I'm new to crusader, but what do you think about nailbiter?
I know it isn't as fast as pigsticker, but it rolls with thorns.
The attack speed difference is massive though. Maces are the slowest weapons you can get, so the few thousand thorns you get from it doesn't make up for base 0.5 slower attack speed.
If you don't have anything else? Yes it's fine. But it doesn't compare to pig sticker, especially once you have higher thorns value as you gear up (and upgrade the thorns gem).
As for the block part: I'm currently close to capping without the 30% passive and just went with the 15% attack speed passive for punish (I suck at remembering their names). Don't know how much of an increase this 15% is though and how it stacks. Anyone got the numbers?
You can be elitest and blame them for their ignorance I guess but that doesn't change the fact that it wasn't a fair change to them. Also, even people "in the know" didn't know weapons would be affected as well. Personally, I didn't think they would touch weapons and I was a bit surprised to see that they changed them as well.
How is it elitist? Everyone is responsible for their own actions, so especially when it comes to purchasing things with real money, people are expected to look into if something does what they want it to do before they buy it.
Also, you state something as fact which is clearly an opinion. The change was fair as it was made with game balance in mind, IAS was WAY overbudget so it got reduced. It's not like it became worse than other stats, just pulled in line with (possible counter argument is crit/crit damage, but that is due to scaling and this was like this before 1.0.3 as well).
They made it very clear that the change would be because of item budget, so all items were affected. Why did you think weapons would be excluded? That would make IAS on weapons even MORE overpowered (as it would be the single most powerful upgrade you would be able to get).
I see this no differently than other purchases that go down in value after a while: you could use it at it's max potential for a while, but if you wanted that to last, you shoulda done some research first.
How do you expect anyone to take you seriously if you cannot communicate clearly on a most basic level? Your post is a giant jumble of words and rage.
Wow... I was just gonna post this (+ what is in your post after this) but it seems you beat me to it.
So, pretty much what he said... I just love these people applying their own view of what this game is supposed to be in their eyes and then complain when it isn't And of course nothing is EVER their own fault. Noooo, it's the game, or blizzard, or fanboys!
No worries, 4 butcher runs in the space of 1 act 3 run with good gear. lets go.
Just because they CAN drop the higher ilevel items, doesn't mean they will.
Hell, iirc they showed a table that showed that Act 1 would have a very low chance to drop those, so if you CAN do act 3 runs (within a reasonable timeframe) you'd still be better off doing that.
I'm knocking the crap out of Act II with only 100-200 resistances, need to raise it to 400'ish for Act III, and it does require a certain sprintspec as well.
Hmmm, would you mind posting some more info on this please?
I'd like to know your other stats + build if it is true what you're saying here
Sorry to nitpick (don't like posting anything without adding something to the convo) but the post I quoted is essentially the meaning of "suggesting something". It's different however if you didn't "mean" to suggest something.
I know this might not seem obvious to most people, but it's a fine difference that could make people believe you said something that you did not mean to say
Once again, I'm sorry I couldn't add something to the topic, I'm not attempting to just attack/flame you or anything
The random people I played with at least agreed with me on the story.
And with some games.
There are always people who will waste their time on complete @$%^.
There are always people who continue to play THOSE games.
I'm sure you're one of them.
Judging from own experience and making assumptions, that's a good way to get into an argument!
Oh wait... it isn't, just like how you did not describe WHY you don't like aspects of the game in your OP.
You seem to assume that everyone shares your opinion, well here's a newsflash: We don't! We all have our own ones. They can be influenced, but only by reason and arguments, not just because 'you said so'.
IAS will be nerfed? Just thought that that ability will be rarer to spawn on items.
It will get nerfed SOMEHOW, they just haven't said how yet.
2 of the possible ways they said will be either IAS will have some sort of DR, IAS will simply scale less or items will have less IAS % on them in general.
