So I found a Lidless Wall tonight. Whoa boy is that item OP. I’m basically able to keep Bone Storm up full time, with multiple storms on screen at once, and each hit of Bone Storm give me a barrier. I had to take a hit to my DPS but with all the storms and barriers I’m able to stroll around NM dungeons with little fear of dying.
It sounds like Necros have the only uniques in the game that do crazy things. We REALLY need some sort of mobility skill though.
I just a minute ago beat the Butcher for the first time ever. (To be fair, it has been months since he showed up in the game, and I was still pretty much a newbie last time.)
Funny enough, I was playing my sorcerer, and I was able to stand toe-to-toe with him. I have so many passive skills giving me barriers as well as ice armor that I’m pretty tanky. He wasn’t even that hard. I did have to use potions a number of times, but there were enough lying around the dungeon by that point, I never even came close to running out. (For every one I used, I was able to pick another one up, so they stayed maxed.)
Boy that felt good. I didn’t expect that this would happen on my sorcerer, I figured it would be my necromancer to accomplish this.
Huzzah!
We just beat the W2 capstone dungeon at level 48. It wasn’t that hard. Kind of fun to step into WT3, I forgot how much more interesting it is.
My Druid is jacked. I have +6 to Wolves and the heart that grants a bonus wolf and 30% companion damage and they just buffed wolves. I didn’t use wolves in the previous Druid build, so this is cool.
I don’t love Druids, but the only Druid build I ever did that felt good was based around companions (and Werewolf skills). Having the wolves and raven attacking stuff is pretty satisfying in a way that I never felt with skeletons on a Necromancer.
I went pulverize on my druid. It requires zero uniques and every aspect you need is in the codex. Being so easy to get it up and running has been a god send.
I think the codex mechanic needs a pretty serious overhall. I have a lvl 100 barb and lvl 75 necromancer and I think I’ve enchanted one item with a codex aspect. Min roll means you’re going to replace them asap and I’ve found that I almost always have either a better aspect I already harvested from an item, or the item is good enough that I don’t want to ruin it with a shitty aspect.
I think you could make the codex worthwhile with one of a couple easy tweaks: 1) randomize the roll 2) allow overwriting codex aspects 3) allow the use of crafting materials to boost the codex aspects
I still use it, sometimes I’ll get a yellow with really good stats and a high level, much higher than a current item, and I don’t have an item with an aspect I can remove, so I put in something from my codex. It’s rare, because usually I’ll find something better, but I think it’s a decent “tide you over” option. I expect that’s what it was intended for. At least you can make a yellow into an orange.
That’s on my newer, lower-level character for seasonal play. For my original main character on the permanent server, he’s pretty far along in the game and at a certain point you get orange gear constantly. I can’t think of the last time I used the codex for him.
I use the codex aspects all the time. Maybe not as useful at later levels but certainly useful to my 49 Druid.
Same, when i find a maxed dropped aspect that is kinda rare I have a very hard time using it on a piece of gear i will want to replace. Unless I have a spare, then I use it.
Not quite 50 yet, only 49, but I really felt good about my lightning Sorcerer so I gave the capstone dungeon a shot.
While I can’t say that I breezed through it, at no point did I ever really struggle much. Even the final boss didn’t cause much trouble. So I’m now WT3 on my seasonal character. 
Level 53, WT3. I’ve got kind of a ridiculous companion build with my Druid right now. I found an aspect that gives me an extra wolf companion, along with a heart that summons another wolf companion and gives me +3 to Wolves, then I found an aspect that turns all my wolves to werewolves and can inflict Rabies, so I now have Level 7 in Wolves and a bunch of ultra-powered werewolves running around. They are vicious and will knock down an enemy’s health considerably. I hadn’t planned on building a Companion build for this Druid but the confluence of aspects couldn’t be passed up, and now I’m just adding glyphs to see how far I can push it.
All that said, we’ve been doing the side quests for renown. I enjoy the side quests but I’m finding the dungeons bloody boring. And we’ve hit a number of frustrating bugs lately. Last night I was unable to loot bodies or chests, and completely restarting my PS4 didn’t fix it. What did fix it was going somewhere else in the game, but I’m not sure if that one area is still cursed or not. I’ve gotta help some poor guy find his goat!
I saw a Druid in town with a couple werewolves last week and thought, how the heck did he do that, and also, that is freaking awesome.
Quickie update for those who’ve been following the thread but not posting/playing, BattleNet has the first sale I’ve seen for D4, with the Standard Edition being 22% off, up to 25% off for the Ultimate edition.
Having played, I still don’t think the cosmetics and Battle Pass BS are worth the extra $20, but others may have different opinions.
Let me put it this way. We paid the extra for the accelerated battle pass and I haven’t been motivated to use it yet.
I like the cosmetics, I like the Battle Pass stuff. Do I think it was worth $20, no. I don’t feel ripped off, but if I had it to do again I wouldn’t.
I like the cosmetics (they look really good on a Necro) but the game has a really flexible cosmetic system built in that lets you mix and match a bunch of styles (and dye them) for no extra cost. You loot a lot of styles just playing the game. And many of them are really good. It’s rare that I see any cosmetic that you can buy that’s better than stuff I’ve looted.
I mean, good on Blizzard for not forcing us to pay micro transactions just to not look like a hobo (I’m looking at you Path of Exile), but it does devalue all of the Battle Pass and other cosmetics.
Well, granted, Necro has some of the best looking gear in the game. It was a much bigger struggle for my Sorc, and I haven’t seen anything that makes me go “oh wow” on a Barb. But overall, I agree, the built in options are pretty darn good, and if they’d get around to a dye option for WoW, I’d be really happy!
As someone commented elsewhere on the Internet, it’s hard to make the Druid look like anything but the Avon lady.
im wondering when MS is going to finish its takeover of Activision so the diablos can be on the game pass
Figured I’d ask everyone about how they’re doing at this point in the game.
I have a Sorc (Eternal) who I got to 55, but just didn’t have much fun, a common complaint about the squishiness and lack of successful builds, part of which they say they’ve fixed / will be fixed in season 2, but I currently have no desire to go back.
I have a Necro (Season 1) who is 69, but I just haven’t been able to make myself play in the last two weeks. Doing a horrifically dull grind of hell-tides and nightmare dungeons for the tiniest of incremental gains (if that) just felt ever more like a chore.
I have pondered doing a Rogue in Season 2, but while I enjoy the little bits of story and alternate mechanics of the seasons, everything else (dungeons, quests, etc) is the same, and I don’t feel drawn in enough to seriously bother. And having little to no interest in either of the other two classes, that just puts things off for a few months.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good enough game, with relatively few major flaws, but ISTM to suffer from a craptastic midgame. Getting to 50ish feels like a pretty steady improvement, and I hear that the max level content can be fun, but no one I’ve spoken too has much good to say about the whole 50-99 grind. And if I want to do raids or multiplayer content, I’d probably rather do that in World of Warcraft.
Any advice from the folks who dived deeper, earlier?
What max level content?
I haven’t played in a while. I think my season 1 necro is ~lvl 90, but yeah it’s running like 500 nightmare dungeons in a row to level up? Meh. I’m not sure how many hours I put into the 4 games, but D4 has got to be the least by a factor of 5.