Really so even Primal ancients can be crafted? Great.
A primal ancient item: https://i.imgsafe.org/124d5672b9.jpg
The item was acquired via kanai's cube upgrade a rare.
Main Stats max is 1300
One hand damage roll range is 1582 -2328
Max Damage is still 10%.
Oh you're right for sure, the numbers don't *really* matter. But still, there's no actual need for trillions of HP and damage, and it makes for a far bigger disparity between generators and spenders on all the sets that don't buff both.Quote from Demonmonger»
What does it really matter though? They are just numbers.
Blizzard clearly has a problem just keeping things basic that is for sure!
Jesus we'll be into the tens of thousands of % more damage soon. I can't believe they've let the numbers get this egregious. It's cool though. My favorite part is my spender hitting in the trillions, and my generator maybe .05% of that.
An actual FIRST person Diablo could work I think, but a 3rd person perspective like that screenshot wouldn't do anything to enhance the franchise. You're essentially trading not being able to see behind you to being able to see farther ahead, might as well keep it isometric at that point.
However like I said, a skyrim / dark souls type first person might be cool.
Good luck to Chris, I'm happy and maybe even a little envious that he was able to be a part of Blizzard as he did. If anything I actually feel inspired reading what he wrote.
Because I love to be disappointed, my theory on why they didn't say anything at gamescon about blizzcon is that they didn't want to step on gamescon's toes about THEIR convention. Maybe they were just being polite
Blizzcon Season 8 announcement with unique map icons for every vendor!
And another new Season portrait that makes your paragon level unreadable. Again.
Seriously though it would have been nice if they'd at least bothered to say 'look forward to Blizzcon' or SOMETHING at Gamescon instead of keeping fans they knew were waiting for a potential announcement waiting for each segment.
Oh well, watching D2 was a cool retrospect kind of thing. I loved it in its day but looking at the game now, wow there is so much wrong with it that the rose tints forget.
Oh yea I agree that D3 is actually a good game, and a lot of the core is great - combat feels awesome, I like the art style, the skills are great ect.Quote from Snowflakesz»
Seriously? Fuck D4, D3 is still a pristine core-game. All we need is more/new content. Gifv Expansion.
Now they're looking for a director?! cmoooooooooooooon D4!
We can only hope nobbie, we can only hope.
Qualifies as teaser, because of the barcode. Here's what I think happened (may contain traces of humor):
- Cancel the originally planned D3X2 because it sucked
- Fire Boyarsky
- Write new plot with a Cain redemption story and revamp the itemization (once again)
- Give away the best parts of the original D3X2 for free (Kanai's Cube, Sescheron etc) while making a new D3X2
- Announce the new D3X2 at gamescom in August
- Reveal all of D3X2 at Blizzcon in Novmber and celebrate its 20th anniversary
In that thread someone points out that 'cain lives' can be a play on the 'kaine lives' seen in C&C.
It's said in the actual post, but I guess it's good to reiterate: this is probably just crazy speculation and very unlikely an actual hidden hint of the franchise's (lore) future. Take it with a grain of salt - it's meant to be a more fun discussion rather than a serious one imho.
The theories posted there (specially this one on Belial) are particularly crazy and entertaining.
So I saw this post yesterday, the 6th, at about 8:30 pm. Was Blizzard just really late in posting this? Or maybe the date is wrong?
Nicely done! I just feel the burning need to point out that it wouldn't matter, at all, if this Necro used int as it's main attribute. It would be perfectly fine to have three classes use int, while strength and dex have two classes. This is of course because of smart loot. It wouldn't matter if there's 72 classes that use int and 3 that use dex, if you were playing a dex class 85% of your drops would be still be dex.
holy god that video didn't need to be 10 minutes long for that. Thanks for the info, but I'm drunk and raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage at what should have been a 1.5 minute thing
It's usually the opposite; set changes are retroactive, while stand alone legs have to be found again.
Love patch 2.2, the changes have been great. However, there's a couple things that are really starting to bother me;
1: Numbers.
Vanilla had me feeling like 1 million crits were huge and I got excited when I saw them, and I used to see ~5m crits with a full party buff. Now, that's already turned into 1 billion crits being the norm, and the 5-10B crits being the exciting ones. I think even one more expansion of this number inflation is too much. Should we be expecting Trillion crits to be regular? Because that's ludicrous, and I think even the current numbers need to be addressed, let alone the potential ones.
2: Sets bonuses.
While I understand Blizzard's idea to make them the end game, end-all-be-all items, I don't like it. I realize it's probably a huge pain in the ass for balance reasons, but why on earth to sets need to do 300%, 500%, 750% more damage with skills? It creates a TON of problems; with Rolands set my shield bash and sweep attack hit for the hundreds of millions at least, which is fun. What isn't fun? My generator hitting for 7 million, any of my damage cooldowns hitting for 10-15 million, or put another way, everything else I have hitting for ~.01% of the two buffed skills. There's absolutely no reason to have these insanely high modifiers for skills with the set bonuses, and even the stand alone legendaries. It completely trivializes everything else.
