It's pretty hard to cheat in that way on PC since everything is saved server side and we cannot trade anything. Console players have modders and duppers because they get to save their character info to their console for offline play and use a method of extracting and modifying the save file. Pretty common for games like Borderlands and Diablo.
So you're complaing that you actually have to play the game? Are you going to complain that someone that has the time to play 10-15 hours a day has better loot than you too? Again the bots are not going to land them on the leaderboards and it's not that hard to get rift stone fragments. So what if the bot has 500 fragments and 20 furnaces, that doesn't really hurt you. Sounds like jealousy. I don't condone or agree with someone botting as it's not how the game was meant to be played, but it has little to no effect on the majority of the player base. The player still has to utilize what a bot gets and have the skill to hit the leaderboard, and if they are botting, they probably won't be in the top 100. In the current phase of D3, with no market or trading, and the severe amount of RNG in the game as a whole, botting isn't that big of a problem. You're not facing someone head to head in a match, grifts are not equal; they are random. If you want to talk about something that is hurting the game, talk about the shear amount of luck it takes to get a good grift with a conduit. And it's not as if Blizzard isn't banning the ones they catch. They just don't announce it.
Botting doesn't affect other players. No one gives a shit about what gear a botter has or what paragon level they are. Botters aren't topping the leaderboards. Botters aren't getting as much out of the game as other people.
Botters are, in effect, punishing themselves by botting. Blizzard doesn't need to step in.
You don't really get an unfair advantage aside from time played. I doubt a bot is smart enough to clear leaderboard topping grifts. Hearthstone is a very competitive game. Any unfair advantage should be bannable as it effects everyone playing, botting in D3 doesn't really affect anyone other than the botter.
I've used OBS for everything because of it's gamehook. It can record just the game rather than the whole screen. It is quite nice and better than fraps in that aspect. It can also stream to twitch and others. You can set up profiles for streaming and recording. If you're trying to use Twitch, Twitch has a walkthrough on getting started for OBS here: http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1262922-open-broadcaster-software
I just went to make a new char and at the bottom i just showed hardcore or create. also so I am lvl 10 and he is 45 will that make a difference.
Sounds like you don't have the expansion if you there is no option for Seasonal in the Character Creation screen. However I am not entirely sure on if seasons are available to non-RoS owners.
What about it? If you are in the party but can't join the game it's most likely 1 of 2 reasons.
1.) You don't have the expansion.(which you said you did)
2.) You're trying to join a game with a different character type than the party leader is playing. You cannot join a player who is playing on a season character with a normal or hardcore character and vice versa.
Not sure if there is another bug, but I am betting it's #2. Please check with your friend on what kind of character they are playing. You have to have the same type of character whether season, normal, or hardcore to join their game.
It is the truth. Itemization was better in D2 and still is. Go look at any Leg from D2, most were meaningful and useful. In D3 I get legendaries and CRUSH them before I even ID them for the stats because I know beyond a doubt that item is terrible no matter what stats. THAT IS STUPID. Until Blizz decides to have the itemization D2 had, D2's LOOT system will be superior. And by any logic, eventually, ANY gear will be crap. They added those Leg gems because their items SUCK. I like the idea of Legendary gems, however, the affixes would have been better suited on GEAR. D3 is superior in everyway besides its loot.
D2 loot system is not superior to D3. It is not even fucking related. You should go reread about D2's loot mechanics, loot tables and levels etc then consider your statement again. Also 95% of all legs in D2 are total shit imo. I play D2 every ladder reset for the first month and I only look for about ~15 legs and look to craft 5 or so runewords. Nothing else is useful, wanted or required for any build I like to run.
How about you stay on topic and keep hating on DH like the OP, we enjoy listening about how pist you are that your class can't perform at the same level as us.
My initial comment was on topic, and this conversation still is. This all relates. Your above statement "IMO" is just that. Your opinion. I played D2 A LOT. I remember a lot about it, and I felt BETTER playing that game than I do D3 when it comes to DROPS. As stated I agree D3 has potential as far as loot goes and regardless is a great game still. However, Blizz needs to be better with items. This thread wouldn't even exist if they had better design on legendaries and more items that were useful for each class bringing them up to par with the M6. The simple fact that the M6 set is, to the "OP", so OP is because there is no other set like it in the game that lets pets use main abilities of the class and hit just as hard with no resource cost. We need better class sets, better items, and less RNG on stats on gear. I am not saying get rid of it, but it needs to have less impact. Better sets = better balance = less threads like this.
It is the truth. Itemization was better in D2 and still is. Go look at any Leg from D2, most were meaningful and useful. In D3 I get legendaries and CRUSH them before I even ID them for the stats because I know beyond a doubt that item is terrible no matter what stats. THAT IS STUPID. Until Blizz decides to have the itemization D2 had, D2's LOOT system will be superior. And by any logic, eventually, ANY gear will be crap. They added those Leg gems because their items SUCK. I like the idea of Legendary gems, however, the affixes would have been better suited on GEAR. D3 is superior in everyway besides its loot.
I agree with everything in ur post up until ur last line. RNG stats on gear has been in the Diablo series since its birth, cause you know, its a Grinding game. Blizz already has it money. They don't necessarily care if you continue to play or not.
What? Did you even play D2? D2's system was static on stats as far as I could remember. Here is some main bullet points about D2 loot system pulled from Reddit.
