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I play Hardcore so I'll pass.

Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e6-0STmUmiD30X8Mgf8FN766q0lI6k_JNNemYxsH--k/htmlview?sle=true#

(not the same spreadsheet linked on page 1.)

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None got nerfed, except potentially Invoker Crusader.

http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/61863-patch-2-4-1-ptr-patch-notes

And yes the Drahque spreadsheet is up to date here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gCq8ihJBcYDZpPICFqA407fL0Fl_K9PMBp83npy5DcM/htmlview?sle=true#

how i can download that spreadsheet to print it?

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I dislike seasons and the need to play it for stash space, which is ONLY useful in season, is annoying enough.

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the hell is wrong with the game interface? It's fine. One can play the
game as it is, have fun and is able to push into the leaderboards.

I don't fu**ing get it. Blizzards banhammer should hit THUDers as hard as botters!

Yea, one can travel cross-country 'as they are' too, by foot, but we still generally use airplanes or cars because they are faster and more convenient. Sorry, but 'it's usable' is not a very good argument. Things advance because people want specific needs fulfilled, and the user interface is, for many, not fulfilling those needs.

In terms of speed of gaining useful information and convenience of the player gleaning that information, there are many things wrong with the default game interface, but my biggest complaint by far is with lack of displaying NUMBERS. Health, Mana, & Cooldowns, especially.

Why can I not see how much health I have, AS A NUMBER, without mousing over the orb mid-combat? Same thing with mana, spirit, fury., etc. Resource management is essential when you have 2-3 skills with limited duration buffs to you/debuffs to affected mobs and you need to use them all together.

They all cost [resource]? Guess you just have to make a visual guesstimation of whether or not you have the cost of all 3 spells' worth of resource available to you currently. Since, for some unknown reason, it's simply 'too much information' to tell players HOW MUCH MANA THEY HAVE unless they move their cursor to the bottom edge of the monitor to look.

Either that or stop using your left-click skill mid fight, to hover over the globe, then re-position your mouse to continue. Yes, you can hold down left-click to not be interrupted, but you are going to change which direction you are attacking in, and still wasting time focusing on a popup tooltip and moving your cursor back and forth, which generally prevents you from split-second reactions/decisions which may occur during this time. This won't happen constantly, but it WILL HAPPEN.

Same thing with health numbers. There's even a legendary potion that grants you resource when used below a certain health percentage. Guess I just have to hover my mouse over, during a critical time of the fight (when you may DIE...you're using a potion at low health. So yea, you might die, but you have to go look at the health globe with your cursor to see your health number.) Either that or take a guess as to where 50% of the health globe is, and if you're below it. Used potion at 55%? Too bad, we didn't want you to have 'too much information'.

It's also apparently 'too much information' to tell players exact cooldowns of their skills, but a radial shading dial is not too much at all. Why do I have to guess if the 'shadow that revolves around the square icon is more than 60% done?' Why can't it just say 1.5s on it? I'm playing a game, not trying to read a sundial. We have computers, with numbers and shit. Sundials went out of style back in the medieval ages.

Why are these not even toggleable options for 'advanced' players in the options menus? Players are not that stupid. It's not 'too much' information. Hell, even Elective mode & Advanced tooltips should be on by default.

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Thud is an overlay and nothing more. Its everybody blizzard should do but doesnt because we do have THUD, blizzard employees use it as well.

Please post your source/evidence of blizzard employee's using/advocating use of THUD. I have looked into some of the features, and while some are definitely beneficial to gameplay, I would not want THUD in its current state to be completely integrated into D3. I do encourage the use of THUD for competitive play, as it helps to reduce some of the non-essential/counter-intuitive RNG elements present within GRs (which become significantly more prominent at higher GRs). THUD can help competitive players create a more level ground upon which to compete, and they do so by analysing data in real time; the decision to go left/right is not made by a computer/program, but the program does aid the human player to make the decision.

