Can I enter even if i dont have a country? Or do I have to join an alliance?

My laughing woke up my gf and got the dog barking non stop for 2 mins. Epic stuff!

How does my d!ck taste! LOL

After rereading my last post, I realize for barbs to get to 400-500 resist, it prolly cost more, but i guess 250 will do for barbs since they have shout.

So server down for maintainance and I havent checked this thread since I last posted. Random Affix on dangerous mobs are just brutal.

Within the time of my last post, I leveled a DH to 60, dumped down 30mil worth of gears on him (over paid for a crappy crossbow with no crit damage OR socket), got him to 50k unbuffed 110k with 100% crit, and started some act 2 runs and some act3 with a geared monk. I must say, DH is pretty frustrating. If you simply have 3k armor and enough dps, you can roll act 1 pretty easy. Act 2 takes some manuvering but still fine. Act3 just pwned my face. Lasher packs one shot me to no end, and fast mobs are instant death until reloaded. So ya i guess i feel the pain for range players. I guess it's frustrating meet a pack of skull cleavers that one shot you and out run you. I mean do act3 farming DH use vault? Even using vault just means you run away, what if the mob blocks your path? 5 stack reload!

Alright enough rambling, I've developed a new philosophy that seems to simple, it makes me ponder why it havent daunted on everyone. BLIZZ WANTS TO MAKE MONEY! Obviously the RMAH is a GREAT idea to blizz. All the d2 players are in their late 20s and 30s, so there's plenty of money to be dumped in to games they love. I've sold plenty of mid-top tier items on RMAH for 50-100 bucks an item already. I'm sure the guys like Xin (but more willing to spend money), who dont have the time to farm but still wants to play the game to enjoy it (no keyboard smashing and endless frustration), dont mind spending say 200 dollars on some items to bust through certain barriers. When they spend on RMAH, blizz cut 22.5% of all sales. That's a great way to generate income without having to charge monthly fees. They sell you a 60 dollar game, they have no obligations to keep updates. They can just sell it and leave it, and let others figure out things, but unlike Wow (13 dollars monthly anyone!), they have to make money else where. And this leads me to believe RMAH is their ending scheme to generate the most money.

So if I believe they intend to make money through RMAH, then I would think the Attack speed nerf is not the last big nerf. Whatever flavor of the month is will be nerfed soon. This creates gear change and people who use RMAH are forced to spend more to buy gears. What's flavor of month this month? Crit/crit damage! Pure crit build full burst DPS gears for all classes!! Isnt it this way with all classes now?

Barb: Cant kill stuff? Buy 2x1h Mace/Axe with 800+dps 200+str 70+crit damage+socket!
DH: No DPS?! Buy a 2h Crossbow with 1150+dps 200dex 70 crit damage + socket!
Monk: Attack speed nerfed, my LoH cant sustain in fights anymore for act2!! Buy 2x1h fists with 800+dps 200+dex 70 crit damage with socket!!

Sigh, flavor of month! I feel a crit damage + socket nerf coming!! Which forces players to buy other types of gears. Main stat buff anyone? Defensive builds with life regen and damage reduction? Maybe everyone should use shields like WD tanks!

So ya lots of rambling today as I got facerolled by molten/fast/shielding Tremors over and over. After finally busting through after like 15 deaths (GG for loading up seigebreaker instead of azmodan), i meet a pack of molten/shielding/vortex occulists just as I enter level 2 heart of damned. GG, after like 5 deaths I realize it's not possible to beat that combo and just had to reload.

With prices the way it is, it's very possible to beat act1 on 200k worth of gears. I had to vendor a 1150+dps 2h with 100+strength and socket, cause it didnt sell at 20k. Any barb/monk can roll aroudn act1 with about 400-500 resist and 35k hp on 20k dps. Those stats are not hard to obtained as when i was gearing my DH (originally wanted to spend the minimum), I was able to aquire good gears for like 10-20k each. Gears like 170+dex with vit and all resist boots (since the min for dex boots is aroudn 200+ for it to sell decently), 80+dex bracers with crit, 150+dex gloves with 25 crit damage, 100+dex with light resist on both chest and pants with two sockets in chest and 1 in pants. I didnt have to camp long for these items, and if you really wanted to go cheap, just buy some blue rings and amulet, and a helm with main stat and a socket.

