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Diablo III: Reaper of Souls |OT3| Tyrael Looted: {[El'druin]}
- Thread starter IceMarker
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Cheers, I'll try to get that one with the DB's, trying to get the shield with the shards.
Question, which of the Traveller's Pledge amulets are better for me, the one I'm currently wearing with my Witch Doctor, or the one I just got with 10cc, 100 chd and rerolled 20% cold damage to it.
Tried checking with D3Planner, but if I read it correctly, the one I'm currently wearing is still better, plus the fact that I can augment that. Right?
Tried checking with D3Planner, but if I read it correctly, the one I'm currently wearing is still better, plus the fact that I can augment that. Right?
If you're dealing Cold damage primarily, 20% cold damage will always be better than int, especially with those otherwise perfect rolls. That's unless your new ammy has no socket of course.
Even if you augment your current ammy, I doubt it's gonna make up for the 20% cold dmg. Again, assuming your build does cold damage primarily. If not... Reroll the cold dmg to whichever element is more important for your build.
Typically around 3 months.
Well, currently running Helltooth Garg build with cold damage (which I did roll to that amulet).
Really wish there would be some wooden dummy where you could test your attacks to see which option does give better damage output.
So, the 2.4.3 is up on the PTR, and here's the small blog post of changes. Nothing really special, just quality of life changes, like Vault portal closing after 60 seconds of Greed kill, thus letting us do multiple vault runs on single session.
60 seconds is actually a bit longer than it was taking us to restart via quitting to menu from town last night, but this is still better since it lets people do inventory management instead of sitting through load screens during that time.
Edit: There are a bunch of new legendary effects in there now - maybe it was updated. Looks like the usual set of new effects to create some new builds for next season.
"Fixed an issue which caused Wave of Light to sometimes fail to deal damage when players were under the effect of Epiphany"
- Finally!
"Rabid Strike - Spirit spenders that teleport you while Epiphany is active are also mimicked on a distant target for free"
- Sounds awesome. This should be really strong.
You can at least do puzzle rings in between rifts as a palette cleanser and by the time you finish the next rift you can use another puzzle ring w/o restarting.
WoL is still garbage after TXI unless they make some changes.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/5c1i6e/ptr_243_list_of_undocumentaed_changes/
Woah huge if true. Client DX11/64 bit now. Should run much better?
nice
Wow, I had to try the PTR to check out the new 64 bit client and DX11 support. It's an enormous improvement. I just played Rakkis Crossing at 144 fps. With my i7 5820k at 4.5ghz and my GTX 1080 the current client can't even play that section at anywhere near 60 fps, and even then there are huge frame drops into single digits.
The best part is that the engine actually supports frame rates over 60hz now. It's so smooth. Eek5's screen shot comparison is also spot on. It's like a layer of vaseline has been removed from the game. I wonder if Nvidia will also give us a driver tuned for Diablo 3 DX11.
The best part is that the engine actually supports frame rates over 60hz now. It's so smooth. Eek5's screen shot comparison is also spot on. It's like a layer of vaseline has been removed from the game. I wonder if Nvidia will also give us a driver tuned for Diablo 3 DX11.
Man, why would they not mention a 64 bit DX11 client update on that stream? So weird. That's a bigger deal than the D1 rift.
Anyone seeing better load times with that version? It might be able to make better use of the available RAM for caching things now.
Anyone seeing better load times with that version? It might be able to make better use of the available RAM for caching things now.
Not really seeing load time differences, but mine are almost nonexistant on PC anyway.
Surprised they didn't mention the engine upgrades though. Proper AA finally, and SSAO. Awesome.
uncredited male
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Can you get rid of rift stones now in the PTR?
I'm definitely loading faster on the 64-bit client. From the time I see the loading screen I'm shaving like 3-4 seconds off. I only tried once so it might be a fluke.
Switching to a new zone is marginally faster as well (The progress bar doesn't even move 1 diamond on 64 bit).
What's most impressive though is how sharp everything looks. I'm surprised they didn't mention this at all at Blizzcon. The game is a lot smoother and there is a noticeable improvement in how it looks now.
Grenades are kind of legit on PTR thanks to the Hellcat Waistguard change.
Fairly flexible too, in that you can decide to go UE go Grenade instead of Fan for Shadow set's AOE and drop Lord Greenstone for Karlei's Point in main hand with Dawn in cube. Unfortunately there aren't really any great quiver options that do anything for UE or S6 that matter, so I guess you'd just run Holy Point Shot? I think S6 suffers a bit more here because you will be running Simplicity's Strength so Impale loses a gem, whereas UE is fine with SS by making Grenade the primary dealer. UE will also let you keep Multishot for the extra crit chance debuff (which naturally pairs well with F&R for this, like Chakram), though UE lacks a strong Kanai's weapon slot option I think.
Could also choose to really double down on Grenades with LoN so you could get access to Aquila and Depth Diggers (since you will want to cube Hunter's Wrath here in any Grenade build). The UE/S6 needs to run RoRG just to fit Depth Diggers, and can't get Aquila in there, which is a bummer.
The design of the Hellcat Waistguard change itself though seems a little backwards. The variable roll in the legendary is 3-5 bounces, and it feels like you actually want that number as low as possible because it is always the last bounce that goes up to 800% damage (with each previous bounce only being an increasing 50% per), and cubing the belt puts the bounces at 5 instead of 3. It's also only a chance to bounce (seems like around 50% maybe at a glance), which feels a little lame for something that needs so much support to build around one item.
