Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

[road doggy dogg]

Nice. Still have yet to find TNTs on my Doctor, but I've never played a traditional pet build that required them so it hasn't been a huge deal for me.

Currently wearing like 3 diff sets, feel like a mutt

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

It seems like the drop rate for the RORG is higher now as I have now done 20 act 1 bounties and have yet to get one to come out the cache for my season DH since the one on my season Barb isn't that bad, just with the strength was higher as it's pretty low.

[road doggy dogg]

I annoyingly got a lvl 29 RORG on a guy I was dicking around with, made me so mad. (I had a lvl 70 ancient wep with -37 lvl requirement so wanted to try it for the lulz) Still have only had one drop on my main guy, thankfully the rolls have been good

[road doggy dogg]

Thinking of dropping my Enforcer gem and picking up Pain Enhancer. Enforcer seems to scale really poorly, and the lvl 25 PE bonus (3% IAS per bleeding target) seems pretty hot. Dunno. Have to test this ish out

[road doggy dogg]

Finally got me an SMK last night :love:


...DoD better for dart build though...

Tried using the SMK, and while 100% uptime on FA (without zuni) and BBV is nice, the killing still feels way slower because you're only really hitting a single target at a time. Rift Guardian times are faster but everything else dies so much slower, including elite packs which in turn are much more dangerous now because they're up for so much longer.


May use the SMK and the Mask of Jeram I've gotten and make another WD, traditional pet build though. Then I still have my full Jade set too I wanna use. And I wanna try my hand at a Tiki doc. Gonna just have like 8 Witch Doctors of diff builds

[drave]

I am at a point of trade off with mine. With Carnevil + SMK and the uptime of FA + BBV, single targets melt faster than a group AOE would be. Only real problem comes with Avengers if they have other affixes that make life difficult.

Honestly, need to attain a better understanding of WD. I have logged the least amount of hours on that char.

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

Witch Doctor is easily your favourite class then I take it lol.

[road doggy dogg]

Try using the SMK with a traditional pet build. Instead of Carnevil go with a Mask of Jeram and Tasker and Theo gloves, take Physical dmg instead of Poison, just stand back and let your minions do the slaying \m/ for you

I prefer the Carnevil playstyle more though... but Dagger of Darts is pretty much required to play with it IMO at higher GRfits

[road doggy dogg]

Oh yeah. I have a Barb that I dick around with and a Wizard I levelled up but can't stand, WD 4 lyf

[drave]

Wizard seems reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally boring regardless of what build I use.

[road doggy dogg]

Guy sounds mad cocky/arrogant but has no reason to be. Total superiority complex. "IF THEY COULD SEE ME NOW!!!!!!!!" any time you kill 6 monsters.

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

I think that Wizards are sorta crap, I'm mean I liked it when I first played one but to me without the Firebird set they can't really deal enough damage solo. My dads WD has Tasker and Theo and Mask Of Jeram, makes life easier in group play, but you're right about Dagger Of Darts being necessary for a Carnevil build. I think for the next season I'll either be a Monk or Demon Hunter, DH with the 6 piece bonus of Marauder is pretty strong and with Kridershot(legendary bonus of Elemental Arrow generating hated instead of costing it) and the Bombardier's Rucksack(allows 2 extra sentries) that just makes it more powerful.

[road doggy dogg]

Oh yeah, SMK build definitely more group-friendly. My buddy plays a Tikidoc which is kind of the modified zPDS build which is incredible for groups. Everything is locked down and everyone can just nuke frozen bad guys. It's great.

I'm excited for season 2. I wanna get that leveling gem and basically get a 70 of everything within a week haha

[drave]

My monk is pretty fun. I have the head piece that causes Wave of Light to be cast on the opponent. I use the rune that causes WoL to be a pillar and drop pillars on faces all day. Pretty fun but simple. Still have my oh shit buttons for elites that just won't quit. Still havent replaced my level 60 bonesabre on that char.

[road doggy dogg]

Oh yeah Monk defs looks fun. Never tried it out but holy hellballs you can zip through shit so fast on one.

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

Yeah, my uncles monk has 3 full set bonus', Aughild's, Blackthorne's, and Sunwuko's as well as a very good Flying Dragon making him a beast in uber battles. He used to be in the top 500 on the Monk leaderboard too.

[Heisenberg]

are you guys doing Season only or just staying on your grind with regular toons?

[road doggy dogg]

I'm hitting season 2 with righteous fury, though right now I've just been playing regular

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

I've been doing season since it started, went back to my regulars to get their paragon to 300 while I worked at getting my season paragon up as much as I could.

[road doggy dogg]

I'm pretty much stuck at GR36 right now. Don't really feel like changing my build around to get a couple levels higher. May need to get an ancient weapon or change a gem around or something

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

Not really much of a point now anyway with the season being just about over. The only thing I really hate has to do with my luck in the RNG, I got a pretty good Furnace at paragon 250(my only one to drop at that, while in a game with my dad who was the one to actually get the drop) and my SHIT luck as I've never even seen The Witching Hour, blew 1500 blood shards on only belts and haven't gotten it, only get yellows, blues and Vigilant/Sebor's and a few other legendary belts but always those same ones.

