Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

Mures

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Got quite a few rifts in with guild groups yesterday and got lucky with a drop as well as generosity from guildies. Picked up my first cindercoat and magefist as well as 1 more set piece. I switched over to full fire build with mirrorball (still trying to get +2 version of that)

Not sure what to use for my last skill(s), what do you think? I have MM and Meteor as the two mains, then familiar/sparkflint and magic weapon for my dps boosters. For the last two skills I am using Archon for the single target DPS and then blackhole/blazar but I'm not sure if that is really doing anything for me.
I'd personally swap out archon for teleport unless it really takes you too long to kill shit. Black hole provides a lot of damage and utility holding mobs in place for meteors and out of melee range of you. I'm building cdr where I can so I'm gtg if I ever get a wand of woh, so teleport and black hole are up very often.
 

Deathwing

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Been running my hardcore crusader for a few hours now at 70 (shelved my HC WD this past week), My first legendary was Darklight(48% chance of a double cast of fist of heaven), So I used it for a pretty fun Holy mage type build, even if it was a subpar roll and 1handers in general are fairly weak given how weak in general crusader passives are. Now about 4 hours later I got a maximus with a 20% Fire dmg roll...

Fire crusader is actually pretty fun, much more powerful for sure than the holy build I was using. But now I'll need to get cindercoat or magefists to really finish up the set... Also don't really like how I have much more limited choice in terms of builders. Although at least I have 2 viable wrath spenders.
Fire better than holy on a crusader? Even with substantial +fire%, shattering throw will outperform combust. Not sure what other spender you're using. Fire hammer? Kinda bad.
 

Brahma

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Is there any room in either guild? I keep getting scrub invites...

Any of you Crusaders have any tips on farming your class gear?
 

Mr Creed

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Is there a way to assign a 'move' command on my mouse and actually use a different key for the skill that's usually on left mouse? A cursory glance through key bindings implies that this cant be done without keyboard shenanigans.


I think they absolutely could buff legendary drop rates another 100% or at least give a chance for forgotten souls to drop off elites not affected by legendary timer because I have 3 or 4 items I've been trying to reroll on my main, but I'm out of souls. Thats also not even trying to improve rolls I have already gotten. And then I have several items I'd like to reroll on an alt and several pieces I'd like to craft for another alt. Also as many have mentioned the same fucking option should never be there more than once on rerolls. I didn't get a single fucking soul/legendary last night in about 2 and 1/2 hours play about half spent in t1 and the other half in t3.
I think if you need souls doing rifts that you can quickly clear is the way to go, doubled drop rate and chance at the soul from the guardian. Buffing rates wouldnt be terrible I guess,but I think putting them on elites is too much.

I spent all day yesterday getitng craft mats to crank out some set parts and Malthael bracers, that activity was also light on legendaries/souls, but shakes up the routine a bit. I do like that there is some variety through bounties, getting the legendary craft mats and doing rifts. I cringe at the suggestions that want to turn rifts into their 'one stop - shop all' solution so you never have to do anything else. That's gonna get boring faster then the current situation.


None of you wizards get bored that 2-4 of your active abilities are essentially passives?
I'm usually limiting myself to one passive (magic weapon with deflection or force depending on torment level) and use more utility spells. Teleport is not coming off my bar, and recently I'm starting to like diamond skin with the explosion rune. It's probably weaker then the straight 10% from familiar but more fun.
 

Punko

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Started botting again due to lack of progress.

8 hours, zero loot of interest, only set item was a Litany, other legs all instant-salvage quality. At least its DB doing the effort while I am afk.

God this game is terrible. Lets hope I get enough gear for a new build, somehow.
 

Punko

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Any of you Crusaders have any tips on farming your class gear?
Use the bug they fixed 3-4 weeks ago.

Seriously, exploiting T6 with damage shield is what created many of these well-geared crusaders you see. Sure as hell isn't their slowpoke manual farming
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Attog

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I think my dps is high enough that I don't need archon anymore, just hard to let it go. What rune are you guys using on Teleport?
 

Mr Creed

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I think botting due to lack of progress is pointless - at that point you're botting just to bot more efficiently in the future, because every upgrade pushes the next one even further out. That's like keeping an MMO sub doing and just logging in for dailies or raids without needing any of the rep/stuff 'because what else am I to do' ... when I get to that point I tend to just put the game in question away for a while (or forever).
 

Tenks

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Yeah disliking the game and thinking botting will magically solve your dislike is about the stupidest argument pro-botting.
 

Mr Creed

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I think my dps is high enough that I don't need archon anymore, just hard to let it go. What rune are you guys using on Teleport?
The one that stuns with 230ish% dmg AE. Wormhole is ok too but there's a source for that.
 

