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Legion Developer Q&A - PvP
New Diablo Job - Game Director
Blizzard has a very interesting new job opening for an unnanounced project in their career page - they're looking to hire a new game director for the Diablo franchise! Some very interesting responsabilities and requirements - check it out.
Focused Feedback Threads & Season Journey
The focused feedback threads are back for the latest PTR Patch 2.4.2 patch, so if you're helping them test the massive changes to crowd control, support skills and the end-game group meta feel free to leave your two cents over at the official forums.
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
While the PTR is down:Great question, Hebalon. Here's what you can expect in each tier, for convenience:
Can you please give a list of the new Rift-related achievements? Or maybe even a complete list of all achievements? Is HC level 70 still required?
Is it still T10 in 3 minutes? What time is needed for T11, 12, 13?
So far, the first 4 Chapters look reasonable, and I absolutely like the idea that the full set requires a little bit more then 3 simple tasks.
Chapter I
Chapter II - Completing rewards 1st Haedrig's Gift
- Complete a Nephalem Rift
- Equip 5 Gems into your gear
- Level your Blacksmith to 10
- Level your Jeweler to 10
- Level your Mystic to 10
- Complete 5 Bounties
- Defeat Izual at any difficulty level
- Defeat Rakanoth at any difficulty level
- Reach level 50
Chapter III - Completing rewards 2nd Haedrig's Gift
- Complete a Nephalem Rift on Expert difficulty
- Level all artisans to 12
- Craft a level 70 item from the Blacksmith
- Craft a level 70 item from the Jeweler (Ring or Amulet)
- Enchant an item using the Mystic
- Fully equip a follower
- Defeat Cydaea at Hard difficulty or higher
- Defeat Siegebreaker at Hard difficulty or higher
- Reach level 70
- Unlock Kanai's Cube
Chapter IV - Completing rewards 3rd/Final Haedrig's Gift + New Portrait Frame and Pennant
- Complete a Nephalem Rift on Master difficulty
- Transmogrify an item
- Craft an Imperial level gem
- Learn 5 Blacksmithing recipes
- Learn 5 Jewelcrafting recipes
- Buy 1 item from Kadala
- Defeat Belial at Master difficulty or higher
- Defeat Maghda at Master difficulty or higher
- Complete a full set (Act I-V) of bounties
- Extract 1 Legendary Power into Kanai's Cube
Slayer - Rewards Portrait Frame
- Complete a Nephalem Rift on Torment I difficulty
- Enchant a weapon to have a socket at the Mystic
- Defeat Odeg (A1 Keywarden) on Torment 4 or higher
- Defeat Sokahr (A2 Keywarden) on Torment 4 or higher
- Defeat Xah'Rith (A3 Keywarden) on Torment 4 or higher
- Defeat Nekarat (A4 Keywarden) on Torment 4 or higher
- Defeat the Spider Queen at Torment II difficulty or higher
- Defeat the Skeleton King at Torment II difficulty or higher
- Complete a Greater Rift level 20 solo
- Upgrade a rare item to legendary using Kanai's Cube
Champion - Rewards Portrait Frame
- Complete a Nephalem Rift on Torment V difficulty
- Level one Legendary Gem to level 25 or higher
- Complete the Realm of Regret (A1 Uber) on Torment VI or higher
- Complete the Realm of Putridness (A2 Uber) on Torment VI or higher
- Obtain a Legendary from Kadala
- Complete one Set Dungeon
- Defeat the Butcher at Torment VI difficulty or higher
- Defeat Zoltun Kulle at Torment VI difficulty or higher
- Complete a Greater Rift 35 solo
- Equip additional legendary powers for weapon, armor, and jewelry via Kanai's Cube
Destroyer - Rewards Portrait Frame
- Complete a Torment X Nephalem Rift in under 6 minutes
- Level 3 Legendary Gems to 35 or higher
- Craft a Flawless Royal gem at the Jewelcrafter
- Complete the Realm of Terror (A3 Uber) on Torment X or higher
- Complete the Realm of Fright (A4 Uber) on Torment X or higher
- Master a Set Dungeon
- Defeat Malthael at Torment X difficulty or higher
- Defeat Urzael at Torment XI difficulty or higher
- Complete a Greater Rift 50 solo
- Use Kanai's Cube to convert a Set Item
Conqueror - Rewards 1 additional Stash Tab
- Complete a Torment XII Nephalem Rift in under 6 minutes
- Level 3 Legendary Gems to 45 or higher
- Craft a Hellfire Amulet
- Complete 1 Conquest
- Defeat Diablo at Torment XIII difficulty
- Defeat Adria at Torment XIII difficulty
- Complete a Greater Rift 60 solo
- Use Kanai's Cube to augment an Ancient item with a level 30+ gem
- Extract 20 Legendary powers into Kanai's Cube
Guardian - Rewards Portrait Frame
- Complete a Torment XIII Nephalem Rift in under 5 minutes
- Level 3 Legendary Gems to 55 or higher
- Complete 2 Conquests
- Defeat Ghom at Torment XIII difficulty in under 30 seconds
- Defeat Rakanoth at Torment XIII difficulty
- Complete a Greater Rift 70 solo
- Use Kanai's Cube to augment two Ancients with level 40+ gems
- Use Kanai's Cube to reforge a Legendary item
Sorry if it's a bit messy to read. Tried to get this up for everyone to reference ASAP, so let me know if you see any issues (as there was much copypasta involved).
- Complete a Torment XIII Nephalem Rift in under 4 minutes
- Level 3 Legendary Gems to 65 or higher
- Complete 3 Conquests
- Defeat Azmodan at Torment XIII difficulty in under 15 seconds
- Complete a Greater Rift 80 solo
- Use Kanai's Cube to augment three Ancients with level 50+ gems
- Extract 40 legendary powers into Kanai's Cube
New Ban Wave
Quite a few users are reporting on our forums and over on Reddit a new ban wave on players who used third party software, hacks or bots, on the live version of D3. Unfortunately it seems that quite a few players are reporting potentially false positives.
Quick PSA: while there's no guarantee that a ban will be lifted, specially for those who are guilty, some users are claiming that contacting Customer Support may get your case reviewed - for those who are absolutely 100% certain they did not use anything.
The real problem here stems from the fact that they gated a quality of life feature (stash space) behind what people consider to be a skill/effort seasonal goal.
No one's asking for "here's your reward for logging in!" - the majority of the feedback for the longer path to the gift set has been favourable. Change the way stash tabs are acquired (with options for those that don't like seasons) and the difficulty of the journey (now that they adjusted it a bit) is fine.
BUT, and this is just my opinion, there's too many core 'problems' with D3 as well. And what I mean by that is that there's too many core features that you can't get rid of without gutting the entire game. Paragon is fundamentally flawed; it's power creep: The Feature! There should not be anywhere NEAR, what is it, 17 difficulties now? But there is, and that's because class damage is flawed at it's base. It should NEVER have been % based off of weapon damage, because that's why we have crits in the trillions now. Sets should NOT be granting THOUSANDS of percent more damage. Endless Greater Rifts means Blizzard thinks that players expect to be able to do higher and higher levels of Grifts per Season, and while maybe some players do I'm willing to bet most of us were never bothered that there wasn't a point in D2 where we were one-shotting Hell Baal. Loot has gone insane, ect.
I can go on and on. Summarized though is this; Either Blizzard takes a HUGE chance and guts D3 with the 2nd expansion and fundamentally alters how the entire game plays in terms of systems, or D3 limps along with the same broken systems while D4 is made.