It doesn't affect it directly, but it will affect things indirectly because it is increasing your weapon damage.
The element type for the +damage on your weapon is irrelevant for nearly all skills. If i recall, it still does affect some things like being able to proc elemental exposure for a wizard, but largely its just a holdover from vanilla d3 that could be simplified into a simple +damage roll for the weapon without element modifier.
That is to say, if you had a 100 damage weapon and had +50 to poison on that weapon, your locust swarm would consider your weapon damage to be 150. If instead you had +50 arcane damage it would still treat your weapon damage as 150. And in both cases the element type applied by the skill (that is to say, what +% element gear would affect it) would depend solely on the skill/rune combo you use.
The magnitude of +damage matters enormously. The element type of +damage only matters in a few very specific scenarios (of which locust swarm would not be one).
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I would be thrilled for a Diablo 2 rework, full HD with great textures and high resolutions.
As far as Diablo 4 goes... i honestly do not know.
Main thing i miss in diablo 3 is atmosphere and excitement.
Diablo 3 feels like a game where all you do is grind, and the highest form of fun is improving DPS by some numerical value.
I still play Diablo 2 just for the awesome atmosphere and adventure, without even bothering with some numerical bullshiet.
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I see no mention of extra stash in any of the latest 2.4 previews.
I hope blizzard rethinks this whole "must play season to improve your UI (stash" approach.
A lot of people have ZERO interest in playing in seasons, we actually hate it.
Starting from zero is one of the most boring and annoying things in diablo 3.
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I fully agree that improving stash space should be tied to a requirement/task.
I disagree that it should be related to Seasons.
I want to play on my characters that actually mean to me - not on a brand new naked Seasonal character that is boring to play and useless as soon as season is over.
Just put the stash space upgrade behind something that both non-season and season players want to do...
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Getting the season journey is nothing hard, but i find no fun in it - and i get no use out of that character.
It is a few days of useless hassle to do one season journey (times 4 for the four tabs spread over four seasons).
I just see no reason for a mandatory UI upgrade to be tied to a niche play style.
Quality of Life upgrades should be available for all players since they are very useful to all players, regardless of season/non-season.
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I just see no value or fun in starting from ZERO.
I am sure other people do, but i do not.
Stash space is mandatory - especially when you have 1 of each class, and each of them has a set or two.
The current amount of stash space is beyond too little... having 5 tabs PER CHARACTER would be more sensible than what we got today.
I do not like anything that the Seasonal playstyle is offering... in fact, i detest it.
I do not see any reason to hide a mandatory Quality of Life upgrade (such as Stash space) behind content that is so specific and niche.
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If that Journey thing is per character and i need 4 to reach 10 (5 base + 1 from gold), then i have to fully play 4 seasonal characters?
Or is the Journey thing actually ONE per season - and i need to play 4 entire seasons to get the 4 tabs?
Either way it is A LOT of forced seasonal content, and i do not have even one friend that likes the Seasonal content (among the 10 i play d3 with)...
Really shitty decision by blizzard, i hope they make all stash tabs available through (huge) amounts of gold.
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Blizz quote: "we’re also adding a way for players to earn additional Stash tabs, up to a maximum of 10, through our Season Journey feature."
It is a recent quote from blizzcon, and anything can change until release, but this way of thinking is incredibly bad and completely wrong (imo).
I am not a fan of the entire season thing, i do not like re-leveling over and over and competing for some epeen points on a ladder.
I like using my old characters that i have played on since d3 released, no point or interest for me in making a new one for the "season".
But what i do need is some damn stash space, especially since ALL d3 chars share the same tiny bank (who thought of that idea!?).
As someone that really hates the seasonal thing and i definitely do not want to do it - i can not gain any more stash tabs aside from the pitiful 1 i can buy with gold?
I do not understand why do only "seasonal" players need the extra stash space, while us non-seasonal players flat out can't get more than 1 tab?
I understand they are trying to motivate ppl to do seasonal content, but forcing people into it just for some mandatory UI (stash) upgrades is awful.
Stash space is something very useful to ANY d3 player, regardless of seasonal or not... makes no sense to screw over non-seasonal players.
D3 has by far the worst bag management i have seen in any game since 2005., and this "seasonal players only" thing is definitely NOT helping...
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Why is paragon this important to you?
Are you competing for the "top 5 best monster slayers" so you really need those 0.0001% improvements that you get for a paragon level?
Or do you just like having some bar to fill up, out of some compulsory need for visual progress or something?
I honestly completely ignore paragon levels.
Every 10 or 15 gained levels i actually remember they exist, so i slap the points wherever the guide told me to.
Never have i cared about paragon levels or even bothered to farm for them.
If you are playing d3 so extremely competitively that ultra-high paragon is something absolutely mandatory, i really don't know what to tell you.
We are just playing completely different games...