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Which makes it 0.77x as effective, coupled with the fact that it's a little harder to get good bow crit nodes as some of them were split into spell and regular crit, or moved to less convenient locations. It's kind of a double nerf to CoC. Not unwarranted, but still quite a nerf.

It's more the way it seems to encourage doing the opposite of what players naturally want to do, i.e. clear as fast and efficiently as possible, unless you want to actually trigger these bosses -- unlikely, if Invasion was any indication. Rampage encourages doing what players already try to do...

I think it sounds awful. An Invasion rehash with watered-down optional challenges that don't encourage a playstyle that players naturally seek out. Comapred to Rampage, which supports the playstyle that people seek out regardless, Beyond seems like it will usually just be ignored. You'll never...

Looking at the Taiwanese skill tree (which is legit), I can't find many differences between that and the one Mors uploaded. I haven't sat and looked at every node, obviously, but I skimmed the significant ones and could only find one difference which was the Coldhearted Calculations near Shadow...

If the controls are the same as the basic console D3, ranged classes are a bit ass because aiming projectiles with a controller is awkward. Ground-targeted spells like Acid Cloud are even worse. Channeled spells like Firebats and Disintegrate are fine, and melee is great with a controller. What...

I read that they aren't planning to follow the PC patches and might diverge entirely from the PC version, which is probably PR speak for "we're gonna drop support for it as soon as sales subside."

I've heard that they don't even launch it with the latest patch, and plan to develop patches for it independently of the PC version. The standard console version of D3 basically never got patched. I think it received one minor update post-launch to iron out some port-related snags and that's it...

Yeah, the netcode is suspiciously bad. It's way, way worse than any other game of a comparable caliber. It's not only desyncs (though that's the worst part) but also just constant mini-lags. It's particularly visible when doing something like throwing a lot of items into the stash or an...

They can just post a fucking screenshot of the tree and a list of brief descriptions for the new notable nodes. It's not that hard.

Yeah, one of the issues is actually that neither of those skills have very good fire runes. Also, one is melee while the other is kind of clunky to use. Compared to the crusader spells and the shotgun capabilities of the holy shotgun build, it doesn't really compare. Overshadowing all this...

It's never going to come close to challenging Akkhan's, a set that allows you permanent uptime of Akarat's Champion. Blizzard should have learned from the perma-WotB debacle that any build that can keep its overpowered, long-cooldown buff up perpetually is going to completely outshine any other...

You need a bit of perception to spot the traps and navigate around them. Got kind of bored with this game about 2/3rds in. The combat becomes really trivial around level 15-17ish, causing the turn-based system to stop being tactically interesting and just become tedious and slow. Nothing is...

I've actually been playing it on the PS3 lately. It has the best of both worlds: smart loot but the old stat system. This means you can actually find upgrades at a reasonable pace, unlike actual classic D3, but you're not pigeonholed into that universal suit of set/legendary items that everyone...

Most of the appeal of ladders is the fact that it's a fresh start and an opportunity for everyone to be on an equal playing field, at least for a time. Most people who have been gone from D3 for a while can probably attest to the feeling of disinterest in returning to a game where other people...

Played on the PTR for a few days. The new timed rifts seem surprisingly boring -- no loot drops until the boss, no chests etc. It felt like some kind of elaborate training dummy.

Is it normal for the PTR to have 250ms+ pings and several minutes of queue to start a game?

Is the new season starting as soon as 2.1 hits?

Thank fuck they fixed that Teller of Secrets shit. In a game genre where half the appeal is to develop the optimal character/party, having a feature that hugely impacts this but requires extreme cheese to benefit from is just bad design and makes the whole game revolve around that one thing...

There was an old Diablo clone called Darkstone where you had two characters.

You probably sold them to her back in town. When you sell something to an NPC (and you can sell to most NPCs), the stuff goes in their inventory and will drop if you kill them.

Any predictions for release date of 2.1? I'm missing a grindy game to play in the evening.

The combat is great but I'm really bored of the dialogue and quest dynamics. It's all so overwhelmingly clich? and steeped in awful rock-paper-scissors bullshit. The combat, skill mechanics and general hands-on features of the game are surprisingly awesome but I seriously find it a chore anytime...

Jesus Christ, this game is a fucking CC festival. I like the general gameplay, but after a few days, it's getting really fucking annoying how much crowd control is being stacked onto you in every other battle. Half the encounters are designed so that you have to overcome three or four different...

It's a lot harder. XP isn't split between party members so a 2-man party doesn't level faster than a 4-man, and the Lone Wolf bonuses do not in any way make up for the lack of characters. It's doable but makes for some really weird gameplay, also because you now have to spread your skill points...

Do you take glass-cannon on everyone except the tank?

That's how I felt, too. DS1 is filled with too many intentional bullshit deaths. Once you know about them, the game is actually pretty easy (people complete it naked in a few hours) but the first playthrough was so boring and annoying that I never even bothered to do most of the stuff after the...

Can't get my rogues or rangers to perform as well as my two-handed tanks. I've got four different playthroughs going (only really continuing with two of them) and it's the same situation in each one: if I've brought a bow or dagger character, they suck. If I haven't, the game is so much easier...

Is crafting actually worthwhile? I've barely even discovered how to do it after playing for two days, and nothing indicates that I'm missing out on anything. Nobody is talking about crafting, I've found almost no crafting materials that seem like they would actually produce something meaningful...

Anyone know how to open the ornate chest in Black Cove?

But it's an actual quest where you trick this orc into telling you where he buried his brother's armor, and then you go and dig it up. It's clearly a pair of unique items specifically designed for that location. I can't imagine they'd randomize that with a chance for there to just be nothing.

Huh. So I ditched my first party because I'd made a wizard and knight, which is the exact two companions available in the game, and instead made a cleric and ranger. On my first party, I went to that orc on the beach with the buried brother and dug him up, collecting the insanely good orc...

What companions are available? I've only been able to find the mage so far.

Yeah, I really wish developers would move beyond that. I hate things that strongly encourage save-scumming by making you miss out on gigantic bonuses if you don't.

This game is boring as fuck. I got it the other day on sale and I can't believe anyone praised this game. The story side of it is so-so, it's like a drawn-out episode of South Park, but the gameplay is absolute ass. I've never seen such a primitive and shallow RPG in modern times, it's like a...

For me, a lot of the mechanics are poorly designed and need to be adjusted. Don't care so much about the multiplayer shit or the story/campaign. - Weapon damage scaling is significantly skewed in favor of strength as it gives 50% better scaling than dexterity point for point. As a result...

"Theme park MMO" doesn't have anything to do with how long the game will last. It means that the gameplay is reminiscent of a theme park, i.e. you just log in and queue up for things, as opposed to more "worldy" MMORPGs such as Everquest and early WoW. A theme park MMO is designed in a way where...

The biggest idiots often cause the most death and destruction.

It's just so annoying to use because you can't buff it with spells, only its own built-in buff ability which lasts 45 seconds. It's also completely unsustainable in PvE because each cast takes 1/6th of its durability, so you can't use this weapon for anything but PvP which is a little irritating...

It's actually remarkable how few meaningful goals there are in D3. At least in D2 you could do things like realistically obtain the best gear in the game, work towards a level cap that's hard but possible to reach, and do PvP in surprisingly competitive surroundings if you knew where to look...

You mean the people who treated all PC-owners with what can only be described at racism-like levels of unrestrained hatred and abuse?