What first came to mind when I read it sounds too good to be true.
You get a really well rolled item with no legendary affix and you can 'infuse' it with the legendary power of another item of the same type.
For instance, you get a really well rolled ancient Blackguard and you 'infuse' it with Cam's Rebuttal's legendary affix.
Unless the cost of the recipe is truly astronomical this would negate the 'rarity' of drops and create some interesting conundrums:
Infuse Uskang/Etrayu with Yang's Recurve/Kridershot affix for instance, or infuse a Sledge of Athskeleng (which rolls an extra primary) with Furnace affix...
As I said, it must be something else, it cannot be that straightforward.
Not only that, if this 'infusing' is not limited to items of the same type it would be pretty mad... it would surely open more build possibilities but would make balancing things that extra bit trickier.
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Allows you to infuse legendaries with flavours of your choice.
I personally like mine orange and cinnamon flavoured.
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Considering that the 'The Darkening of Tristram' event is planned as an annual event to run through January I would think so. Perhaps even earlier to avoid releasing a major patch on the running up to/aftermath of Christmas.
It would be somewhat silly to announce it with great fanfare, include it in the current PTR then release 2.4.3 later than January leaving the event to be experienced in the live servers in 2018.
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I have played Asian MMOs, both JP and KR. One of them for 5 years, 40-50 hours a week.
They are not games, they are second jobs.
Many fellow D3 players complain that bounties are a chore... good luck transitioning to games where you have a list of daily chores that may take 2 or 3 hours of your time before you start doing any actual preparation to go do something else, which may take another hour if you are not organised enough.
Unless much has changed in the last 8 years that is what Asian MMOs were about. Every small advancement was achieved through hundreds of hours of effort sank into the game in the shape of one thousand daily menial tasks and endless, grindy competition for spawns that had an 8hr window and loot with a 1% chance to drop.
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I sincerely doubt that unlocking stash tabs by other means than playing seasons is going to happen anytime soon.
It got people that would otherwise not have played seasons doing it and it gave those who planned to do so (as Quel_Droma points out) a sense or reward after they stopped the seasonal first legendaries (which for reasons I never fully understood was winding up some non season players.)
However I do see where the most ardent defenders of this mechanism are coming from. If the roles where reversed and you would need to get achievement points to unlock the stash tabs and they would have to get their gear dyed blue to go kill bosses and reload game after game chasing that superunique that doesn't want to spawn or that event that is not in bounties and seems to have been removed from the game altogether instead of chaining GRs in seasons and I was sitting on my already unlocked stash tabs I would probably be tempted to be the one writing 'is really easy, only takes a few hours if you organise yourself' and 'sucks to be you' and 'you entitled prick that thinks that you should be rewarded for doing what you like to be doing.'
Said that if Bliz at some point decides that it would make sense to allow other means to unlock the stash tabs, even trivialise it by making them available to purchase with gold, no matter how much people think they have 'worked' for it and how much it rubs them the wrong way, they will go ahead and do it.
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I have no choice but to accept it too, this is the way Blizzard wants it and at this point I think is unlikely that they will make a U turn. Either I bite the bullet and do it or just carry on without.
Said that I did not take into account this 'Rebirth' option that oldschool_2o4f suggested, that does make things easier. I am unsure when it was introduced but I had never noticed it until he brought it to my attention.
What does rub me the wrong way is getting these adjectives being thrown around willy-nilly... 'lazy', 'entitled'... well, neither. I just play the game in the way that Blizzard doesn't want it to be played: solo, non-season, and without being a mendicant.
As such I am reluctant to level a character from complete zero, which I have already been doing since vanilla days and farm the exact same gear I already have in non-season all over again in order to enable me to do what I am already doing: trying builds and killing demons.
It might be what the game needs to stay alive, it may not. It doesn't mean I have to like it either way. I might need to do it, but it will be one of those 'grit your teeth and get it over with' not a 'oh, all those people were right, this is really enjoyable, why I didn't try it earlier? I should have listened to the contemptuous and patronising c**ts.'
You enjoy playing the game the way Blizzard intended: playing seasons in group and begging left right and centre when your resources alone will not suffice. Splendid. You get rewarded for it era after era. Chances are you will still be getting rewarded for it until Blizzard shuts the servers down.
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As a matter of fact every character slot is both an active character and a mule.
In order to play seasons I need to delete a character and all the loot that goes with it. Just to farm the same items again in order to get the stash tab when what I like to do is try around builds which I don't need to farm for because I already have.
And I don't buy the 'if you want it work for it you entitled insert_expletive_here' line because when it was suggested to use achievement points to unlock them (another thing that you have to work for and I have thousands upon thousands of) people went ballistic.
More like 'it just happens that you unlock the stash tab doing what suits me, I got lucky, and now I am going to pontificate because I can'.
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I may attempt to solo it if I can manage to delete a mule. At the moment I cannot play seasons because every single one of my chars, even the active ones, are mules... once I get around to doing the set dungeons I'm sure quite a bit can be salvaged to make room.
I still think stash tabs should be unlocked with achievements though, one every 1300 points or so. Seasons truly have zero appeal for me and so does playing in group.
I was hoping that Bliz would see sense and provide other means to unlock the tabs, but three seasons into this travesty and there are no signs of improvement so I assume I will have to bite the bullet or carry on living without.
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Don't get me wrong, additional stash tabs are better than nothing, but this proposition (which has been around for quite a while) would not only be a storage solution, it would also be a noticeable QoL improvement.
But please do not make it so we need to play seasons to unlock it. Some of us are stuck with 6 tabs...
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This is the only way forward and out of the current toxic shroud of suspicion, mistrust and witch hunting.
We question the validity of the claims of those who present themselves as wronged and dismiss their pleas without a second thought yet we embrace, defend and proselytize a judgement borne of an opaque process that offers nothing but a semblance of appeal, all in the name of safety.
I have a healthy amount of salt for both, those who claim to suffer injustice and those who claim that their justice is beyond scrutiny.
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Is not as much about guilt or innocence as it is about accountability or lack thereof.
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That is the policy of fear...
Never let anyone know what either by action or omission may lead to retaliation and claim to do it in the interest of everyone's safety so people live in permanent fear of doing anything at all while blaming the victims because well... they surely have done something to deserve it haven't they?
Don't get me wrong, it works really well. Even today some government bodies have it down to a T. However I would sincerely recommend to weigh in the implications before embracing it so wholeheartedly.
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RoS party with vanilla drops? no thanks.
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As some other fellow players I too will be playing seasons in order to get the stash tab, then I will be back to NS until the next one.
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I have, thanks for the suggestion, and it just confirms what I had suspected.
A bot can do what I do for most of my playing time (I play solo) as efficiently as I do. Well, more efficiently because the bot will never be distracted.
I feel sad now. I mean well done whoever put that piece of software together, is impressive to see in action, but go to hell for making me feel even more worthless.