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Lrn 2 softcore.

But yeah, that sucks.

But you never really find any of the good feti--Oh. OH! I thought you meant something else.

Carry on. Nothing to see here. In seriousness, I feel for you, Spoonless. I don't play hardcore characters ever since the time I almost broke a keyboard.


Edited, Sep 9th 2014 6:57am by Poldaran

Looks like they're down for maintenance this morning. Is there an offline mode?

Is there a difficulty setting or campaign that is perma-death?

I was unable to set my difficulty higher than hard last night. I got a message I'd have to restart the game to go higher.

"Restart the game" doesn't mean roll a new character, just restarting your play session. So, if you're doing bounties, you won't be able to do 2 bounties, then raise the difficulty and do the remaining three.

Unfortunately, no. Which was the cause of much kvetching upon launch, as you can imagine.

I played last night on expert. I tell ya, there's still little challenge in actually 'winning' a battle without dying. If one were not interested in timing, I don't see how you could ever die/fail in this game.

As it is, I see the need for speed is a risk factor. So, I've completely abandoned my old mmo ways of carefully controlling the number of mobs I agro so as not to get over-whelmed.

Still, the games got me addicted. I like the simplicity of crafting, the fast pace and even my Templar companion. Though he complains incessantly if I shop for too long.

Didn't play much in the last days. My Paragonlevel is 155 now and I really want to push it a bit further. Maybe in a week or so when I'm motivated again.

Also want to farm a new Royal Ring of Grandeur because the one that dropped has abysmal stats.

Got bored trying (in vain) to fill out my Tal Rasha set, and the Aughild's pattern wouldn't drop, so I basically hit a gear ceiling with my wizard.

So, for giggles, I started a fresh seasonal DH who's currently in the mid-60s. Aughild's pattern dropped in my first 60+ rift.

I got back onto my wizard to craft the set, and found that it's not the right Aughild's.

I like D3 in that if I have a half hour, I can boot it up and accomplish something and be done. Once in a while I get drawn in for longer sessions, but I burn out on it fairly quickly.

Try a melee class to go with your WD. Barbarians are almost comic, the way they trundle about and blast everything apart. But I'm partial to the Monk - stack with "life on hit" gear and dex gems and grab whatever attack speed passives and fist weps are available and then just turn up the difficulty.

It is. I keep coming back to it after 2-3 month breaks and it is easier now than it was just six months ago even. But, you can turn up the difficulty, so there's nothing wrong with that.

I played the PC version at release, and I have to say I'm enjoying the PS4 version much, much more overall. PC release didn't really grab me, and while it had a lot to do with the auction houses, despite the removal of that element I still don't think I would go back to PC.

(That said, I do really hope they bring Seasons to the PS4.)

I've pretty much given up on softcore, which is weird because I always avoided hardcore in D1 and D2. My first HC, Distraction the demon hunter, died to Maltheal at lvl 49. I hadn't played the expansion yet and didn't know what to expect. I'm still not 100% sure what killed me, but I suspect I stood in the bad or got hit by an explosion or something.

HC #2, Hubris the crusader, is now paragon lvl 40 and climbing. Shield bash all the things!

HC #3, Impatience the wizard, lvl 47, scrubbed the floor with Maltheal last night. Revenge is sweet.