majority of people still play sc1 > sc2 today too, but it doesnt mean you should
at a certain point the graphics tradeoff becomes too great. d4 gameplay is good enough. will actually look for a new graphics card now during cyber monday (running a RX 570 now) to play d4 max settings
people still play sc1 over sc2 but the graphics are hard to stomach. shit is old as fuck now
dont play sc anymore regardless. you can only play the remastered version which feels different from the original. AND you have to pay for the game. no thanks
re-speced to a lillith build and realized barb has maybe 2 decent builds:
upheaval
HOTA/death blow
basically my original build: frenzy+whirlwind+rend was completely GARBAGE. upheaval one shots mobs, 5 shots bosses
entire skills table needs to be reworked so frenzy and more close quarters skills has greater cc
barbarian is actually fun as fuck to play if you take the time to re-spec. next season should have build slots so you dont have to reset your entire paragon and skills
Date: January 29th, 2024 7:15 PM Author: soul-stirring bawdyhouse
Why would you roll an OP class when it will get nerfed in the next patch? I like rolling underpowered classes so you are already maxxed out when the buff comes.
still havent fully upgraded gear - looking for ancestral drops w/maxrolls only before upgrading
seneschal events still giving decent exp but im starting vaults now, seem necessary for that 75-100 grind. last season the final stretch was a breeze, s3 is def. more "grindy" once you hit 75+
trying to get that number up to 10 million so i can start one-shotting bosses but minmaxing is gonna be brutal. have already seen players with Grandfathers wtf
lvl 100, experimented with some other builds over lunar new year
frenzy only + battle trance = facetank lillith (but i cant beat her due to one-shot mechanics), will try facetanking malphas 2.0 sometime this week (was able to facetank son of malphas in vault)
ww barb + gohrs = OK for NM dungeons up to around lvl 120-ish enemies, still very underpowered vis a vis upheaval barb
final respec will be some sort of bleedzerker build, rend + rupture and then settle on a final build
had a life goal to fuck 1000 women. accomplished this sometime pre-covid. kill count is somewhere near 1500 now.
last year was kind of an anomaly because i ran into a solid circle of korean-american hunters who liked to club. had some epic hunts last year. we're disbanded now and i mostly game these days
masterworking shouldve been released from D1, and itemization is improving steadily. S4 is worth it just to test the new stuff out imo. the new aspect system is pretty good too, cant roll upheaval though, fuck
i dont farm uber uniques - not worth the time - and stop playing after i hit level 100 anyways before moving back to CS2, also im a one-class player (barb only)
i think if they polish up the endgame, we could reach A+ levels by season 5
juggy aspect no longer necessary, as armor is capped out at 9-10k, better to cap with temper
tempering is 180 as fuck. but bricking is REAL.
basically itemization comes down to: getting as many greater affixes items as you can, temper without bricking, THEN masterwork
basically makes you minmax the fuck out of everything, which is i guess a sort of "endgame", which is a much better alternative to the insufferable uber duriel grind
havent done the pit yet - waiting to max out items first before attempting
all in all, my barb is at like 87 and these last levels are getting super grindy. gonna max out and then tinker with masterworking a bit and call it quits soon thereafter. this actually might be the beginning of a D4 renaissance
went whirl barb this time and level 67 now after 2 days of playing. gotta say diablo is pretty fun now. lol@ blizzard whipping their devs into shape bc they dont want a billion angry gamers shitting on their product before the expansion
season 6 leveling is fucking weird as fuck. old monster difficulty system completely reworked apparently
no more boring capstone dungeon grind, but apparently moving to penitent too early fucks you. 30-50 has been a slog. leveling guides saying you should go back DOWN to normal after hitting 45, gear up, then move to penitent lmao. i moved to penitent at like level 30, FUCK
did NOT buy the expansion - FUCK YOU BLIZZARD - and am still enjoying my limited content. will purchase expansion when its on sale later
people saying barb is nerfed, he's definitely feeling a little weaker than usual, but not a HUGE difference. aspects are harder to come by early, which is the main contributor imo
Date: October 10th, 2024 12:08 AM Author: sable alcoholic lodge
this game is absolute dogshit--superior gook culture on display as nyuug obsessively plays more Californian made slop--sucking down every last drop at release like Darnell busting in his kimchi shute
lol@ thinking PoE or LE even hold a candle to d4 - those clones have maybe 1% of the production value
d3 was garbage, d4 was incomplete upon launch - not when i purchased - but it's decent now. im a barb main exclusively so i dont really care about missing out on extra content
Date: October 10th, 2024 12:31 AM Author: sable alcoholic lodge
lol @ you framing it this way--can't imagine yourself doing anything besides playing other ARPGs or Overwatch? what about putting down the controller and making a family with any of the millions of women you supposedly fucked my man? spreading those GENGHIS genes instead of playing trash like this? superior gook culture
OK so the new leveling system is a bit odd - youre capped at 60, then paragon board levels up to 120 or something i think - currently at 109
barb, as always, gets massive power level boost from the board, then after that its minmaxing until you cop DAT mythic/uber + 4 GA and the same old grind it seems
current build - whirldust doesnt depend on any mythics or ubers so i think im finished with this season once my paragon is maxed out
all in all, a pretty decent season with some QoL improvements from the previous season but definitely NOT WORTH shelling out for the expansion until a holiday season discount imo