I read through the comments of that theory thursday post on battle.net and there is literally 0 positive comment.
Not sure what to think
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May 1, 2014mannercookie posted a message on Mikhail's Daily Gambling Thread, Theorycraft Thursdays: ZiPS' Unholy Monk, WW Lightning Build For New BarbsPosted in: News
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Apr 22, 2014mannercookie posted a message on Skills To Get Their Elemental Type Shifted, Legendary Sources and Mojos To Be Buffed, BoP Working As Intended, Condemn BuildThe 6 piece crusader set was basically blizzard's hotfix during the beta to make the Crusader a viable class for end-game before release.Posted in: News
There is build diversity, but yes it does require armor of akkhan if you are wanting to push to end-game content (Torment-6). For lower difficulties the Crusader is one of the most diverse class in the game currently since there are many weapons that you can literally build around.
It's not like any of the other classes aren't as gear intense as the Crusader to farm T6, your statement is basically true for all classes. -
Apr 21, 2014mannercookie posted a message on Skills To Get Their Elemental Type Shifted, Legendary Sources and Mojos To Be Buffed, BoP Working As Intended, Condemn Buildthis build is def T6 viablePosted in: News
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Apr 16, 2014mannercookie posted a message on Safe T6 Farming Guide, LastZoul's Maximus Holy Crusader Build, Show Off Your Transmogsyup here's my testing for 45 minutes during one rift.Posted in: News
perhaps he can explain to me what I'm doing wrong because I have much better gear overall from what I've seen from the video clip.
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4075928
now compare the above to a condemn spec running T6 rifts
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Apr 16, 2014mannercookie posted a message on Safe T6 Farming Guide, LastZoul's Maximus Holy Crusader Build, Show Off Your TransmogsOk just tested his exact build with better gear + 6 piece akarat's so that there is no down-time.Posted in: News
Couple points to why I don't believe this is T6 viable (compared to other builds I'm currently already running that are clearing at much faster speeds and I would consider T6 Viable)
- No mobility (it makes it really hard to take advantage of the pet proc when we have 0 mobility skills to maneuver and position outselves)
- Very low DPS output on single target
- The pet is the bulk of the damage in this build (spec isn't really in synergy), this pet also dies way too easily at T6 to elites/rift boss
- Judgetment makes no sense for such a wide AOE build that spams the entire map (judgetment only gives crit bonus for a 20 yard radius and if you notice in his video and I will post my highlight of testing later, a large portion of the attacks don't benefit from the spec)
I even tried a better variation of this build that improves it's damage significantly and it was much much slower than all the other T6 builds that I've tried.
The rift boss alone took over 6 minutes (extremely bad solo dps as mentioned above), even with good RNG and illusionist rift boss (most are not illusionist and are single target), it will still take over 3 minutes with optimal gear.
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Apr 16, 2014mannercookie posted a message on Safe T6 Farming Guide, LastZoul's Maximus Holy Crusader Build, Show Off Your TransmogsPosted in: News
I'm about to test his exact build with much better gear and see if it works or not because I have all the pieces he mentioned in the video. Will report with results after.Quote from JustTryAnotherHaha, mannercookie, there is a video where it seems to do the job. Maybe the paragon level and gear also matter a lot in this case. What happened when you tried it? Was it just non-intuitive, weak, uninteresting or did you straight up die several times? We should get to the bottom of how, when and why builds work or don't work.
