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http://d3resource.com/difficulties.png
Is updated now (well, it was only one small change - TX bounties now drop 5 materials per cache).
http://d3resource.com/difficulties-s4.png will be the archived old overview.
If anyone wants to keep track of their stats I'd be much obliged; although all of those numbers have been consolidated thanks to all the contributions of the community, and they're all based on large numbers, maybe there are some changes in 2.4 that we still missed.
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Yes, yes there is forum for that 
Was at the Palazzo on the strip the other day and came across a shop selling custom spirits, reminded me of bottles of potions, mana, health, and other elixirs in Diablo so I took a few photos.
Bottoms up 
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Must add to this thread!
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My response (copied from Reddit): 100% agree. Actually, I think this ruins itemization on so many levels:
I don't like this direction Diablo is heading. Maybe I'm the only one, but I was never motivated in D2 to play for a "constant reward loop", i.e., one more level for another 100 Baal runs. What kept me playing was serendipitous discovery. An insanely lucky rare item with godly rolls. One of the elusive high runes that would unlock a new runeword. I felt like Ahab hunting the White Whale, except for I didn't even know exactly what it looked like - but I knew if I kept hunting, I had a chance (not a guarantee) to find it and leapfrog my character power. Diablo 3 doesn't have that anymore AT ALL. Play a day more and you get a guaranteed 50 or so main stat from paragon, in S5 add a guaranteed 200 or so main stat from adding an augmentation to a new item, and the only unknown variable in progress *might* be a new item that yields a 20 main stat increase due to even more perfect rolls. Yay. Does that keep you playing? Good for you then. It doesn't work for me anymore.
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Okay I guess if you two really need the recognition;Quote from Ragestyles»
it was not him finding the bugs.
he watched me and alkaizer figuring it out live on stream earlier today.
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A possible way to implement something that has been suggested by many people before (with pics!).
[TL;DR: Inspired by Community-created 'challenges' such as: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/3r3y0z/season_3_rdiablo_billions_of_misfortunate_builds/ Custom rifts would allow the creation of specific Rifts to support and facilitate such Community-created events to provide an alternative end-game than GRift Fishing.]
Mob Types (default, all selected): Select which mobs will be present in the rift, based on which act they originate from. Tired of wasps? Remove Act 2 mobs.
Mob Density (default, 3): Select from preset mob density values e.g. 1 = minimum density, 6 = maximum density.
Elite Types (default, all selected): Remove Yellow or Blue packs.
Elite Affixes (default, all selected): Remove certain elite affixes.
Timer (default, selected, 15 mins): change the duration of the timer, or remove the timer completely.
Deaths Allowed (default, unselected): unselected means infinite number of deaths allowed, as per usual in Softcore mode. But if selected, then only a certain amount of deaths would be allowed before the Rift was automatically failed.
Mob CC Resistance (default, selected, 95%): This is for mob CC resistance cap. Currently in patch 2.3 it has been increased to 95%, up from 65% of the previous patch. This value wouldn’t change the inherent CC resistance gain and decay stats of patch 2.3: 10% increased resistance per 1 second under CC, and the decay of 5% resistance per second while out of CC e.g. if this value was set at 0%, then mobs would have no resistance at all to CC effects and could easily be perma-stunned. If set to 100% then mobs would increase their CC resistance by 10% per second of CC, up to 100% and then be immune to all CC effects, until their resistance decayed. 65% would be similarish CC-effects of patch 2.2.
Misc. Opts: Remove health/nephalem globes entirely if desired. Allow gold drops and clickables to make use of items like http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/goldwrap, http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/harrington-waistguard, and other interesting items that cannot be used in GRifts simply because gold drops and clickables have been removed from them. (To prevent people cheesing and farming gold you could make it so that any gold picked up in the GRift doesn’t go to the player’s account).
Remove all sources of healing, from abilities or item stats etc., so that you only have a starting health pool and that’s all you have to work with.
Item Types (default, all selected): Disallow Ancient items or Legendary items. Disallow sets, or restrict the amount of set items (per set) you can equip e.g. so you can only equip 2 set items per set. Or change the amount of sets you can equip, e.g. only 2-pieces from a set, and only 1 set allowed. Can remove Legendary gems, or just restrict the level the gem can be, to avoid group-leveled gems from dominating.
Item Slots (default, all selected): Want to remove jewelry? Want to force builds that don’t have pants? Go nuts.
Maps (default, all selected): Select which map types you want in the pool. It may be impractical to list all the individual maps, so maybe just a selection from Act I, II, III etc.
