Reaper of Souls New Character Strategy: Super Level Up Rate and Legs!

[boglav]

I will for sure wipe all my chars and start from scratch..mostly because I lost a bet on RoS release date.

For HC I intend to start with a clean inventory too, and am gonna destroy some pretty nice crafts.

It\'s the new start I\'ve been waiting for.

I did however managed to AH around 200m gold on both SC/HC and those I\'m keeping because gold is..just gold.

I guess I enjoy my games more when I get a sense of achievement.

While the AH was a nice metagame (pretty exciting even, when a good item could get you 250$ RM), it killed some of the sense of \"earned\' value of characters.

So it\'s HC, story mode, clean inventory Newsader for me too on March 27-28 (as the error 37 dust clears).

 

[trocadero]

That was my first impression when the beta started. Blizzard never seems to learn that 2h weapons in one hand is a recipe for disaster. Either the penalty is too steep, the benefits not good enough, or the penalty is negligible, and when you saw the Horse spell, you knew the movement speed penalty was going to be a non-issue. In WoW, Titan Grip was a never ending series of tweaks and overhauls; they never could seem to get it down right. Frankly, they should dump the skill, buff 2H weapons for everybody, and give every class a \"quiver\" like option for 2H weapons.

 

[Artemis]

Heads up for everyone, remember to delete your characters AFTER RoS is installed or you will lose all paragon levels.

 

[Steven Hazani]

In this game 2 handed weapons end up barely more dps than one handers anyways. The only reason people started using them was when they got higher crit damages, which doesn't happen anymore. Well that and Skorn basically gave you everything except lifesteal, setting a high floor on 2 handers.

 

[Steven Hazani]

Yeah, it\'s a weird progression. You find gems exactly as in D3, with chippies starting around 15, and then gradually going up through circles and triangles until you start seeing squares in the high 50s... and then suddenly around 65 all you ever find are Marquise. So you get gems 1-8 and then leap to 16. Basically, you will never see a gem above Flawless square and below Marquise in RoS.

Really, Bliz should redo the whole system so gems scaled up more gradually, with the end game ones giving the points they do now. It\'s weird to have this huge leap in quality at lvl 65ish, but unless they want to delete or reassign all D3 imported gems, they\'re stuck with this.

As with most of the itemization issues in RoS, the main problem is figuring a way to incorporate existing D3 gear into the new system.

Wasn't there something in the patch notes like "Gem drops rebalanced", or something?

 

[Skaut]

No you won`t. Progress is recorded so even when you`ve erased all your previous characters from Hardcore you still got xp points from them in future cumulation.

 

[Muggs]

My last monk was t1 capable this one kills a bit too slow in HC to make t1 enjoyable.

 

[SoSe]

About difficulty on Torment 0... it seems appropriate for my personal view.

 

[ADest]

I plan on farming more Paragon levels when patch 2.0 hits Live... Then doing Bounties with my Wizard until 70 when RoS is released. Then going campaign with said Wizard to grab a couple of guaranteed legendaries. Actually, it's going to be hard to farm XP now that I think about it, since I can't progress beyond Leoric when 2.0 hits, or I'd be missing out on the legendary he drops at level 70... Looks like it's going to be a pretty dull time between Live 2.0 and RoS release. Working as intended?

 

[Mage Slayer]

Guaranteed legendaries only drop at levels 1-59 (and only from act bosses) to prevent exactly that kind of problem. They\'re meant to help make leveling interesting (bear in mind that, with how fast you level, even a relatively short patch of bad luck with leg drops can mean your last leg was a lot of levels ago) not provide legs for endgame.

 

[ADest]

OK... So I guess I'll have no problem farming Paragon in campaign then when 2.0 goes Live, I just won't be going back to touch campaign when RoS hits and can just stay doing bounties until the next expansion. I'm at 60 on the PTR though, and Leoric has dropped a legendary every time I've dropped him after reseting campaign progress... So it's probably still bugged.

 

[Mortalo]

Probably similiar bug to the Rakanoth\'s one earlier in the PTR.

 

[Artemis]

I was referring to softcore.

 

[Skaut]

Doesn`t matter which one. Your progress is still on theirs server - you have no chance to wipe it out. Its been mentioned at the beginning of F&F beta test in Incgamer`s Podcast.

 

[Flux]

Notably, the last patch added 5s cooldown to the horse skill, and big buffs to some of the rune effects that do damage. (Most people just use the rune that gives it a second longer duration, wanting the skill purely for movement.

There\'s a bigger spread between 1H and 2H weapons in the new patch too. It\'s very obvious with Rares, where you hardly ever see a 1H rare over 1900 now, with 2H Rares 2500 pretty common. Better quality legs are 2200 1H and 2850 2H.

2H are considerably slower, usually 1.0 or 1.1 APS while 2H are often 1.4 APS. That\'s a bigger penalty in RoS than it was with Life Steal in D3, since now procs and LpH are so important. I\'m not at all sure the bigger DPS from 2H isn\'t fool\'s gold, that more testing will reveal is actually less effective. At least for some builds.