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Apr 15, 2014mannercookie posted a message on Safe T6 Farming Guide, LastZoul's Maximus Holy Crusader Build, Show Off Your TransmogsI'm not sure how I can put this so people don't complain that I'm trolling.Posted in: News
BUT based off the testing of my Crusader, I would not consider that to be a T6 efficient build. -
Apr 8, 2014mannercookie posted a message on Patch 2.0.4 Notes15% Damage ReductionPosted in: News
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Apr 3, 2014mannercookie posted a message on The Radius and Mass of Wizard's Black Hole Calculated, Blizz's April Fools Summary, Female Crusader Cosplay, Comics Collectionfound the intro page for Vicky, nevermind that.Posted in: News
Please dig a little deeper, there are lots of quality content that needs attention because there are tons of misinformation surrounding the game right now for multiple classes. -
Mar 27, 2014mannercookie posted a message on Understanding The Truth Behind The "Damage" Tooltip On Items, Item Level Clarifications, CE's 4D Magicalthough you guys got the gist of it right about DMG modifiers not being included causing wrong % comparisons to show up, if you wanted to be really technical the problems of sheet DPS are much greater than simply the ignorance of damage affixes.Posted in: News
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Jan 15, 2014mannercookie posted a message on RoS Among 2014's Most Anticipated Games, Blue Posts, MannerCookie's RoS Itemization IntroductionPosted in: News
Just FYI
This video was made for people who have been watching my testing and covered topics that were asked numerous times throughout weeks.
If you did not understand nor enjoy the material, then that's fine.
I didn't ask Diablofans to put it on the front page, if you don't like the content and it's boring to you, move along and go on with your day.
pretty simple if you ask me
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about 70,000 or so over 5-6 hours
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edit: I'm going to answer you seriously for once since prolly won't be posting here for a while lol
did I do it for the money? if your asking me if I did the shard exploit stream for money, I made a total of I think $25 during that whole 8 hours of streaming. That includes both donations and ad revenue for the 8 or so hours, most of it was donations since I didn't run any ads.
My collector's edition d3 and bla bla was prolly worth $150 or so I have no idea what is costs currently.
so prolly safe to say wasn't for the money.
Why did I cheat, because it was already well out of control and everybody was doing it offline/other streamers off stream.
A part of it was for the pure entertainment of making shitload of shards drop I will not lie and the other part is to bring it to the open and force blizz's hand.
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THIS IS NOT A PLEA TO GET UNBANNED.
TLDR; I'm BannerCookie, It's not a TROLL, I = BANNED
I'm posting this thread because of the numerous threads with incorrect info and people asking me if I am unbanned and rolled back like the others who exploited the blood shards.
Wanted to clarify my thoughts on this whole ordeal since people have been getting really confused by the highlighted section of my twitch broadcast that I put on Youtube, which I should've edited better obviously.
As I said in the news post on front page this morning, I am not rolled back and my account is a permanent closure.
I have no idea why Blizzard rolled back my accounts like the others when my account was already closed (Yes I'm just as confused as you guys are).
I'm assuming this was done automatically by the system that did the mass rollbacks or it is some kind of strange troll.
This is what my Client looks like when I open the Diablo Tab (For all realms including even PTR).
Obviously I'm a bit salty to be the only one being banned while others were just rolled back but I'm glad they are doing something about an exploit finally than doing nothing at all up until now and I don't think everyone needs to be banned for an exploit such as this when nothing has been done in the past.
Yes I didn't expect Blizzard to handout any punishment as they haven't in the past, so the perm ban took me as a surprise too but they probably didn't like the fact the exploit was being streamed to a large viewerbase so my penalty was probably elevated to a perm ban.
I've had a bit of a habit of "forcing" Blizzard's hand when it came to issues that I felt were important and felt were needing immediate attention, probably not the best way to go about getting things done but hey it has been effective
The first time I was banned across the forums when duping was discovered back in late 2012 by myself and a few others on the forums. After numerous attempts to have Blizzard respond to duping before it gets out of control, I created multiple threads across battle.net forums alerting everyone about the rampant duping across the RMAH and server. In these threads I offered 100m gold to the person to last bump the threads before they were locked, I was swiftly banned from the forums for my actions and it was swept under the rug until 3-4 months later a "rollback bug" was fixed.
Then during ROS closed beta, I was also banned several times for my constant disagreement with "beta testers" who spent more time on the feedback forums than actually testing the beta. To be fair I got pretty frustrated and started trolling these players who were inaccurately giving feedback and data for reasons I don't really understand to this date lol.
Even back then during ROS beta, the "entire" diablo community on the battle.net forums, diablofans and reddit were calling out for Blizzard to ban me on the beta servers for doing the shrine exploit /w lag switch.... on the... beta... server.... lol .....
