Punishable exploits involve getting a competitive advantage over the the design intent. Design intent is the key here. Mechanics have an intended designed behavior.
Let's consider the Blood Shard issue because this is a clear example of a punishable offense. The intended design of Blood Thief design is that at higher difficulties you are to be rewarded with higher quantities. So you can expect more in T6 than in T1. But if you use a game multiplier like a Greater Rift mechanic that is used strictly for XP to affect the blood shard drop rate the bug is clear. Blood Theives do not exist in Greater Rifts, therefore they should not be affected by this multiplier.
It is one thing to find the bug. This isn't punishable. You simply report it as a bug and the fix will get implemented. When you hide it and don't report it, well you are at the mercy of Blizzard's discretion. It is a judgment and they are the judge. Some got rolled back. Someone got banned because it was streamed and in their judgment the punishment was warranted.
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It's by design. You have to get a new drop. If you reforge a legacy item, you don't get the new stats. If you have the mats, convert yellow bows to get a new Yang's then reforge the new one.
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Stat Priority is
Base Damage
Max Discipline
RCR
Bonus % damage
Area Damage (this because it rolls to 24% on weapons)
Vit
You don't want CDR on your weapon. Even though it rolls to 10% it doesn't help over another slot because you will still need 2 other slot.
This the way the list works. You want the first 4 for a good weapon. If the weapon doesn't have one of the first 4 roll for it to be added. RCR is always there and cannot be rerolled but you can add. Don't do that.
What it comes down to is you will either have Vit or Area Damage as your last priority. You want AD but the other stats are more important. If you don't have max discipline the weapon is garbage. But increasing weapon damage is more important than increasing Max Discipline from a lower roll.
Weapon damage is what all your other bonuses multiply. You want something close to 3400 dps without IAS.
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Yellows to Legendary is by far the easiest way. Craft the yellow and save any you pick up.
I suppose if you had about a thousand forgotten souls you could gather enough bounty mats. My character has almost 2000. But I don't think you need to go that route for your first bow.
Quivers are a better way to spend blood shards.
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By the way pool can only accumulate to the XP of your current paragon or level. Each pool is 10% of your current paragon or level. So adding an eleventh pool will only top off to the max allowed.
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There will be things you don't like doing. For some people it's bounties. Some people avoid these. Most people split farm them. Join public games if you can't find 3 other players to speed this up. You don't have to be the fastest at clearing bounties but you should do your fair share. There are 25 bounties and you should do at least a full act of bounties by yourself or 5 bounties. Be mindful of act 3 and 4. If you complete either of these before it becomes the bonus act you could lose the bonus cache. So for these it is usually best not to kill the bosses but the others are fair game. Usually the group should be clearing the acts as they become the bonus. If the bounties are cleared or in process, move to another act and clear one of those. But check after you finish to see which is the current bonus act. You should pick an bounty from that act. Don't expect to make friends during bounties. Everyone splits up. Other than the last bounties where people don't have other bounties to work on don't expect to even be on the same map as them. Be mindful of the shrines in bounties. Some of them have a large bag on top as opposed to a flame. If you see it don't click on. Tell your team that you found a bandit shrine and invite them to your location. This shrine will spawn a bunch of goblins. If you get a rift to the vault similarly invite.
Doing group rifts. Just don't be that guy. Do your transmogs and enchanting offline. Don't make people wait 5 minutes while you go to the bathroom.
Next season you want to do a few bounties before you reach level 23, do some bounties for the recipes and get the cains set that you can craft. This will get you a boost in XP.
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How much RAM on the Graphics Card? I would hope at least 2 GB.
Not sure if you can negotiate with them, but you should dump the optical drive and opt for an SSD.
250 GB are about 75USD and is a huge improvement over running your OS on a HDD.
TBH, 500GB are are going for close to 100USD, so better price point.
But, if you are negotiating a trade, the 250 GB is good enough for the OS and a few games you play.
I doubt they would go for the upgrade all the way to 500GB.
