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- Bagstone
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Oct 31, 2017
Bagstone posted a message on Virtual Ticket Giveaway & New Diablo Fans Community ManagerPosted in: News -
Oct 25, 2017
Bagstone posted a message on Diablo Patch 2.6.1 Now LivePosted in: News
This is a misleading patch note entry. It only means that many super rare items (like Wand of Woh, Calamity, etc) are now common or at least "less rare". Basically all items have the same drop level except for usually one item is a bit more rare (33% less chance to get) per slot. Only some immunity amulets are still really rare, otherwise droprates are now more streamlined.
Which makes sense to be honest, because many of the rare items weren't the "best ones" anyways, so it was a kind of arbitrary rarity value anyways. -
Jul 11, 2017
Bagstone posted a message on 2.6.0 Hotfixes, Legendary Gem Level Rollback, Double XP Event this Weekend!Posted in: News
You don't see it because that can't be changed with a hotfix, it requires a client patch. See bluepost:
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Sep 5, 2016
Bagstone posted a message on Gamescom 2016 Recap & BlizzCon ExpectationsPosted in: News
Hm. I made a comment to the video but for some reason it's not showing up. Anyways, in my opinion it can't be a mobile game (nor an expansion). I have no idea why Rhykker believes that multithreading is a hint for mobile development; it's not, it's a requirement in engine development for 10+ years. Also, the job posting requires C++ and Direct X knowledge, and while C++ is very unlikely to hint at mobile (it works for Android using NDK but it's not really the preferred language) Direct X clearly says it *can't be mobile*.
Also, all the job postings on the Blizzard page (engine developer, graphics concept designer) hint to a new game and not just some remake or expansion. Reviewing the same info that Rhykker has to me this absolutely 100% hints at something along the lines of Diablo 4. Although as we remember in an interview a while back Blizzard sounded like they considered Diablo to be a trilogy, and I personally think with Cain dead and the story in D3 being rather weak a franchise reboot might be advisable, so I'd put my money on some Diablo-related new game. But not D3 mobile, D3X2, or D2HD. Maybe any of those are coming as well, but they're not related to the job posts.
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Jul 28, 2016
Bagstone posted a message on Bagstone's Season 7 Journey TrackerPosted in: News
Unfortunately the season journey progress cannot be retrieved via Blizzard API, so that's not possible. Otherwise that would be an insanely useful feature which I'd implement in a heartbeat!
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May 5, 2016
Bagstone posted a message on Conquest: Boss Mode GuidelinesPosted in: News
But it doesn't. Check the thread, many people reporting that they made it solo. This conquest is easier solo than many of the other conquests.
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Mar 31, 2016
Bagstone posted a message on Season 5 end date and S6 start announced!Posted in: News
I's the same as in between S4 and S5.
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Mar 29, 2016
Bagstone posted a message on March Banwave, Hybrid Iron Maiden Crusader 2.4.1Posted in: News
I think a week before season ends is too late. In my opinion, the timing of this banwave was perfect. The season is going to last another 2-4 weeks, which should give legit players some time to finish gear/augments, gem upgrades, and farm a few hundred keys - and then go crazy on leaderboard pushes for the last week of the season. Those 2-4 weeks are probably not enough to get those botters back into endgame for the top of the leaderboards. Even if they're supported by their clans and we assume they start pushing GR90+ today and GR100+ by the end of this week, they still have to get all the augments and over 2000 rift keys to farm (1000 for paragon and gem levels and augments, 1000 for pushing). If we assume that the season is going to end in 2-3 weeks I think that's impossible using only legit means, and unlikely even when they were to start botting again.
Blizzard needs to pull banwaves every single season - now we have maybe 2-3 weeks left in season, which is still a pain in the ass to actually regain everything again (depending on how well you are being pushed by your non-botting friends).
My suggestion would, just put out the banwave exactly a week before the season ends - they have all of their shit removed and wasted a good amount of time to get there.
Thumbs up Blizzard.
I think the timeframe was exactly right (assuming that we'll see the end of season announcement this week). And of course, they need to do this every season to keep up the momentum and remind players that you should not cheat. Note that they didn't catch every cheater though - not at all. So not everyone's who's left is immediately "legit", though we need to accept the presumption of innocence for them. However, I think the leaderboard records should be wiped entirely, as I proposed here: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/20743035839 -
Sep 22, 2015
Bagstone posted a message on Arachyr's Future Changes, Quin's Updated Uliana GuidePosted in: News
Please, everyone, watch your tone. Removed some posts and edited some of the quote trains (please stop those as well). Please stop the personal attacks so we don't have to hand out even more infractions. Thanks.
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Sep 1, 2015
Bagstone posted a message on Difficulty Overview Graph, Solo Builds for Season 4Posted in: News
Did you get any x3 drops or only exactly x2? That would be great information.Quote from DevilheadB»
x2 100% starts from T7 it seems, have done 10 times today, every single time it's x2 on T7
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Sep 1, 2015
Bagstone posted a message on Difficulty Overview Graph, Solo Builds for Season 4Posted in: News
Thanks - I'm updating the chart right now!
