(06-23-2012, 01:32 PM)Quark Wrote: Spiderlings anything is ridiculous for casters. They're too fast to kite, and do lots of "small" damage (the small being relative), where Wizards are built to take a few large hits. Mortar is better than pre-1.0.3, but in the process they bugged it out. Near corners you can get hit by it at point blank range - like walls are cutting into the minimum range for it.

(06-23-2012, 01:32 PM)Quark Wrote: Spiderlings anything is ridiculous for casters. They're too fast to kite, and do lots of "small" damage (the small being relative), where Wizards are built to take a few large hits. Mortar is better than pre-1.0.3, but in the process they bugged it out. Near corners you can get hit by it at point blank range - like walls are cutting into the minimum range for it.

(06-21-2012, 02:51 PM)Jester Wrote:

(06-21-2012, 12:47 PM)Bolty Wrote: Damned if they do, damned if they don't, I guess.

This is the eternal RPG conundrum, no? You have a challenge at a certain difficulty, and you can diminish that challenge by doing other, lesser challenges. (Usually, "non-challenges," AKA grinding.)

You can specify what kinds of grinding yields benefits, but if you get rid of the entire grind-to-make-it-easier system, then you've basically removed progress entirely, and might as well just put character progression on rails, like a metroidvania, where you get the tools to do the next part as a consequence of finishing the last part.

I do get that people will farm the best items wherever it's easiest to do so, which is a problem. Perhaps they should put uber-gear in acts 3 and 4? It'll break the gear curve, but at least you'll feel like you got something out of it.

-Jester

(06-24-2012, 07:07 AM)Elric of Grans Wrote: Parking is often not an option, either, as enemies can, and often do, move faster than you do. Seems a silly design concept to me.

EDIT: Me forget good the English.

(06-25-2012, 05:26 PM)Yricyn Wrote: So I've reached the point where I can do Act 1 inferno without dying. Tanking the Butcher is no longer a problem. Very few boss/champ packs give me much of an issue. Act 2 Inferno is no longer unplayable, but about 50% of boss packs are unbeatable. I had a break through in Act 1 when I began valuing resist gear over vitality. I went from 200 resist all and 50k health, to 500 resist all and 30k health. I started living through previously impossible encounters.

So my question is, if 500 resist all 6k armor works for Act 1. What do you need for Act 2?

(06-27-2012, 01:14 AM)Concillian Wrote: can only craft (up to) ilvl 62 weapons. (up to) ilvl63 are only drops.

You can only craft ilvl 62 weapons if you get an ultra-rare pattern drop to teach your blacksmith. Which may or may not be the base item type you're after. I think crafted (high level) weapons are also limited to 4 affixes, while drops can be 6.

In general, mlvl 60 monsters are Act IV hell, 61 Act I inferno, 62 Act II, and 63 Act III/IV. Similar to Diablo II, just having monsters of the right level doesn't guarantee a high base item type, and there is only a small chance to even have the right base item type (and level) for the drops.

I think the crux of the gear issue is that they streamlined too much.
Every class wants DPS weapons. So once you're level 60, everyone is looking for the same 2 affixes types (+% damage and +xxx-xxx damage). Plus whatever their class flavor affixes are.
Similarly, every class needs a baseline level of +all resist, so armor without a +all resist on it is an order of magnitude less valuable.

In D2, the affixes were more spread out. There were builds that wanted +skills and low damage was okay. There were builds that wanted high damage, and no +skills were okay (but additional skills helped). This meant the community as a whole could share a little more. Also, +all resists was a unique only attribute, so you had to mix and match individual resists. This was kind of a pain (especially since there was a resist cap) but it meant that more gear was useful to more people. It seems to me, there's just too high a percentage of people after the same affixes due to the game design.