They said it's a bug and they'll fix it next patch or something, crafted amulets are 61 atm yeah. And yeah barbs not sure if they're very viable on PTR, they looked ok in RoS with the new avalanche skill but they're very different now, play more like old school barbs(well, less frenzy and more hammer or so). There was a whirlwind build but it relied on crushing blow so not sure it'll be good anymore.I can't use my Amulet on PTR because it requires level 61 now? -_-
I was getting wrecked on Master. Probably because my gear is 100% made for WW/Sprint and that build doesn't exist anymore.
compared to barb how much more dmg can you tank?Been playing a Crusader on a friend's account since he got in the beta, gotta say the class is pretty fucking fun, it seems fairly awful at sustained damage unlike the other 2 melees, but you can burst shit down by popping a bunch of cooldowns at once, it's pretty cool to play. Also very tanky. Been leveling from lvl 1 on Expert(3rd difficulty) without any twinking, seems to be about the right difficulty, it's mostly easy but some rare affixes can be dangerous(arcane beams, poison shit, mortar if you eat them and fire chains mostly) so it's not too easy.
Mobs die a bit slow if you don't get a good weapon quick, but luckily loot 2.0 is pretty good for drops and you upgrade shit non stop with better and better stuff. Found 3 legendaries so far so not a huge number but still nice, one of which I have no idea what it did(some amulet that spawns the arcane orb effect where there's 4 little orbs circling around you, but those don't explode when mobs come in melee range so not sure if NYI or they do something else).
I'm level 40ish in Act4 of my first playthrough, expect to finish act 5 around lvl 50 or so, which is pretty cool since it means you don't have to replay the game multiple times like currently. That's not doing any bounty either, just leveling the normal way, I wanted to see how it'd work out if I was to level a crusader as my first class on ros(so without lvling a char to 70 first to unlock adventure mode). I expect with a hellfire ring and a good ruby in a helm you would be fairly close to 60 at the end of the first playthrough.
Other than that, for people stuck in queue to create a game, it seems the game allotement is based on difficulty and game type. If you play softcore and master, the queue is insane because everyone who's testing the PTR is mostly doing that(torment not accessible). If you try logging on expert or hard, you'll log in instantly. Master is still retarded easy compared to mp8-10 on live anyway, so there isn't much to see there, if you just want to check skills out just log on expert or whatever. Also if you play hardcore, there's no queue for any difficulty.
I have no idea, however barbs survivability is nerfed a ton in the expansion, since they removed lifesteal from everything, so unlike live barb where you use the rend lifesteal rune and can survive mp10 with shit gear, can't really quite do that.compared to barb how much more dmg can you tank?
I planned on switching from barb to crusader when it was released but I like what I am hearing.
Oh that's interesting, I assumed they were the same as Barb and Monk and were getting the 30% too, but just checked and yeah, they're not getting it, so I guess it makes a huge difference and explains why the passives and shit look better. So I guess geared if you spec for it yeah barbs will tank better.Barbs take 30% less damage than crusaders. Yes, that retarded division still exists and crusaders got put into the other one.
Eh still pumped to play em sounds oike he"ll at least outclass barb in damage.Oh that's interesting, I assumed they were the same as Barb and Monk and were getting the 30% too, but just checked and yeah, they're not getting it, so I guess it makes a huge difference and explains why the passives and shit look better. So I guess geared if you spec for it yeah barbs will tank better.
Well I don't think I'll play the beta much, it's not my account for one and I don't really care much about playing it atm as it's gonna be just farming which is easy to burn out on for me. I played the class a bit and overall I like it quite a lot, more so than I liked Barb(but only played it on vanilla and only to like lvl 40 or something), it's kinda like a tank mage mix, the aoes are powerful and look nice, it has long range attacks as well as melee attacks(more than just thrown weapon I mean). That said I'm tempted to go Monk or WD instead, or maybe Wiz. DH and Barb I have little interest in, played DH at launch and I don't think I wanna play it ever again. WD has some pretty cool new stuff and it seems you can do some serious pet builds too, not optimal for farming cause well they're pets so they're stupid, but pretty fun to play for a bit and you can switch to pure aoe builds and shit, lots of interesting stuff there.Eh still pumped to play em sounds oike he"ll at least outclass barb in damage.
Thanks for the input and keep us guys up to date. The demonhunter changes look nice too.
played WD on console and ya they are gross.Well I don't think I'll play the beta much, it's not my account for one and I don't really care much about playing it atm as it's gonna be just farming which is easy to burn out on for me. I played the class a bit and overall I like it quite a lot, more so than I liked Barb(but only played it on vanilla and only to like lvl 40 or something), it's kinda like a tank mage mix, the aoes are powerful and look nice, it has long range attacks as well as melee attacks(more than just thrown weapon I mean). That said I'm tempted to go Monk or WD instead, or maybe Wiz. DH and Barb I have little interest in, played DH at launch and I don't think I wanna play it ever again. WD has some pretty cool new stuff and it seems you can do some serious pet builds too, not optimal for farming cause well they're pets so they're stupid, but pretty fun to play for a bit and you can switch to pure aoe builds and shit, lots of interesting stuff there.
Well expansion isn't for several months, and CM gear isn't too specific, it's just high crit and attackspeed, so it works with any build really. A lifesteal Skorn for an Archon build I think would be a lot more useless than most of the stuff you buy for CM. Regardless all your gear besides a good mempo will be mostly useless by lvl 68 anyway, and you could probably get to 70 naked with just a weapon equipped in normal mode, so yeah.Kinda a dick thing to do to your friend, if he spent a lot of gold. You know that passive is being outright removed, right?