Diablo 3

[choof]

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started playing again, got a dh to 70 yesterday evening
time to begin the grind

[Poison-]

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Did 53 solo but still don't have any ancient gear. My non-ancient weapons are definitely the thing holding me back the most. My amulet and rings also suck

[Kibblre]

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I usually come back and play D3 every now and then. Anything cool over last season that makes this season worth playing?

[m0de]

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Is it worth playing without the expansion? I plan on buying it sometime in the future, but was just curious if its worth playing beforehand. Like could I level up, then just pick up where I left off when I get the expansion?

[Kibblre]

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Is it worth playing without the expansion? I plan on buying it sometime in the future, but was just curious if its worth playing beforehand. Like could I level up, then just pick up where I left off when I get the expansion?

It's not. If you're planning on playing, buy it. All the endgame stuff comes with the expansion.

[andy-o24]

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First ancient is a templar relic. 985/1000 strength roll.

-o24

[hi19hi19]

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First ancient is a templar relic. 985/1000 strength roll.

-o24

Is it the one that makes him invincible or is it the one nobody uses?

This determines whether my reaction is "grats!" or "wow I'm so sorry to hear that"

[Reach]

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Yeah, the only templar relic that matters is invincibility, since past GR 40 the templar just dies instantly if you don't have it.

Cleared a 48 GR pretty easily in 9 minutes with a mediocre rift. Can definitely clear 50 or higher with a good rift. Interestingly survivability is a non-issue. I can pretty much stand in the middle of 100s of enemies and take no damage. It mostly comes down to damage and mob density. I can see 51+ clears posing problems mostly because of how long the RG would take to kill. Definitely need a furnace cubed and ancient walker weapon on hand to consistently push past that.

Just finished my archon set too so in the process of trying to switch over, but it seems a lot less consistent than delrasha. Adding some more CDR to it and leveled up gems to 25 though so going to try it again today and see if it performs better. Seems like it's just an insta reset set though if you get a low density rift, though I suppose if you're pushing for leaderboards those are always resets anyway. RGs seem like a huge problem with this set too, there are a bunch of RGs you can't really fight and it's beneficial to time the archon correctly so you can blow the RG away before you lose your stacks. Even at level 40 the difference was between killing the RG instantaneously and having to reset because I couldn't kill him at all.


Edit: Ok, yeah, CDR is really critical for archon and can't be overstated. Sacrificed some DPS to get more CDR. Even an extra 10% made all of the difference. Now I can get archon up almost instantly and blazed through a shitty GR 44 with no problems. Fun build.

The reason is that it's pretty critical to get lots of time in archon round 2 with the swami stacks before they wear off, since that's what snowballs your DPS. If your CDR isn't high enough to do it you hit like a wet noodle. Combining stacks was dropping elites pretty much instantly @ 44, vs taking forever to kill them if you're letting those stacks fall off.

[andy-o24]

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Is it the one that makes him invincible or is it the one nobody uses?

This determines whether my reaction is "grats!" or "wow I'm so sorry to hear that"

Reduces his cooldowns by 50%. :P It was a nice upgrade at least. I'm far from GR 40, but making some progress. Anyone can tell/link me how to get the Cube. I'm interested in throwing away some gear.

-o24

[choof]

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act 3 adventure mode, top right corner of the map
don't remember what it's called but there are two areas, you find the cube in the second area by exploring

[Reach]

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First time leaderboards ever.

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

Woo!

CRAP rift too. Good rift I think I could clear 55 without any upgrades at all, and I still have a decent amount of damage I can squeeze out of this build. Still need ancient aether weapon and a couple pieces of ancient gear.

Delrasha btw. I can't get Archon to work consistently past 50. You basically yolo swag and if you die once or run into any slow rift spots it's a reset. Zzzz...

Dumping shards onto a monk now. Too bad I've dumped over 5k and haven't gotten any set pieces other than blackthornes. LOL

[choof]

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siiick dude, grats
just pushed my dh to t1, nothing notable yet except for a unity. need another one for templar, and then I'll still need the invincibility relic 8(

[Poison-]

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Haven't played much in the last 2 days. It's way too frustrating to do GR's without ancient weapons.

[Reach]

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It does, and the weapon reroll feature on cube is so god damn trash holy shit.

50 souls? Really? And I haven't even had one reroll as ancient yet, and it ruined the stats on most of the ones I've tried.

Jesus. Just charge 200 souls + the mats and give me a guaranteed ancient roll.

[andy-o24]

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Got my Starmetal Kukri. Thinking I'll run 6 Arachyr's and something else. Cube gives me permanent Locust Swarm from Wormwood extraction. Running Zunimassa's in the mean time while I finish up sets. Farming some T4 pretty efficiently now, but haven't really pushed myself in GRs yet. My brother may start playing which will hopefully speed things up. Ancient drops have been abyssmal.

-o24