DiabloFans

So I got the Ultimate Evil Edition for my Xbox One. I'm loving it so far, it runs flawlessly and looks great.

I started an online game and someone with paragon level 10,000 joins. I've played the PC version since it launched, so I know that achieving a level that high would take FOREVER.

I was running a rift when he joined, all of the sudden I jumped from level 68 to level 70 to Paragon level 100, to Paragon Level 1900 in a matter of minutes.

I grabbed a photo of the "Hacked" item, if anyone is interested:

So what are your thoughts? Should I keep the levels? Should I try to contact Blizzard? Is there a way to "Reset" Paragon levels?

Good evening good people of Diablo Fans. I have been perfecting a build on my DH recently and felt it was finally ready to share:


Overall this build does great damage, single target and AOE. It also makes you nearly impossible to kill which was a goal of mine... I just hate losing those pools of reflection :'(

Passives:

Archery: Passive Damage boost, pretty much mandatory

Grenadier: The backbone of the build. This passive increases the explosion radius of your grenades by 20% (very helpful), increases the damage of your grenades by 10% (pretty helpful) and grants you a 100% chance to drop a grenade upon death for 1000% damage (not very helpful but kind of neat I guess).

Brooding: This passive has been significantly buffed with 2.0 and provides a substantial, scaling HP Buff. (1.5% of your hp stacking 3 times when you stand still) Since you will be standing still to channel Rapid Fire: Bombardment, this buff will almost always be active.

Active Skills:

Grenade: The targeting issues that were present around launch seem to be corrected and the increased damage and explosion radius from Grenadier make this skill formidable. There is more than one viable rune choice for this skill.I typically use either Gas Grenade (Single Target DPS) or Grenade Cache (AOE). Stun Grenades and Tinkerer are also viable if you want to stun or need additional hatred generation. I do not like Cluster grenades because the damage output is so much lower (in my experience). The 200% damage from Cluster Grenades is spread out over an 8 yard radius, resulting in some very low damage numbers.

Rapid Fire (Bombardment): This skill, A.K.A "The Grenade Hose of Doom" does amazing damage in general and provides the highest AOE damage of any Rapid Fire rune. The Grenadier passive increases the radius of the explosion and the damage even further, making this a very powerful skill (535%weapon damage).

Smoke Screen (Healing Vapors): This is an amazing skill / rune combo that was added recently. It breaks CC, heals you and makes you untarget-able for a short duration. This can be used while channeling Rapid Fire and along with Life on Hit and the Brooding stacks, you can survive almost anything.

Preparation (Battle Scars): This has been a favorite of mine since launch. It's a great emergency heal and refills your Discipline so that you can continue using Smoke Screen. You will be very hard to kill.

Companion: There are many viable choices here. Pick the one that compliments your gear. (Bat for Hatred, Boar for Defense, Wolf for Damage, Spider for CC). I almost always run with the Wolf for the amazing damage buff it provides (30% damage for everyone within 60 yards for 10 seconds). You can pop this right before Rain of Vengeance for Massive Damage.

Rain of Vengeance (Shade): I was skeptical about this rune before I tried it, but I am a believer now. This rune has a HUGE radius and does amazing damage. You can aim it where ever you want (it is deployed at your cursor position) and you can use it while channeling rapid fire.

How to Play:

Use Rapid Fire until you run out of hatred and then spam your grenades to regain it (Pretty Self Explanatory).

If you become overwhelmed or see an elite pack, you can pop the Wolf Active Skill (30% Damage) drop Rain of Vengeance on them and shower them with Rapid Fire Bombardment. Most enemies will melt within seconds and you will not have a scratch on you thanks to Smoke Screen, Preparation and Brooding.

I have had great success with this build from Torment 1-5. My damage is still a tad low for torment 6, however ,and I have not been able to properly test it. This build does not require any special legendaries to use, but can be improved with them.

Let me know what you think!

(Edited for Formatting and Typing Errors)

Travis Day just announced that they will be doubling the droprate of legendaries in an upcoming hotfix: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/11307900907?page=23#451 Hey folks I'm back with some clarifications and some news that should please everyone.

