S4 is starting soon, and many great players will be competing for World First (or Realm First) results in Conquests. For example, Wudijo and Desolacer from EU read these forums, and I hope they will take part in the upcoming race I think it will awesome for all competing teams to post their streams here to make the competition more fun and vivid.
Ok, IK4 ~= x2 DPS via perma-WOTB. IK6 = x2 dps. So, it is x4 in total, which is equal to +300%. So, barbarians have even more powerful set, right?
The funniest thing is that Natalya x4 bonus is quite bad by itself, and is used mostly to buff the belt. If you want to analyze the sets of other classes, try discovering mechanics, synergies and so on.
ATM there is no public exploit for leveling. So HoA is a way to go. Also you can add some bounties (like Cursed War Room, Tides of Battle), but they are quite rare in 2.2 with the introduction of new exploration bounties. You should not bother, just get nice setup which can blow up HoA3 on Master, and you will be 70 in 4 hours.
I think that it will be ruined quite quick, as there will be some broken mechanics. Current PTR testing is out of control, it is not directed by blue posts, it is not looking for abuses. Just a single wrong interaction, and items like Zodiac can ruin the whole game. And after they do, there will be two options: to finish the season quick or to ignore the problem. For some reason I think that Blizzard will decide to ignore, and we will have a "dead" season. Sorry for being pessimistic.
They get some support with In Geom and Roland2 (if you do not use Eternal Union for some reason), though it's not enough to make the build viable. Also, Bane of the Stricken can shine with this build.
200% damage, 4 elements->25% uptime. As a result, it will give 50% elemental damage at average for single-element builds, which is not bad (if you are able to roll nice stats on that ring, of course). Also, specs which use many elements (Raekor, Marauder) will get 50%+some minor bonus. The problem is that 50% average elemental damage is not, well, interesting. It can be better or worse than SoJ, depending on your current stats, but it's just about math.
oving the affix doesn't help the DH class. Running M6 you only get to swap out 1 item right? With the change from Attack Speed to Resource Management we swapped Tasker and Theo for Cindercoat. Changing to gems makes us have to drop Bane of the Powerful or Zei's. You can't drop Enforcer or Bane of the Trapped.There is no ring to use other than SoJ. And BoP is the best trade for elite damage.
You have a choice between Cinder/Yan/Pride. You have a choice between Rucksack/Meticulous. You have a choice between SoJ/Compass Rose combo. And you can choose a weapon. Also, you have a choice between Taeguk/BotP/Enforcer for the third gem, so with RoRG-Gem it will be mandatory to use this gem+Zei+BotT, no choice here. But right now Marauder DH offers some diversity, much more than Condemn Crusader, for example.
As Blizzard are moving to 6-pieces sets, it's clear that item diversity is not their aim. And, of course, 5 Piece + RoRG give more diversity than 6 Piece. Also, a Gem with RORG feature will be quite mandatory (there will be exceptions, as there are builds without RoRG for Wizard/Barbarian). And as most builds use BotT, you will have a choice for 1 Gem. Same situation here.
Right now, on EU all quests give very little reward for the second completion. At least, the quests I have checked. There was some small patch, so it seems to be fixed. Also, quest duping was fixed. Although there are still some holes, as long as they are not public, it is fine.
All exploits are based on T6 difficulty. In original game T1-T6 is locked before you get a level 60 character. For some strange reason this rule does not apply to Seasons. In fact, no one will ever use T6 for legit leveling of their first character. It is used for exploits or for being boosted (it's really fine if you need to level your first seasonal character without any boost). Also, there can be some boss-runners on T2-T4, though it seems to be a bad way of leveling. So, there is no sane reason to leave Torments unlocked to the fresh seasonal characters.
Are you sure ? I tried it and it seems like i only got the t6 bonus at the "kill mira" quest.
I have tested all the quests before the start of S1, and, in fact, there are 3 quests, which allow you to make it at normal and to turn it on T6. I will not name the other two quests, but they are worse from exp/hour perspective. Also, I did thorough bug report, sending all information at hacks@blizzard.com. And, of course, it was not fixed in 6 months.
Probably, I had to make the video of all these quests just after the start of S1, as videos seem to work better than sending bug reports. At least, they did fix Alaric quest.
