Hardcore Discussion

[Kaeko]

The devs mentioned that they want to force players to kill champions to optimize farming, but right now, it's best just to exploit goblin pops. It's just too risky to kill elite packs in Inferno on HC. No reason to kill them when goblin farming is better anyways. Hopefully this changes in 1.03.

[Odon]

Is there a goblin farm spot for act 3?

[Syntex]

Did 40-54 tonight. ZK runs are boring.

IDGAF if its not legit, I already leveled 1 barb to 60. Doing it again is just a pain.

Prolly get 60 tomorrow.

[aurik]

Is there a goblin farm spot for act 3?

Dunno. The one Kripp was toying with got him killed

[Odon]

Yeah, I saw that. Lol.

[Oxyminus]

Killed NM Diablo today.

Was a bit nervous at the start of the fight. He was hitting for visible chunks of damage, while I was slowly whittling away. Just stuck to my routine, and he went down without any problems. Pretty sure I only used skin when one of his cages caught me.

Already had some annoying mob packs in Hell. Fast moving mortar. fuck that noise. But, so far so good, but I expect that anything pre Skeleton King isn't going to be drastically more difficult than NM A4. Also swapped out Hydra for Arcane Orb with the lowered AP cost rune. Needed something to do larger chunks of damage, as I think a purely kiting build would get me into trouble sooner or later, and so far the swap has been working well.

[Roranora]

So today I just finally for the first time get the 9 HC hero slots > lv 1 and started (got male monk to level 13 done with spider queen this morning) and I'm like yay.. I like to minimize the tedium of going back for normal / nightmare playthroughs, but I still enjoy playing much more than seeking a powerleveling approach.

Anyway, then I'm messing around on one of the DHs (40 and 45) ..and the 45 is well suited for Belial.. been in A3 before a little.. messing around late A2, and I take on Belial for the hell of it, unnecessarily and die. just got cocky; I don't know why I thought I was going for a record time.. just destroying him down to around ~20% hp phase 2

too much shooting, tex



I blame Fireal; quite dying on DH/Wiz, contagious

[Fireal]

LOL sorry :< I think Fien gonna PL me back to early 40s.

[Fireal]

Or I'll not get powerleveled.. just saw this: Fixed a bug where players could turn in the same quest repeatedly and always receive rewards as though they were completing the quest for the first time

[Oxyminus]

Had my first run in's with some Hell rare and champ backs. Started a new game, the quest looking for the cemetery. Knew I hadn't cleared any of the zone so I didn't have a lot of safe area to kite/kill. First pack was vampiric plague knockback (not too bad) the next was mortar freezing teleport. Difficult as hell, but kept calm and got past them.

Fucking rush

[Gokku]

Reposting this with what just happened to me in HC.

im a WD , spot 1 yellow with minions , its on the edge of screen to far to mouse but i can hit with darts so im thinking ok... ill pull it back and go from there. Pull the yellow BOOM illusionist +minions im like ok ok start aoeing, then i spot a pack of blues with fast mixed in ... now im like FUUUUCK and blow up my dogs hoping to kill some shit , it doesnt work i spirit walk and run to the right... right into another pack of blues with illusionist , at this point im screaming like that kid in the vid and haul ass back towards the last area, *since i had just DC's everything was on cooldown* as soon as i get into the area i hit a wall of 10-20 trash mobs so now ive got 2 packs of blues 1 yellow 2/3 with illusionist behind me , and a wall of trash mobs infront of me que me screaming like a little girl on skype to my friend who to my horror joins in my game. at that point i was like WELP IM FUCKIN DEAD until they reminded me the ninja mob dmg fix and they saved my ass.

still man for a good 40secs i was that little kid...

[ushuimama]

<-- the friend who saved him

funniest shit ever... he was totally screaming like that kid... would have paid to record it

[Plow]

ninja mob dmg fix wha?

[Siralin]

I know they were supposed to change it soon, but was it really ninja fixed?

In other news, back to 33 wizard and in nightmare. Ended up getting Swift Descent and On the wings of angels going through normal...

[euph]

Had an epic night with aurik, oxy and wottles tonight.

Off topic from that heres my monk currently level 57 stats

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i9...73/muuuunk.jpg

feeling pretty good about it.

[Plow]

wow, aside from the dps that's enough for act 1 inferno on softcore lol

I do butcher runs with less resist and not a whole lot more dps in my mf gear heh.

[Deadgye]

Finally got around to starting my HC barb. He just beat skeleton king and is level 10. I'm pretending he's a praying mantis right now since he's dual wielding sickles.

I'll probably level my softcore wizard/dh or farm on my softcore barb when I don't feel like paying attention. I've decided I'm not going to watch anime or read forums on my second monitor when playing hardcore; initial d music and/or voicechat onry!

I doubt I'll die to anything in normal if I just play like I normally do. It's nightmare where I'll have to start being paranoid.

[arus2001]

I know they were supposed to change it soon, but was it really ninja fixed?

In other news, back to 33 wizard and in nightmare. Ended up getting Swift Descent and On the wings of angels going through normal...

My friend had a weird game where mobs were doing 3x damage for no apparent reason. So while they may have slipped the fix in, I'm not sure it's flawless yet.

[Plow]

My friend had a weird game where mobs were doing 3x damage for no apparent reason. So while they may have slipped the fix in, I'm not sure it's flawless yet.

I don't think they did, or as you said it may be buggy, but yeah act 3 inferno mobs are notably rapier the more people you get still.

[Fireal]