Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
 

When's the 360 version due?

The 360 hasn't been announced as of yet, but the PS4 and Xbox One are confirmed to have it released in the near future

Loved playing the Hardcore mode, where you die once and it's over, but my game froze in Hell difficulty and my character died.

There's a folder in your computer that displays all screenshots from your HC character's demise

@ Heisenberg. Just noticed your message, I'll add you when I'm back on later.

On constantly trying to find a damn Thunderfury and/or Fulminator for my barbarian. I'm over 500k base dps without a good weapon yet.

What difficulty are you running?

Sometimes, not very often, but sometimes if you contact Blizz over a HC character dying due to freezing/large lag spikes, they will rollback your account to pre-death. I've seen it happen a few times.

They actually had a pretty large occurrence of it a couple months ago, if I recall. They gave a bunch of people their characters back.

I'm grinding for Thunderfury too, I'm switching back and forth with my Barb and Crusader, both at 70 to kind of stay fresh and they trade STR gear.

I am not home to pass on my current DMG, but it has increased after a great weapon drop(Rare, but it'll do with the socket for Crit DMG) so I'm comfortably doing Expert for speed runs, and Torment 1 when doing Public/challenging solo play.

I don't discriminate against the Normal side of things, it's fun, but my Crusader doesn't generate Wrath that good when he one shots demons.

Here's a list on what I look for when I choose to grind stuff.

http://i.imgur.com/i2qRKoA.png

Just a little caveat, they bumped up the chances of getting legendary craft item drops to the same % of Death's Breath, these mats drop off certain elite spawns, so don't expect them to be dropping like rain. They'll drop more often when you find the certain elite spawn.

I thought I was getting more Death's Breath the higher the difficulty. I've just been running normal adventure mode with my barb for the caches then opening them in torment since they're still currently bugged in that if you open them in torment(regardless of which difficulty you earn them in) they'll still have a chance to pop Imperial Gems. My Barb does over 500k unbuffed, then with Battle Shout it jumps to over 630k, not to mention I have 50%(47% unbuffed) crit chance and just shy of 400% crit dmg.

I'm going to try the cache bug definitely. I barely played this weekend, with WM and GoT all up in the way and stuff I did get some levels on my HC Crusader, SerPowerslam.

He is a descendent of the mighty SerChokeslam. They were forged of the same Nephalem prototype. He only has one life and he intends to live it out until he gets jailed and poisoned to death in a tomb somewhere.

Haven't picked up RoS yet but fully planning on it. I've been hearing overwhelmingly positive reviews of it, things like how this is the game D3 should have been, etc. Only sticking point with most people is the price tag ("$40 for a fix?"). May get it on payday next week.

I hopped onto D3 the other night to play the patched vanilla game and was having a blast on my Witch Doctor. I'm noticing already the incredibly increased drop rate of useful items, due to the elimination of the AH. Good change. Tell me, how amazing is Adventure Mode? That alone makes me want to get RoS.

Adventure Mode is a main event option my man, the ONLY downside is you have to complete the story mode to unlock it, but only once and then the other heroes can just straight level Adventure Mode.

road doggy dogg, I will powerlevel you myself if you would so honor me with your battletag when you get up my man.

Hell, I'll power level anyone that is on when I'm on.

I like to help ppl get caught up and enjoy the content, please don't hesistate to ask if I'm online and you need that PUSH

I've already beaten the game on my WD; don't remember if I beat BIG D(ale Newstead) on Inferno or not though. I think farthest I got was that cockblock Belial on Inferno. I donut no. Regardless, I doubt I'll need powerlevelling on him, I always like to experience the ish firsthand on my first go through of any new content.

I forget my BattleTag, I'll look it up when I get off work today. I know my name is tonavin, I think my # is 1510 off the top of my head

You'll need to complete the new Act before experiencing Ad mode. I'll honor your first run through, and I'll be more than willing to help if you need it. You shouldn't have to suffer Public games

I have never done a single public game, I either do it all on my own, or with my dad in which we cheat adventure mode again by him taking two acts, me taking two acts, and doing the 5th one together for faster runs. Though sometimes my cousin and uncle have us do it with them for even faster runs.

I wish I had a tag team to help me clear out acts like that.......

I will tag team with you someday, now that baseball season has begun I can dedicate more time to gaming. During the cold winter months I watch a lot of scripted television, but with SPORTS on I can keep that going in the background while I hack and/or slash some daemons avec toi

I am the Nephalem Champion Sanctuary needs, the Champion they will get, and the Champion that will remain

Here's a quick Blizzard blue post about an upcoming hotfix
The Bad!
Unique monsters now drop less items.
*Uniques were dropping far more loot than their difficulty would warrant.

