There's a news post on DFans front page with an interview stating that the current plan is for the first Season to last something between 2 to 3 months. I was expecting it to last longer, but who knows.
There's a news post on DFans front page with an interview stating that the current plan is for the first Season to last something between 2 to 3 months. I was expecting it to last longer, but who knows.
The gamescom interview says that they haven't released that information yet. I cannot find what you are talking about on the front page. Can you link me a source?
Internal thinking (unofficially) is 2-3 months. Check the main forums and don't totally rely on fan sites. As far as when Season 1 starts, Blizz will announce soon (shortly before patch goes live). Expect maintenance on the 26th to be 8-14 hours, as a warning. I'd err on the long side.
This is the first patch since D3 released where that I've honestly not cared in the slightest about... I just don't really see what it brings to the game, right now you farm rifts for loot and stuff with that one build that is miles above every other build in efficiency so that you can rarely get a 2% DPS upgrade to let you farm those rifts slightly faster and a week after this patch releases, you'll be doing the exact same thing? Sure there adding greater rifts, but ultimately there just higher difficulties of the same thing further decreasing build diversity and while I guess I get the idea of new start how long does that really last, a week?
This is how I see seasons: Day 1 get char to 70, Day 2 spam normal bounties, Day 3 - 7 spam highest difficulty rift/Grift possible... Day 8+ have full class set and be using the new most efficient build available while searching for pure stat-upgrades for the gear you already have... Like, what do seasons bring after the first week and what's the difference between a Grift and a normal rift?
Blue Post : This month
So... Couple weak+ This month = August 19 or 26
Really hoping for the 19th. But doubtful. I guess 26.
Diablo is dead atm. Ive been playing nonstop the last 6 days to get ready for 2.1 and there is no activity. My clan is dead. All the communities im in is dead. General chat is dead, cept the the disease ridden assspammers. And public games hardly got peeps in it
Most people on Reddit believe that the PTR isn't even close to being ready.
For example, Blizzard recently asked the players how they would scale difficulty without simply making massive HP/damage increases. If they were serious about that for Greater Rifts, which most posters had hoped they were, there's no way they could overhaul difficulty scaling in GRifts and still release it "this month." But if they aren't serious about that then we get something that people are NOT excited about: ridiculous HP/damage scaling. Eventually you will reach a GR level where, without an arcane (or lightning) immunity neck you will simply get one-shotted by jailer or thunderstorm. To me, and many others, that sounds pretty fuckin stupid. Getting one-shotted by something you can't avoid doesn't sound fun. It sounds like an asinine "and then we doubled it" gone even more wrong than Jay's Inferno.
Monks are still not exactly in a good place.
There are still numerous sets that need attention. Helltooth, Nat's, and Slayer's come to mind immediately.
The most recent PTR build made legendary gems bad enough that many people won't even use them now. There's tons of backlash about their touted "design philosophy" and how they promised infinitely-upgradable gems and now they are literally hard-capped based on what GRift level you can get to. There have been dozens of suggestions as to how to fix this, but none of them will ever be implemented if they are seriously considering pushing 2.1 live in August.
Be prepared to be disappointed then, there is still one PTR build that we know of before it goes live, this is why I believe it will come either by the 26th or the 2nd.
The PTR build is probably going to be fairly small finishing touches, number tweaks to certain things. If release is at the end of the month, this build has to go live this week which will tell a whole lot. Wyatt Cheng pretty much said they're not touching "Helltooth" because they're not satisfied with Wall of Zombies in general, "Helltooth" wasn't even in the initial plans for a redesign. Invoker set was, it sounds like they'll just tack on a 0 or two and call it a day.
There's a news post on DFans front page with an interview stating that the current plan is for the first Season to last something between 2 to 3 months. I was expecting it to last longer, but who knows.
The gamescom interview says that they haven't released that information yet. I cannot find what you are talking about on the front page. Can you link me a source?
I am sure it will be out before end of August. I have been hoarding rift keys...well over 200 atm and also keys for UBERS. Looking forward to seasons and that NEW CAR feel for gaming.
I am sure it will be out before end of August. I have been hoarding rift keys...well over 200 atm and also keys for UBERS. Looking forward to seasons and that NEW CAR feel for gaming.
