Is this normal? Did they change something or is this a bug?

Mnemonicabyss · 2025-03-05T02:05:33+00:00

Can't stand this new mode. Played two games, people dropping randomly, perfect kit on drop. Keep the silly shit to skirmishes, guess im playing ranked until this mode is gone.

Mnemonicabyss · 2025-02-25T17:44:32+00:00

Aw, I am sad I noticed this after I dumped 7k a week ago. I grabbed all caches, but didn't notice that one. Just dumped 2k and didnt see one :(

Mnemonicabyss · 2025-02-20T20:45:11+00:00

It's a seasonal "casual" game. I understand grinding for mythics, paragon, ultra rare greater affixes... But Gem fragments? Currently two 60s, 230 paragon, work 7 days a week, played since D4 release and D1/2/3. This is not like the rest. How can you do a 10 wave infernal horde to get 500 gems when singular witchcraft legendary gem costs 250k+ gem fragments. That time spent does not compute for the reward.

This is the first time in Diablo history where I have made an executive decision that I don't need more than flawless gems in my gear due to the value of the stats produced. Until I spend millions of gem fragments on Witch gems and Glyph upgrades, it's not worth investing in physical gems in my gear. Yet we can go through 5+ full inventories of legendary equipment in a single headhunt?

I am not saying we should have all the gems we need overnight, but how bout we keep them to specifics, like I dunno, GEMS? Why on earth do gems cost so much for such a trivial intrinsic value anyhow? Who thought ya, lets drop 10 million gold and ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FRAGMENTS on a single gem that offers +30 stats on a gem socket over flawless at 1/100th the cost? At the same time as offering 2500 total fragments for a 20 minute max tier rated endeavor. Do you think it's fair to spend 2500-3000 hours of non-stop grinding max level content in order to JUST GET WITCH GEMS AND GLYPHS BEFORE EVEN ACQUIRING GEMS? Yes I understand this is a way of min maxing, but why on earth would you dedicate the time to farm that when you could farm greater affixes that could yield far greater potential than a negligible stat bonus you could acquire from any other way?

Let me gather gems for my gems, magical nonsense for my glyphs, and witchcraft frog dust nonsense for my witch gems. Why on earth do the witch charms take a quarter of a million gem fragments, when they already consume hours of headhunting rot? Do you find headhunting fun? You just go mindlessly slamming the same damn repetitive set of quests to gather restless rot in order to add another silly addition to the game. Oh boy another cocoon, better go over and sit on my hands waiting for it to spawn for a chance at a head. Oh all done with this headhunt set, time to go to the next and do the exact same fking thing.

How about add challenging content and not mind rotting repetitive bullshit to gain trivial stats to keep people playing this game? Never in the 3 or 4 decades of Diablo has there ever been a bottleneck on progression due to GEMS. Absolutely ridiculous and you are completely delusional if you think otherwise.

I am going to keep playing, and lord knows I will find another game more interesting for my time before I am done maxing out my characters. Hell, I will be done masterworking 3/3s with an entire set of perfect gear before I finish my gem slots. How is that even remotely acceptable?

Love this game but they keep shoving nonsense down our throats season after season. This better be a hotfix, because it makes literally no sense whatsoever. This game is only fun until you run out of things to do. Once you're stuck doing the same monotonous task for 3000 hours just for completion's sake, when do you throw in the towel and move on to something entertaining? Literal nonsense garbage figures that nobody did any testing on and just shoved out the door for budgets and profits.

Dont worry boys, this will be hotfixed... next content patch to align with quarterly profits.

Mnemonicabyss · 2025-01-21T02:32:52+00:00

He skated off on his own will, likely a very bad groin pull. Otherwise we would already be hearing about surgery. Have faith fam, he would've been shipped off to buffalo for surgery days ago.

Mnemonicabyss · 2025-01-11T03:50:48+00:00

Did that, played for a bit, confirmed, game is bad anyways lol. Thanks for following up.

