"Diablo 3 Patch 2.1" Mon Aug-11-14 10:26 AM by Deebot
You there IC?
These patch notes are massive...anyone read the latest? Some things I noticed:
*New consumable legendary allowing you to add a socket to any weapon for free (I've got one saved for this).
*New legendary gems that only drop from greater rift guardians. No idea how powerful they'll be.
*They're making a few of the lame legendaries more interesting.
*They're buffing Life per Hit and slightly nerfing health globes, which is good because life per hit/regen are still pretty pointless.
*WDs: They're adding an icon to show you how many fetishes you have (one of my current complaints) and they're fixing the issue with gargs not attacking much when there are other pets around a target (my main complaint with WD). So good job! Fixing that garg issue alone will make me infinitely more powerful, lol. WDs are still OP.
*Wizards: Still look to be in trouble. Basically just noticed a few damage buffs.
*Barbs: Imo they're fine as is, but looks like they're buffing some skills as well. Dmg buff to Call of the Ancients works for me.
Things that still need to be addressed:
For one, thorns damage is still grossly underpowered and irrelevant. Not sure why they haven't drastically buffed that yet. Seems like they're at least thinking about it though with some of the new legendaries from the last patch.
1. "You should install the PTR" In response to Reply # 0
I played around with it for a little some more and the legendary gems effects are pretty noticeable, so having a socket on rings/ammys will become almost a necessity now.
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3. "Yeah, people are complaining because they're playing PTR" In response to Reply # 2 Mon Aug-11-14 01:31 PM by Innocent Criminal
Even though Bliz states that anything you play on PTR is not final and may not make live rollout. As far as the legendary gems I can only tell you the ones I found and tested as a DH, I'm sure other classes would find other gems more/less useful.
Taeguk - gain 1% increased damage every 3 seconds after spending a primary resource? It works after dropping a sentry, works after popping shadow power, works when popping cluster arrows.
Bane of the Powerful - Gain 30% increased damage for 25 seconds after killing an elite pack. Works even if the sentry gets the killing blow, lots of other gems won't proc based on what the sentry does. So for an M6 build this is fantastic. When you rank it up, the duration extends.
Enforcer - Increase crit chance of bets by 20%, works on sentries and the dh companions. If you can get it to rank 50, pets are unkillable (Not an issue for DH's but a WD should love it.)
I haven't found the legendary consumable yet, I'm going to assume it will have a low drop rate on purpose.
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4. "RE: Yeah, people are complaining because they're playing PTR" In response to Reply # 3 Mon Aug-11-14 02:32 PM by Deebot
you rank it up, the duration extends. > >Enforcer - Increase crit chance of bets by 20%, works on >sentries and the dh companions. If you can get it to rank 50, >pets are unkillable (Not an issue for DH's but a WD should >love it.)
Meh, WD pets don't really die as it is, lol. It'd def add a lot of dmg though.
Any opinions on the proposed skill changes for each class?
5. "Great thing for M6 DH's" In response to Reply # 4
Most don't attack much anyways (sentries should hit harder than the DH themselves if geared right), so we can reroll crit chance off some of our gear into other useful stats. Reroll crit on my ring into sockets or cdr or something.
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7. "Greater rifts start getting a little difficult after about 28ish." In response to Reply # 6
Did a 3 man level 31 and killed the guardian with about 24 seconds left to go, mainly due to the barbarian and other dh hunter dying repeatedly. You know I'm dope and only died once at the beginning when I zoned in and those parachute guys dropped on me. I've got about 10 of the leg gems now, including the Enforcer (pet dmg gem). I rerolled sockets on both my SOJ and RORG.
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8. "Thats pretty boss...my Taeguk will prob go to my Barb" In response to Reply # 7
and the other (increased dmg after killing an elite pack) to my WD until I find the pet dmg one.
The 27 rift we did last night seemed easy enough, but that was with our best guys. Once I can get a socket in my stashed WD weapon we'll be unstoppable (already are).
9. "I honestly think with your WD we could have slammed that 31 rift" In response to Reply # 8
But I was with a barb that can barely do T5 and a glass canon dh. Most of the time they spent running back from the check point I was pushing forward trying not to let time run out. We might be able to hit some 2 man leader boards with our mains.
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17. "I'm getting the shaft" In response to Reply # 16 Wed Sep-03-14 12:33 PM by Deebot
So my new wiz build and gear set for GR 25+ is all plotted out, lol. Although I'm still undecided about bracers and chest.
Skills:
Teleport: not sure which rune yet, never used it before. Hydra: Mammoth Black Hole: Blazar Time Warp: the target location one Magic Missile: the fire one Meteor: the big one
Whole idea is to stay as far away as possible and do plenty of damage. Time Warp and Black Hole allow me to CC at a distance. Unstable passive will bring me back to life when I die, as will the 4 pc Firebird bonus.
20. "They hotfixed caches last night to increase drop rates" In response to Reply # 19
So its been happening since then, not sure if they'll make any further adjustments, but for now T6 bounties is a go.
Plus they also hotfixed pets not allowing boon of the hoarder to proc. Now my sentries are making it rain like a strip club. Look at the amount of gold I collected in this massacre. http://i.imgur.com/fvkLwLm.jpg
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