SamS
6065
What Blizzard should do is let people buy ingame items with real money - kind of like a house where you have an auction.
Theyāve done a fantastic job supporting the game, absolutely. But it could have been so much more.
Nihm
6068
Itās hard to believe that they introduced the in-game store with the Rise of the Necro patch if they donāt plan to sell any more packs for D3.
Wow this challenge rift is stunningly dumb. Apparently they believe itās fun to stick you with a character setup made by Forest Gump and you have to beat their rift time.
I feel like Iām being trolled.
Yep, Challenge Rifts are just more set dungeons in a sense. They are a puzzle in that you need to work out how the build works and experiment with it to figure out how it works. The upside is that you donāt have to work around the developerās sense of what a āfunā experience might be to demonstrate a setās capabilities - instead they are just a rift and you know the original dude/tte just wanted to do the rift as fast as possible.
So do two things on your first couple of attempts:
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take your time and experiment to see how the build does its damage and how it mitigates incoming damage. Look at the gear, then the passives, then the skills and work out how they interact.
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expose the rift floors, take a screenshot and mark the location of the elite packs. Completing rifts quickly is about one thing and one thing only - getting to the next eilte pack as fast as possible Outside stupid high GRās, white mobs are trash and not worth your time.
I have not complete it yet either and I plan on giving it another crack, but there is a limit to my patience. The typical rewards are:
x8 each act bounty mats
300 bloodshards
249/228/87 white/blue/yellow mats
If you can do a full TX bounty clear in a 4 man group in 20 minutes, then run a couple of TXIII rifts or GR after that, I reckon your on par with trying a challenge rift three or four times, so at some point the rewards donāt represent a good time investment unless you are also chasing the bragging rights.
I mean, I was within like 30 secs of the time but it was just stupid. The gear and skills are just nonsensical and seems to have almost no synergy or purpose. Having played multiple monk specs including dumb ones that just donāt work very well as you go higher this has to be one of the most useless and boring ones Iāve ever seen.
rowe33
6072
Where do you go to start a Challenge rift?
When you start a game session in game settings, it is a new selectable section below story mode and adventure mode.
rowe33
6074
Oh wow, had no idea. I knew they existed now but figured Iād stumble across it eventually. Thanks!
Do you get better material for completing bounties if you complete them on a higher difficulty?
Right now Iām finally on Chapter IV of the Season, and Iām left with doing a bunch of things on Torment IV difficulty. I briefly tried it out last night by going to Torment IV and starting a Nephaelum Rift. I was dying constantly at every elite enemy, and it was taking forever. (Btw, I had no trouble at all at Torment II, so somewhere between 2 and 4 is where my current equipment is). So I clearly need better equipment in order to do so. I do have some plans for equipment I could craft if I had more crafting materials. I know difficulty affects drops from monsters, but it wasnāt clear to me if it affected bounty rewards as well.
Gendal
6076
So on that chart āHoradric Cache Materialsā is the line relevant to material in bounties, right?
Looks like thereās no benefit to playing above T1 if I want to get more material from bounties, unless I go T7 or above.
Yeah, remember when everyone was all like, āYeah, Set Dungeons are the best! Keep iterating on that idea, please!ā
GR73 in 11 min. GR75 in my sights for the conquest. Iāve not even got an ancient weapon or done any augments yet and the jewelry for my tanky variation on this build is crud. This Rathma/Jesseth build is up there with DH Impale.
Thatās crazy. Thatās from the set you get as a reward for finishing Season chapters that you were able to get to GR75?
I have four of the pieces of the set for the Monk, and I canāt even do Torment IV, ie. GR19.
Oh and in case anyone was unsure if the new Necro class may have been overtuned by Blizz for release:
Though I suspect Necroās are over-represented this season.
Yup. :)
Just need to finish off that journey and get your 6-set! Got a link to your toon?
Now that Iāve unlocked my full DH set, I might ājustā get some Hellfire jewelry and switch over to Necro. I had quite a bit of fun with my non-seasonal toon. Will my cube power unlocks carry over from the DH?