Though Raekor seems to be the only solo GR option, what if, for example, I have another barbarian to kill all the trash mobs, so only RG is left. What will be the best option for pure single-target fight?
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Hello!
S4 is starting soon, and many great players will be competing for World First (or Realm First) results in Conquests. For example, Wudijo and Desolacer from EU read these forums, and I hope they will take part in the upcoming race
I think it will awesome for all competing teams to post their streams here to make the competition more fun and vivid.
From our team:
<G7> team, EU HC
http://www.youtube.com/user/playcoolek/live
P.S. I wish good luck to all competing teams. No d/c, only true skill!
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Ok, IK4 ~= x2 DPS via perma-WOTB. IK6 = x2 dps. So, it is x4 in total, which is equal to +300%. So, barbarians have even more powerful set, right?
The funniest thing is that Natalya x4 bonus is quite bad by itself, and is used mostly to buff the belt. If you want to analyze the sets of other classes, try discovering mechanics, synergies and so on.
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ATM there is no public exploit for leveling. So HoA is a way to go. Also you can add some bounties (like Cursed War Room, Tides of Battle), but they are quite rare in 2.2 with the introduction of new exploration bounties. You should not bother, just get nice setup which can blow up HoA3 on Master, and you will be 70 in 4 hours.
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1) No difference HC/SC.
2) Nothing about Conquests.
3) It will be nice to have English buttons.
But as you have one question which directly asks if we are playing competitive, it will give some data for sure. Hope you'll post it here.
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The why do they check if the item is account bound instead of checking if it was enchanted/socketed?
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I think that it will be ruined quite quick, as there will be some broken mechanics. Current PTR testing is out of control, it is not directed by blue posts, it is not looking for abuses. Just a single wrong interaction, and items like Zodiac can ruin the whole game. And after they do, there will be two options: to finish the season quick or to ignore the problem. For some reason I think that Blizzard will decide to ignore, and we will have a "dead" season. Sorry for being pessimistic.
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They get some support with In Geom and Roland2 (if you do not use Eternal Union for some reason), though it's not enough to make the build viable. Also, Bane of the Stricken can shine with this build.
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200% damage, 4 elements->25% uptime. As a result, it will give 50% elemental damage at average for single-element builds, which is not bad (if you are able to roll nice stats on that ring, of course). Also, specs which use many elements (Raekor, Marauder) will get 50%+some minor bonus. The problem is that 50% average elemental damage is not, well, interesting. It can be better or worse than SoJ, depending on your current stats, but it's just about math.
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We used the time to get some bounties. For that reason we opened GRifts on low difficulties, so split-farm was efficient.
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As Blizzard are moving to 6-pieces sets, it's clear that item diversity is not their aim. And, of course, 5 Piece + RoRG give more diversity than 6 Piece. Also, a Gem with RORG feature will be quite mandatory (there will be exceptions, as there are builds without RoRG for Wizard/Barbarian). And as most builds use BotT, you will have a choice for 1 Gem. Same situation here.
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Right now, on EU all quests give very little reward for the second completion. At least, the quests I have checked.
There was some small patch, so it seems to be fixed. Also, quest duping was fixed. Although there are still some holes, as long as they are not public, it is fine. 
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All exploits are based on T6 difficulty. In original game T1-T6 is locked before you get a level 60 character. For some strange reason this rule does not apply to Seasons. In fact, no one will ever use T6 for legit leveling of their first character. It is used for exploits or for being boosted (it's really fine if you need to level your first seasonal character without any boost). Also, there can be some boss-runners on T2-T4, though it seems to be a bad way of leveling. So, there is no sane reason to leave Torments unlocked to the fresh seasonal characters.
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I have tested all the quests before the start of S1, and, in fact, there are 3 quests, which allow you to make it at normal and to turn it on T6. I will not name the other two quests, but they are worse from exp/hour perspective. Also, I did thorough bug report, sending all information at hacks@blizzard.com. And, of course, it was not fixed in 6 months.
Probably, I had to make the video of all these quests just after the start of S1, as videos seem to work better than sending bug reports. At least, they did fix Alaric quest.
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