Some streamers had been saying death Knight, but lately I’ve been hearing Inquisitor.
The official site has a silhouette for the 5th spot at the campfire, which appears to be at least somewhat robed with some chunky looking gauntlets.
Yeah a holy jackass seems like the more likely way to split the difference.
Remember Diablo already has Blood Knights (red eyes in full plate, maybe corrupted Tristram soldiers) and Death Knights (undead fighter/mages in the Chaos Sanctuary), so D4 would have to be real careful how they distinguish a dark magic plate guy from those demons, especially in the name.
Or it can just be a "special" one that broke the corruption (which would be super Blizzard writing) I feel like diablo has pretty free reign to invent things under the standard fantasy rationale of "a wizard did it."
Some streamers had been saying death Knight, but lately I’ve been hearing Inquisitor.
The official site has a silhouette for the 5th spot at the campfire, which appears to be at least somewhat robed with some chunky looking gauntlets.
Yeah a holy jackass seems like the more likely way to split the difference.
Remember Diablo already has Blood Knights (red eyes in full plate, maybe corrupted Tristram soldiers) and Death Knights (undead fighter/mages in the Chaos Sanctuary), so D4 would have to be real careful how they distinguish a dark magic plate guy from those demons, especially in the name.
Or it can just be a "special" one that broke the corruption (which would be super Blizzard writing) I feel like diablo has pretty free reign to invent things under the standard fantasy rationale of "a wizard did it."
I'm guessing literal demons or angels as player characters is a no-go for Diablo lore, they'll all be human. Humans using demon power is fine though.
Some streamers had been saying death Knight, but lately I’ve been hearing Inquisitor.
The official site has a silhouette for the 5th spot at the campfire, which appears to be at least somewhat robed with some chunky looking gauntlets.
Yeah a holy jackass seems like the more likely way to split the difference.
Remember Diablo already has Blood Knights (red eyes in full plate, maybe corrupted Tristram soldiers) and Death Knights (undead fighter/mages in the Chaos Sanctuary), so D4 would have to be real careful how they distinguish a dark magic plate guy from those demons, especially in the name.
Or it can just be a "special" one that broke the corruption (which would be super Blizzard writing) I feel like diablo has pretty free reign to invent things under the standard fantasy rationale of "a wizard did it."
I'm guessing literal demons or angels as player characters is a no-go for Diablo lore, they'll all be human. Humans using demon power is fine though.
That was part of the Demon Hunter's schtick in Diablo 3, wasn't it?
Some streamers had been saying death Knight, but lately I’ve been hearing Inquisitor.
The official site has a silhouette for the 5th spot at the campfire, which appears to be at least somewhat robed with some chunky looking gauntlets.
Yeah a holy jackass seems like the more likely way to split the difference.
Remember Diablo already has Blood Knights (red eyes in full plate, maybe corrupted Tristram soldiers) and Death Knights (undead fighter/mages in the Chaos Sanctuary), so D4 would have to be real careful how they distinguish a dark magic plate guy from those demons, especially in the name.
Or it can just be a "special" one that broke the corruption (which would be super Blizzard writing) I feel like diablo has pretty free reign to invent things under the standard fantasy rationale of "a wizard did it."
Seems like Diablo 4 is specifically shying away from "specific" concepts though and hemming towards "generic." Like they've really broadened the Rogue concept from Sister of the Sightless Eye to literally whatever origin. Even something like the Crusader, elite Paladins sworn to find true Zakarum, seems too particular. So "Leoric's soldiers (or even random demons?) but one of them threw off their corruption" is really hyper specific.
I'm sure they can still figure out some dark magic fighter if they wanted, I'm just cautioning that it probably won't be literally the WoW class because it's just too close to what are established demons in the world of Sanctuary. I'd even go so far as to call the Blood Knights "iconic" (as seen entering the Chaos Sanctuary) and they have to be real careful not to replicate that kind of imagery IMO.
Some streamers had been saying death Knight, but lately I’ve been hearing Inquisitor.
The official site has a silhouette for the 5th spot at the campfire, which appears to be at least somewhat robed with some chunky looking gauntlets.
Yeah a holy jackass seems like the more likely way to split the difference.
Remember Diablo already has Blood Knights (red eyes in full plate, maybe corrupted Tristram soldiers) and Death Knights (undead fighter/mages in the Chaos Sanctuary), so D4 would have to be real careful how they distinguish a dark magic plate guy from those demons, especially in the name.
Or it can just be a "special" one that broke the corruption (which would be super Blizzard writing) I feel like diablo has pretty free reign to invent things under the standard fantasy rationale of "a wizard did it."
