They can ignore the damage stats, bring mass mf, utility, and slightly irrelevant damage to the group, letting the other 3 people kill quickly and focus on damage stats while they maintain control or buff/heal, and benefit the overall yield of the group. Sort of similar to a healing role in other MMO's.
Speaking on a purely hypothetical soapbox, if a top tiered MF/Utility player has 1600-2000 mf, and the utility to carry 3 glass cannon/ zero MF types through inferno, you're going to yield a ton of shinies. It's my (educated) guess that this type of person would be in extremely high demand for group play.
You call it socialism, I call it specialized labor.
one stat i definately want explained is crit bonus on items. additive or multiplicative.... Seems like surge in swtor, could get out of hand in a hurry.
Also, we've seen some interesting items in the d2 universe, old items with procs like bone spear, animate random 8bit looking zombie on kill, etc. What are the limits of rare rolls. Interesting procs? or just a pile of stats, and if those kind of rolls exist, what are the limits?
It's a strange state of affairs wen you log onto diablofans, not to see what the news is, but to find out what bliz's April fools day joke is. It's set up to be believeable this year, unlike the guitar hero bard class. Bravo bliz, bra-freaking-vo.
Baseless speculation is 90% of this site's content. It's a game that even those with access to the beta have less than 5% of the game at their disposal.
Knowing though how i deal with games, even difficult ones, 2 weeks seems like more than enough time given proper playtime.
Unless you're planning on going 3d, multidisplay 2d, or something ridiculous, it's probably overkill. 2 560ti's in SLI will outperform the single evga 680 and save you a ton of money. Especially considering you already have the makings of a pretty good video system just sitting there. If you want to spend the money, by all means, support the economy, but don't feel like it necessary.
BIg issue I have with nvidia and any time it makes changes to architecture, it goes through growing pains. I wouldn't rush out and buy the first iteration of ANY card nvidia puts out with new architecture, wait until they work the bugs out. In the process you get a more stable card, and because you waited a month or so, a cheaper one as well.
Here's one from the poison helix kitchen, and I swear, it's not poison.
Chicken Tacos Barbacoa Style with avocado relish and ridiculous cream sauce.
Time you need: Prep is about 35 minutes for everything, cooks slow, 3-4 hours. Make it on a sunday, reheats well.
Stuff you need:
For the chicken:
4 Boneless/skinless Chicken breasts
4 Cloves of garlic
1 large spanish/yellow sweet onion
2 bottles of Mexigermanic Lager or bock, I use shiner bock, it's delicious.
3-4 Cups Chicken Stock
Canned Chipotles in adobo sauce
Cilantro, buy a bunch, you'll use a good bit in a combination of the sauce, relish, and chicken.
2 limes
Salt
Pepper
Ground Cumin
EV Olive oil
For the Relish
2 Haas avocados (Firm)
Salt
Cilantro
1/2 Medium Red onion
2 limes
2 Serrano peppers
1 Clove Garlic
For the Sauce
1 Pint Sour Cream
1/2 Can Media Crema, It's condensed milk you can find at most chain grocery stores in the mexican/latino aisle
1/4 cup of cilantro
2 tablespoons cumin seed
For the tacos.... Tortillas (I use soft corn tortillas), and random fixins... lettuce, shredded cheese, etc.
Lets move on to prep.
I'll try to keep this orderly and explain how i get it all done at roughly the same time. My Kung Fu is strong, so you may want to take care of prep first, but this dish really is not very difficult to prepare.
In a medium Dutch Oven, Heat 3 tbsp of EV Olive oil over medium heat right up to the smoke point.
While that's heating, Generously salt and pepper your breasts on both sides, and sprinkle LIGHTLY with ground cumin. I use maybe a teaspoon for all 4 breasts.
Once your oil is ready, Sear the chicken until lightly browned on both sides. Searing isn't as hard as your Foodie dbag friend says it is. when you drop cool chicken into oil at the smoke point, it should stick to the cooking surface. When it freely comes off the surface easily, without pulling, it's good to go.
While that's rolling, Chop the Sweet onion, peel, crush, and mince the garlic.
Alright, when your chicken is done, remove it from the oil and set it aside, use a plate.
Take your beer, pop the top, and drink it.
Take another beer, deglaze the dutch oven with it and reduce by half. Add the Onion and garlic, cover, and let sweat for about 5-10 minutes.
