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I'll start saying that i've been playing PoE for 1k hours since i quit D3. I came back recently to realize how good some things are here compared to other games.

The game surprisingly still gave me hours of fun when i logged onto my non-seasonal characters and played some rifts. I wasn't aiming for the leaderboards or anything like that just roleplaying, listening to music and slaying monsters non stop and getting rewards in every rift. I had all cosmetics unlocked and didn't had to pay for any lootboxes or microtransactions to customize my characters. The animated wings were so beatiful and made my crusader look like a true god.

I just cannot explain how wrong i were on some of the things i said before i left. This game was worth every euro i spent on it. Glad i still can enjoy this and even if there isn't anything new the game on it's own is great. It doesn't feel buggy at all and it's the smoothest action i've ever experienced.

Just wanted to shoutout all D3 fans out there before we get D4 MMO version with lootboxes and such. I'm just glad i got to play D3 again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXAuFw_LfNw

Found some testing in youtube for those who don't beleive it.

Necromancers will be defenitely up there in terms of dps. Rathma's + Jesseth is legit for both trash and boss killing. Not sure if you might find 2 necros as dps with different auras. The passive that increases damage per each enemy affected by auras will scale very good with density and also considering necromancers have a ring that benefit a lot from cc effects. monks/barbs will still be the group's core unless they get nerfed even more.

Non-meta wise you can still play dps with some builds (hammerdin/rolands crusader, whirldwind/earthquake barb , gen/uliana's monk, marauder's/UE dh, firebirds/dmo wiz, firebats wd...) and clear 100s if properly geared and augmented and with the right team.

Things like spirit barrage wd or impale demon hunters are just very efficient at what they do and they still will be a part of the meta or at least be an alternative.

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I have a question about botting. I was wondering how to recognise bot leecher? what I mean is what is game developer doing to prevent some guy to intentionally take(buy) 3 other accounts set them to bot on 3 other pc, and set them to drop items they farm while playing legit on primary account .. for exsample isn't it obvious something fishy is going on on leader boards with that blackbird guy(eu) ... he has already 8 primal ancient equipment... when I compare him to other players they usually have 3-5 peces of equipment...also he is 3000 para and I am 1400 and I don't have single one usefull peace of equipment while he has 8 maby more..

For a quick leveling is just better to have a clan and powerlevel each other to 70. It takes 1-2 rifts max to get to level 70 with a gem of ease rank 70. After that just craft/gamble lvl 70 items. Maybe upgrade rares on the cube and you are good to go in less than 20 min.

Just think only about the 5% player base that is pushing/grinding the gr meta. That's why you often see "D3 is dead" because the other 95% quit the game because of lack of content.

The problem is that they are not PoE players ranting about other games. They are actually Diablo fans that have grinded this game a lot and eventually decided to quit because of lack of new content and gameplay issues. They switched to PoE, WoW or any other game and they are giving their opinion on the current state of D3 after experimenting other things. I haven't ever played PoE but i might just try it out.

What's really fucked up is the GR meta in this game. Eventually progression slows down once you have all gear ancient at let's say 85% perfection. At that point all you have to do is level up gems/paragons/augment items. The problem with this is that is conditionated by the people you play GRs with. Public GRs lobbies are a complete shitshow and a good and stable group is hard to find.

You could say there is a lot of builds to try out. But the effectiveness is always conditionated by gems/paragons/augments. At that point you probably quit the game until next season just to see what's new. I haven't played PoE but i'm quite sure it's much better than D3 at this point. Playing for leaderboards takes an insane amount of time and even solo leaderboards requires to go multiplayer just for the upgrades.

I was really excited for Primal Ancient items this season. But after seeing that you can get 2 or more bad rolls on them making your ancient item better than the "end game" item, i'm not excited anymore.