[road doggy dogg]

I've got a really good WH, not perfect but damn near close for my needs:

41% CHD
5% IAS
15% life
468 int (was my reroll)


Ideally I'd like to have +skill% instead of 15% life but I suppose I can't go full glass cannon... the CHD is near perfect, would've liked a 7% IAS but whaddaya gonna do

[road doggy dogg]

Also took off my Ice Climbers and Tasker and Theo gloves... was hoping the defensive boost of the IC would be worth losing a bit of offensive stats (the Taskers don't help dart build much at all), but having my attacks dip below 2.5/second made me feel really slow. Went back to Cain's set. Such a simple easily craftable set that is very strong.

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

I used Cain's a lot myself for awhile, for lower levels or new 70s it's really good until you get better gear.

[road doggy dogg]

Hit paragon level 400 tonight. Cool. Can completely fill two stats per category now.

Still getting super frustrated at trying to get higher greater rift levels. 36 appears to be my cap. May try out Jade again once my season WD is in the normal pool of heroes (hate swapping gear/skills constantly on one char), but I don't know. May try out a Tiki build as well, my buddy just finished a 38 using his.

Might just say eff it and try my Barb out. Or just stop playing since this game is making me rage more than give me enjoyment lately. Bad sign.

[drave]

You should try a new character that is completely opposite of your WD. I would suggest your Barb. Gear him up a bit and enjoy happy smashings of faceholes.

[road doggy dogg]

Maybe. Might just take a break from the game since it is making me want to break lots of expensive electronics around me when I play it seems.

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

Yeah, when I get like that I take a few weeks off before coming back.

[The Rogerer]

I can't imagine ever getting annoyed at Diablo. I've thrown a few controllers in my time.

[road doggy dogg]

Mostly just as a result of trying to push the higher-end stuff. It gets maddening when every affix on elite packs one-shots you, and you die to things that you fully expected to not be hit by. It's like new-age Contra shit.

[drave]

Yea.... the one shotting can be a bit ridiculous. How are you even supposed to combat that?

Blizz reply: "Use more defensive stuff"

Player: "But then I cannot do enough DPS to actually take them down before the GR timer expires"

Blizz: "Working as intended"


/D3

[road doggy dogg]

A lot of it is avoidable, which makes the frustration element on the player much higher because you think, "Well shit, if I just dodged that Thunderstorm I'd have been fine, RAAAAAAAAAAAAHFDSLG" etc.

The approach I've taken is to make my Enchantress as much a CC-bot as possible. Have all her CC abilities used, as well as an Azurewrath (~25% chance to freeze on hit) with damage rerolled to Lightning; Wyrdward ring and Dovu amulet (lightning damage stuns + increased stun duration), and IAS/CDR rolls on every slot possible. Oculus Ring with double-IAS roll for 15%IAS. She's basically a machine-gun crowd control fiend. Have the "cannot die" relic on her, though I opted out of using the double Unity because it feels like bad habit-forming move than anything (after a certain level it cannot save you from being one-shot)

Works out remarkably well. Can really lock down lots of enemies while I also have my 35% stun per attack (and attacking at ~2.5x/second) that pierces. Not quite as good as a Tiki doc but I prefer the dart playstyle much more anyway

[road doggy dogg]

Anyone wanna level up some bros for season 2?

[road doggy dogg]

Season 2 starts Friday at 6:00 pm PST (9:00 pm EST)


Going back to my parents' over the long weekend next week (Canada) but will be leaving Sat morning, hoping to get a bunch of Diablo in Friday night...

[drave]

Mebbe with Windows 10 they will integrate cross platform like they have for Fable.

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

That would be sweet, indeed. I'm still having a little trouble deciding on which character to use, it's getting me a little frustrated.

[road doggy dogg]

Think I'm gonna try my hand at a Monk for s2, I've seen some dudes do some pretty intense speed runs with them

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

Then to help your melee, I'll use a range, probably DH.

[road doggy dogg]

monks are super fun

[drave]

https://38.media.tumblr.com/d75b1fc1705b4ea3f53ea56a80b192ce/tumblr_mnda0xLsdD1rsdj6zo4_500.gif

But tedious at times :)

[road doggy dogg]

I dunno, zipping around and clearing rifts in ~2:00 seems way less tedious than any WD build I've played, even if I love the class

[drave]

Very true. I have found a new love for a Fist of the Heavens Crusader. Need to give my Monk some love. Pre-RoS she was my most powerful. Still toting a level 60 Bonesaber :|

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

Are getting Paragon levels a bit faster for earlier levels now or is it just me? My gear is still pretty horrible as I have no luck on Kadala.

[drave]

It feels like it was changed, yes. Hell, even at higher levels it still seems faster. Think I am plvl 246, but tend to level every couple rifts.

[road doggy dogg]

I don't know, I think we're just so accustomed to the grind at the 400+ level that getting a level every run (or even more frequent) just feels super fast...

[JimmyMess]

am I the only one who thinks the game title would be better without the first "E" in reaper

[road doggy dogg]

Probably, yeah

[drave]

No probably to it.

[Blonde Moment]

Surprised, given the number of players we have, there is no community

[road doggy dogg]

I don't understand what a community in the game is. I largely just play with IRL friends and crap, only recently have I even begun to play public games (on account of utterly loathing 95% of online gamers everywhere)

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

Same here, I only played public games last season all of once, yesterday I did it again but not sure if I will again. I either play alone or with my dad and my uncle when he wants to try his luck at Ubers, and then there was you this past Sunday RDD.

