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Diablo III: Reaper of Torsos Souls
PA Clan - The Merch Hungers
Unfortunately the Clan has reached the 150 player cap and is full at the moment. Should room become available in the future, we will post in thread.
However, the Community, PAF, has nearly unlimited space and everyone is welcome to join. Open the Community window in the bottom right, Click Find and search for PAF. You'll see that HooverFish is the leader and can simply click "Join Community". You will not automatically enter Community chat when you log in, but you can click the Chat button in the Communities window and enter it manually for now.
The European Clan is also named TMH. If you play in this region, send a join request through the in-game communities UI and/or message evilthecat#2464.
And now, the big list of patch/expansion features... (more detail in the spoilers to cut down on length)
- New class - The Crusader! (RoS only)
"Impenetrable armor, gleaming weapons, and heavy, heavy damage–wield the power of the Crusader, unbreakable new hero of the mortal realms."
The evolution of the Diablo II paladin, less auras and more shield smiting. They are very focused on having a shield, even so far as having the option of using a Two-handed weapon AND a shield (with a passive skill). Yes, they have Blessed Hammer! - Act V! (RoS only)
Malthael returns intending to destroy all demonkind. In case you didn't hear the word Nephalem enough in Diablo III, that means humans too. Act V is also full of side dungeons and even a handful of side missions for the jeweler and each follower!
- Level 70 and a 4th passive slot! (RoS only)
- Paragon levels are now account wide, infinite, and provide new bonuses
Although still separated by softcore/hardcore, all of your characters' paragon XP has been added together and converted to your new level.
1 Paragon point is earned per paragon level and can be spent on the following bonuses, even on a brand new character:
Core: Main stat^, Vitality^, Movement Speed, +Resource
Offense: Attack Speed, Cooldown Reduction, Crit Chance, Crit Damage
Defense: % Life, Armor, Resist All, Life Regen
Utility: X% Area Damage*, Resource Cost Reduction, Life on Hit, Gold Find
^ - Can be scaled infinitely, everything else caps at 50 points by plvl 800
* - a new stat on gear: All attacks have a 20% chance to also deal X% of the damage to enemies within 10 yards. - Loot 2.0!!
Items will now drop less often, but are more likely to be useful. Sometime you will even find a "smart drop" that will specifically roll appropriate stats for the class you are playing.
Most Legendaries now come with a new unique affect and can drop at any level above their default. In other words, lower level legendaries can appear again at higher levels with their stats scaled up. - New Gems
In addition to new tiers (Imperial, Flawless Imperial, Royal, Flawless Royal), Marquise gems will begin dropping! Also diamonds!
Weapons: Bonus damage against Elites
Helms: Cooldown Reduction
Armor: + to All Resistances - Adventure Mode: Bounties & Rifts (RoS only)
This new mode is an alternative to playing the campaign. All Acts and Waypoints are unlocked. All bosses spawned. You have a lot more freedom to roam around and slay demons. Each act has 5 bounties to complete various tasks - like clearing dungeons, killing named monsters, etc.
Rifts were previously referred to as Loot Runs. You'll earn Rift Keystone Fragments by completing bounties, which can then be combined to to open a Rift. These randomly generated areas have randomly generated monsters, so you could end up with Act III monsters on an Act I tileset. Or rooms full of treasure goblins. Or cows! - New Difficulty system
The concept of Normal / Nightmare / Hell / Inferno is retired. Campaign mode monsters will now automatically scale to your level, so you can repeat as certain areas as uch as you want and keep leveling effectively. Additional monster affixes show up somewhere around levels 30, 50 and 60.
The new system uses Normal, Hard, Expert, Master, and Torment I - VI for a total of 10 difficulty settings. This makes the difficulty somewhat analogous to the /players command from Diablo II, or Monster Power from Diablo III. - Enchanting & Transmogrification (RoS only)
The Mystic finally shows up and offers enchanting and transmog services.
