*snip* I am looking to switch to some other diablo like game for some time, but can't find any good.*snip*
Try looking up "Lost Ark". It's a Asian title that is currently in CBT. It looks very promising.
There's no announced date or anything, for a full release, but they have stated that they are going "world wide" with the game (after several inquires as to why it wasn't made in English).
..so that might be something to look forward to.
Here is one of the many articles on it: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-17-lost-ark-is-the-best-diablo-3-clone-you-cant-play (don't put to much into the last segment about not getting a western release - that has since been talked over and "confirmed" to happen)
Other than that; there's pretty much no game out there that does what D3 does currently. Some do it differently, but doesn't really keep up with the "feel" we're used to with the Diablo-franchise
*snip* I am looking to switch to some other diablo like game for some time, but can't find any good.*snip*
Try looking up "Lost Ark". It's a Asian title that is currently in CBT. It looks very promising.
There's no announced date or anything, for a full release, but they have stated that they are going "world wide" with the game (after several inquires as to why it wasn't made in English).
..so that might be something to look forward to.
Here is one of the many articles on it: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-17-lost-ark-is-the-best-diablo-3-clone-you-cant-play (don't put to much into the last segment about not getting a western release - that has since been talked over and "confirmed" to happen)
Other than that; there's pretty much no game out there that does what D3 does currently. Some do it differently, but doesn't really keep up with the "feel" we're used to with the Diablo-franchise
Yes Lost Ark looks promising with various MMO type things, random encounters a ton of classes at launch, super good looking graphics lets hope the NA version has some good voice actors but don't expect it out before the next D3 expansion try late 2016 at a guess. Its a long way off. Though I'm only guessing here. But yea, Lost Ark could be good. Have to wait and see.
BTW the Anniversary Community buff is now live, looks like Blizz fixed the problem.
So in 21 runs of act 1 bounties, I only found one cow level (super-low sample-size, and very RNG-based). It was after all bounties were done and I zoned into a non-bounty act 1 area.
Pretty disappointed with this event. The XP inside isn't buffed and even with the ~10 Resilient chests, farming rifts is more efficient from what I've experienced. I'll try for a couple more but looking for a random mob anywhere in the world just to go into an area that's not too special (other than the fact it's different, and this game needs more different) is hardly worth the effort.
Love that Lost Ark gameplay though. Excited to see how it progresses.
The portal cows can spawn in any act. Unsure if there are multiple or just one. Act 1 is just the "easiest" for public games. Join for bounties and hope people run across one.
Ugh .. have not found one in the 15 or so act 1 bounty runs I did. I just want to find 1 so I can go back to my NR/GR runs. I have 100s of rift key fragments and really do not need any more
One simple line describes the cowlevel, it's design, it's reward curve, it's visuals and everything else very well.
Not worth doing twice.
This sums it up very well. Try it out, find it and you will see, blizzard didn't screw xbox360 and ps3 when they 'only' got double xp. No. They screwed us, because we got that useless piece of content not worth looking at twice. Blizzard game designers once again failed horribly at their job.
EDIT: I'm not mad for them to add this. I am no spoiled or entitled kid. But rather, I understand how terrible of a job they did with this piece. Plain truth, no rant.
I cannot disagree more strongly. I feel this will be added to the game full time. It's a great way to get people out of rifts, and it's working for many players. It's a nice break, could maybe need a bit of a bump in regard to mat drops and perhaps increased leg drops, but all-in-all, I really liked it.
It's literally the only way you'll ever open 10+ res chests in less than 5 or 6 minutes. I counted about 35 chests of all types, Resplendent, Radiant, and regular.
Massive old school mobs made it reminiscent of the old cow level. As a matter of fact, I'll put this cow level up against D2 cows. In terms of reward, it beat it out badly.
you see...d2 cow level you could open reliably. you have to farm for quite a while and cross your fingers really hard to even enter d3 cow level
Are we talking about content or availability? The two are mutually exclusive. Beyond that, a Diablo 2 character would have the ability to make cows irreversibly, permanently removed if the King was killed.
Took me less than 20 minutes to find the portal, and a second time 30 minutes later. If you want to debate the RnG of it, I suppose that's fair.