Ao-

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You guys really should be doing RIF(Rift It Forward). 1.5 hours last night, a bit under 1k shards, 14 souls, decent amount of gold and xp, and the cost was 30 frags. Until they fix the retarded drop system, might as well abuse the fuck out of it. Warning: leeching RIF is boring. You can be a runner, it will cost you less frags and will up your drops, but you'll get less souls and shards.

As for the mystic, fuck that bitch. Spent most of those souls and 7M gold trying to get a blessed shield affix on my Aughild's helm, no luck. Sharded the piece out of frustration. Seriously thinking about self-imposing a limit on rerolling. Unless the rest of the stats are REALLY well rolled, I stop after 5 rerolls. Gold cost is just too exorbitant after that.
What's the process for RIF? I'm all up for abusing shit.



And when it rains it sprinkles! All my complaining about set drops must have done something... Set offhand (the weapon/offhand one) and Blackthorne belt both dropped within 15 minutes of each other. Pretty good time. Must have been the drinking.
 

Deathwing

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Yeah disliking the game and thinking botting will magically solve your dislike is about the stupidest argument pro-botting.
I somewhat disagree. If you play the game to try new gear and builds but the gear isn't dropping for you, botting might solve that.

What's the process for RIF? I'm all up for abusing shit.



And when it rains it sprinkles! All my complaining about set drops must have done something... Set offhand (the weapon/offhand one) and Blackthorne belt both dropped within 15 minutes of each other. Pretty good time. Must have been the drinking.
Join the RIF community. If you want to leech, sit in the channel and wait for someone to advertise that a rift guardian is up, blah blah blah opens the next one. Request invite, join, kill guardian, and if you fit the blah blah blah criteria, you have to open the next rift. Leave game, repeat.

If you're a runner, you open the first rift yourself, clear to guardian, then advertise in channel that you have one up, X spots open, blah blah blah opens next.

That's it.
 

Tenks

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I somewhat disagree. If you play the game to try new gear and builds but the gear isn't dropping for you, botting might solve that.
I don't think the game's combat system is deep enough for it to not be a carrot-on-stick luck based loot system. Would I love to have the EQ set? Yes. Do I think running the EQ set will somehow be "more fun" than my current setup? Hardly. So I bot to get the EQ set. I get no sense of satisfaction in acquiring it myself and I never get the "thrill of the drop" when I open up some random ass white chest and the green beam fires. Then what do I do with the game? I play it for absolutely no reason since I could just bot to get the gear anyways?

It just doesn't connect
 

Tenks

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What's the process for RIF? I'm all up for abusing shit.



And when it rains it sprinkles! All my complaining about set drops must have done something... Set offhand (the weapon/offhand one) and Blackthorne belt both dropped within 15 minutes of each other. Pretty good time. Must have been the drinking.
It isn't really abusing anything. It is just like in clan chat where people advertise guardians open but then with a pay-it-forward sceme where you open the next portal for the runner. The determination for who opens varies on the runner but it is generally either: first in, last in, highest paragon level, lowest paragon level. It is basically a win/win. I'd do it but I generally turn my brain off during rifts and forget to advertise my guardians until they're already dead.
 

Mr Creed

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I somewhat disagree. If you play the game to try new gear and builds but the gear isn't dropping for you, botting might solve that.
There are a couple of builds that are difficult to use without certain items, agreed. But if someone wants to try new builds, he could try the ones that dont require such specific gear in the interim, instead of not-playing the game until you are given the gear by your demonbuddy. There are alot of possible builds once they look past the 'T6 soloing BiS everywhere' streams.

The thing is, trying alot of different builds comes with using worse equipment in many cases. I dont have a perfect +cold setup for my barb although I'd be curious to try. I might give it a spin with +cold rares in the missing slots soon. And that works, but it's not gonna work at T4 right away because I'm using a weaker build and weaker gear. For most people that is unacceptable, so botting it is!! I know I'm pretty alone with that opinion here but that's a stupid approach to an arpg.
 

Tenks

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Dicking around and tweaking/inventing new builds is really fun for me. I know some people just follow streamer's word like gospel but every time I tune in they're just doing weird shit in T6 that doesn't even look fun. Like wizards kiting infinitely or Barbs just triple quaking then running around until leap gets off cooldown. I was running my fury spender-less build last night to test it out compared to my traditional HOTA build and it actually works fairly well. I haven't even heard a single barb bring up Berserker's Rage as a possible idea. To me it makes sense especially with the EQ set. Free 25% damage for just leapquaking. For me it makes my SoH bolts hit like a freight train.
 

Nola

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Yeah think on my next days off from work I will RIF to gamble my ass off. Need the pet mask, T&T gloves, Smk and tons of other shit for WD.