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  1. Skinner

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    This thread is more entertaining than D4 beta.
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    I’m not going to defend DI; I and others have wrote extensively enough regarding both the good and bad regarding that game. I do want to point out some irony though in that it seems like everyone loves to shit on DI without even playing it yet many of those same people are so eager to get their...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Source is the 25+ people in my DI immortal clan whose opinions I trust who all played the other betas and tested endgame and echoed the same thing exactly: Necro blazes through the early game and by end game you’re going to be switching to Druid or Barb for the higher difficulities. But like...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Supposidly Necro starts to slow down midgame and struggles a bit compared to many of the classes at endgame. Didn’t get to play too much but beta so far seems fine. Out of all the 3 main games in the series so far it feels closest to the original to me, which for me is a good thing. It seems...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    They ever sell out of their super duper limited “collection box” that comes with a singular fake candle and no game? If anything I’m surprised how many are trying this beta. Sad that the biggest complaint seems to be the game feels pretty bland and I’m not even sure that was a complaint with...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Candle! You don't even get two! It's a misleading picture to show both "sides" of the singular candle and Blizzard doesn't bother to note that other than by saying candle at the bottom in the description. The D3 collectors edition got shit on too but for $100 you got the actual (physical)...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    $100 "collectors box" doesn't include the game, lol. Limited to 50,000 on the 15th from B.net store. Candle of Creation (electric) Cloth Map of Sanctuary Diablo IV Collector’s Edition Art Book Occult Mousepad Pin of the Horadrim Two Matted Fine Art Prints Sized 18.54” x 10.79” Standard...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    To the absolute surprise of no one… https://www.eurogamer.net/diablo-4-development-plagued-by-chaos-and-mismanagement-claims-new-report?fbclid=IwAR3yp1JnjhqpJumpD-EdqA6L5xfRcKhVlyT63VU3mH1B7vGF_Gdjq3G7fMU
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    What did you just read?

    Has anyone read the Sword of Kaigen? Thoughts?
  10. Skinner

    The Black Company

    I might be passing too, or at the very least this won’t be a day one pickup. I asked in the Grimoak Press group if there was any possibility for them to pick up the series but it sounds like because MIdworld picked it up the rights are potentially locked, which means with Glen’s age that this...
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    The Black Company

    Yeah I noticed that too with the centering and the title font feels weird to me. Only thing I can think of is that the guy is trying to keep his books at $100 or less because at $150 - $200 you enter into Sub Press/Grim Oak/Curious King/Suntup territory and he probably knows he can't compete...
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    The Black Company

    Preorder Saturday, November 19th 12:00 PM Central US/Canada Only from main site. 500 Copies, Signed/Numbered $90.00 (Shipping/Tax you’re looking at $120ish) I know people who like books tend to be picky over them so I just want to caution again that Midworld Press is still a relatively new fine...
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    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Just got the invite but i’m not really enthused to download the 70 gigs to try it out after DI. Can anyone comment on first impressions?
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    The Black Company

    Not sure how I feel about Kai’s art either. He’s definitely nowhere close to the worst I’ve seen but he’s far from Tommy Arnold and Marc Simonetti. Either way apparently Glen Cook personally approved Kai and his page art selection so looks like we’re stuck with it if you’re interested in a...
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    Diablo Immortal

    I had almost no expectations for this “major content patch” and they still managed to surprise me with how little they’re actually offering. I guess the best thing about DI is that it has appropriately removed any hype I could ever have with D4.
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    Guild Wars 2

    Just catching up on this thread and the only thing I have to add is lol @ the reddit idiots who were outraged over the discord balance leaks from that dev. Back when the layoffs happened one of the guys laid off bragged on reddit over how his most memorable and proudest contribution was...
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    Diablo Immortal

    Good now they need to put serious effort in cracking down on spooners/scripters/botters. I don’t understand why companies these days are unwilling to hire one minimum wage GM who can pop down to the popular cheating destinations once a day, mass kick/ban them, then move on. It’s the same shit...
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    Diablo Immortal

    The fraud doesn’t bother me that much because I never took this game seriously. I just can’t. It’s a diablo IP that’s ”competitive/pvp” focused but the IP has never been about being competitive nor pvp. People in world chat brag about smashing others in things like vault while 5k+ reso and I...
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    Diablo Immortal

    Wrecking Shadow’s Vault runs as an Immortal feels pretty damn good. Didn’t think I’d like it but Immortal feels so much better than being Shadow. The lack of content is really hitting hard though and new raids every month isn’t going to cut it.
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    Diablo Immortal

    So my clan allied with two others (one a chinese whale clan who carried us in the final battle) and we managed to beat the super whale clan and their 2 sister whale guilds in the rite and the whale alliance absolutely lost their shit for a solid 45 minutes in chat. If nothing else playing the...
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    Diablo Immortal

    1 gem power a day as an additional log in bonus would go a very long way in leveling the playing field over time without cutting into profits. I’m on the fence too starting to dangle over the other side about quitting. I basically just log in, shadow contract + overworld grind out 2 levels...
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    Diablo Immortal

