I have noticed a trend of certain people in the clan trying to blow through T3 as fast as possible. They will ask in Clan to fill out a group but then complain when the DPS is just to slow and we cannot clear the rift in 5 minutes. It takes usually 10 minutes with multiple deaths and such, but it gets done. After that one attempt, suddenly people have "things to do". I laugh very hard at the elitism associated with a game like this. This shit is not Everquest. I can get the very best weapon in the game...breaking a jar on normal mode. This is why I have kind of gone solo. Elitism pisses me off.
For max efficiency, I've settled on soloing at the point where elites/champs die before they can even begin to shit out whatever affixes they have. T2 for now, T3 with another upgrade or two, and... that's basically it. No amount of BiS gear will ever make T5+ efficient under the current system of mob HP vs. drop rates, and I strongly suspect the same is true of T4 as well.
People have different levels of "socialness". I have irl distractions that require my immediate attention. I get distracted easily in game. Every once in a while I'll go read a webpage for a bit, check some score, whatever. The mechanics of group play can be annoying too. I'm sure everyone's familiar with the 2 headed ogre dance of trying to decide which way to go. My class plays differently when grouped. Normally, that's a good thing, but it means I become the "tank" essentially and all my +lightning% and dps gear is for nothing.
The guy's math is off, it's already been picked apart in that thread. More specifically, what's the damn point of MF outside of legendaries? You need 150 MF to equal the next level of torment. So, for example for Vorph, that might mean stopping at T2 or T3 and then wearing a Cain's, Topaz, Nagel. But because it's not a regular affix anymore, this is essentially worthless theorycrafting. You're never going to decide between CC and MF on an item. And because it's so reduced for legendaries, it can't make an impactful gearing and difficulty choice.
What luck? You're still wearing 4 pieces from level 60 and your shoulders and bracers are meh.
@Death exactly. Most of that shit is level 60 and my SoH dropped on my Wiz. My Wiz is geared enough now to thrash T5 alone so hes on the back burner.Eh, I've done just fine with loot even though the vast majority of my playtime is solo or just duoing with fletch101, and the only item I've actually received from another person's drop is my 60 SoJ. I'm all for inviting people to share in my caches or to kill rift bosses (and I knock them down to 20% hp or so before I toss out the invite so I don't even mind if the people who join can't normally handle the T-level I do) but beyond that it's just more convenient for me to solo.
That said, I'll happily group with any and all DHs who already have their Marauder's Spines!
Yeah when someone said my 4 mil toughness was too low for T3 I didn't know what to say. 1.1M DPS apparently doesn't matter if you don't have the toughness on softcore. In a 4 person group I shouldn't have to worry about that as much if someone is essentially "tanking" is what I thought, but whatever.
No trading is unfortunate but I think this is better then D2jsp or the AH. The lesser of two evils I suppose. I play with buddies and while we cannot trade stuff we find while alone, at least during the multiplayer time the option is there. I'm hoping they consider trading within clans eventually but with sensible restrictions (otherwise you have various trade clans within a day and an irregular AH build around that shortly after). I think the no-trading decisions are based on their own cost calculations (support for hacked accounts etc) as much as player complaints about the AH, so open trading was probably not on the table.
Not a bad suggestion really, a weapon without a socket really is hamstrung right now. Or change the weapon gem effects to something less gamechanging (maybe even simply give them the regular +mainstat bonus, quick and dirty fix). I dont even think you need to rebalance any content with that change, stuff simply gets a bit harder and you might have to drop down a difficulty level at worst. No big deal.
Thats enough for T3 by far, especially with most wizards debuffing and buffing elemental damage.
This is exactly how it worked in D2 and pretty much any solid ARPG. Perfectly rolled raresshouldbe a viable alternative to legendary/unique/set/etc. items. That's part of what makes the "slot machine" aspect of these games fun.