Just a negotiating strat, get the 250GB and offer the price difference to get 500 afterwards.
If you need an optical, just get a USB one, they are cheap, now. You only need them to load games.
Most games are downloaded online these days and dumped to local storage.
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The fastest way would be to copy your character over to the PTR. From my experience UE won't get it done live. If you fish hundreds of grifts, you might get lucky with a perfect zombie rift. But the balancing between toughness and DPS is off. You either can't kill fast enough or you die too often. I just made a Monk during S4. After 2 weeks he was a clearing 60. I am still trying to clear 58 with my DH.
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Lower right corner. The top one is your friends list. Communities is just below after it pops open. Type in "leveling" or whatever you are looking for. After you join a community enter the chat for community. The writing should be blue by default. Hit [Tab] until you see the community chat. If you don't see it available, go back to the community and make sure you have chat enabled.
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The gap is closing between solo play and groups. This is not the time to implement any follower changes. That being said sets don't make sense since they can't use anything but jewelry and weapons. The last thing I want is to add more jewelry to the drop pool. I have a hard enough time getting decent rings. If the want to create an amulet I would be tolerant of this. >90% of all builds benefit from a 5th passive.
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The level 25 secondary affix procs the primary affix.
Anything that chills or slows procs trapped.
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This is completely unfortunately unfocused. You don't answer the questions you pose.
e.g. Level to 70 is how you get more gear. Huh?
Why are you telling people about Hardcore? Your audience is supposed to be the guy who just finished the campaign. Creating a new character is what you do next?
This whole thing is pretty bad IMO. If you are going to write something, write something better. A bunch of shorter articles focusing on specific concepts would be better than just throwing a list of things to try out.
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Gifts only work on weapons. If you want a socket on your jewelry it will drop with it or you can enchant at the mystic.
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If your account was registered to your battle.net account, the Game Key should be visible on your account page where you download it.
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This will all be cleared up when the PTR goes live. I watched the panel. It was totally unclear.
There seems to be some conflicts in the presented plan.
New Tabs weren't the only thing they briefed. They also announce that you get Green Dragon Wings for completing all the Set Mastery achievements. But, the Set Mastery thing seemed to be a Seasonal Thing. I'm not really sure. Not clear either. But, if you are expected to complete the Set Mastery Achievement in a season, you will need the extra space as there are 24 sets you need to complete. It doesn't makes sense is that Set Mastery is seasonal at all. But if they intend for you complete it within a season it makes sense that you would unlock 1 tab with a half billion gold. And after your get the complete each of the 1st 4 chapters, you get an additional tab. Completing the 1st 4 chapters should be achievable in less than 2 weeks in casual play.
The set mastery achievement seems like it should be Nonseasonal. Seriously how are you going to get all that gear in the 4 months. You have to reach level 70 with 6 characters and then get all the loot for each character. This can be done. I'm pretty sure. But it conflicts with people actually competing on the leaderboard. So if it isn't seasonal, where are you supposed to put all that stuff if you can't unlock the tabs?
I really don't care for the whole Seasonal vs Nonseasonal argument. People like seasons. Others don't. Nobody is forcing anybody to play seasons. In fact, nobody is forcing you to play Diablo. But the stash tab issue conflicts with this Set Mastery achievement. It's going to be very hard to do under the time constraints of a single season. But, the guys who all ready have the characters and most of the gear to complete Set Mastery are the Nonseasonal players who have all ready leveled characters and have some of the sets. But there is no way anyone in Nonseasonal play have all the sets that can achieve Mastery level. You didn't have the stash space.
To be frank, I'm calling BS. Regardless of how they give out the tabs. The Set Mastery idea is in huge conflict with additional tabs. If you make Set Mastery a seasonal thing, you are under very tight time constraints to get 6 character to Mastery level in 4 months. If Set Mastery is not Seasonal, then you don't have the space to store all the sets. There is no logic to this. You either have the time but not enough stash space, or you have the stash space and not enough time. WTF?