Also anyone who wants to farm act2 (bring some dps or at least be open to change your build depending on the spot), add me Emao#1902

well 6mil in 200 hours played off of pure gold coin pick up should still be slightly low. I'm not gonna elaborately defend my comments, but i'll say this, if i spend 10 hours on AH i'm sure I can put together a barb/monk/DH (sorry dont know wiz/WD enough) set for 3mil and be able to put act1 on farm. Especially monk, since that's my main. Obviously 10 hours on AH hunting items is no fun, but then if your banging your head against the monitor and smashing your keyboard and mouse after over 100 hours of play and still not be able to go through act1, then i suggest make valuable assessments of gear direction, and look for good solid upgrades at rock bottom costs.

Martian, a 1100 dps without stats is prolly 20k. Obviously you either have a 2 of 3 stats (high dex/crit damage/socket) on your weapon for it to be worth 5mil. properlly valuing gears when you either buy upgrades or sell loots is the best way to advance. If you rely strictly on soloing out gears and not utilizing AH, then this game becomes extremely tedious. I had rings with 100dex, 60vit, 30 resist, and 3crit that I was using. I switched in rings with +80 combine damage, 60 dex, 60vit, 30 resist and 4 crit for roughly 3-5mil each. Those upgrades gave me at least 2k dps per ring. On top of that, i sold my old rings for more than 5mil each. That's gear evuation and people just dont pay attention to easy upgrades.

Right now people look at big natural stats like int/dex/strength, oh the more the better. After you reach a certain point, +damage, +crit, +chd, +AS just scales better.

I know general numbers for monks, so i'm only gonna comment on monks. Act1 is basically 500 resist, 16k dps, 30k hp and minimal maybe 500 LoH, and you can pretty much breeze through it. Your not gonna faceroll molten/descrate/arcane mobs, but obviously you can sidestep descrate, facetank molten, or give yourself a good 10yards on arcane till you can see the beam position. I know those numbers are fine because my full MF gears when i farmed butcher had roughly those stats.

Now about not being able to farm gold. Locket already posted act3 nightmare has the best undergear gold farming in the game. It's widely accepted and why perfect roll Goldfind gears are so high. U dont even need perfect roll, a 18GF body peice with 100+ main stat can sell for upwards of 500k. This leads me to believe just how many people is doing act3 gold coin farming. If your having problems with act1 inferno, go to act3 hell and farm for some gold to buy gears. If your having problems with act2, go farm butcher some more. Drops are fine, each run will yield at least 1 or 2 peices of 63 (usually more), just look on the forums for a good path.

Most guys that complain about this game is the ones that wont put in the time to farm. Normal mode was a teaching tool, nightmare was slightly harder but still faceroll, hell was a wakeup call but still doable with whatever u found and bought for 10k or less, but inferno just bashed people over the head. Suck it up, accept it, and farm some gears. For the wow players, you werent exactly rolling in to MC with full greens right? You did scholo/BRS/Strat runs. You got gears first. Dont undergear and keep trying to progress, if your dying on trash or weak affix elites, that means your not gonna progress with your gears. When you get a peice of gear that looks good (150 primary stat, 100vit, 50+ all resist + whatever the slot had extra or sockets for pants/helm/chest or life% on belt), look up AH for similar quality gears and put it at 80% BO. Sell your loots for max value and 10mil is literally 4 or 5 days work in act1. Again if you roll like garbage for weeks on end...then GG, quit diablo, cause blizz hates you=)

BTW if anyone wants to play together, I do act2 coop runs pretty often, I'm not gonna do act3 coop unless I have a high dpser with me while i tank or else my dps gears cant withstand 2man. Emao#1902 is my ID.

