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If you are assuming the Staff of Herding can open Rainbow Portals, like the ones Rainbow Goblins leave, you would be mistaken.
Rainbow gobs open portals to Whimsydale. The Staff allows access to Whimsyshire. They are visually identical but have different drops. Whimsyshire, the Staff one, has exclusive cosmetics. Its drops are like any other place. Whimsydale, the goblin based portal, has the insane crafting mat drops.
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Ancient everything BIS gear rank 30 on the ladder with plenty of time to keep pushing If i felt up for it, only playing a few hours each day, never died on hardcore, did all the journeys.. what else is there?
The challenge rifts are okay but not that interesting.
Im bored with this game again quickly after not playing the last 3 seasons.. anyone need a rush or want some gear? I think its time to go back to diablo 2 or divinity orginal sin again
You play a few hours each day, and your claiming your full BiS ancient with rank 30 on the ladder?
Straight up, just don't believe you. That's a pure lie. The ladder started 6 days ago at a few hours a day your talking ~18 hours of play, rank 1s aren't even full ancient "bis" yet and those guys are doing like 10hrs/day. Link your profile, I wanna see this 18hr character that's rank 30 with full bis ancients.
On point of the lack of challenge... Pushing HC for rank 1 is challenging. There is a high risk of dying as you have go more and more glass cannon to meet the damage checks, i'd argue it's one of the more challenging things that exist in gaming at the moment.
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Alright.
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/89722-bug-report-helms
Apparently I got a few of the slots to work but then the rest were still stuck at helms. It's as if it loads each of the different item databases SUPER slowly and defaults to the Helm one until it loads them? (An ABSOLUTE guess - this is just what it seems like because I left the Browser open while I finished a couple of rifts, came back and I could select a few of them - as above). If I reload the Build Creator all I see is Helms again for every slot.
Also, I cleared my Cache just in case but didn't help.
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Quote from Cleglaw_Xendlar»
@blacknemesist
please remain here so i will remember what new generation of blizz fanboys look like. this gives me more reasons to not return again.
I'm 32 years old small man. And it is not fanboyism, its loyalty to a company that always provided me with over 15 years of gaming, support and honesty. If you have a problem go back to your LOL or your halfassed games that have been dropped support long ago and any update that comes is to sell you stuff that adds nothing but cosmetics to the game instead of making the game actually...you know...progress!
Bye. You will not be missed, noone misses the ungrateful whining kids.
And FYI, WoW costs you $13 monthly, so they have alot of reasons to push more and more content to keep players paying, what about Diablo? You bought the game and after that how much content were you given for free? How much more is coming? Ah... I though so. I respect the announcement meaning nothing to the player but to bash them for free content out of their own pockets to try and please fans that will never have to drop a cent on the game... as a developer myself, it is insulting. At least respect their effort even if it does nothing for you.
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If your dogs have a rimeheart equipped, then yes. But it will be hard to find a rimeheart for each of your dogs, especially if you have four of them.
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I just found a video of a leaked conversation between the developers that explains what happened yesterday night. It might shed some light on this issue (or not).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTRAagg02s8
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Edit: Moved from this thread, as I feel bad for derailing the discussion. On a more serious note, it's a video thread and to be d'accord with the rules here a short summary:
This is a satiric video in which, inspired by the recent popularity of a new meme, I try to bring a smile on some people's face that seemed a bit too much worried about barbarians being nerfed by the removal of the bracers just a day before the patch hit. The bracers had to be removed though as they were too strong and barbarians should be in a good spot anyways; if not, Blizzard will address this (see John Yang's tweet). What was really very unfortunate was the timing of the removal; many people don't follow Blizzard news that closely but have heard about the bracers and might keep gambling for them.
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I just found a video of a leaked conversation between the developers that explains what happened yesterday night. It might shed some light on this issue (or not).
I'm lurking this forum (and website) since D3 released and i've registered solely to say:
I LOLed.Hard. You sir, made my day!
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I don't post much anymore, but I'm going to put my 2 cents in..
First, let's not bring the whole Hardcore/Casual shit into this game. Leave it for the WoW players to debate.
Second, let's use common sense when we look at changes in the game. Common sense tells us that in order for a game to have any longevity, players must have advancement in some fashion through that game. If you are stuck at doing level 20 Grifts for 5 months straight, I doubt you would enjoy the game much. By letting non season players have access to the previous seasons legs, they have a way to obtain new powerful items that will let them reach the next level. It's not about catering to a certain segment of the player base.
Last,you have to understand that the "Hardcore" player today most likely will not be a hardcore player three years from now. People's live are constantly changing and expanding. And any smart gaming company realizes that.
In the end, we are all just people who enjoy the game in different ways and in different amounts. We're all Gamers, and that's enough.