Rift Guardian (default, 1, all selected): Select which RGs you want to be available to spawn. Or remove the RG entirely. Or maybe you’re insane and want more than 1 RG to make the end of a GRift more like the Uber battles.
Pylons (default, all Pylons selected, no Shrines selected): Select which Pylons/Shrines you want to be able to spawn.
Difficulty Level Range (default, 1 – 100): Set which GRift level range the GRift starts at and maxes out at, to allow a range of difficulties, or you may just want to set it at one difficulty. Maybe you want to set the Grift at, say, level 60 and just see how fast people can complete that difficulty level.
Rift Level Range (default, 1 – 10): This is the number of map levels in the actual Rift, I believe 10 is currently the max. Maybe you want the rift to only have 1 single map level so you put the max at 1. There may be some technical difficulties here with the interaction between Mob Density meter to make one level have sufficient mobs for 100% progress, so maybe this option isn't viable.
Paragon Points (default, unselected): Set a cap for the number of paragon points that can be allocated before entering the custom rift, to make paragon grinding not the be-all and end-all.
Stat Caps (default, none selected): Set caps for particular character stats. Leave unselected to leave uncapped, as per normal. This particular example has crit chance and crit damage capped at the inherent bases of 5 and 50, and Elemental damage capped at 0% and Attack speed capped at 1 APS. This would only affect unbuffed sheet stats from gear and passive effects, but would obviously not include dynamic/active buffs.
Classes and Team Size (default, all selected): Allows the setting of what classes and number of players could partake in the custom rift. Maybe the monk community wants to create a rift to see how monks perform on that particular rift, or maybe the Demon Hunters want to see what kind of 4-player DH groups can do against each other. Or maybe force a mixture of Monk + Crusader teams, etc.
Followers (default, 1, Multiplayer off, all other selected): Restrict access to only particular followers, or allow more than 1 follower to be used, or allow followers in multiplayer.
Once you’ve chosen all your settings, now you Create the Custom Rift. First you name it, select whether it is open to public or not, and whether it is a Static Rift.
STATIC RIFTS (this is an important option, and deserves a separate discussion to itself)
A non-Static rift would simply operate as regular Rifts and Grifts currently do i.e. whenever you enter a new rift it randomizes (from the set criteria) the rift. So, even if you select only 1 map-type etc. for your Custom Rift, but do not set it as Static, it will still randomly create a rift based on that one map type and the other criteria every time someone attempts that rift. A Static Rift, however, will only create one single rift when the creator/designer of the Custom Rift initially creates the Custom Rift, and from then on all subsequent openings of that rift, by anyone, will all be exactly the same, from the map layout to the monsters’ spawn location and type, pylon location etc. Everything is identical for every player who opens that Custom Rift (excluding RG spawn location, obviously).
PROS of a Static Rift
CONS
If you’re still unconvinced by Custom Rifts, well, simple: there’s no need to play these Custom Rifts at all if you have no interest in them. You miss out on nothing by not playing them. It’s just like how some people will never play Hardcore-mode and they don’t miss out on anything by not. Which brings me to my next important point.
NO LOOT
Custom Rifts would have no loot. None at all (not even from the Rift Guardian). And no experience gained. This is partly so that people couldn’t cheese and create some easy farming rift, but more so because Custom Rifts would be purely about the fun of the competition, just like those countless other games we play because people enjoy competing against each other – that’s what drives (in part) communities. We can see this where D3 communities are already (and have been for a long time) creating their own friendly competitions/challenges in order to keep themselves entertained when there’s little else in the game for them to do, and GRift-fishing becomes too tedious. For examples see the old T6 speed-clearing competition ( http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/14609681171#1 ), the HC No Set Challenge (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/18000139876?page=1 ), the Reddit Challenge ( https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo/wiki/weeklychallenge_s1 ), and I’m sure there’s many more.
Lastly, just to touch on the some of the logistics of a potential Custom Rift system.
‘How would you search for or join a Custom Rift?’
The search system currently used for Communities could be duplicated to provide a search system for Custom Rifts. You could filter the search via words in the title or description - it would likely be too difficult to filter the search by every possible criteria that the Custom Rift could vary by, but one important criteria that should be filterable is Static or non-Static Rifts. This must be a filter option.