I'm guessing literal demons or angels as player characters is a no-go for Diablo lore, they'll all be human. Humans using demon power is fine though.
That was part of the Demon Hunter's schtick in Diablo 3, wasn't it?
I always get a good chuckle when I play as a Necromancer and then I pick up the Crusader as my companion. He's talking about righteous vengeance and I'm over here like, "Hey, you going to use that corpse?".
I'm planning on playing a Necro in the next season. Seeing as the next season is the season of the follower, and followers are getting a big rework, is there any early indication from the PTR on which follower will be best for the necro? I'll probably be soloing the first night specifically to try out the new follower stuff.
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I'm planning on playing a Necro in the next season. Seeing as the next season is the season of the follower, and followers are getting a big rework, is there any early indication from the PTR on which follower will be best for the necro? I'll probably be soloing the first night specifically to try out the new follower stuff.
If you're going minions it's gotta be the Enchantress (at least at first) because you can give her your cast off +INT gear
If you're a non-minion necro the Templar's tanking abilities can close the gap on early squishiness but don't expect him to do much damage without +STR gear
Personally I'll eventually gamble some bows for the Scoundrel if I'm a minion necro - my skellys always look confused when their opponents turn into chickens
Some streamers had been saying death Knight, but lately I’ve been hearing Inquisitor.
The official site has a silhouette for the 5th spot at the campfire, which appears to be at least somewhat robed with some chunky looking gauntlets.
Yeah a holy jackass seems like the more likely way to split the difference.
Remember Diablo already has Blood Knights (red eyes in full plate, maybe corrupted Tristram soldiers) and Death Knights (undead fighter/mages in the Chaos Sanctuary), so D4 would have to be real careful how they distinguish a dark magic plate guy from those demons, especially in the name.
Or it can just be a "special" one that broke the corruption (which would be super Blizzard writing) I feel like diablo has pretty free reign to invent things under the standard fantasy rationale of "a wizard did it."
I'm guessing literal demons or angels as player characters is a no-go for Diablo lore, they'll all be human. Humans using demon power is fine though.
That was part of the Demon Hunter's schtick in Diablo 3, wasn't it?
Supposed to be, they didn't do nearly enough with it.
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Almost everything (potentially) interesting about the character classes was passed up for "Yer a Nephilim, Harry!"
Not that I disliked the Nephilim stuff, I think D3 is a decent chapter in the Diablo world, but it's got some definite gaps in defining much more than the Heaven and Hell conflict
I agree that the Nephilim stuff goes on quite a bit in D3.
The other part of the story that always gets me is Deckard Cain's veneration of heroes. After a while dude started to creep me out. Once he died I hope he has that friend that will go and clear his hard drive.
Some streamers had been saying death Knight, but lately I’ve been hearing Inquisitor.
The official site has a silhouette for the 5th spot at the campfire, which appears to be at least somewhat robed with some chunky looking gauntlets.
Yeah a holy jackass seems like the more likely way to split the difference.
Remember Diablo already has Blood Knights (red eyes in full plate, maybe corrupted Tristram soldiers) and Death Knights (undead fighter/mages in the Chaos Sanctuary), so D4 would have to be real careful how they distinguish a dark magic plate guy from those demons, especially in the name.
Or it can just be a "special" one that broke the corruption (which would be super Blizzard writing) I feel like diablo has pretty free reign to invent things under the standard fantasy rationale of "a wizard did it."
I'm guessing literal demons or angels as player characters is a no-go for Diablo lore, they'll all be human. Humans using demon power is fine though.
That was part of the Demon Hunter's schtick in Diablo 3, wasn't it?
I always get a good chuckle when I play as a Necromancer and then I pick up the Crusader as my companion. He's talking about righteous vengeance and I'm over here like, "Hey, you going to use that corpse?".
Yeah, followers comments are good for a chuckle.
"Let's fight more like that one!"
"You idiot! That son of a bitch just killed us both 3 times before we managed to kite it around enough to kill it. And then it exploded and killed you again."
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*Spawns Elites using Nemesis Bracers*
*Shadow Clone explodes all Elites in a nanosecond*
Templar: "I'll be telling that story for a while!"
Me: "Dude we couldn't even see them before they became loot!"
I don't know how I feel about the follower changes. I mean, they are good. No doubt. But you get zero benefit when playing multiplayer. And next season... has no theme other than the follower changes? So its a single player season?
TMH 110s a week later is great too, but gets too sporadic. Maybe we could collectively hold interest longer by coordinating through the underused discord channel?
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On the rare occasion that these seasons have something interesting going on, I don't really feel the need to push myself very far anymore, got so many other games to play and grinding out 1000 paragon levels and trying for primal gear drops that are relevant just don't much do it for me.
