Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

[JoeTang]

At this point, we're currently planning that unidentified legacy Legendaries will also not provide new item appearances for Transmogrification. Our reasoning is this: even old Legendaries will be following new rules once we release Loot 2.0 and we want Transmogrification to reflect what new items you've gotten after that point.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/top...3714269?page=4

So there's no reason to collect unids unless they change this again. They've also removed BoA on transmog.

[JoeTang]

New Reaper of Souls trailer. #blizzcon #hype #swag etc
Looking seriously good. Adventure mode with bounty makes a game have a lot of goals instead of a static run. Nephalem Rifts seem rewarding for the effort and value put in. Finally there's clans, though I personally don't really care.

Meanwhile, at the Mystic

Spoiler

>Azurewrath
>One-handed Sword
>2855 DPS on cold damage alone
>916 Vitality
Sure as pineapple is overpowered in here. Any of my characters have around 1k Vit. Seems a bit overkill if they didn't heavily adjust the HP per Vitality and stat gain per level to have an additional ten levels double most people's HP from a single item.
Anyways, Azurewrath should also roll with IAS as that's one of the classical aspects of Azurewrath, but it seems you can't reroll that? However, you can reroll the Cold Damage, i.e. instead of rerolling a good random affix you can reroll the damage. Cold Skill (which is new) is also new and most definitely a fixed mod. It may just get more randoms now instead of all stat, which would be the vit roll and the slot. Since you can reroll the slot, it implies it's not a fixed affix.


Some hardcore extractions:
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/1053...ta-datamining/

[Dark Link]

Wow, the video was already taken down due to copyright

[JoeTang]

It was only a 1:40 video showing small clips of the features. I'll recap it.

First thing shown was the new UI. On the left pane were Campaign Mode and Adventure Mode, Campaign being the standard Story Mode we play through today.

• Adventure Mode
• Map of the Act is given (you can find pictures of these maps in past datamining for Act I~IV, no Act V yet afaik)
• All waypoints unlocked
• Select the area on the map to waypoint to it
• Bounties are given for a specific monster in that map (in the video, it was a purple), it's possible there are other objectives than just ganking one thing
• Bounties are shown when you mouse over the area name in the map, before clicking it to waypoint
• Complete the bounty for EXP and Gold like a quest (video shows 350k exp, 130k gold)
• Nephalem Rift
• Nephalem Obelisk near the Tome of Identify
• Open a portal (there's an item requirement which I believe is a random drop, possibly from bosses)
• Video shows Fields of Misery style map with those stupid trees, but with one of those hammer armed colossus Act IV monsters as a boss.
• Clans
• A short look at the Clan UI, sorting members in the list etc
• Showed a message feed
• Mystic
• Presumably an ilvl70 (73?) Azurewrath put up
• Stats to reroll were shown above
• Rerolled the 918 VIT
• Got 916 Vit, 7xx Vit, Cooldowns -8%
• Cost ~150k Gold
• Transmog showed a cost of 500 gold for basic item styles, didn't see any Legendary transmog

Otherwise, there was just some generic Crusader showing off, with its sword hurricane skill prominently being spammed in every cut.

[IllegallySane]

>Azurewrath
>18% more cold damage

Do I see a rise of Ice Wizards for Reaper of Souls??

[Dusk]

The exponential increase in stats isn't surprising at all, every WoW expansion triples or quadruples the health pools and damage numbers.

[dowie]

bigger numbers is always fun to see

[Dark Link]

bigger numbers is always fun to see

Until they start causing server / programming errors due to limitations, like what has happened to WoW now.

[JoeTang]

Friends and Family Beta started. Media/Community figures got invites, as well as 3000 of the most active players.
>mfw the only time I've been offline in D3 is because of server maintenance.
BEING AFK IN MENU IS BEING ACTIVE RIGHT? RIGHT?!?!

[dowie]

I think a few are streaming it as well on twitch

[Dark Link]

I doubt it's "Most active players". I know for a fact Towelliee hasn't touched D3 for months, hell maybe even a year and he still got in the beta.

