladni's Gift now has a chance to drop as ancient. the ancient version can add a socket to jewelry or your belt.
The belt slot would use one of 5 new legendary gems that can only go in that socket:
Haedrig's Prize - Used for db farming and getting rid of the need to use Sage's set.
0% chance to drop double death's breaths (+2% per Rank, Rank 25 max. Total: 50% chance)
Rank 25 adds a 1% chance for trash monsters to drop a death's breath (this doesn't seem like much but given how much trash you kill it adds up and might actually be a bit to good.)
Shen's Craft - Used for infernal machine farming and uber organs/hellfire amulets
0% chance for keywardens to drop double infernal machines (+2% per Rank, Rank 25 max. Total: 50% chance)
Rank 25 adds a 25% chance for the uber boss to drop the key to their realm again (refund your key basically)
Myriam's Gift - Used for greater rift key farming
0% chance for rift guardians to drop double greater rift keys (+2% per Rank, Rank 25 max. Total: 50% chance. This is per drop so if the rg drops 1 key 2 may drop, if they drop 2 keys then you could get 3 or 4 depending.)
Rank 25 adds a 50% chance for an extra progress globe to drop while in a Nephalem Rift (wouldn't work in GR's. Makes rifting/farming faster. this would be per elite/champion pack so champions could drop 4 globes and elites could drop 5.)
Kadala's Game - Used for blood shard farming.
Increase blood shard drops by 0% (+2% per Rank, Rank 25 max. Total: 50% bonus.)
Rank 25 adds a 10% chance for elite and champion packs to drop blood shards.(This would obviously be scaled down from what rift guardians drop, probably to around 20-50 per drop.)
Tyrael's Boon - Used for bounty farming.
0% chance for double bounty crafting materials to drop from act caches. (+4% per Rank, Rank 25 max. Total: 100% chance)
Rank 25 adds a 1% chance for trash monsters to drop a bounty crafting material from their act while outside a Nephalem rift. (Same as with Haedrig's Prize, seems low but with the amount of trash you're killing it adds up.)
The concept of having gems that max out at Rank 25 may seem odd but I didn't want these gems to be grindy, I wanted to make something everyone could max out and use without doing a bunch of grinding. Quality of life improving gems so to speak.
TLDR;
Ramaldani's Gift can now be ancient, adds sockets to jewelry or belt
New gems for your belt slot only that max out at Rank 25 and improve db, infernal machine, gr key, blood shard, and bounty farming.
Staff of Herding is a crafted item from the recipe dropped by Izual as the others have said, it's used to access whimsyshire - which is pretty much pointless now with rainbow goblins spawning portals to whimsydale which is the exact same thing.
I assume you're talking about the bovine brodiche which opens a portal to the cow level when used in Kanai's Cube like a Puzzle Ring, I play a wizard and can confirm I haven't found one all season or any last season so I'd say it is filtered out of intelligence loot tables for some reason.
Honestly your gear is pretty mish~mash and could go with any build, if you're shooting for arcane torrent build you want resource cost reduction so you can channel longer, low to no attack speed and stacking the crit chance and crit damage.
Gear I would shoot for would be a gesture of orpheus for your weapon, as Gon said an Andariel's Visage with +arcane damage, get yourself a RoRG and craft Aughild's shoulders & bracers (+arcane on bracers obviously). shoot for a stone of jordan with + arcane and then try to get some tal'rasha pieces for the arcane power regen.
Your source is good since it has APoC on it but if you can swap it out for a tal'rasha(only if you have enough for the set bonus) or mirrorball since you're using MM as your generator that would be more beneficial. If you have one that rolled decently try to get +torrent/+mm/or apoc on it.
Other than that invest your paragon points into resource cost reduction and if you can get some on your gear without gimping your dps shoot for that. You "should" be using Arcane Dynamo as a passive, the idea here is to build to five stacks and then never stop your channel. Work in prodigy if you can if you're having Arcane Power issues. I would swap out audacity for arcane dynamo and you should notice a pretty substantial dps boost with that. Torrent is a ranged build so you don't need to be face tanking things but sometimes it happens, passives i would go with are Blur, Unwavering Will, Astral Presence, Arcane Dynamo.
Your boots also need replaced once you have enough paragon points to get to the 25% movement speed cap with your points alone, movement speed always takes up a primary slot that could be used elsewhere. There's a whole thread on it somewhere.
That's pretty much what I figured, would be nice if they applied to each other could get some huge damage ramped up pretty quickly if that was the case. Still i'm imagining a serpent striker and 2 hydras throwing out there own dot to be pretty substantial if both the hydras damage stack with each other. I'll have to test it out if I get my hands on a serpent striker, maybe someone with one already can test it out to see.
