You can get DOUBLE XP in Diablo 3 RIGHT NOW and BASICALLY youre

>>384021191
Nah, poe 3.0 in like a week I can wait.

>>384021191
Why do you need this? Leveling (and pretty much everything else in that entire game) is ridiculously easy. I played this recently on the hardest difficulty I could and it's the easiest game I have ever played.

>>384021358
its more like a month given the current beta schedule, but yeah fuck d3.

>>384021402
>I played this recently on the hardest difficulty I could and it's the easiest game I have ever played.
Until you fight Belial and die.

why though?

It takes like 3 hours to get to max level even without it, and paragon levels are usually just a "well, i guess it wasn't a complete waste of time" after your rift gives you fucking shit.

>>384021478
They have been saying end of july

There's not even a season to climb ladders in though, the xp boost is for people to try nectomancer dummy

>>384021191
>playing non-season diablo
pffthahahaaha

anyone other than a straight up shill knows that the xp weekend is lol.
>here's some free xp to make up for a shit class and huge exploit we let go on

I'm still mad at my friend for convincing me to buy D3

lol who the fuck cares

>>384021412
Just putting that here~

>>384022049
>huge exploit
what?

You don't even get the bonus for closing the greater rift, just for killing the mobs inside. Beside, the new season starts Thursday.

>>384021673
No, I was playing the magic laser lady, you can't die with her.

>getting any xp at all

Why do you like being fucked in the ass.

>>384022118
one shotting GR140 rift bosses, leveling gems to 132+

Couldn't wait anymore and got the necromancer DLC before the new season.

Idk, on the one hand it translates the minion master feeling quite well from D2.

On the other, gameplay feels so same-ish on necro, even as a minion master. And all the other skills besides the summon are boring as fuck.

>>384022313
But what was the exploit, I haven't been playing

>>384022263
sorceress magic is soooooo pretty in this game o_o

>>384022367
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz-Um6Iuegk

>>384022523
>8 minute long video of an autistic 40 year old man
>Gameplay doesn't even showcase the glitch
no thanks

>>384022362
>translates the minion master feeling quite well from D2
>7 skellies
>have to keep recasting skelly mages and revives because temporary

you never played D2 much did you

>>384022742
>to dumb to see the next vid. or the next, or the next, or the next.
your welcome'ed

>>384022887
>to dumb
opinion fucking trashed

>>384022523
>this kind of lazy tier programming
blizzard

come on

>>384022887
>post one vid
>expect me to watch 4 more
anon please

>>384021191
Who actually plays Diablo when it isn't season? I mean I get for your first game if you're picking it up late but other than that I don't see the point

>>384022934
not
>your
got'em

>>384022848
>oh no I have to push buttons
really?

Why is this so much of an issue for you? I went up to level 95 HC necromancer in d2, minion master, and yeah, I don't see much of a difference.

>>384022367
>You deal 75–100% increased damage against slowed enemies or triple this bonus against enemies afflicted by any other type of control-impairing effect.

That effect on Krysbin's Sentence was necro-only but the bug was that it still worked for every class

>>384023083
because in D2 you were doing things like CE or bone spear or curses instead of constantly resummoning minions. To say you don't see much of a difference means you are pretty blind

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Ah, yes, my favorite hack & slash.

lv 98 Diablo 2 bone spike nec here.

is d3 worth getting at all yet?

>>384021673
>>384022263
>>384022452
is this really fucking /v/ 2017?

>>384023215
seems like you haven't actually given d3 necromancer a try

There's a ring that allows you to summon 2 mages at once that last 4 additional seconds, there's another rune that makes mages last another 2 seconds and a passive that gives them additional 25% life time. And basically, you're fucking stupid.

I can get up to the max amount of mages very quickly that leaves enough room for curses, bone spear and what have you. Skeleton mages only need to be cast every few seconds to stay at cap.

>>384021191
XP is worthless in this game.
What a fucking joke.