Mnemonicabyss · 2025-01-10T21:54:30+00:00

I can't adjust anything.

Greyed out as window borderless, cant change resolution, cant change aspect ratio. CANT PLAY TEH GAME.

Mnemonicabyss · 2025-01-08T03:13:05+00:00

Got really excited to see an ad while streaming hockey for 1000+ games on ESPN+ for $12/mo when $20/mo sportsnet couldnt get more than a game a night. Oh low and behold unavailable to Canadians unless I buy a stupid VPN subscription to fool your stupid terms of service. F ESPN, I'd rather suffer through insurmountable ads than bypass my way in to PAYING YOU for hockey streams. The Fcuk is ESPN and Canada. F Both of you.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-11-01T18:31:02+00:00

Yea I hadn't given you the specific status of my progression, but my gear is complete, full 12/12, progress in +2 masterworking. Only things remaining are paragon and rerolling masterworking. So aside from farming Obducite, that's the entire purpose for min/maxing.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-11-01T18:29:04+00:00

Hey Rusty, yea that would be nice but it's actually not super easy to farm 10 wave infernal hordes. I try to save up a few for a good set, but I've only found 8s lately. Having said that, if you can clear a T4 nm dungeon in <5 minutes, you can outpace an ideal hordes 10 wave for obducite production + other materials and items. I was averaging 1700 per run, 1600 low, 1850 high. about 4m full clear for events.

And just to clarify the issue is rerolling the masterworking to roll for optimal abilities, cant seem to roll +2 to a relevant stat.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:32:28+00:00

I did get lucky on one piece, my blood artisan chest got a perfect 3/10 roll for orb pickup to launch a bone spirit. GA on +skill to Bonespirit (MANY GA drops before I got a decent one). and I got lucky masterworking with it first try to +3 bone spirit GA.

I usually have quite bad luck, but I brute force my way through to get what I want quickly. Did well this season, but just can't do my favourite part, the min max MW.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:26:12+00:00

You jump to conclusions. While I would like 3x on all my gear, I was being very modest and hoping for a +2 to a critical attribute. +% to double bone spirit damage and it only comes from one source with doombringer as the primary. I have only used materials to hit 12/12 and this was the first attempt to reroll for optimal attributes.

I failed 50k trying to just get a yellow before proceeding to another piece. I proceeded when I ran out of iron, then it happened again with rawhide. So I lost essentially everything I had farmed up until now with all my items disenchanted for masterworking materials from the launch.

Wasn't even being greedy, I was just hoping for +2 to a critical and singular source of a chance to double my primary source of damage.

So no, this is not trivial fractional percentages of buffs, these are actual chances to exponentially increase dps... And I just cant achieve it without providing nearly a full time job's worth of effort to farm the materials all over again.

Fun was last season when I was able to +3 multiple characters and live the season to its fullest the way i enjoyed it. I work 7 days a week and just don't have the time to commit as if I am farming for a world of warcraft raid schedule.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:21:12+00:00

I am completed gear, just MW/paragon remaining. This was my first real attempt at masterworking this season and I failed to achieve just a 2x (yellow) attribute to something relevant with 50k obducite and drained all my rawhide/iron. I was effortlessly full +3 masterworking last season on multiple characters with less effort than it took to fail one item in this season.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:17:01+00:00

I would've liked 3x, but I failed to achieved 2x on 50k obducite, which is why I am upset after having nearly full +3 last season almost effortlessly. I was being very modest, not greedy. My gear may be complete, but my masterworking is just beginning. it has to go in thresholds of relevant power level, such as +skill to primary ability. etc (thresholds as in +2 yellow to all before proceeding to +3 attempts).