    PvP is either currently broken or DI devs one upped their record retardation with how rating and matchmaking works. Because some servers managed to overthrow the Immortals and others didn’t, some servers had their PvP rank reset while others are still ongoing. However, the game still matches...
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    Diablo Immortal

    The way Shadow War is implemented is quite possibly the shittiest, dumbest design to grace online gaming in the last two decades, if not possibly ever. I get upset when people use whales and legendary gems as their number one complaint of this game because DI truly has some of the dumbest most...
  24. Skinner

    Diablo Immortal

    Took longer this season than last. Lots of babies this cycle who will afk the second they sense a loss to preserve k/d/a. Ran into a couple cheaters too where primary target refused to lock on even with them standing in my face. 2 days away from end of bp and still no talk about whats in the...
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    Diablo Immortal

    Lull in gaming + being able to play this on the ipad while on the go is the reason I haven’t quit yet. The head Immortal guild on Eternal Conflict is doing everything in their power to make everyone really hate them (plus the majority are whales) so I might stay a bit longer for the drama and...
  26. Skinner

    Diablo Immortal

    What exactly is it that you’re even questioning?
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    Diablo Immortal

    This is 100% false. The #1 slot, sure, but bottom legendary and all of gold are full of non whales. This is more true for gold than it is legendary obviously. The inbalance in pvp and some of the bullshit thats allowed is more of an issue than some of the whaling. Barbs for example have a 6...
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    Diablo Immortal

    Okay, this is going to be a bit long but I want to elaborate: I made bottom Legendary just before cycle reset. Currently rank 10 gold 2 on new reset. I go against whales daily. Sub 300 res, fully FTP with not a single cent given, two 2* gems with the rest all 1* and no gem above rank 3...
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    Diablo Immortal

    Blizzard dev released some info on daily caps: To make the game somewhat tolerable they need to remove the limit on the weekly embers so people can grind rifts for a chance at a 5 star pull.
  30. Skinner

    Diablo Immortal

    Which proves the point exactly. Guys still in low elo. What server/region is he on? I thought all server event timers were linked but PvP doesn’t open up till 10pm Est for me. Edit: He’s Rank 16 DH as Silver V on his server…lol. Battlegrounds PvP first places you in a match with people on...
  31. Skinner

    Diablo Immortal

    Yes, it has absolutely no impact above Silver, just like I said. As someone at the top of the leaderboards who consistently fights against Legendary rank and people with wings I stand behind that statement. Rich went 44-0-7 in Bronze as DH, which is the equivalent of Iron/Bronze in League of...
  32. Skinner

    Diablo Immortal

    I don’t think it’s just you because I felt exactly the same way regarding D3 and Diablo:Immortal is basically Diablo 3 on mobile with MT. Diablo and D2 just feels like a completely different IP compared to D3, which to me feels more like a badly developed indy fanfic. This game does deserve...
  33. Skinner

    Diablo Immortal

    yeah thats pretty much it. Each paragon level new drop is usually like +1 or +2 to stats but combat score is mostly the same until you pass the wall, unless you hit the rng jackpot on a triple stat drop.
  34. Skinner

    Diablo Immortal

    Yeah legendaries drop like crazy for me and I hit the soft cap within an hour or two. I do Bounties/Monster Essence/Shadow Contract at the same time and hit up each zone npc quest as I pass them and by the time I finish 5+ leg have dropped. Dungeon spam for an hour after hits my...
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    Diablo Immortal

    The pay2win in this game is awful but I could at least tolerate it if I was allowed to actually play the game, but I can’t, because everything is literally hard/soft capped. Theres a limit to the amount of leg/set pieces that can drop per day before they become impossibly rare. Theres a limit...
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    Diablo Immortal

    What rank was he?
  37. Skinner

    Diablo Immortal

    Did the shadow war today. Both clans were capped at 100 but 22 and 24 only managed to show up. We prepped, put on our pvp gear/pvp tailored skills and strategized a bit. The arena opens up, we go in, event starts after making us wait an eternity and . . . . . . it’s a PvE DPS Race event...
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    The Black Company

    I’m necroing this thread. Midworld Press, a small, rather new small press specialty publisher are publishing their signed/numbered version of The Black Company and preorders will begin (hopefully) sometime late this year. Kai Carpenter is doing the artwork. Expect the price to be somewhere...
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    Guild Wars 2

    EoD day 1 nerfs across the board for Ele, including Cata. Then they buffed Cata. Then a couple weeks later they nerfed Cata again. Several weeks ago they then nerfed Staff Ele (Yes seriously) and the Flame Greatsword Elite Skill 5 in WvW (Damage was further nerfed and the max number of...
  40. Skinner

    The Joe Abercrombie Thread

    I know most on FoH aren’t book collectors and (rightfully imo) squawk at paying a premium for small/limited speciality press editions, but I figured I’d post this here anyway: CuriousKings are publishing 3 editions of the original First Law trilogy - Standard, Numbered, and Lettered, which will...