I can make it as far as completing the whole season journey, and making sure to try out any of the new big changes...but that's about it. I never really enjoyed too much high GR pushing solo, and never got to try anything but higher-ish GR farming in a group.
I've been happy to stick around to do things with others for the company for a while, but with (practically) no one sticking around long that doesn't really last. Anyone who does ends up being on a quite different time schedule than me.
Still, it's a fun couple weeks every season at least.
This will be the first time I have played at the start of a season. I just started playing a couple of months ago. Buckeye_Bert on PSN if anyone else is playing on that. 🙂
My Necro finally got all the important pieces for the Masquerade bone spear build and it’s like night and day compared to the piecemeal summoning build.
The haedrigs rotation is indeed changed, so it will be Wastes, Roland, UE, Raiment, Rathma, Helltooth, and Tal’s.
Changes:
- shorter duration on scoundrels crit fog
- nebulous animation speed change of wiz tele (faster?)
- LotD invincibility necro seems to be fixed
- more Rat 2pc procs, and now mentions permanent minions. Numbers adjusted to seemingly account for golem, while excluding mages.
- new bracers changed to increase Army damage and double the effect against the target(s) of command skeletons.
Firebirds expectedly nerfed, about 14-15 tiers of damage down from easy mode 150s. Should still be good, but unfortunately looks like it will be YET ANOTHER deathwish build (in GRs) with mirror images doing all the blades dmg for you. -_-
Hungering arrow pierces increased again to 4, so pretty good walking back of the GoD DH nerf.
The haedrigs rotation is indeed changed, so it will be Wastes, Roland, UE, Raiment, Rathma, Helltooth, and Tal’s.
Changes:
- shorter duration on scoundrels crit fog
- nebulous animation speed change of wiz tele (faster?)
- LotD invincibility necro seems to be fixed
- more Rat 2pc procs, and now mentions permanent minions. Numbers adjusted to seemingly account for golem, while excluding mages.
- new bracers changed to increase Army damage and double the effect against the target(s) of command skeletons.
Firebirds expectedly nerfed, about 14-15 tiers of damage down from easy mode 150s. Should still be good, but unfortunately looks like it will be YET ANOTHER deathwish build (in GRs) with mirror images doing all the blades dmg for you. -_-
Hungering arrow pierces increased again to 4, so pretty good walking back of the GoD DH nerf.
Ya I think I heard it’s actually even better for speeds now with the 6pc buff, and I think less fishy for pushing since you won’t need missile dampeners.
Wife and I dropped into a rift that had a room with 6 treasure goblins. I was furious that any of them got away (they're almost always Priority 1 targets)
I’m torn between doing something with an interesting LoD opener since it’s a nice change of pace, where you can kinda ignore the journey starting out... or blasting right into it with UE or Tals.
Maybe back to wiz after all, they have some LoD options.
I’m torn between doing something with an interesting LoD opener since it’s a nice change of pace, where you can kinda ignore the journey starting out... or blasting right into it with UE or Tals.
Maybe back to wiz after all, they have some LoD options.
Hoping I can play with people this round, will probably go wizard again.
When I spot you online in MWO I need to ping you so we can get you added to the PA group. My mind does not remember the PA chat thing that everybody can see and add you the night of the new season, or next day... Either way it is easier to get groups in the green chat thing than the brown chat thing. Yeah, I can't remember any of the correct terminology right now.
I’m torn between doing something with an interesting LoD opener since it’s a nice change of pace, where you can kinda ignore the journey starting out... or blasting right into it with UE or Tals.
Maybe back to wiz after all, they have some LoD options.
Do a 180 and go WD.
Spirit Barrage can be fun! But the rest of the class... oof. Feels like you have to work harder but also make less progress.
The multi-leaderboard has me thinking about this a bit differently.... might be fun to try to push with more than one set/LoD.
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Or it can just be a "special" one that broke the corruption (which would be super Blizzard writing) I feel like diablo has pretty free reign to invent things under the standard fantasy rationale of "a wizard did it."
Will Diablo 4 finally reveal the purpose of the Chat Gem?
I'm guessing literal demons or angels as player characters is a no-go for Diablo lore, they'll all be human. Humans using demon power is fine though.
That was part of the Demon Hunter's schtick in Diablo 3, wasn't it?
Seems like Diablo 4 is specifically shying away from "specific" concepts though and hemming towards "generic." Like they've really broadened the Rogue concept from Sister of the Sightless Eye to literally whatever origin. Even something like the Crusader, elite Paladins sworn to find true Zakarum, seems too particular. So "Leoric's soldiers (or even random demons?) but one of them threw off their corruption" is really hyper specific.