I think it is imperative that Blizzard take a stand on the matter of THUD use, as it is clearly a topic which splits the community. I don't think that THUD users should be punished as harshly as botters straight off the bat, because they are vastly different advantages. One allows farming while the player is AFK (sleeping/work/etc.) and is often used for lengthy durations; the other provides more detailed information on the player's surroundings, allowing them to use their time more efficiently while actively playing.

To be clear, I am for features/extensions which provide the player with more decision-making power, and against any element which makes that decision for the player.

THUD features I openly support (I do not use THUD, but do familiarise myself with the features of the program):
- Skill calculation details (it's basically a read-out similar to that provided on D3Planner)
- Arcs and circles (displays radius marks which the player can use to set up their positioning for buffs like zei's)
- Orbs on minimap (displays orbs on the minimap, so you don't run past them and miss out on your rift progress)

There is a feature which ... ... ... is unfair in a competition of non-THUD vs THUD user:
Monster dots on minimap show how many monsters are within the detection radius. ... ... ... My main issue however is the detection radius itself. Based upon the image I am viewing, the detection radius would have an effective range which exceeds the player's FOV; If this range were matched to ~85% of FOV, I would not have an issue with it.

Saw this post and had a lot of thought and agreement with it.

I go more in-depth with actual mechanics and loss-gain benefits of THUD vs no THUD users on the first two of PsykStrike's 'supported features'.

As for the third? Orbs, yes, I agree with that, nothing to get into detail about, whatsoever.

Orbs on minimap would be great.

Also go into the unfairness of the minimap vs detection radius actual visibility range and inherent disadvantages by those with different aspect ratios throughout.

Totally agreed with this post. The first 3 components are useful, very useful, but nothing you can't do without D3planner.

If you had a second monitor that had d3planner up and you imported your hero every gear change, you would actually get far more info/stats than THUD gives you (referring mostly to the damage calculations of your skills.

D3planner will give you calculations including passives, legendary procs, skill AS breakpoints and how much you need to reach that next breakpoint for what amount of damage increase you will attain by reaching the breakpoint... etc etc.)

D3 has needed this info for years. They refuse to give us a test dummy in town, even, let alone a DPS meter for ourselves.

Fine, we'll have a website calculate it all in another window, with extreme detail. Or an overlay calculate it all, with far less detail, but on the same window.

You aren't going to check your skill damage in combat any more than you would ALT+TAB and check out d3planner mid-combat to check your skill damage.

Both are used, basically, exclusively while in town and swapping between different weapons and checking for upgrades/synergies.

Timesaver, not an advantage giver. You can calculate it all by hand if you really want, the "player who uses no THUD or d3planner", you will not be at a disadvantage in combat.

~Arcs and circles, yes. What the hell is a yard, in Diablo? Seriously, what the hell is 50 yards on 1920x1080?

How about on 1280x720? 1440p?

Some of these things have zero indicator buffs or debuff auras/icons on the mobs.

Cyclone strike -> Implosion pulls in mobs from, let's see... 36 yards. Where, in, the, HELL, is, thirty-six, yards. The monk aura that affects enemy mobs has a 30 yard range, so if you stop exactly when you see that aura indicator on enemy mobs, you must then advance another 6 yards to be in range of pulling exactly the zombie pack 36 yards away, without pulling the elite extra health illusionist Mallet Lord pack that is 40 yards away from you.

People will say 'lulz just practice more scrub', but nobody knows exact ranges all the time.

This game does not provide range 'arcs' like games such as WC3 did (press chain lightning on your far seer, you get a transparent-ish blue circle with the Far Seer Hero at the center, and the circle has a radius that is precisely the size of the spell's maximum castable range. If the unit is inside the circle, you can hit the spell and rain lightning upon their forsaken souls. If they are not in the circle, you know immediately that you are not in range.

As I said, Diablo 3 lacks any kind of range feature (besides the fact that skills have ranges.) Range is a static number property of spells in Diablo 3, with no other implementation or confirmation process as to you actually being in this range.)