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Mar 13, 2015
Bagstone posted a message on Hotfixes on Live and PTR, Protoss Probe Pet, Zero Empathy GR 63, Blizzcon ReminderPosted in: News
This was not a cheat, nor an exploit. This was a mechanic that has been in the game for 3 years, has been previously reviewed by Blizzard and stated to be okay.
However, no one - especially not Blizzard, which is why they left it in before - thought of using this in the way ZE did. It made this toy mechanic too powerful. I personally am sad it's gone - Sever was a great weapon that now is useless once again. I understand that Blizzard doesn't want to trivialize boss fights, however, so does Zero Dog and that build is allowed to stay until 2.2... I think they should've fixed Sever with 2.2 as well.
Asking for bans or removal of leaderboard spots is outright ridiculous, there were so many real exploits that caused unfair advantages to many players (think about the gear swap trial exploit in January, chest run XP exploit, or Malthael runs) and no action was ever taken to roll back any of the benefits that players got using this.
The world #1 non-season spot was already taken from INVIS's group yesterday by a Korean group, and I wouldn't be surprised if with paragon 1000, rank 70 gems, and perfect gear we'll see a GR64 in seasons in a few weeks. The real damage is that there are groups that have stacks full of 64/65 keys on seasons which are probably impossible to get without Sever. You can't do anything about that - just like with the trial exploit in January which affected the leaderboards for a long time (maybe some high level keys are still present from that time, who knows).
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Feb 27, 2015
Bagstone posted a message on New Sets Focused Feedback, PTR 2.2 Undocumented Changes, GR 35 Keys TrickPosted in: NewsQuote from NoRest4Wicked»
Are the Hellfire Ring/Ammy going to be retroactive? Or do I need to make some of those to ease the leveling future characters?
Yes, retroactive
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Feb 27, 2015
Bagstone posted a message on New Sets Focused Feedback, PTR 2.2 Undocumented Changes, GR 35 Keys TrickPosted in: News
I was defending trials for a long time, but I'm done with it ever since in January there was this trial exploit that allowed gear swapping and getting ~5 levels higher keys using some timed mechanic (thankfully fixed quickly, but not quickly enough as a lot of people got stacks of 60+ keys that gave them an unfair advantage). Travis explained perfectly why trials are annoying and pointless: you go on a rollercoaster ride, but before you go, you need to check your body height with a measuring stick. After you come back from the ride and want to do it again, you need to be measured again - why?
Yes, trials are part of natural progression. However, trials take up too much time for no reward; if you're doing trials for your highest GR level (e.g., aiming for 60+ keys) you can easily spend *hours* doing nothing but trials just to get a few keys. In this time you get no loot, no XP, no gold, no materials, nothing. It might be part of the regular progression, but in all other parts there's some stuff to discover (in bounties you can encounter the Vault if you kill a goblin, in T6 you can get goblin packs, in in GRs you get legendary gems and upgrades thereof). And in all those three parts of progression you get loot and other rewards. In bounties you get nothing. You see the same five different types of mobs over and over again, for hours, just to be able to play at your highest level for progression.
There's a million of potential fixes.
- Give us the highest key we have completed (in a group, take the average). You could even make it character-specific, which would incentivize to play a different class and you can't simply hop on a GR45 with your barb just because you got a DH with good trial gear. - Give us 10 keys instead of 1, to at least save some time. Trials always have lots of RNG, so in the end you spend about as much time in trials as in GRs which is just bad design. - When a group assembles, let them do ONE TRIAL to skip the first 55 levels, they'll start at that level, and either upgrade key (if they succeed) or try again (they already did the trials to get access to that level).
The trial system needs a fundamental change.
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Jan 5, 2015
Bagstone posted a message on BNet Login Issues, D3 Tribal Tattoo, ZDPS Support WDThe zDPS crusader is a better support class than the zDPS monk. Its DPS buffs are superior - actually the best among all support classes/specs, especially thanks to the 100% CHD from the Critical rune on the Law; and its pulling is far superior because it's less messy with Draw & Quarter. Basically, almost every support monk I know switched to support crusader, and the groups got much better by doing the switch. Give it a try - the gear is almost the same, you only need the shield basically; and it'll take you only 2-3 rifts to see how much better the crusader is.Posted in: News
Here's a thread that started the zDPS crusader discussion, though note that it evolved quite a bit (it started with Vacuum, but Steed Charge-Draw & Quarter is the more popular pull skill now (and better, imho)). - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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It was indeed marked as spam - should be back now!
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You need to get a new one - old items don't get updated retroactively (only set items/bonuses, and sometimes legendaries but only in rare exceptions and Deathwish isn't one of them).
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Just FYI: The current top clear by bunkka is available as VOD on his Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/234296179 (just at the end of the VOD, the last 10 minutes or so).
