2012-07-04, 23:29 | Link #3061 |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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Grinding for gold while I watch youtube videos to alleviate boredom is not my idea of a good game. But I have no other choice.
There is no middle ground. I either have top end gear to survive against Inferno elites so I can farm them, or I can't so I go to Hell and Nightmare for gold farming. The fact that I lose 3000 gold when killed means this is the only way to go.
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2012-07-05, 00:23 | Link #3062 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Age: 30
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2012-07-05, 01:04 | Link #3063 | |
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 36
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That doesn't mean Diablo 3 in anyway the best game ever, but people keep making the big deal out of something that shouldn't happen. Do you love to ram your head to the wall and complain that the wall shouldn't exist in the first place?
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2012-07-05, 02:11 | Link #3064 | |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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2012-07-05, 02:46 | Link #3065 |
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Uber Tristam? That didn't even exist when D2 and LoD was released. Back then it was pretty much all about the grinding, doing endless boss runs. This game is no different well except for the fact you don't need to start over when you make a mistake with your talents/abilities.
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2012-07-05, 02:53 | Link #3066 |
Anime Snark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 41
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Outside of dying a dozen times every time you meet an Elite Pack (at which point you should probably re-evaluate your gear/skill setup), or refusing to pick up every gold pile you see, or ignoring all the Magical loot, I am having trouble understanding how one can lose money even on Inferno.
The game definitely gives you more gold than you need, so any gold loss will be due to the player's actions or mis-actions. A Reign of the Black King run will garner about 30-40k gold, and is generally one of the easiest Inferno runs. If you can clear Hell Act-4 comfortably, you should be able to clear this run competently. To negate that 30-40k gold, you will need to die about 10-12 times which is extremely excessive. A Warden & Butcher run will garner about 50-75k gold, depending on Elite pack spawns. That's about 20-35 deaths. Additionally, this is assuming that you have royally bad luck and find absolutely NOTHING of worth to sell on the Auction House, not even for chump change. Furthermore, you can salvage iLvl 61-63 junk Magic/Rare items for their Inferno crafting materials, and sell the dust for about a 1000g each. I have some issues with Inferno, in particular the damage level of the afterburn of Constructs' fireballs and from the Molten affix, but gaining gold is not one of them. ~~~~ ~~~~ If you want, you can add me on and I will run with you on a Warden & Butcher run and see what tips I can give you. Cheers.
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2012-07-05, 03:29 | Link #3067 |
Ass connoisseur
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Age: 37
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Any kind of kiting build is vastly harder to manage then a tank build. Trying to avoid being 1 or two-shot by elites who have ridiculous affixes like vortex/molten, or teleport/firechains...Or the infamous invulnerably minions..Is nigh impossible at some point. Wizards probably have it hardest unless they opt for a critical mass build, since they have few escapes. Some defensive buffs and spells, yeah, but they do little unless you're seriously stacked with resistances. Once you hit Inferno act III+ anyways. And you're basically pigeonholed into going teleport with illusionist passive, because it's truly the only way to escape a large number of elite affixes.
Pre-nerf it was the melee who had a hard time, but the nerf completely reversed that. Now elites only do like half damage, which make them far less of a threat to melee, but still plenty of a threat to dps builds since they can still only take a few hits at best. And they're most likely to die because of this, hence the high repair costs.
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2012-07-05, 05:49 | Link #3068 | |||
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Definition of top end is relative, but I'm sure Vallen means Inferno-viable gear. Anyhow, I think I've explained enough in the previous pages that he is part of the group that actually got knocked back, and for those of us that weren't it's just hard to comprehend. When you are able to crush Act 1 Inferno pre-patch, it feels like nothing. But imagine having half the dps and damage reduction. Quote:
And grinding in D2 is nothing like grinding in D3. Maybe because stuff actually drops in d2! And screwing up your character was lame, but hey, if I want to build a character with retarded shit, let me!
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2012-07-05, 09:58 | Link #3070 | |
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 36
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1) No.