[road doggy dogg]

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48337-first-look-patch-2-2-0

2.2 going on PTR "soon".. who knows when that will actually be but sounds awesome

[drave]

Glad they are still releasing new content for the game :)


Been playing this a lot lately. If anyone plays on Xbox One and wants to join, let me know and I'll send my GT.

[road doggy dogg]

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48343-ptr-patch-2-2-datamined

lots of cool stuff datamined from 2.2 PTR... too much to talk about

[drave]

Holy content Tyrael!

Cursed realms sound fun and like they will add interesting challenges.

Also like the revamping of the IK set. I felt it should be THEE barb set since it was supposed to be Bul Kathos's.

Other stuff too, but still reading through.

[road doggy dogg]

Even though I've been playing Monk pretty exclusively lately, I'm really excited about the minor WD changes. Upping the proc rate on Fetish Sycophants is gravy, and the new Zuni 6pc looks interesting. I've been running Wave of Mutilation instead of Piranhado lately (8s cooldown vs 16s) so that 100% dmg buff uptime should be relatively easy to maintain. Great for Dart Doc since we don't get the 100% buff from Mask of Jeram.

[drave]

I really want to like my Crusader.... just finding it difficult/boring. Only effective build for me ATM is stupid Hammers/Phalanx(Horses which hit hard as FOOK), Akarat's. The rest of the skills aren't really that important.

I want a viable shield bash//sweep attack rune. The Crusader is a fucking armored fortress, they should be all up in there smashing the shit outta shit like a Barb.

I don't research builds though, so I am sure there is one that is "decent", but it will be hard to top Phalanx damage.

[Blonde Moment]

Having problems with my Crusader atm. I'm kind of a retard when it comes to builds and I am at the point right now where T1 is a cakewalk but my sheet damage of 310k makes so tedious. Is it worth taking a 1000vit hit to my health to try and get a socket in my weapon or just keep on grinding?
Duck is her name
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Whiskeyjack-1843/hero/57898020

[road doggy dogg]

I don't really know anything about Crusaders (literally have 0 mins played on the class) so I don't know the ins and outs or anything, but generally for weapons you want as much damage affixes as possible. It looks like you've already used a reroll on the LPH so you couldn't roll the Vit off anyway.

Generally speaking, sockets do tend to be the highest damage increase on a weapon for rerolls. I'd recommend rolling the LPH off for a socket, until you find a http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/ramaladnis-gift (which adds a socket), in which case I would then reroll the innate socket for 10% damage (or 10% CDR, if that helps your build more) and then Gift it and bam off to the races

[road doggy dogg]

And I'd probably take out the Ruby from your helm for either a Diamond or an Amethyst (I see you're kinda low paragon level so I get wanting to grind a few up, just sayin')

[drave]

I use something similar to this.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/crusader#UeYPfQ!afgY!ZbbbYY

Phalanx does a shit ton of damage with this. Couple it with a 10 second law (thanks to long arm of the law) that reduces the cost to next to nothing, and you should be able to take down most elites and rift guardians quite easily. Not a HUGE fan of Hammers, but they seem to do the most damage for me at the moment. Shield Gaze is great for regenerating wrath in addition to a little CC. Rightneousness gives you a bigger wrath pool for the wrath hungry Phalanx if you forget or your law is on cooldown. Change a few passives//secondary to what works best for your playstyle. Primary damage dealer will be Phalanx in this build.

Not sure how the key layout works on PC, I play on Xbox One. Anyway, I'll load it up and get my exact build/gear. I can run T3 with little effort. Some of your gear needs upgrading, but that comes with time - especially being seasonal.

If you aren't having survival issues, definitely replace your gems with rubies and diamond/amethyst in your helm.

[drave]

Got a legendary fist for my monk last night that damn near doubles Exploding Palm damage. Changed my build to use exploding palm in addition to a wave of light that casts @ the enemy location. Things are very explody now and she does high 900k dps with nearly the same amount of life.

Still using that god damn bonesabre from level 60 :|

[Blonde Moment]

Most likely switch out the helm shortly just trying to build up a few more Marquis Rubies as I only have 8 atm and 60+ of the others asiode from diamonds which are kind low as well

[Sepholio]

lol bonesabre

[drave]

Here is the gear I am using

Weapon - Cinderswitch (2h legendary axe- blacksmith recipe). Socketed with Emerald

Gauntlets - Gauntlets of Akkhan

Shoulders- Pauldrons of Akkhan (2 piece bonus reduces resource cost 50% while Akarats is active)

Chest - Roland's Blessing - 3 rubies socketed

Helm - Roland's Visage - Amethyst socketed

Amulet - The Traveler's Pledge

Bracers - Reaper's Wraps (helps with wrath regen for Phalanx spam)

Shield - Ancient Legendary Ivory Tower socketed with Ruby

Rings - Royal Ring of Grandeur and Compass rose (socketed with legendary IAS gem)

Potion Mod - Bottomless Potion of the Tower

Boots - Ice Climbers (new ones, not pre-2.1 - gives immunity to freeze and immobilize effects)

Pants - Cuisses of Akkhan - 2 ruby sockets

Belt - Fleeting Strap

That brings my base stats to:

603k DPS
18.4 Million defense
1238k life

[road doggy dogg]

so annoying not being able to see profile, consoles #2

[Blonde Moment]

Hit the vault for the first time ever unfortunately I was on expert

[road doggy dogg]

don't matter, didja get your gem?