Why the D3 community has always felt that it's unfair for other players to have easier progression than themselves in this game whether it be through Pay to win(RMAH/trading), clever use of game mechanics and bugs/exploits continues to puzzle me to this date.
This is basically a single player ARPG game that we are forced to play online, who gives a fuck.
Seasons are literally 0 skill and a competition of maybe 2-3 players per class leaderboard. Anyone that has amassed that much play-time and done basics math and game theory will figure this game out as long as you have put enough time in a 4 man group for the entirety of the season...
I'm not really sure where the problem lies in such poor communication between community and developers. The battle.net forums being an absolute cancer of a mess probably has something to do with that. The extremely small vocal minority who constantly spam their threads within the rules of the boards are spearheading worthless discussions of shit.
To be clear it's actually not a ban where they are preventing me from playing the game in the future, they are just forcing me to buy a new license for all the editions of the game I previously owned and I can play the game.
My seasonal experiences so far for Diablo 3 and when I quit
Season 1 - Quit Halfway (Filled with exploits/bugs + not enough to do in game / season too long)
Season 2 - Quit after 40 hours (Filled with exploits/bugs + zero new content)
Season 3 - Banned after 70 hours (Filled with exploits/bugs + not enough to do in game / season too long)
I have also been a part of every single PTR patch since the Closed beta of ROS as well as most of Vanilla.
Imagine that plus all the hours I spent on the live servers, obv burnt out as well.
This was a game that had trading and an active economy and some basic pvp in the past, yes people did brawl (Vanilla).
It is now an ARPG that has 0 trading, 0 economy, 0 pvp, and 99% of the items in the game are Bound-to-Account.
At least trials are finally being removed?
BOA used to be a punishment you would take for abusing game mechanics or rolling back your account so that you can't trade your gear... Now it's on all our items, oh wait recently they unlocked crafted crap... yellow mats to add to my 25000:1 yellow:blue ratio of mats....
Ancient Items were a terrible idea as well, why not just increase base stats of all legs and just make drop rates 1/10 . lol
There is an extreme imbalance in group farming and solo farming, basically it's almost pointless to play this game solo at this point (If you want to compete for solo but don't play in groups 24/7, you will have 0 chance)
Gear needs to be easily accessible to more than 0.1% of the population who play the game if there is to be any form of actual competition between more than 2-3 players per class leaderboard.
Call me silly but I remember MP10 timed runs by the community from Vanilla days being more competitive than GRIFT leaderboards. At least there was more than 2 people that had equivalent gear competing and there was less rng.
Imagine that, a concept from the broken vanilla stages of the game where evil things such as AH and trading was allowed being better... wtf?
Balancing is terrible every single patch despite the constant overflow of good constructive feedback for most classes from a large playerpool of PTR testers that actually play the PTR with increased MF BUFF(ABOUT TIME TY PHARAOH)
It's quite obvious at this point that internal testers for D3 are and will continue to be completely clueless.
PTR 2.2 was an absolute disaster imo. This was one of the longest PTR I have seen Blizzard run in a long time and despite that and all the constant feedback from community members the end result was extremely disappointing for every single class that I tried. Oh and let's not forget that the blood shard bug was discovered during PTR, well before the release of the patch.
Could go on and on but it's already become a gigantic wall of crap no one wants to read.
Sure maybe not all my opinions and views are correct about what this game should be, but I was already feeling pretty bored with the game and frustrated with the results of PTR 2.2
The ban just gave me even more reasons to quit.
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Rising to T6 and Beyond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e2UH8FwrJo
Related Footage
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/4025293
End of day 2
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First 15 hours of Season 3 Barb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M9e9Q8pfkc
Related Footage
http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/4025293
End of day 1 spec/gear snapshot
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Last Update: 09/15/2015
Hi Guys,
This will be my thread for all information/guides regarding the barbarian class that I've created content for.
For Crusader info/guides, check this thread.
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/crusader-the-church-of-zakarum/83407-ros-crusader-information-guides
Below you will find all videos/builds and the patches that they are in reference to.
