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Hi guys. I just started playing D3 this morning for the first time on a desktop machine (iMac). It's totally different to the console version that I had before, it seems...easier? I'm not sure how to describe it. But I digress.

My question is, do I need RoS? I'm enjoying the game a great deal at the moment in its vanilla form, but will not having RoS hamper me in any way when it comes to online play?

I don't know for sure but I think you will need RoS to get to level 70. So without it you won't be able to get better equipment (well, lvl 61-70 equipment). Plus RoS gives you the Crusader which is my favorite cc character by far now.

Also you need RoS to unlock Adventure Mode.

After 10 hours of play, my monk is 70.

The comfort zone is somewhere between expert
and master difficulty. I pretty much just ran bountieS
th at would be somewhat simple/easy to do. I
followed a few guidelines as to which bounties
I would pick.

1. No or very few dungeon maps that havery you
finding the dungeons and descending them. For
example, the den of evil or the khazra den.

2. By the same token, boss hunts were out like
diablo, azmodan, urzael.

3. Multistage maps are mostly out like leorics
manor and some of the act 2 desert maps.

4. Dungeons to explore are the single floor
like clear the underbridge in act 3.

5. Boss fights to take on are the easy to get to
ones like the skeleton king. Belial can be easy
to get to, I think, but the fight annoys me. Sledge
can be a quick fight too, but he spawns next to
amother hammer demon elite, so that gets
annoying.

6. A few exceptions to multiple floor clears are
the hell rift or any area you just really enjoy
running around in. Act 5 town areas are fun
with side quests, for example.

7. Don't worry about getting the bounty bonus.
Doing faster bounties will get you to 70 faster.

8. After finishing 70, I started using the keys I
had (you should have 100 or so by this point)
to do normal difficulty rifts. Each rift will net
you about 25 blood shards.

9. After a few of those, gamble for key pieces of
gear. I went for, and got, the crudest boots.

10. Eventually your gear will dictate when you
can smoothly operate in the rift at torment 1.


After 70, I started using




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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/malfred-1996/hero/57384638

Here's my WD from Season 1:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Hordini-1204/hero/56860557

And my current Crusader for Season 2 (haven't had much time to play him this week but hope to get him to 70 by the end of next weekend):
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Hordini-1204/hero/57505502

On lvl45 at the moment on my wizzy:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/whembly-1139/hero/57537411

Trying to get to lvl70 by this weekend too.


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A lvl 52 Furnance just dropped for me.

After all this time, this is the FIRST one to ever drop for me... and it's not a lvl 70 Furnance.

 whembly wrote:
On lvl45 at the moment on my wizzy:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/whembly-1139/hero/57537411

Trying to get to lvl70 by this weekend too.


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A lvl 52 Furnance just dropped for me.

After all this time, this is the FIRST one to ever drop for me... and it's not a lvl 70 Furnance.

Feel ya bro.

I was afraid that might happen leveling season characters. Ended up in the clear

Post level 70 I did normal rifts for the blood shards. (Normal difficulty, even).

Gambled until I got a few key pieces and then I was Torment 1 ready.

As I upgrade pieces, I will upgrade the Torment difficulty. Right now working on
getting setts and a Ring of Royal Grandeur. It's better to run the bounties (you do
all five in Act 1 at this point) at at least Torment difficulty in order to benefit from the
higher chance to get a cache specific legendary item, so I rotate between bounties,
rifts and grifts.

Currently at Torment 2. I'm starting to fall asleep during boss fights, so I'm going to
wait for more upgrades before I upgrade the torment again.

Just got to lvl 70 yesterday.

Then I did 6 or so Rifts in normal to load up on gems/materials. I seemed to get a bunch of plans here. lol.

I just GOT the Halo of Alyspe... which, for sorc is pretty neat as long as Ice Armour is active, melee only does 51% dmg and triggers Frost Nova at 10% loss of life (which is just about every hit in torment )

I need to farm for RoRG too...

Let me know if you wanna split farm for that.

Yeah, next time I'm on.

I'll split farm with you guys once I hit 70 if you like. Hopefully this weekend.

Sure... ring us up.

Me & malfred did a few Act1 Bounties on Torment 2. Still no RRoG.

However... I stumbled into something kinda cool.

Once you hit lvl70... try to do a few Rift runs in Torment. You want to get a few GRift keys.

