Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

Deathwing_sl said:

Same thing.


Starting to think I should spend all my shards on weapons until I get a TF or Odyn Son.

(longevity of item) / # possible legendaries in slot) * (# blood shards to gamble) * (chance of good affixes) * (efficacy of current item = gambling effectiveness

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I think gambling weapons for a specific one is pretty horrible. Like you need magefist? Gamble gloves, only like 10legendaries possible so you're bound to find the right one. Want a cindercoat on a DH and don't have a monk? Well you gamble out of 2 items pool, so like 20legendaries, still decent but a bit annoying. Want a melee weapon? Good luck gambling a 60 legendary pool or whatever. I don't know why it has such large categories. It's like if you had to gamble on "armor piece" and you'd get helm/chest/shoulders/gloves/legs/boots randomly.

ex-genj_sl said:

Well do you have a better suggestion for what to use shards on? Might as well go for the gold.

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Well it depends on your gear obviously, but I feel if you don't have the BiS legendaries for other slots it's probably better to gamble those than weapons. Like you do a fire build? Gamble Andarius/Magefist/Cindercoat/SoJ before you even consider weapons imo. In general since most builds tend to be elemental, Andarius and SoJ are in many cases BiS and as such you probably should just gamble these.

Gambling boots for firewalkers or ice climbers is decent too, but illusory boots from act2 bounties are also nice and you probably get those while farming for shrine gloves so might not be necessary. Shields if you're a crusader are imo very important, there's a few really strong shields that gambling them would be nice, but here crafted shields(specifically hallowed for 20%holy dmg and the shield bash one) are valid alternatives so again depends on what you need. Pants/shoulders aren't quite as good but there's a few decent ones like Yan pants for mobile builds or the poison damage for well, poison builds and shoulders I like the one that cast FoK on getting hit if you're often getting hit, otherwise the ones making your items invuln would save you some gold on the long run, no interupt recall can be nice too.

My point is, unless you don't have a legendary weapon and just want anything, you're better off gambling other slots that have more limited choices to get specific stuff that's going to be a large upgrade, instead of taking a chance on weapons. Obviously, if you have already all the legendaries you want and are only looking for a TF/SoH, then do gamble weapons.

I ran T2 rifts for an hour and didn't get one, i've seen 1 all night which was a DH cloak on my poorly geared DH.
I'm pretty sure i'm done with this shit until they add seasons

Crusaders blow, i get no drops. Time to move on for awhile~

Who am I kidding, I'm sure I'll get the urge to play in a few dYs