While that's working, de-stem and finely chop about 1 cup of cilantro and juice your two limes. You can use a food processor if you want.
Pop your can of chipotles.
Alright, it's decision making time. You can do this one of three ways, for mild, just take 2 tablespoons of the adobo sauce out of the can, it'll carry some of the flavor of the chipotles without a whole lot of spice. For medium, take 1 whole chipotle and 2 tablespoons of sauce, for hot, take 2-3 whole chipotles and 2 tablespoons of sauce. Up to you. The relish and sour cream sauce have a cooling effect when combined with the chicken, so the spice won't be overbearing, but some people just can't take hot.
OK, the onions and garlic have sweat down, you've decided you want to set your mouth on fire (or not), and you're ready to go. Add the cilantro, 1 tablespoon of salt, the lime juice, the adobo sauce, 1 cup of chicken stock, and your personal, private number of chipotles to the mix and stir well. Take the chicken and nestle it into the mixture. Pour chicken stock over the chicken until it almost covers, turn the heat up and bring the whole shabang to a light boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer for about 3 hours.
Congratulations, you've just defeated the diablo 3 cooking beta.
The sauce:
In a small sautee pan, toast about 2 tablespoons of cumin seed. it'll turn from a light yellowish brown, to a burnt ochre.... you know, that one crayon in the box that noone ever used? yeah, that color. If it turns black, you've gone too far, turn around and go back.
Process your cilantro (destem/chop) and whisk your crema and sour cream together into a mixing bowl. I use a citrus zester for this to get the cilantro extremely fine. Slowly add the cilantro and toasted seed, whisk until smooth, cover, and chill.
The relish:
This stuff is retarded good. I normally chew through half a bag of tortilla chips while i making a batch of this stuff.... it's amazing.
ok, pit and dice your avocados into 1/2 inch cubes. dump em into a large mixing bowl.
Juice your limes into a food processor.
Destem about a handful of cilantro. Throw it into the processor.
Crush and coarsely chop the carlic clove. Throw it into the processor.
take your serrano peppers, cut them in half lengthwise, de-vein and de-seed them. Easy to do with a spoon. Throw them into the processor.
Coarsely chop your half red onion. Throw it in the processor.
add about a teaspoon of salt and crank that bad boy up.
You don't want to liquefy this stuff, pulse until it still has peices, but they're reasonably small.
Mix this concoction with the avocado cubes and try it. add salt to taste. I usually add about a tablespoon before it's over and done with, but you may like less, or more. Who am i to tell you about arterial health?
Get this stuff into the refrigerator and start cleaning.
Phase 2 is complete.
Go back and turn your chicken over every now and then in the braising liquid. I normally go in about every 30-45 minutes. At about 3 hours, remove the lid and carefully remove the chipotles. Then using tongs, or a fork, shred the chicken while still in the pot. it should come right apart with no effort. Leave the heat on low and let the chicken absorb the rest of the liquid keep a pretty good eye on it as this may take 10 minutes, it may take 5. you don't wanna let this stuff dry out, but you don't want it all liquidy either. find your happy medium.
I'm not gonna tell you how to assemble tacos.... google it if you don't know.
Horribly unbalanced is going way too far. At the most I'd say witch doctors may be less gear dependant than other classes in the early game, because you have this skill to boost your primary stat.
I enjoy leveling as well, but with that said, some classes in ALL RPG games level better than others. Just a fact of the landscape.
Taking into account the stat budgets on normal/nightmare transition gear, while harvest is good, it's hardly game-breaking like people are inferring. I've seen 60 stat crafted rares (which have been said are going to be weaker than found rares) for lvl 29, you have to realize you're not going to be multiplying your int base by 4 or 5 times anymore. Making educated guesses about endgame gear and stats, if you're in good or excellent gear, you'd honestly be lucky to double your pool.
This is definitely one of those early bloomer classes because of this skill, but seriously, who balances their games for leveling?
Summary, tl;dr version. It sorta counter-scales with gear, meaning, the better your stats are, the less benefit it's providing at the cost of a skill slot, which is a very real price you're paying for each skill in this game.
I think also it's best to look in phases, it's not like you're going to wake up at level 60. I really feel like a lot of these threads are ignoring that inferno is pretty much forced group play. At high gear levels you may be able to solo parts with a good bit of skill, but focusing builds on what you're doing with them i think is a good starting point.