I think it's really about how you look at the game.

Item Affix: If you add on a lot more item affix, then people start complaining about not being able to get items they want since it'll be even harder to get that perfect roll.

Item drops: Ever since blizz upped 63 item drops, AH has been terrible. I mean the more loot your able to get, obvious the more loot others get and are trying to sell. I vendor everything 63 and under unless it's near perfect roll, 61 items i dont even bother. Even perfect rolls are too garbage to sell. For one, I probably would like to complain that items drops are too common. Reduce drop percentage in act 1 and 2 plz. Make it pre 1.3. Stuff that used to sell for 5mil is like 200k now.

AIS nerf: I mean seriously, it was just too OP. My monk with 3.2 AS and 2500 LoH just straight up crushed act2. I was using blue rings and amulet. Those machine gun hunters were straight up crushing everything. AIS was just a bug honestly, they over powered the stats and just diminished everything else making the game easy mode. I play monk and dont know much about other classes, but with high AS and high LoH, even 25k dps can farm seige breaker without deaths. The game wasnt meant for players to straight stand in molten or descrate and tank mobs down.

Bosses drop reduced: It's not bad, cause 5 stack seigebreaker was just too easy. It takes less than 30 mins (depending on your route) and you come back with a full bag of rares usually resulting in 6+ peices of 63 items. That's not very hard now is it. A highend player can farm out on average 10-20mil a day unless your luck is dirt crap and never get a semi good roll.

Mob Affix difficulty: It's be greatly reduced already. Act 1 is LOL (3mil worth of gears can farm without death/skipping, act2 is LOL (10mil worth of gears can farm without death/skipping), act 3 and 4 is even LoL now (2 good top tier drops and you beat the game, 3 or 4 good drops resulting in prolly 50 or 60mil gold can give u enough gears to farm act3, 100mil+ worth of gears can let you LOL the game without dying). What's 100mil really, urr like a 900 dps+ 1h with crit damage and socket. THAT'S IT, i mean seriously if you get one lucky godly drop, you can sell it and put the game on farm. No very challenging. They made AI pathing smarter, so it does take some skills to play. I mean whats the fun if a molten mob just stands there and not utilize molten? How about vortex mobs that dont use vortex or just pulls you over for no reason even if your 5 yards away? I actually enjoy not being able to sleep while farming.

I must admit, D3 is pretty much a 1month game. I've played my monk starting late may, and right now i'm at 45k+ dps facerolling act3/4/rainbow. The only push for me now is to get perfect peices, but they cost 20mil+ and most upgrades cost 50mil+_. I have friends with 80k unbuffed monks, and all they do is farm act3 and play AH, waiting for that 1 peice of upgrade. I'm sure once the PVP system comes out, it'll be even more upgrading going on, as i think pvp will require a lot more affix on items we just dont use in PVE.

Honestly those that played wow seriously, it's just as tedious, but the only difference is, diablo is more of a solo game and the contents are made just too easy to crack. But I still see a ton of complains saying the game's too hard. Cant please them ALL!

You have amazing timing man. My hotel's been running low on staff so I been working 12 hour shifts for literally the last 2 months, and today was the FIRST day i've been online in like 6 weeks. Anyways, . Add me on MSN and i'll send you my cell info, gimme a call when you arrive, I got some friends from LA arriving in 2 weeks also from the guangzhou tradeshows. So definately do some drinking and partying.

Warmest Thank You to all my friends in LaF! HLW, SS, Xin, LT, I stole a set with you guys hammering it out in the battlefields hehe.

And all my buds in MD, lots of love=)

No more netting ever haha! Cheers!

grats LCN!

Me and Oden been chatting since we both hit 50k+ land, he seems like a very honorable player. I still have stock on hand and a huge theo private market to resell, so this reset is definately not over. Just wait for another 9 hours and we'll see who's the winner=)

Tyrant and Dicts are war countries? OMG I've been netting as tyrant and dicts for all these resets!!

