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They said at Blizzcon that season 4 will end "late December". After that, they'll have a bit of a break in between seasons (not the usual 5 days, but something between 2 and 4 weeks). That means that season 5 is scheduled to start sometime January (probably mid-late January). Patch 2.4 will be released "when it's done", but most likely not this year anymore. Last year the patch after season 1 was ready before Christmas but they didn't want to release it before the holidays and stretched the season for that reason - I suspect that's one of the main reasons for the longer gap between seasons, to buy them some time.

TL;DR: Patch 2.4 will go live some time January. Early December is not just unrealistic but absolutely out of question as they pretty much published their timeframe at Blizzcon. It's 99% gonna be some time in January.

I've had the same feelings for awhile when it came to the paragon grind, it's just not fun. Knowing that even if I played every three hours a day, there's just no possible way to remain even slightly competitive after just a couple weeks into the season. I agree someone who puts in more time should feel rewarded, but I personally feel that reward should be all the chances at better gear, not straight damage and mitigation.

I'm not sure if capping the main stay gain after 800 would be the best route, but right now it's just not fun. I played for about 3 weeks into this new season and got a bunch of great gear. I had to take about a week off for work. When I logged back on and saw the hundreds of levels ahead leaderboards were at, I didn't start playing again, because there's zero chance to be competitive. Should I be handed first place because I don't play as much? Of course not. But knowing that if I DON'T log 10 hours or more a day I wouldn't be able to place no matter what I did means somethings wrong.

Cons;

Get boosted by a SC character that can go ham and doesn't care if they die. So there will have to be some sort of confusing iteration like you can't play with SC until you're max level, or a certain Plvl ect.

HC wouldn't play together at ALL if they could play with SC. A full HC run would actually be sub-optimal to the point where anyone trying to rank up wouldn't do it. Why have a full group that can die permanently when you can have 3 other people tanking the mobs without a care. It would turn into a 4 man with 1 HC character in the back, while the rest push the Grift without a thought for safety.

The two modes need to continue to stay seperated, it just waters down what HC mode is all about.

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Thank you for finding bugs good sir, but I urge you to post them on the bug forums over on Battle.net, where they can actually be documented.

it was not him finding the bugs.
he watched me and alkaizer figuring it out live on stream earlier today.

Thank you for finding bugs good sir, but I urge you to post them on the bug forums over on Battle.net, where they can actually be documented.

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6pc out the window, man, the dream has come true!

I'll always be playing seasons!

But for the stash tabs, you have to complete the season journey right? I feel bad for NS players, because if you have to complete the 'whole' journey, you're looking at a lot of hours of season.

While the title might be a little dramatic, I basically agree with you OP.

I'd vote for a power cap on paragon, with levels gained after that made purely for either gold find / cosmetic rewards.

I have two unopened vanilla CE. Ones yours for $400. Muhahahahaaha *cough* hahahahaha

D2 was extremely easy. Why do you think people played on x8, because it was a joke otherwise.

That's also why it felt like there were more builds in D2; you could mow down hell mode with whatever skill you wanted.

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The botters' phone alerts them to the email, they check it and hop on their account, type in the code and continue to bot.

It's one of those problems that's a LOT harder to fix then people think, because any of the obvious fixes would be so irritating to all the other legitimate players that everyone would hate it.

Winter is coming, are you waking up, getting out of bed in the middle of the night so you can bot in diablo3? Its too bad d3 doesnt have a parser, bot pulls half the dps for 8hours while sleeping and hits the town waypoint 10 times, obvious indicator.
There are ways blizzard could fix this but it easier for them to remain silent, exercising their elastic tos. I just run around as a chicken now in t8, no reason to even try to be competitive in a blizzard game.

If the email plan you're suggesting only emails once in a while, then yes a botter would absolutely just get up real quick to fix it. And, to my point before, if your email system (or anything similar) is sending out emails every two hours, then no one would play because that's a pain in the ass.
And what's your point about an obvious indicator being the bot hit the WP 10 times? I goof around all the time while talking to my buddies, and I suspect if you saw me play you'd scream BOT! This is a MUCH harder problem to fix than you're saying.

The botters' phone alerts them to the email, they check it and hop on their account, type in the code and continue to bot.

It's one of those problems that's a LOT harder to fix then people think, because any of the obvious fixes would be so irritating to all the other legitimate players that everyone would hate it.

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So your entire computer is junk?

Have you tried reinstalling windows? Change hard drive? It's extremely unlikely your entire system is rip after a bluescreen most likely it's only 1 component or not even a component at all and just windows needs reinstall/format.

The system will boot and will try to run windows correctly. Then it will get to the loading screen and try to do a system restore, then will fail at the beginning of it. The only two things it does are what I mentioned in the previous sentence. This was after it ran a chkdsk and cleaned up orphaned files. I would love to get access to the log files, but I can't even boot it in safe mode.
The other aspect is that the hardware is 3-5 years old (depending on the component), I can start replacing things 1-by-1, but I could just end up rebuilding the system anyway. I'm going to continue to try to force some changes so it boots, but I would rather just replace the system and slave in the old drives. I want to minimize data loss and also, possibly, upgrade the components to something modern.

If true, what a dirt bag.