The buff is explained in this question: How does the Nephalem Valor buff work?. It is said that there are hidden effects, and I'd like to know those.
From diablo.incgamers.com (Nephalem Valor > Magic Find... MF is Broken)
I used 140MF without NV buff and went to kill Zoltan Kull and he drop
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@RESPAWN the point of closing is so that we can fix the answer, and therefore you should close first and then ask questions.
If you don't then you can have people posting answers to an invalid question, which is later turned into a valid one (thus forcing you to delete the other answers)
The buff is explained in this question: How does the Nephalem Valor buff work?. It is said that there are hidden effects, and I'd like to know those.
From diablo.incgamers.com (Nephalem Valor > Magic Find... MF is Broken)
I used 140MF without NV buff and went to kill Zoltan Kull and he drop
...
@badp we have a lot of "ask tips" questions. Many I don't like, but if the question narrows the situation enough - e.g. by adding an unusual constraint - maybe they're okay.
Yeah, perhaps I didn't express myself well. I haven't yet had my morning caffeine. I just mean to say that I'd personally rather see the site populated with as many questions as possible, and I'd rather us try to fix a question than delete. (And I meant delete up there, not close. lol)
I want to try to be a nomad for as more days as I can, playing in hardcore mode. What difficulties will I encounter with this strategy, compared to a more traditional approach of establishing a base?
for example, I feel like gear wise, it's hard to progress. I can't and won't count on random drops for ugprades. and all the slots cost at least 4mil+ each to upgrade
@Jin I love the design of our site and of course, the lazers, but your custom designs for our promotions are so awesome that sometimes I am a little sad when they go away.
The big issue is that they balanced loot around the auction house. Makes it not impossible but highly unlikely that you will ever gear yourself efficiently without using the AH.
People are willing to farm for hours to get that one super rare awesome unique legendary. They won't be so willing to just farm for that slightly better blue weapon.
like lastnight, I played for a few hours. by "play" I mean repeating the same azmo run every 40mins, hoping a decent rare would drop that I'd undercut someone on AH for some gold.. it got boring fast
> "I used to have 'purple' in there," Solomon said, "and it'd create these names, there was like: 'The Purple Stranger. Well that sounds like something from Urban Dictionary. So I thought, you know, I'm ... just gonna take out purple ..."
> You might run into "Operation: Falling Fall," Solomon said, but if so, he'll live with it, because the two words produce some solid random codenames and, again that rokken 80s metal effect.
@ickleislands Sorry, but I place absolutely no value on unsourced quotes on the Diablo forums. Those forums are terrible. Here's the reddit explanation though
I still like Diablo3 a lot, don't get me wrong. I enjoy the fact there's no raiding, I can hop on 'n off any time I want. Overall I think it's really well done. But I'm just not getting the same enjoyment I did out of D2
@ickleislands Not sure if you're serious... You're claiming that a random person stating that the reddit quote I linked is a lie is valid, but that the quote he's citing isn't valid because it is on reddit? /head explodes
@Jin the one I linked is definitely not random. The person @ickleislands cited as evidence is some random person on the forums saying "the reddit quote is a lie!"
@fbueckert this
quick, everyone stop talking so she can look for the post! :)
Here's the typical lifespan for a bad question:
A User posts the question.
People either see it on the front page, say "Ooh, new question!" and read it, or else they see it pop up on Lazers and read it.
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What is the point to lots of the higher league players taking their scouting worker and mining from the enemy field? Is this just for BM? What is the purpose of this?
I remember reading the post on the official forums about the balancing for AH, and I certainly believe the legendary/set drop rate is pretty good evidence for that.
I think its a stretch to take "we took into account that gear might be more accessible to some people due to the AH (and trading within the group)" and saying " Blizzard have confirmed in a post somewhere that the loot system is balanced around the auction house"
Bashiok: So, in fact, the AH has to be a factor in how we drop items. On one hand you have a huge benefit because you can buy and sell items very easily, as opposed to having to post up WTS threads in the old USEast trading forums, but on the other end it does impact the item pool economy with the inherent ease at which you can trade items.
