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I find it way better than the other options... or am I missing something?

Nope still better than the other options

and all other WD skills

Paragon levels = awesome, I'm glad we get more powerful as we play more.

Cap on MF though? WTF!!!!!!!!!!!! That was the ONE thing that that majority of people agreed upon..... we DO NOT WANT A CAP TO MF. I'm extremely sad about this....

It seems like most of the players that are just farming Act 3 right now hate the changes and people that are still progressing enjoy the changes. Nothing against those people... but it seems to show you the point of view of both camps. At this point in time, I don't really care much about using different builds. I do care that a build I found pretty fun (direbats) is getting removed from the game though.

^^^ Derwiv just spoke my mind.

We just lost our best dps builds. If you care at all about farming, those mana changes hurt.

I wish they would just have 2 patches. There's no reason why they should have both the skill reworks and legendary buffs in the same patch. They should have released a patch in July that had the skill reworks since it's likely just number changes.

With that out of the way, they could focus on making legendaries worth while. At least we'd have something to keep us busy while we looked forward to the legendary changes. Instead, we're forced to wait for them to code the legendary changes (I assume that's the source of the long wait). Hopefully they're adding fun abilities on the new legendaries that require extra code.

I just hope they learned from their release mistakes. Blizzard needs to release some examples of legendaries BEFORE they release the game/patch so they can see the reaction from the userbase. It's obvious that Blizzard is out of touch with what the users want in regard to certain aspects of the game. Any Diablo fan could have told Blizzard that those vanilla legendaries were not exciting.

//edit: To actually stay on topic, I'm guessing the long silence is because the patch isn't very near and they don't have anything to talk about. Late Aug at the earliest? I hope that's not the case though, I was expecting sooner.

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For the past few weeks I've had a lot of trouble selling pretty much everything. It seems like people just aren't using the GAH. Is the RMAH where it's all going down? Are lots of people quitting? Or am I just having bad luck?

Look, more conspiracy theory BS from Bilge. Shocker. No the GAH is not dead. The GAH is more alive than ever. I have been selling on the GAH non stop over the past 3 weeks and turning around and selling the gold on RMAH. I have acutally been able to sell things for higher prices than before the RMAH had gold selling enabled.

Stop trying to feed your conspiracy theory bullshit to the community. You aren't helping anything and you won;t cause change. If you are so against the things Blizzard has done for D3 then stop playing it.

Take a moment and read the whole thread. A lot of good points and they are correct. The only bullshit on here is your post. Good day.

He had a point though.

Things ARE selling on the gold AH still. You guys are just putting up crap items. Saying it's because people are quitting the game is just silly and a bit ignorant.

Here's what is happening... I'll break it down:

* More people are hitting Inferno and farming Act 1
* Act 1 is dropping more loot with the new patch so the amount of so-so items has skyrocketed
* People already have so-so items (or better) and are after upgrading their gear with high quality items

So basically, demand is down for so-so items and supply is up so people aren't buying them any more. It's a basic economic principle. As a result, the minimum quality of items that sell has increased.

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disable linking of UNIDENTIFIED items, problem fixed.

Fixed your fix.

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This isn't news at all. It was been well known since D2 that this is how mf works.

Well.... not really.

There is a bit of debate in the community right now about how valid this article is. Some people seem to think that Blizzard is saying that you have a better chance of rolling 6 affix rares from a single drop. Other people are saying it's wrong/worded poorly because you'll get more rare drops with high MF and therefore more chances at 6 affix rares but the chance for your rare to have 6 affixes is still the same once it's been decided that the item is rare.

Until we can prove it with data, I'm in the camp that I think the article is incorrect.... I mean they talk about rares with 1-3 affixes on them....

There's absolutely nothing poorly written in the explanation, only people trying to (again) read between the lines, because we all know Blizzard can't just tell the truth, they're always hiding something.

Rares can have anywhere from 2 to 6 affixes - this is known information, so I'm not sure what your point is about them discussing 3 affix rares. Go look in the Ilvl 63 hall of shame thread - a picture of a 2 affix rare amulet is right there.

Take the tinfoil hat off already.

edit for incorrect number and missing word.

So the fact that they mentioned rares with 1 affix doesn't bother you at all? Blizzard is known for releasing information about their games that is 100% false. It's not having a tin-foil hat, it's knowing what blizzard is like with their "guides".

//edit: Also, that neck you are refering to has 4 affixes. I do not believe a rare can have 3 affixes (it can only appear to have less than 4)

Affix 1 - min damage
Affix 2 - max damage
Affix 3 - min & max damage
Affix 4 - Socket

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^^^ some affixes are actually 2 stats (I.E. +str & +dex) so sometimes it will look like it's more affixes. This could cause problems if you want to record the affix number count for rare and have accurate data.

That's what I thought. This will make recording quite tedious.
Do we have a list of possible affixes on items?

Well the problem is that you could get a roll of:

Affix #1 - 20 Dex
Affix #2 - 20 Str
Affix #3 - 20 Dex & 20 Str
Affix #4 - 40 Vit

The item will simply look like +40 Str, +40 Dex, +40 Vit. You will think it's a 3 affix item (and have no way of telling that it's actually a 4 affix item). I don't think there's a way to know if it's 3 or 4 affixes unless one of the attributes exceeds the normal max amount of a single + Dex affix.

I think it feels like a solo game to me because of everything they do to discourage multiplayer games. The monsters gain too much HP and MF is shared but if you solo you get buffs from your companion and extra MF from it as well. You don't get increased loot like in D2 so what's the point in playing with other players? The answer for my character at least is that there is no point in playing with other players. Every time I have tried it has been inefficient.

It's all about forum culture and it seems that on the various Curse sites the flaming, aggressive arguments, and trolling are expected and possibly even encouraged to some degree. There are several other high user forums on the internet that do not have this issue but it's a combination of culture and some pretty dedicated moderation staff. Not digging the mods here but if you want to drive behavior you have to show people consequences for actions. It's basic human behavior.

I will reference PA because I like it, and it's one of the best run forums on the net. Several years ago it was starting to fall apart and they instituted a simple and honestly silly global rule. They called it the Glorious Edict. The only tolerated "insult" was to call someone a Silly Goose. If you said anything else there were consequences, jail and up to banning. I know it sounds stupid but it worked. They also run a pretty tight ship across the board. Want some ideas, look here http://bit.ly/LNeQVJ.

Again, my intent is not to rip on the staff or the culture here. I like it here, but I think there are some things that could improve and would make it better. Hopefully things will change because as was already said the tone around here is degrading into official forums territory pretty quickly.