On September 21 2015 23:37 Eppa! wrote: When I stopped playing (season 1?) It was DH>Wiz>WD>Crusader>Barb>Monk. Times change I guess.
This was in optimal gear.
When I stopped playing there weren't seasons or Paragon levels, there was still an RMAH, and if you hadn't abused DH/Wizard mechanics to cheese Inferno you either needed extreme patience or big bucks to break through (I was in the former category).
I bought RoS a week or so ago because it was on sale for $20 and I've had friends telling me for a while that the game is fun now seriously come play etc. There are still some vestiges of the awful that was D3's original design*, but it actually is almost everything** I'd hoped it would be when it first came out.
*Adventure mode removes all the plot elements, which is great, but you can tell that cutscenes were too critical to the underlying design for bosses to entirely remove them. Those cutscenes are skipped automatically, but not entirely as they still begin and then fade out before the fight begins. It's not really a big deal, but it's of academic interest.
**I'm pretty much never going to get over how hamfisted D3's story was. RoS was slightly better, but still decidedly meh. Granted, story isn't exactly the raison d'être for a Diablo game, but it's still annoying when it's badly done. Thankfully everything else is now pretty awesome.
On September 21 2015 23:43 Doctorbeat wrote:
Yeah well I tried playing HC Seasonal with a Wizard. It's really horrible.
Since ya'll are talking about Diablo, I highly recommend giving Path of Exile a try, see the thread for more detail, we've got a pretty active group. It's a great game, very much a spiritual successor to D2. The current 3 month temp leagues are ending soonish, and a new 1 month league is about to start-- that would be a good place to hop on.
On September 21 2015 23:59 ticklishmusic wrote: Since ya'll are talking about Diablo, I highly recommend giving Path of Exile a try, see the thread for more detail, we've got a pretty active group. It's a great game, very much a spiritual successor to D2. The current 3 month temp leagues are ending soonish, and a new 1 month league is about to start-- that would be a good place to hop on.
My brother has tried to get me to play PoE for so long.
The thing is, those types of games aren't ones that I invest tons of time into. I just like to pick them up and put them down randomly, which D3 lends itself very well to. The PoE skill tree is awesome, but I will never put the time in to explore all of it.
Yea PoE feels like a better,more complex diablo but at the same time that can be a bit too much for someone that doesn't really want to sink so much time in it. I've played a bunch of PoE and never really got a feeling I understood wtf I'm doing lol. The game just changes so much depending on how much you invest into it. Truly the best ARPG ever made I think.
On September 21 2015 23:59 ticklishmusic wrote: Since ya'll are talking about Diablo, I highly recommend giving Path of Exile a try, see the thread for more detail, we've got a pretty active group. It's a great game, very much a spiritual successor to D2. The current 3 month temp leagues are ending soonish, and a new 1 month league is about to start-- that would be a good place to hop on.
I started playing PoE when D3 disappointed me. It was fantastic and I'd second the recommendation even though I eventually stopped playing. Soniv's caveat is relevant, but you should still try it once, just keep in mind that unless things changed since I last played (which was admittedly a long time ago) you need to plan out your characters D2 style.
On September 21 2015 23:37 Eppa! wrote: When I stopped playing (season 1?) It was DH>Wiz>WD>Crusader>Barb>Monk. Times change I guess.
This was in optimal gear.
When I stopped playing there weren't seasons or Paragon levels, there was still an RMAH, and if you hadn't abused DH/Wizard mechanics to cheese Inferno you either needed extreme patience or big bucks to break through (I was in the former category).
I bought RoS a week or so ago because it was on sale for $20 and I've had friends telling me for a while that the game is fun now seriously come play etc. There are still some vestiges of the awful that was D3's original design*, but it actually is almost everything** I'd hoped it would be when it first came out.
*Adventure mode removes all the plot elements, which is great, but you can tell that cutscenes were too critical to the underlying design for bosses to entirely remove them. Those cutscenes are skipped automatically, but not entirely as they still begin and then fade out before the fight begins. It's not really a big deal, but it's of academic interest.
**I'm pretty much never going to get over how hamfisted D3's story was. RoS was slightly better, but still decidedly meh. Granted, story isn't exactly the raison d'être for a Diablo game, but it's still annoying when it's badly done. Thankfully everything else is now pretty awesome.
Yeah well I tried playing HC Seasonal with a Wizard. It's really horrible.
Your deeds will be remembered.
