Dude, if you’re having fun with the game, why are you even arguing here? Go have fun!
I mean that non-ironically. If playing the game the way you like to play it is fun, then do that! That’s the point of entertainment!
e: no joke, the single best moment I’ve had with D3 in years was transmogrifying the godawful Rathma helm into the goat helm whatever model. So good. Also I have an evil teddy bear.
Why am I arguing? It’s the internet! And it’s too early for porn!
And this thread exists completely separately from my enjoyment of the game. I kind of forgot about it for a long time until the necromancer DLC and now and then I pop in to see what’s going on, and … it’s a complete mystery to me what’s going on in here. That’s an odd feeling, a game that I enjoy as much as I do, recognizing that not only do I enjoy in a way completely differently than is being described, but I’m in a vast minority in doing so. Mostly I’m working on reconciling this in my brain, so you can think of it as a kind of self-therapy.
Kadath
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Can anyone walk me through how the Avarice conquest actually works? I tried following this advice:
First, you set up your toughest build, go to the Ruins of Corvus in Act V, run through the level exposing the map, and opening all the doors. Don’t worry about dying. Just get all the doors open.
Get back to town, and set up your character thusly:
Max Paragon points into Gold Find.
Equip whatever Passive increases your movement speed when you hit an enemy, break something, use a fast travel ability, etc. For the Demon Hunter, these are Hot Pursuit, and Tactical Advantage.
Equip Goldwrap and Warzechian Armguards.
Socket Boon of the Hoarder in place of your least beneficial Legendary gem. For me, that’s the Bane of the Stricken, because I’ll be playing at T10, I’ll be pretty much one-shotting everything, and I will encounter no bosses.
Socket a Flawless Royal Emerald in your helm.
Cube Goldskin and Avarice Band.
By this time, you should have 8 to 10,000% Gold Find.
Use the waypoint to go back to the Ruins of Corvus, press the Tab key to look at the map, and plan out in your mind the best route around that map that will leave you in no dead end corridors.
Then go to it. Stick to the walls, so that you will spawn as many Scarabs as possible, kill everything, and as you travel around, because of Avarice Band your Gold and Globe pickup radius will be 30 yards, and after a few seconds your toughness will be above 5 billion, which means you will be impervious to all damage, and you can simply concentrate on moving through the map, killing the monsters, and walking within 30 yards of the gold, which in those corridors is easy to do.
it’s not working for me currently. I guess I gotta get my boon all the way to 50. How does the streak work? is it anywhere in the zone? Do I have to keep kills going? Can I get all the gold to drop then go back and scoop it up at the end? Do you have to avoid lulls in looting gold?
Is this implying that you can re-distribute your paragon points somehow? Or just assuming that you have unallocated paragon points saved up?
vyshka
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There is a reset button so you can redistribute them however you want.
http://imgur.com/k1oPREG
Cool. I always thought it was weird that in a game where you can always change any skill you want, that I couldn’t find a way to re-distribute stats.
Yes, you can redistribute paragon points anytime you want, though the gold find isn’t necessary.
Avarice is super easy with the right gear. Most important are goldskin, goldwrap, and boon of the hoarder. Avarice band is nice to have. Most of the stuff they say is unnecessary.
Screw ruins of Corvus. Go to the cow level instead. So easy to maneuver around and tons of enemies.
@Kadath anytime you pick up gold, there’s a running tally at the bottom of the screen. This lasts a few seconds, but gets reset just like kills or destroying breakables. You have to keep moving and hitting things/picking up gold so that number doesn’t disappear. Just keep moving and hitting things.
Screw Corvus and screw cow level, just run 10x full TX bounties, hoard all the caches, unequip your pet and any pickup radius gear, open them all at once (50) without moving then re-equip your pet. Done. Plus a stack of legs and mats you need for end game crafting anyway! At TX each cache has just over 1mill gold.
I am halfway through this process, but I have not played much for a few days. Pretty sure it still works.
Kadath
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It doesn’t. I tried that first. 13m tops. You now need 50+ to do it.
I have never once gotten a Bardiche so no cow level for me
Yeah, 10x full bounty runs - 50+ caches total.
Edit - I have not had a bardiche drop for ages.
What is all this for? I mean, you get all that gold, to what end?
Ah right, Conquests - part of the season Journey. At some point in the journey you will need to attempt to complete a selection of these:
You’ll need to do 3 conquests out of all them to ‘complete’ the journey. To get to the rewards most people care about (extra stash tab), you would need to do two.
Journey tracker here, btw:
https://d3resource.com/journey/
Different topic, so since I already did all 5 Act bounties with my Demon Hunter and had only reached level 54, I wanted to do something different. So I did a Nephalem Rift yesterday on Torment difficulty, which got me to level 62.
Unfortunately after beating it, I didn’t find a Greater Rift keystone. Not one! I don’t think that’s ever happened before. Crazy. So I guess tonight, I’ll finally have to repeat myself by doing another Rift. I was really hoping to get to 70 without having to repeat myself.
Wow, that sounds crazy hard. Now I’m really glad that the only reward for us console people is just portraits for those last 4 tiers. It would drive me crazy trying to get a 50 million gold streak for the sake of a stash tab.
Incidentally, we were discussing ways to achieve the Avarice or Avarita conquests - a 50 million gold streaks (ie continually picking up gold without breaking in the streak - more than about 3 or 4 seconds between pickups).
Can we talk skill synergies for a second for the Demon Hunter?
On the PC when it was released, my Demon Hunters always died in the 30s at best, so I never got this far, but these skills are really freakin’ cool, you guys. So I have my primary skills which generate hatred. But then you get skills or legendaries which also make the more effective combat skills on the Right Trigger actually generate hatred instead of spending it. So this leads to the dual generation of hatred where you’re using both A and RT to generate the resource.
So then you have to spend it somehow, right? Well, there’s plenty of incredible skills on the RB button that are slotted for maximum hatred expenditure. There’s the multishot branch which fires rockets and basically really turns on the fireworks. There’s Strafe, which has you spinning and moving at the same time, which feels wonderful. And then when you get to your 60s, you unlock this last ability on the B button that basically temporarily enhances all your other skills.
I almost think discipline, the other resource on the Demon Hunter, seems reduntant at this point. I mean, there’s some decent ways to spend that other resource, but nothing that compares to the hatred resource generators and spenders. At least in terms of the cool ways in which I deploy firepower.
I think my favorite way to spend Discipline early on was this acrobatic flip thing where I would do flips and throw knives at everyone around me that killed them all. Then there’s pets you can spend Discipline on, and traps. But honestly Discipline skills just don’t seem all that sexy. But to not use them feels like wasting half your resources.
Surprisingly, I haven’t unlocked a single passive skill that lets me live once again if I die. I thought every character had one of those passives? I guess the Demon Hunter’s only unlocks really really late, close to level 70. That re-enforces the idea I have that I’ll never reach level 70 with a hardcore character.
Discipline will tend to power your defensive and support abilities, and hatred your offensive abilities. You’ll spend discipline on movement, debuffs, buffs, etc.
You can’t do Greater Rifts until level 70 I think (read what it says on the pylon) so the tokens don’t drop when you’re below the allowable level – whatever that actually is.
