[Gaming] Diablo 3 : Ser Farm-A-Lot

Krisken

Krisken

PatrThom said:
I'm thinking about it. I obviously won't be able to play as much, but that doesn't mean I won't play at all.

What do you mean? The Blizzard game guide already shows stat ranges.

--Patrick
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It does, sure. I would rather have a website which would allow me to input stats and figure out how the changes would translate to my character before I make enhancements.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Krisken said:
It does, sure. I would rather have a website which would allow me to input stats and figure out how the changes would translate to my character before I make enhancements.
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You might start with http://www.d3maxstats.com/ ?
Just remember that all stats are determined by the level of the item in question, except that legendary/set items can go one step higher, and ancient legendaries can go even higher than that. Also, certain stats can only appear on certain items (bracers don't get sockets, helmets don't get +% run speed, etc).

--Patrick
 
Dei

Dei

I'm probably going to make a seasonal, whether or not I stay invested long term is another question entirely. ;)
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

The new season has been running for maybe 36hrs now, and popups are already announcing how some people have already been doing things like "complete a nephalem rift in under 2min on T6 at level 70."
I don't know whether to be impressed or jealous.

--Patrick
 
Dei

Dei

Of course, they started season 2 on Valentine's weekend, so I've only had time to get to around level 30 so far.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

I was on earlier when four dudes got the Greater rift 35 achievement. Holy crap is all I can say.

I thought I was a fast leveller. I thought wrong!
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

I've levelled...3 characters, I think, to level 70? Not even - 2 to level 70 and one to somewhere in the fifties. I admit, I'm a filthy casual...I only played...err...Wedll over a hundred hours of it.

I know, I only play single player, and all that jazz, but even so - how the f*** do you level that fast and get a character through the story to the end game?
Also, how do you still enjoy it?

Seriously, it's like you're playing different games.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Bubble181 said:
Seriously, it's like you're playing different games.
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It's true, though.
We are playing a game where we crawl dungeons, look for loot, blow things up, etc.
They are playing a game where the "game" they are playing isn't actually "play Diablo III," the game they are playing is "achieve this condition as quickly as possible," and it just happens that the condition in question exists within Diablo III. Other games they might play include "drink an entire gallon of milk at once," or "achieve an average of 70MPH on the drive to work," or even "run with the bulls in Pamplona for at least 10 minutes."
The attitude itself isn't harmful, but some of the stunts that get pulled due to "challenges" sure could be.

--Patrick
 
Krisken

Krisken

Honestly, I don't envy those people. They are people with nothing else to do and relying on the game to give them a sense of achievement in life, which is a terrifying way to live.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Krisken said:
Honestly, I don't envy those people. They are people with nothing else to do and relying on the game to give them a sense of achievement in life, which is a terrifying way to live.
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I feel the same as you, but they certainly seem to enjoy it, so I doubt they would agree.
I'd be willing to bet these people are also the ones who buy a new video game every three months, beat it, and then it just sits there unplayed afterwards because it's "too boring."

I also expect they aren't very monogamous.
...as an aside, I wonder if how someone plays video games compares to whether they can maintain a stable relationship? Someone should do a study.

--Patrick
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

I just...I dunno. I finished the story and levelled through to 70 with a Wizard (yay glass cannons), I finished the story with a WD (yay minions, though not enough, I want a necro dammit :p), and played through it all with a Crusader (which played much nicer than I expected).
With the two 70s, I did some bounties for a while...But...doesn't that get boring? I mean, ok, yes, I'm on single player, but...It's just grinding for the grind. I'm not even talking about the extremes who're just rushing the leader board - even you guys. Yes, I've got a hankering to go mow down some critters again...But just bounties seems so...going-nowhere--ish to me.
Of course, my (on screen) damage (which I know is off, as usual for Diablo games I guess :p) is like a quarter of what some of you are posting - I guess the better items from higher torment levels really do get much better.

I'm not saying you're enjoying DIII "the wrong way" or anything, to be perfectly clear - quite the opposite, you're enjoying it the way Blizzard expects you to, and I'm a freak :p. It's just weird, to me, and the conversation for the past pages has been...well, you might as well have been talking about WoW. I can follow the conversation there, too, but I don't play it and I don't really know it, you know.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Dungeon crawler endgames are always about the loot (or else about the PvP). From a stratospheric level, you're just playing Yahtzee, rolling the dice, seeing what you get, keeping what you want, then rolling the dice again and again and again in an attempt to improve what you have. The quests and critters are built in by Blizzard in an attempt to make rolling those dice feel challenging enough that once you get a few good results, it feels rewarding enough that you'll want to keep playing. Gaming with others increases this reward by adding an additional Social Element to the play (trading loot, co-adventuring).