Not even in the campaign, or FAQ, blizzard beginner tips/tutorial website, or the instruction manual for the game is 'discerning range' alluded to as a necessary skill or a method to estimate it; there is not even an official post on a 'standard x yard range is this distance from this spot to this spot' picture.

Thank god somebody made that Demon Hunter in town picture a long time ago. Click the spoiler to view it.

Also see: http://www.diabloii.net/blog/comments/diablo-iii-the-art-of-distance for explanation on these ranges and circle if you don't understand it or the axes. Very good writeup there already.

A point to note: a 4:3 monitor can see 30 yards down-corner, 60 yards to an upper corner. This is due to the isometric, non-top-down camera angle.

So, 50 yards to a mob that is below your character (lower corners of monitor) is not in the expected, same-but-opposite-side location as 50 yards to an enemy above you (top corners of your screen). This makes range really really hard to figure out on-the-fly.

Also to note, 16:10 resolutions see 17% more of the battlefield than a 4:3 monitor does. ON EACH SIDE.

If we are gosu enough and can see all 4 corners of our 16:10 monitor at once, we are seeing 68% more of the battlefield at once (en totale, including all 4 directional bounds, implied as the corners of your monitor) than a dude with a 4:3 monitor.

This same 16:10 aspect ratio monitor is only showing, per corner, 90% of what a 16:9 would show. So, again, if we see all corners at once with our eyes, there's another (10% * 4 =) 40% increase in what we can see from our character to the edge of our gamescreen.

I'll let you do the math for how bad 4:3 AR visual range is when compared to the 1080p monitors at 16:9. (Hint, 25% in each direction.)

Combine that with the fact that the camera makes it such that seemingly 'equal' amounts of space going at a down angle are actually only half the in-game 'yards' distance of the 'same' spot, just going up instead.

Don't get what the hell this chart is? Isometric camera what the hell is that? How can two equal distances not be equal?? Wat??

Ok, here's a demonstration. Follow along at home, click the spoiler.

How the hell are we supposed to calculate range with this??? We don't. We let Turbohud draw a circle for us at 50 yards in all directions (for zei's.)

This feature is not a cheat, it's an improvement, in my opinion. Diablo has zero built-in resources for learning range. Zero.

And isometric camera, hah, yea, good luck bud.

If somebody thinks this is cheating...do i need to put a sharpie on my monitor to draw zei's circle out? Would that be considered 'cheating'? I'd always have Zei's 50 yard range indicator up on my screen.

Hell, just get those plastic films teachers used to use on the school projectors in the classroom, with the dry-erasable markers and tape it on your monitor.

Done with d3? Flip it over the back of the screen. No marker damage to the monitor, and I know more than other players about zei's max range for damage boost maximization.

I now have an advantage. Is this cheating? Is this unfair? It isn't software, as when THUD software draws a circle on screen for you.

It's a hardware circle, and even though Blizzard bans third-party 'software', did I not gain an unfair advantage still? Is it ok because it's not drawn by software, but THUD circles are not okay because they are? In fact, the distinction is irrelevant: they do the same exact thing.

So, circle ranges It is a useful feature that should be allowed or implemented by Blizzard, especially since they cannot expect us to compensate for the camera angle doubling yardage ranges above the x-axis.

This feature should be implemented. So agree again great feature.

P.S. Say for example I run in 1920x1080 and you run in some garbage 4:3 resolution on your old CRT.

I have another unfair advantage over you, I can see double the area around my character vs what you can see around yours (25% more in each direction to the monitors corner borders.)

Is this also cheating?

What about super-widescreen monitors that go up to 21:9 This is like a cinema projector screen, ust so you can imagine how widescreen it is. No blackbars stretching or cropping will be needed when the DVD comes out, you'll have the true cinematic viewpoint the director made the film with.

And you'll see a metric fuckton more of D3 than the pitifully un-wide, lesser, plebeian monitors.

It's not software, and Blizzard isn't going to ban you for using your new Projector screen to play their game. But it gives me a huge advantage.

And this will always exist in Diablo 3.

So, saying anything 'third-party software giving advantage' should be banned no matter what... well, it's silly.