I'm sure they can still figure out some dark magic fighter if they wanted, I'm just cautioning that it probably won't be literally the WoW class because it's just too close to what are established demons in the world of Sanctuary. I'd even go so far as to call the Blood Knights "iconic" (as seen entering the Chaos Sanctuary) and they have to be real careful not to replicate that kind of imagery IMO.
I always get a good chuckle when I play as a Necromancer and then I pick up the Crusader as my companion. He's talking about righteous vengeance and I'm over here like, "Hey, you going to use that corpse?".
Magic Online - Bertro
I'm planning on playing a Necro in the next season. Seeing as the next season is the season of the follower, and followers are getting a big rework, is there any early indication from the PTR on which follower will be best for the necro? I'll probably be soloing the first night specifically to try out the new follower stuff.
If you're going minions it's gotta be the Enchantress (at least at first) because you can give her your cast off +INT gear
If you're a non-minion necro the Templar's tanking abilities can close the gap on early squishiness but don't expect him to do much damage without +STR gear
Personally I'll eventually gamble some bows for the Scoundrel if I'm a minion necro - my skellys always look confused when their opponents turn into chickens
Supposed to be, they didn't do nearly enough with it.
Not that I disliked the Nephilim stuff, I think D3 is a decent chapter in the Diablo world, but it's got some definite gaps in defining much more than the Heaven and Hell conflict
The other part of the story that always gets me is Deckard Cain's veneration of heroes. After a while dude started to creep me out. Once he died I hope he has that friend that will go and clear his hard drive.
Magic Online - Bertro
Yeah, followers comments are good for a chuckle.
"Let's fight more like that one!"
"You idiot! That son of a bitch just killed us both 3 times before we managed to kite it around enough to kill it. And then it exploded and killed you again."
*Shadow Clone explodes all Elites in a nanosecond*
Templar: "I'll be telling that story for a while!"
Me: "Dude we couldn't even see them before they became loot!"
I don't know how I feel about the follower changes. I mean, they are good. No doubt. But you get zero benefit when playing multiplayer. And next season... has no theme other than the follower changes? So its a single player season?
Can't say that finding people for story mode or conquests or whatever is easy though
TMH 110s a week later is great too, but gets too sporadic. Maybe we could collectively hold interest longer by coordinating through the underused discord channel?
Where I just got made-you-look’ed by @Bartholamue
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I've been happy to stick around to do things with others for the company for a while, but with (practically) no one sticking around long that doesn't really last. Anyone who does ends up being on a quite different time schedule than me.
Still, it's a fun couple weeks every season at least.
Magic Online - Bertro
The haedrigs rotation is indeed changed, so it will be Wastes, Roland, UE, Raiment, Rathma, Helltooth, and Tal’s.
Changes:
- shorter duration on scoundrels crit fog
- nebulous animation speed change of wiz tele (faster?)
- LotD invincibility necro seems to be fixed
- more Rat 2pc procs, and now mentions permanent minions. Numbers adjusted to seemingly account for golem, while excluding mages.
- new bracers changed to increase Army damage and double the effect against the target(s) of command skeletons.
Firebirds expectedly nerfed, about 14-15 tiers of damage down from easy mode 150s. Should still be good, but unfortunately looks like it will be YET ANOTHER deathwish build (in GRs) with mirror images doing all the blades dmg for you. -_-
Hungering arrow pierces increased again to 4, so pretty good walking back of the GoD DH nerf.
Like the walking back Hungering Arrow a bit.
Steam: betsuni7
Might be DH time again!
Steam: betsuni7
and that's not even the full log
There was probably over 40 goblins in this rift.
Holy cow!!! That is awesome.
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It was two massive groups, and then a couple of scattered pairs in later floors
I’ve come across a goblin rift only once, but yes they do exist
Maybe back to wiz after all, they have some LoD options.
Do a 180 and go WD.
Steam: betsuni7
Nintendo ID: Incindium
PSN: IncindiumX
When I spot you online in MWO I need to ping you so we can get you added to the PA group. My mind does not remember the PA chat thing that everybody can see and add you the night of the new season, or next day... Either way it is easier to get groups in the green chat thing than the brown chat thing. Yeah, I can't remember any of the correct terminology right now.
Steam: betsuni7
I’d not heard of it, but that camera rotation weirds me out. That’s like, against the rules or something!
I’ve been hearing about Last Epoch again, which also seems promising, but looks to still be early access for quite a while.
Spirit Barrage can be fun! But the rest of the class... oof. Feels like you have to work harder but also make less progress.
The multi-leaderboard has me thinking about this a bit differently.... might be fun to try to push with more than one set/LoD.