Low hp mage with energy armour was dumb. I played until act 4 in vanilla then gave up. Current D3 is something where you can just start a season and level a bit then either get bored and repeat next season or get t6 gear and gems.
First time you get t6 you feel like an anime character. Went from farming t4 straight to t6 when I got crusader shield.
Monte I'm with you on the D3 story. I don't know how anyone could be paid to write such garbage and I'll never forgive them for doing it. No story would have been better than what they did honestly.
I rage quit PoE after my ISP was giving me issues so I died about 4 times on HC. You can only lose so many characters due to bullshit before you get mad :<. I should try with this ISP, they pretty dam good with regards to gaming. Even if my browsing sometimes slows down the gaming is always fine.
My one issue was with the lockboxes that insta spawn a bunch of modes. On harder difficulty they just so dam tempting but there's like a 1/2 second lag pause that happens where I insta died. I know I should just not risk it but DAMMIT so temping. Think I lost 3 characters like that. 4th guy died when I walked into a room of skele archers and game desync then I got insta gibbed by like 50 of them.
On September 21 2015 19:18 739 wrote: Sorry for the offtopic but is Skype dead atm?
Edit : I already seen someone mentioning that Skype is rip but wanted to make sure it's global :3
*gasp* how dare you go off topic from...whatever the topic was
@Wave - I would totally do more sealed stuff at some point.
Did green rule supreme?
I played a G/B ramp deck. It did pretty well against Yamato, but a combination of poor decision making and unfamiliarity with xmage UI caused a loss against dandelion. I think I could've won Game 1 if I hadn't messed up steps, but I think he would've taken Game 2 regardless.
I hadn't read any of the BFZ cards beforehand, so it took a bit to figure out the theme/gameplan. But I definitely did have fun with it.
Yeah I FINALLY managed to get some games in against Scip last night. This set seems fun as hell---I feel like you can reasonably go 3 color unlike Origins. Beat Scip three times, once with W/B lifegain, once with, 3 color...Esper I want to say? And once with a 5 color janky as all fuck converge/landfall deck where I cam back one game from the brink of death...felt so good.
I will play sealed with anyone anytime this week while I'm around, just gotta ask me.
On September 21 2015 23:59 ticklishmusic wrote: Since ya'll are talking about Diablo, I highly recommend giving Path of Exile a try, see the thread for more detail, we've got a pretty active group. It's a great game, very much a spiritual successor to D2. The current 3 month temp leagues are ending soonish, and a new 1 month league is about to start-- that would be a good place to hop on.
I started playing PoE when D3 disappointed me. It was fantastic and I'd second the recommendation even though I eventually stopped playing. Soniv's caveat is relevant, but you should still try it once, just keep in mind that unless things changed since I last played (which was admittedly a long time ago) you need to plan out your characters D2 style.
And yes PoE is fantastic (though desync issues were a huge problem way back when I played it). I always took issue with how much you neede to plan things out to be effective though. It's worse/harder than D2 in that respect where in D2 you can just put your points into whatever you want the first time around and reasonably get through most if not all difficulties without a problem. For PoE this is not the case. The economy system is really cool though.
On September 21 2015 19:18 739 wrote: Sorry for the offtopic but is Skype dead atm?
Edit : I already seen someone mentioning that Skype is rip but wanted to make sure it's global :3
*gasp* how dare you go off topic from...whatever the topic was
@Wave - I would totally do more sealed stuff at some point.
Did green rule supreme?
I played a G/B ramp deck. It did pretty well against Yamato, but a combination of poor decision making and unfamiliarity with xmage UI caused a loss against dandelion. I think I could've won Game 1 if I hadn't messed up steps, but I think he would've taken Game 2 regardless.
I hadn't read any of the BFZ cards beforehand, so it took a bit to figure out the theme/gameplan. But I definitely did have fun with it.
Yeah I FINALLY managed to get some games in against Scip last night. This set seems fun as hell---I feel like you can reasonably go 3 color unlike Origins. Beat Scip three times, once with W/B lifegain, once with, 3 color...Esper I want to say? And once with a 5 color janky as all fuck converge/landfall deck where I cam back one game from the brink of death...felt so good.
I will play sealed with anyone anytime this week while I'm around, just gotta ask me.
I'm around. Shall we make a party of this or you mia? I think I gave up waiting last night 10 minutes before you came :<. Yanger and I were disappointed with the lifegain theme for Black tbh. How did you make it work?
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