Enchanting allows you to replace 1 property on an item with a randomly generated new property. It gives you multiple stats to choose from, including the original. This means you won't necessarily make a better item, but you aren't forced to make it worse. If your first try doesn't work out, you can enchant it again, but only for the stat you initially decided to replace.
Transmog is much like the system in World or Warcraft, allowing players to change the appearance of their gear. New appearances will be unlocked by leveling your mystic and identifying set/legendary items that drop in Loot 2.0. We can finally use colored dyes on legendaries!
"Ladders"
A ladder-like system, called Seasons, will be added in the first major content patch. More information on this is coming soon.
Tiered Rifts
This is essentially a competitive challenge, entering increasingly hard Rifts to see how far you can get. When you complete a Rift you may find a Greater Rift Token. Using the token to complete a "Greater Rift"(?) will get you a Greater Rift Key (rank 2), and so on. Again, more info coming soon.
A ladder-like system, called Seasons, will be added in the first major content patch. More information on this is coming soon.
Tiered Rifts
This is essentially a competitive challenge, entering increasingly hard Rifts to see how far you can get. When you complete a Rift you may find a Greater Rift Token. Using the token to complete a "Greater Rift"(?) will get you a Greater Rift Key (rank 2), and so on. Again, more info coming soon.
Finally, some other helpful resources from the previous OP:
- Crusader Guide - Blizzard's Crusader page, including Skill Calculator
- Diablofans.com - News, Forums, Patch Notes
- r/diablo - Diablo Subreddit
- Diablo.somepage - News, Guides, Class / Item Rankings
- D3Lexicon.com - News, Updates
- battle.net - Official Blizzard Game Guide
- Blue Post tracker - D3DB
- Thanks to Previous Thread makers @Skab, @GoodKingJayIII, @Bethryn, @Shen, @SkutSkut, @HexDex, and @_J_
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And I love the Merch added to the logo.
D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter
But it's too perfect, especially with the intended clan name.
D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter
Is it gonna be a download (probably not, given it's size) or something Kane's Wrath/Enemy Within (rerelease+expansion, which is probably more likely)?
Assume based on the previous release that all of the major consoles (sorry Nintendo =/) will see a version of RoS. It's just a question of when, and in what format. No details of which have yet to be released.
D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter
If true, it looks like pre-purchasing RoS will also unlock the Demon Hunter in Heroes of the Storm when that comes out.
The game was actually difficult the way I played. Showed me the true face of the game; remember the "You will die" stuff from Blizzcon? That's pretty much the game without the auction house.
D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter
It mentioned the Imperius Wings as a pre-purchase bonus too. Since we already know that's tied to the CE, the Demon Hunter Unlock could possibly be tied to digital deluxe and/or the CE.
Neat.
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Essentially, yes.
D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter
Will you be able to turn them into other mats at the Blacksmith like we could for the lower class stuff?
It seems easy enough to allow trade to a clan member with a join date older than the item's age... so I'm guessing that's just not in the item data, or they really want trade to be all or nothing.
Or that would just encourage a massive clan to form for item trading.
As for trading, they've said that their stance on friends trading is essentially the same as the AH - it's cool at first to receive awesome equipment from a friend, but it still skips you way ahead in the progression curve which deprives you of the enjoyment of doing it yourself. And no matter how many rules you apply to it, people will always figure out a way they can abuse it - taking a hard stance keeps things simple and prevents all those messy grey areas.
Lose: The opposite of win
Loose: Your mum
Nintendo ID: Incindium
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Nintendo ID: Incindium
PSN: IncindiumX
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Reaper of Souls has me much more interested at this point though and I only play 360 D3 when I'm playing local coop with my boy.
Nintendo ID: Incindium
PSN: IncindiumX
My iMac is from 2010, I don't think the hardware is good enough to play the game. Even if it is I'm not particularly crazy about having to play on "low".
I'm just gonna stick with the console version.
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Except for the inventory system, I prefer it over the PC version. Graphics are rougher tho, obviously.
I expect the friend requests to come pouring in.
D3: HexDex#1281, PSN: DireOtter, Live: DireOtter
Damn straight.