He died during the Conduit and needed almost 4 rotation for the boss, so potentially there's even quite some time gain possible - although obviously he got an insane streak of awesome crits on the first 5-10 packs or so. And... he's just an amazing player who regularly gets #1 on Challenge Rifts and conquests and everything else that is purely skill-related. But it might help some people, when I saw the time at first I was like "how is this possible?"
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"Being neglected"? This is the 36th challenge rift and the first one where the chosen clear is really one of the top clears. This was a request by the community for a long time ("make challenge rifts really challenging"). I think realizing an idea brought forward by the community is the opposite of "neglecting". But that's just me
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Does it? I don't know, I can't play right now. I've added "pet" to the tracker, if there's any more info that I could add let me know
Thanks for the heads-up.
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This is a super fun situation, because people have always been saying that the top of the leaderboards is just "cheating", "has more paragon", "better gear", "better gems", and whatever. But now everyone can show if they can truly compete with the top dogs. It's gonna be fun to see how manages to best Wudijo's clear.
Also keep in mind that Wudijo only had one try - he had to strategically plan when to "spawn" certain pylons, he didn't know what was on the next level (or even next screen), and so on.
Unfortunately I can't play right now but I really wish I could compete in this (though I know I'd have zero chance). Good luck everyone!
FYI, Wudijo himself have a few tipps on Reddit, see here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/80h4yp/eu_i_dont_get_how_to_complete_this_week_challenge/duvlcbk/
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Awesome, then I think everything is complete and up-to-date! Thanks to both of you, cra1n and Prisse!
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Thanks - does anyone have the other bosses after chapter 3? I'm not playing this season (not anytime soon anyways).
I messaged Nevalistis about this a few times but she was not able to get to that information before season start, which is why I wasn't able to update the tracker beforehand (and since I'm not playing myself I have to rely on others).
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Should be up now. Thanks for the reminder!
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Nice guide, I'm sure it will be helpful for those still looking. At first I was like "that's excessive use of color" but then I realized... you kept the guide in rainbow color style.
Just two points from my personal experience to add:
1) I did not farm on Normal, but T6 or so. The reason being that if I accidentally engage a RBG (happens really often if you're quick, like with a dash monk who gets through some maps in 2-3 seconds with perma dash) I can poke it every few seconds and prevent it from despawning while inviting other people (and not insta-kill it as on Normal). Of course that only makes sense if you have separate games open and not all 4 of you are looking for RBGs in one game.
2) You might want to clarify very clearly that it's sufficient to be in the party, you don't need to be in the *area* when the goblin is killed. So if you're farming in different games, invite people, and have already engaged the goblin, as soon as the people have entered your game they should be able to get into the portal, even if they're still standing in town. There are lots of people who think you need to be there when the goblin is killed.
As for the goblin spawn chances on certain maps, I'm not so sure about that. I remember seeing lots of different data from different people, but the reason that some areas always pull ahead (like Cave of the Blood Clan or whatever it's called and Leoric's Passage) might be a self-fulfilling prophecy: rumors are it has higher chance to spawn goblins, so more people check it more frequently and more thoroughly, and find more goblins there... rinse repeat. Therefore I'd just pick areas that you like to traverse and most importantly you're very very fast going through (if you often run into dead ends in caves just switch it up, because as you said, efficiency is key). For example, I liked all the tower maps because they're static and with dash/teleport you can make some shortcuts and check 4 individual maps super quickly.
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I'd be up for it. However, from previous times this came up on various places I can tell you that the majority of people probably wouldn't like it. The sets and Haedrig's Gift guides people towards their "meta builds" and lets them avoid having to think about choices and skills. Despite constant cries for "balance, variety, freedom" I think that actually a lot of people rather *want* to have no freedom - this is indicated by the race to establish metas and the inertia in shying away from it.
I do my own "non-Haedrig" run every once in a while, by playing up HC (after I've grabbed Haedrig on SC). One season we went to the extreme: me and a friend got a powerlevel on HC to 70, but then started to "play up". It's actually really fun (and challenging) to get ANY gear when you're level 70 and naked! Just getting into Torment 1 took us a while (especially since it's HC - you can't just do chest runs), and it took us a few hours before we had our set complete. Most fun I've had in a while, but you need to really think about skills+items you get and add some math to the mix. Definitely not for everyone.
Btw, Blizzard doesn't like votes/petitions, so that's not gonna happen
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Moved to HC forum.
Are you playing season or non-season? Non-season HC is pretty much dead, but has always been. HC is just smaller playerbase, non-season is smaller playerbase, so HC NS is pretty empty. And those who play usually don't play public games.
In general HC public games can be... difficult. I actually did a public HC (season) bounty run on TX or so last season and 2 people ripped, so in the end I had to finish the bounty run on my own. Look for communities or clans, and you'll find plenty of people to play with.
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It's an issue for everyone, it broke a few days ago, now it seems to work (at least for me and people there), let's hope it doesn't break again ;-) Maybe the servers just had too many Christmas cookies, just like me, and can't handle it anymore, just like me, and need some rest, just like me.