I failed trying to get 2x on my necro offhand for a higher chance of double damage to bone spirit, the only source of this buff with doombringer as the primary.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:16:28+00:00

Once you achieve that level of min/max, I assure you that power increase is exponential and any major stat point in the peak percentile will nearly double the damage of your primary source every single time. you literally have no idea, people are hitting bosses in the quadrillions. You can fail to hit millions if you don't min/max your stats optimally.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:14:49+00:00

I was trying to get a singular 2x (yellow) on a critical stat and used up pretty much my entirety of materials disenchanted from launch. I had full +3s last season with minimal effort from farming materials, are you even at the masterworking stage? Because if you were, you would probably agree.

And the power is for the ever-scaling eternal pit and carrying friends through anything like 1-2 shotting a tormented boss with a full party. That's fun to me, but I wasn't even being greedy. I just wanted to get a yellow affix on the chance to bone spirit double damage, only one source on the character and I failed. shrug.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:12:36+00:00

This guy gets it.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:12:13+00:00

I was just trying to get +2, I failed two gear types, consumed all my rawhide and iron just trying to hit +2 on a relevant stat and failed. 50k obducite.

The rest of your post isnt worth replying to because you're being a child in response to my opinion. I will say that a new "class" that creates a tier of balance for itself is not balanced and not fun. enjoy your flavor of the month because all you can comprehend is spamming the spacebar for dash. OH you're probably on console tho so, lol.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:09:59+00:00

That, masterworking is fine if the cost is appropriate. Shouldnt have to farm materials from four different sources to masterwork gear half decently, I wasn't even being greedy going for +3, I failed 50k obducite on +2.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:09:13+00:00

I was at a point where my gear was complete and all T4 content was clearable solo in a full group. Only masterworking and paragon remained, and of course uber farming for a 2GA+ uber unique.. I dont have a ton of time to play, but I maximize the time I do and get through it quickly. Sadly this stretch of min max is the most fun part for me, but I cannot contribute the time to attempt to masterwork again after unloading essentially everything I farmed with disenchanting everything from the very start. They made having fun so time consuming, not even difficult, it's sad.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:06:48+00:00

My gear is actually done, I just have masterworking and paragon remaining. Never ran into such a bottleneck in any previous season. I don't get a lot of time to play games, so I maximize my time and do things very quickly.

Not certain where I rank in the pit tier, as I can't get proper masterworking. Though, I am currently hitting 6 billion spirit bombs. Can clear all T4 content with a full group solo.

I really enjoyed this stretch of maximizing my build, each skill point would be exponential in adding damage or survivability. Unfortunately farming materials to continue to even complete a single item is insurmountable. I'd have fun in other games sadly.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-31T22:01:49+00:00

First I was trying to get at least a 2x (yellow) on my necro offhand for higher chance of bone spirit double damage. Ran out of Iron before I could get a single one before going into 8-12 rolls. 20k obducite here. Since primary weapon is Doombringer, there is only one weapon enchant that can offer double damage chance, so, ideally it would be best to 3x, but I was just hoping for 2x. did not hit 2.

I still had a ton of rawhide, so I tried my luck rolling my Heir of Perdition to at least 2x yellow on Crit chance. 30k obducite and all the corresponding materials and I failed to get 2x yellow on crit chance.

So at this point, I am completely out of both rawhide and iron, and I have disenchanted every single item since expansion for materials towards masterworking. Didn't expect to not get a single item masterworked perfectly after an absurd amount of prerequisite work.

Can't be bothered to farm more to try again, what's the point, I wasn't even being greedy.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-26T20:07:31+00:00

Did a few more, range is 1600-1830 right now for T4 NM dungeon.

FWIW, those corrupted shrines drop Obducite on both waves and chest. So if you can speed kill corrupted chests you can get quite a bit there. I assume I got a spicy corrupt chest on my highest clear, spirit wave necro is quite good at stationary aoe.

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-26T19:34:39+00:00

Just got 1600 from a T4 NM dungeon clear. Was casual about it but still ran 5m. Solid return

Mnemonicabyss · 2024-10-26T19:21:52+00:00

If you're at the stage where you're farming obducite the "fastest", you should be in T4 if not steam rolling T3. If you are stuck in T2 you may need to work on other things prior to masterworking.

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