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The problem is that the people who are liking the patch are busy playing. The people you see on the forums are the others. While this patch isn't as good as I would have hoped and they need to adjust some stuff (repair costs) there are probably less than 15 to 20% unhappy with it. But that's just a guess.

I think the bigger problem here is that I'm hearing that when someone does a chargeback the seller of said item gets banned. IF this is true then that is far worse IMO.

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ran through act 1 and a lot of act 2...it really is a lot easier. I never died, and was easily able to keep above repair cost..made another 100,000 grand or so, and was able to put up 4 level 63 items on the auction house...

I also have a lot of level 63 gear already, so I am ahead of many going into it...

I still say they need to NEVER spawn 2 groups of elites at the same time...

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I was happy to find out that my DH only lost about 5,000 DPS yesterday after the patch. I didn't have alot of attack speed gear evidently. I spent a couple of hours last night farming gold in hell to take to the auction house. I was able to upgrade most of my armor to "indestructible". I found alot of good indestructible gear for rather cheap, most was almost equivalent to what I had. I probably spent around 70,000 and got helm, shoulders, gloves, boots and chest armor with no durability loss. I won't be able to get everything i have indestructible, but I should be able to offset these extremely high repair costs. Now with my luck they will "nerf" ignore durability loss items. The 2 hours i did farm hell (with 5 stacks) I was getting more rares than I usually do. They were all weak of course, but at least I was getting them. I did find one belt that was an upgrade to what i had, but I am gonna have to replace it with something indestructible. I am gonna beat this damn patch

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On a side note..I am now level 40 with my hardcore monk...nothing is more exciting then coming close to death and making it out alive...a few things I have noticed..

The auction house is much smaller as you would guess. The end result is you can't get really good gear like you do in the regular game. This means you can die easier...and it means when you find a rare you get excited again...

The scariest thing in hardcore is not 2 groups of elites with immune and lava ass and reflect...its lag. When ever I see that little bar in the bottom right drop below max I freak out...

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i finished nightmare with mostly crap gear. Sometimes i group with my friends, but most of the time, i soloed with my witch doctor and had less < 2K dps. Just killed diablo solo in nightmare last night. i was surprised i was able to get away with this and now i am starting hell at lvl 52. I'm guessing i won't survive hell like this. what kind of DPS should i shoot for to finish off hell?

also, gem prices in AH are really weird. 1 chipped ruby is going for $180 gold and 1 square ruby is going for $60 gold? why would anyone pay more for chipped??? I still find it cheaper to buy gems in AH rather than combining even after the patch.

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Gem pricing is gonna be very weird now since they came out with the patch reducing costs. You are still seeing pre-patch auction prices I am guessing.

I haven't played with a witch doctor, but with less than 2k dps I think you will have alot of trouble. Act 1 probably won't be an issue, but the next 3 Acts will be a struggle. This is all depending on if you want to solo hell. that dps should be fine if you are wanting to "co-op" the difficulty since the difficulty doesn't scale with number of players now.


ANYONE: - I see the term Graveyard Zerging alot on Diablo boards. What the heck does that mean? According to D3 forums this term is the reason for higher repair cost :shrug:

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I think the worst part of the repair increase for me is that I have started skipping any mob with a combo of skills that I know I can't handle without dying multiple times. Before I would give it a few tries and after a couple of deaths move on or actually succeed in killing them. Right now it's not even worth trying as the repair bill is way too expensive. Act 2 Inferno does however seem to be a bit easier though.

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I think that has to do with the fact that mobs health doesn't reset when you die. So when you run into a tough monster, you hit it a bit, then die ... then rez and hit it again, and die, repeat over and over until the monster is finally dead.

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[QUOTE=wlj; that dps should be fine if you are wanting to "co-op" the difficulty since the difficulty doesn't scale with number of players now.


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so in the new patch, the difficulty is the same regardless of the number of people in the game?
that seems like an odd change.

re: Diablo III + Reaper of Souls (multi-platform)
 

Yes. The difficulty scaling has steered lots of gamers to play the game solo. This change is to promote more co-op play.

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My understanding was that the difficulty change only effected the mobs DPS. Their health still went up when you grouped together.

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you may be right about that.

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That is correct

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I decided to try going with a shield as opposed to dual wielding Inferno with my barbarian. I was able to kill about a dozen purple/yellow elites and made it past the Skeleton King with only 1 death. Previously I would die 2-3 times on the first elite mob.

I think I got extremely lucky when I was looking at shields. I wanted to up my resistance and got +45 resist all as well as 140INT on a 1059 armor shield...for only 5K. I tried finding something comparable, but they are all over 1 million gold. Thank you to whomever priced it 995,000 to low :)

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Well I played somemore last night with my level 60 Demon Hunter. I believe the repair cost B.S. is going to be gamebreaking for me. I have several pieces of indestructible gear equipped. However, my bow, bracers, belt, rings and amulets are not indestructible. I still am having tons of repair costs. I played inferno and hell difficulties and racked up probably 30,000 gold in repairs. The game just isn't fun now with my DH. It wouldn't be gamebreaking if you only had to do repairs after you died, but you have high repair costs whether you die or not. That is ridiculous. It is truly a case of "damned if you do and damned if you don't". I constantly think about repair costs while playing the game. This sucks.

I decided to go back to my level 24 barbarian in Act 2, but I find playing as a barbarian mind-numbingly dull now. I also have nothing to look forward to because I know at level 53 I am gonna hit another wall with the repair costs. I was just so excited about being at level 60 with my DH, I didn't want to do a new character right now.

So i am not sure what to do now, should I start a monk or a wizard? I don't think a monk is going to be all that different from a barbarian and the wizard is supposed to be gimped like the DH post-patch. The Witch Doctor doesn't appeal to me at all, I planned to do one of those LAST-- months from now, years maybe. The only fun thing that happened was I sold a pair of gloves on the RMAH for $5.00.

I am sorry if I sound like I am whining, I am just disheartened by the whole situation. I am not a PC gamer, this is my first experience with a game that the developer has SO MUCH control over. I haven't played a game before where the developer could change the game drastically whenever they wanted and I had no choice in the matter except deal with it or stop playing it.

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I haven't been able to play the new patch yet...are item levels visible in game yet?

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i haven't had any issues

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I almost want to not use the character any more. Almost.

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Vanishing dye is your friend :)

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well i think i'm taking a break for a bit. zolten kuelle is almost impossible on inferno, followed closely by beliel who is impossible. time to play xbox for a bit i think

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I sold some gauntlets on the RMAH and made a QUARTER!!!!! I told the wife to put on her pearls -- we are headed to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse baby!

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Sorry, I meant that I haven't been able to play from a time perspective, not because of technical issues. I see people talking about selling level 61-63 items here, and was curious how they knew what level their items are. Is this now shown in-game?

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bottom left hand corner of the item

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I finally killed Diablo/prime-evil last night on normal with my wizard. I died like 5 times before i hit the AH and upgraded my gear and then changed around some spells. After that it was an easy one shot