My major qualms are "leveling builds" that aren't really strong until lvl 40 passives/runes, Solo builds with no utility or regen, etc.
Try to remain focused in whatever you're going to do.
I have a few builds i've been keeping in my pocket since p15.
For example, here's one that i will be rocking at or near to the start of nightmare, add that i plan on soloing through normal. I tried to keep things balanced, while having good mobility, snares, regen, offsetting dot dmg with direct dmg, veil with honored guest, multiple damage types, etc.
It's a strange state of affairs wen you log onto diablofans, not to see what the news is, but to find out what bliz's April fools day joke is. It's set up to be believeable this year, unlike the guitar hero bard class. Bravo bliz, bra-freaking-vo.
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maybe a wiz like: http://us.battle.net...YPgO!bfc!ZZZZcc for a ranged heavy group
or a monk like: http://us.battle.net...QYXk!bcV!cbcaZa for a melee heavy group
They can ignore the damage stats, bring mass mf, utility, and slightly irrelevant damage to the group, letting the other 3 people kill quickly and focus on damage stats while they maintain control or buff/heal, and benefit the overall yield of the group. Sort of similar to a healing role in other MMO's.
Speaking on a purely hypothetical soapbox, if a top tiered MF/Utility player has 1600-2000 mf, and the utility to carry 3 glass cannon/ zero MF types through inferno, you're going to yield a ton of shinies. It's my (educated) guess that this type of person would be in extremely high demand for group play.
You call it socialism, I call it specialized labor.
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one stat i definately want explained is crit bonus on items. additive or multiplicative.... Seems like surge in swtor, could get out of hand in a hurry.
Also, we've seen some interesting items in the d2 universe, old items with procs like bone spear, animate random 8bit looking zombie on kill, etc. What are the limits of rare rolls. Interesting procs? or just a pile of stats, and if those kind of rolls exist, what are the limits?
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Knowing though how i deal with games, even difficult ones, 2 weeks seems like more than enough time given proper playtime.
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BIg issue I have with nvidia and any time it makes changes to architecture, it goes through growing pains. I wouldn't rush out and buy the first iteration of ANY card nvidia puts out with new architecture, wait until they work the bugs out. In the process you get a more stable card, and because you waited a month or so, a cheaper one as well.
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Chicken Tacos Barbacoa Style with avocado relish and ridiculous cream sauce.
Time you need: Prep is about 35 minutes for everything, cooks slow, 3-4 hours. Make it on a sunday, reheats well.
Stuff you need:
For the chicken:
4 Boneless/skinless Chicken breasts
4 Cloves of garlic
1 large spanish/yellow sweet onion
2 bottles of Mexigermanic Lager or bock, I use shiner bock, it's delicious.
3-4 Cups Chicken Stock
Canned Chipotles in adobo sauce
Cilantro, buy a bunch, you'll use a good bit in a combination of the sauce, relish, and chicken.
2 limes
Salt
Pepper
Ground Cumin
EV Olive oil
For the Relish
2 Haas avocados (Firm)
Salt
Cilantro
1/2 Medium Red onion
2 limes
2 Serrano peppers
1 Clove Garlic
For the Sauce
1 Pint Sour Cream
1/2 Can Media Crema, It's condensed milk you can find at most chain grocery stores in the mexican/latino aisle
1/4 cup of cilantro
2 tablespoons cumin seed
For the tacos.... Tortillas (I use soft corn tortillas), and random fixins... lettuce, shredded cheese, etc.
Lets move on to prep.
I'll try to keep this orderly and explain how i get it all done at roughly the same time. My Kung Fu is strong, so you may want to take care of prep first, but this dish really is not very difficult to prepare.
In a medium Dutch Oven, Heat 3 tbsp of EV Olive oil over medium heat right up to the smoke point.
While that's heating, Generously salt and pepper your breasts on both sides, and sprinkle LIGHTLY with ground cumin. I use maybe a teaspoon for all 4 breasts.
Once your oil is ready, Sear the chicken until lightly browned on both sides. Searing isn't as hard as your Foodie dbag friend says it is. when you drop cool chicken into oil at the smoke point, it should stick to the cooking surface. When it freely comes off the surface easily, without pulling, it's good to go.
While that's rolling, Chop the Sweet onion, peel, crush, and mince the garlic.
Alright, when your chicken is done, remove it from the oil and set it aside, use a plate.