[Blonde Moment]

Yeah hit a Gen goblin so every second Gem was a ruby :/

Just have to bite the bullet and lose the LPH

[drave]

Lotsa legendary gifts dropped for you over the weekend Berg. Might wanna see if they are worthy of use. If not, SEND EM BACK JEW!

[road doggy dogg]

cracking down on "permanant invincibility" builds with CDR and stuff

Source (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16412042152?page=2#22)

(funny coincidence that the Blue quoted a poster named Heisenberg)

I see perma-serenity w/ Zodiac pushing Team ICE up a few notches.

It’s interesting that you mention permanent Serenity uptime.

The concept of permanent immunity has actually been on our radar since we introduced Cooldown Reduction in Reaper of Souls. Since then, we’ve seen many players who have been able to skirt the edges of permanent immunity using this affix. Frankly, we think that’s awesome, since we love it that players can customize their characters in different ways.

While it’s our goal for CDR to be a desirable affix, and while we’re okay with players greatly reducing the cooldown of their immunity skills, we also want to avoid a scenario where permanent immunity is possible. For instance, in patch 2.1.2, we put a cooldown on Smoke Screen to mitigate permanent immunity builds for the Demon Hunter so that you couldn’t chain this skill back-to-back.

Starting in the next PTR patch, we’ll be applying this philosophy to the following immunity skills.

Spirit Walk
Serenity
Smoke Screen
Laws of Hope – Stop Time

With this, the cooldowns on these skills will begin after their buff ends. To minimize negatively impacting the normal use case for these skills, we’re lowering the cooldown time to compensate – for example, Serenity is going from a 20 second cooldown that starts on activation, to a 16 second cooldown that starts when Serenity ends.

Previously, we may have decided against adding an item power to the game that might lead to permanent invulnerability. However, with these new changes, we’ll have much more freedom in designing new and powerful items, since there will be a stop gap to ensure that permanent invincibility is no longer a concern.

We wanted to let you all know about the above changes in advance, so that you’ll be prepared for them in the next PTR patch. I'll be eager to hear everyone's thoughts once these changes actually go into effect.

[road doggy dogg]

Will suck for Witch Doctor, especially Jade builds that rely on SW'ing in, harvesting, and getting the cooldown reduction from Grave Injustice to reduce SW cooldown... poopy

[drave]

Meh, just takes a more strategic approach. Hell, with new Ice Climbers + Countess Julia's ammy, you have NEAR invulnerability from the biggest threats most champs have anyway. As it stands, my barb cannot be rooted at all and gets healed by arcane beams.

The only imminently dangerous affix (that comes to mind) is thorns. Molten isn't a threat until it goes boom, and can be avoided with leap, sprint, WW, furious charge, etc.

[road doggy dogg]

I think the reason why perma- or near-perma-invincibility is popular is for 50+ GRs where everything basically one-shots you, regardless of attack type

[drave]

Yep. And in those cases, it comes down to bad game mechanics. I know they made a dev post about it a few weeks ago, but c'mon. The only way to stop player progress is by inflating stats so high it is impossible to survive..... cheap/lazy way out IMO.

[drave]

Hit a 391 kill streak on my barb this weekend. That was fun.

[road doggy dogg]

Had a "56 killed with one blow" massacre thing on my Monk when I started my EP build... chain reaction explosions are super duper satisfying

[drave]

Fuck yea, love EP and just recently discovered it. Totally have altaholism on DIII now :(

[road doggy dogg]

Just get a Gem of Ease and alts are a breeze

[drave]

I have one :)

Shitty that it has to be WEAPON only, but w/e. Still managed to level a new character to 70 across 3 RL days. Didn't count in-game time it took. Pretty effortless anymore. Think I wore Cain's set with a ruby till mid-late 50's.

Really not helping me get to work. Just wanna read/watch stuff and/or play games.

[road doggy dogg]

Level your gem to 25 and you will no longer be concerned that it takes a weapon socket ;)

[drave]

I'll level YOUR gem to 25!!!!


Seriously though. I think I am down to 52 regular rift fragments. I have just as many (if not more) grift stones though, because I hate timed things and the trial is dumb. If I half-ass it for MOAR levels, the loot is shit. If I give it my all, I get pwned by things. Feel like items only dropping from the guardian is dumb.

[road doggy dogg]

Honestly I mostly just do T6 runs. On my monk I can clear them consistently around 5 minutes or so, without really trying terribly hard. I only push GRifts when I want to upgrade gems now really.

Supposedly "GR35" is the sweetspot for maximimizing drops/XP and whatever, but I can't clear it fast enough to make it worthwhile. I'll stick to T6 until I get a Torch/Furnace.

[drave]

Despite having (what I think) is great gear, I still cannot pass T4 :( Maybe it is time I begin consulting online "builds" or whatever.

[drave]

Bleh, all the builds are based around perma builds via CDR%.....

Those will be fucking off soon.

[drave]

Pieced together a laptop from parts @ work and going to see how well it handles DIII Starter. If it works well, I may end up picking it up and/or wow or something, maybe.

[road doggy dogg]

fuck yeah

[Dark-Slicer Diago]

Made a Crusader to test the Gem of Ease rank 26, level 1 on T6 I leveled to 56 in less than 10 minutes. Can't do anymore than that since I only had gear after I decided to stop and running with only a weapon and shield isn't sufficient enough on T6, so I dropped to T2/3. Was still funny getting 6+ levels per kill.

[Sepholio]

Playing this in 3d is trippy. That is all.