Chest spawns have been thinned out across all acts of the game.
*Ideally chests become less common and something that players can’t flip games to farm. It is our goal to make them feel exciting and rewarding when you find them.

The Good!
The bonus legendary drop rate for rifts is being increased from 25% to 100%!
*This means that while in a rift your chance to find a legendary item from monsters, chests, elites, and everything else is double what it is outside of rifts. No this does not mean opening bounty bags in rifts is the new hotness. ;P

Kadala’s legendary drop rate has been significantly increased.
*Blood Shards are meant to be a compelling element of rift rewards and something players are excited to get.

I have two stacks of rift tokens waiting to get used...good

I blew all my blood shards trying to feed Tyrael...bad

Chest spawns: I'm a little happy about that, it was never exciting splitting demons in half to walk over to a chest and collect a blue item.

Finally! Kadala stopped being a whore and delived unto me a damn near perfect, already socketed Fulminator. FTFUCKINGW.

That is all.

Added you earlier, should be Seph#1997.

K I'll add when I get home later, nice to hear about Kadala, what other stats you got on it?

Lucky you, Seph, I'm still getting crap from her.

Mine is Itkovian#1862

I added both of you, I was cranking out the last part of Act V on my Hardcore Crusader SerPowerslam. Now I have adventure mode unlocked so it is going to be more enjoyable leveling there.

If you guys need some help powerleveling your Crusader, let me know. I didn't get any powerlvl'ing help on mine, but I'm down to help if that is what you need.


I was on Act III two days ago and almost died to Ghom, but I leveled and went to full health. I saw my health go down upon killing him. I didn't know what to do, I tried to rush away from him and then a burst of light came over the screen and I thought I was gone 4 life.

Got a fair bit of playing in tonight. Hit 70 and did a rift thing with a buddy of mine. This game is fun again. I can't wait to suck hours/days of my life finding good pixels again

Added you Heisenberg, let us flay demons together soon.

I played mostly on my HC crusader, SerPowerslam this weekend.

I haven't been bothering anyone to group up as I know the game is still new and I don't want to crash the party. I know down the line I am able to host a full TPWW group that will take advantage of the split bounty thing. We'd be flowing in caches and destroying rifts. It will be glorious.

I got a few upgrades in SC for Crusader SerChokeslam and got my DH to 70, my third Nephalem to get there.

I spent some time trying the Jar of Souls Torment 6 stuff, it yields a good profit, but I was caught a few times getting there. I might try it again on my DH instead of Crusader.

TPDUB Bounty Murderfest 2014

I might level up my Wizard to run public games with in the future. They are powerful, I have my DH for group things. I usually run with the Crusader, but he is not as powerful to run with other Nephalem yet.

I've been mostly running Normal bounties to quickly get caches, until I'm geared up enough to tear through Torment. Got a Mad Monarch's Scepter last night, not totally ideal stats (vit, no socket... common enough to get so not gonna bother re-rolling since I'll get another soonish) and HOLY HELL it is the most fun thing of ever. On my WD I Spirit Walk into a group of bad guys, Soul Harvest, Piranhas, whatever random right-click spell, and by then enough bad guys die that the mace procs and KABOOM more bad guys die. And I have that one passive that reduces each CD by 1 second per bad guy killed within 20 yards, so basically none of my spells have cooldowns. Sexcellent.

May not be the most viable build for T1+ but for doing Normal bounties it is perfect

I saw you running some T6 stuff the other night and my e-peen kind of shriveled a bit. I'm still midcard status

I grind on Normal, it's so fast and gets the gear, plain and simple. I like the flow of the WD and Wizard, I'm going to stray from my comfort zone and get those guys up to snuff soon. I'm usually a melee guy, but I'm practicing to stay alive and applying that to my HC career.

Oh no no friend, I was doing that Jar of Souls test I was talking about. I don't stay there. I was testing viability and wanted to get a piece of pie before they nerf it. I was testing toons and who was able to withstand the journey it takes to get into the jar room. It nets a good amount of xp and is going to get discovered soon enough. Everyone exploits stuff so fast that I have to sit at work and watch it get taken away. I wanted that piece o pie.

THE TEST: T6 Act 1, see the Jar of Souls bounty or go to the cemetery and hope for it to be there, run through the trash/elites, enter the Jar room, activate event, port to Tristam and stay there for a minute, go back and end event. You might have to deal with the elite mob that is there, but the XP is worth the minor trouble.

