3821

Was hoping for the same, barely making Paragon 200 before season ends.

3822

What exactly is it that you are not happy with?

It is well known that the first run-through of D3 is little more than a glorified tutorial and the game does not get interesting until you play at higher difficulties.

Thankfully they patched the option to select higher difficulties from the get go to mitigate that. So, I’d say bump up the difficulty if you’re finding yourself un-moved by the experience.

Also, Adventure Mode is where it is at - the story mode content is of barely passable standard, but you need to complete it once before unlocking Adv Mode, where you can basically just go where you want any time you please.

Also, give HC a crack if you are feeling there is no consequence to your actions.

Other than that, keen to hear what you issues are.

3823

I feel crazy reading that. It’s practically the exact opposite of how I feel about D3. I prefer building a character through the lower levels (now have 6 classes at level 70, but Paragon hasn’t interested me yet). I found Adventure mode dull, since it’s just loot-running and I’ve no interest in something that doesn’t at least have a semblance of story built in. And while I have a HC Demon Hunter, I can’t stand the thought of putting time into a character that can be permanently wiped even if I only had one death (from my Wizard) in all my characters making it to level 70 and beyond.

But perhaps I’ve not given the high level, adventure mode, hc thing a fair go, and when I have some downtime from other games I may put more effort into them. I just hate the idea of spending a lot of time trying to get optimal equipment to manage high difficulty/high level battles. I’ve accepted a long while ago that I don’t play Diablo the way that it’s meant to be played.

3824

Which might make D3 very much not for you… D3 really is all about adventure mode and getting optimal equipment to manage high difficulty battles (or, put another way, to gain looting efficiency).

3825

Quick question about the expansion. I picked it up a few weeks ago, and was hoping to play the new 5th act with my barbarian who I had previously finished the original game with. However there seems to be no way that I can find to start the 5th act. Am I missing something really obvious. Do you really need to go through the entire game again to access the new act?

I have started a new crusader class and am enjoying playing through again (currently in act 2) on expert, but I am looking forward to playing the new adventure mode.

3826

Start your barb at the end of Act 4 I would think should be enough?

3827

I thought you could just choose Act V from the menu (if it doesn’t just default to it) for the characters that had finished the previous Acts. But, you’d have to start a new game if you want to up the difficulty.

D3, despite me not playing how it’s meant to be played, is a very enjoyable game. I love the building of a character from low levels to high and the switch of loot during that phase, all while following the basic story. It’s just the slow advancement in loot after that without a story to hitch along on that makes the high-levels kind of dull. Pretty sure I got my money’s worth out of it, though, since I’m also one that clears all areas even when I know there’s nothing more than a few lowly mobs hanging around.

3828

The problem is, once you’ve leveled up a class to 70, there’s zero incentive to do it again, since every level 70 character of a given class is identical.

3829

Yeah, I wish they didn’t restrict new legendary powers to seasonal games. I have zero interest in ever leveling up another character of the same class, much less earning paragon points again, but I would like to try out new builds with my existing characters.

Seasons should be for people competing on leaderboards, and rewarded with achievements and transmog items. I’m cool with that. The new legendaries should be immediately available for all players.

3830

LOLWUT

L70 Enchantress = L70 Barb = L70 Monk?

OK

/goes back to reading something that makes sense

3831

Thanks Equisilus and instant0. Before buying the expansion, I had started the game over at a higher difficulty on my barbarian, so I no longer have access to the Acts that I originally completed on normal. I just have access the areas that I have completed on Expert. I must have reset the campaign somehow. I even tried setting the difficulty back to normal, but that did not work either.

Still enjoying the 2nd playthrough though, but really bought the expansion for the new act and the adventure mode.

3832

You clearly didn’t read his comment. His point was that once you level up a Barbarian there is no point in doing it again since all instances of the same class are identical.

3833

I think he meant

L70 Barbarian (Playthrough 1) =Level 70 Barbarian (Playthrough 2) = Level 70 Barbarian (Playthrough 3)

I think my math is correct above; even checked on my Texas Instrument calculator.

-Todd

3834

Reading is hard.

3835

Isn’t there an achievement for leveling up a dude and a chick of each class?

Josh, you clearly don’t care enough about achievements.

-Tom

3836

There used to be an achievement (before the expansion) for each class for leveling up two characters to level 60, which I thought was pretty hilarious since they didn’t give you enough character slots to do that without deleting at least one level 60 character. I think they changed that achievement somehow, but I don’t remember what it is now. Of course now you do have enough slots to level up two of each class, as long as you don’t want to play any characters in seasons.

3837

Those achievements for two of a class are still in. They just added a bunch of “level 70” versions after the expansion.

As an aside, my last run getting my monk to level 70 was a rush to make it before PoE launched. Fortunately, they dumped a 100% xp week in there. I finished him up on the night before PoE was playable.

3838

Or two dudes, or two chicks. It’s 2015, Tom ;)

3839

Yeah, I have one 70 of each type in HC, and I leveled a wizard to 70 in both seasons as well. Having a spare can’t hurt. But it’s not terribly entertaining to level again for the reasons given.

3840

New patch today.
If you like wizards, you’ll love this update.
While Firebirds is still viable, it’s a yawner. Tal Rasha’s and a brand new set (name escapes me) offer many new build options.
And RIP Sunwuko Monk. :(