Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

k^M_sl said:

I hope they come up with a better goldsink idea than that. I could see paying gold for GRift successes if it came with something more than just +1 gem

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At the same time, there's literally nothing to do with gold past a certain point, so it's not like it hurts. It's terrible, but so is gold.

The new sets and stuff is really what looks nice about 2.4. The fact they also reworked that shitty ring set to make it into a general "use whatever skill you want" build is pretty cool too. In the end I don't think people will use that too much because you lose a lot of the utility provided by most sets like skill cooldowns/resets and stuff, but I could see it being cool for some stuff. Also makes use of all the shitty random legendary ancients you get.

Wish PC was getting the nemesis system that is on the consoles.

For those not familiar:


When you die the monster that kills you might hop into a portal and disappear, only to show up in your or one of your friend's games as a more powerful demon. Their arrival is preceded by some moaning music and a rumbling controller. If he kills them/you then that portrait is added to his collection (seen under his nameplate), rinse and repeat.

Usually this drops a legendary and a gift to mail to the person who's nemesis you killed, though I'm sure they'd leave out that last bit.

Just an extra piece of flavor/randomness to the grind that can be a fun mechanism on PC.

Draegan_sl said:

New thorns set for crusader looks terrible at first glance.

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Thorns is terrible overall, I doubt the remake changes that. Something that applies damage when you get hit is a terrible idea considering getting hit is deadly and bad at higher GR, the whole point is to avoid getting hit by kiting, controlling and killing quickly. The set doesn't even seem to provide you the tools to actually tank stuff, the damage reduction is on a ridiculously long cooldown(bombardment). Do crusaders even have a damage reduction legendary other than the falling sword one which is hardly usable without the falling sword set(and isn't even used for that cause it's dmg done reduced instead of damage taken reduced, so it doesn't affect a bunch of elite affixes). Seems really really bad, other than botting stuff with a own made shitty bot that just runs around.

Meanwhile DHs are getting a ring effect that reduces dmg by 60% after using vault/smokescreen/shadow power, which combines with the sets bonuses for a really really stupid amount of damage reduction? I mean Shadow Power gives 35% and then you get 60% on top for using it, that's like crazy, DHs are gonna be tanky as fuck. And you can still use the bracers that give 40%(I think? might be 30%) when using a primary. That's like the most defenses you can stack out of any class I think.

The DH stuff looks so good, can't wait to go back to DH.

DH currently are squishy but add a 60%DR ring to that, and that's quite a difference. Obviously, that comes at the huge cost of losing CoE, or F+R, so that's an interesting tradeoff.

Also, and it sounds weird, but it might be worth it using a shield on the new DH stuff? You can't equip 2H melee weapons, and while I think you can DW daggers, I'm not sure if you can DW dagger+xbow, I'd say probably not. That severely limits your options for weapons I think if you go with the new set. There's the Fan of Knives amazing dagger they're adding, but the rest of the daggers look fairly trash. I think you might be able to equip swords/axes/maces too? Not entirely sure and don't want to bother installing the game to check. If you can I guess the mini furnace 1H mace would be solid, though Fulminator or something might be better since aoe might be the weakness of the build, not killing elites. Still, I don't know how DW works with impale and shit but a shield, specifically the one that mitigates damage you block by like 60%(bounty shield or whatever) sounds like it could add some good defenses too. In general not worth using one though, we'll see.

Plus the set isn't really melee anyway. I mean, you use a melee weapon, but the abilities you use are still ranged. Fan of Knives isn't very large range, but impale can be used full screen, and you can vault for free everytime you impale with the new legendary, which means you can effectively kite an offscreen boss without running out of ressources(probably), with 35%movespeed and high life on hit from shadow power also. For FoK, since it stacks up to 30, what it sounds like is you can just wait until it's at ~25, vault "in"(as in mid range), FoK+impale which work at the same time, vault out, and the rest of the time you'd be staying far from stuff and impaling.

Right barbs look ridiculous, and they're giving them a 60%DR ring too, because reasons. But still this is quite an improvement for DH since it lets you make a "tanky enough" build to progress higher, rather than rely on not getting hit by anything.

Looking at the summed up post on Diablofan, I kinda like what they're doing. Lots of new bounties so leveling/farming early will be less boring, better solo experience, more stash space, non set based builds for endgame, sounds pretty cool. Stash space especially is exciting cause it means I'll be able to play more classes in a given season more easily. That's 2 more tabs for 2.4 season(1 right away from gold and the other once season journey is done, in time for when I get bored of my first class choice), which is enough for a full class even with spare sets and stuff.

I just hope their fixes for the lag they said they had are actually going to do something, cause like Jade or Firebird are going to be unplayable otherwise, which sounds terrible. Maybe they have a new way to truncate numbers which they can hide with the new UI change to reduce damage to like millions/billions figures. Like say at low level it keeps the current precise numbers, but at 70 it stops sending info about whole numbers and instead does some rounding up and shit.