Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

Never got that ring myself doing act 1 bounties on 2 different characters. In the end I gave up and just do bounties when I need rift stones.

I did the same and I still need the ring on my Crusader and DH but once 2.1 comes around we won't need to do bounties as often. I'll have to man up and just keep running bounties until I get one I guess.

Supposedly, there's one more patch on PTR before release, so we're looking at close to the final build. There's plenty I'm looking forward to, and hopefully they fix all the garbage next patch. >implying.
Todays patch buffed all healing by 30%, but only Monk's still scales with gear. Nerfed all that overbuffed Life per Resource from last patch. So they're marginally more useful for whatever difficulty they cap out at, but they still cap out significantly lower than T6.
Not really sure if I want to play seasons. If I do, I'll probably roll a Demon Hunter or Crusader, but there isn't much of an incentive since their seasonal legendaries aren't that spectacular. I think I'd rather just continue casually getting gear on my current characters and work on some Legendary Gems.

The latest PTR patch was datamined a bit ago and it seems like it's mostly tuning for shields / absorbs / "Life" effects.

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48171-new...ll-changes

Q&A on 2.1 on the 21st so I guess it won't be out before then.

An Act 1 cache dropped a legendary ring. Was this it? Was my torment finally over?!

.....It was an Oculus Ring.

Oh RNG, you fucking troll.

I wonder on how Monks will ultimately pan out for 2.1. No real desire to gear one up if they're supposedly still very underwhelming.

Also, I really regret not spending more time on Demon Hunter. Hearing them being on the top of the Greater Rift totem pole is very tempting.

http://i.imgur.com/BYzPNHJ.jpg

pineappleING FINALLY!

Rolls could have been better (Would have rather had Crit Damage or Chance over ASpd), but whatever. No more god damn tracking down Queen Aranae!

They just finished up with a Q&A about 2.1.0 on stream. Some okay info, you can read the summary here:
http://www.diablofans.com/news/48181-pat...per-stream

Patch is still planned for by the end of the month, i.e. next week, but it might be delayed, which is looking likely since they release on Tuesdays.
Overall, it looks like they want to add more legendary effects for skills to buff them, rather than the base skill itself, and it's a goal for every legendary to have an effect (which is funny because when 2.0/RoS first launched, they said it was a waste of time and they'd rather create completely new legendaries instead).
Hopefully, this means that it's a focus for the next patches to have more of these added. There were a couple this patch, but not many are specific skill changers.


Also, starting at Midnight tonight, in all regions, there will be a +50% Gold Find event buff.

Crit Chance on its own isnt too bad, and Crit Dmg isn't either (if you had a fixed chance to crit), but together they are too strong. and take 2 affixes on a few gear slots, whereas things like cooldown reduction take only one affix.

Subtle hint that CHC and CHD might get revamped / changed down the road? I mean he's not entirely wrong.

The only thing that disappoints me about that is the comment talking about improving features in clans / communities due to trading being gone. That rules out bringing in clan based trading at least which I was hoping would be a thing. :c

The rest of the info looks pretty good though. Hope this patch comes out without too much more delay so I can try things out with my crusader.

Subtle hint that CHC and CHD might get revamped / changed down the road? I mean he's not entirely wrong.

They underlined heavily that they never want to make a change that makes characters feel weaker when they logged in. They even brought this up with block. They don't want to change block to mitigate 50% of incoming damage immediately because it will make at least one character weaker, and they would rather solve it with a passive or legendary item instead (which is a terrible idea). The characters that are made weaker from this are basically sub-T1.

One of the plans they're considering is implementing a season where CHC or CHD doesn't roll and is replaced with a better Total Damage stat instead, but it might be too complicated.

They announced the Scheduled Maintenance on Tuesday to be 10 hours long, so we could expect the patch.

Reaaaally hoping the patch is coming with the maintenance this tuesday

I wonder how long after the patch they'll start Season 1 though?

So you need sockets on rings and amulets for legendary gems, huh?

pomegranate. This is going to make optimization all the more annoying. I'm sure we all know the dominance of Critical Hit Chance and Critical Hit Damage. Not to mention Elemental Damage on amulets. (And Ring of Jordan if you're lucky enough to get one.)

But considering that on one or my rings and my amulet, I had to reroll for CHD, and on my RoRG, the MANDITORY ring, I had to reroll for CHC..... (I found out the damn thing is guaranteed to come with Attack Speed) Are these things even going to be worth it? How much do they need to be leveled before they can really be worth more than CHC or CHD?.....

Eh, at least if I pick up my Wizard or Witch Doctor again, I got a nice Int Leoric's Signet with Int, Vit, CHC, and CHD I haven't rerolled anything on yet.

And then there's the Hellfire Amulets which we have to farm and hope for the right passive, element, CHC, CHD, AND a socket.....

Come on Blizzard. Surely you can figure out how to fix this mess.

I still have faith in you.....

So you need sockets on rings and amulets for legendary gems, huh?

pomegranate. This is going to make optimization all the more annoying. I'm sure we all know the dominance of Critical Hit Chance and Critical Hit Damage. Not to mention Elemental Damage on amulets. (And Ring of Jordan if you're lucky enough to get one.)

But considering that on one or my rings and my amulet, I had to reroll for CHD, and on my RoRG, the MANDITORY ring, I had to reroll for CHC..... (I found out the damn thing is guaranteed to come with Attack Speed) Are these things even going to be worth it? How much do they need to be leveled before they can really be worth more than CHC or CHD?.....

Eh, at least if I pick up my Wizard or Witch Doctor again, I got a nice Int Leoric's Signet with Int, Vit, CHC, and CHD I haven't rerolled anything on yet.

And then there's the Hellfire Amulets which we have to farm and hope for the right passive, element, CHC, CHD, AND a socket.....

Come on Blizzard. Surely you can figure out how to fix this mess.

I still have faith in you.....

Wasn't there an item added in that can add a socket that's independent of the current effects on the item?

No, sockets count as primary stats through the Mystic.

Wasn't there an item added in that can add a socket that's independent of the current effects on the item?

I believe it's weapon only.

Sadly the gift only works on weapons that don't have a socket on them already. I am hoping they will include rings in this to make it less difficult to use the new gems. It's really going to hurt for people with optimal rolls on them. (For example I have a really good SoJ that no part of it can be rerolled.. only higher stats of the same rolls would help me)

A couple of rings and amulets will drop with 5 primaries, so that will help, but a bunch of existing gear won't benefit as immediately. It really depends on the build, your paragon, and gem level if you're going to roll out a good affix.

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48184-2-1...-1-roundup

Patch is confirmed for tomorrow, with the PTR shutting down. Hopefully, the DDoS shenanigans can stop.

A couple of rings and amulets will drop with 5 primaries, so that will help, but a bunch of existing gear won't benefit as immediately. It really depends on the build, your paragon, and gem level if you're going to roll out a good affix.

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48184-2-1...-1-roundup

Patch is confirmed for tomorrow, with the PTR shutting down. Hopefully, the DDoS shenanigans can stop.

Thanks for the info. 5 Primaries sounds like it will help a lot. Maybe I can swap out a ring for one of those when the patch is live.

Shame it will be Wednesday in EU where I play before patch is out, but I'll be reading the NA forums to see initial thoughts on the finished patch.