3. Set slots.
I might be the only one, but it bothers me to no end that a set takes up HALF of our slots, and with un-interesting items by themselves. A quick example would be Rolands set again. Alrighty, 6p bonus! Now what do I have to play with and move around to make the build of my liking? My weapon / off hand, bracers, belt and jewelry. You can forget any legendary helms, shoulders, chests, gloves, pants, and boots, since you can only pick one of those slots (and give up a jewelry slot). Want to wear RoRG and magefists? Well that's pretty dumb, since cindercoat beats out magefist every time. Want to wear RoRG and any other piece for your crusader? Sorry, not going to beat FnR.
TLDR; The numbers have already gotten astronomical, and need to be addressed. Instead of balancing sets and unique legendaries, we have sets that you absolutely NEED, even if it's just to play some higher greater rifts than the T6 equivalent. Oh and while wearing those sets? Say goodbye to being able to mix and match all those cool, unique legendaries we all wanted back in Vanilla, since they were all plain and didn't do anything.
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Either way, yes I still check here once in awhile. I DID spend a couple thousand hours on Diablo 3 since closed beta after all. But yes, PoE is better. Diablo 3 is bad and Blizzard should feel bad.
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I also come back once in a great while to see if anything is stirring.
I'm willing to bet there's never going to be another actual meaningful update to Diablo 3 again. Of course I hope I'm wrong, but the writing's on the wall man.
Literally all it takes is to look at Path of Exile, and you know that D3 lost, a long time ago. It it absolutely MINDBLOWING how GGG from PoE can not only continue to deliver NEW content every couple of months, but how they are actually willing to change / add / tweak existing content right after it's release. When's the last time you've seen something from Blizzard that was borked, and they changed it quick? Blizzard has drowned themselves in too much red tape. Look how long it took to get the Necro.
Hell, at this point if Blizzard DID do a Diablo 4 reveal, there's no way I could get excited. It would release with minimal content, and it would take YEARS to get more.
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lol @ 150 billion damage
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Lol yep I read all those listed ridiculous buffs. Really? Sets into the THOUSANDS of percent more damage?!
I'm so bummed I've been wasting my time with POE instead /s
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It's been like that for idk, 6 years. Extremely frustrating.
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This pack IS half assed. It went live with many bugs that were known for days / weeks while on the PTR.
And on the topic of a hotfix; It would be very easy for Blizzard to push out a client side patch / hotfix when they wanted. However, they seem to have some strange personal rules on when they push out patches. They're probably scared they'll confuse the players, since it wouldn't pass the 'grandma test', ya know?
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Path of exile is absolutely better than Diablo 3 in every single area that counts.
To your question OP; Yes, D3 is finish the campaign, then do nearly the exact same content while slightly upping the difficulty by a few % (greater rifts).
Actually, if you want a quick rundown;
Farm one area until level 70 with massacre bonuses.
Craft armor and weapons because who needs to rely on item drops in an ARPG.
Immediately skip a couple of the 17 difficulties and put it on T1 because then sets can drop.
Now stand in town and do regular rifts or bounties.
Spend a couple hours at most doing the Season Journey and then get handed your 6p set.
Upgrade rare weapons that you craft and get your sets' mandatory unique weapon.
Now skip even more difficulty levels and move on to T6.
Now do greater rifts until you run out of stones, then do regular rifts.
And now, because a game that's supposed to be around hunting loot instead just hands you everything, the only thing of worth is trying for leaderboards. So get ready to use 1 set for your class that's far better than the others, and have no choice in items because there's multiple mandatory legendaries that your set requires.
But don't worry, having all the items drop all the time just means you get to hunt for the same pieces with just slightly higher stats!
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Maybe sets should stop increasing damage by thousands of percent in the first place.
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One of the reasons I'm having a blast playing Diablo 4. Strange they chose to name it poe.
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You see, THIS is what crafting should have been in D3, not this bullshit targeted upgrade rare > legendary of that same type.
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Blizzard is too afraid to make actual items (not versions of the same item) super rare again. Therefore we get ancients, and primals. Can't wait to farm the exact same item 100 times hoping the stats are higher.
Just the mere idea that we can't have super rare, hard to find items again like in D2 BECAUSE a small amount of people will whine that they can't find it during a season is depressing.
I don't think we'll ever get an actual Diablo game again. It'l be this same arcade 'rare'-items-rain-down crap over and over.
Anyway, yea OP you're correct.
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All we're going to see is higher and higher numbers. I wish we didn't crit in the trillions, but I also think we don't need 17 difficulties. W/e.
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Watching Rhykker's interview with David Brevik, I have to say I feel the same; D3 is in 'maintenance mode'. D3 doesn't even have a Game Director anymore, and the Necro is probably just a fill in because the team that's left doesn't have anything else to work on.
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I would absolutely pay for cosmetics
dyes / pets / xmog / portraits / banners / wings, you name it.
Hell I'd pay for boxes that are randomized. Whatever it takes for Blizzard to take this game seriously.
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Wow that's a great change actually!
I love the gated idea as well, AND the fact they'll be even more rare.
PLEASE don't ruin this great idea by suddenly giving us a way to target them.