The Diablo IV thread

[RandomZero]

Pre-ordered Ultimate. I have enough hours spread between 1-3 that, even with all that is going on with the parent company and uncertainty with what is being said, I still have hope. I know I would be playing this regardless so it made sense for me, from my perspective at least.

 

[RandomZero]

Was watching DatModz most of the day yesterday. He linked this early build calculator someone made. I haven't used it, looked over it though:

https://lothrik.github.io/diablo4-build-calc/#

 

[RandomZero]

Did Rogue and Sorc to 25 last weekend, time to try out the Necro. After work though

 

[RandomZero]

They've got some work to do with the way they have tuned things since the last beta. I played up to 20 and geared a Necro and Rogue. Minions felt terrible this go around. I'm not going to deny that they were a little OP before, but it felt like someone moved a slider to the left and called it good without actually testing anything. Rogue was a still a breeze though, at least with Rapid Fire. Killed Ashava on the Rogue yesterday morning in a small group that was finally all 20's. Performance was much better, but I noticed toggling cross play off improved overall latency, but more so in the town hubs. Also made things even sparser player-wise, which was fine. Overall I'm really excited. There are things that need to be adjusted, and performance still needs to be cleaned up, but this should be a ton of fun right at the start.

 

[RandomZero]

Tomorrow at 7pm the early access starts for us on the east coast. Time to buy my cans of soda and Doritos!

West coast here, and pre-installed. Off on Friday. but I'm going to see The Cure tomorrow night, so I'll be getting a later start on early access day

 

[RandomZero]

My key binding's stopped working during a boss fight. Then after rebooting I have not been able to get back in. That being said it's the first issue I've had and I have played enough to be level 46.

I had this happen as well. I just unplugged/plugged in the keyboard. I have noticed the longer the game runs for, the more frequently key presses are not registering. Leaving the game then re-entering seems to solve that too.

 

[RandomZero]

I'm hoping they give in a bit more when it comes to renown, but for now I'll take the shrines and map reveal. Am at 70 with a rogue, but decided to go ahead and switch over to HC and start a necro, since that's the direction I want to go when s1 drops, and being HC, I have to do all the renown shit all over again

 

[RandomZero]

Killed two HC characters this weekend. Don't look in the menu if you are not in a safe spot (duh) and cheat death activating then immediately dying anyway. Ugh, I guess I'll go back to SC as I don't want to do those early levels in HC without a boost at this point.

 

[RandomZero]

RE: Item level talk. I can tell most know but for those that don't, you need to check those rares in higher WTs. I have a yellow pair of paints, ilvl 806, sitting in my stash waiting for me to find an aspect to put on them, and they were much cheaper to reroll a stat on then with a lego. I think alot of my gear right now are former rares that were upgraded by tossing an aspect on them.

 

[RandomZero]

Is there something that lists all possible options when it comes to rerolling? I miss D3 specifying what options you had available for the slot you wanted to reroll on. I feel like I'm blind here in some cases. Also, this would probably be irrelevant at lvl 100, but it would be nice if we could target craft the specific level of sigils instead of a range of levels, but that's a minor wish for change.

 

[RandomZero]

Something like this what you looking for?

Yes, something exactly like that. Thank you very much!

 

[RandomZero]

I have had one total drop, with the minimum value.

This. I know it's RNG but man. I have had three of these drop, two max, that I haven't applied to anything yet. The one that has only dropped once for me is the Flurry aspect that basically turns it in to Fan of Knives. Though I did just hit 90 so I'm 10 levels from end-game respecs....

 

[RandomZero]

Yeah I'll probably watch someone stream D4 after work to see how things look, but eh, we'll see. Just nothing really compelling to get me to want to re-install at this point

 

[RandomZero]

I started super late on the season and only spent about a week playing during the holiday event. I spent all the currency I had left buying up those elixirs this morning. Let me guess, they're going to be gone when I login later this evening aren't they

 

[RandomZero]

I'd think you keep the items you purchased, incl the elixirs. When S2 ends, the season specific items will indeed be gone IIRC.

The elixirs were still there

 

[RandomZero]

Oh, yeah I know how seasons work, I was just curious if they would go missing when the event ended, since they were an event based item.

 

[RandomZero]

It started to feel pretty monotonous until I hit 100 and could really start focusing on end game gear etc.....really started to have a ton of fun doing that end-game grind though. Will probably keep going for another week or so before taking a break before S3. I also got started on the season really really late, so there is that.

 

[RandomZero]

Not sure how many people are still active this season, but this morning during a Helltide it sure felt like a lot more cinders were dropping then normally. Has anyone seen/noticed this, or am I just not thinking clearly?

