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QoL Changes:
Stash Overhaul:
Witch Doctor & Pet Item Overhaul: (Added 4/5/18)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1N9b8xBVvAWEpukvw3jBPfvxKbzh58LvX
Barbarian Item Overhaul: (Added 4/11/18)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SAyoUKf7fTbsKqckbUXZbQVraK-WYllI
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Please be a bit more considerate.
About 8% of the male (and 0.5% of women) population are colorblind to some extent. I happen to be one of them, meaning that in my case I can hardly see black on red background or red on black background, so please believe me when I tell you, that 90% of the time I can only differentiate at first look a simple legendary item from primal by the stats, and if I look really hard, then I can notice the border difference...
(so ancients I notice easily, but simple leg and primal look almost the same to me)
So yeah, I did salvage primal by mistake, and I would definitely support such a change to appear in Diablo
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Calling people morons who give their opinions on this open letter is very mature of u.
Guess what?
Even if its accepted by "most" of the playerbase doesn't mean its legal or legit.
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That is an interesting point to discuss. It's easy to agree with that (as was my first intuition - running rifts and rifts and rifts is boring), but then, what's the alternative? Running the same areas over and over again as in D2 was even more boring. I personally think that rifts are better than re-running the story countless times.Quote from UncleDan2017»
Give me D4. I want an entirely new game, and something other than Rifts, rifts, and more rifts in a game.
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Don't underestimate the new UE or WW. Hammerdin might be an Option too for Speeds. I don't get it why everybody starts crying before the patch hits the liverealms srsly.Quote from Twitch Exidon_»
Some variety at solo maybe but another 3 months farming paragons with the same shit.
This devs jesuschrist...
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Don't be ridiculous. We all know what the most powerful thing in the Diablo universe is:
Doors.
Powerful heroes can one-shot the most gigantic and powerful of all demons. But doors? Nope, one hit isn't always sufficient, sometimes those nasty obstacles withstand the first impact and demand a second attack.
Experienced characters plow through hordes of monsters like there is no tomorrow. No matter the type, size, or fierceness of enemies: barely in sight of the player, enemies drop to the ground, giving up their precious loot obtained from the siege of Tristram's neighborhoods. Nothing can stop them - except for... doors. I have seen it with my own eyes, witch doctors and necromancers stop their high-paced hunt in front of a simple door, charging up their spells and waiting for magical powers to be ready before continuing their crusade.
Doors are unmatched in their might and power. To settle this debate, I call for an eyewitness from another universe who knows all too well about the power of doors.
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PS. even if Act 4 and Act 5 did get nerfed, with the chicken build you do not need elite packs to run like Usain Bolt so checking the maps even if the chance got lowered wouldn't really bother you as much as when you are playing a class that needs the In-Geom proc. I mean even if the chance is lower, having 2 extra goblins in just 1 map that you can clear in a minute is always nice right
sry to pour cold water on that chicken build but:
1) go standard MH archon and equip In-Geom AND Aether Walker. With some other minor adjustments you laugh at every chicken WDs speed. no matter if In-Geom is up or not.
2) Usain Bolt uses In-Geom only. His speed burst runs out when the proc is gone. That should be after 10-20sec at most ;D
I've recommended the Chicken Build not cuz it's is the fastest but in my eyes it is also fun 
Archon Wizards are really fast indeed, and for sure competing with dash monk for the fastest build. It's just that for the wizard to be efficient without in-geom you need all that CD right. With the Chicken build, you just get the items for the build and ur set, no rerolling, chicken will always be up when it runs out even without the In-geom proc.
But if you already have that wizard setup you are good to go 
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Quote from Demonmonger»
That being said, is it really that important to many of you to finish in the top 100 of a fictitious ladder that gives no rewards?
I think if someone really wants to be in the top100, he will just grind the game out because to him its worth it. Those who complain are the ones that would like to be in the top100 but are not willing to put a few hundred hours into the game each season.
And for the second type of people I mentioned, these challenge rifts will be the proof that its not the paragon grind that makes the top100... because everybody will have the same conditions without any rng.
If one is not willing to put enough playtime into the game to make it to the GR Leaderboard top100, he wont be making it to the top100 of a challenge rift either..