Cheers
PATCH 2.3
Builds
2.3 - Charge+HOTA SpeedFarming
2.3 GRIFT-EXP Farming SSlam Build
2.3 WW SpeedFarming Bounties build
2.3 Uber Farming HOTA Setup
2.3 GRIFT EXP SUPPORT Barb
Patch 2.3 - GRIFT 90+ Ancient Spear Build (P25000)
Videos
SpeedFarming Hota/Charge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LXX-fJX7ZU
How to Farm ANCIENT Weps EZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA9GALB97zI
EXP Farming Seismic Slam Setup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU-6EEaZx14
WW SpeedFarming Bounties/White Mats Setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zOKAcqILrA
2.3 GRIFT EXP Support Barb
https://youtu.be/-BxEZFEMCxA
Patch 2.2Builds[OUTDATED] 2.2 PTR - Seismic Slam Barb (GRIFTS)
[OUTDATED] 2.2 - Bul'Kathos Oath Set for T6 (SC/HC)
[OUTDATED] 2.2 - Fire/Physical? HOTA /w Smite Gem
[OUTDATED] 2.2 PTR - Seismic Slam Barb (GRIFTS)
[OUTDATED] 2.2 - Whirlwind/Rend (5x IK / 3x Wastes)
VideosFirst 15 hours of Season 3 Barbhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M9e9Q8pfkcRelated Footagehttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/4025293-Rising to T6 and Beyondhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e2UH8FwrJoRelated Footagehttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/4025293PTR 2.2PTR Testing Thread:http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/barbarian-bastions-keep/114772-2-2-ptr-barbarian-testingsPTR 2.2 - Version #146 GRIFT /w Wastes Sethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OnvgdS1_r4Stream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3845054PTR 2.2 - Version #261 GRIFT /w 5x IK + 3x WWhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaOO3wonhIMStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3887575-New Bul-Kathos Dual-Wield Set for Barbarianhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWxjhLq8Mog-Seismic Slam Buildhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHWoL-NX6wStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3900811-19Billion Damage Per Second on RGhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHNJKnPSrc-Perma Freeze/Stun Trial Support Barbhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxuYFcW8Fag-New Support Barb Meta (60 GRIFT /w 4x BARB)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MF8pGCwQuUStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/thedeadset/v/3902726-Barb High Trials Keys Setup (Groups)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJelPRa7QwcStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3907471-Support Barb Rotations (Grift 61 /w 3x Barb)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u0xWMeR8KsStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3907471http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDf0-Ui79D4-66 GRIFT /w Seismic Slam in 4 man grouphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-n0Sn95dfU-68 GRIFT /w Seismic Slam in 4 man grouphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1OgUacPX4sStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3916795http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3918264-70 GRIFT /w Seismic Slam in 4 man grouphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMkJhi76RYEStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3922143http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3923634-WW/Rend 5xIK+3xWW (POST NERF)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6KcHDmcfMwStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3929190-Charge/Toss 5xIK+3xRaekor (POST NERF)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5HPJVMYwLQStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3929190-Seismic Slam (POST NERF)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjN9C-Z8wYsStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3929190-Elemental Barb (POST NERF)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtexCJp-SnEStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3929190-Demon Hunter / Barbarian Comparison GRIFT 65http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhgVO493q6oStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3937822-5X WW / 3x IK (POST NERF)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQPaIln3AoStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3929190-Bul-Kathos Oath Set for T6 (SC/HC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6aqoeBliJQStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3940900-Fire HOTA /w Smite Gemhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFTTqwLFn3M-BK Oath Grifting + PTR 2.2 Summaryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs1ivd6hKJAStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3967753-Holy Barb (Bulkathos /w Swords of Plougshares)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCIbbVvZNUsStream/Testing related to videohttp://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3979722http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/v/3981354PRE PATCH 2.06Youtube Guides/ContentCharge-Rend returns in Patch 2.06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5bMwOmKmG4Buildsn/aTwitch HighlightsOP Rend Testing Part 1 http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4446233OP Rend Testing Part 2 http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4446240OP Rend Testing Part 3 http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4446244- - - PATCH 2.05 AND PREVIOUS - - -Youtube Guides/ContentBARBie learning new tricks in 2.05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt17eu5bfq0The Barb in Patch 2.05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH_BI2fZLm4The Barb in Patch 2.05 - Part.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsfQOKndujwBuildsleapSLAM http://i.imgur.com/4rW6MTh.jpgleapDANCE http://i.imgur.com/KPt4ahu.jpgTwitch Highlights7 hours of BARBie http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4386837BARBie testing Seismic Slam http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4393022DW vs 2H - Seismic Slam Testing http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4399572COTA Snapshot Testing @ T6 http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4408392leapSLAM, more DW vs 2H http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4408442leapDANCE, testing CDR EQ Setup http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/4408468HOTA more footage http://www.twitch.tv/mannercookie/c/44216720
can't decide what to go first for Season 3
whatever I end up doing first I'll prolly be making content for first in Season 3.