But the actual content of it was fun for me as a player. The Cow Rift was a fail, and this makes up for it quite a bit. I found this event to be a neat little sandbox to play in, and that's all D2 cows ever was. People saying this was "lazy" are misguided. They didn't need to do this at all, and "lazy" would be just another token, run-of-the-mill XP/MF/Gold buff.
i dont think theyre exclusive. i dont think its a great way to get people out of rifts (due to reliability). dont get me wrong i think its an awesome anniversary present (i wish there were buffs too because i wanted an easy way to get the gold conquests), and i hope it stays. i just dont see it as a good way to get out of rifts or a good source of items/mats. its like how people were goblin farming for vaults when they were first introduced because OMG GOLD AND GEMS! after awhile, this will be just like vault: no one farming for it but massive group boner when it shows up in a public cache game.
One simple line describes the cowlevel, it's design, it's reward curve, it's visuals and everything else very well.
Not worth doing twice.
This sums it up very well. Try it out, find it and you will see, blizzard didn't screw xbox360 and ps3 when they 'only' got double xp. No. They screwed us, because we got that useless piece of content not worth looking at twice. Blizzard game designers once again failed horribly at their job.
EDIT: I'm not mad for them to add this. I am no spoiled or entitled kid. But rather, I understand how terrible of a job they did with this piece. Plain truth, no rant.
That's pretty much my evaluation of this so far, unfortunately.
I'll agree that they maybe should've thrown in an XP/GF/MF bonus for the week (on top of this cow event). A lot of people were probably planning on grinding the hell out of D3 this weekend to take advantage of the buff gains, only to have none.
After nearly five hours I finally got to see the cow rift. Got 4 legionaries out of it all of which got salvaged. I really did not get all that many yellows and blues out of it comparing it to what others were saying they got. At least I got my "been there, done that" out of the way. Until next year!
I've found it a couple times. Once while farming hellfire keys. I think its all about searching multiple areas.
Anyway, at least its new content so it took effort. Plus, its got an exp buff, gold buff and magic find buff (at least in the form of a load of chests).
I know I will farm it every time I can. Its better than the rainbow goblin junk. I often ignore the rainbow goblin. Whimsydale is crap. Whimsydale is too long and is not rewarding. This cow event is rewarding, its just not a continual buff like we have seen in the past.
Maybe they will keep this and get rid of the rainbow goblin. I REALLY hope so.
I know you didn't say 'you called them lazy!', but I want to make this clear: I do appreciate the work. I like the thought. I am not even the slightest bit mad they simply reused act1 FoM tiles. No.
I am disappointed by the sheer level of irrelevance this map has. There is literally no incentive to ever step twice into this portal. I did, and only so I could compare 2 different specs on my demon hunter because of the unique way the waves of cows spawn at the event.
Regarding rewards there are absolutely no cookies to be had. The whole map is purely an astehtic one time bummer.
That's why I would actually prefer a week of double xp to this. Not because a simple buff is more fun, but because I would actually be compelled to play for more than an hour.
If a buff (which is plain, stupid and boring) starts to feel better compared to a new, time-exclusive event map, than something is very wrong with the way blizzard designers are working.
TL;DR There should have been something else inside. Not just a bunch of those crappy chests that drop nothing because they share a loot table with elites/packs and some bovines that give mediocre xp. There would have been more and better possibilities to do cool stuff.
I agree 100%.
A double XP buff would have been a zillion times better than this.
Given that there are people in high 40s low 50s with non ancient weapons right now...
Hopefully they get the buff working in NA sometime this year.
Try looking up "Lost Ark". It's a Asian title that is currently in CBT. It looks very promising.
There's no announced date or anything, for a full release, but they have stated that they are going "world wide" with the game (after several inquires as to why it wasn't made in English).
..so that might be something to look forward to.
Here is one of the many articles on it: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-17-lost-ark-is-the-best-diablo-3-clone-you-cant-play (don't put to much into the last segment about not getting a western release - that has since been talked over and "confirmed" to happen)
Other than that; there's pretty much no game out there that does what D3 does currently. Some do it differently, but doesn't really keep up with the "feel" we're used to with the Diablo-franchise
Yes Lost Ark looks promising with various MMO type things, random encounters a ton of classes at launch, super good looking graphics lets hope the NA version has some good voice actors but don't expect it out before the next D3 expansion try late 2016 at a guess. Its a long way off. Though I'm only guessing here. But yea, Lost Ark could be good. Have to wait and see.