I didn't die, b/c I think it voids the whole scheme, so make sure you port right by the Jar. you can die after you end the event.

opened up 8 caches at the same time last night after spending less than an hour in public normal adventure.

I got an amulet that I had to reroll a stat on, but it was worth it. I'm about to be broke though, because I gamble too much

I finally got a legendary from gambling. Got a ssssssssssnake offhand, not either of the ones I wanted (Homonculus or Thing of the Deep), but it was nice to actually get something decent.

Haven't gotten any awesome items since my mace though. It is so much fun. Thinking of going to a Zombie Bears build and stacking some +poision% damage to benefit both DA BEARZ and the 'splosions.

If you're around tonight let's play together(® xbox) and kill demons n shit. Do you have vent/teamspeak/skype?

I do have teamspeak, my good friend runs it and we will have a personal room if needed.

I was going to ask last night if I could hop in, but I stared at my friend's list and thought about other stuff and got sidetracked, sorry, plus I didn't want to bug you.

It's Wednesday and I usually don't have piss to do parent wise, so no practices and I will hit you up

My old WoW guild still runs our Vent server... a bunch of them play D3 too (I'm in the clan because SOCIALIZING) so we could use that. I have a personal TS server with some friends as well, or we could use yours. Either/or.

Feel free to hop in any of my games at any time, I'm usually just shooting the shit with bros on vent/TS if they're in-game avec me and we're mad laid back. Doing bounties n stuff Boba Fett style

Cool, I didn't want to force ppl to play with me, that's the current problem I have. I've added you, Dark and Seph out of respect and didn't want to force y'all to play. I'd like to group up down the road when we can see where we stand....I'm trying to gear up like the rest of the Nephalem and find how who I am.

I gotta say that 4 ppl in separate bounties makes for an overflow of cache rewards and xp. It's Nephalem tested, Cain approved

Split pushing is the way to go if you can manage it, for defs. We can be our own Evolution

I started a minigame irl, I have been joining grps of two or three ppl and walking like I was in Evolution, it's very hard not to laugh, that's the goal is not to laugh and see if they are ok with you walking with them.

Once I actually had Evolutions theme playing when my family and I tag teamed bounties, we all took an act solo, then grouped up to plow through the last one. Let's say Malthael didn't stand a chance with my cousins 346 at the time paragon. I'm just basically doing bounty/rift runs, you guys can just hop in at any time.

I won't be on until next week, going to see the family over Easter, but ya next week sometime I'm down to put the beatdown on them daemons like they're the Shield. Add me, my battletag is tonavin#1510 and I am always down to party with bad girls

I'll be a bad girl for you

will you be the Cydaea to my Azmodan? :kiss:

Act IV bounty, Clear the Hell Rift on T1 is helping me get all my Nephalem to 70 pretty quick. 19 mil completion at 65-68.

The Jar of Souls is not netting much and is costly when trying to do it on T6 with your hero not at 70.

Got my barb some pretty choice stuff over the weekend, wanting to get all my guys to 70 so I can rotate them and not bore myself to death. I like to learn all the classes. Have streamlined paragon is going to help that become a reality

Got my Wizard to 70, it is a big adjustment as I'm used to melee classes. I need to focus on one class soon, I went broke paying for gem upgrades for all 4 of my 70s. My 5th 70 is HC and he has all the money he can have right now. He is sitting at the top and won't get any push b/c of the recent d/c happenings

I had a friend (former TPWW Legend "The Snake") playing a low-level Crusader so I hopped on one of my jobbers to party with him. As soon as I joined the game with my level 4 Monk I had absolutely no desire to learn how to play the class so I just made another WD to play alongside him. WD #1 baby

I was overbooked last night, but I'm putting over my WD next. He's @ 65, if you have any time later I'd like you to take a look at my build or I'll take a look at yours. I just want to make sure I'm doing the WD right.

I do that spell where you get up to 5 stacks of extra power, splash poison, darts, zombie bears, with fear and that stealth move.

I have a meeting with my newfound slo-pitch team tonight @ 7:30 EST but after that I should be around... let's TeamSpeak it up and talk turkey

My Power Rankings:

#6 Monk- LVL 62-3? He's a jobber, I don't even remember his name. Boring class.

#5 Witch Doctor- LVL 65 SerjTankian- Very fun class, but also the least played one. He can clear rifts with ease and now that I can transmog him it'll only be the stars for him and he will be used for public/grp gaming

#4 Crusader- LVL 70 SerChokeslam- Down from #1 on the unofficial previous ranking. Very clunky and not worth putting anymore time into. My time invested in him wasn't all wasted, he was stripped of his strength gear and given to the new Mr. #1.