Take your beer, pop the top, and drink it.
Take another beer, deglaze the dutch oven with it and reduce by half. Add the Onion and garlic, cover, and let sweat for about 5-10 minutes.
While that's working, de-stem and finely chop about 1 cup of cilantro and juice your two limes. You can use a food processor if you want.
Pop your can of chipotles.
Alright, it's decision making time. You can do this one of three ways, for mild, just take 2 tablespoons of the adobo sauce out of the can, it'll carry some of the flavor of the chipotles without a whole lot of spice. For medium, take 1 whole chipotle and 2 tablespoons of sauce, for hot, take 2-3 whole chipotles and 2 tablespoons of sauce. Up to you. The relish and sour cream sauce have a cooling effect when combined with the chicken, so the spice won't be overbearing, but some people just can't take hot.
OK, the onions and garlic have sweat down, you've decided you want to set your mouth on fire (or not), and you're ready to go. Add the cilantro, 1 tablespoon of salt, the lime juice, the adobo sauce, 1 cup of chicken stock, and your personal, private number of chipotles to the mix and stir well. Take the chicken and nestle it into the mixture. Pour chicken stock over the chicken until it almost covers, turn the heat up and bring the whole shabang to a light boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer for about 3 hours.
Congratulations, you've just defeated the diablo 3 cooking beta.
The sauce:
In a small sautee pan, toast about 2 tablespoons of cumin seed. it'll turn from a light yellowish brown, to a burnt ochre.... you know, that one crayon in the box that noone ever used? yeah, that color. If it turns black, you've gone too far, turn around and go back.
Process your cilantro (destem/chop) and whisk your crema and sour cream together into a mixing bowl. I use a citrus zester for this to get the cilantro extremely fine. Slowly add the cilantro and toasted seed, whisk until smooth, cover, and chill.
The relish:
This stuff is retarded good. I normally chew through half a bag of tortilla chips while i making a batch of this stuff.... it's amazing.
ok, pit and dice your avocados into 1/2 inch cubes. dump em into a large mixing bowl.
Juice your limes into a food processor.
Destem about a handful of cilantro. Throw it into the processor.
Crush and coarsely chop the carlic clove. Throw it into the processor.
take your serrano peppers, cut them in half lengthwise, de-vein and de-seed them. Easy to do with a spoon. Throw them into the processor.
Coarsely chop your half red onion. Throw it in the processor.
add about a teaspoon of salt and crank that bad boy up.
You don't want to liquefy this stuff, pulse until it still has peices, but they're reasonably small.
Mix this concoction with the avocado cubes and try it. add salt to taste. I usually add about a tablespoon before it's over and done with, but you may like less, or more. Who am i to tell you about arterial health?
Get this stuff into the refrigerator and start cleaning.
Phase 2 is complete.
Go back and turn your chicken over every now and then in the braising liquid. I normally go in about every 30-45 minutes. At about 3 hours, remove the lid and carefully remove the chipotles. Then using tongs, or a fork, shred the chicken while still in the pot. it should come right apart with no effort. Leave the heat on low and let the chicken absorb the rest of the liquid keep a pretty good eye on it as this may take 10 minutes, it may take 5. you don't wanna let this stuff dry out, but you don't want it all liquidy either. find your happy medium.
I'm not gonna tell you how to assemble tacos.... google it if you don't know.
and enjoy.
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I enjoy leveling as well, but with that said, some classes in ALL RPG games level better than others. Just a fact of the landscape.
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This is definitely one of those early bloomer classes because of this skill, but seriously, who balances their games for leveling?
Summary, tl;dr version. It sorta counter-scales with gear, meaning, the better your stats are, the less benefit it's providing at the cost of a skill slot, which is a very real price you're paying for each skill in this game.
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http://youtu.be/BoNz4czQ5BE
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My major qualms are "leveling builds" that aren't really strong until lvl 40 passives/runes, Solo builds with no utility or regen, etc.
Try to remain focused in whatever you're going to do.
I have a few builds i've been keeping in my pocket since p15.
For example, here's one that i will be rocking at or near to the start of nightmare, add that i plan on soloing through normal. I tried to keep things balanced, while having good mobility, snares, regen, offsetting dot dmg with direct dmg, veil with honored guest, multiple damage types, etc.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#WeSdZU!bVW!aaaZYZ