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Yeah, I know it would but I think it would be good anyway. More CHD, AD won't change builds, CDR, RCR, CHC could though. It would be like LoN, some builds would require more and better gear then others. In the long run it would work like any other build. You would have to get over X CDR for it to work optimal. However, it would most likely still work with less CDR, just not as good as it could.
These primals does not effect CHD, CHC, CDR etc, right? If not, that's sad imo. Most builds strive to have high numbers of those stats and it won't matter if they're ancient or primal, they'll still roll like normal items. Yey, higher sec resist and mainstat but it feels like a wasted opportunity.
Example:
Normal rings roll up to 8% CDR, ancient up to 9-10% and Primal up to 11-12%. Just a minor increase but if you get the right rolls you could end up changing a build drastically. Three primals could let you roll attack speed instead of CDR, or drop a passive for something else.
I guess primals are fine (except for the red border, zero durability much?), they should just be tuned a bit!
I like your idea, but just for CHD and CHC since they are just mainly dmg modifiers (should also work with RCR, elemental dmg and maybe also with ATS but you know...breakpoints... so I would probably shy away from that.)
But CDR is a very very important stat for some builds (!!). I have tested so many builds with CDR and some are just lacking a few points here and there to make a build work or completely fail. If you target CDR for constant uptimes or especially for rotations it's a far too important stat.
It would make primals just mandatory and not only nice to have in certain slots (like gloves, rings, shoulders,...) Imagine you can drop obsidian ring of the zodiac for something like unity, coe, ring of royal grandeur, just because you got those few extra CDR points... way too powerful in my opinion.
certain builds in the past would have not worked if the max CDR roll would be 7%. Just sayin... it would overall make a huge difference if they would do primals with higher CDR values.
use the PTR and such for it. See what happens.
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They're not mutually exclusive. It's a nerf to paragon AND an increase in power creep.
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I could also read that you are passionate about it. that is what it's all about. do what you want and don't care if it's needed or whatever. It's what actually brings the most joy in life.
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The game just is kinda dead. People are not playing anymore or ...yeah botting.
I'm still ranked 2 solo Wiz in EU and that is basically since season start and without really trying too hard...
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I agree. thud or bot, they are all cheats so they all should get the same punishment. first people need to realize that and delete any other software that enhances d3 in any way.
the next steps would obviously for blizzard to react and ban accordingly, afterwards we could ask for some legit features to be implemented in an upcoming patch. some useful things that for example thud delivers right now.
one can dream, ...I fear it just wont happen.
look how blizzard handled the last NS cycle. people were essentially encouraged to exploit.
What I'm saying is that I have not much hope for such a petition, especially if the community is pretty separated about what is legit and what is not. What's more important and what's less... it's not really a strong message.
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I still never used thud. even though I'm pushing the leaderboards pretty high, the only real benefit I see is avoid walking into dead ends in high grifts and maybe the elite destribution on the minimap. the latter should clearly be a standard feature of the game...
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well done. I don't think many people wont bother but it clearly shows again how bad looking for pools actually is. especially if you're low paragon.
One additional issue with LF pools is that even though it's not XP/hour related you miss out on finding a certain amount of possible item drops / gem upgrades / mats. (time you could spend in the next rift or GR)
I usually skip them all together during a season. Wouldn't bother before 1,5k paragon at all. It's just a nice to have bonus if you're running some normal rifts anyway and gather pools on the run to do some GRs afterwards.
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I agree that's the only thing I like about them, too. However the builds that came up (especially right after they were introduced and I checked them every week) were so messy it wasnt even funny to run most builds. Like Archon builds with no CDR, no Ressource regen ouside Archon. Just an example. No synergy whatsoever in those builds. Dull, stupid and no reason to play them at all. Even a pain to get those 5 min runs done.
The original runners most likely came up with those builds while farming items and having no clue what else to put in cube, which items to use... or still farming those meta related items and on the way just putting placeholders in those missing slots...
