Diablo III: Loot 2.0

[Professor Frink]

+50% Bonus XP in Diablo III this weekend.

Perfect time to get all my classes to 70

[AitchP]

After struggling to play this game between my old MacBook Pro over heating this year, I can't wait to put my new PC build together and get sucked back in!

[Bugbait]

I'm really enjoying the expansion, especially Adventure Mode which I'm pretty much using exclusively to level my alts. Currently in an AVF Clan although I tend to play with other members outside of the Clan more. My BNet tag is Urgat <hash> 2792. There are times I prefer to solo because I need access to the pause function to randomly AFK so don't take offence if I decline a group on occasion .

[Dooms]

2.0.4 has buffed the Crusader nicely, was playing last night and enjoying it a lot more!

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/1353...-live-4-8-2014

Looks like all other classes (other than monk) got buffs to the single target damagers.

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Still haven't finished Act5, got about half way on my monk (upto lvl 65) but then switched over to playing crusader again which has caught up story wise but is only sitting at 55.

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I highly recommend completing Act 5 with at least one character so you can access Adventure Mode. Gives an alternative to Story Mode and has made the game far more enjoyable for me personally. If you want the fast track, someone just needs to take you to kill the last boss. I leveled my Crusader from 1 to 70 using just Adventure Mode while earning Rift Stones and Blood Shards for my main along the way. Rest of my alts are slowly dribbling along the same path from 60.

[Dooms]

I highly recommend completing Act 5 with at least one character so you can access Adventure Mode. Gives an alternative to Story Mode and has made the game far more enjoyable for me personally. If you want the fast track, someone just needs to take you to kill the last boss. I leveled my Crusader from 1 to 70 using just Adventure Mode while earning Rift Stones and Blood Shards for my main along the way. Rest of my alts are slowly dribbling along the same path from 60.

Yeah I was speeding through Act5 on my Monk on T1 as group but then realised that I actually wanted to explore the environment, talk to the NPC's, do the follower & craftsmen quests and hear the story content at least once before spending the rest of my time in Adventure Mode. So I'm taking my time with Crusader in Act5 at the moment and then once he's done it I can never touch it again

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Yeah I was speeding through Act5 on my Monk on T1 but then realised that I actually wanted to explorer to environment, talk to the NPC's, do the follower & craftsmen quests and hear the story content at least once before spending the rest of my time in Adventure Mode. So taking my time with Crusader in Act5 at the moment and then once he's done it I can never touch it again

I did the same with my main (Barbarian). When he went through Act 5 I spoke to all the NPCs to get the achievements and experience the story in full. Revealed every inch of each map and entered every sub-level I could. It was rough going as I had the bulk of my level 60 gear right up until the end. Started at Torment 2, then dropped to Torment 1 at 65-66, then Master by 68 and had to finish the last fight on Expert . My old school gear and DPS simply wasn’t up to the task.

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EDIT: Duplicate post.

[outwar6010]

Can some people help me level up? is that exp glitch still working?

[Dooms]

Levelling at the moment is so so quick. Just join a public game on master or higher and watch the world go by as you constantly ding.

[Bagnaj97]

When he went through Act 5 I spoke to all the NPCs to get the achievements and experience the story in full.

If anyone hasn't done this, at least the speaking to NPCs part, you should as there are some events triggered from certain NPC conversations.

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Can some people help me level up? is that exp glitch still working?

If it’s your first character I recommend doing Act 1 to 5 yourself, at your own pace in story mode. There will be plenty of opportunities to power or race through the levels with alts. It also gets easier each time as your main can then hand down gear with level reduction on them. Putting a level 70 DPS weapon (1.8k+ 1H, 2.4k+ 2H) on a level 40+ alt is fun.

[Bugbait]

If anyone hasn't done this, at least the speaking to NPCs part, you should as there are some events triggered from certain NPC conversations.

Agree. Your old comrades even get “character development”. Okay, that might be over-selling it but yeah…

[rox0r]

Pff, buckled and got it for £19 from G2A.

[Weazmeister]

So once you've got past the 7+GB download and file 'optimisation', we now get to play with Diablo III 2.01

Notes:

Anyone else had a play yet? My first impressions are that it certainly changes the feel of the game already. The file optimisation makes loading even quicker (area transitions etc. are now basically instantaneous with an SSD install). Effects etc. all load seamlessly so everything feels just that bit snappier. The new elite powers are more spammy with effects as well, so it looks all the more frantic and well, like diablo 2 really

Lag is still a problem though - and it's all the more noticeable when everything else is so frantic and fast. Even on a 'green' rated ping I get stutters of half a second or so at least twice every battle where the positions stop updating/effects don't fire and then it skips as it catches up.

There has been massive power inflation. Loot is better and monsters take a lot more battering before going down, to the point where I had to drop back a touch in Acts/difficulty (they've renamed the difficulty levels possibly to emphasis this point) - I was soloing on Inferno MP1/2 and now I'm back to Torment base difficulty. But I'll get used to that The new paragaon point scheme gives us some control over stat distribution/equivalent once more, but at the moment it's all easily resetable so doesn't feel very meaningful. Useful to tweak your build towards particular encounters though.

Apparently there are lots and lots of bugs, which doesn't surprise me - they've really ripped up most of the skill/item system and reimplemented it.

Glad you posted this. Hearing more and more that it is actually worth it. Thank you

[Professor Frink]

I played a lot with a friend at the weekend and went at her pace (very slow but I restrained myself). TBH - I think it might the first time I've actually seen some of the cut scenes all the way through. I actually understand the plot after owning the game over a year.

I'm enjoying the crusader buff - running T1 easily now with him but my wizard has had a bit of a nerf.