Diablo III General Discussion - Page 899

On July 12 2014 08:18 Frolossus wrote:

the only issue is getting a passive you need w/ socket, ele + 1 crit type

On July 12 2014 00:17 Black Gun wrote:

was thinking the same. they simply increased monsters hps and added new items that, over time, will close the damage vs hp gap. and upgrading 3 gems 50 times with a 40-60% chance per greater rift will add incentive for maybe 300 additional greater rifts per character. so after two or three months, almost everybody will have his 2 or 3 main chars fully upgraded anyway. the gems and their upgradability are a nice idea, but nothing that adds long-term replayability.

i also dont like that they chose jewelry as the slot for gem sockets. amus and rings were among the most interesting items since almost all classes or builds would have liked at least 5 of the available primaries on those slots anyway. now we have to think even harder which additional primary to sacrifice on rings and amus for the mandatory socket... meanwhile, items like pants are still completely dull. mainstat vita 2 sockets and either allres or armor... yawn.

at least they could have allowed the ramaldi...-whatever-thingy to add sockets to all slots that can have sockets, not just weapons...

On July 12 2014 08:41 dAPhREAk wrote:

yep. same issue we have now. blizzard is making us grind and grind and grind to find the best shit.

On July 12 2014 07:46 Amui wrote:
Asheara's set could potentially be godly if you get a ton of upgraded gems. A well geared follower has ~200000-300000 weapon damage, and in conjunction with a ton of onhit effects you can get absolutely disgusting damage out of a follower. Not going to be viable any time in the near future(you'd need 12 gems upgraded to massive levels), but maybe in a month or two, you'd see a quad smite quad mini conduit with

Put Gem of Efficacious Toxin onto scoundrel with the multishot
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This gem on the other 2.
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They may not be the strongest, but they'll easily be doing 10m+dps each to everything(mini conduit), along with probably 20m dps from the other stuff.

On July 12 2014 08:41 Dakkas wrote:


You're complaining because Blizzard are starting to give players some choice in item selection?

I honestly never thought I'd see the day.

On July 12 2014 11:19 oneofthem wrote:
can they copy poe's map mods system without getting sued and charitying chris wilson some well deserved dollars

On July 12 2014 09:41 Black Gun wrote:



im not complaing about the mere fact that they add new gear choices to make. im complaining because they intend to add those new changes exclusively on item slots that already offer interesting options, while they do nothing to add variety to other gear slots that are super boring atm, like pants and bracers.

On July 12 2014 08:50 dAPhREAk wrote:
are you accusing me of complaining about d3? lol. how inane.

On July 12 2014 11:37 dAPhREAk wrote:

yes.

i wish they would copy poe's hourly, daily, etc. ladder system. only interesting thing i saw in poe. it keeps the game exciting for people who dont have hours to sink.

On July 12 2014 22:48 Luiwtf wrote:
Hmm, can't seem to see the part I wrote when tryimg to edit my post above on my phone, weird.

Seems if you have the gem on another character you can get it to drop again.

On July 13 2014 00:52 Luiwtf wrote:
I'll probably only use one of each gem anyway and do exactly that. No point trying to upgrade 2 of the same gem at once when you can just pay a bit of gold and get one to max level quicker.

Players will not receive a duplicate of any Legendary Gem the character they're currently playing has access to
This includes Legendary Gems in the character's inventory, its followers's inventories, or the Shared Stash, as well as Legendary Gems socketed in items in those locations

On July 13 2014 04:46 dAPhREAk wrote:
i thought i read somewhere that gem drop rates were dependent on what you have equipped on current char, what your followers have equipped and what is in your inventory. so if its socketed in a char you dont play, it doesnt count. let me check


http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14569138/patch-210-ptr-patch-notes-updated-july-9-7-9-2014

i assume they wont allow you to socket two of the same type of gem on one char. imagine if you could get the +elite dmg gem on both rings and ammy. wow.

On July 13 2014 08:26 Frolossus wrote:

how would you prevent this?

On July 13 2014 13:18 Dakkas wrote:
Ashearas will be the next Aughild's set. Unless Blizzard do something to stop that from happening because I can't imagine any set topping that in ridiculousness.