Blizzard announced CRs in a way that I thought we would see something like this:
builds with interesting ideas using synergies of the selected skills/items. while not being top builds but still trying to make them work in the best way possible (zombie charger wd, spectral blade wizard, weapon throw barb, you name it...). no useless items equipped, no stupid gameplay because the original runner had no clue about the game, and so on...
That's not the case. Not even close. That's why it's utterly disappointing and a waste of time to me.
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which is quite frankly almost all the time for almost all the classes.
And just because of that fact you mentioned everyone talks the same about build diversity in Diablo. Cus they observe the leaderboards and only see the same builds used cus it's the strongest.
Crying out for balance.
While this might be true in some cases, there is still alot of balance (and therefore diversity) in the game that just gets ignored.
Just as an example the EQ Barbarian and Raekor/IK combo Barbarian probably is around 1-2 GR levels behind in power compared to the WW Barbarian. Still the whole leaderboard is almost entirely filled with WW Barbs exclusively. 1-2 GR levels is a pretty good balance in that example.
You can't balance all sets and all classes for the same GR level. That's just impossible.
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gj.
one thing as feedback.
shouldnt the "elite pack" and "champion pack" in your images have reversed colors ? meaning champ being blue and elite (more like rare) being yellow?
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First I don't need to justify anything. I have proof that my builds are strong, competetive and sometimes play very different. You mentioned the season with the firebird bug, yes it was a fiasco. Still it was something that changed mid season. It was by the way the same season where the Twister Archon emerged mid season (it was 2 seasons after your mentioned static charge monk), in which the solo variant I was the inventor and it was the foundation to even get the grp variant going. Before that people just ran normal Twister in 4 man just switching from DMO to Tal Rasha. So since its 4 man variant was so strong it was probably the best known build i ever came up with...
And the solo variant even topped the firebug build, too. since it was stronger in the end, had more potential with the proper gear, rift and gameplay and some paragon.
And I could mention almost countless times where I changed up something on those so called "meta builds" and did it my own way. Few examples: Firebird Teleport Archon Wiz Season 7/8, ignite outside Archon or Elites inside Archon, Lightning Earthquake Barbarian Season 10, Solo CoE/MH variant Season 9/10, all highly competetive builds but in its core sometimes very different gameplay styles. I competed with those build being between top 10-50 on the leaderboards during the whole season and I mainly play solo, just so you get an idea.
You could check out my build guides here on Dfans. The point is not that I wanna brag, the point is that it's a matter of fact what I stated in my previous post and just want to underline that it's not just trying to justify anything. I know that it's possible but probably I'm kinda one of a kind in that regard, I give you that... still the potential is there and there is proof.
And there were several occations that the meta changed be it for a particular class on solo LBs only or in groups. Since I mainly play wizard, I can mention the more commonly used Aether /APD CoE / MH variant, it emerged mid of Season 9 as far as I remember. Should also mention the group meta change during Season 10 with the LoN Spirit Barrage WD.
The thing you mentioned about LoN builds: I would like that, too. Since it would open up even more possibilities. But throwing in a random number just won't cut it. It would need to be adjusted to each class considering the strenghts of their sets.
Overall the options are limited, for sure. Like I said before...I also hate various things like: Archon being mandatory as Wiz since ages, you know you could name several skills/legendaries/sets here that are mandatory for some classes to compete. My main point is that the possibilities for variation are still there! people just walk around with their eyes closed and obey other games that have more variety. While this might be true, IMO it's wrong to just make "this game has no variety" comments without even trying it...
I tried PoE several times since I think it has more variety and you have more freedom in the skills and items you want to use. I just can't stand it... unfortunately. So I still play D3 and so I will still come up with builds nobody ever thinks of
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Impale DH, Inna Palm Monk and many old builds that are still more or less viable (LoN Bomb was already mentioned, FoK DH), also I cleared being ranked 1 EU EQ barb (at least at the time of my 94 clear) with my CoE variant, not very well known or popular but still very viable.
So there are still plenty of them out there. Obviously the wizard CoE build you're refering to is currently the most popular one.
I have to admit I would very welcome some other alternatives in that regard. you're right in a way that those short bursts were exciting the first time but right now we're lacking alternatives. But that doesn't stop me from liking good and interesting leg affixes over bad and boring ones