 

[RandomZero]

I'm looking forward to this season too, so the Dev stream/patch notes today will be interesting to review after work. Now, if they will just let us set a home destination for our portals, that would be great. Really great.

 

[RandomZero]

I have no idea what I'm going to play this season. Rogue two in a row so far, i need to try something different. Gonna be at work during the start though, oh well.

 

[RandomZero]

That's what I need to do too. I think Rogue is my main honestly, I just love the zoomy style, but I'm leaning towards a Sorc or some sort this go around. Need to play with a build planner at work today when I have a few minutes

 

[RandomZero]

Chose to level with a Chain Lightning Sorc. That started to get fun once Fireball was moved to the first passive slot

 

[RandomZero]

Yeah, I skipped the campaign and upon logging in after creating the character, I was presented with the first quest for the seasonal quest line automatically.

 

[RandomZero]

I just hit 50 tonight. Logged off before changing the CL spec around though, so we'll see how that goes. But yeah, the Vaults....they are not good or fun in any way

 

[RandomZero]

Yeah that part is really annoying, losing the stacks. One of the runs I did, and this was all before Lvl 50 mind you, there was a chest that needed 4 to open. I had 3, so I have no clue what the loot would have looked like.

 

[RandomZero]

Well, the quick patch they dropped def made things a bit better, so that's a nice start. Since I was still in the leveling process I had not given up on the season yet. Just hit level 62, converted to a Ball Lightning build, which is I guess not he meta now that it's doing damage correctly, but even this low in to the Paragon board, well it's still pretty damn good, and funner then Chain Lightning was that's for sure.

 

[RandomZero]

Made the move to WT4 finally and changed over to a Blizzard build, which after finding the other two aspect drops I needed, started to take off rather quickly. Mind you only level 72 at this point, but I think this is the one I'm going to stick with through to lvl 100.

 

[RandomZero]

Only took about 40ish minutes to close out the event. Just run vaults or NMD with the Ancestral option listed in the affixes. Much better then the shrine cleansing in the over world. Also hit 100 with the Sorc, have the glyphs up to lvl 15 and reworked the paragon board. Now everything just kinda dies, even with unoptimized gear. Fun build.

 

[RandomZero]

I haven't seen one. But then, I didn't farm him last season, and I play solo all the time, so my farming is not the most efficient. I assume I'll never, or maybe once, get to try this.

 

[RandomZero]

Yeah I've been rolling around just, killing time? I've really enjoyed the season since the vault changes, I mean I keep logging in and playing . Blizz Sorc still needs some gear that's just slightly better optimized, but also farming up stuff to try out meteor. Have two glyphs to finish leveling to 21 before I switch, and a better starfall would be nice. I have mats for farming that at least. But yeah, the grind for mats to fight bosses that give you the mats to farm another boss that never drops anything is not sustainable and it's hella annoying.

 

[RandomZero]

and needing two of each mat, where one of the bosses has a chance to drop x2 but normally just gives you one, it's annoying as hell.

 

[RandomZero]

As someone that prefers solo play, yes, it is such a massive struggle to farm some of this stuff. That being said, with some tweaks to the bliz build and no ubers, I've managed to make it up to NMD 90. Prior to this season looks like 60 was the highest I bothered with, so there is that I guess

 

[RandomZero]

I'll probably give it a go this weekend, just installed it tonight. Some of the builds are wild. Minions Necro, Frozen Orb Sorc....I hear the Tornado Barb is nuts but haven't seen that myself yet. Looks like a totally different game there are so many changes.

 

[RandomZero]

And the fact that they are account-wide now is huge as well.

 

[RandomZero]

Wrong thread, sorry!!

 

[RandomZero]

Umm, without looking anything up, I can think of Aspect of Disobedience off the top of my head that gets used across multiple classes. I know there are others but I'd have to look at the list.

 

[RandomZero]

PTR ending today. I gave it a late start, actually leveled a Necro through the story then did a bunch of boosts to get some money and mats. Kinda wish they would keep this going longer, as the game is a ton of fun with the changes so far. Will they stick around as is though.....

 

[RandomZero]

Looks like a 10am launch time for S4 on this side of the country. Played the minion Necro on PTR, and looks like that's what I am going to with for the season start. More specifically Shadow Minions for end game.

 

[RandomZero]

Shadow Mages for this one.

 

[RandomZero]

Yeah, minion necro is pretty strong, I guess to be expected after PTR. Did the Capstone at lvl41, hit 42 when I completed, moved to WT3, and called it a night.