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DH for #1! Bonus.

If you dont like gambling, then take in the other activities Vegas has to offer. Vegas has some of the best chefs in the world making the most variaty of cuisins. If you dont like drinking, there's plenty of places you can sit down and relax for a nice cigar or hookah bar for a smoke. Gondala at the venician, pirate show outside the Treasure Island, world class water ballet at the Bellagio, or the Roman shows at the Ceasar. You can also see the famous white tigers at the Mirage or pick up any of the Cirque de Solei shows they have (there's like 5 or 6). There's helicopter rides just off the strip, and of course vegas has the best strip clubs in the US. Shopping is always an option as there's a shopping area at every major casino, or recreational areas with arcades and carnival games.

If you dont have fun in Vegas, you might just not know where to look. I think vegas has nearly everything you can imagine (well almost everything, obviously if your a wildlife type of guy that likes hunting and fishing then...umm...not the right place). Even for the extreme guys, they have bungee jumping and sky diving. If your willing to spend, you can do whatever you want there man=)

Retal land is more yummy than traded land.

I dont ever see a case where LaF would FA a country in to top10 to knock off a FDP's country. I think this post was just for 'haha's and jokes, as the actualy chance of this happening is extremely slim. I just dont see a MD country finishing exactly 10th this reset.

By some weird situation, with only a few hours to go a MD country is sitting in 9th and get knocked off by two obvious FAed countries in to 11th, that would be interesting.

lol, excellent plan!

Lets net this set out and see what happens. I dont see why anyone would accept being FAed in to the top 10. It's nothing to celebrate about unless you truly hate that guy sitting in the 10th spot. And if that's the case, I dont see why MD wouldnt take action.

lol bonus.

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highrock got tired of getting farmed lol.

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bonus post, gl to the russians!

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urr, i did mean top10 finish. Seriously you play 10 good days worth of grabbing and dont donk the destock and it's a top10 easy.

Urr...top10 is easy considering how lazy people are. Guys who play seriously for 10 days can get top10 without aid.

If say the cutoff was like 155ish, even my crappy 1/2 played country might sneak in, so no way it goes under 160 haha.

I still remember people were saying last set 200mil was top10 Cutoff. Might be 5 or 6 countries that'll break 200mil. We might have a strong top 8 but top10 might be closer to 160ish.

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The fat panda.

What's the meaning of life?

There's another positive that facebook provided...amazing how many old names I see here.

boo to linen, silk bedsheets are way better! weekly post.

I was drunk and past out 3 hours before reset ended. I finished jumping already and woulda finished 11th regardless. If LaF and I really wanted me to finish top10, trust me, I would be in Top10. I just didnt put enough efforts in during stocking and destocking or else with my country buildup and the land I had, 190-200mil would have been pretty reasonable.

Wow, this just got really interesting!! Welcome back everyone, I sure picked a good time to start earth again.

I really doubt 200ish is gonna bubble top10, fluff if that happens, i'd laugh at 412!!

412's gonna get top10, The way i'm looking at it, i think another 5 guys will pass me, and i'm set at 170ish. So 180ish seems about right. With that said, yea 6 laf will finish higher than that, and probably 2 evo and an omega and random.

I'm not going anywhere next set lol, I like LaF. If MD stays a few sets, i wouldnt mind hanging out with some old friends for a set or 2.

Why would you change your name to highrock? lol, summer of 99 bio class...it's been a long time man. Good finish last set man, I'm not gonna finish top10 this set so i'm gonna work hard next reset.

umm, interesting. Next reset should be fun.

How the hell does a big big noob even get considered here!! lol@him...

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This just means you'll dodge the next 80 missles launched. The wonderful world of probability, you just got the short stick in the beginning, now go get someone to launch another 80 at you, and you'll see the wonderful world at work.

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