Then, open up a GRift at the lowest level you can. That way, you can clean house all the way up to the GRift Guardian. This Guardian will still drop great stuff, including the LegGems. (just upgrade the key, it won't bump it up too high)

I've got a Goldwrap (belt) plus the Boon of the Hoarder gem. It's a great combo when you need to tank.

I might be able to kick the Torment level up a few just to see what happens.

Yep yep.

It's nice.

I plan on trying to level my gems soon. That might help me do
faster clears.

Got some new gear and a new build for my Barb, now I'm running Torment 5 fairly comfortably. Ran a GRift yesterday from level 1 and got to 24 before the elites became too powerful.

Then decided to open a new trial key and go full out to see how high I could get. Got to level 27... I failed that one miserably and only got 2 really bad legendries, including one that wasn't even for my class. Needless to say I will never do that again

 Ruberu wrote:
Got some new gear and a new build for my Barb, now I'm running Torment 5 fairly comfortably. Ran a GRift yesterday from level 1 and got to 24 before the elites became too powerful.

Then decided to open a new trial key and go full out to see how high I could get. Got to level 27... I failed that one miserably and only got 2 really bad legendries, including one that wasn't even for my class. Needless to say I will never do that again

Very nice. Were you able to level your gems to 25 yet?

Currently have two gems at 19 and something else. Guardian fights are kinda boring, so I haven't
really pushed the envelope. I need gears!

^ Have not got any of my gems to 25 yet. Even at GRift level 27 you only have somewhere around a 70% chance to upgrade and I always roll that 30% fail.

Most of my gems are still pretty low levels because I run standard Rifts more often, for some reason I get a lot more legendaries in them. Just the other day I went from GRift level 1-24 and only got around 6 legendaries, then ran a torment 5 normal rift and got 4 right off the bat!

If you can do them fast, the bonus xp from higher Grifts are
worth the trouble, especially at higher Paragon.

I got a Hellfire Ring today.


What is considered higher Paragon? 200+? More?

/cough 500

 malfred wrote:
If you can do them fast, the bonus xp from higher Grifts are
worth the trouble, especially at higher Paragon.

Yeah, on my none seasonal characters GRifts are about the only things I do these days. I am around 320ish paragon and have enough good equipment to get me through them. As of this moment in season 2 I am 110 paragon and still running some fairly low level and low roll equipment. My weapon and like 50% extra fire damage is what's letting me do Torment 5. Once I get some better Raekors pieces and both Bul-Kathos swords i'll be set .

 malfred wrote:
/cough 500

Okay, thanks. I've got a ways to go in that case!

You seem to be in deep, Hordini. Tried pinging you a few times. Nice
work on the leveling.

I mostly solo, even if it means slower leveling.

 malfred wrote:
You seem to be in deep, Hordini. Tried pinging you a few times. Nice
work on the leveling.

I mostly solo, even if it means slower leveling.

Hey, sorry. I was grinding some rifts with my roommate. My volume was way down so I didn't notice until I left the game.

You can feel free to join anytime though.

Hehe, got a third piece SWK, so I guess I'm going to try farming
a RRoG next time I'm on. Should be fast solo on T3 or 4.

Got my RoRG last night playing with malfred (sorry dude!).

I'll still do RoRG farming with you guys... I can only do Rifts for so much.

Got my ring around P124-125

It rolled Int, so I rolled it off for the socket.

Next time I'm on I'm working on gems and trying to get 3 pieces
of Inna's. After that it's time to work on efficiencies. If I haven't
gotten a weapon upgrade by then, I should probably start
focusing my gambling efforts in that directions after inna's.

Guess I need to :

1. Level up gems
2. Get a weapon
3. Gamble for new pieces to reroll elemental armor

 malfred wrote:
Guess I need to :

1. Level up gems
2. Get a weapon
3. Gamble for new pieces to reroll elemental armor

1. Level'ed up with malfred
2. Got a weapon malfred... a new FURNANCE!. w00t! Thanks brother!
3. Been gambling left and right and Kadala is playing hard to get.

Went the HC route this season, got 70 on the 'sader today. Despite the pucker factor with HC, I'm having a blast - now I just need to farm gear for another crusader.

/sigh

Is that the way hardcore players roll?

Level up, farm gear, level a second, stash? Does that work?

 malfred wrote:
Is that the way hardcore players roll?

Level up, farm gear, level a second, stash? Does that work?

I think you just described D3 as a whole, not necessarily just HC.