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On September 28 2012 07:45 Cascade wrote:Show nested quote +On September 28 2012 07:15 WolfintheSheep wrote:On September 27 2012 23:15 Heh_ wrote:On September 27 2012 23:09 Durak wrote:On September 27 2012 22:50 zomgE wrote:On September 27 2012 20:52 Loomies wrote:
I started getting back into D3 since theres been alot of downtime for me. Currently a paragon level 31 monk and it's still surprising on how Blizzard rigged the drop rate. I'm not expecting a legendary/set piece every hour of farming but you seriously can't expect a typical person play DOZENS of hours and still not find a set piece. The few legendaries that I found the past 20 paragon levels were bad affixes and even 2 Izzuccob level 55 1h DH legendaries in Act 3 inferno.
It's really a slap in the face that Mike said this". On the flipside, we are also committed to ensuring you have a great experience with Diablo III without feeling like the auction house is mandatory, which was never our intention. Thank you for all the feedback about that." It seems like 1.0.5 will fix some of the problems but it's still baffling that they alot of people left the game. legendaries and sets aren't mandatory to easily beat the game or farm it. Still a little dumb to have played the game for 350 hours and yet never found a set item. I've also only found ~5 legendaries. They should have made more low level sets that had a lot of pieces and given them a higher drop chance. I remember playing D2 and I would find set items, albeit terrible, as I was playing through the game. They were fun to collect and then use on another character when you rolled something else. And then people will whine that they're finding crappy sets instead of the best ones. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Every other dungeon crawler in existence lets you get tons of the highest tier items, and many of them are crap. And most of those games were well acclaimed even after 4 months. You want to pretend that it's a Morton's Fork situation, but years of history disagree with you. Does any other of the big dungeon crawlers have a well developed and frequently used auction house like diablo 3? Honest question, I do not know. As I said above, I think the problem is the large number of players, and that a large fraction use the auction house regularly. So with many thousands of people trying to sell their loot to you, it is not likely that your drops will be any good in comparison. I think we can agree that without the auction house, there would be a lot less complaints about the "crap drops".
No. Without the auction house, there would be plenty of complaints about terrible Legendary and Set drop rates, because that's half of the incentive of item farming.
If Rares were unique and interesting, with a bunch of fun mods to try out, then no, Legendary and Set items wouldn't matter. But that's not how Diablo 3 was designed, and that's not how most dungeon crawlers were designed.
The "Unique" items are the ones with the quirky mods, even if it's something as simple as Movement speed on pants. And as long as the Unique stuff are the "cool items", that will always be the interest of people farming items.
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So if you have 300MF currently unbuffed, you get 25% MF per MP level up to 550% at MP10. Monster HP ramps up non-linearly. So outside of farming for Hellfire Ring parts, it seems like MP1 is by far the most efficient way to farm items. (XP scales closer to MP though) just due to the fact even at MP10 your MF is not doubled, but the mobs take 21 times longer to kill (and hit harder too). At MP5, your MF is increased 42% vs mob hp/damage of 4 times MP1... so unless you can one shot MP1 elites, the overall every-day difficulty just got even more snoozefesty.
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well if you look at the people with insanely good gear the 21times longer is 10s a monster (not bosses). Still good, but I think most people will farm at monster lv 3-6 depending on gear
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Yay... lost a bidding war because the AH decided to glitch out on me.
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On September 28 2012 21:09 DODswe4 wrote:
well if you look at the people with insanely good gear the 21times longer is 10s a monster (not bosses). Still good, but I think most people will farm at monster lv 3-6 depending on gear
Yea the main unknown now is how much MF can affect Hellfire ring drops, if its 10% at MP1 and linear to 100% at MP10. But it's all a grind in the end.
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Hey guys, is there anyway I can save the hotkeys setting? I play my account and my friend's as well. However we both have totally different hotkeys so it's hard to switch cuz it takes so long to re-setup. Also the skill + runes as well. Notice that we both play DH.
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I'm playing a wizard with mediocre gear, I can kill things at the very beginning of Act 3 but it takes me a long time. I am dead broke to the point where I hope I get enough money to pay my repair bills. Should I go back and farm Act 1 or should I just keep trying in Act 3 hoping to get good stuff?
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On September 29 2012 08:34 Zyrnak wrote:
I'm playing a wizard with mediocre gear, I can kill things at the very beginning of Act 3 but it takes me a long time. I am dead broke to the point where I hope I get enough money to pay my repair bills. Should I go back and farm Act 1 or should I just keep trying in Act 3 hoping to get good stuff?
