Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

You don't get MF with playing on torment right? Isn't it just a group/gear thing?

According to the torment slider you get increased legendary chances per level of Torment. I've not seen the numbers as to what amount of increase that is.

Mudcrush Durtfeet_sl said:

The explanation for difficulty level does say that higher levels of torment have higher chance of legendaries dropping.

As you WILL want xp as well as legendaries, I *highly* recommend that one play the highest level of torment that you can while still rapidly killing stuff (and completing quests). One group I was with favored running keeps act 3 at torment 5. The xp was *amazing*, and we got legendaries while doing it (about 90 minutes of play, multiple drops).

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I can't check right now because the game is down, but the only explanation I remember seeing about loot in torment difficulty is that there are certain level 70 legendaries that only drop in torment. There is no increased magic find drop rate based on the difficulty you are playing.

You do get +10% MF per player in your game.

It's still early to know for sure, but initially it looks like legendary droprates are unaffected by mf/torment, or if they do benefit from it it isn't a large enough bonus to overcome being able to clear an entire act on normal in 1/10th the time of torment.

Reduced the frequency of chest spawns in areas that were previously a little too generous.*

They really are slowing bringing it back to prepatch status AKA shit. Next they will say epics will no longer drop from barrels and chests at all anymore.

Hatorade_sl said:

Reduced the frequency of chest spawns in areas that were previously a little too generous.*

They really are slowing bringing it back to prepatch status AKA shit. Next they will say epics will no longer drop from barrels and chests at all anymore.

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Epics never dropped from them anyway

:^)

I have had epics drop from destructibles, chests, normal mobs, rare/unique mobs, and bosses. My loot goblin has only dropped rares so far. I have gotten somewhere in the 30's in total legendaries dropped to include recipes.

The amount of time played has been going from paragon 8 to 51. I solo run with my Wizard on Torment 2, it is the most efficient method for me in the amount of time it takes to kill for the xp and mf/gf bonus. I have also Torment 1 on my DH and Barb with also good results. I have not ventured past Act 3, and most of my runs have been strictly Act 1 as I find a lot of legendaries seem to drop there, as opposed to Act 2 (that may strictly be RNG though). I have no complaints about the xp or the drop rate considering how much of a grind v1 before major gameplay patch changes were getting past Inferno, and the complete lack of legendary drops I got for leveling up 3 60s past Inferno and one 53 which netted me exactly 3 dropped legendaries. All my other legendary gear has been gotten by grinding for gold. This patch has really changed the game a lot of terms of enjoyability. Not a whole lot to complain about for me.

I just wish this had been Diablo 3 from launch, I will never understand game devs stubbornness to venture to a completely different formula when Diablo 2 was so revered.

I've had a legendary drop from a barrel since the patch as well, although only one. Far less than the number from other sources.

I'm loving the game again, the patch is very fun, but seriously how do they fuck up a small hotfix patch day and take the game down virtually all day. Blizzard, you're better than this.

Hatorade_sl said:

Reduced the frequency of chest spawns in areas that were previously a little too generous.*

They really are slowing bringing it back to prepatch status AKA shit. Next they will say epics will no longer drop from barrels and chests at all anymore.

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What's funny is Whimsyshire is still in its insanely nerfed state, none of the clouds drop anything except occasional gold.

Vinyard_sl said:

Epics never dropped from them anyway

:^)

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Yeah they did (prepatch). I've gotten a legendary from an urn in fall 2012. It was certainly not a common thing though.

an accordion_sl said:

What's funny is Whimsyshire is still in its insanely nerfed state, none of the clouds drop anything except occasional gold.

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On the plus side there's no longer a pause when you click those clouds, so overall a good thing.

Whimsy is awesome if you have the legendary belt that gives +125% damage for 10 seconds after opening chests. I just run around in uber mode. Too bad legendaries don't drop worth dick there.

I haven't read through all the pages here but I saw that new weapons aren't rolling crit damage. Did they remove it from old weapons or leave it on? Just wondering if my Skorn is gonna be terrible now.

They didn't remove it from old weapons, and legendaries can still have crit damage, like manticore still automatically rolls it. I'm guessing Skorn still has crit damage too.