Quote (Antichrist- @ Jan 19 2013 01:33am)
I play eu and there are at least few other old llders from d2 who play d3 and who most likely will play lld. Im sure we can get enough people to lld to have a good lld community again. Especially if they dont balance high lvl pvp properly in terms of 1 or 2 hit duels, lld will attract many new people too.
Also you will lag at us server, so dueling wont be much fun. I used to play west when i was starting out d2 and it had constant small lag going on, didnt bother me too much back then since i was noob and only playing pvm, but dueling was pretty hard. Also i have tried some share accs at east and lagged too much to duel properly.
First, I just want to mention that those 1-3 hit duels you're refering too are misleading. What people did was import their PvE character they had on their account, joined a public game, changed some spells around and expected character ready to PvP. Boy were they wrong. When you join a game with a character with 400k dps and 50k hp, regardless of the amount of vit/@res you have, people are going to kill themselves in 1-3 hits. What people don't realize is that you should build your PvP character like HC players build their PvE characters; a focus on tankiness, and THEN get some dmg. I've seen some streams of top 5 duelers going against each other and let me tell you BOY were they tanky...
As for your lagg issues, keep in mind that d2 servers are nowhere as good as the servers they use nowadays. I suggest you trying it first (make a new character, and play the first few quest with a friend or something) and see how it rolls.
Quote (Weaj @ Jan 19 2013 01:34am)
I agree with most of what has been said already.
Level 30 cap is definitely a good option to start off with so we can test all the skills.
As for the gems however, after looking at the stats the gems offer, I would think for the level 30 bracket perfect squares would give a little better boost than just the flawless squares, mainly for the weapon regarding life on hit (FS=65 PS=105) and crit dmg (FS=45% PS = 50%)
This may not be the best but I think it may sway the difference for there to be more of a variety between gems in the weapons. If there are other opinons regarding this, let me know why you think that.
Welcome back weaj.
The reason people voted for flawless square is because of the price. fs are 5k each in the ah while perfects are 60k. It's not much of an investment but consideirng people might not want to invest 500k on gems for a sub-character, it might be a better idea to keep it at a level that is available to everyone. And like you said yourself, the difference between the 2 gems is minimal. Why pay way 10x the price?
Quote (Antichrist- @ Jan 19 2013 01:37am)
I dont think crit will be needed for lld because you cant get high % nor dmg, so its not really worth focusing much, ias works much better.
Crit is VERY hard to get on ilvl 30 items. Highest I've seen was 3.5 on gloves (most common number is 1.5-2%) and they were worth a ridiculous amount of gold (why are people overpricing lvl 20ish items, that i will never understand). If you can get it, sure, but I wouldnt sacrifice life regen/main stat/vit/attack speed for it. Not even close.
ALSO PEOPLE, SHARE YOUR BATTLETAG / PUT IT IN YOUR SIGNATURE OR PROFILE.This post was edited by WereWolf12345 on Jan 18 2013 08:41pm