--Patrick
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Considering I play Diabo (I-II-III) more for the empowerment fantasy of being a hero and smashing/lasering/frying/piercing hundreds upon hundreds of poor little demons or having my zombie/skeleton/bear/wolf/whatever army tear the evil hordes to pieces, rather than for the luck of the dice, eh. Ever upping the difficulty level sort of negates the point for me - after, say, Torment II or so (I went up to Torment 6 for a while while levelling because I found a weapon level 61 with -23 levels as an affix. Since that meant my level 47 wizard was suddenly using an expansion weapon, it quadrupled or so her damage output. That was fun for a while :p), it loses the power fantasy of mowing down the hordes. I'm not a big "slowly kite and carefully try to take them out" sort of player :p
 
Krisken

Krisken

PatrThom said:
I feel the same as you, but they certainly seem to enjoy it, so I doubt they would agree.
I'd be willing to bet these people are also the ones who buy a new video game every three months, beat it, and then it just sits there unplayed afterwards because it's "too boring."

I also expect they aren't very monogamous.
...as an aside, I wonder if how someone plays video games compares to whether they can maintain a stable relationship? Someone should do a study.

--Patrick
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I only say it because I was once one of those people. Not working, no relationships, stayed up for 70 hours to play a game to feel like I achieved something. I didn't realize it at the time, but yeah, serious low point.[DOUBLEPOST=1423967405,1423967253][/DOUBLEPOST]
Bubble181 said:
I just...I dunno. I finished the story and levelled through to 70 with a Wizard (yay glass cannons), I finished the story with a WD (yay minions, though not enough, I want a necro dammit :p), and played through it all with a Crusader (which played much nicer than I expected).
With the two 70s, I did some bounties for a while...But...doesn't that get boring? I mean, ok, yes, I'm on single player, but...It's just grinding for the grind. I'm not even talking about the extremes who're just rushing the leader board - even you guys. Yes, I've got a hankering to go mow down some critters again...But just bounties seems so...going-nowhere--ish to me.
Of course, my (on screen) damage (which I know is off, as usual for Diablo games I guess :p) is like a quarter of what some of you are posting - I guess the better items from higher torment levels really do get much better.

I'm not saying you're enjoying DIII "the wrong way" or anything, to be perfectly clear - quite the opposite, you're enjoying it the way Blizzard expects you to, and I'm a freak :p. It's just weird, to me, and the conversation for the past pages has been...well, you might as well have been talking about WoW. I can follow the conversation there, too, but I don't play it and I don't really know it, you know.
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Yeah, mine is 1204k right now, which is really a lot. And yeah, it CAN get boring sometimes, but that's when i switch it up by playing something else or switching to a different character.

There's always a better item or a bitter way to play the game. Sometimes the joy is finding that one item you couldn't get to drop or getting to that next Paragon level (285 currently).
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

I enjoy the challenge of getting upgrades and paragon levels to beat the next greater rift level.

It just gets a bit scary at times when I look at the leaderboards and see people a solid 8-10 rift levels ahead.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Sorry, I didn't know you were permanently mired in pre-RoS-land.
Also, I doubt I could build you a decent enough gaming system for $300 to suggest a PC instead (plus there's the XB1 catalogue).

--Patrick
 
Krisken

Krisken

PatrThom said:
Sorry, I didn't know you were permanently mired in pre-RoS-land.
Also, I doubt I could build you a decent enough gaming system for $300 to suggest a PC instead (plus there's the XB1 catalogue).

--Patrick
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Well, no, just after release of RoS. So there is that.[DOUBLEPOST=1424494486,1424494330][/DOUBLEPOST]
Ravenpoe said:
That's still not real D3... it's only realer than what you previously had. But hey, it's an upgrade!
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Pppphhh, played D2 for years on PC. Honestly, PC superiority never interested me. And I've heard the gameplay on the Console is actually really good (considering I've been playing the X-Box 360 for months and prefer the controller over the mouse/keyboard, I'm happy to play on the One.)
 
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