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[Diablo] destroy the Rift Oculus, find Nephalem Rifts, id The Oculus

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    Tox wrote: »
    Apparently they made a bunch of changes over the weekend? Like they did away with getting rift keystones, you now get rift fragments or something instead...

    biggest thing they did was add a hidden counter that tracks how long you go without getting a legendary drop, and once it ticks over will spit one out for you

    So, find out how long it takes for the timer to tick over, set countdown timer for same, boot game, minimise and idle until alarm goes off, kill something for legendary, minimise and idle again, repeat until Bizzbucks rich?

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    Tox wrote: »
    Apparently they made a bunch of changes over the weekend? Like they did away with getting rift keystones, you now get rift fragments or something instead...

    biggest thing they did was add a hidden counter that tracks how long you go without getting a legendary drop, and once it ticks over will spit one out for you

    So, find out how long it takes for the timer to tick over, set countdown timer for same, boot game, minimise and idle until alarm goes off, kill something for legendary, minimise and idle again, repeat until Bizzbucks rich?

    apparently they're measuring how far you travel and how many monsters you fight

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    See as much as I love how transparent blizzard has been about basically everything with the dev process in all their games

    I'd have preferred they implemented that and just never mentioned it. Feels much less exciting to be waiting on a legendary drop than getting a good amount at "random"

    I assume they can still drop normally, but, eh. There are times when the players don't need to know, Blizzard.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Actually the timer has been in for a while.

    And the way the timer works is, after a certain period of time playing actively, if you haven't dropped a legendary, it starts to gradually increase the drop rates of legendaries, until you get one, at which point the timer and drop rates reset.

    It had, at one point, been around 10 hours before it started increasing drop rates. I believe they cut it to 4.

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    i think the timer is so long you'll most likely not ever get a legendary from it

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Tox wrote: »
    Actually the timer has been in for a while.

    And the way the timer works is, after a certain period of time playing actively, if you haven't dropped a legendary, it starts to gradually increase the drop rates of legendaries, until you get one, at which point the timer and drop rates reset.

    It had, at one point, been around 10 hours before it started increasing drop rates. I believe they cut it to 4.

    Every drop system in the entire world should work like this.

  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Also I think whatever loot system they're using for the console is amazing.

    We ran Act II from "Blood and Sand" (just after Zoltun Kulle starts chatting with you) through the end, and I think we found half a dozen legendaries. Well, four different ones, two of them we each got one of (depending on who the stats were better for).

    And through the first part of Act III we found at least one more.

    I think altogether we're right about a dozen legendaries found, and we just started Heart of Sin (Cydaea shows up and talked to us once so far).

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  • WaltWalt Waller Arcane Enchanted Frozen ElectrifiedRegistered User regular
    Patch 2.0 is out, bask in the glory of account wide paragon, skill rebalancing, and decent itemization!

  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    i think the timer is so long you'll most likely not ever get a legendary from it

    But you won't also end up like me, playing for a couple hundred hours and seeing all of 2 legendaries ever drop.

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  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Guess I'm gonna play some more diablo.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Drop rates are pretty crazy for the console version. Two legendaries dropped of Diablo in normal.

    One was kinda meh (no good stat boosts for either monk or wizard), the other was great for the wizard.

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Shit 2.0 already? I'll reinstall it for sure but might not actually play till Reaper.

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  • IncindiumIncindium Registered User regular
    edited February 2014
    2.0 Drop rates are actually a bit less legendaries than on the console version( and a whole lot overall drops) from my experience. However they are smart drops so the drops you get tend to be better in general(and no more constantly wading through the crap). I did see that drop frequency went way up once I hit lvl 70 in RoS beta though.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    hmm, patch updates with the RoS loading splash now...

  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    Yeah supposedly one of the devs said "You're twice as likely to have drops for your class compared to others" in RoS.

    Which...could just mean 2 out of 6 drops are for your class, the other four aren't. Or it could mean that 2 out 3 are for your class, the third one isn't.

    Probably somewhere in between.

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  • XeddicusXeddicus Registered User regular
    How big is the patch for you people?

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  • IncindiumIncindium Registered User regular
    edited February 2014
    Well it had already preloaded 6GB then it downloaded another 3-4GB or so? After it finally updated everything my D3 folder is back down to 14.7GB.

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  • XeddicusXeddicus Registered User regular
    Yay/boo, same here (4GB after the 6GB preload). That just seemed a little big combined upon first glance, but then not, but didn't hurt to ask. Thanks.

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Yo, game servers are up.

  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Hahaha

    So

    There are no class changes in the patch notes yet

    But

    This is because according to the devs the changes are 55 pages long

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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    these wizard changes


    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i love them, I mean they could all suck but the spells! they change so much with runes! at least some

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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie beautiful clydesdale style feet too hot to trotRegistered User regular
    rep frozen orb for life

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    Beasteh wrote: »
    *おなら*
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  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    didn't play for long but the new text that indicates damage is a lot easier to read, wizard is even more fun

    a+ good patch

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    question about the new paragon stuff

    are points permanently set when you spend them or can you respec

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  • IncindiumIncindium Registered User regular
    Naphtali wrote: »
    question about the new paragon stuff

    are points permanently set when you spend them or can you respec

    Respec anytime...

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    edited February 2014
    I am probably gonna throw some hours into this when I get home after it took years to download yesterday

    But it's looking good yeah?

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Depends on if no AH is a breaker for you but yes

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    edited February 2014
    I've made my peace with the really dumb decision to take out the auction house

    I mean class skills and drops and mechanics changes and stuff, things that were supposed to make up for removing an excellent feature (there will never be peace)

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    Good riddance ah

    Long as loot 2.0 does as advertised, we are better off without it.

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    i need to read these patch notes

    I loved Diablo but too much issues with it

    my wizard is like 58 or something. he might even be 60 now

  • IncindiumIncindium Registered User regular
    edited February 2014
    Loot 2.0 gets you partially there but you need the Mystic to be able to enchant things to really replace its functionality somewhat. So get RoS and you'll be good.

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    Good riddance ah

    Long as loot 2.0 does as advertised, we are better off without it.

    Even if loot 2.0 meets and surpasses all expectations, it would be even better if we still had the auction house

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  • WaltWalt Waller Arcane Enchanted Frozen ElectrifiedRegistered User regular
    are we doing an SE++ clan? Mephisto Milk?

    or am I casting my clan lot with the G&T thread?

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Walt wrote: »
    are we doing an SE++ clan? Mephisto Milk?

    or am I casting my clan lot with the G&T thread?

    G&T seems to have more people going.

  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Walt wrote: »
    are we doing an SE++ clan? Mephisto Milk?

    or am I casting my clan lot with the G&T thread?

    G&T seems to have more people going.

  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    who has more people going, rolo

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Kwoaru wrote: »
    who has more people going, rolo

    Your face

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    Kwoaru wrote: »
    who has more people going, rolo

    G&T

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    as someone who has been in the ros beta for months

    this makes the game good and fun again

    go and play it

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  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    edited February 2014
    So, pre-ordering RoS has no benefit at the moment right

    The panel that popped up when I logged in made it sound like upgrading now would let me mess around with that stuff

    edit also where would inferno rate on the new difficulty scale

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