[drave]

Frankenstein Laptop runs D3 decently (fuck yo grammar).

Have to use a cooling dock though, the 1 fan doesn't do the trick.

[road doggy dogg]

sweet... you buy D3 for PC yet?

[road doggy dogg]

Oh nevermind, misinterpreted that post

You got RoS?

Add my "battletag" or whatever... tonavin#1510

[drave]

Don't have it yet..... Going to mess around on starter a bit more to see how things hold up. The rate it heats up is pretty bad and I'd hate to buy it and have it poop on me a week later :(

[road doggy dogg]

New 2.2 PTR build: http://www.diablofans.com/news/48359-ptr-2-2-patch-3-new-set-changes


Liking the WD set bonus changes

[drave]

Best friend is letting me use his wife's account that she never uses. I'll add you and Berg to her acct for now.

Glad he did this, wanted to test it @ high level to see how it handles. :y:

[road doggy dogg]

'ell yeah

'bout to leave the office

[road doggy dogg]

I love how two of the bigger quality-of-life changes in 2.2 PTR ended up being bugs. Progress globes on elite packs and rifts instant-closing after speaking to Orek. Damn you, Blizzard.

[road doggy dogg]

Season 2 will end April 5th

Patch 2.2 will go live April 7th

Season 3 will begin April 10th

At least that is the tentative plan.


Pretty pumped for it. Lots of good stuff coming this patch. Sucks that Jade build is useless now with the Spirit Walk nerf but I've enjoyed the Dart build much more anyway.

Might try my hand at Hardcore for season 3. 50/50 on the idea

[drave]

Have not been motivated to play on PC :(

[Blonde Moment]

Season 2 will end April 5th

Patch 2.2 will go live April 7th

Season 3 will begin April 10th

At least that is the tentative plan.


Pretty pumped for it. Lots of good stuff coming this patch. Sucks that Jade build is useless now with the Spirit Walk nerf but I've enjoyed the Dart build much more anyway.

Might try my hand at Hardcore for season 3. 50/50 on the idea

Nothing mentioned on the forums yet

[road doggy dogg]

Yeah it was just a dev tweet responding kind of informally saying "If all goes to plan, those will be the days"

nothing set in stone

[drave]

Big Head Mode. Mid-week patch

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[road doggy dogg]

lol, April Fool's gag?

[drave]

Totes legit addition, voted on by "the community".

[drave]

If they wanted to do April Fool's right, they would bring back the RMAH for a day :D

[road doggy dogg]

season 3 starting in about 6 hours... 'ell yeah

[road doggy dogg]

2.3 patch sounds like it's adding some really cool stuff. A new item called Kanai's Cube is being added... very similar to Horadric Cube from D2. From the sounds of it, you can basically extract legendary affixes from items and use them as passives? Or something. Idk. Sounds fucking sweet.

Getting rid of Rift Trials as well. And more Torment levels. Sweet.

[drave]

Yea, passive affixes are fucking sweet. Gonna boot this up on XBone again. When is the patch?

[drave]

Kanai's Cube is apparently found in the lost Tomb of King Kanai, one of the locations in the "frozen wasteland" of the Ruins of Sescheron, the upcoming new zone, which will also shine light on some "new mysteries from the lore of the mighty Barbarians." The Cube can break down Legendary items, enabling players to equip their special effects as passive skills (separate from their regular passives), converts crafting materials from one type to another, and does "so much more."
The update will also remove the Realm of Trials, a change that first came to light back in April (http://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-is-removing-rift-trials-from-diablo-3/), and improve Bounty rewards "by adding new Act-specific crafting mats to Horadric Caches." I have no idea what that means, but completing Bonus Acts in Adventure mode will now grant a bonus Horadric Cache with crafting materials, gold, and Act-specific crafting mats.
The new difficulty levels will let high-level players take the game all the way to Torment X, and there's also a new Season Journey feature that tracks individual player progress through Chapters and, for more advanced players, Tiers that unlock new portrait frame rewards and challenges. There are also new Legendary and Set items, and various changes to combat balance.
It's a big update by any measure, and while there's still no release date, Blizzard said its appearance on the Public Test Realm is "right around the corner." Get all the details at Battle.net (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19802338)

[road doggy dogg]

Patch will be going up on PTR soonish... probably won't be live for a couple months.

They did make it seem like PC and console would be getting it released very closely to each other

[drave]

First ^^

[road doggy dogg]

datamined 2.3 PTR notes

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48452-diablo-3-patch-2-3-ptr-datamined-class-changes-set


Hellfire finally getting a look at :D

[road doggy dogg]

Helltooth sounds like it could be a huuuuuuuuuuuge buff to dart build. Enemies affected by Necrosis (w/e the fuck that is) take 800% increased damage from primary skills. PEWPEW DARTS

that Cube still sounds mad interesting

can't wait for this PTR

was playing a bit last night on my HC seasonal... fun but meh, need new stuffs

[road doggy dogg]

2.3 PTR notes now live.

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48457-2-3-0-ptr-patch-notes-are-live

Looks really encouraging. Will dabble next season for sure.

[drave]

Been playing (console tho) for the past couple days when I get a few moments of down time. Feels good to play again. Haven't seen any of the new shit since 2.whatever was before 2.3, so I have some new shit to find I guess.

[road doggy dogg]

They're overhauling the whole rifts thing this patch which is great because fuck trials

[drave]

Indeed. The patch looks very inviting. Think I will take a break from Witcher III (still not complete) and give D III a spin again. It is good for "quick bursts" of play.