BTW the Anniversary Community buff is now live, looks like Blizz fixed the problem.
So in 21 runs of act 1 bounties, I only found one cow level (super-low sample-size, and very RNG-based). It was after all bounties were done and I zoned into a non-bounty act 1 area.
Pretty disappointed with this event. The XP inside isn't buffed and even with the ~10 Resilient chests, farming rifts is more efficient from what I've experienced. I'll try for a couple more but looking for a random mob anywhere in the world just to go into an area that's not too special (other than the fact it's different, and this game needs more different) is hardly worth the effort.
Love that Lost Ark gameplay though. Excited to see how it progresses.
So is the event only on Act 1 or......? I tried to find an answer at Bnet, but they aren't being very specific where to find this Cow Portal.
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The portal cows can spawn in any act. Unsure if there are multiple or just one. Act 1 is just the "easiest" for public games. Join for bounties and hope people run across one.
Ugh .. have not found one in the 15 or so act 1 bounty runs I did. I just want to find 1 so I can go back to my NR/GR runs. I have 100s of rift key fragments and really do not need any more
I cannot disagree more strongly. I feel this will be added to the game full time. It's a great way to get people out of rifts, and it's working for many players. It's a nice break, could maybe need a bit of a bump in regard to mat drops and perhaps increased leg drops, but all-in-all, I really liked it.
It's literally the only way you'll ever open 10+ res chests in less than 5 or 6 minutes. I counted about 35 chests of all types, Resplendent, Radiant, and regular.
Massive old school mobs made it reminiscent of the old cow level. As a matter of fact, I'll put this cow level up against D2 cows. In terms of reward, it beat it out badly.
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you see...d2 cow level you could open reliably. you have to farm for quite a while and cross your fingers really hard to even enter d3 cow level
Are we talking about content or availability? The two are mutually exclusive. Beyond that, a Diablo 2 character would have the ability to make cows irreversibly, permanently removed if the King was killed.
Took me less than 20 minutes to find the portal, and a second time 30 minutes later. If you want to debate the RnG of it, I suppose that's fair.
But the actual content of it was fun for me as a player. The Cow Rift was a fail, and this makes up for it quite a bit. I found this event to be a neat little sandbox to play in, and that's all D2 cows ever was. People saying this was "lazy" are misguided. They didn't need to do this at all, and "lazy" would be just another token, run-of-the-mill XP/MF/Gold buff.
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double quote on me? i feel awesome
i dont think theyre exclusive. i dont think its a great way to get people out of rifts (due to reliability). dont get me wrong i think its an awesome anniversary present (i wish there were buffs too because i wanted an easy way to get the gold conquests), and i hope it stays. i just dont see it as a good way to get out of rifts or a good source of items/mats. its like how people were goblin farming for vaults when they were first introduced because OMG GOLD AND GEMS! after awhile, this will be just like vault: no one farming for it but massive group boner when it shows up in a public cache game.
I been at this for almost 4 hours and have not found a single one .. lol Oh well, my bad luck I suppose.
That's pretty much my evaluation of this so far, unfortunately.
I'm 2+ hours and no cow level found yet.
@BlackParagon~
I'll agree that they maybe should've thrown in an XP/GF/MF bonus for the week (on top of this cow event). A lot of people were probably planning on grinding the hell out of D3 this weekend to take advantage of the buff gains, only to have none.
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After nearly five hours I finally got to see the cow rift. Got 4 legionaries out of it all of which got salvaged. I really did not get all that many yellows and blues out of it comparing it to what others were saying they got. At least I got my "been there, done that" out of the way. Until next year!
Legionaries? Really?
Now that would have been a real anniversary!
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I've found it a couple times. Once while farming hellfire keys. I think its all about searching multiple areas.
Anyway, at least its new content so it took effort. Plus, its got an exp buff, gold buff and magic find buff (at least in the form of a load of chests).
I know I will farm it every time I can. Its better than the rainbow goblin junk. I often ignore the rainbow goblin. Whimsydale is crap. Whimsydale is too long and is not rewarding. This cow event is rewarding, its just not a continual buff like we have seen in the past.
Maybe they will keep this and get rid of the rainbow goblin. I REALLY hope so.
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I agree 100%.
A double XP buff would have been a zillion times better than this.