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Blue Posts Roundup
There were two interesting blue posts today. The first on how much power an item like Maximus can gain with bonus %elemental-damage working in Patch 2.1, and the other about how easy it is to miss the option to filter craftable items, which could lead to a change in the future making that easier to notice for new players.
Originally Posted by Blizzard
Maximus on the PTR
So i copied my crusader over to the ptr to take her for spin, and to my great joy the fire chains from maximus were now critting for 17-22million a tick where compared to live my chains only cri for 4-8million a tickA Crusader in my PTR group was testing some builds with a Maximus the other night, and it made a noticeable difference in how quickly we were bringing down monsters.
My Crusader Profile: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Llanicus-1710/hero/43755968 and paragon level is 353 and apart from the 2handed dps buff which took my maximus from 2710 to 3335.6dps it appears that the chains now benefit from +fire damage
The fantasy of a Crusader using a demon to assist them in war is a little strange, though, but maybe it's just me. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
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Plans Not Showing Up
Okay i have been playing Diablo for about a year now and i absolutely love it. However, there is still so much i don't know about it. Before when i would get a plan drop, I could just right click when talking to the blacksmith and the plan would show up. Yesterday i dropped FOUR plans all within 3 hours!!!! So i rushed to the blacksmith, clicked on craft, and right clicked on the plans. When i did this, the blacksmith had that same old swirly thing come over him as if he was taught the plans, but they are nowhere to be found. Like i said, I still have so much to learn and i now this is probably an easy fix I just need answers!!! Thanks for any inputYeah, the option to filter craftable items on the artisans was patched in 2.0, and sometimes it can be a little easy to miss, especially for returning players. I think I'll bring it up in a meeting since I see it pop up on the forums now and then, and hopefully adding a blue reply in this thread helps highlight it for others. I'm glad one of your fellow players was able to help, and have fun with your adventures in Sanctuary!
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Junger Theory Testing
MeatHeadMikhail made a series of videos testing the (in vogue) "Junger Rules", a theory which states that you can follow certain guidelines to greatly increase the chances of getting a Ring of Royal Grandeur. The sample might not be huge (75 caches), but it's probably a good place to start. Some will swear the theory works, and some will swear it's tinfoil. Check the videos to see his results!
Because you think it's fluff? Well, if you watch the videos you'd see that nothing points that the Junger Rules actually work, so MHM's conclusion is that it is fluff.
My own personal opinion since day one is that the theory is similar to the "loot server" theory - pure tinfoil. But I haven't published the video to promote my own point of view, but only because it was the only slightly "long term - data-centric" analysis video that I could find on the matter. And since so many people are talking about it these days, I figured it would be worth watching.
Also, these have been somewhat weak days news-wise, so yeah.
Junger's an officer in my clan and he himself knows that everything's more or less unconfirmed with a hefty portion of the "rules" being based on tinfoil.
He actually wants me to try and get Blizzard to outright confirm or debunk his theories just so he can go along his way. Our clan jokes all the time about his "Junger Rules" community being a cult
I may try to talk to Blizzard about this one of these days.
One thing Junger Rules does do is speed up runs, which means more time clearing Bounties and more Caches to pop. That directly results in more opportunities to get the loot you want.
I have also seen people copy characters to PTR with caches, and opening them yields totally different contents on live and PTR- Though you can't really judge based on that, you would think that if the items were, in fact, already determined they would be the same after you copied your character to PTR.
I get more legs when I take my pants off before I play.