You can even "earn" the gift on softcore and open it on your HC toon!Quote from Failed4life»
Thats not how the gift works. If you get the gift on monk and open it on the demon hunter, it will be the demon hunter items
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Mad_Tom posted a message on Which class will you use to start Season 8?Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion -
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Bagstone posted a message on Season Journey TrackerPosted in: General Discussion
One QoL idea: can you provide a "Reset" button? When getting from season 7 to season 8 most buttons are still activated, bc locally stored. Instead of clicking all min req. buttons to reset the sheet manually a button which does the work would be awesome. Also regarding following seasons. Maybe a bit apart from the other buttons so you can not accidentely click it mid-season (or provide a "Are you sure?" popup)
This is a GREAT idea! So great, in fact, that I implemented it right away. I've also added another feature: you can generate a link to share your progress.
Admittedly, this might not be that interesting to show off your progress; but it might prove helpful in a group when you want your others to know what's missing without going over it one by one item. The main reason why I did this though is to be able to transfer your progress from one PC to another. You can create the link (click on the share button at the bottom), and when you open the link on a different computer/browser you click on the "store" button at the bottom to add all the data into your local storage. There's a popup, of course, to avoid overwriting your progress with someone's else's.
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Angry_Roleplayer posted a message on Diablo 1, 2, 3: The Great, The Good, The Bad and The UglyPosted in: Diablo III General DiscussionIMHO:
Best Atmospehere: D1
Best Story: D2
Best Gameplay: D3
Best Music: D1/D2
Best Graphics for it's time: D1/D3
Best Progression/Levelling: D1/D2
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Bagstone posted a message on no set Conquest = GR45, rare 'Conquest' = ??Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionSlayer is easily doable. A while ago Wudijo did a GR40 with rare items only - however, he used legendary gems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-BpaaEyUp8
Power comes from different sources now. All you need are multiplicators - and there are various ways to get them: 1) Set bonuses, 2) other legendary effects, 3) legendary gems, 4) paragon, 5) augments... probably forgot some stuff. I think Crusader or WD might be the strongest classes to go for a rare only challenge because the base damage of their skills are really high. If you don't use legendary gems, no paragon, and no legendaries (and therefore obviously no sets and augments) you'd probably still be able to clear GR35-40. GR30 and the T5 rift for Slayer should be super easy. Remember that we're all doing a GR20 with ease at season start to get Haedrig's Gift, and you can do this with yellows only easily; so with a bit of optimization and pushing and fishing GR30 is no huge deal. More than Slayer probably not. I don't even think the biggest issue is GR40, but T10 in 6 minutes for Champion... I don't think that'll work. Maybe with an insane amount of fishing to get a double Conduit Fields of Misery map, but I'd consider that cheating ;-)
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UncleDan2017 posted a message on Season 8 'free' sets?Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionI think the similarity comes down to infinitely scaling dungeons. On the one hand, they help because you always have a challenge in front of you, on the downside, the new challenge just looks like the old challenge with more HPs. Also, infinitely scaling dungeons tends to winnow out sets and builds that can't get within a few GRs of another build. It tends to force conformity.
Also, high drop rates tends to mean everyone who pushes hard has fairly similar gear, and the big differences between the top players are paragons and gem levels, and none of that stuff is particularly fun to farm.
So, cookie cutter builds and a lot of rng and grind in the endgame, with all the fun character development happening in the early and mid game. It's not that surprising that people leave. It's pretty much a recipe for burnout.
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Cyberdoc posted a message on Season 8 'free' sets?Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionI see I am not alone in my 'lack of passion' for the cursed set dungeons. I took WD for S7 as hadn't played that class in over a year. Arachyr's set dungeon ranks as easy as Barb IK and Crusader Invoker (your opinion may differ though). WD no set was also very simple.
I also base the choice on 2 or possibly 3 of the conquests. S8 is a first for me to do all of them (with WD).
S5 I chose Wizard, ended up rolling a Crusader just to do the 45no set challenge and Invoker set dungeon. Just went for the stash and retired back to NS
S6 chose Barb and DH for the 350 kills at chest conquest. This season played out better, stayed right to the end
S7 chose WD based on comments for the set dungeon being easy. Found the whole journey was rather enjoyable, for the first time. In to the end as well.
S8 most likely will go WD just to ensure I get the final stash quickly. Not sure about after gaining the stash, NS chars need a lot of TLC
Each season I also created a HC char, just to play, not anything serious.
This being said, we do not know what (or if) equipment will be updated. Hoping not too much of a surprise.
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Bagstone posted a message on Season 7 End: October 14, Season 8 start: October 21Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Then you've met two people who give a shit about eras.Quote from UncleDan2017»
I'm convinced we play 2 different games. You'd be the first person I ever met who gave a shit about eras in any way, shape or form. Eras and nonseason play in general are pretty much completely irrelevant to everyone I know who plays D3. There is a reason that nonseason play is a complete ghost-town, and it is the lack of frequent DB wipes that seasons bring. Honestly, I could see them going to 6 seasons a year, because why not? The game is so devoid of real content that 2 months is more than enough to do it all. In fact people are often bored with the game after a week or two, so there is nothing wrong with monthly seasons.
ARPG games are about getting stuff. They aren't about having stuff. Seasonal play ends up with everybody having everything and not needing anything and not having any desire to play.