The search would return all the Custom Rifts that satisfy the criteria, ordered by most populated at the top, similar to the Community search feature. Clicking on a particular Custom Rift would provide a short description of the Custom Rift made by the creator, and list a few of the more prominent categories, highlighting those that are altered from the default (which you could further explore by looking at the details of the Custom Rift). Clicking Join Custom Rift will add that Custom Rift to your list of ‘My Custom Rifts’.
Open a game and go to the Rift Pylon, as per usual when entering a rift. The Custom drop-down lists all of ‘My Custom Rifts’ i.e. all those Custom Rifts that I have ‘joined’, by searching for them as you would search for and join a Community. Once a specific Custom Rift is selected it checks your current gear setup against the criteria of that Custom Rift to see if they are satisfied. If no, an error message is displayed. If yes, then another drop-down for the level of Custom Rift would appear for you to select the level (as currently happens with Greater Rifts). Entering a Custom Rift does not require any kind of ‘key’ – you can enter as many times as you want for ‘free’. This is allowable because Custom Rifts don’t provide you with any loot/xp/gold/etc. and so cannot be ‘farmed’.
This suggestion of Leaderboards has Custom Rifts as a separate category to Greater Rift Leaderboards. However, Greater Rift Leaderboards could potentially just be removed, if Custom Rifts become the prime place where players can compete against each other for Leaderboard positions, and Greater Rifts can just be another place to farm LGems/xp/loot etc.
As you can see in the pic there is an added drop-down list for selecting which Custom Rift Leaderboard you wish to peruse. This drop-down automatically lists the 10 most populous Custom Rifts, and then below this is the list of ‘my’ Custom Rifts that I've personally joined (if they’re not in the top 10 most populous list already). This example assumes that the separate class communities have split off into their own specific Rifts. However, that won't necessarily happen, and the D3 community as a whole may decide on one type of Custom Rift that is good for all class-types.
Thanks for taking the time to read! Any feedback/suggestions would be great. Do you think some type of Custom Rift system would be viable??
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and I get that, in the strictest interpretation. But my argument is this: High level GR play is extremely flawed; the density and mob makeup is atrocious, and you NEED THud to actually complete most high level rifts because they are so broken. The definition of cheating is gaining an unfair advantage; THud just levels the playing field of a broken system.
I really dont consider ThuD cheating. It shows you information that SHOULD be in game already; in particular, you're DPS and how skills/different legendary powers influence your character. ThuD is bending the rules to make the game make more sense / more enjoyable.
Botting is outright cheating, and that's why I do not play Diablo 3 anymore.
Just because you think it's ok doesn't make it ok. It's against the law (here blizz d3 TOS 2) and hence it is not allowed. This is a typical saying of any criminal hence, somebody using Thud is a criminal in the official sense.
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I don't think there are two different opinions about bots (unless you're a botter)
Hell, I'm a botter and I'm signing.
Really, if you can get rid of botting, ban me, I'll gladly take the fall.
The worst thing about botting is really that some players hate it, but they feel they have to do it in order to stay relevant and keep up with the botting community.
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Quote from Jalatiphra»
If they patched the game so an RG on GR 70 has 10 billion hp and not 10 trillion hp for an example, and then toned down the players' damage accordingly, wouldn't that reduce server stress? See, i didn't mean that they would add another calculation of divison / multiplication along the way, but rather to reduce all of the numbers in their inception...
no that would not make a difference. as i said, the size of the numbers is not imporant.
If they reduce damage from the players and hp of guardians the situation would still be the same except numbers being smaler. that would not make it better.
you can reproduce the lag on grift 35 or 25. Just fish a high density rift and do not equip a weapon. It will lag like fuck
If the numbers get so big that they are no longer a 32 bit integer, and considering the fact that D3 runs on 32 bit only... Wouldn't that mean that the compiler is emulating 64 bit types and operations onto them, therefore creating a much heavier process on the server in terms of memory usage specifically?
Yes and no. Its true diablo is a 32 bit operation, thus it cannot compute numbers bigger than 32 bit without increased effort.. However
that number is 2147483647 when its signed integer. But make the damage numbers signed is most like not the case since damage is not negative.
So it will have an unsigned integer which maximum damage number is : 4.294.967.295
For comparision the max int for 64 bit unsigned is: 18446744073709551615 . Thats a lot of damage.
Now begins the fun part: You clearly have seen damange number higher then 4.294.967.295 so its safe to assume that a bigger datatype is used.
On 32 bit applications you can have a 64 bit integer too. but its stored in two memory locations, split up in the first and second half. so they are effectively two unsigned ints.
However this comes with a big performance hit. And clearly that is a problem in d3. Because it makes frequent use of this.
