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Borzak

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Holy hell, every time they do a simple minor update or a massive patch it takes me forever to get through the launcher. It will sit on checking resources for 15+ minutes no matter how small or big, for fuck sakes.

Steam? Went right to downloading on stand alone non steam. Done, 545mb patch. I had similar problems with steam before I moved the account off steam. When I split it off the person for GGG that did it said you could still log in thru steam and buy stuff thru steam or log in without steam and buy stuff off their store.
 

Pyros

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infinate roguelike escort mission... not sure if love or hate. flares/upgrade items could be beastiary 2.0.

trying to stay on pace with the cart might be a total shit show with many builds.
Unlike bestiary it doesn't seem to be reliant on timing it right without killing something or whatever. You just throw flares on the ground and dynamite at walls. There's also only 2 items, and you buy them directly from the machine thing instead of having to loot them. So overall seems a lot better.

Also 7:20 or so on ZiggyD video to see some graphical improvements coming in that patch too that I don't think were listed in the official announcement. The light stuff especially looks great(and is optional if you don't like it).
 

Pyros

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Don't run through steam, just did a run through administrator and that seemed to speed it up a little bit. I have never played a game with this kind of patching problem tbh.
Weird, I heard the issue with Steam a lot, but not so much with the normal client. Takes a bit of time for me but it's like 20secs to check files/allocate, so not a long time. Game's on a HDD maybe? Or maybe try to do a clean install at some point, might be old shitty files fucking it up I don't know.
 

Borzak

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Derkon

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Oh ok, the cart being able to somewhat scale with your speed is good. Though I doubt it's going to keep up with brightbeak/shield charge.
 

Deathwing

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Yeah was about to say, he has a video with a bunch more details. He mentions the Guardian ascendency is getting reworked, apparently to a more combat oriented paladin-like ascendency to go with the new skills. I guess they'll kill the "stand around near people and pick up loot only" support spec shit and instead work on an active support using skills to buff other people like the new lightning aura shit.

He also seems to imply there will be a reinforced focus on minions supporting within the ascendency and the new items to go with dom blow rework. Might end up making my first templar since beta if that's the case. He shows a weapon too crafted with the new shit, a 1H sword with 90%+ minion damage, a 5% damage aura and some proc on hit. The interesting part for me is the fact the 90-100% minion damage weapon mod isn't gone after incursion ends(although they might still add incursion to the game we'll see). The fact you can craft it is even better because you can put it on a fast dagger instead of a slow ass scepter, also meaning I can use whirling blades instead of this stupid shield charge shit.

Overall, pretty excited about this league, although I feel this might turn out as a miss for people who like to grind xp only, as I doubt it'll be time efficient at all to do the delving garbage, but it seems something nice to do after you're done leveling and just want to play the game on that char still. And it looked like unlike other leagues, you can kinda "skip" it, as long as you collect the things on the maps, and then just spend say an hour or two just delving with the ressources you got. It might be capped and force you to delve regularily though, we'll see. And the whole ladder ranking thing seems like it'd be a good way to add some side endgame activity for people in the base game later on.
Base weapon speed doesn't affect movement skills.
 

Pyros

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Base weapon speed doesn't affect movement skills.
Oh right now I remember, only the attack speed roll. Still, whirling blades. Also scepters look like turds and dildos. I should get a weapon skin MTX at some point probably, wish they had more of them though(and fuck buying consumable MTX to skin change).
 
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Borzak

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Never had more than 1.5 ex or 100c ish at a time. This league had up to 14ex at once and I counted it up, total build has about 30-35c of "stuff" in it. Odds of me repeating that next league, none lol. All blind luck, which is kind of sad.
 

Deathwing

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Oh right now I remember, only the attack speed roll. Still, whirling blades. Also scepters look like turds and dildos. I should get a weapon skin MTX at some point probably, wish they had more of them though(and fuck buying consumable MTX to skin change).
You just missed a sale on sin and innocence mtx. Pretty awesome weapon skin.

But yeah, they have an abundance of weapon effects and a few shitty skins. I want one for wands.
 

Borzak

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So on the throwback I got wasteland gloves MTX. Pretty hard to see on a tiple herald character lol.
 

Deathwing

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I wonder if pushing grifts, I mean delves, with a non-MF build will be more lucrative than your standard MF farming build.
 

Deathwing

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Both supporter packs look good. But I just completed my sin and innocence set. Damnit. My account page says I've spent $580 on this game since March 17. Money isn't an issue, I don't really buy any other games(see gaming funk thread), but damn that feels like too much.
 
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Croetec

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Elementalist abyssus facebreakers Unarmed Smite.

or wait... no. sword. and unarmed???
The Dancing Dervish
Trickesy GGG.

I'm hoping someone figures out a good animate weapon or Dervish build with Guardian changes, still never tried those though Heirophant toxic rain could be interesting. Also curious will exp scale properly with mob strength for potentially easier level 100's this league?
 
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Pyros

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Are archers going to be good this season?
Well archers are more or less always good. They were broken as shit this league, I assume ele hit is getting nerfed though so we'll see, but I doubt it'll be bad to just play LA or TS as usual or some shit like that.
 

Deathwing

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"Only so many" implies, to me, artificially limited supply, not scarcity.

The concept of "foil cards" in a game is fine. In this game, though? How do you show off your foils without trading? League challenge totems and MTX serve that function better.