Honestly, I don't understand why people who play seasons themselves assume that everyone else has to like the same things. Not everyone likes restarts in ARPGs. I personally hate this "reset button" and the only reason why I played seasons is because of the stash. I play the opening weekend, get stash, maybe Guardian, and then quit (and if I play every now and then it's non-season). If S9+ doesn't offer something similar I won't touch seasons anymore, maybe except for a fun opening weekend. But to higlight that NS isn't "dead", let's look at rank 1000 for each leaderboard in each region:
Class Season-NA Season-EU Season-KR NS-NA NS-EU NS-KR Barbarian 75 77 76 75 78 80 Crusader 76 77 78 75 80 83 DH 79 80 82 79 80 84 Monk 80 84 85 77 81 85 WD 82 85 83 81 85 85 Wizard 81 85 83 77 83 82 2p 86 91 88 85 90 90 3p 90 95 91 88 94 95 4p 97 102 102 95 100 103
As you can see, on average NS is on par with season; in many cases even higher. I'm actually surprised about the numbers in NA - in past seasons NS-NA was a wasteland, but it seems even in NA people have moved to NS. And it's going to be more: many people don't want to give up on their gully-geared characters and run 500+ rifts just to re-gain all the augments they farmed in a previous season. If a season offers new items/a new "top set" that needs to be farmed again, one might be happy with the reset; but I can tell you that I know not a single LoN Bombardment crusader from S6 who tried to get the same stuff in S7. Unless you're in a top clan and a full-time streamer/player, you wouldn't really do that.
Again, if you say NS is irrelevant to anyone you know that's your circle of friends, but it's not the entire community. In general, I think people extrapolate too much from their personal experience. I really with Blizzard releases a new infographic or some numbers at Blizzcon. -
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Bagstone posted a message on Season 8 'free' sets?Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion@virpyre: Very good summary. (And yes, if you read previous posts in this thread you'll realize that we all have played all previous seasons and deduced the sets from that, this is what the thread is about ;-))
I like how you elaborate on the sets for each class - just one thing to keep in mind: by the time you're pushing GR80+, you're very likely to have *all* sets for this class available. You won't really push GR80+ before paragon 500-700 usually, and at around paragon 300-500 usually you have other sets (of course depends a lot on what you play, how efficient, and if you're lucky or extremely unlucky with sets). However - for GR solo pushing the starter set doesn't matter. However, if you're really only after the stash tab, it is actually a valid consideration as you're likely to play ~10 hours or more with it.
I'm actually completely reconsidering my choice: I thought before "the last class I'm gonna play is monk because it might take the longest". However, last season we were in a group of 3 (2WD+1DH) and despite being among the first in the beginning, hitting rank 1 on day 1 a few times, we were falling behind once we reached GR50-60 because of the lack of pull/support classes. So I'm thinking to play either barb or, even better, monk, for offering this support that we lacked. For solo, I'd probably play DH or WD and try to get UE or HT as fast as possible since it's ridiculously easy and fast, from beginning to end. DH is a bit faster at farming, WD is a bit more the "brain afk" spec which I like as after 30h+ on the opening weekend your brain simply isn't active anymore...
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lordep posted a message on Season 8 'free' sets?Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionSeason 8 'free' sets:
Barb http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/item/immortal-kings-triumph
Crusader http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/item/crown-of-the-light
DH http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/item/natalyas-sight
Monk http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/item/ulianas-spirit
WD http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/item/arachyrs-visage
Wizz http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/item/vyrs-sightless-skull
Information from datamine
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UncleDan2017 posted a message on Season 7 End: October 14, Season 8 start: October 21Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionLol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U
Whether Blizzard does D4 or lets Diablo lie fallow for a few years while working on D4 or whether they never do another Diablo IP, they'll keep the servers up, and they'll keep changing seasons.
Why? Because Blizzard wisely values customer loyalty. There is a reason that you still see patches to D2 and SC and WC years after they were released.
They will also work on new content, whether or not it is Diablo content, but they will expend a small, reasonable, amount of resources keeping their old customers happy.
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Almost all the Youtube videos I've seen for some new tweak involve NS toons, as they have access to whatever goodie they need in order to explore the build. Most of the rest of Youtubes have been PTR toons, where the high drop rate also 'provides'. A handful of youtubes pop up about half-way thru the season about 'what I did'. With marketspeak Eras now being chanted by the coffee boy, unless you have a pressing need for a stash tab, or like ranking early, either you are gone, or in NS.
The Era concept dropped down from corporate awhile ago, explains why so many people have retired or left. The slow filling of posted jobs means nothing is coming in the near future, and it doesn't hurt to fish in the meantime. The only interest I have in S8 is related to either playing something new, getting into an active clan so I can see what the 1000+ paragon game is like, or seeing if I can zoom up faster repeating S7 final build. Otherwise, it's NS to polish/explore S7 build or the backburner. S7 broke my S6 final build, so I'm somewhat happy that S8 will not break S7.
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It cannot be a patch with Nothing
as noted elsewhere, the sets MUST change
and the Journey must change
to not do both will be a long term error
perhaps there will be a brief PTR to ensure that the changes worked, and maybe the impossible drops are once again 'fixed'
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Bliz hire this guy!
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Never seen a game nerf so much player power across classes, predicting mass desertions