#3 Demon Hunter- LVL 70 FoulSorcery- I made him a bow last night that put him back into contention to be #1. His promos are what keeps me happy with his existence, he hates Demons and I do too.

#2 Wizard LVL 70 Books- This guy stayed in the Hell Rift bounty and conquered Nephalem Rifts coming off a strong week as he awoke from his coma. This guy went from jobber status to instant threat to the Champion.

#1 Barbarian LVL 70 Dethklokface- He dethroned SerChokeslam and striped him of his title and gear. Since becoming the Champion DKface has been performing at T1 solo capacity and will bring home more bread when I need it. He is fuming over the bank getting emptied to fund the jobbers, but his main focus is to get some more set items.

I'll let you know if I can TS it up, I'm in the process of moving my mancave and will have full creative sound control there, but atm I'm around too many ppl to yell and get into the game. There are points where I can TS, but I like to have no interruptions when I'm TS'ing it up.

My Power Rankings:

#1 - Barbarian, Kenpachi(lvl 70), I use him for everything since at the moment I don't have to worry about repairing his gear with the shoulders he's got. He's my Main Eventer. Got a slightly better Mad Monarch Scepter to replace the one I got last week an hour ago.

#2-5(not sure one the order for these characters yet)
Monk - Yoruichi(lvl 70) only thing of note is the Shenlong's Fist of Legend I got on my barb but couldn't id since it's a lvl 70 monk only item, which I'd well.
Wizard - Gohan(lvl 25) considering lvling this one next since I have a lot of fun on him every time I'm on him.
Demon Hunter - Gasket(lvl 26 I think) The class atm I'm not quite sure how to use yet.
Witch Doctor - Shango(lvl 12 I think) also using the spell that increases power up to 5 stacks

yessssssss I have those same shoulders too on my WD. Rolled shitty stats though (most rares I find give a damage +% on scrollover) but the lack of repairs is an immeasurable convenience. I might have to enchant them to get better stats at some point

Yeah, mine aren't the best either, but not having to repair, topped off with gloves that drop extra gold just for having a massacre bonus every time gets me gold hellafast.

word. Currently wearing 3 pieces of the Cain set which have brtl stats but that +50% XP is nice. Been doing A1 bounties like crazy trying to get a Royal Ring so I can take a piece off and up my DPS substantially.

Kinda bummed the ring doesn't work with 2pc sets. Got the WD set mojo (not Zuni, the other one) and the 2pc set bonus is kinda cool; makes a poison cloud follow you around or w/e. Would be hot with my "normal bounty" build of just running around AoEing everything with next-to-zero cooldowns. Would need to find and equp the dagger first though and I'd lose the awesome poison nova AoE from my Mad Monarch. oh well. really want a Royal Ring tho

I've been getting legendary daggers on my wiz, I assume they're for WD right? Doesn't me since I have both, but I'm waiting for that Thunderfury drop.

I got a thundergod's belt to drop, makes me want to level my barb

Barbs are pretty sweet. I just tweeted the Diablo Twitter page about the lack of speed SerChokeslam has, no response from them, probably won't reply at all.

I played barb almost exclusively in d2 so I wanted to mix it up this time around. Keast-Beese was a stud

I consider myself lucky because I made 2 pieces of cain's set for the mf boost, after I had already obtained the Royal Ring ammy. I think my mf is 88 or around that but definitely over 100 in group games. I found 2 or 3 Thundergods belts and salvaged both for the mats as they weren't better than what I had.

Still rocking Cain set, no Ring yet :[[[[[[[[[

I want the Cain set and the ring now, but Thunderfury is my main priority. I got back up to 1 million the last few days and started enchanting and gemming again. I don't care though, if it makes them happy

I got another Zuni (WD set) chestpiece. The piece I already had. Damn you, RNG gods.

I'm starting to think we need a ritual to appease them. I guess slaughtering countless dungeons of demons isn't what they want all the time.