EDIT: Kripp got into the beta and I've been watching him for most of his streaming time. Really liking what Blizz has done so far. Some of the legendary items he's gotten are freaking insane! He got the "Immunity to Cold and recover 25% of the damage absorbed" ring, but it's apparently causing his game to crash when the effect procs against Frozen rares / champions.

EDIT2: Holy pomegranate that EXP curve. 10x Paragon 100 will only put you at Paragon Level 376 with the new system.
Paragon EXP Chart: Levels 1 -> 2000

[IllegallySane]

This was a little over a week ago. Class changes were datamined for all classes.

http://www.diablofans.com/news/47864...-class-changes

tl;dr for Barbarians: Nerfs. Nerfs everywhere. RIP OP Barbs. On the other hand though, Whirlwind now has a legit vac hack rune, and we get a 30 second ultimate called "Avalanche" that has it's cooldown reduced by 1 second for every 25 fury spent.

[JoeTang]

This was a little over a week ago. Class changes were datamined for all classes.

http://www.diablofans.com/news/47864...-class-changes

tl;dr for Barbarians: Nerfs. Nerfs everywhere. RIP OP Barbs. On the other hand though, Whirlwind now has a legit vac hack rune, and we get a 30 second ultimate called "Avalanche" that has it's cooldown reduced by 1 second for every 25 fury spent.

They lost permanent WotB and Into the Fray, but like every other class, their spenders got a ridiculous buff. HotA - Smash does 680% now. And who needs WotB when you can wear a Pride of Cassius.

[Dark Link]

It's a bit funny, people were saying WW Barb was dead in RoS, yet every RoS stream I've seen with a Barb still has them playing WW with the Avalanche skill.

[IllegallySane]

It's a bit funny, people were saying WW Barb was dead in RoS, yet every RoS stream I've seen with a Barb still has them playing WW with the Avalanche skill.

Got some stream links? Or are they easy enough to find if I seach on twitch.tv?

[Dark Link]

Got some stream links? Or are they easy enough to find if I seach on twitch.tv?

They were generally within the top 5 / 10 of RoS streams, but I don't know if they stopped or changed classes. It was when Kripp was streaming RoS as well.

[IllegallySane]

So I'm checking out a KingKonger stream of RoS where he's on his Barb. The guy is still gaining life as fast as Lifesteal, and his life hardly goes below 50% before instantly gaining all that back. He has both Avalanche and Earthquake, and no Whirlwind. Where's he getting all that fury? It's as fast, if not even faster than current Barbs and fury gain.

[JoeTang]

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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/1195...ble-12-12-2013
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/1195...ble-12-12-2013

PTR and Closed Beta should start any minute now.


Just got a chance to fiddle around in the PTR 2.0.1 on my Demon Hunter after waiting in queue for about 30 minutes.

Master difficulty is way too easy. It's at most around the scale of MP 5 or less. My Demon Hunter face rolls everything by walking into it with Shuriken Cloud. Because of this, I have no idea how well my Grenade build works in 2.0, since I can't get monsters that live long enough to test my sustain. It could MP10 pretty easily, but with the change in Grenades, I'm not too sure if they've upped the proc rate or not to compensate.

Spike Traps are really slow. The rearm time is 2 seconds. They're not for burst DPS like Echoing Blast or Scatter is right now, but persistent, Hatred-efficient damage.

It's really nice to be able to switch skills in the field. Not sure if I would call it game breaking but it makes things significantly easier since you can just change your setup before an area or boss to optimize vs trash and single target.

The new waypoint map is confusing since it's not too linear, especially for someone used to the dropdown.

Currently, loot is bugged and drops at ilvl 61. Killed a few elites before I was disconnected, and I was pleased to see the ground not covered in garbage. Minus the fact that I wanted a bunch of whites to try crafting gloves. I found a helm that had 400DEX/VIT rolled though which is pretty dumb.

Not sure how I'll adjust to regearing, since I have about 3.4 APS and changing that takes a lot of getting used to.

:3

[Dark Link]

Reaper of Souls is available for pre-purchase.

Expansion will be released March 25th, 2014.

[JoeTang]

I was hoping there would be two or three weeks with 2.0.1 running but oh well.