Shall we ban anybody laying in 16:9 when there are 4:3 players on the leaderboards too?

People take Blizz posts too literally. "Third-party" "software" = must be banned regardless of function or availability of advantage attained also being obtained without the third-party software.

Bots let you double or triple your playtime and always do most efficient xp runs during real play-time and farm mats/keys while you're away or sleeping off the 4-day adderall binge you did at season startup. Come back and farm some more GRs and hey you're top 10 player you're the best! ... Except not.

THUD provides about as much of an advantage as does having a more widescreen Aspect Ratio monitor/resolution provides you, at least for the 3 features supported by PsykStrike

The only thing that breaks the competition is the vision/detection range.

If the minimap dots were only visible up to the players visual range (i.e. the resolution of his or her monitor from the center to the outside edge or corner, depending on the direction he's heading, obviously), this would be fine in my opinion.

You could see mobs on the screen at the same time as a THUD user could see them as dots on the minimap.

I played RTS games for years, years, and years, before Diablo 3. I am far more comfortable judging the size of a force with radar/minimap dots than looking at actual 3d-ish-isometric view models that sometimes do not contrast very well with the terrain/colors and could be misleading, at least for myself personally.

As an example, think about the very, very dark rifts, and you've got a bunch of Zombie pukers stuffed into chokepoints, and a WALLER elite just for fun (the wall is quite dark.)

Sometimes I can't see walls made by WALLER on the super-super-dark-blackness-of-the-void colored rift floors. They're both just too dark.
Or, the cave levels ~ but not any cave level, it's an ICE cave level. What do we get? Of course, tons of freaking elites with FROZEN.

I literally cannot see those 90% of the time without THUD (it will show a red dotted outline around the Frozen particle/spell's Area of Effect. It's not that I can't react or don't pay attention, but sometimes the color matches the terrain in a snow level pretty much perfectly and it's impossible to avoid without that outline there.

We all know Blizzard messes up on shadow outlines with similar colors. Check out your buff stacks on Live server right now. Sorry, you have how many stacks of Firebird's? or Tal Rashas? White text on white background, works about as well as Frozen in an Ice Cave. THUD gives me the outline blizz is adding to Text/number indicators on buff/stack icons next patch, but gives me that outlinefor things that can kill me, but shouldn't, as they are basically invisible.

Again, these are just my thoughts, mostly in agreement with PsykStrike's well-written post.

I don't think minimap dots at same range as visual monitor resolution range are an extra advantage vs looking at the edge of the monitor (this is where you have to look to see the minimap anyway. We're both looking at a edge of the monitor in this situation!) and not having the minimap dots.

For me, this is what I am extremely accustomed to in other Blizzard games, and what I would prefer, personally.

Thus, I may have bias in that it isn't unfair to have dots as the same range as your character's vision range, as they show the same thing, just one as some dots in a small compact area (minimap), and one as a real-scale representation of the battlefield, as some 3D sprites shown on the battlefield itself, The area your eyes must scan is larger without minimap dots, but you get a much better depiction of range (Zei's, etc.) in the non-THUD users' case; you can also immediately detect the monster type and more quickly formulate whether to sit and kill, avoid and pass them, or group them up and pull them with you to the next pack of stuff.
This is a reasonable tradeoff for either playstyle and should be left to the user to decide.

Minimap dots show total mob amount/force size more easily, and in conjunction with upcoming map features, all in a compact area of the minimap. Thus, you can plan your route whilst you see upcoming trash packs and dynamically move and group or kill on-the-fly.

No minimap dots, you can always see what monster types are incoming (Will it be a mounted armadon at the chokepoint? Are the mobs in the next room something you should pull into this room to clear both at once?

Nah, there's like 100 Oppressors in there.

Can't tell either of those things with THUD minimap dots, but you can if you watch the screen instead of the minimap), you can see the size of the force (same as THUD can).

So, my thoughts on it is the minimap dots do not really do anything special, they do one thing better than without them, and some things worse if you are focusing on them instead of the world on your screen, in acceptably qualitatively equal benefits/losses for each option.