Allowing numbers to not get bigger than 4.294.967.295 or convert to 64 bit application, might increase performance. Granted this is exactly what you said earlier (reducing the numbers to gain speed up) However i did not understand you in that way that you referred to this technical limitation because your appraoch was a little bit too vague.
If you change your statement to : change d3 to 64 bit or make sure damage does not get bigger than uint.max then i would have totaly agreed.
While deviding 100000 damage by 100 it would not make a difference to work with either 100000 or 1000. While 14.294.967.295 /10 would make a difference because now the number fits in a 32 bit number again, However you do not solve this problem by division but rather make sure numbers do not get that high.
Also i assume the performacne gain from this would be marginal. The bigger problem is the many state changes and server client synchronisation.
But i have to correct myself. yes you are right , making numbers smaler can increase performance. but this has to be done in another way than you suggested and is only the case for certain big numbers. Which your initial post did not make clear (you probably do not have the required background knowledge).
I am sure that your "make numbers smaler" appraoch would only influence performance by a bit because i can reproduce the lag problems without putting out so big numbers (as i said go to 25 grift and dont equip a weapon - low damage - still lag)
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For player interaction: Warcraft 3 had this custom game called hero-lines:
2 teams of champions keep sending monsters to eachother (costing a resource but also increasing your resource generation) and you had to simply kill these. The faster you kill the things send to you the more gold you have to send new stuff to your opponent.
This type of PVE-pvp would fit the diablo model perfectly.
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TLDR bot all you want but coming here to defend it as if it's a good thing just makes you look like a fool. It's bullshit dude.
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I gotta say this thread has one of the worst titles iv'e seen in a while.
It's not about listening or caring it's about meeting deadlines, budget and priorities. Only the fact that most of the player-base doesn't even engage in high end game competitive action has to say a lot about the developers' priorities. People need to stop with the "blizz dont listen" bullcrap because it's over-dramatic shit that indicates a lack of understanding of reality.
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What's with the surge of dramatic threads lately?
I would suggest creating a "What do you think is wrong with the game" type of thread for everyone to complain at and voice their opinions. Maybe OP could summarize people's complaints every once in a while into the first post...
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If they all have good quality then i would go for the cheaper one because then you won't give too many fucks if it gets broken or lost or stolen.
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Diablo 2 with b.net 2.0 and higher resolutions? Sign me up.
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This letter is about botting and botting is what the people who signed the letter, think that is the worst thing that is happening to the game. I'm glad so many people care about this issue and come to voice their opinion but i really don't understand why you have to disagree with something just because it doesn't fulfill your expectations by 100%... I think we as players in general are a bit spoiled and this attitude of all or nothing is actually pretty bad for us because i think that if this letter would have gained more support and less criticism because people are not satisfied with the fact that it doesn't address other things (that are unrelated imo, thud is unrelated to botting and is not the main issue here), then it would have had more chances at actually creating a change or forcing Blizzard to react, possibly in a bit of a more rushed manner (rushed doesn't have to be bad, just mobilizing resources to a certain direction).
It's hard for people especially mods on this forum to please everyone. It's also hard to argue with 20 different people when it's one mod versus dozens of newcomers or old timers that are all arguing the same points over and over, often without reading what the mods have had to say in previous posts. It's also really stupid in my opinion how some people are offended by the claim that whoever is opposed to this letter is probably a botter because it's just a logical assumption and really, what did you expect? I think people need to lay off a bit and try to focus on the main issue here and that is the fact that D3 is turning into a complete bot fest and if you don't think it's true then i think you are either fooling yourself or just unaware of the magnitude of the problem.
TL:DR: I botted, i used Thud / D3helper whatever and i am in favor of all of those being limited and completely removed but some features of Thud need to stay until Blizzard implements UI modding support. Botting is the main issue here and diverting the focus from the main issue towards lesser issues like Thud is effectively a disservice to the community as a whole because expecting Thud to become "illegal" is simply unrealistic according to what we have seen in the past, and that does not apply to botting therefore this letter receives my (humble
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I might agree with OP that D3 is not dead but i completely disagree with the notion that the console version should have never been developed. The console version is probably the most successful thing that came out of D3 as a whole. I would also recommend anyone to try it out given the chance. Forget that pc vs console bullshit, the game actually feels a lot better with a controller (couch, big screen tv, etc...). Sure it does have downsides like limited "real" competition because of the ability to edit game files but seriously the competition in D3 on pc is bullshit anyway.