Fairly flexible too, in that you can decide to go UE go Grenade instead of Fan for Shadow set's AOE and drop Lord Greenstone for Karlei's Point in main hand with Dawn in cube. Unfortunately there aren't really any great quiver options that do anything for UE or S6 that matter, so I guess you'd just run Holy Point Shot? I think S6 suffers a bit more here because you will be running Simplicity's Strength so Impale loses a gem, whereas UE is fine with SS by making Grenade the primary dealer. UE will also let you keep Multishot for the extra crit chance debuff (which naturally pairs well with F&R for this, like Chakram), though UE lacks a strong Kanai's weapon slot option I think.
Could also choose to really double down on Grenades with LoN so you could get access to Aquila and Depth Diggers (since you will want to cube Hunter's Wrath here in any Grenade build). The UE/S6 needs to run RoRG just to fit Depth Diggers, and can't get Aquila in there, which is a bummer.
The design of the Hellcat Waistguard change itself though seems a little backwards. The variable roll in the legendary is 3-5 bounces, and it feels like you actually want that number as low as possible because it is always the last bounce that goes up to 800% damage (with each previous bounce only being an increasing 50% per), and cubing the belt puts the bounces at 5 instead of 3. It's also only a chance to bounce (seems like around 50% maybe at a glance), which feels a little lame for something that needs so much support to build around one item.
Ricerocket
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Can definitely vouch for the new engine, with MSAA 8x + SSAO, the game looks very crisp and clean, I switched back to fullscreen (fxaa) mode and it's like the game is being upscaled from 720p or something.
On side note I went on to try hellcat waistguard, turns out I was thinking it'd be awesome if it worked like WD firebomb that bounces between enemies but the 4 bounces are random and proc like 25% of the time, no ICD. Seemed alright on 6pc Marauder with loaded for bear.
On side note I went on to try hellcat waistguard, turns out I was thinking it'd be awesome if it worked like WD firebomb that bounces between enemies but the 4 bounces are random and proc like 25% of the time, no ICD. Seemed alright on 6pc Marauder with loaded for bear.
The event is just a touch cute, but that's it, the easter eggs and little things you have to do that remind the various quests are basically the only worthwhile thing in there and they are pretty limited.
The fact that they said that this could be a way to experience the first Diablo is kinda laughable.
Tristram is just the Diablo 3 map with some tweaks.
That map has gotten worse and worse each game, Diablo 2 already had a real shitty version of it.
The fact that they said that this could be a way to experience the first Diablo is kinda laughable.
Tristram is just the Diablo 3 map with some tweaks.
That map has gotten worse and worse each game, Diablo 2 already had a real shitty version of it.
I was expecting a new area that had rebuilt the original 16 levels and the old Tristram in the Diablo III engine (including NPC's from that game), but what we got is a mishmash of reused assets & a lot of pandering. It also takes some D1 sounds and item icon art, then puts them in D3 with a changed camera perspective and awful filter over it, combined with janky, slower movement.
Everything about it is just Diablo III. And for all intents and purposes, you're just doing a long rift. Unless this thing get's a massive retooling, it isn't going to bring me back to the game.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Yeah I watched a youtube vid and was incredibly unimpressed despite not having very high expectations. The cave and hell floors especially barely even look phoned in.
martino
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video of the anniversary dongon
dunno if bad joke or troll
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5...tram-donjon-anniversaire-ptr-2-4-3_videogames
dunno if bad joke or troll
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5...tram-donjon-anniversaire-ptr-2-4-3_videogames
Played PTR a bit, had to try "D1" mode, did not like the filter. Not sure I will play it once it goes live, didn't find it exciting or fun.
On the bright side I loved the improved graphical settings. Looked so much better and it became very apparent when I went back to live and everything looked blurry and less smooth in comparison.
On the bright side I loved the improved graphical settings. Looked so much better and it became very apparent when I went back to live and everything looked blurry and less smooth in comparison.
I share many of his opinions in that video sadly.
Ah, I see what they meant with the 8-directional movement now. They're just snapping to 8 orientations as if those were your sprite sets. Movement is still as free as we're used to.
It's interesting, at least. I could see that being applied in indie games as a cheap way to get sprite-like graphics.
From what I saw in Kripp's video in any other game this would be like a quick flavor mod someone did and uploaded to some fansite. Then you fiddle with it for about an hour, go: "neat", and move on. Kind of ironic considering Diablo 3 is completely unmoddable. If it was, I'd reckon we would've seen something like this (and better) long, long ago.
I understand it's free and basically a quick thematic thing as a thank you, but I still expected better from Blizzard.
uncredited male
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I don't even need the remasters if they just move 1 and 2 from classic Bnet to regular.
Some resolution and scaling options would be great too.
Some resolution and scaling options would be great too.
His main problem with this was that not only did Blizzard make a big deal about it at Blizzcon but they actually took crucial development time out of adding new content to the game to make this (and did a very barebones job).
Hey folks, out of curiosity, anyone mind helping me level my non-season characters to 70? I have all at 60+, wouldn't mind a boost
i'll level you seasonal characters lol
i don't think i have any characters that are set up in NS
Are seasons the real endgame? Do people even play non-season?
Some people do. I mean your season stuff gets transferred over at the end of the season and you have all your paragons so some people do push leaderboards there each era or whatever. I usually just have my characters holding all their gear and it's all old outdated setups so it'd take me a while to go on and set everything up versus just PL someone 0-70 in 5-8 mins on seasons.
Samurai G0SU
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Reading a little bit above, if you play on the PTR server, you can mess around with graphical settings? Some improvements?
I play NS everytime there is a new patch to try the new builds and content. Can't be arsed starting over again.
What gets transfered over, besides the season rewards? I thought it was a full wipe, só every season your goal is to get the season rewards and thats it.
Oh, also, whats your bnet tag?