Neither is overpowered, and it is more personal preference. Hell, some people don't ever look at the minimap, with or without THUD, or even in a WarCraft 3 or SC2 game (or league of legends or CS:GO or... ad nausem).

Some folks are very good as visually scanning the isometric field, and can instantly decide whether to skip, kill, have them follow you to another pack, etc.

Conversely, some, such as myself, or those with heavy RTS backgrounds, thrive on minimap dot spotting in order to more closely focus on map terrain and relative mob pack sizes, so we can look at routes while we check out incoming amounts of mobs; only really ever looking at the isometric battlefield when we are in range to fight, really.

THEN we see what mobs these are, and then waste precious seconds deciding whether to skip, clump, fight, or make them follow you to another pack, etc.

Ranges in this game are completely fucked sideways as pertaining to how many yards away something is in isometric view, with any downward location of the x-axis being half of the equiangular upward distance.

As THUD currently does have 'maphack' esque things, that is the main issue of contention I can see.Then again, I could also once again argue it's the same as having a wider monitor.

I concede it is a controversial feature, however, but still hold that it's silly to cry about it when the game gives you 100% more visual space by going from a 4:3 AR to a 16:9 AR, and that's okay but map reveal (which is mostly based on cached rift / known rift layouts...as im sure you've noticed rifts are not exactly random at all, and often have the same dead-ends and layouts, same paths that lead in a big loop to waste your time, etc.

It's more like drawing the known map when it matches the current GR floor, it fills in what it knows, and where variations can occur, it stops drawing.

If the map is always one layout, then you get the full 'maphack'. A person could easily memorize all of these if they tried. Everybody who runs enough GRs has memoriozed some of the maps already. "Ok, the giant hell rift always has a dead-end when you are in the top center, and choose to go up the incline to the left path. And heading the other path to the top-right, always leads to the next floor of the GR after a small stretch of straight pathing."

You know what I'm talking about! :^) THud just knows more patterns like this. It's not really a maphack, though it is a map-fill-in tool once it matches the rift with rifts it knows.

I conclude this post once again finding myself agreeing with PsykStriker. Thanks for the post, and I didn't intend to write even 1/10 of this length of post, but you got me thinking in-depth about your points.

Doubt anybody read this far into my post, but hey if you did, thanks.

1) all of them. you will literally get 100+ mails with all your items. I am not sure about follower's items, you MAY want to put those in your stash just to be safe. They probably get sent too, though.

2) Yes, you dont have to take all the mail at once. But you do only have 30 days (from your first login, after season end, I believe) to take them, then they get lost and deleted. They don't want you to use mail as inifnite stash space, so it won't stay there forever, but you will have some time to figure out what to salvage in your NS stash and what to keep etc.

3) I dont know, but I would imagine it transfers over from season to NS. Just a guess on this one though.

No one cares about nonseasonal players. Your completely empty leader boards are indicative of that. Blizzard sure as hell doesn't care. Why should they? There's no demand. If you're not going to sack up and go seasonal like the rest of the player base, at least don't whine about not getting what you want for a dead mode!

That's like if I sat here and complained about lack of support for Diablo 1. Blizz I can not believe you are not releasing constant new updates for Diablo 3 vanilla. Vanilla D3 players getting kicked in the ...AGAIN.

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Still on the Graw the Herald train? Even after neva self-corrected by saying that it's a "fallen themed" pennant rather than a "fallen" pennant?

You are drinking your own Kulle-Aid.

This is why you have problems understanding the simplicity of it all: You've become too infatuated with finding fault in everything, insofar as to make assumptions on semantics and display gross negligence in comprehension, that you start glossing over the most basic things. You, and others, are way too quick to jump on the backs of everyone and call "Liar! Liar!" because it's easier to do that than use your brain in a logical way.

