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masteff

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  1. If you're on a PC, press the S key to bring up a dialog that you can drag and drop skills from to your bar. Or you can assign them from in the skill tree. It seems to default the first 2 you unlock to left and right mouse; not sure past that. RE: 4 vs 5 potions... if you played rogue 2nd, then it may have benefited from a world map bonus that your barbarian unlocked (some world map bonuses are per character and some are per account). From the world map, while you have a Fractured Peak zone highlighted, press the W key to view your bonuses. I'm pretty sure visiting the town healer (heart icon on map) refills your pots. Potion system made me adjust how I used them. I tried to keep full count and would sometimes wait to heal until a replacement dropped (hit Q to heal and then move so auto-pick grabs it). Oh, and boss health bars at top of screen have some small red triangles... those note where more pots will drop from them (I think that was new in D:Immortal, been too long since I played D3).
  2. Similar to Diablo Immortal, you start in a solo instance but once you're past the tutorial and early quests, it's a shared instance. In the shared instance, even if not in a party, you share experience w/ anyone close enough. So you may be fighting a mob or elite monster and someone stops and helps, you both get experience. The game has larger events that seem designed to give the best rewards when a larger group of players completes it (ex: kill monsters to cause a champion to spawn and kill it 3 times within a couple minutes).
  3. Attached screenshot shows how open the map really is. It's a nice change (much more like what we had in Sacred). I cropped it and turned off as many markers as I could to reduce risk of spoilers for anyone. Weekend One of the Beta finally settled down. Blizzard seems to have fixed the sign-in problems and no (or very little) waiting to get in. I expect the open beta next weekend should be smoother. It's free so anyone can join. Only reason I didnt wait was my significant other went to her parents so I had lots of free time this weekend.
  4. I would encourage anyone who does go into the beta this weekend or next to play to at least level 20 on any character so you trigger 2 of the 3 beta rewards (one title and one cosmetic). (As of 3:40pm Central US time (UTC -6)) So far they are suffering routine beta test problems which of course means the blizz forum is full of spoiled entitled kids whining that they can't log in or about the queue to log in (both of which blizz says is due to authentication server problem that they are fixing but is causing a real bottle neck). Early on, I made it once into the character creation screen. At this point, I'll try every few hours but not going to lose sleep over it. Fingers crossed that I can get a few hours at least tomorrow or Sunday. EDIT: link to official update on D4 forum about the problem https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d4/t/an-update-regarding-queues-and-server-disconnects/913
  5. Anyone doing the beta sessions this coming weekend or the one after? At least in the USA, if you buy a sandwich at KFC via the web or app then you can get a free early beta code for this weekend so I've got mine (it was rough having to eat a couple of chicken tender sliders so I could play a game for free).
  6. So I've reached paragon level 190. Starting to burn out because the grinding for set items can take so long. In DI you have 12 equipment slots. The primary 6 slots are main body armor and the best available are legendary. The secondary 6 slots are for hands, feet, waist and jewelry and the best available are sets. Legendaries drop lots of places but sets only drop in dungeons. So you have to grind a lot of dungeons to keep the set half of your equipment current. (And you can't solo dungeons on higher difficulties so you have to join parties which adds time.) And this is on top of other daily grinding if you're trying to maximize your daily rewards. Of course if you played any previous Diablo, you know Diablo is all about the grinding for drops.
  7. Awhile back I bought a used Dell Optiplex micro tower, which is a business model and will only fit a low profile with standard heat sink (not double wide like so many are now). So I had to buy specifically to fit it (Nvidia GT 1030). I feel (but don't know) that they nerfed set drops in the last update; new update tonight so curious to see change. Biggest mental adjustment I see that a free-to-play user needs to make is progression is slower. Specifically in the items that improve combat rating. I've seen lower level players with higher CR than me and I look at their profile and know they had to have spent money. And my mental adjustment is that I'm okay with that. I'm not in competition with them... I'm just happy to hack-n-slash and slowly fill in various things on the achievement list. I spent a couple hours yesterday helping someone grind a dungeon for a particular set drop and got more satisfaction than from my name on the leader board. I'm lucky to get one legendary crest per week. So when people do runs with 10 legendary crests, you can assume they just spent $25. Nope, I'll go spend that at a restaurant instead. I was worried about the clans being too cliquish but everyone is too new and random. Turn over seems to constantly bring in new faces too.
  8. Update: I must confess that since GPU prices dropped a little, I finally got one for my desktop. And then I installed Diablo Immortal and having been playing regularly. It was starting to get repetitive when someone invited me to the Immortals which is part of the Immortals vs Shadows endgame play. That got me in a clan too. The Immortal activities and the clan chat to find parties added some variety. But we lost our immortal status so it's back to the shadows tomorrow! This will be my 2nd time in the Shadows but 1st w a clan so s/b more interesting this time. Oh, and I changed servers from the 1st one I was on to a newer one. I don't see nearly as much evidence of pay to win in this server. So I don't feel as outclassed as I did. (But I've still kept my PvP to a minimum, not going to be fodder for the P2W players).
  9. Gogo - yes, I think it has merit for casual play but it has a few resources geared towards daily farming (iben fahd's sanctum, crests for elder rifts, or twice a week like helliquary) so be prepared to make a deliberate decision to farm or not. And dungeons in higher difficulties require multiple players so it takes a little more time/effort to try for set drops. One nice thing w/ casual play would be that you wouldn't notice the daily drop cap on legendaries. Playing an hour or three every few days, the cap would always be reset. I think your comment further up about the screen size of the tablet makes a good case for tablet play. And tracks with my personal experience with cell phone games... just a bit too small / hard on aging eyes.