Stop farming RiftKeys "Normal" will be empty as everyone plays ladder. Save your grind motivation!
I don't know seems kind of a low number to me.
But on topic. I think maybe they will release it sometime in the first or second week of September.
I know they said end of the month but I know there is supposed to be at least 1 more patch and I don't know if that will come this week or not.
If the release it before the end of August great if not that's fine with me also. Gives me more time to get more Rift Key Fragments
Stop farming RiftKeys "Normal" will be empty as everyone plays ladder. Save your grind motivation!
Yeah. no. Ladders got really wank rewards. In my clan 11 out of 15 gonna stick to their main char and ignore the ladder. I am one of them.
granted you do get the paragon xp and whatnot transfered to your main account when the season ends. The rewards arent nearly good enough to waste time leveling and gearing up again.
For what ? leader boards that will be topped by bots and streamers boosted by peons ?
And for the patch itself. Where did they say it was going to be released in august ? i read it a few days ago but i cant find it again. It was from gamescom i think. They said it would come in august. Meaning the patch is out the 27th. Should have been on the background downloader if it was to be released the 20th right ?
I dont know what you are talking about, but all the leaderboards i have seen so far on the PTR, bots wouldnt help to be on the top
I kind of agree bots wont be able to compete with players playing 20hrs/day because they can't farm nearly as efficiently... That being said the leaderboards will still be filled with players being fed gear/playing 20hrs/day which means that there a feature that only really appeals to the 1%... In fact this entire patch only really appeals to that 1%... To the other 99% other than a new gem and some balance changes the game remains the same.
^ agreed, people with stashes like that stresses me out
Reason it's like that is because I'm leveling a Crusader. Getting low level gems is just a constant fight to keep organized so I just decided to heck with it till she's leveled up and then I'll straighten that mess out. Just to be clear that is the only tab that's like that. All of my others are organized to be nice and neat.
did they tell how long this season would be?
i mean first official season. after 2.1 hits live =)
This is how I see seasons: Day 1 get char to 70, Day 2 spam normal bounties, Day 3 - 7 spam highest difficulty rift/Grift possible... Day 8+ have full class set and be using the new most efficient build available while searching for pure stat-upgrades for the gear you already have... Like, what do seasons bring after the first week and what's the difference between a Grift and a normal rift?
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The PTR build is probably going to be fairly small finishing touches, number tweaks to certain things. If release is at the end of the month, this build has to go live this week which will tell a whole lot. Wyatt Cheng pretty much said they're not touching "Helltooth" because they're not satisfied with Wall of Zombies in general, "Helltooth" wasn't even in the initial plans for a redesign. Invoker set was, it sounds like they'll just tack on a 0 or two and call it a day.
"They want to launch Patch 2.1 soon, and anticipate the first season to last about 2 to 3 months."
I don't know seems kind of a low number to me.
But on topic. I think maybe they will release it sometime in the first or second week of September.
I know they said end of the month but I know there is supposed to be at least 1 more patch and I don't know if that will come this week or not.
If the release it before the end of August great if not that's fine with me also. Gives me more time to get more Rift Key Fragments
granted you do get the paragon xp and whatnot transfered to your main account when the season ends. The rewards arent nearly good enough to waste time leveling and gearing up again.
For what ? leader boards that will be topped by bots and streamers boosted by peons ?
And for the patch itself. Where did they say it was going to be released in august ? i read it a few days ago but i cant find it again. It was from gamescom i think. They said it would come in august. Meaning the patch is out the 27th. Should have been on the background downloader if it was to be released the 20th right ?
I kind of agree bots wont be able to compete with players playing 20hrs/day because they can't farm nearly as efficiently... That being said the leaderboards will still be filled with players being fed gear/playing 20hrs/day which means that there a feature that only really appeals to the 1%... In fact this entire patch only really appeals to that 1%... To the other 99% other than a new gem and some balance changes the game remains the same.
Reason it's like that is because I'm leveling a Crusader. Getting low level gems is just a constant fight to keep organized so I just decided to heck with it till she's leveled up and then I'll straighten that mess out. Just to be clear that is the only tab that's like that. All of my others are organized to be nice and neat.