Blizzard do half-price sales? I've never checked, pretty much bought all their games (barring Starcraft) day 1. People like me are probably why they can get away with those prices.
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Diablo 3 Pre-Reaper of Souls Loot 2.0 Patch Live
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fluffydelusions
Member
The Battle.net launcher doesn't show you any sort of file size or download speed
Kinda does
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Why on earth would you think that? What in the entire history of Blizzard expansion pricing would lead you to believe it would be anything other than $40?
Mine just has a spinning circle beside play and a tool tip that says it's doing a future patch.
Same
hellmonkey
Member
Theres also a new level cap, new skills, new items, the Mystic which lets you reroll items and change their appearance and Nephalim Rifts (happy times totally random dungeons for end game farming).
The WoW expansions are closer to £15 than £33 (usually get them for £20) and have way more content. I'm surprised it's as high as £33 although I haven't actually looked myself so just taking that guys word for it. Price doesn't matter if the changes are good anyway.
RPGCrazied
Member
Weird. I was download the 14 gigabyte patch, had to pause for a minute or two, but when I resumed it said I only have 3.51 gigabyte left to go.
The UK price really seems to be £33. Usually UK has the cheapest or second cheapest price out of £/$/ but this time they probably used 40 as a baseline for the UK price and turned that into £, 40 = £32.95 right now. So the UK price is really high compared to normal UK prices, but it's just about the exact same price as the price.
£23 on GMG which is what I would have expected.
So this is loot 2.0 but the auction house doesn't go down to 18th March? Does this mean all loot now will be soulbound?
OMG I'm sorry I got mixed up with Good Friday and Black Friday. Correct is Black Friday.
Do you know something we don't?
With a March 25th release on PC. The earliest date I see possible is May/June for PS4. My gut is telling me another September release though.
I'd gladly get this on PC in March, and then double dip in September. I hope they shed some light on the release date soon.
Oh you have it believe me. Loot 2.0 on ptr was much much better and legendaries are finally the best items for your character
Crimson_Gold
Member
I hope that they go summer release and not September. I don't know how I would be able to split my time between this and Destiny.
Robin64
Member
Right.
SazerVisuel
Member
I boot up the game and it gave me a black screen with only the cursor
Are you booting up on the same unit you previously used to play the game? Have you done anything such as upgrade graphic drivers since the last time you've played?
No. But they can now drop at the higher levels and have appropriate stats.
HiddenWings
Member
Not sure what build you're using on live, but it's unlikely that you'll have a problem. There's a new magic missile rune that freezes, and a new familiar rune that freezes, but the duration of most freezes (especially Frost Nova) went down.
Can someone detail the changes for me? Can't find anything via google...I just got all the gear to run the wicked wind build
Yeah and the chances of finding an item with 4 useful primary affixes let alone 6 were astronomically low. The game is balanced around you being able to farm it with 4 primary affix items, so this isn't really a valid complaint and certainly doesn't make the new loot system a "disaster". The entire game is different now.
plutoknight
Member
Guess it's time to dust off Diablo III and patch it while I'm out and about today.
HiddenWings
Member
Can someone detail the changes for me? Can't find anything via google...I just got all the gear to run the wicked wind build
I'm really, really hoping for detailed patch notes, because almost every skill on every class has new/altered runes, including damage types in a lot of cases.
On the Wizard, they added runes like disruption (+15% arcane damage to things hit by arcane torrent) for other damage types, so you can amp electricity damage with wave of force (which no longer has a cooldown, but doesn't reflect projectiles), or fire with energy twister, or frost with ray of frost (which now has an impact radius and can hit more than one thing at a time). Other skills changed in interesting ways, like the ability to lob arcane orbs to a location, or turn it into D2's frozen orb. Even passives changed, so Galvanizing Ward became a damage shield if you haven't been hit for 5 seconds. Critical Mass was unfortunately removed.
Tweaks like this happened to all of the classes, but Wizard was the one I spent the most time with. I did find weapon throw becoming a fury generator for the Barbarian rather than a spender interesting. Ancient Spear fills in for it in the spender category.
Snkfanatic
Banned
So last I checked on this expansion people were not thrilled with what was going on in beta. Have things changed? I want to get this game as I enjoyed D3 for a good 100+ hours but I am a little skeptical.
fluffydelusions
Member
Everyone I talked to loves the new changes
So with critical mass gone, then my wicked wind build is now useless. I guess my gear is still good, but DAMMIT
soulstoner
Banned
Is the new paragon system implemented in this as well? Or will it even matter if I start levelling up paragon now?
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
That's funny because I found plenty of those sorts of items (6 primaries) in my time playing vanilla. For example I have 2 amulets (found, not crafted)... 1 with main stat, vit, all res, attack speed, crit chance, crit damage, and a socket, the other with main stat, vit, all res, min-max damage, attack speed, crit chance, crit damage. I'll never be able to find such an item in ROS and I never came anywhere even close to finding a replacement in my time in the ROS beta. The entire point of the game is to find items to strengthen your character to find more items. What good are level 70 items if they aren't better and CAN NEVER BE BETTER (i.e. mathematically impossible) than the level 60 rare items you are currently wearing? That's as valid a complaint as any.
This was less of an issue during the Friends&Family beta because items could roll with 700-900 primary stat and had amazing unique affixes but since the F&F beta they lowered the amount of primary stat an item can roll and nerfed the unique affixes with low proc chances, internal cooldowns, or in many cases removing them from the game altogether.
I was hyped for the game when the F&F was happening but since then it has been nerf after nerf after nerf. Level 70 items were hit HARD.
As for the game being "entirely different now".... class/paragon changes aside...at first it seems that way, but the more you play it the more the mask falls off and you realize that many of the same issues that plagued vanilla still plague the game today.
Kacho
Member
It's in now.
Select the American region and start up the game, after it gets to the Login page it will tell you that your client needs to be patched and it will start downloading.
However if you switch back to europe and try to boot it up after the download ends it seems that it goes back to downloading again or it tries to rollback.
Robin64
Member
Because you're Europe, our servers are still up, so you're just getting a background download (which will continue even when you hit Play). Once our servers go down, you'll get a proper download bar, though the background downloader might have finished by then.
Yeah I'm using the desktop app to launch the game, I think the graphic driver was updated last week with no problem launch the game after update.
I should probably uninstall the whole thing and try again.
DeviantBoi
Member
I bought it on PC at launch, but I really want to play it on the PS4.
I just want it released on the PC so that Blizzard can start talking about the PS4 version.
I just want it released on the PC so that Blizzard can start talking about the PS4 version.
I didn't have a computer that was good enough to run this on release. Now that I do, I'm considering picking it up. Would it be a dumb idea to run out and get it today at the store for $40? I have no idea how likely it is that they might lower the price of the base game for the expansion's release.
SazerVisuel
Member
You might be able to avoid the pain of sitting through re-installation, unless you have other things you can do to occupy your time anyway. Have you tried resetting your preferences from the launcher?
fluffydelusions
Member
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/02/24/diablo-3-paragon-reaper-souls/
So what is everyone going to be pumping their paragon points into?