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Quote from RiffSphere»

In some way, I have to agree, in another, I have to disagree.

Agree: If you are really going for rankings, you need BIS gear. That was the case before ancient items, and is the case now. With ancients being 10% chance to drop, it got harder to get those items (they did decrease the rarity of the rarest items, so it's about 5 times as hard). However, with the addition of new items and changes, it might become easier (I think about barb that uses IKBB instead of furnace, few patches ago where DH didn't need tasker anymore, and a lot of those).

Disagree: Blizzard is showing everytime they aim at the casual player, not the hardcore ranking player. They even said the big (annoying) screen after a Grift is the "go you" factor instead of trying to compete on the leaderboard. It's all about personal improvement for them. So, from their point of view, ancient weapons are a good thing, since any ancient weapon will make you feel at least as strong as a non-ancient hard to get BIS item (remember how DH was going with ancient arcane barb, even for the top spots, or people crafting an ancient sunder performing better/as good as a non ancient furnace?). At the same time, as this is a grinding game in the first place, it makes the game last longer as a grinding game before it becomes a ranking competition.

And this is exactly the problem when the dev team can not decide WHAT this game is about: First make it a real grinding game (vanilla) where you go for the best items, then make items easy accessible for the casual player (2.0 after a few legendary droprate increases) but still keep the best items on a lower drop rate, put in competition (Grift introduction) because the hardcore playerbase gets bored, introduce ancient items because casual players feel they are far behind on the leaderboard/shift focus back to grinding instead of leaderboard/give the hardcore players possible upgrades again (I did see people that were missing 150 mainstat, 300vit and 1% crit chance in total on their entire gear before ancient, chance for them for upgrades was about 0).

So, if the dev team can finally make their mind up about if this is a grinding game or a competition game, they can take out the other aspect, and make it all better. Now it feels to me they want to do 2 things that somehow exclude eachother.

thats what i think.. 2 distinct paths (casual and hardcore players).. idk what they want.. if they just want u increase your personal achievs, i don't think the ancient weapons/(items too) are the best option

Hello everybody

i'm an old blizzard fun and player, played diablo 2 many times and warcraft 3 since 2004 and diablo 3 (i have at least 700+ hours played), and particulary i enjoy so much this game, the patch 2.0.x bring me back to this game.. but since the new ancient items i'm little disapointing.. i know the blizzard idea is always improving and balance the game with patchs and other stuffs, but since the new ancient weapons come its being hard to do party in higher grifts (50+ is higher for me) if u are a dps class.. like wizard who need an ancient sparker.. any of u guys have the same trouble? i tried two different stuffs.. or we need to do many game to find this weapon (and u have a little chance to get ancient) or u play with other builds but no higher grifts.. so to be part of leaderboards u need lucky too (to get item no playing the game of course, i understand u need to be a good player to get rank too)..

thanks all for reading, sry about the english

hello wizards lovers

recently, i saw a player who posted in Greater rifts community about your tank wizard croud control etc..

at first i saw a lot of people who don't believed in him, but i decided investigate him and i can tell, tank wizards are possible and they have so funny playstyle, remembering the old critical mass wizard build... then, i decide create this topic

here i post my profile with my tank wizard, any comments about this topic are welcome

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Ping3450-1417/hero/50060066

basic tips: high thougness, cooldown reduction = 60% or more, low cost build (you can forge asheara, born and captain's sets)

bonus from sets provides: life > 1kk, cooldown reduction = 70% without gogok of swiftness..

some variants include 3 blackthorns peace, removing captain crimson's set, and a amulet with light or cold immunity (the biggest problem for dps players at GR 40+)

for croud control, mix blackhole and frost nova, another variants include uses cold passive instead unstable anomaly (or a hellfire amulet with this passives)

sometimes i replace the stormshield for ivory tower, and the results are good...

ps.: sry for my english

jaetch, how many cost change a wiz-cm-tank to archon with moderate dps? u think 50k dps in archon good to solo?

Ping3450 us server

Quote from Phrensta

MF is definitely worth the investment. Not to mention MF gear is cheap now as everyone is off loading it as they paragon level.

yeah, it's right

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Quote from Ping3450

i have that wizard with mf and crit mass and i clean act 3 & 4, but i have low dps

How much dps do you have? I have a bit more than 30 dps (low), but I think it's enough for this build, since it freezes and explodes everything in the screen (and it doesn't take long).
Do you get many "top class" items with your mf gear on acts 3 and 4?
Thanks for the quick answer!

20k dps, but i play only with teams (when i play solo, i use my dh), well, i farm basically in last quest from act 3 (heart of sin) and i got around 50~60 yellow items, but 90% its a crap (or more)

after look your build, i think u want to be a cm wiz, then u need all resist (650+ at least), more life (like 30k, vitality and life %), change your sholder, bracer and that amulet.. if u want more dps change your weapon for a weapon with ap on crit and slot, but its opitional

my wizard its not the best because i have low dps but i play in groups and i survive act 3 & 4 with no problems

/profile/Ping3450-1417/hero/17327933

Quote from Bleu42

What? OP it's because you're ONLY level 10. That's only 30% mf, It's like you just replaced your ammy with one with MF, that's it. Legendaries don't start dropping regularly until you're close to max MF, or I would think around Plvl 50 + or more.

not 100% true because i have 174 mf + lvl 8 para and i did not found legendary items too.. only a lot of yellow items in act 3, like 50 items for 1 quest

i have that wizard with mf and crit mass and i clean act 3 & 4, but i have low dps

i use a wiz with 18k dps, 1.2k int and vit, 1100 all resist with prismatic armor, because i play only with teams and usually have 1 or 2 high dps like dhs and a monk or barbarian with increase armor skills, then i dont have problems when i farm act 3 or 4.. this low dps its because i have a mf gear pre 1.04 (i bought 1 day before upgrade - #$%@), so if u have a low dps, upgrade your vit and resist all

the link is: us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Ping3450-1417/hero/17327933