In other news, been having fun with HoTS still. Hard to say when I can play with you and Ruien again though, as I have to AFK at a moment's notice.

[drave]

And AFK = 4v5

4v5 = 4+5 = 9

3 characters in "AFK"

9/3 = 3

HL3 CONFIRMED

[road doggy dogg]

I haven't even been on my computer since like Wednesday. IRL shit taking up my time. We'll get our shit going when it gets going

[Blonde Moment]

Can't seem to get back into it.
Maybe next season

[road doggy dogg]

hate when this shit happens... just missed the timer

http://i.imgur.com/tfPiVrd.jpg

[drave]

Damn.


I built up my crusader and can now solo T6. Shield Bash build and I crit for about 140 million. Ridiculous.

[road doggy dogg]

Really wanted to try out the PTR but basically need to re-download the full game (~25gb) so it's really not worth it. Curious how difficult T7-10 are

[drave]

Cleared grift 31 on T6 yesterday. A few seconds short of the timer but that is my record for any character ever.

[road doggy dogg]

Patch 2.3 dropping tomorrow. Season 4 starting Friday I believe.

Unfortunately I have a D&D football draft and a bachelor party this weekend, fucking real life sucks dickhole, but going to be hitting season 4 hard whence I return. Might go Wizard or Crusader this season, haven't truly played either class properly yet.

[Heisenberg]

if I were to get back into the swing of things(haven't played since S1 or S2) would the gear drops be sweet to me or is it the same piss?

[road doggy dogg]

Lots of new shit coming out this patch. Have you played since they introduced Ancient Legendaries? Not sure which patch/season that came out during. But basically they are Legendaries that have a chance to roll as Ancient, with 30% more stats. Pretty beefy.

This patch alone comes with an item very similar to the Horadric Cube (D-D-D-D-D-DECKARD CAIN) from D2, and with that you can take the legendary power from any item and add it to another. You can have one weapon, armor, and jewelry power added to your gear, which can really make some massive build improvements. Super exciting stuff

[Sepholio]

Welp time to get sucked back in. Great.

At least it will give me something to do every week when I hit cap in Skyforge.

[drave]

Console online is pretty ruined. Anyone above T3 hacks, assuming because they cannot actually play without getting stomped.

Even adding "randoms" from online forums fails, as they seem to disappear.

[road doggy dogg]

2.4 PTR notes up

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48577-patch-2-4-available-on-ptr-patch-2-4-preliminary

I'm really bummed that Fallout 4 is going to be consuming my entire gaming life for the next little while... D3 has been incredible lately. This season has been a blast so far, and next season looks like it'll be great too. Empowered rifts!

[road doggy dogg]

The new Legacy of Nightmares reworked set looks great. The two rings that give a big damage boost when they're the only set you have on.

Currently, as good/fun as all sets are, each class is kind of limited to 2 or 3 endgame builds, but this will give them a ton of flexibility now.. looks good

[drave]

The work they have done on this game since launch is impressive as hell. Like you said, it does feel that endgame viable builds are slowly increasing in variance. Always have more fun doing "offkey" build or whatever.

Wife has been asking to play this with me lately, might have to re-install it and fire it up. OR MAYBE SHE CAN PLAY DONG III : REAPER OF VAG while I play. Yea, sounds good.

[road doggy dogg]

(_)_)IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID~~~~~~~~~~~ demonic cum ~~~~~~~~~~~

[road doggy dogg]

I do enjoy playing alternative builds as well. Just following cookie-cutter builds gets kind of boring... if I'm trying to push higher Greater Rifts though then I'll definitely use the flavor-of-the-month stuff, but otherwise for just general Rifting etc I like to mix it up

[road doggy dogg]

Bounties

The number of act specific crafting materials contained in Horadric and bonus caches has been increased from 4 to 5 on Torment X


sweet

[road doggy dogg]

lol the new LoN rings are so not going to go live as implemented

People are doing GR90 with relative ease right now

[road doggy dogg]

LoN nerfed to 100% per ancient rather than 800. Much-needed change.

[road doggy dogg]

2.4 live today

gotta find out what build I wanna play this season... might go new Carnevil with LoN

[drave]

Holy Ballsacks there is a TON of shit in this patch. Pretty stoked to play this weekend.

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[drave]

Condensed from Reddit b/c Battle.net is blocked here.....


Patch 2.4 (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19998542) — January 2016



New: Greyhollow Island (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19987607/patch-240-preview-greyhollow-island-12-11-2015). Expanded: The Eternal Woods and Royal Quarters
Revamped Set Items (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19993875/). New Legendaries (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19993875/)
Set Dungeons. Empowered Rifts. Action Combat. Season Rebirth
Revised Buff User Interface. More Stash Space

[drave]

Damn.... if you buy the digital or collectors edition of WoW Legion you get Illidan wings/horns for D III :(

[road doggy dogg]

Stupid friends want to go out drinking this weekend. Don't they understand that Diablo III season 5 starts Friday?!

[drave]

And there is a ton to do too. I will be fighting between this and Fallout 4 this weekend.

The end of the day today starts my weekend. Taking my wife out tonight and then relaxing for a few days. WOOOO!!!!

