Sir_NutS

Working on my track... hope you guys are ready for something rather different.

The plot thickens!

Prophecy vs Prophetik. How fitting.

Poor Gario. Yesterday, we were teammates... But tomorrow, you get pwned by my the epicness of my songs. Such is the life of a remixer.

For those searching the AH for good deals I found a useful website: http://www.d3rmt.com/guides/diablo-3-item-stat-maximum-values/ That page has the maximum stat possible for every piece of gear, so you know what to aim for when looking for new stuff.

My barb is in a comfortable spot right now. I can faceroll a2 and I can surely do a3 (but not with enough efficiency to farm yet). I'm pretty sure i can also beat diablo at this point, but I'd like to have a3 on farm before that. After that i think I'll level up my monk and try a 2H build. I haven't seen many 2H monks so it'll be interesting to try.

Holy crap. Tonight I did an A1 run with Syllix when this baby dropped for me: It was a perfect roll for my barb. That has the exact right stats for an offhand (lifesteal, crit dmg, socket, ias) and in huge amounts! and very good dps to boot! I was about to start saving up for a decent offhand to upgrade my 600 dps one, I needed to save at least 6 or 7 M to find a decent upgrade and it wouldn't have been nearly as great as this one. So yes, one can definitely farm our own gear now. I have been playing every day now and if feels good to farm for gear and for the paragon levels!

Avatar change, x1-x3 beaten, I'm ready to shatter ears. Bring it on.

Yeah at least they are aware of how the AH affects so much about the game in very negative ways. Right now I would like to see the underused abilities get buffed a little more, as I said the initial buffs just weren't enough. Right now I'm running a WW barb which isn't what I want to build my barb like... but at least I don't have to use a stupid shield and I can DW and be fine. If the other abilities get buffed a little more I might be able to finally build my barb the way I want, it's very close now. If they do that I think I will be farming D3 for quite a while. The paragon levels + less reliance on the AH is a good start. Also, they could start with the blacksmith, it's still pretty worthless.

Chill penguin, not bad. I really wanted boomer kuwanger of bubble crab tho XD. I just beat x1 and x2 yesterday just to get in the mood. I will beat X3 and 4 in the following days. Bring it!

well I can't believe it but, I got another legendary drop today, and guess what? it's ALSO great: Well I guess they did fix the incredibly crappy legendary drops. Also, I'm now farming act 2 with my barb, dual wield barb nonetheless. What I'm the most happy about is that I've got some rare drops that were actually an upgrade for my barb and have allowed me to progress. You know, like how a diablo game should work. I still have bought some items from the AH, but at least it's not entirely a gold grind now. There's hope of finding a good item if you farm for hours, it's getting better.

Well, today it finally happened. I got an awesome legendary drop. I haven't beaten diablo 3 inferno, nor I care too much about it. That would be nice of course, but the reason i play games like this is the joy of the item hunt. Today finally diablo felt rewarding at last. The paragon levels, Inferno being hard but not quite as frustrating as before, and the decent item hunt. I think we're getting to something good now. We're not quite yet there, but we're on the right path. Thanks to Zircon for carrying me through most of that run and watching me nerd out about pixels on the screen.

Got my first paragon level, it was fun. I switched my barb spec to a ww/run like the wind spec then I did a complete act 1 run and also part of act 2. Got no good drops at all, not even for putting up in the AH or upgrading my gear but the incentive of the paragon level made me keep playing. I tried the fury spenders now that they buffed them but as I said, the buffs just aren't enough to justify using them. I've yet to try my wizard and check the buffs to meteor and other stuff. My friends list was still empty for the most part but I did notice some people logging in briefly. I'll keep playing for some time, see if I can finally get some good drops etc. EDIT: Also, was it just me or are mythic potions dropping like mad now? I got like 50 pots in this run o_0

Actually darke if it's not too much trouble I would like to make a slight change: 1-Boomer Kuwanger - X 2-Bubble Crab - X2 3-Chill Penguin - X 4-Gravity Beetle - X3 5-Rainy Turtloid - X6 Basically took out Wheel Gator (It's one of my top 3 favorite X songs but after thinking it through I don't think I might have many ideas to work with it), included Rainy Turtloid and Reordered some of my choices.