She did not "self-correct," she basically verified that the word "Fallen" was never intended to encompass the possibilities of stars, angels or cities. "Fallen" means nothing more than the demon class. Also, she said this in response to someone on Twitter, not on the D3 forums. She probably simply glances over the D3 thread very quickly, or maybe not at all. After her "hint," the majority of players (myself included) started to look at the word "fallen" as a possible meaning for something else completely unrepresentative of the demon class of Fallen.

And what is the "Graw the Herald train"? I simply made the comment that if Regreb spawns in Campaign Mode then it would be reasonable to assume Graw also might. I have stated numerous times that I am more interested in the Act 3 missing transmogs than Graw, Besides, it's not a definite that Graw even drops the pennant.

You were asking me for direction on the D3 forums but were also very quick to jump on the bandwagon idea that I had been misleading people on purpose, or "trolling." Why? The latter would be the most simple answer for neither Graw nor the pennant being verifiable: "GodHand has been purposely misleading people." All of that based on a person you do not even know, who does not even participate on the forums, making a cauldron of lies about me that I debunked with proof in this very thread, to save face in the fact she had been spending time following a Twitter picture that ended up being Covetous Shen's barrel.

Furthermore, I understand the frustration people have, but you should also know that to my knowledge, it has not been legitimately located on the PS4 version of 2.4.1, either.

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"Neva has stated twice to my knowledge (maybe more) that cosmetics are Adventure Mode only."

Which has been proven to be totally inaccurate in fact wrong.

She acknowledged the bug with Ghoul Kings Blade, but evidently they are unaware of the other tmogs that are supposedly being found on campaign as well, Now King Maker too!

Really shoots their credibility down a few more notches, if in fact these items are being found on campaign.

We know it's wrong, but that does not pertain at all to his question. Adventure Mode-only spawns occurring in Campaign Mode can be something as little as a line of code. He was asking if it was a possibly INTENDED issue in order for us to do both Adventure and Campaign to attain all the cosmetics. Since she said Ghoul King's Blade was a bug, it would follow that the others are also bugs, especially when she said they are Adventure Mode only items.

Remember, Neva is just a Community Manager. The cosmetics are intended to only spawn in Adventure Mode but obviously there is a problem somewhere on their end.

Also, I will not be 100% convinced of King Maker until there's a video. Regreb is a pretty rare spawn and him spawning in Campaign Mode would definitely be troubling because then people will reasonably assume that Graw the Herald also spawns much more frequently in Campaign Mode (even though they do not know where to actually find him when he DOES spawn).

I'm not throwing her under the bus, ok. She has been given incorrect information by members of the dev team and has broadcast this inaccurate info as she is supposed to do, they threw her under the bus. Now accepting the fact that items are supposed to be adventure mode only and obviously are not restricted to it by coding errors, the issue is; what else is broken in the spawn of the un-found items in adventure mode.

She simply relayed the info that was given to her by their "Quality Assurance Team." I have no idea what that is but it's possible the pennant would drop server-side (the side they'd be testing drops from), but be unable to, or "locked" if you will, client-side. I do agree that there are obvious problems now with more and more "Adventure-mode only items" showing up in Campaign Mode.

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I'm not throwing her under the bus, ok. She has been given incorrect information by members of the dev team and has broadcast this inaccurate info as she is supposed to do, they threw her under the bus. Now accepting the fact that items are supposed to be adventure mode only and obviously are not restricted to it by coding errors, the issue is; what else is broken in the spawn of the un-found items in adventure mode.

At this point, there is no guarantee at all that Nevalistis is not talking out of her ass. Someone dropped the ball. We don't know who it is, we don't know how far the ball has been thrown. What we do know is that this is not the first time this has happened. Anyone who has been around since at least the RoS release surely remembers the Final 5 and that damn blood hawk.
Personally, I'm not gonna stay around for 6 months waiting for nothing until they decide to fix whatever problem is forcing those items to be extremely rare and/or unobtainable.

I honestly cannot believe I'm defending Blizzard here but no reasonable person is going to think that Neva is purposely lying to people or "talking out of her ass." She can't do anything other than relay back to the community the information she receives from those who do the testing. Some people are so quick to start attacking the moral integrity of another just because it's the easiest thing to do.