[road doggy dogg]

Curious how the "rebirth" thing will work for seasons. I will try to use it with one of my guys this weekend. Also having OCD about cubing every possible power I can. Now that more crafting mats drop in Torment X I will do some bounties and try to get everything I can cubed in an effort to clear out my stash. Such a damn hoarder

[drave]

Hoarders Season X: Digital Edition


On this episode of Hoarders, we look into the life of Tony Canada, the #1 Digital Hoarder of Canuckers.

[road doggy dogg]

:wavesad:

so many shitty ancient weapons that I will never use. Feels "wasteful" to just salvage them though, on principle

[drave]

I salvage the shit outta everything that is useless. I have over 3k of each material required for ripping legendary powers, with the exception of the act-specific mats you get from bounties. Makes the entire process soooooooooooooooo much easier.

In short, I played way too much for way too long.

[road doggy dogg]

I think I just need to salvage everything. The worry always is though, "What if I'm trying out a new build and [item X] is crucial to that and I need to refarm it!?"

but now with the cube recipes it's relatively easy to target a specific legendary you want and attain it with little issue

Certain "super-rare" items I'm tempted to keep around though... i.e. an ancient Furnace etc (even though I have the power cubed...)

i don't know

need to take stock of my whole damn life

[Poit]

Hey RDD, we're playing at Andrew's place this Sunday. Would you perhaps be around to join us online?

[road doggy dogg]

I will be!

[road doggy dogg]

Are you starting new season characters? I'll hold off until then if that is the case.

[Poit]

Yeah, we're starting new season characters. Though Alex may not be around until later. He's getting back from Thailand that day.

[road doggy dogg]

he gonna be bangin' cocks?

[Poit]

I'm not one to judge for that.

[road doggy dogg]

Kind of wishing I kept all my Legacy of Nightmare rings, of which I've salvaged dozens. Gotta refarm them now. Ugh. At least it gives me a chance to get a few more ancients to bolster the other gear slots until I get them again.

[road doggy dogg]

Hm. So I got some cheap shitty LoN rings and changed my build around. Horribly unoptimized gear, missing an ancient or two etc etc. Still managed to blow away my previous GRift high, cleared a 61 with relative ease. With a couple tweaks should be able to hit 70+ easily by the weekend

[Heisenberg]

I wish I had time to balance gaming and being a father, I have too many games and keep bouncing around. Glad to see this game still getting a push with people here

[Sepholio]

You guys are making me want to play Diablo. Like really badly.

[road doggy dogg]

Diablo is a great series for being able to totally neglect the game for months at a time and picking it up for a binge now and then. Very little commitment involved.

[road doggy dogg]

That being said, I am going to binge the shit out of this new season. I may try and crack a leaderboard this go around

[Poit]

Hey RDD - it looks like we're starting characters independently, and just playing together Sunday. So go nuts. Maybe you can powerlevel us. :p

[road doggy dogg]

Coolbeans. I've just been playing nonseason for now (season doesn't start til tomorrow)... I've already got an idea what my build will be so it shouldn't take me too long to get rocking and/or rolling

[road doggy dogg]

Patch is fun. No-lifed it all weekend and already at like paragon 230 for the season. Disgusted with myself.

[drave]

Does Paragon reset @ season start? If so, that is fucking sick man.

[road doggy dogg]

Yeah season is a "fresh start", you basically act as if it's a fresh account for all intents and purposes; no stash, no gold, no paragon, nada.

At the end of the season, all of your progress is baked into your 'main' account.

[road doggy dogg]

So basically, yeah, pretty bad.

Granted, 2.4 introduced a free 6-piece set for meeting certain milestones. i.e. once you hit 70 you get two pieces, then another 2 for doing something else etc... the free set makes it very easy to quickly farm Torment VI or so rifts in decent time. So what I've been doing all weekend was watching NFL playoffs while mindlessly doing some rifts. Figure you get about 3-4 paragon levels a pop @ about 5-8 minutes per rift, makes a bit more sense. Still pretty awful though. But I went out socializing Friday night so suck it @ everyone

[Sepholio]

Deez nuts went out socializing Friday night.

[road doggy dogg]

5-PIN BOWLING Y'ALL

Anyway I changed my build and can do 60+ GR pretty easily. For a change of pace I can run the ANGRY CHICKEN build and do T10 rifts in under 2:00 which is nice for farming mats

[drave]

Makes me think of:

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[Poit]

5-PIN BOWLING Y'ALL

Anyway I changed my build and can do 60+ GR pretty easily. For a change of pace I can run the ANGRY CHICKEN build and do T10 rifts in under 2:00 which is nice for farming mats

Insanity.

[drave]

(✿ =‿‿=) Im a crusader and I go on crusades and when I get thirsty I drink crusaderade GO (✿ =‿‿=)

[Heisenberg]

Got my seasonal Crusader to lvl62 last night from 38. Rifting hard, rifting well, rift. I enjoy the game cranked up on high

[Heisenberg]

I'm on the last leg of Season 5 achievements needed to get the bonus gear/pet/stuff. Going to need help with Step IV of the process. There is one objective that requires I step foot into Torment IV.

[road doggy dogg]

Are you on PC or still on console? I can probably give you a hand with some stuff

[Heisenberg]

PC baby, back in the groove baby, Z Kulle...slashing him up baby, your toons, enemies baby

[road doggy dogg]

cool (kulle)... he's a pussy

when is season even over... my guy has been gaining cobwebs

[Poit]

I think the season ends April 15.

