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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    Jars wrote: »
    too late. I found two shitty set pieces this morning. I don't think it is even possible to find a good blackthorn belt..

    I did, kinda, in that it rolled 200 dex and 42 vit so it's usable

  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    Just sold that level 36 chestpiece for a cool 2M. It's a Christmas miracle!

  • HexDexHexDex Registered User regular
    I need infinite gold. Someone help make that happen stat.

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  • HooverFanHooverFan NCRegistered User regular
    ugh... just did ubers at MP8 and was only 1 of 3, and the 1 I got is the one I already had 4 of... what a way to send me off for a damned week, that and a f'n madstone

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  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    My game stutters when I'm running around outside, and it doesn't even seem to matter how low I turn my graphics settings (plus I do fine with games like Skyrim and BL2, so I feel like I should be able to render some brown fields OK). Does anybody have a magic solution for this, by any chance?

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    Install the game to a SSD

    (Blizzard is bad at engines)

  • HexDexHexDex Registered User regular
    Yeah, putting the game on an SSD fixed a lot of my stuttering and odd frame drops. I have a beast system otherwise, and there was no reason for the game to have some of the performance issues it did.

    SSD fixed almost all of them.

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  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    Alas :( Guess I should have got the fancier laptop.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    I played with a friend for a bit yesterday. He hadn't played since like May and was progressing through Inferno. I joined him about midway through Act 2 (MP0), and the first elite pack we killed dropped a legendary for me (I have maybe 60% MF with 0 NV). Merry Xmas!

    Of course it was a terrible Won Khim Lau. It actually had some nice random rolls, getting life steal and a socket, but it had terrible DPS (like 690). It's a brimstone now. Looks like I got coal from Santa.

  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    Anyone want to run ubers in around 6 hours? I have a full set of machines.

  • HexDexHexDex Registered User regular
    I'm down for ubers tonight, assuming I don't fall asleep by then. I have like, 9 machines. haha.

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  • bobsbarricadesbobsbarricades Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    I played with a friend for a bit yesterday. He hadn't played since like May and was progressing through Inferno. I joined him about midway through Act 2 (MP0), and the first elite pack we killed dropped a legendary for me (I have maybe 60% MF with 0 NV). Merry Xmas!

    Of course it was a terrible Won Khim Lau. It actually had some nice random rolls, getting life steal and a socket, but it had terrible DPS (like 690). It's a brimstone now. Looks like I got coal from Santa.

    umm.....I think that brimstone was a mistake. Lifesteal and a socket on a WKL is awesome. Even if low DPS you get the lightning bonuses for SW/Cyclone and can make up some DPS with it having socket+MH 0.o

  • EvangirEvangir Registered User regular
    Anyone want to run ubers in around 6 hours? I have a full set of machines.

    I'd love to do Ubers tonight if you've got space for a throw Barb. I have 3 sets of keys.

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  • borkbork Registered User regular
    I'd be down for some ubers. Got 5 or 6 machines sitting around I think. Not sure if my whacky timezone will quite line up with everyone else though.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    I played with a friend for a bit yesterday. He hadn't played since like May and was progressing through Inferno. I joined him about midway through Act 2 (MP0), and the first elite pack we killed dropped a legendary for me (I have maybe 60% MF with 0 NV). Merry Xmas!

    Of course it was a terrible Won Khim Lau. It actually had some nice random rolls, getting life steal and a socket, but it had terrible DPS (like 690). It's a brimstone now. Looks like I got coal from Santa.

    umm.....I think that brimstone was a mistake. Lifesteal and a socket on a WKL is awesome. Even if low DPS you get the lightning bonuses for SW/Cyclone and can make up some DPS with it having socket+MH 0.o
    I could have sworn I looked up LS/socket WKL and the shit DPS ones weren't up for much, but now you got me thinking about it and I wonder if I only checked one or the other. I'll check the AH again tonight if I get a chance and see if I fucked myself out of some money.

  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    I'm on right now and down for ubers, feel free to hop on.