2) Frost only. I've been considering frost as "selfish mage" and fire as "generous mage" for their passive . Unless I'm in a party of 4 wizards who are playing Frost, there is no way I'm going to use Cold Blood. Quote:
Note: that wand is the one I bought before, and I'm selling them at loss (same price as when I bought, and then apply the 15% tax). That feel when you see your shop deserted .
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2012-07-05, 11:07 | Link #3072 |
Anime Snark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 41
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I can't tell from the screenshot, but making a profit (not killing, just simple profit) from the Auction House also requires the right pricing. If you can sell an item for more than its vendor/salvage value, then you have made a profit.
I regularly sell items in the 5-10k range (desirable stats, but low range, hence good as "starter" Inferno gear), but generally speaking, due to the 10-item limit of the Auction House, I try to only list items that I feel are worth at least 25k. Although... sometimes it feels like nobody plays Witch Doctors, because I can never seem to sell the totems for anything. Compared to what Demon Hunters will pay for a good Rare Quiver or Monk melee weapons. Cheers.
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2012-07-05, 11:42 | Link #3073 | |
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 43
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I am essentially waiting for the Summon Health Buff that was promised, before I restart the character.
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2012-07-05, 11:49 | Link #3074 |
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 36
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Most of the time because I feel like it actually worth something, and I keep it for my friends, then they just tell me they have better stuff, so I'm just throwing them on the AH for the price around 5 - 10k, even 3 or 4k. Just feel like there are people who can find my stuff useful for them at lower price, and it's kinda wasted to just salvage them all.
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2012-07-05, 17:10 | Link #3076 |
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Well, D2 had more gold and green to offset the boringness, even if a lot of them sucked. But many low level green/gold items were really good for their levels, and I actually took some level 10-15 uniques to hell because they were pretty good til I could replace them.
Also, crafted items were a different color. Why didn't they even bother with this in d3? It makes it stand out. Or did the game designers think players were too stupid to differentiate between more than 3 colors?
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2012-07-05, 18:11 | Link #3077 |
Part-time misanthrope
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Anyone experience this? When I tried to login into my D3 account it told me that my name/pw was wrong and I had to reset it over the battle.net site. After finally getting into the account again my difficulty had been set back to normal for some reason. I'm not exactly sure if this is caused by overwriting progress up to my current quest but the gold was set back to 0 as well.
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2012-07-05, 18:26 | Link #3078 |
Ass connoisseur
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Age: 37
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Some people who were hacked only lost their gold, so it's possible you were. If you lost all your gold, good chance you were. Because outside of still having your chest content, all signs point towards that. Especially since you were sent back to normal mode, which is where all hacked victims end up.
In a nutshell, gg get an authenticator.
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2012-07-05, 19:34 | Link #3080 |
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It's definitely a breach. Gold, unfortunately is always useful, so it got taken-- I guess you had nothing else of value to steal, for better or for worse.
Contact support immediately and scan system for viruses or whatnot; change passwords. Can never be too safe. Anyhow, I'm thinking of what skills to use in on my hc wizard's templar. His healing seems to be so marginal and he doesn't heal you til you're low. As a result, I decided to turn him into a suicide fighter. Intimidate and Guardian should in theory have him throwing himself around to his death when I'm in trouble or getting lagged badly. Charge will have him stun enemies and intimidate goes along well with all of this as they get slowed for touching him as I run away when he's getting slaughtered. I also spent like 15k so he can do 70 dps. -_-; But with 1000 armor and his palty 2700 health, he can be a nice distraction. I'm mostly looking for a lag guarder. The goal here is that since monsters tend to ignore followers and they do crap damage anyways, I want to encourage him to get hit as much as possible. Because if he gets hit, and I don't, that's a good thing. I don't have to pay for durability, and more importantly I don't die. That means he's a tank and makes his pathetic existence useful for a few seconds before he dies and comes back again. I'll even endure his banal cool stories Edit: Well, my wizard survived being disconnected in front of a pack. I assume either I was able to brush off their crap or my templar was taking some hits for me. I am considering no longer solo'ing with my wizard. It's retarded that the greatest challenge comes from server instability.
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