[Heisenberg]

crap, I need to get that poop finished to get that set then

[Heisenberg]

Got my Wizard going on the paragon grind. I have been straight solo so I could pause anytime I wanted, but I do miss tearing it up with 3 other champions in the public games

[Heisenberg]

Archon is a savior and a good way for me to destroy Elites pretty quick. I leveled mostly in Torment 1 and went to normal whenever my gear didn't suffice

[road doggy dogg]

Supposedly this season's meta is still boring as fuck same as last season. 1 DPS wizard and 3 0dps supports. Fucking lame.

Pushing around GR50 right now, still have a shitty non-ancient weapon though so we'll see how much I try to get that up

[Heisenberg]

I don't get the ancient weapon stuff one bit, going to read up on it. I'm just trying to grind paragon so it'll carry into my normal guys

[road doggy dogg]

All lvl 70 legendaries have a chance to roll as "ancient". You can tell if it's ancient because the item tooltip will have a gold border. Also in the chat:

[Heisenberg] looted: [Stone of Jordan]

[Heisenberg] looted: {Stone of Jordan}

the { } will be if it's ancient..


Anyway ancient armor items have 30% more base stats (Int/Str/Agi). For some items that is pretty useful (helms for example can roll 1000 mainstat max instead of 750) but for some it's pretty meh

Weapons though can roll 30% more damage values though which is much nicer. ~3k DPS 1h weapons vs 2k is a huge jump

[Heisenberg]

Oh, I thought it had something to do with the cube stuff. Now I have a mission to get some ancient piss

[road doggy dogg]

Yeah they're basically just incremental upgrades to further progress your gear.

Basically, if you took your entire gear set (all 14 or w/e slots), and each piece was made ancient with all other factors considered equal, you should theoretically have a 30% DPS increase

[Heisenberg]

I'm rocking 524K DPS at the moment. I'm a glass cannon and working on completing my set that you get from the achieves. Probably going to call upon Champions to help beat Zoltun Kulle on Torment IV difficulty. I have to complete a GR20 before the set completes. I like the full set bonus a lot

[Blonde Moment]

Doing some simople t6 Naplaem runs for the next few hours hunt me down if you want in

[Heisenberg]

what's your damage at for that level of Torment?

[Heisenberg]

Made over 1 billion gold yesterday, farming those Puzzle Rings that open The Vault. Straight up over 200 paragon as well. It was a good weekend and I was with a Demon Hunter who one shots Torment X mobs and sometimes bosses.

[Blonde Moment]

Not quite enough to Powerlevel 2 at a time other than that I wiggle though t8

[Heisenberg]

Have you experienced The Vault in all it's glory?

[Blonde Moment]

Many times but only twice this season. I may break my fucking screen if i hot whimsyshire one more time

[Heisenberg]

My friend and I are farming Puzzle Rings so we can stock up on gold 4 life. We did too many this weekend.

I got my Barbarian to 69 last night, I don't really know if I'll have to redo the Seasonal achieves to get the 6 piece set for it or not.

[Poit]

Is there something in particular you can do to farm Puzzle Rings?

[Heisenberg]

Roll a yellow ring in the Cube and hope for a Puzzle Ring

[Heisenberg]

Upgrade Rare Item
This recipe allows a player to turn any level 70 Rare item into a random legendary or set item of the same type. Items purchased from vendors or gambled can be used, as well as found from drops. Best used on items that are expensive to gamble, like Amulets, or to hunt for specific legendary weapons, such as two-handed maces to attempt to create The Furnace.
Hope of Cain
1 Rare item (level 70)
25 Death's Breath
50 Reusable Parts (white material)
50 Arcane Dust (blue material)
50 Veiled Crystal (yellow material)
"When the physical material of the cube was forged, the real work began. Ten Horadrim took it deep into the cave, to a place that should never have been disturbed."
--fragment of the Dark Exile Scrolls.
- See more at: http://www.diablowiki.net/Kanai%E2%80%99s_Cube#sthash.QXuO2Y9N.dpuf

[Heisenberg]

so we got a bunch of yellow rings and used all our mats to get a few Puzzle Rings.

[Heisenberg]

Is there something in particular you can do to farm Puzzle Rings?



If you're ever on and we get a ring we'll definitely take you along! It's like a free 110 million gold each time, not counting all the gems you can stash and Legends/Sets falling from the sky on Torment X.


We have to bump the Torment down to IX for the boss tho,,,,,sad face

[Blonde Moment]

If you're ever on and we get a ring we'll definitely take you along! It's like a free 110 million gold each time, not counting all the gems you can stash and Legends/Sets falling from the sky on Torment X.


We have to bump the Torment down to IX for the boss tho,,,,,sad face

Suck it up buttercup

[Heisenberg]

I get one shotted by the falling chests, I'm not a tank by any means and my teleport is always on CD

[Poit]

Oh, I know about the cube. I was just wondering if you were doing something like farming a specific act in campaign mode or something.

And, I may be able to solo Greed on TX, even with a 3-4 player adjustment.

[Heisenberg]

Got a Puzzle Ring last night, but now I won't get to play til late cause of life and shit

[drave]

Think I have clocked 2 hours on Far Harbor since release due to life

[Heisenberg]

Got my Demon Hunter running Torment X. He wasn't the FIRST GUY to get the 6 piece in the bags, he wasn't the LAST GUY to be leveled, he is the GUY.


Anyways, I am pretty much one shotting elites all over the place with my set bonus boosting my Impale. It's a melee build with Bolos to keep my hatred up.