Lastly, it's obvious things were not tested properly before this patch was made live in respect to xmogs or cosmetics. It's unfortunate it took so long for Aidan's Revenge to come out as being unobtainable. It's also unfortunate some players' immediate reaction to situations is to start criticizing the moral integrity of others.

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@ GodHand:

Props to you mate. Either you are an extremely active and helpful member of the community, or you are the biggest troll on the internet (to an extent where it is worthy of an award). The main thread you started extends for (currently) 33 pages and includes a vast array of theories which tie in with Diablo lore, which I think most players would be hard-pressed to come up with through any means. The comments regarding the "curse drama" really only support your active involvement in the cosmetics hunt, which urges the question; why would a legit troll endure long and exhausting hours of theory-crafting and in-game farming (with essentially no reward) purely to support troll comments on the internet?

Thanks for the support! Indeed I would DEMAND an award for trolling if this much effort was put into it! That said, the last thing I am going to do is purposly lead people in a completely wrong direction. If anything, 90% of her post does that, hence the reason it's constantly edited. Her "I theorize" posts in that linked Reddit thread are all my conclusions via Curse discussions. She never had any theories. She was able to pull data strings from files and that's pretty much it (and many were old - the Harvest string for the pennant can be found on THIS SITE from many months ago when the patch was first datamined). Just watch how her "I theorize" remarks start to dwindle now that she has no one to give them to her. You'll get no direction, no reliable theories or any viable info from her end - just old data strings and a long-winded lie

Again, I try to theory-craft a bit, and datamine what I think is reasonable information. I do not just post any string I find without looking into it further (even if it's just a Google search to see if the string is old and known already).

Fact is, I try to help out with this, not harm. No one puts such effort into leading others in a wrong direction unless it's for personal gain. What would I have to gain from that? The missing cosmetics would still remain missing, and likely for much longer. Good luck on the search, and I'll report back when I've finished a few things currently being worked on.

Everyone see negative things like easier leaderboards climb, and no one see positives. I'm playing this game from premiere, spend thousands of hours, but I never cared about leaderboards, conquests and sh*t, so I think I'm casual player only. For me, THUD was just usefull, comfortable tool, it provided better interface, which lazy Blizzard should give us long time ago. Do you remember how long did we ask for little things like time indicator for skills?

Now (for me) playing this game is too annoying, because of dumb, time-wasting things like going to stash everytime when I want to check how much mats I have.

And people, who only blame KJ and can't see any positives, should go back to past, where Diablo interface was such poor and sad, that even legendaries didn't appear on minimap.

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No, and he does not have the pennant. He posted on the Diablo 3 forums.

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Also, if you wanted to correlate "fallen" with "falling" and have it actually be representative, it would not be the Crumbling Tower event, but the Hideout of the Lost Legion in A5 (a p4 area where the Resplendent Chest would spawn). Inside you meet 3 Fallen super-uniques and they make tons of smaller Fallen enemies literally fall from the ceiling onto you.

Could not remember this event... In the first part of the city and/or in the burning part ?

It's in the Battlefields of Eternity. It's entrance is randomly placed around there and sometimes it does not spawn at all, but it is a fairly common spawn.

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Just to throw another idea into the hat...what if the "fallen" was as literal as it could be? What about Izual, the fallen angel? Wouldnt put it past blizzard

Tyrael is also a fallen angel. There are a lot of "fallen" things in Diablo 3 (Diablo in general).

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I do not believe Graw the Herald has the pennant. I believe the pennant is in the Resplendent Chest due to the fact it's a "more rare cosmetic." King Maker is another "more rare cosmetic," and falls from Regarb the Slayer in Stinging Winds (after many restarts).

Also, if you put Graw's file in a hex editor, it clearly says "Act 2" with his name. The _01 parameter, as said by another person, is not there to let you know what level or what act, which can be seen by the differences in what some of the strings say and where some of the transmogs are.