First the clarification, the timer system that works behind the scenes is meant to be exactly that, behind the scenes. No you can't afk the system, there are a lot of moving pieces to it and we talked about it extensively before we implemented it to guarantee its not exploitable. At it's heart Diablo is a game about slaughtering demons and getting random cool rewards. The system that is in place should never be experienced by 99% of the population, it's there for the 1% who just get really bad random rolls for an excessively long period of time. If we want you to get a legendary every 2 hours, the system basically says "ok it's been like double/triple that period of time, just help the guy out!"

Second and more importantly. I'm in the process of working up another hotfix for the beta that will do 2 things.

1. Reduce the chance for Kadala to give legendary items. We have a lot of solutions to the split farming problem but they are going to take a little time to be put in place and in the mean time we don't want peoples feedback to be completely skewed based on her rewards. This reduction will be revisited once we fix all the split farming issues.

2. Double the legendary drop rate. Your feedback hasn't been falling on deaf ears, and much discussion and deliberation has gone into it. We know that drop rates aren't exactly where we want them right now and it's very important to us to get as much feedback as possible during our beta. We are going to adjust the legendary drop rates via hotfix so that you guys have as much time as possible to test and give us feedback on how the changes feel, also more time for us to compile data and get RoS to be the best it can be.

Here is the DH preview they posted a little while back, as a refresher:

Blizzard just posted another new set preview on their Facebook page, this time it's the Barbarian!

Check it out:

I do, very much so. I've played since the first game and have high hopes for ROS.

Haters gonna hate

Blizzard posted it on FB a few minutes ago.

Thoughts?

Anyone think this means ROS will be out on or around 3-18-14?

Holy $&%*! That's awesome! D3 is really getting some awesome improvements!

Quote from Lenekk

Quote from code90z

The build looks cool I'd like to try it on my HC DH.

I have one question hope you can help clarifying,is Grenadier affect RF Bombardment? I always thoughtit only affect the "Grenade" skill..

What does it affect? Can you provide a list so I can explorer more possibility.

Thanks.

Grenadier does indeed improve Rapid Fire Bombardment. It will improve any skill that describes the damage as a grenade in the tooltip, much in the same way Ballistics will improve any skill that uses Rockets.

In fact, Rapid Fire (Fire Support) with the Ballistics passive is also very viable but works best on single targets (Bosses / Ubers).

I'll try to post a complete list when I get home a little later today.

Thanks for all of the feedback!

I can confirm "grenadier" passive does now improve RF bombardment. I just tested myself using a lvl 3 crossbow on one of the barfing slime walls in the cave of the betrayer.

The radius of grenades and the damage were increased as listed in the passive with RF - bombardment.

I also tested this with strafe - demolition, and although i could not verify the radius boost (since they automatically shot directly at the slime wall), I can verify the 10% damage boost works for that too.

And i also checked with cluster arrow. It does not affect the initial "cluster arrow" but the grenades that blow up afterward are boosted by the passive.

So yay for this passive actually being useful now!

For reference here are two screenshots of RF - Bombardment to show off the radius boost: First photo is WITHOUT grenadier passive, Second photo is WITH grenadier passive. Both were taken standing in the same spot and aiming at the same area. As you can see no numbers on the first, but numbers on second... Cool.

Couldn't that model just be from the Legendary item that the one Blizzard employee was talking about earlier?

"There will also be some items that exist just because they are cool. For example The Cow King's Halberd is one that I made just because I wanted to make something that captured a really cool element from D2. It deal's lightning damage (and yes elemental damage types have effects associated with them now) because it's a nod to the Cow King himself and also has a chance to summon a herd of murderous cows to fight with you. That effect isn't really changing any gameplay... but cmon it's just awesome!"

Jay Wilson: In the end, it was a mortal heart that saved two worlds from ruin and casted down AH forever. A new day breaks for both Blizzard and fans. For mankind's greatest champion, Josh rose to confront the darkness that we in our pride would not face. My brethen, I will take my place amongst you once again but this time not as lead designer. Since justice has been met this day I will now stand as one of Titan's developer. on behave of those who risked all to save us, forevermore, we shall stand together Blizzard and fans in the light of this glorious new dawn.