>>384023589
>every few seconds
>>384023215
>constantly resummoning minions

are you actually stupid? that IS constant

>>384023589
>he's happy his minions last like 10 seconds when runed and geared specifically for longevity
Okay nigger.

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>>384022887

>>384021191
Bought it last week, server lag was so bad I had to return it. Apparently been bad since 2014.

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people (i.e. redditors) here hate D3 for a simple reason: it's not D2
that's about it, and then they make up some shit to jutify their nostalgia, but it's them missing out on the best ARPG currently on the market so whatever

>>384023290
diablo 2 is BORING

It's something to do currently cause there are no games this time of year

>>384023646
paragon levels are not worthless, even when you can only pump them into your primary stat

D3 is an eternal grind that never ends

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>>384021191
Will that fix the absolutely empty game they have? No it won't. The only thing to do on this game now is try the necro out and that costs 45 bucks in my country, I could buy an actual game with that.

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lol

>>384024096
poe is better and you're the redditor

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>>384023792
>he doesn't gear so that his main source of damage is improved
okay nigger

>>384024665
>missing the point
ok dumb nigger

>>384024780
I got your point, but it's pointless in of itself arguing with you because you haven't actually played necromancer in d3

>>384023512
It's probably postironic shitposting

>>384024658
That idiot should have waited longer, to see the viable builds.

>>384023512
Afraid so, anon. It's been known for a while now that a large number of plebbitors and children come here, but only recently have they become so flagrant about it.

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>double xp
>not finding an xp shrine

Nucompanies fucking suck and have no soul

>>384024883
i haven't played the nec or d3 in years but apparently there was like one build for it (nec) and the loldevs nerfed it into the fucking ground

>>384025181
Typical blizzard balancing, wasting 45 bucks when you are on brazil on blizzard games is fucking retarded.

>>384024112
are you 12 bruv d2 is like crack cocaine

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>>384021191
Blizzard are desperate.
Even giving away your garbage for free wouldn't help this trash game, boy.

>>384023589
meanwhile on PoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOK5uJDrzu0

>>384021872
Mid august is the new goal

should I get it on ps4?

>>384023703
summoning skeleton mages literally has no cast time and can be cast while channeling other spells

it's not an issue

>>384025978
>you have to resummon constantly

>no you don't, all you have to do is resummon constantly!

really made me think

>>384025819
you'll have a blast with all the paragon lvl 10,000
running around

>>384023290
Bone based necro is shit in diablo 3, either play melee, generator only (literally just left click everything) or play a super gimped summoner build, that's it

>>384025978
Too bad it's a spender and the only good rune takes all of your mana to summon them, so you're just casting a gen in between

>>384026603
there's other ways to get essence

>>384021872
they just said the other day that they're ANNOUNCING the release date next week, so it obviously won't be next week

>>384026879
I've run a summoner build to gr70, you're not running a spender with it but have fun with your theorycrafting bud

>>384021993
this

>>384026991
k

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>>384026991
theory crafting is half of the game, you're kind of a lamer if you just look up builds online and press the buttons you're told to

>>384028636
>even if something is more efficient, you should pretend not to know and play like a shitter
have fun at gr40 bud

>>384021191
I already beat the game, why would I need double XP? What am I supposed to do, make a new character and steamroll the whole game by being overlevelled for everything?
What's the point of this? I don't understand!

>>384029145
>he hasn't played in years
I hate the game too, but at least stay up to date if you want to shitpost about it, you're just making us real shitposters look bad

>>384029460
I played it all the way through about half a year ago. I don't understand the point of replaying the same linear campaign over and over again.

>>384028698
But you understand there is no difference between gr1 and 2 million right? The whole game is a pointless cycle of nothing

>>384029662
1) nobody plays campaign
2) game levels with you
3) you don't just beat the game in the row a few times to increase difficulty anymore
>>384029704
I did say I hate it as well, he was just plain wrong

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Meanwhile on Guild Wars...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9-L0DtdQAo

>>384029770
Is there a mode other than the campaign? I didn't know.