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With 2.1.2 around the corner, we'll be farming rift after rift after rift. However, to get access to those rifts we need rift keys! While most people might farm T6 bounties, some of us ("there are dozens of us!") prefer to get rift key fragments as fast as possible. For those, I made this thread!
Inspired by the T6 rift clearing competition, I hereby attempt to create the same for normal bounties. If there's already such a competition and I missed it please let me know. As for the T6 competition, we need a clear set of rules... I discussed this with Jamoose and we thought about clearing 5 full sets of act 4 bounties and something like that; however, it's very subjective to RNG, so rather pick something more reliable. Therefore, let's use only one bounty that is almost always the same: the Underbridge in act 3. It should take about a minute and is therefore very easy to verify! Rules are as follows:
While this is a competition, it's also about fun. There will be faster and slower runs - but I want to see as many different specs as possible. The great thing about Normal bounties is that EHP and DPS is relatively meaningless, so you can finally use some of that "useless gear" and theorycraft a bit different than usual!
I'll start with my two favorite builds, a DH (which is insanely fast as you can imagine) and a monk (which is not as fast but a lot of fun). I'll keep the list up to date. Btw, if anyone knows a free video editing tool with which I can edit in the timer in the video... let me know. You can either post a link to the build on the build tool or a link to your character (or both). I prefer the build tool as I switch gear on my characters all the time, so those links are never persistent.
Explanation: The idea is basically to perma-Vault thanks to Vengeance and Preparation. High CDR and the Natalya set allow for Vengeance (and Punishment) to be available quite often, high RCR is required as you can imagine. I use Chakram's Shuriken Cloud for a little bit more extra damage and Vault-Action Shot to kill stuff; Rain of Vengeance with Dark Cloud is probably overkill on Normal, so it doesn't matter if you forget to click it. Bat companion adds a little bit of extra hatred regeneration. This build is inspired a lot by Desolacer's and k1ckd0wn's build, so all the credit to them.
Video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ekll4_dh-vault-speed-bounty-underbridge-normal_videogames (I uploaded on Dailymotion because I've heard they're not as strict on copyright as Youtube... and I might add a song at some point).
Build: http://www.diablofans.com/builds/16609-danetta-natalya-normal-bounty-speed-farming
Time: 50 seconds.
A pretty straightforward TR build. I use Warstaff of General Quang for the Tailwind rune such that I can run with Electric Field for more AoE damage. Zephyr and Annihilation provide little speed buffs, just like the two gems and Rechel's Ring which is procced occasionally by Pandaemonium Loop's fear (unfortunately almost never in my run below). I used Sunwoku set but actually think it might be useless, I might try again with different items for a better time. It's far from perfect or optimized... but a lot of fun!
Video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ekl5n_monk-tr-speed-bounty-underbridge-normal_videogames
Build: http://www.diablofans.com/builds/16608-tempest-rush-normal-bounties-speed-spec
Time: 71 seconds
Current ranking:
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Core gameplay seems to be a very popular term among the salty poeple.
Please expand on what you think "core gameplay" actually means and what you'd like to see changed?
Or did you just happen to see that word pop up somehwere and thought it'd sound good in your endless whining over a game you don't actually play (anymore)
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I'm experiencing the exact same in pretty much all of the new layouts.
There's the dens issue, but also the MAZE issue. which completely sucks in grifts.... man does that wanna make me quit instantly.
Not a day goes by when I walk up on a part of a map saying: oh joy it's one of those beautiful dead ends am I up for a fckin treat!
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bad idea, this takes the whole concept of farming for it away even though it's only one.
In the end primals are not going to be that much different from really good ancients anyway. (which I still think sucks)
I'd rather have seen the primals to be actually X percentage better then perfect ancients and have a really low droprate.
This way you'll actually be blown away when you finally find that one item you wanted (if ever ^_^)
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Lol ye I'm very much looking forward to finding Primal Ancient Legendary Ancient Parthan Defenders
As to whether these primals are a good thing or not, I think it's nice to have items to hunt for.
I mean,loothunt wasn't part of the game anymore as it's literally raining legs, it was a stathunt not a loothunt so I like the idea of having a range of rare legs.
The way they've done it though is a little dissapointing, just adding some main stat and a little dmg.
Hoped they could've used their imagination a little bit more.
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as I already played through it on PTR I already knew what it looked like.
It was pretty cool seeing items like the godly plate of the whale and kings sword of haste back.
Overall tho, it was quite dissapointing as it was just D3 maps (and layouts) with a big decrease of gfx (which is fine by me)
additionally the new leg gem is just totally useless, even for a lvl1 seasonal it's useless as you are unable to level it anyway at that point.
I would've lloved if they gave it a little more attention and added some items that would actually be nostalgic and in some way useful
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I was asking myself the same question yesterday untill an odious collector confirmed it
So i guess they can all spawn a vault