Same thing happens to me. I mostly play DH which actually has the biggest diversity in useful builds. Still there are some things like elemental arrow, chakram, cold grandes, LoN spike traps that simply don't work because bad in-game mechanics. It is very easy to balance this things to the 40,000% impale damage just by fixing the way they interact with legendary gems and other legendary items.

Cold skills are terrible since mobs eventually become inmune to freeze. Rimeheart/frostburn combo which could make a lot of interesting cold builds interesting is fully useless instead.

Can't imagine how bad that feels on a WD with only one build for grs.

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I'm agreeing with most of the stuff here, basic crux is that you completely gimp yourself by not forcing yourself to play multiplayer, I just don't like playing in groups and having to go on teamspeak and not be able to pause to go feed a cat or answer an email, general life things. its a losing situation because all anyone judges you on is your paragon level, regardless of your skill.

Maybe just stop trying to compete against the people that play 10h/day and only judge others because of paragon. Who cares about their judgment? If you are playing solo like me you shouldn't. Leaderboards are a joke we all know that. Only thing that matters is inner judgment and playing for fun. Just try out all the amazing builds out there and see how far you can get with them. Put some music on, destroy some mobs and relax.

Yet another Verdict video ready for another set: Bones of Rathma.

https://youtu.be/MfduCP__DPA
This is supposed to be the 100% pet-oriented set and really like it. But so far it's waaay too spammy and the efficiency and enjoyment are greatly diminished by this kind of gameplay. Also, toughness is simply terrible, so it's almost entirely like the good old BoreTooth where you have to hide and sit behind the corner.. waiting for your minions to kill everything. But even BoreTooth was not so squishy! Let's take a deep look!

Patch 2.6 Adventure Mode Changes

• New Zones: The Moors & The Temple of the Firstborn
• The fog-enshrouded Moors and the darkened Temple of the Firstborn can be explored in Adventure Mode through a new waypoint on the Act 2 map.

• Set Dungeons
• The user interface has been updated to better explain tier completion requirements.
• With this, the basic completion tier must be finished within the given time limit.

• The time limit to complete a Set Dungeon has been increased to 5 minutes
• Necromancer Set Dungeons have been added to Adventure Mode
• Set dungeon monsters are now tracked on the mini-map when the dungeon begins
• All Basic Tier monster kill requirements have been lowered

• Bounties
• Four new Waypoints have appeared in Act IV. Each one has bounties to complete. These Realms of Fate are the unintended consequences of the battle between the nephalem and Diablo in the High Heavens

• Greater Rifts
• Players who die in solo Greater Rifts can now choose to immediately resurrect. When choosing this option, the time remaining on your death timer will be removed from the remaining Greater Rift time and your cooldowns will be advanced by the same amount.

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Sometimes is hard to tell which players are botting and which ones are dedicated. With the actaul power creep you can grind paragons fairly easily. I would completely ban all cow level exploiters though but i think they won't since you can't really tell who is doing that.

So, a lot of these posts are focusing on leader boards, and comparing grift stats, and all of the sort of faff that makes me feel like my life has become exactly as terribly sad as my full chest with every DH set seems to indicate it is. I like the idea of D3 being more competitive, but leader boards just aren't satisfying, especially when compared to, say, the visceral joy of wrecking your friend's day by reducing them to a pile of red goo.

Honestly, I think some variation on the existent PvP to make it more than a match of "who can press the button fastest to get the first insta kill" would vastly improve D3 in terms of competitiveness. Perhaps have PvP focused gear, or directly change the stats so that defense exists (and considering it's still possible to insta kill a fully decked out barb or crusader as a dh with a well placed impale, defense buffs would be needed).

Just saying, I don't care about leader boards (scandal, I know). If I want to compete, I want the satisfaction of carving up little bits of my opponent, and serving it to them.

Since patch 2.4.2 EPs applied by U2 will proc Area Damage.

Take a look at Davlok's post here for confirmation.