>>384030050
Exactly, don't shitpost about things that were fixed ages ago, the game has more than enough flaws now

>>384030218
How does it work, is it just an unending roguelike in which you and the enemies infinitely level alongside each other, meaning no actual progress gets made aside from the numbers on both sides getting bigger? What's the appeal in this?

>>384030573
Yep

What kind of an event is fucking double exp? Is Blizzard high or something?

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>>384021191
Why though?
Did they realize Necromancer is fucking awful to level up? Like miles times worse than solo Monk.
But of course once its geared it's probably the highest DPS class, but doesn't remove the fact the new necro class is fucking awful. The best way to put it: they were forced to create something they hated. its awful.

>>384030573
>What's the appeal in this?
What's the appeal in roguelikes?

Play on HC and see how far you can get, start over with a new class, seasons make you not have access to your smith so you have to make due with what gear you find along the way.

>>384032609
Except smith is awful as fuck, except for sage set and only for farming breath's. And you can get literally everything within a week or less.

I don't get what people were expecting with the necromancer?

The witch doctor is literally a d2 necro with a dindu skin. Surely people didn't think they'd put a literal clone into the game? D3 necro has enough of its own identity with being a class that constantly needs to keep up his army (something which fits quite nicely with the frailty of bones and spirit) as well as porting quite nicely the aesthetic of the d2 necromancer.

>>384032761
smith is OP as fuck while leveling which is clearly what I was talking about

>>384021191
>Non-season
So not needed at all basically.

Nephalem Glory adding double damage and the monsters having more than double the health of the PC version is still a thing on consoles, they even removed the quasi-workaround for stacking NG so it is even more annoying to deal with when you're trying to push higher.

More exploits that they're not going to punish or fix properly (yes arguably the NG work-around was an exploit, but it helped you avoid around a shitty mechanic so in my mind it was a 'good' exploit).

I was looking forward to this season what with Necromancers coming out, but I think I'm done with the game, it was fun climbing but they're not doing basic housekeeping despite this being the perfect moment for a last-hurray.

>>384021191
>Double xp
>between seasons
What a fucking waste

>>384034182
What's the problem with Nephalem Glory?

>>384021358
>Waiting for 3.0
PoE will be dead on 3.0. They completely destroy the game balance with the new change.

>>384037078
>waahh my favorite build is getting nerfed

Bought this game last year for $30 and never touched it

>>384037278
>nerf half the builds currently exist
>Destroy a popular damage mechanic
>Buff boss HP to double
This is somehow fair

>>384021358
will 3.0 improve the shitty starter experience?

The only time I managed to get past act1 was when I was playing for the very first time. Everytime after I quit because I couldn't even stand 2 hours of that drudgery.

>>384037549
>tfw never played easy-mode with double dipping mechanics and 15k ES
Looks like an upcoming golden age to me, friend.

but there's a 2week race in path of exile right now

>>384037549
>complaining the devs are keeping the game fresh forcing you to figure out shit once more
>waaaah, I just want to stick to what I'm used to
>waaaaah I can't play without guides
(You)

but that would involve playing diablo iii

>>384032039
What the hell? Necromancer is almost as easy as Witch Doctor.

>>384032039
Necro has the most powerful build in the entire game right now and leveling is a non-issue due to shit like the gem of ease and paragon levels.

>no grimdawn threads
>no PoE threads

Grim/exile faggots are truly the saddest pieces of shit on this board. At least other kinds of shitposters play a game that warrants a thread.

>>384039661
Seeing as how the game basically removes all ability to respec and therefore also removes any opportunity to experiment, I'm not sure why anyone would play it at all. What a stupid fucking system; the whole point of these games is to try out new builds and shit and they lock you into min/max shit because otherwise your build is worthless and you're stuck with it.

>>384032609
>What's the appeal in roguelikes?
What kind of a retort is this? Roguelikes generally have some pretty well-defined story/content structure and aren't endless loops of infinite damage scaling.