I will change my build tonight to incorporate Zombie Dogs and Sacrifice to make offerings to the deities

Made this back in my WoW days, my Worgen Warrior contemplating life

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

Photoshop and some other shit

had some good fun slaying the minions of Hell this weekend, I like the build I've settled on

I left my clan yesterday, now I don't have to worry about riding with a banner. Have a strong urge to get that Act 1 cache ring. I want to start stacking those hod caches now

shit you left your stable? ballsy

yeah I desperately need the a1 ring, I wanna equip some of that Asheara's set but 4 slots is a lot. Let's do some normal bounties "sometimes in near future"

I was always on, rarely know the guy that invited me. He's very needy when he does get on and I don't like that. I like to run on my own every once in awhile, not boost his toons w/o thanks. I like to boost others when I feel like it. Trust me, they are trash. I didn't like the clan name anyways, I'll probably start my own

oh yes we will do some normal cache runs soon. it's pretty painless and efficient

yup. I'm reading about some locust swarm builds. Thinking of including it in my build since I'm all about the mad poison damage now. My Corpse Bomb is critting for ~6-7M, need a bit more mana regen items so it's more spammable, with locusts to grab outlying mobs should make things fast too

gonna upgrade all my gems tonight since stupid patch prolly ain't for another week or two.

With the new changes is HArdcore still the place to prove your manhood?

HC is always the place to prove your manhood :shifty:

They ripped out the AH for both sides, and I do play HC, not for proving, but it's fun to manage not dying and dealing with consequences when you do die. The server problems are the biggest complaint from ppl that need a scapegoat. I've died on my own mistakes, poison mobs and what not.

HC is fun but I've never been particularly good at it

we need to find a way to farm that T6 Hell Rift business, I'm pretty sure if we crunch numbers in a few weeks down the road we can be banking some serious cash flow and stuff

I can solo T1/T2 pretty decently now. My build works better in groups bc I am heavily mana dependent so when I GET LOW (® Lil Jon) I'm pretty fkd if the group of champion bad guys is still alive. WITH OUR POWERS COMBINED (® Don Cheadle as Capt. Planet) we could probably do better.

Was doing some T3 rifts avec some of my "clanmates" and they were tearing through shit like hot knife through butter. But they're all "bigger nerds than me" and all have like paragon level 250+ and have been playing constantly for a while. D*ckholes

yeah, I like not being that high right now. I am not trying to burn out so quick, I think having responsibility and all that has really helped preserve my gaming time. I'm not on the boards of Diablo complaining about shit, when I log on from a terrible work day Diablo is there and with infinite demons to slay. Quite a beautiful thing that some take for granted.

Motherfuckers are getting too soft for their own good. If they want to come into my field of old occupation in the Army I'll go up to Oklahoma and make sure the soft ones don't make it. Pretty scared about the workforce after our generation fades.

I think every generation spotlights their f ups. Diablo

Only 250+, wow, I may only be at 147 or 148 atm but my cousin was 407 last time I saw him on.

how dare you imply that your friends are nerdier than mine :foc:

What you and I both need is a leapquake barbarian.

Freaking might of the earth set NEVER drops.

I will be on later tonight hopefully after baseball practice, gonna shoot for 3 caches de Act 1 yeahhhoo

don't be shy if you need a cache and can't fully be there, I'll gladly let you afk when it's on normal

I've been running torment rifts more lately and gambling to try and get a better helm. Really want to get the shitty non-Zuni WD set (forget the name).. I have the offhand but want the weapon, 2pc set bonus gives like +30 mana per kill, will really help with my mana problems. But want a Mask of Jeram or something still too.

Got so many rift keys right now from countless A1 bounty runs. Trying to burn through them but cache times sounds like good times

I thought I had a good Thunderfury drop coming last night and a one hander dropped, it was some unheard of piss. Building up an uncomfortable stack of Forgotten Souls

Yeah I got some leg sword last night, totally unassuming like no special affix or anything... did have nice +dmg roll and socket so it actually was an upgrade for me but it is a mad John Doe

I also got a one-handed sword yesterday, but instead of Shard of Hate or Thunderfury like I hoped, it was The Ancient Bonesaber of Zumakalis. It's not that bad looking but the roll was shit so I couldn't replace my Bul Kathos Warrior Blood or Mad Monarch Scepter. Sitting a cool 15.6 million at least.

Should keep the Bonesaber for name alone

I saw a pic this morning of a dude that opened up a full storage bag of caches, had a leg in it from what I saw and numerous items of stuff. After opening the bags, d/c came up. That is seriously why I immediately click all my items off the ground. If you play with me in Adventure I'll always go immediately between the chest and BS in act 1 and click away.

rift it forward bro

RIF2014

rift it forward tonavin 2014

#RIFT2014

I lost my shit last night when the dude Rift it Forward. I thought you did it and vanished. ahh good times

Wish I could just reset my account ..

hahahah no I made him rift it forward then I went heelmode and was all I DON'T NEED YOUR RIFT PANTERA and slid outta the ring

#RIF2014

I want cows damnit.