As far as I know you can get any legendary that isn't a Torment only legendary. I play a wizard and have so far gotten, Triumverate, Mykel's Ball of Hate, Chantado's Will and The Oculus gambling on sources. Only source I haven't seen yet is Mirrorball but I know other wizards have gotten it from gambling so I'd say the only one you can't get from gambling is the Firebird set source since it's torment only.
Hope that helps, I'm not certain when it comes to weapons as I have crap luck with them.
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Only chest pieces can roll with 3 sockets, only pants can roll with 2, everything else except gloves/belt/shoulders/bracers/boots can have 1.
A socket on a ring takes up 1 of its affix slots, I'm pretty sure primal ancients aren't going to break the maximum number of affix slots an item can have. Chest and leg items are weighted to roll more frequently with 3 and 2 sockets but can roll with 2 or 1 socket or none at all.
An item rolling with maximum number of sockets just means if it rolls with "socket(x)" as an affix it will always be 3 (chest) or 2 (pants) or 1 on everything else respectively.
As was stated Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac never rolls with sockets natively so it's still going to have aspd, cc, rcr, and cdr (at max values). It isn't going to break it's 4 affixes and suddenly have 5 affixes with one as a socket.
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Just going to chime in here and say the "numlock" trick as it's been called has been around for awhile. Blizzard has to know about it and has yet to fix or remove it from the game.The numlock functionality simply replicates continually pressing an assigned hotkey with out having to actually press that key. It could be considered automation, it could not since no 3rd party software is involved unless you want to count your keyboard and mouse drivers which is a bit of a stretch.
If blizzard was that dead set on removing any kind of automation they would have removed the numlock trick long ago. While not necessarily a green light to use macros I would use the numlock trick instead until blizzard makes some kind of announcement acknowledging it as a bug and that using it is an abuse of in game mechanics.
Given blizzard's history of "creative" fixes for things, I don't foresee them removing the numlock trick until they either implement an automatic toggle in game for abilities that are necessary to spam or change everything around to where spamming isn't necessary.
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I wouldn't consider a nerf to firebird's a nerf to wizards in general same with crusaders. Set balancing isn't the same as class balancing. Your title is pretty misleading.
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So I've been rattling this idea in my head for awhile now but I think it's time blizzard moved past just jewelry slots for the legendary gems.
Yes we have Gem of Ease but that's one gem out of almost twenty and many of the gems we do have don't see much play. I think it's time we moved past gems that are just for the meta (more dps, more toughness, etc.) We need some adventuring gems, and another slot to do it in so it doesn't screw with builds. The whole having to switch gear/legendary gems is already annoying enough.
My thought was pretty straightforward, using one of the 5 slots that don't come with a socket (shoulders, bracers, gloves, boots, belt) that way you don't have to switch things out and can just keep your utility gem even though it won't have much effect in GR's.
Ramaladni's Gift now has a chance to drop as ancient. the ancient version can add a socket to jewelry or your belt.
The belt slot would use one of 5 new legendary gems that can only go in that socket:
The concept of having gems that max out at Rank 25 may seem odd but I didn't want these gems to be grindy, I wanted to make something everyone could max out and use without doing a bunch of grinding. Quality of life improving gems so to speak.
TLDR;
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Staff of Herding is a crafted item from the recipe dropped by Izual as the others have said, it's used to access whimsyshire - which is pretty much pointless now with rainbow goblins spawning portals to whimsydale which is the exact same thing.
I assume you're talking about the bovine brodiche which opens a portal to the cow level when used in Kanai's Cube like a Puzzle Ring, I play a wizard and can confirm I haven't found one all season or any last season so I'd say it is filtered out of intelligence loot tables for some reason.
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Gear I would shoot for would be a gesture of orpheus for your weapon, as Gon said an Andariel's Visage with +arcane damage, get yourself a RoRG and craft Aughild's shoulders & bracers (+arcane on bracers obviously). shoot for a stone of jordan with + arcane and then try to get some tal'rasha pieces for the arcane power regen.
Your source is good since it has APoC on it but if you can swap it out for a tal'rasha(only if you have enough for the set bonus) or mirrorball since you're using MM as your generator that would be more beneficial. If you have one that rolled decently try to get +torrent/+mm/or apoc on it.
Other than that invest your paragon points into resource cost reduction and if you can get some on your gear without gimping your dps shoot for that. You "should" be using Arcane Dynamo as a passive, the idea here is to build to five stacks and then never stop your channel. Work in prodigy if you can if you're having Arcane Power issues. I would swap out audacity for arcane dynamo and you should notice a pretty substantial dps boost with that. Torrent is a ranged build so you don't need to be face tanking things but sometimes it happens, passives i would go with are Blur, Unwavering Will, Astral Presence, Arcane Dynamo.
Your boots also need replaced once you have enough paragon points to get to the 25% movement speed cap with your points alone, movement speed always takes up a primary slot that could be used elsewhere. There's a whole thread on it somewhere.
Best of luck on your search.
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Hope that helps, I'm not certain when it comes to weapons as I have crap luck with them.