What Arotished suggests would simply keep IAS as powerful as it is, but skyrocket the prices of items with IAS on them and reduce the supply on the AH. Not a very good solution IMO
But yea, I'm in the same boat atm: IAS items are expensive, and we don't know how good they will be after the "nerf", so buying them now could be a massive deal, or a massive waste of gold
Frankly, I think items with socketed gems should not be allowed to be put on the AH. They should have to be removed.
Either that or do not count the gem as attributing to stat filters on the AH (aside from the "has socket" one obviously).
It does make searching the (already loaded) AH even more a pain in the ass than it already is, hopefully they'll reiterate on the AH sooner rather than later.
The thing is however, say I have an item that I've been using myself with a socket, obviously it will have a gem in the socket.
Now I get an upgrade sometime later and I want to sell said item, I'm not gonna pay EXTRA just to remove the gem and then sell it. And it's not like I REALLY need the gem either (unless it's a perfect square or something), because much like you said, everyone already has a ton of gems stashed
So yea, I can see the issue, however I do not think people are selling gemmed items solely for the purpose of tricking people into buying an item that's worse than it looks, like the OP suggested. Not saying that isn't the case at all either, but I think his frustrations are misplaced, as it's more an issue with AH not filtering stats attributed by gems properly (or at least not giving us the option to do so).
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If you don't have anything else? Yes it's fine. But it doesn't compare to pig sticker, especially once you have higher thorns value as you gear up (and upgrade the thorns gem).
As for the block part: I'm currently close to capping without the 30% passive and just went with the 15% attack speed passive for punish (I suck at remembering their names). Don't know how much of an increase this 15% is though and how it stacks. Anyone got the numbers?
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Also, you state something as fact which is clearly an opinion. The change was fair as it was made with game balance in mind, IAS was WAY overbudget so it got reduced. It's not like it became worse than other stats, just pulled in line with (possible counter argument is crit/crit damage, but that is due to scaling and this was like this before 1.0.3 as well).
They made it very clear that the change would be because of item budget, so all items were affected. Why did you think weapons would be excluded? That would make IAS on weapons even MORE overpowered (as it would be the single most powerful upgrade you would be able to get).
I see this no differently than other purchases that go down in value after a while: you could use it at it's max potential for a while, but if you wanted that to last, you shoulda done some research first.
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So, pretty much what he said... I just love these people applying their own view of what this game is supposed to be in their eyes and then complain when it isn't
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Hell, iirc they showed a table that showed that Act 1 would have a very low chance to drop those, so if you CAN do act 3 runs (within a reasonable timeframe) you'd still be better off doing that.
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Hmmm, would you mind posting some more info on this please?
I'd like to know your other stats + build if it is true what you're saying here
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Oh wait... it isn't, just like how you did not describe WHY you don't like aspects of the game in your OP.
You seem to assume that everyone shares your opinion, well here's a newsflash: We don't! We all have our own ones. They can be influenced, but only by reason and arguments, not just because 'you said so'.
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2 of the possible ways they said will be either IAS will have some sort of DR, IAS will simply scale less or items will have less IAS % on them in general.
What Arotished suggests would simply keep IAS as powerful as it is, but skyrocket the prices of items with IAS on them and reduce the supply on the AH. Not a very good solution IMO
But yea, I'm in the same boat atm: IAS items are expensive, and we don't know how good they will be after the "nerf", so buying them now could be a massive deal, or a massive waste of gold
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It does make searching the (already loaded) AH even more a pain in the ass than it already is, hopefully they'll reiterate on the AH sooner rather than later.
The thing is however, say I have an item that I've been using myself with a socket, obviously it will have a gem in the socket.
Now I get an upgrade sometime later and I want to sell said item, I'm not gonna pay EXTRA just to remove the gem and then sell it. And it's not like I REALLY need the gem either (unless it's a perfect square or something), because much like you said, everyone already has a ton of gems stashed
So yea, I can see the issue, however I do not think people are selling gemmed items solely for the purpose of tricking people into buying an item that's worse than it looks, like the OP suggested. Not saying that isn't the case at all either, but I think his frustrations are misplaced, as it's more an issue with AH not filtering stats attributed by gems properly (or at least not giving us the option to do so).
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