Quote (CeePee @ Mar 1 2015 02:01pm)

Use this doc if you wanna think of gambling something: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16_MqJ7gSCod-lgTL2yQSGVLSmfKDrRwKZCyBwf1E08w/edit#gid=2135755535

You need to spend 81,094 blood shards to get a 80% chance of looting torch.

So yeah, I'd rather focus on something else. Like the set items that "only" need 2,4k for the same chance. Hence I've just started to get my leggies into ancients rather than gambling for unity, wep or amulet.

Quote (CeePee @ Mar 1 2015 04:01pm)

Use this doc if you wanna think of gambling something: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16_MqJ7gSCod-lgTL2yQSGVLSmfKDrRwKZCyBwf1E08w/edit#gid=2135755535

You need to spend 81,094 blood shards to get a 80% chance of looting torch.

So yeah, I'd rather focus on something else. Like the set items that "only" need 2,4k for the same chance. Hence I've just started to get my leggies into ancients rather than gambling for unity, wep or amulet.

Quote (FamilyGuyViewer @ Mar 1 2015 10:44pm)

I'm tired of using this two hand ancient mace.. Is the torch really that rare...and the 81k is just for a regular non ancient torch?

Quote (FamilyGuyViewer @ 2 Mar 2015 07:44)

I'm tired of using this two hand ancient mace.. Is the torch really that rare...and the 81k is just for a regular non ancient torch?

Quote (vknez @ 3 Mar 2015 08:37)

improved my monk to 75+ cdrf yesterday. spend 2 ramalandi and today saw this info :lol:

It’s interesting that you mention permanent Serenity uptime.

The concept of permanent immunity has actually been on our radar since we introduced Cooldown Reduction in Reaper of Souls. Since then, we’ve seen many players who have been able to skirt the edges of permanent immunity using this affix. Frankly, we think that’s awesome, since we love it that players can customize their characters in different ways.

While it’s our goal for CDR to be a desirable affix, and while we’re okay with players greatly reducing the cooldown of their immunity skills, we also want to avoid a scenario where permanent immunity is possible. For instance, in patch 2.1.2, we put a cooldown on Smoke Screen to mitigate permanent immunity builds for the Demon Hunter so that you couldn’t chain this skill back-to-back.

Starting in the next PTR patch, we’ll be applying this philosophy to the following immunity skills.

Spirit Walk
Serenity
Smoke Screen
Laws of Hope – Stop Time

With this, the cooldowns on these skills will begin after their buff ends. To minimize negatively impacting the normal use case for these skills, we’re lowering the cooldown time to compensate – for example, Serenity is going from a 20 second cooldown that starts on activation, to a 16 second cooldown that starts when Serenity ends.

Previously, we may have decided against adding an item power to the game that might lead to permanent invulnerability. However, with these new changes, we’ll have much more freedom in designing new and powerful items, since there will be a stop gap to ensure that permanent invincibility is no longer a concern.

We wanted to let you all know about the above changes in advance, so that you’ll be prepared for them in the next PTR patch. I'll be eager to hear everyone's thoughts once these changes actually go into effect.

Quote (Phiro @ 3 Mar 2015 09:10)

and now you are mad godmode off :(
but hey i play hardcore... i'm pro...
:wallbash:

Quote (vknez @ 3 Mar 2015 09:37)

improved my monk to 75+ cdrf yesterday. spend 2 ramalandi and today saw this info :lol:

It’s interesting that you mention permanent Serenity uptime.

The concept of permanent immunity has actually been on our radar since we introduced Cooldown Reduction in Reaper of Souls. Since then, we’ve seen many players who have been able to skirt the edges of permanent immunity using this affix. Frankly, we think that’s awesome, since we love it that players can customize their characters in different ways.

While it’s our goal for CDR to be a desirable affix, and while we’re okay with players greatly reducing the cooldown of their immunity skills, we also want to avoid a scenario where permanent immunity is possible. For instance, in patch 2.1.2, we put a cooldown on Smoke Screen to mitigate permanent immunity builds for the Demon Hunter so that you couldn’t chain this skill back-to-back.

Starting in the next PTR patch, we’ll be applying this philosophy to the following immunity skills.

Spirit Walk
Serenity
Smoke Screen
Laws of Hope – Stop Time

With this, the cooldowns on these skills will begin after their buff ends. To minimize negatively impacting the normal use case for these skills, we’re lowering the cooldown time to compensate – for example, Serenity is going from a 20 second cooldown that starts on activation, to a 16 second cooldown that starts when Serenity ends.

Previously, we may have decided against adding an item power to the game that might lead to permanent invulnerability. However, with these new changes, we’ll have much more freedom in designing new and powerful items, since there will be a stop gap to ensure that permanent invincibility is no longer a concern.

We wanted to let you all know about the above changes in advance, so that you’ll be prepared for them in the next PTR patch. I'll be eager to hear everyone's thoughts once these changes actually go into effect.