So, once I do finish Act V, how do you go about grinding out the levels to get to 70?
Bump up the difficulty for starters. I think you mentioned you were playing on Easy/Normal? Once you get into the swing of things you should really be playing on Master or Expert; Hard if youāre having a tough time getting through. Thisāll give you a nice boost to XP. After that, youāll Adventure Mode when you beat Act 5. This will come with an obelisk in town that you can use to challenge Nephalem Rifts and those are an excellent source of experience.
yeah, Easy/Normal may have been well, too easy. Iāve only died once. I might run the last half of Act V on a harder level.
For some reason, I thought I had to be 70 to run any rifts.
I think that used to be the case but now you can run the normal rifts at any level. Greater Rifts (which you get tokens to run from the normal rifts) are level restricted, though.
Lantz
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Just in case it isnāt clear, you have to go to game settings and switch from Campaign mode to Adventure mode on the left side.
Already? Damn, I thought I had more time until I experienced my first season.
Ok, I guess itās time to experience what itās like to try speed through the game in Adventure mode during a season. I havenāt played a Demon Hunter in a long time, since the game launched on PC back in the day. Maybe Iāll try that again.
So is poison damage the best damage dealer in this game, for the most part?
I noticed that when I switched my Witch doctor to poison damage skills, he gets the highest damage numbers, but the catch is that itās damage over time instead of instantaneous damage. But Iāll be damned if thereās much of a delay. Keeping in mind that my Witch Doctor has no specialized loot that gives bonuses to any skill, it just seems like I can kill Elites a lot faster via poison than I can via Fire or Cold damage skills. Is that true in other classes too?
Theres always a min-max build for each class, each season, based on a set and a couple key items. Thereās no generically better damage type, as enemies donāt have particular resistances. Outside of any rune effects, the only difference between Fire, Cold or Poison damage is how much they are boosted by any +% fire/cold/poison damage effects you have on your gear.
Some runes are either generically or in certain instances better than others, but in a perfect world all your damage skills will do the same damage type that you have the highest +% bonus to (virtually all bracers have a +element damage type bonus, some amulets, and then very specific unique items).
SamS
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Season 11 day! finally, Iāve been jonesing to get started on this.
Kadath
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In the immortal words of the Ramones: 24 24 24 hours to go
SamS
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Asia servers start in 6 hours! 5pm KST.
Itās a very strange game compared to other ARPGs, since itās so hard to compare skills. Everything is tied to your primary stat, and what weapon you carry doesnāt really matter because all you use is your skills, you donāt actually swing a sword or an axe unless thatās what the skill is. But given the same weapons, with the same armor, I just feel like Elite bosses go down much faster with my poison skills, even though I donāt have any poison bonuses on any of my equipment. I know thatās a very subjective thing, since I havenāt actually sat there with my stop-watch and timed it.
Different topic: last night I tried to get my Crusader as far as I could through the game. He finished Act 2 on Expert at level 50. I was hoping to get farther than that, but I canāt help watching some of the story. I do love the guy who made the Black soul stone and his dialog. I can never get myself to skip it. Itās the one part of the game where the story always draws me in.
Thatās why when I finished the game, and started Adventure mode for the first time, I was laughing my ass off when there he was again, waiting for me in Adventure mode, saying āHmmm, oh, right you killed me, but you didnāt do a very good jobā, or something similar. I love that guy.
Zoltun Kulle, the sort of dead but not quite wizard dude? Yeah, heās the best NPC in the game, bar none.
What? No way dude, Covetous Shen all the way!
I started playing this on the console with my daughter a couple of weeks ago. We were trying to finish story mode before the season hit, but it looks like weāll be a few days behind. :( Sheās super excited to run through the adventure mode. Co-op on the ps4 is just awesome. Well except for when she spends 20 minutes decorating her characterā¦ :)
Covetous Shen would be my second favorite, even if he is dangerously close to a pastiche of a couple of ethnic stereotypes.
I will admit that I mostly like him because of James Hongās voice work, but I also liked that whole āis he/is he not a godā thing, though they pretty much resolved that in the add-on act.
Hong is brilliant as Shen, for sure. Kulle wins for his classic avuncular-chuckle-while-disappearing tactic, though.
I always wanted the option to side with Kulle, as I think he makes the best case in the game for the position he holds.
Yeah, I actually did sympathize with his whole āyou know what, fuck heaven AND hellā thing.