We have also datamined Graw's flavor text which reads Graw the Herald - Fallen Harbinger. So "Fallen Harbinger" will show under his name when he's located.

We have also found that the 'A' in his datamine string refers to his texture as a Fallen Shaman (they can be different colors). Graw will be red. The problem here is most dungeons in A2 rotate mob types. For example you will enter it one game, and it will be nothing but sewer creatures. You will enter it another game and it will be nothing but wasps and poison mobs. You will enter another game and it will be Fallen Shamen. That's not to say Graw won't spawn in an area that does not have the same type of mob-style around, but Regarb the Slayer, who is a Fallen Overseer, spawns with other Fallen Overseers, and those with the same color (he is also 'A' or red).

We found 2 strings for the Fallen/Khazra Pennant itself, which is named "Harvest," and also the flavor text:
- P5_cos_Pennant_Harvest_01: "The long cold winter begins, but your hard work during the harvest will keep you alive. Hopefully."

- cos_pennant_harvest_01: "This pennant smells of dead leaves. You should unfurl it."

The 2nd one is particularly telling since it talks about its odor and unfurling it. We figure this is what the pennant says when it's in your inventory and has yet to be added to your Collection, but also think it represents where the pennant has been kept - stashed in something (like a barrel) and exposed to the elements (so a barrel outdoors). p4 and p5 correlate to the same locations (Ruins of Sescheron, Eternal Woods, Greyhollow Island, Leoric's Manor (remember, this is a new section) and the aforementioned containing dungeons and abodes)).

We were able to datamine a picture of the front of the pennant, that shows the skull is actually the skull of Aidan - The Dark Wanderer from A2; the one who slammed the shard of the soulstone into his forehead at the end of the original Diablo to contain Diablo.

More info can be found by my partner in this, along with the pictures and such: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/4eyvsg/241_transmog_locations_from_ptr/d3bwthk

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Increase the fonts size of your signature, i still can`t see it properly..

Gabynator has been banned so many times i just feel bad for him. He once was a legend, but now hes just another boter..

I don't feel bad for him. He knows the ToS and chooses to ignore them. That's his decision and gets to live with the consequences. The only thing better would have been if they banned them a couple days before the season ended. Not a couple of weeks.

Aww you bot it wrong lol

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Increase the fonts size of your signature, i still can`t see it properly..

Gabynator has been banned so many times i just feel bad for him. He once was a legend, but now hes just another boter..

Compared to most on the top of the leaderboards, I am a casual player. I spend the majority of the season playing solo, I don't group farm paragon or bounties, and am very inefficient overall. I do what I feel like doing at the moment. I feel the game is more fun & challenging without having tons of information on the screen. Sadly, most people seem to prefer ez mode to challenging.

That said, I pushed GR87 at p1050 without the use of THUD last Friday and hit rank 40 (NA) at the time. Maphacks aside, THUD simply force feeds you information that you should already know if you're paying attention to the game. You shouldn't need all of these "useful numbers" to tell you that you are fully buffed. I know what buttons I pressed, and I understand the mechanics of the items/skills I'm using. To me, I prefer the challenge of playing the game as it is. Using THUD is kind of like saying that the game is too hard and requires to much thinking.

I agree that it would be a nice QoL improvement to have health/resource numbers. Shi Mizu is an item with a clunky design given the current UI. Having an item based on a number that you can't see is pretty lame. I don't know why Blizz can't simpIy put a text overlay on top of the globes.

I could also see the point in needing real time stats with something like Bane of the Stricken snapshotting in season 4. But even then, if you're paying attention to the game you should have a pretty good idea of when your AS is higher. (I'm punching really fast right now! /clickpotion). Overall, I don't consider it absolutely necessary to have constant dynamic stat updates. Are you not going to nuke because your damage is currently 10,000 below it's max potential? No, if you timed your buffs and understand the way your items work, you know when to nuke.

Long story short, even without all of the obvious cheats that THUD gives you, the information that everyone claims to be vital to progression...simply isn't. Understanding how your gear & build work will get you a lot further than some numbers on your screen.