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Wyatt Cheng on Furnace
Wyatt Cheng wanted to know via twitter if teleporting out of Greater Rifts to equip an item like The Furnace during is a valid strategy that should be kept in the game or something they should prevent people from doing.
It appears like the majority of answers think that it is not something that's good to the game. Check his posts below, as well as the opinions of MVPs like Jaetch and Monstrous.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
What's your opinion: TP'ing to equip Furnace during GRift is valid strategy we should keep or inevitable min/max we should save people from? (Twitter)
@candlesan Save us from it, please. Furnace is just too strong at the higher GRifts. (Thunderclaww)@Thunderclaww @candlesan I've run into a problem where my gear breaks in the middle of a Greater Rift and I need to TP. Keep that in mind. (Monstrous)@MonstrousD3 @Thunderclaww Yah we'll definitely have to keep durability in mind. (Twitter)
@candlesan You'd have to either implement an NPC within a Greater Rift for repairs or make deaths in GR's not cost durability.
@MonstrousD3 BTW does that imply you're on the "save us from it" side of the vote? (Twitter)
@candlesan 80% save us / 20% leave it--It's gimmicky yet opens the door for some interesting strategies. Meh, just save us and stop it. (Monstrous)@candlesan @Diablo It's no good. Solo DHs are screwed, and teleporting to switch your build/gear kills the adrenaline rush of doing a GR. (Deadset Gaming)@candlesan Save us. There must be better ways to make the levels more "difficult" besides insane HP scaling. Plus that whole TP/repair thing (Jaetch)@DeadsetGaming @Diablo That's a good way to phrase it - kills the adrenaline rush. (Twitter)
Malthael at the World Cup
In the spirit of FIFA's Soccer (Football) World Cup, DeathsFugitive made a cool montage of Malthael scoring a goal!
Crusader Fanart
griddark was originally reported as the author of these drawings, but apparently he just makes high resolution pictures based on the original fanart (thanks AgentSmith for the heads-up). The authors of these impressive Crusader fanarts, from the Fanart Contest, are JiHunLee, Jorsch and Geunjoo. The amount of detail and character fidelity are still incredible. Check them out!
http://jorsch.deviantart.com/art/Diablo-3-The-Crusader-438804010
http://jihunlee.deviantart.com/art/Fist-Of-Heavens-440224686
http://geunjoo.deviantart.com/art/Diablo3-Reaper-of-Souls-Fan-Art-439244773
Indeed, sorry about the confusion. It will be fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
Edit: I've added a disclaimer to the post explaining the mistake. Finding and reporting interesting fanart is something I still have to practice. I though that was an original piece of fanart - honest mistake. I was just amazed by the quality of it the first time I saw it. Also had another more interesting finding in mind to report, but in the end decided I'd need a little bit more time to check it. Maybe tomorrow.
Also, what Agentsmith said. This weeks "art selector" should get a real nasty slap in the face for this artwork compilation, but don't fire him/her
*edit*
This so called artist on deviantart devilsomething is deleting all comments and posts which are somewhat critical on all of his pages. Just so you know.
I try not to give a shit, but when it is 75% of your friends, 80% of your co-workers, and all of your bosses and random people in the streets and all your neighbours it is hard to ignore such an omnipresent thing. It's like trying to ignore air.
I am not starting this war, but I will end it if necessary. If you read one of your favourite news pages and the first thing you see is totally unrelated world cup AGAIN after a day full of it (despite not pursuing it in ANY way), a less mature reaction is imho understandable. I didn't ask nobody for any results, I didn't way and a single second of coverage. Yet, I know, amongst a lot of other world cup stuff, that Germany won 2:1 in the 120+1th minute against the worst remaining country in the final 8 teams. WHY DO I KNOW THAT? I don't want to!
I hope you can see my point, as well. If you are amongst the people who can see both sides, then props to you. I wished more people like you lived in Germany.
Here's one with Malthael punishing Urzael