  10. Legendary drops are capped per day (someone in game said 6, I haven't verified that number). A number of other things are capped per day or week, which really slows "free" progress after a few hours. I made it to Paragon level 30, which is suggested level for Hell 2 difficulty. And I'm calling that a good place to stop/uninstall. Endgame grind is MMO type play involving "Shadows vs Immortals". Achievement grind is typical and starting to feel tedious. Legendary drops are capped and set drops require grinding dungeons in parties. Biggest bug on PC is random keyboard and mouse input failures... very frustrating during combat to have one or the other suddenly quit working for a few seconds (and nothing to indicate stun or something). I've had a lot of disconnects, at least some are related to the wifi I'm on. And my laptop's graphics are underpowered so I'm also tired of bad frame rates.
  11. So I finally came on here to see if anyone was playing... My opinion: It's Diablo 3 Lite. It's fun in a nostalgic way to see a lot of the D3 graphics re-used in DI. But overall it's much less difficult (at least for the first 50 levels). I've had to grind levels from 50 up to get past the last few bosses. (Not unlike having to grind to kill Diablo the first time in D3). The story is okay. Actually a few bits have really amused me. Looks like PvP and the leaderboards are where people who pay will have an unfair advantage so I at least won't even bother with those.
  12. Oh, I tell ya, with remote work and "safer at home", I had really bad sleep habits for a while. Bed at 4am, up at the crack of noon. The shorter days are making me tired earlier right now (but then I "power" thru and stay up a couple hours more).
  13. Oooh, I'll have to look up D2:R. Although I hate to admit that I don't have a gaming rig any more. Every so often I'll get the mood and reinstall Grim Dawn from Steam but it starts to overwork my laptop. I'm curious about Valheim whenever I can run the graphics. After a few different games pitching their discords, it was a text based game that got me on Discord. I finally got high enough level to do team events but players can go afk (hoping to freeload) so another player suggested discord to try to match w/ better teams.
  14. Howdy everybody! I was getting setup on Discord and thinking about old avatar photos which made me think of the Sacred International Forum and then of course about the gang here at DM... so I thought I'd pass through and say "hi, I was thinking about". How has everyone been?
  15. The name is coincidental but it did make me think of ya'll! I suspect but don't know that a lot of the short videos like this one are done by students as projects. I sometimes browse through them looking for interesting sci-fi shorts.
  16. So I became unemployed and haven't played GD in 2 months or more. Logged in today and found the Crucible DLC. Sadly after 2 months of not playing, I've forgotten the finer points of my build and am uncertain about what to do w/ it next! Oh well, must be time to start a new toon!!!
  17. Opps. I did have a key. Oh well, I'm glad to give them my extra $4.24 of support. At least now I have my key on my Steam account. I did a few rounds in the Crucible. Makes me want to do an build w/ lots of Area of Effect skills to spam the monster spawn points. Ooh, I just tried the Crucible w/ a brand new level 1 toon. Made it through 9 rounds before dying. And after I talked to the Master, my toon jumped to level 6 (I assume it awards experience and such after you end your run?). Looks like an easy way to jump start a new toon because I got a bunch of level appropriate gear from the treasure chests.
  18. Now that I've been back gaming in Grim Dawn for a couple weeks, thought I'd stop by w/ an update... As Knuckles knows from playing Sacred w/ me for hours on end, I prefer to build melee fighters. I have a pure soldier at level 61 and a witchblade (soldier/occultist) at level 25. The devotion "Tempest" has a nice passive skill "Reckless Tempest". On my level 61 soldier, I have Tempest up to level 12 now and while it can't be directly controlled, it does some nice damage. I've boosted it's effect by focusing on lightning and electrocute damage. And while I don't usually do pet-based builds, I found epic ring called Marrow Band which grants "Stalwart Guardian (5% chance when hit)". I actually found 2 of the rings. So I sometime actually have two guardians running around. They don't do the best damage but they'll draw enemy attacks away from my toon with their Taunting Roar skill. I'm having trouble deciding what devotions to use on my witchblade but with respec so inexpensive I can afford to play around w a few different ones (I was annoyed during beta because respec got so expensive, glad to see they made respec part of the game play). And I need a few more devotion points to spend before I reach the really interesting constellations.
  19. Cool, thanks for the several posts above! So I reinstalled Grim Dawn and have reintroduced myself to it. It's changed in good ways from when I first paid for the alpha access. I'll have to check the forum here and see if the multiplayer is any good? Guess I may have to dust off D3 as well and see what's going on there! Glad to know they didn't abandon it after the expansion released. Hopefully I'll check in a little more frequently and get reconnected w/ everyone!
  20. Hey everybody!! I made a quick pop in to check on Unbended and see what people were up to. It's been a long 14 months for me in a new job. I've done zero gaming (not counting solitaire type games). My gaming computer has been neglected with nothing to do but record shows from my TV tuner. Any game suggestions? I need to check if Grim Dawn has had any updates (I'm hoping it has). Anyone doing D3 still (I never did get the expansion)? What games are peeps hanging out in? How has everyone been? Mike
  21. Wha?!?!? Guess I need to go find this community so she'll have someone to manage! {masteff goes looking for Cider Steve so they can go drown DaGirl in bad jokes}
  22. I edited my post above to remove my ID. If anyone is still playing D3 and doesn't have me on their list, feel free to PM me. I haven't been in D3 for a while but will probably spend some more time on it this summer. A couple of achieves I'd like to finish out!
  23. Exclamation! marks the spots http://sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred_2:Map_of_Ancaria
  24. http://pctalk.info/Games/Sacred2/Wolfes.Lair/SacredUnderworld/Pages/Eggs-Babylon5Ship.html
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