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/d3/topic/16527322731?page=25

Hi. Lately i feel very disapointed about d3 after having played season 10 with my WD for a quite time.

my wd is 560 paragon levels, and beaten GR 71 as of now. i was really enjoying the game, feeling of progression and experimenting stuff.. but it stopped.

my problem at this point is.. not about lack of endgame content or atmosphere(.now of course those are issues, but they are already spoken a lot and i see no reason to discuss endgame or atmosphere of d3.) it is.. the lack of diversity, illusion of diversity in this game.

grasp of the dead... sacrifice... zombie bears.. all those skills... primary skills... lots of passive skills... there are tons of useless skills that drives me angry when i try to make builds for them, because simply, they DONT WORK!

and even worse, there are lots of cool looking items ---which are acctually not cool enough--- make one believe that you can do something if you use them... WRONG! apparently thats just an illusion. when you really put them on, and try to slay some demons, you see you just suck! you deal no damage or die instantly or both!

this game is very unbalanced and this really disturbs me. more then half a content for wd is just in the game to create an illusion of choice... i suspect same thing goes on with other heroes too. after all these years of developement AND even moving on to design another hero(necro) one expects core game to be in a good position allready... but im not seeing that at all!

i think devs should inspect closer and test every single item, tweak numbers here and there, and if necessary, even add some new items to make some combinations possible to work as they should. i ve only seen such change for spirit barrage, only 1 skill in whole wd skillset. its not useless anymore thankfully but.. saying again, its only 1 skill among all those useless pile of skills/items.

and theres also another issue, some usefull skills have wierd problems to be solved... for example soul harvest skill.. its very problematic when you enter boss fight, especcialy againts boss who are far, far away from white mobs... like the way to cydea. how am i supposed to use and stack this skill in cydea fight? frustrating...

to cut it short, i think there is a big unthouched sad pile of useless stuff in d3 still which are still not adressed/fixed.

whats your thoughts on this ?

btw, im sorry if my english is too bad and if makes it difficult to understand.

Blizzard would never consider anything like this unless..

1. They solve the botting problem (lul)
2. The game is absolutely dead
3. The game turns into Diablo 2 where it's ravaged by chinese gold farmers and bots and they straight up can't fix it

So... not likely

The issue is not how to find a group or clan. It's how extreme the disadvantage to play solo currently is.

Firstly solo play do not need to be more rewarding than multiplayer in any way.

There is a huge gap between making solo play more rewarding than multiplayer, and where this balance sits today.

Inheritly playing any games with friends offer a better experience than playing it by yourself for most players.

This alone is such a big factor, that multiplayer do not really need any other advantages or incentives to keep multiplayer the prefer mode in general.

But that's where Blizzard has fucked it up so badly, by adding way more incentives / rewards than needed to multiplayer.

XP gains, and loot sharing is the obvious carrots, but how a group simplifies the game when it starts to get difficult solo is what Blizzard should really consider.

The element of having 3 other players being targetted aswell, how mobs dont scale properly with number of players, how paradoxal support or zdps specs role is in a hack'n'slash game.

Blizzard should also really consider the reasons why some choose to play solo, why some actually enjoy playing the game as it was meant to be.

The ones who do not care about cheats/huds, "meta" or fanboying some youtubers / streamers.

Having the option to play solo when your friends is not available, with any spec or class you want.

Instead of having to get carried as a support since thats what they need for their circle-meta-jerk.

If just mutliplayer / soloplayer was balanced somewhat in regards of difficulty firstly,

it wouldn't feel as crippling to play solo, even if it yields abit less xp and loot.

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Just shut up you whiny little people, if you play ANY GAME AT ALL that much, obviously something made you like it, stop crying about the fact you got 3,000 hours of gameplay out of 80 bucks for ***** sakes!

They obviously put thousands of hours into it because D2 was so good. They could have made D3 the equivalent of watching paint dry and people would've played it for thousands of hours, BECAUSE DIABLO 2 IS SO DAMN GOOD.

Have I mentioned how astonishing good D2 is btw? It's like the best game of all times now and forever.