D2's loot system was/is superior to D3's for 5 reasons:
The affix's were interesting, significant, and facilitated build creation - 10% to cast frost nova when struck; granting your character foreign skills; bigger affix's values, etc; check out the arreat summit for more).
In D2, the stat/skill point system determined the "base" of your characters strength - gear was like the cherry on top that could build off that to shoot your character to greater heights. In D3, your gear *is * your character - consider that from lvl1-60 you gain 177 points of your primary stat, which is meaningless when many items grant bigger bonuses then that. Certainly in D2 characters looked for +all skills on their gear, but it was such a pervasive stat among the best items that it gave room to look for items that had interesting affix's (or alternatively, items without +all skills that were fantastic in their own right).
Loot was more static than D3; compared to D3, D2's unique's and rune words have practically no RNG on them. At the very most, their affix's were set with some give in their value. This meant that if say, you got aShako you knew it was gonna rock you just didn't know what it's defense (the only RNG stat) was gonna be. In D3, many legendaries are crap purely biggest 90% of their affix's are subject to RNG and as such are prone to either poor rolls or receiving useless affix's.
Kind of a repeat of 1 and 3, but bad affix's + RNG = awful loot system. Consider gloves: of the 25 possible affix's, the only one's people want to see are primary stat, vitality, crit chance, crit damage, attack speed, all resist, and magic find (maybe a specific resist for Monks). Thus, 60% of the possible affix's for gloves are filler and only facilitate the bad roll process, and that's with gloves that have fewer possible affix's than say, an amulet.
Item drops were more frequent in D2, making farming rewarding. The combination of "static" loot and better drops meant it was entirely possible for players to load up their characters with Best in Slot gear (or at the very least, gear worth equipping that was still interesting/useful) within reasonable time commitments. This was part of D2's addictiveness. Consider: in D2 it was entirely possible for a player to say, collect all of Tal Rasha's set save maybe the armour on their own; in D3 good luck finding even one piece of Tal Rasha's (and that's RNG and chosen affix's are actually useful to your wizard)
I don't understand why people are crying nerf in a game that is centrally based on RNG, with no real PvP aspect. I could understand if they made grifts more of an "arcade style" where you kept the highest key frag you got until you beat the time. Removing all chances of RNG in grifts, like conduit and making each grift level concrete with the same mobs/maps. So everyone with a level 35 grift shard will face the same thing. At that point, the leaderboards would actually be a judge of balance essentially.
I am by no means a Game Designer, however, it's painfully obvious that lack of useful Legendaries and gear sets are hurting each class in the game. That and RNG stats on the gear, which seemed to be a way to squeeze out more playtime by Blizz.
It still needs some skill to play. You have to know ranges on things like jail and have quick reaction time when frost orbs spawn at your feet. It's not like I can just throw sentries down and stand around. Solo, they still chase you and you have to kite. Every class has that one piece that makes or breaks at certain Grift levels.
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At the end of the day, it's as @Belloc said.
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1.) You don't have the expansion.(which you said you did)
2.) You're trying to join a game with a different character type than the party leader is playing. You cannot join a player who is playing on a season character with a normal or hardcore character and vice versa.
Not sure if there is another bug, but I am betting it's #2. Please check with your friend on what kind of character they are playing. You have to have the same type of character whether season, normal, or hardcore to join their game.
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D2's loot system was/is superior to D3's for 5 reasons:
The affix's were interesting, significant, and facilitated build creation - 10% to cast frost nova when struck; granting your character foreign skills; bigger affix's values, etc; check out the arreat summit for more).
In D2, the stat/skill point system determined the "base" of your characters strength - gear was like the cherry on top that could build off that to shoot your character to greater heights. In D3, your gear *is * your character - consider that from lvl1-60 you gain 177 points of your primary stat, which is meaningless when many items grant bigger bonuses then that. Certainly in D2 characters looked for +all skills on their gear, but it was such a pervasive stat among the best items that it gave room to look for items that had interesting affix's (or alternatively, items without +all skills that were fantastic in their own right).
Loot was more static than D3; compared to D3, D2's unique's and rune words have practically no RNG on them. At the very most, their affix's were set with some give in their value. This meant that if say, you got aShako you knew it was gonna rock you just didn't know what it's defense (the only RNG stat) was gonna be. In D3, many legendaries are crap purely biggest 90% of their affix's are subject to RNG and as such are prone to either poor rolls or receiving useless affix's.
Kind of a repeat of 1 and 3, but bad affix's + RNG = awful loot system. Consider gloves: of the 25 possible affix's, the only one's people want to see are primary stat, vitality, crit chance, crit damage, attack speed, all resist, and magic find (maybe a specific resist for Monks). Thus, 60% of the possible affix's for gloves are filler and only facilitate the bad roll process, and that's with gloves that have fewer possible affix's than say, an amulet.
Item drops were more frequent in D2, making farming rewarding. The combination of "static" loot and better drops meant it was entirely possible for players to load up their characters with Best in Slot gear (or at the very least, gear worth equipping that was still interesting/useful) within reasonable time commitments. This was part of D2's addictiveness. Consider: in D2 it was entirely possible for a player to say, collect all of Tal Rasha's set save maybe the armour on their own; in D3 good luck finding even one piece of Tal Rasha's (and that's RNG and chosen affix's are actually useful to your wizard)
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I am by no means a Game Designer, however, it's painfully obvious that lack of useful Legendaries and gear sets are hurting each class in the game. That and RNG stats on the gear, which seemed to be a way to squeeze out more playtime by Blizz.
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