Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls
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eXarc
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I am starting to feel the grind. I’m at 400 paragon, which I think is pretty good for my time played and only running solo. Looking at top tier builds though, for my Demon Hunter it looks like I have all of the foundational impale build equipment and some of it is pretty close to ideal rolls. The pieces that are not though, are taking fucking forever to upgrade properly.
On top of that, I just realized what it means to augment an item to rank 125 which is absolutely fucking insane that so many people have augmented max 125 in all possible slots with how much Greater Rift grinding that requires. I did not know what I was doing for a while with gems, so unfortunately I have numerous random level gems instead of focusing on one but lesson learned.
The only thing I do not like is that I essentially have to level up a gem to 125 on a gem that I will not really use because it will disappear when I augmented if I understand this correctly, meaning I should level up my useful greater rift gems first meaning that’s even more grinding.
I’m in a weird spot toughness wise though, I’m at greater rift 67 and I am still one shotting basically everything but I am also getting one shot easily if I am not careful. Trying to figure out how to add sustainability while keeping my damage high is tough at the point where I’m at, going to try and kamikaze up to 70 though to at least unlock Primals. On the bright side, I have every character back to 70 again except crusader which will happen soon. Looks like Monk is a lot of fun and I need a fast bounty running character anyway.
I have been running a support character on my player two and use her to just follow me around for auras and the XP and MF boost. I have been using necromancer for pets and auto corpse lance, but I am realizing how bad ass of a support character monks can be and think I am going to power level a side monk to run with instead. Any suggestions or ideas on that aspect?
On top of that, I just realized what it means to augment an item to rank 125 which is absolutely fucking insane that so many people have augmented max 125 in all possible slots with how much Greater Rift grinding that requires. I did not know what I was doing for a while with gems, so unfortunately I have numerous random level gems instead of focusing on one but lesson learned.
The only thing I do not like is that I essentially have to level up a gem to 125 on a gem that I will not really use because it will disappear when I augmented if I understand this correctly, meaning I should level up my useful greater rift gems first meaning that’s even more grinding.
I’m in a weird spot toughness wise though, I’m at greater rift 67 and I am still one shotting basically everything but I am also getting one shot easily if I am not careful. Trying to figure out how to add sustainability while keeping my damage high is tough at the point where I’m at, going to try and kamikaze up to 70 though to at least unlock Primals. On the bright side, I have every character back to 70 again except crusader which will happen soon. Looks like Monk is a lot of fun and I need a fast bounty running character anyway.
I have been running a support character on my player two and use her to just follow me around for auras and the XP and MF boost. I have been using necromancer for pets and auto corpse lance, but I am realizing how bad ass of a support character monks can be and think I am going to power level a side monk to run with instead. Any suggestions or ideas on that aspect?
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Impale is pretty tanky as long as you keep Vengeance up 100% of the time and keep vaulting for Elusive Ring. Life per kill as a minor attribute where you can get it adds to the life leech from Shadow Power.
You are correct that some pieces (ring and neck in particular, sometimes bracers and offhand as well) are hard to get a trifecta on. I usually try to get something with 2 out of 3 and call it good enough. A lot of times, it won't even be ancient.
You are also correct that the grind can be very real and it's worse when solo. When I played on console, I was primarily solo as well as I would keep playing in a season long after my friends had fallen off. It was especially bad finding people who knew how to do split bounties. On the gem leveling thing, no one spending a ton of time on any given run. They usually group up and spend no more than 2 minutes getting a key, and 3 minutes per GR. So if your group is not messing around, you can get a level 100 gem in an hour or so.
Bottom line, set a goal for yourself, whatever that might be and it doesn't need to be topping leaderboards because there's levels of grind above and beyond that as well. I was pretty happy hitting 100 this season and may try to get to 105 but will probably start tapering off soon.
You are correct that some pieces (ring and neck in particular, sometimes bracers and offhand as well) are hard to get a trifecta on. I usually try to get something with 2 out of 3 and call it good enough. A lot of times, it won't even be ancient.
You are also correct that the grind can be very real and it's worse when solo. When I played on console, I was primarily solo as well as I would keep playing in a season long after my friends had fallen off. It was especially bad finding people who knew how to do split bounties. On the gem leveling thing, no one spending a ton of time on any given run. They usually group up and spend no more than 2 minutes getting a key, and 3 minutes per GR. So if your group is not messing around, you can get a level 100 gem in an hour or so.
Bottom line, set a goal for yourself, whatever that might be and it doesn't need to be topping leaderboards because there's levels of grind above and beyond that as well. I was pretty happy hitting 100 this season and may try to get to 105 but will probably start tapering off soon.
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Fucker
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This game has some pretty fucking crazy scaling. I'm going to top out at 103 maayyybe 104 and that's it for me. I'm fine with this. My big goal for this season was to get the freebie gear. I put less than 6 hours into the game from S1 to the Necromancer pack and many hours before that. S16 has me logged many hours since then.
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Nola
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Probably has something to do with it being significantly easier to just look at the leaderboards to see actual results.
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Fucker
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That makes for a long season. People aren't going to want to live without the RORG buff, too.
This guy has weird priorities: "Makes some sense, by S16 you've exhausted all seasonal portrait frame sets added to the game. New ones need to be added."
eXarc
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Portrait frames bro. They’re important. How else do you know someone is good!?
Running random bounty and found the Tome of Set Dungeons in Manor. Had literally zero idea this was a thing, lmao. I had years of patch notes and stuff to catch up on and never got through it all. It seems pretty cool. About to go run my first one now on my DH. I checked the challengers and it says there are two pairs of Wings for completing all set dungeons, that seems pretty cool. Never seen any Wings drop in the world, not sure if it’s possible. I have gotten Legendary Potions and Pets though.
Running random bounty and found the Tome of Set Dungeons in Manor. Had literally zero idea this was a thing, lmao. I had years of patch notes and stuff to catch up on and never got through it all. It seems pretty cool. About to go run my first one now on my DH. I checked the challengers and it says there are two pairs of Wings for completing all set dungeons, that seems pretty cool. Never seen any Wings drop in the world, not sure if it’s possible. I have gotten Legendary Potions and Pets though.
Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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If you had already hit gr70 with ANY character prior to this season, then it is unavailable in non - seasonal.
For a character of THIS season, it is available once, on your first seasonal character of this season that attains GR70 or higher.
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eXarc
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Damn, so not possible without internet. That sucks. I busted ass without realizing, I thought that was just a general thing.
Judging from the drop rates seems unlikely I’ll ever get a useful Primal. Oh well!
About to start a go fund me for fucking moving to my new house to get internet in a reasonable amount of time, lol. Gaming without net is bullshit.
Judging from the drop rates seems unlikely I’ll ever get a useful Primal. Oh well!
About to start a go fund me for fucking moving to my new house to get internet in a reasonable amount of time, lol. Gaming without net is bullshit.
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You have to play a lot AND get very lucky. I have 15 primals and only one might be useful after this season ends.
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