Yeah, this is yet again another problem that stems from the main problem in this game: the AH. But we'll see how it works after a few paragon levels + NV stacks, maybe it will feel like an item farm again. The gold farm = end game is actually my main problem with this game (which doesn't seem to have an easy fix in sight), but I'm still willing to give it a chance after this patch.

Yeah I read Brevik's Interview and all he said was give his honest opinion about the game, and you know what, most of what he said rings true with everyone who has played D3. he wasn't disrespectful at all, all he said was that if he was in charge of this game as he was of d1 and d2, he would've made things a different way. As the father of this franchise I think he has the right to voice his opinion about it more than anyone else. Anyhoo, I haven't been able to play the game yet as I've been busy D: hopefully I'll be able to log in tonight at least

Cant decide if i wanna play my wiz or barb for paragon levels. But I'll be playing right after the patch, if anyone wants to join me for a few runs.

Now if everybody else who picked boomer kuwanger would change their picks too...

This is a good addition, something a lot of people have been asking for. I hope it brings more people back into the game too.

Zirc, I don't think you really get what the problem was with inferno. I try to keep comparisons to D2 outside of the discussion because D2 is a 12 year old game. You would expect a company like freakin Blizzard to do better on their on 12 year old product. They actually pitched inferno as being difficult, but they ALSO said that you could play inferno with your own builds. I linked a couple of videos about it in this thread. I can't beat inferno unless I play one of the cookie-cutter shield barb builds, and when i get like a billion gold or so, THEN I can play a barbarian the way I would like to play it. I hate to repeat myself but the worst thing about D3 is the AH. It ruined everything. It ruined the item farm, which in turn ruined the economy, which in turn ruined the diversity, which then ruined the difficulty. Who the hell cares about an Inferno clear? pick a cookie-cutter build, go with it and there you go. D3 was incomplete and untested at launch. The game was fun till you get to inferno, then it's just a gold farm/follow the best build game. And after taking a look at the patch notes, I don't think it's gonna get any better. Some of the skills, like Wizard's meteor, got a good buff, but most of the useless skills in all the classes got a 10-20% buff which IMO wont be enough and they will have to just patch it again later. Who the hell is going to take bash over frenzy for just a 10% damage buff? that's incredibly stupid. The legendary procs look nice though. I really don't see this patch making my friend list get more active again (well, except for Zircon it seems XD) luckily this isn't WoW and I can just log in and check stuff after the patch without having to pay monthly for it, so I'll see you guys in-game.

I picked from the snes ones because they're the ones I played the most besides X4. I've never tried to remix a MMX song as far as i can remember so this will be a first for me, should be fun.

Fun times, pretty close votes actually. Things will be busy with the Maverick compo now, but I hope to see this one come back, I'll probably sign up again. BTW I loved Broken Wings, it was beautiful.

1-Boomer Kuwanger - X1 2-Chill Penguin - X1 3-Wheel Gator - X2 4-Bubble Crab - X2 5-Gravity Beetle - X3 Been waiting for this one!

The underground economy is still there BTW. It's just not the majority of the economy now but still an important chunk of it. The AH got rid of most of the underground economy, at the cost of what makes an ARPG addicting and durable. it wasn't a good trade IMO.

I don't see it that way. Diablo 3 has been bleeding players extremely rapidly since launch. I had a 30+ people in friend list and now when I log its always empty. These changes aren't made with the mindset of "let's make people need the AH less" but rather "let's make people play the game again". More people playing = more people using the AH/RMAH, because even with these changes, people still have to use it to be able to gear up. About the underground economy I do agree something had to be done but I don't think the AH is doing any better. In fact, I think it's worse because it made the game's objective to farm for gold which isn't exciting at all imo instead of making the game about the item hunt. Without the AH we would have to do direct trades with other players but at least the game wouldn't be just about farming gold. If you found a decent item you can save it and do a trade with another player who might be interested. I don't know, I just hate the fact that all you do is farm for gold on inferno, that's not fun gameplay for me. Direct trading works just fine for other games, TF2 for example.