How about making an actual fixed progression system without going the lazy route as you did with every other gameplay aspect, Blizzard?

>>384039661
there is nothing to "figure out", whatever isn't nerfed to the ground will be the best, and as it stands right now, that will be elemental attack life/evasion builds that haven't seen a single nerf yet to either blade flurry, spooky toss, kinetic blast or the miriad of bow skills, these last ones were actually buffed with these pierce changes.

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>>384040640
>Seeing as how the game basically removes all ability to respec and therefore also removes any opportunity to experiment
Blizzshilling or just retarded?

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>>384040889
>Roguelikes generally have some pretty well-defined story/content structure
last time I checked d3 had a story and content structure as well

>>384040423
I wish there was a hack & slash general

>>384041107
>as it stands right now, that will be elemental attack life/evasion builds
heh, that was my very first build back when the game came fresh out of beta

Elemental bow best bow

>>384035923
TLDR:

PC D3: Can mostly ignore the Bright Yellow Orbs.

Console D3: Have to maintain a buff from the Bright Yellow Orbs to do baseline damage, and the rate it drops from monster kills goes down as your kill count goes up.

If you read my whole post you'd get the idea, it is a specific issue with the console version.

Monsters on the console version have slighty more than twice the health they have on the PC, console players have to maintain a buff from orbs that drop from enemies, called Nephalem's Glory (or Power Orbs by some people) that double your damage on the console version, but it punishes you for killing monsters too fast if you're pushing for higher rift clears (high kill combos reduce the drop-rate), and sometimes the Guardian of a rift can take more than 3 minutes (they maximum stack of the NG buff) to kill.

It isn't noticeable at low levels of gameplay, but when you're playing the competitive modes it is fucking dumb, and it specifically makes it extra shitty to solo-climb if you're inclined to do that instead of playing with others, and fucks with build variety for various reasons that are more complicated to explain.

I've never made the top 10 on any class, but I've cleared 90+ level rifts with all classes and in three-man groups on the PS4 seasons (softcore, only made a couple of characters in hardcore that made it to like, 90ish and hardcore isn't my jam in groups) since they added seasons.

I haven't played Diablo 3 on the PC since a couple of months after release when I realized it was fucking garbage at the time.

I don't believe it is good, or even possible for the console and PC version to have true parity, but I would be happy to see Nephalem's Glory console functionality tossed the fuck out.

>>384041426

Can you respec the first point in a chain and get all subsequent points back as well yet or do you still need 100+ orbs for a proper respec?

>>384022848
Did you? Revives were temporary in D2 and mages might as well have been since they blocked the doorways for your melee skellies so you had to recast anyway.

>>384042371
We talking about the same structure they literally made a whole game mode to avoid making players go through because it was so shit? And even aside from that, the endgame of D3 now has nothing to do with this structure.

And by the way, there is no real difficulty curve to D3 either. I don't know how anyone can think Blizzard didn't take the laziest possible route on every gameplay mechanic.

>>384042605
even with your explanation I don't mind the mechanic, but then again I don't care for high level rifts as I don't see the difference between grift60 and grift 80

>>384042825
you get 24 or so respec points from quests, each node in the passive tree requires a respec point to remove, if you need more you need to use regret orbs, the 24 free points should be enough unless you have no idea what you're doing and fucked up really hard or you're trying to convert your character into a completely different build, even if you do, the defensive nodes are often the same.

>>384037549
>nerf the half that are viable so now all builds are on the same level
>got rid of double dipping abuse
>bosses don't melt before they finish their villain meme speech and having them be dead on the floor but their voice dialogue still playing

lmao nice

>>384021191
>non seasonal

who fuckin cares

>>384021191

>double exp in a game that hands it out like it's candy on Halloween

Oh yeah that really helps. I hope 3 dies soon, with shit like this they're getting pretty desperate so it's gotta be soon.

>>384039539
Beta has some improvements to starting experience. For example, they've made some support gems available at level 1.

Which means you can start making your character more complex sooner. Which is fun.