  • EvangirEvangir Registered User regular
    I'm on as well, but I don't really have anyone from the thread on my friend's list. My battletag is Bulwark#1478 if you've got room for Ubers.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    I played with a friend for a bit yesterday. He hadn't played since like May and was progressing through Inferno. I joined him about midway through Act 2 (MP0), and the first elite pack we killed dropped a legendary for me (I have maybe 60% MF with 0 NV). Merry Xmas!

    Of course it was a terrible Won Khim Lau. It actually had some nice random rolls, getting life steal and a socket, but it had terrible DPS (like 690). It's a brimstone now. Looks like I got coal from Santa.

    umm.....I think that brimstone was a mistake. Lifesteal and a socket on a WKL is awesome. Even if low DPS you get the lightning bonuses for SW/Cyclone and can make up some DPS with it having socket+MH 0.o
    I could have sworn I looked up LS/socket WKL and the shit DPS ones weren't up for much, but now you got me thinking about it and I wonder if I only checked one or the other. I'll check the AH again tonight if I get a chance and see if I fucked myself out of some money.
    Well, I guess I didn't look for the right shit. The cheapest ones are up for over a million.

    FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU no christmas for me

  • bobsbarricadesbobsbarricades Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    I played with a friend for a bit yesterday. He hadn't played since like May and was progressing through Inferno. I joined him about midway through Act 2 (MP0), and the first elite pack we killed dropped a legendary for me (I have maybe 60% MF with 0 NV). Merry Xmas!

    Of course it was a terrible Won Khim Lau. It actually had some nice random rolls, getting life steal and a socket, but it had terrible DPS (like 690). It's a brimstone now. Looks like I got coal from Santa.

    umm.....I think that brimstone was a mistake. Lifesteal and a socket on a WKL is awesome. Even if low DPS you get the lightning bonuses for SW/Cyclone and can make up some DPS with it having socket+MH 0.o
    I could have sworn I looked up LS/socket WKL and the shit DPS ones weren't up for much, but now you got me thinking about it and I wonder if I only checked one or the other. I'll check the AH again tonight if I get a chance and see if I fucked myself out of some money.
    Well, I guess I didn't look for the right shit. The cheapest ones are up for over a million.

    FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU no christmas for me

    =( I'm sorry man =( I had a bunch of sales during Christmas I can give you 2mil in MEMORY of a good find?

  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    It's whirly-monk sharing time:

    http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/dehumanized-1854/hero/29804160

    Need a worthwhile Hellfire Ring and I'm basically set for MP0 exp farming -- just a little bit too squishy to competently farm in MP1. This was significantly more expensive to put together than RandomEngy's. Prices have gone crazy since that ban wave. :rotate:

  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    PvP blog coming this week or next:

    http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6160658368?page=2#36
    It shouldn't be that long. I am sorry I cannot be more concrete than this, but it should be ready before the new year... hopefully that is :-)

    Last I heard 1.0.7 was next so I have no idea what's going on with this. Maybe they're posting a blog while PvP is still a ways off, or maybe they decided to go straight to 1.1, who knows. My guess is that PvP will be on the PTR for quite a while though.

  • WaltWalt Waller Arcane Enchanted Frozen ElectrifiedRegistered User regular
  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    Cliff's Notes:

    -They're adding dueling in 1.0.7, slated for early next year
    -They're scrapping everything else that they had planned and starting over again :rotate: :rotate: :rotate: :rotate: :rotate: :rotate: :rotate:

    Dehumanized on
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    forty wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    I played with a friend for a bit yesterday. He hadn't played since like May and was progressing through Inferno. I joined him about midway through Act 2 (MP0), and the first elite pack we killed dropped a legendary for me (I have maybe 60% MF with 0 NV). Merry Xmas!

    Of course it was a terrible Won Khim Lau. It actually had some nice random rolls, getting life steal and a socket, but it had terrible DPS (like 690). It's a brimstone now. Looks like I got coal from Santa.

    umm.....I think that brimstone was a mistake. Lifesteal and a socket on a WKL is awesome. Even if low DPS you get the lightning bonuses for SW/Cyclone and can make up some DPS with it having socket+MH 0.o
    I could have sworn I looked up LS/socket WKL and the shit DPS ones weren't up for much, but now you got me thinking about it and I wonder if I only checked one or the other. I'll check the AH again tonight if I get a chance and see if I fucked myself out of some money.
    Well, I guess I didn't look for the right shit. The cheapest ones are up for over a million.

    FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU no christmas for me

    =( I'm sorry man =( I had a bunch of sales during Christmas I can give you 2mil in MEMORY of a good find?
    Thanks, but my idiocy is its own reward.

  • ZekZek Registered User regular
    Well uh I completely agree that Team Deathmatch never seemed very interesting and wasn't a great fit for Diablo. I think the lukewarm response to it from day one spoke for itself. It's disappointing to hear that they're nowhere close to having an alternative though, not even knowing what they're going to do instead.

    Seems like the writing on the wall is a mode based more on competitive monster fighting DotA-style. They should have done that from the get-go, dueling was always lame.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    Cliff's Notes:

    -They're adding dueling in 1.0.7, slated for early next year
    -They're scrapping everything else that they had planned and starting over again :rotate: :rotate: :rotate: :rotate: :rotate: :rotate: :rotate:
    Oh, geez. That's got to be embarrassing.

  • HexDexHexDex Registered User regular
    I have nothing really constructive to add about PvP other than being amused by all the rage this blog is causing.

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  • bobsbarricadesbobsbarricades Registered User regular
    it falls short of our expectations for a high-quality Blizzard experience

    I chuckled. Is this the first time that happened then? :D

    Srsly though...it sounds like they really just don't get it. Games....they're like playgrounds. CoD is kind of like a swing set...not much else you can do on it but swing, or jump off the swing...or turn your insides out. Far Cry or Stalker is like a sandbox (been used before I'm realizing). Games like Trine or platformers are more or less like the weird things attached to swings with cubby's and bridges and stuff. A bit of room to manuvre but you're gonna go to the same place.

    Blizzard...well it seems like I can't finish this metaphor...but maybe it's like Blizzard wants to turn Diablo into a swing set game...but force us all into those baby swings instead of give us the jungle gym that was d2...maybe?

  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Zek wrote: »
    Well uh I completely agree that PVP never seemed very interesting and wasn't a great fit for Diablo.

    Fixed that for you.

    I'll agree with Hex that the best part of this blog post is the amount of butthurt it generated. Though, I think those posters going with the, "How about you release the content and let us decide whether we like it or not!!!" have a point. If Blizzard did invest a wealth of time and effort into Team Deathmatch, to the point that demos were available at cons, then it seems silly for Blizzard to decide it's not fun, and scrap it, rather than release it with a gigantic qualifier of "We're not going to change this. Here's some PVP. Have fun while we make a better system."

    That or they could just scrap PVP.

  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    it falls short of our expectations for a high-quality Blizzard experience

    I chuckled. Is this the first time that happened then? :D

    Srsly though...it sounds like they really just don't get it. Games....they're like playgrounds. CoD is kind of like a swing set...not much else you can do on it but swing, or jump off the swing...or turn your insides out. Far Cry or Stalker is like a sandbox (been used before I'm realizing). Games like Trine or platformers are more or less like the weird things attached to swings with cubby's and bridges and stuff. A bit of room to manuvre but you're gonna go to the same place.

    Blizzard...well it seems like I can't finish this metaphor...but maybe it's like Blizzard wants to turn Diablo into a swing set game...but force us all into those baby swings instead of give us the jungle gym that was d2...maybe?

    I like your metaphor.

    PVE is swings.
    PVP is a slide.

    Blizzard needs to say, "Here's Diablo 3. It has swings. If you want a slide, then fuck off."

    Practically speaking they've already done this; the game only has swings. The problem is they keep herping and derping about a future in which Diablo has the bestest slides, ever. This while LoL exists...a game with many, many slides.

  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    Yeah, PvP absolutely wasn't going to do much to keep people playing or bring players back. I can see them heading in a more Dota-ish direction with it, though who knows what they'd do for rewards.

    Kinda incredible that over half a year out they still haven't got in a feature that was cut for launch though.

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  • WydrionWydrion Registered User regular
    What a useless blog post. So they've been working really hard on PVP, but they basically have absolutely nothing to show for it, is what they're saying.

    Honestly, the Diablo team has no right to piggyback on the excuses the WoW team often used to deliver late but polished content.