Go back to act 1 :D
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On September 29 2012 08:34 Zyrnak wrote:
I'm playing a wizard with mediocre gear, I can kill things at the very beginning of Act 3 but it takes me a long time. I am dead broke to the point where I hope I get enough money to pay my repair bills. Should I go back and farm Act 1 or should I just keep trying in Act 3 hoping to get good stuff?
You want to be able to efficiently farm act 3 before 1.05 hits. Farming act 1 would be really slow due to low chance of dropping level 63 items. I would join pub games for the last quest or last 2 quests in act 3 and farm that. Alternatively, you can add people in the A3 farming thread and see if any of them will do some runs with you. A lot of people on TL are geared to the point of cakewalking A3.
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On September 29 2012 09:09 Chairman Ray wrote:Show nested quote +On September 29 2012 08:34 Zyrnak wrote:
I'm playing a wizard with mediocre gear, I can kill things at the very beginning of Act 3 but it takes me a long time. I am dead broke to the point where I hope I get enough money to pay my repair bills. Should I go back and farm Act 1 or should I just keep trying in Act 3 hoping to get good stuff? You want to be able to efficiently farm act 3 before 1.05 hits. Farming act 1 would be really slow due to low chance of dropping level 63 items. I would join pub games for the last quest or last 2 quests in act 3 and farm that. Alternatively, you can add people in the A3 farming thread and see if any of them will do some runs with you. A lot of people on TL are geared to the point of cakewalking A3.
You can also buy pre-cleared runs on d2jsp.
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20 hours without a single legendary, don't know what's happening. 300%mf or more, 40 legendaries after 1.04 (one every 3.5-4 hours average), and my farming speed is costantly rising. Now I'm stuck. 
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Anyone have a clue about d2jsp? People keep trading forum gold for ingame gold, but they get like 1mil ingame gold for 10$ worth of forum gold, same 10$ nets like 8mil on a goldsite. Why do people keep buying forum gold? I really dont get it.
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most people don't buy their forum gold they've just gathered it from trading in D2 and now d3 etc and you "can't" sell fg to $ so they just rather trade it for igg or whatever
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So I got a maximus sword this past weekend and gave it to my enchantress to test it out. I figured it would be like other legendary effects and more so just for show, but was I wrong. The demonic slave procs ALL the time, he tanks like a champ AND he does probably somewhere around 30k dps, I've seen him hit 20-50k per swing. I was rolling a3 in my mf set and didn't notice for awhile, it was doing such a good job keeping mobs away from me.
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Just wondering if its worth it to farm act boses, do they have better drop chances for legendary drops than elites or is it not realy noticable?
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On October 02 2012 03:51 Tears.Of.The.Moon wrote:
Just wondering if its worth it to farm act boses, do they have better drop chances for legendary drops than elites or is it not realy noticable?
killing bosses is a natural progression of the game. find areas with the most elites, kill them, kill bosses and then restart. if you have five stack NV, bosses usually drop 2-3 rares and occasionally legendaries.
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On October 02 2012 04:11 dAPhREAk wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2012 03:51 Tears.Of.The.Moon wrote:
Just wondering if its worth it to farm act boses, do they have better drop chances for legendary drops than elites or is it not realy noticable? killing bosses is a natural progression of the game. find areas with the most elites, kill them, kill bosses and then restart. if you have five stack NV, bosses usually drop 2-3 rares and occasionally legendaries.
On 5 NV Champ/Rare packs have 1 guaranteed rare item and drop around 4-5 items alltogether. Bosses have 2 guaranteed rares and drop around 8-10 items. So generally it drops more items, but you don't have more chance of dropping legendaries. Plus bosses usually take more time to kill than regular packs.
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On October 02 2012 03:51 Tears.Of.The.Moon wrote:
Just wondering if its worth it to farm act boses, do they have better drop chances for legendary drops than elites or is it not realy noticable?
Not really noticeable in my experience, I've found about a dozen legendaries over the course of my playtime and only 1 of them was off a named, the butcher. Then maybe 2 or 3 from elites and the rest from normal mobs and one from one of those floor tiles before 1.02.
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I've found about a dozen uniques and all but 2 were from white mobs. The other two were from a champion group and off the dried eggs in act 2 (Arreat's Law heh).
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On October 02 2012 04:38 Wuster wrote:
I've found about a dozen uniques and all but 2 were from white mobs. The other two were from a champion group and off the dried eggs in act 2 (Arreat's Law heh).
Yeah that pretty much sums up my experience, cept I've had one legendary come from a resplendent.
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