The FO changes aren't that big of a deal. The skill still works as it did before, just a smaller radius and lower chill effect. I'm totally fine with that.Quote from Crumplezone
15 % damage reduction on all sources on crusader? Oh thank you god.
30% would have been nice, but I see the 15% reduction as a middle ground by blizzard especially considering Crusaders are not fully geared out yet, this is excellent and I hope this means I stop getting my health annihilated by magic attacks so badly from magic orientated groups in t2 and above.
Oh and the tears to come from all the FOTM frozen orb wizards, I just can't wait to see, mm, delicious.
Also really sensible changes to crafting mats especially on rares, it means its going to be more feasible to craft yellow upgrades with not requiring death's breaths and no more FLAWESS GEMS in crafting recipes! My god thats quality of life change or what.
I do think that the big wins for the day are:
1. Increased Crusader toughness.
2. Increased Crusader dps
3. Crafting quality of life improvements.
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First off, your #1 yes. Please, stop that from happening. Or let us spawn pets outside the rift and carry them in.
Second, this actually brings up a bigger issue of pet management. In WoW, I could command my pet to go where I wanted it to go, attack a specific target, etc. I think that needs to be implemented and I have a really easy way to do it. Instead of respawning the pet when you press the skill, have it go to where you mouse is pointed or attack a highlighted enemy. The pet can attack by default but it will take your command over it's AI. There could be a shift+button feature to recast the pet if it gets stuck in the map. I think it would really help those who focus on pet builds and want to max out their strategy.
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Playing diablo with that system is like trying to kill a fly with a nuclear bomb. It sounds like you need to upgrade.
As long as your power supply has 40+A on the 12v rails, then you'll be fine on that end. Hell, you could probably run 2-3 card SLI on that thing. CPU temp is fine, watercooled gpu should be fine two unless it's leaked and it's out of coolant. Network sounds fine. Driver didn't affect performance and resources look fine...
Only two things I can think of are: 1) bios needs to be updated. 2)the D3 client is doing something weird with your hardware. It was recently updated with patches, so that could be cascading down. Other than that, I'm not sure. You could try throwing in another card to see if it is that in-case it is a hidden issue with the gpu.
In terms of getting a new system, that is up to you but I might wait for a little while. I compared your cpu to the one I got and it's on par. http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-5820K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6500. The only reason I got my skylake was because my other computer was having hardware issues and my wife told me to upgrade the system because some components were going on 7 years old. It's a nice chipset, but I don't see much performance difference on the day-to-day stuff from my old 955 black edition. Crunching files and encoding is faster but gaming (for D3 at least) is even. If you wait for the skylake architecture to mature a little, then you might get more benefit from it in the long-run. It's your money though, so do what you want.
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Forgot to add, a thing that makes Diablo a little different that most other modern games is that it isn't very GPU intensive. The processor has to push a lot of calculations through the client, so it could be a processor issue. It might not be a speed thing, but the way the chipset is prioritizing threads to/from the processor.
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So, there could be a good number of things. If I'm casting a wide-net, then that is why.
1. Did you recently update your drivers on the card? If so, have you tried to roll them back to see if it the issue? If not, are you patched to the latest version?
2. Have you checked to see if there are any processes from other applications that may be causing the problem? I noticed that my new computer was having moments where it tanked (and sometimes forced my mouse to click off the window). I found out that it was a process in my AV software that was running a spot check for software updates. I rescheduled that process and my problem went away.
3. Is it network lag and it just looks like an fps drop because of the way the client is reacting to the lag?
4. Is your card in SLI?
5. Do you have enough power going to the card? Do you have enough AMPs on the 12v rail for the card? I've seen cards meter themselves down when they are getting to the safety threshold on power supplies.
6. How hot is your card getting during peak load? Similar to the power issue above, a system can meter itself down to ensure that it doesn't overheat.
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As a mainly NS player, I like to level fast in season to get stash tab. Grab tab fast, do back to NS. That was great for me.
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This might be weird to say, but (other than adding a new game mode or two) I'm fine with the current state of the game. There is so much for me to do still (only play a couple hours a night) that I will never get to do it all. The only ask I have is that they continue to do things to progress the story and lore.
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