@ickleislands partly because D2 saw such a huge uncontrolled, unmonitored (and unsafe) economy of gold buying and trading (in other words, because clearly a LOT of players want it)
Even if I declared D3 to be Teh Suck and stopped playing it right now, I still got 100+ hours out of the game. I can't complain. Well, I can complain, and will. But I probably shouldn't. :)
@ickleislands My first attempt I had him down to literally a sliver of heatlh. Second attempt, he had maybe a quarter inch on his health bar. 30 minutes later, my NV stack faded, and I swapped out Hex for Haunt and got him 2 attempts later ><
@YiJiang see, if I wanted to run a successful scam, I'd buy a dozen copies of D3, and give them randomly to people, while "declining" most of the credit card numbers. (and secretly stashing them somewhere)
@fbueckert Heh I planned on running some SK -> Butcher runs before seriously trying Act II. For giggles I tried Act II for 10 minutes this morning. Died to literally every other pack of mobs just entering the canyon :P
@ickleislands did whimsyshire once on Normal. Just finished my staff last night, and just need to pick up the NM plan and enough gold to make the Hell version
@YiJiang yeah, there's about a half a billion ways this goes wrong. chances of getting scammed to either the tune of your payment, or worse, having your credit card stolen are extraordinarily high. buying "too good to be true" priced software from retailers who you don't know is, in general, a terrible idea
hmm, virgin mobile is going to start offering iphone 4s, for $30/mo, unlimited text/data, 300 mins of talk time. you'll probably have to pay more for the phone though (maybe retail price?)
still, it's $1000 less over a 2 year contract with at&t or verizon
@agent86 It's probably not "too good to be true", assuming Blizzard practices price discrimination. That would mean, like I said, that they're breaking the region lock scheme though
I'm considering the purchase of my first gaming mouse and I think that with some pointers (pun intended) I could make better decision.
Looking at the available offering it seems that there are a lot of available features, an impressive display of metrics (number of buttons, DPI, weight, etc.) co...
@Krazer I'm not sure that works in the VM case, since they're up front about the fact that they're throttling (unlike some, who just pretend they don't)
> Does all you can eat data come with any limits? The limit is how much your device can consume – if you were to actively use data or the Internet on your phone every second, of every day, in every month (and we would be worried if you were !!!!) you would, subject to the current traffic management requirements (which vary from time to time), use up to 1000GB per month.
You know, I with this discussion I suddenly have this vision of smugglers carrying thousands of Steam code over country borders taking advantage of price differential in different regions and weak region locking schemes
@fbueckert With a smartphone alone you won't get anywherere near 1TB of data. With a computer though, you probably could? Depends on what sort of data network they have
@YiJiang apparently that last 19% is where "plurals" are :P
the search feels more like a simple full-text db search (because that's kind of what it is) rather than some sort of natural language/adaptable parser. you can always use google and limit the domain to g.se, but that's kinda bleh
@agent86 Not really. I have a G15 on the top of my desk and another on my keyboard tray. I have my left hand on the one underneath and the right hand on the G15.
@FAE but are you typing different things on both keyboards? to type I have to coordinate my hands, and trying to do so on different keyboards seems like an exercise in confusion/frustration
@fbueckert I vastly prefer to do regular typing on notebook style keys. I prefer the low travel time and quieter sound. I use a Logitech UltraX for my regular input stuff. I recently purchased (as in earlier this year) a G15 to give it a shot for gaming and see if I liked it.
I use the G15 for gaming and the other one for regular input now. Whether or not I type on the G15 depends on the length of the message I'm going to be writing.
@fbueckert I never owned one before this year. I'm pondering getting a Razer Naga now as well. My problem with using gaming peripherals is that I'm always a little afraid that I'll become so dependent on them that I'll feel completely nerfed if I'm ever not at my own rig.
@badp Throwing a skill rotation onto a repeating macro for something like WoW would be amusing. And probably why they added movement to fighting bosses.
@fbueckert It takes place in LA, post-apoc, so there's systems and procedures in place to prevent outbreaks from recurring. This follows a coroner on an outbreak scare to see what happens and what his role is in this. It's quite well done.
I wanted to go for a destruction/conjuration/illusion build where I would summon something then buff it with courage then shoot fire from my hands.
When I used courage on my flame atronach it said it resisted it so this is a real bummer for me. So before I move any further I wish to know if all ...
@RESPAWN The devs probably didn't come up with the design. So they get a punch for even trying. The designers, though. Those guys get the worst punishment of all.
The buff is explained in this question: How does the Nephalem Valor buff work?. It is said that there are hidden effects, and I'd like to know those.
From diablo.incgamers.com (Nephalem Valor > Magic Find... MF is Broken)
I used 140MF without NV buff and went to kill Zoltan Kull and he drop
...
I want to try to be a nomad for as more days as I can, playing in hardcore mode. What difficulties will I encounter with this strategy, compared to a more traditional approach of establishing a base?
What is the point to lots of the higher league players taking their scouting worker and mining from the enemy field? Is this just for BM? What is the purpose of this?
I found The Crusher in Act III in the Keep Depths. Pretty sure it was on level 2