    This is Blizzard taking its hardcore Diablo fans for a ride. They sold us an unfinished product, straight up.

  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Shen wrote: »
    Yeah, PvP absolutely wasn't going to do much to keep people playing or bring players back. I can see them heading in a more Dota-ish direction with it, though who knows what they'd do for rewards.

    Kinda incredible that over half a year out they still haven't got in a feature that was cut for launch though.

    Yeah, 7 months of development after release and they decide to scrap it. That on top of the development time before release they spent on PVP. At some point they need to cut their losses and stop wasting time on PVP.

  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    Here's the thing:
    Jay wrote:
    We've brought a lot of people in to try out Team Deathmatch and, while some found it entertaining, most of our testers didn't feel like it was something they'd want to do beyond a few hours.
    Isn't this what Diablo 3 was to many players (90% maybe?)? Sure, replace "a few hours" with something like 20-80 hours, but the point is only a minority of more devoted players like most of us posting in this thread still play D3 (and in my case, just barely for now). Is it really a big deal if a supplemental feature follows a similar arc?

    Edit: I mean Diablo 2 was no different. By far most the people who bought it didn't play for more than 50 hours or whatever. Then you had the 10% die-hards who dumped hundreds of hours into it.

    forty on
  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Reading though the post again, I noticed this:
    Without more varied objectives, or very lucrative rewards, few saw our current iteration as something they'd want spend a lot of time in.

    As I understand it, that sentence could be applied to both PVP and PVE, for most people. Somewhat amusing that they throw out their PVP system because people wouldn't want to do it for a long time...but maintain their PVE system that is, in their own words, an unsustainable end-game.

  • WydrionWydrion Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    Am I wrong, or wasn't the end-game of Diablo 2 finding crazy items to PVP with so you could kill each other in half a second? What kind of golden standard are they holding themselves to here?

    Wydrion on
  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    forty wrote: »
    Here's the thing:
    Jay wrote:
    We've brought a lot of people in to try out Team Deathmatch and, while some found it entertaining, most of our testers didn't feel like it was something they'd want to do beyond a few hours.
    Isn't this what Diablo 3 was to many players (90% maybe?)? Sure, replace "a few hours" with something like 20-80 hours, but the point is only a minority of more devoted players like most of us posting in this thread still play D3 (and in my case, just barely for now). Is it really a big deal if a supplemental feature follows a similar arc?

    Edit: I mean Diablo 2 was no different. By far most the people who bought it didn't play for more than 50 hours or whatever. Then you had the 10% die-hards who dumped hundreds of hours into it.

    The fucked up thing is that before launch Jay Wilson said that most players would play through normal and then stop. So, presumably, they expected this. Yet now they're worried about it, or scrap content because of it.

    Blizzard just needs to pick one fucking design and stick to it.

  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Wydrion wrote: »
    Am I wrong, or wasn't the end-game of Diablo 2 finding crazy items to PVP with so you could kill each other in half a second? What kind of golden standard are they holding themselves to here?

    For some people, yeah. For others Diablo 2 was just killing mephisto / baal over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over....

  • WydrionWydrion Registered User regular
    _J_ wrote: »
    Wydrion wrote: »
    Am I wrong, or wasn't the end-game of Diablo 2 finding crazy items to PVP with so you could kill each other in half a second? What kind of golden standard are they holding themselves to here?

    For some people, yeah. For others Diablo 2 was just killing mephisto / baal over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over....

    I think the reign of Blizzard as innovators, etc. is coming to an end. Diablo sucks, SC2 has pretty much failed to catch on in e-sports compared to LoL and other more popular games, and WoW is more or less stagnating.

    And God only knows when/if their 'Titan' game will ever release, or if anyone will give a damn.

  • WydrionWydrion Registered User regular
    Actually now that I think about it, how is dueling even going to work? There are no games you join you just join random quests. Some poor guy is going to be doing his thing and be like "hay guys so glad ur here I'm having problems with omg wtf r u doing?! i've been trying to do this 4 hours omg :( fu blizz"

    So basically it's going to just be confined to private games... and we couldn't have just had a "dueling" toggle upon launch because...?

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