vote on what you guys would like to see
http://strawpoll.me/4077460
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can't decide what to go first for Season 3
whatever I end up doing first I'll prolly be making content for first in Season 3.
vote on what you guys would like to see
http://strawpoll.me/4077460
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Everything said in the Crusader summary video I made is up to date as nothing has changed since then and the live version of patch 2.2
For those of you who were thinking of going Barb before Crus for HC, you may want to consider going the opposite.
Check the end of my barb summary I touch on why.
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Thoughts and changes to my Season 3 Plan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFq4BoTfnoM
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I really do hate the fact that the toughness runes are reeeeeeeeep
I think this tweet to JY is very reasonable request that can be easily implemented before S3 starts and it doesn't make Barbs over-perform too much.
Just balances it out a bit better and keeps build diversity for HOTA or SS
Re-tweet this
https://twitter.com/MannerCookie/status/585593068725919746
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GUYS THE NERFED BRACERS = NOT THAT BAD
Yes it's annoying and yes it sucks.
For the softcore meta it just makes it really annoying doing grifts because you have to fish for the 55-56+ clears and your gonna be dying much more frequently. But strictly DPS-wise just lost Insanity or Slaughter depending on what kind of setup.
I'm still making a barb for S3 and it'll still be a huge improvement to S2.
I just can't figure out if I want to make a Barb first or a Crus first in terms of who will farm faster and more efficiently in the first 150-250 hours. for Hardcore.
I think for Softcore Barbarian will most likely have more snowball potential in the early stages.
more thoughts and discussion on bnet here
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16953975373
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Not exactly, I don't really want to type up a long response on content that is readily out there if you look.
Especially since patch is coming out tomorrow and things may change.
I'll be updating all the build guides pages on diablofans after patch releases incase of changes, so probably good idea to check this thread again tomorrow.
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This has been probably the 3rd or 4th thread I've seen created by you either on dfans or on bnet forums since I've started playing D3 again that have had a lot of people "trolling" you because of the inaccurate information presented and the tone of your posts. I've skimmed through a few of the barb threads for the luls but never bothered to respond since there was already plenty of people pointing out errors.
You have to figure at some point that all the hate your getting is for a reason and not just jealousy as you are quick to conclude.
Even now you have two different threads on PTR feedback as well as dfans full of people telling you that your testing is flawed and your information is incorrect but somehow you are still skeptical and want to be proven wrong.
I've personally done extensive testing on PTR, I think I've seen you comment on one of my videos so I'm sure your well aware of some of the things I've done so I won't whip my gigantic E-peen out on you. However, I can tell you for a fact that F+R will be BIS for Crusader, one of if not the best ring setup for Barb, the best setup for DH, and not sure about INT classes. If this bit of information plus all the people telling you that your testing is incorrect isn't enough for you to understand that you may in fact be wrong, not sure what will convince you.
There's more than enough information on how your testing was flawed posted by others, you should be able to figure it out.
Not to belittle you or your content, this is just some friendly advice from one content creator to another for the same community of players.
If your going to be defensive and adamant about your views/videos, you should damn well make sure your information is correct before publishing anything.
I learnt long ago when I created my first videos that if your information is incorrect you will quickly get torn apart by some of our lovely Diablo community members who live off of telling Youtubers and Streamers how bad they are at this game.
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it's all in the dfans guide, check there in the future
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