Diablo IV

[Grampy_Bone]

I got lucky and have four spares of the ricochet aspect for rapid shot.

What is the best way to farm legendaries? Farm obols, helltides, whispers? I've also noticed pvp areas seem to have higher elite density so more stuff drops there too.

 

[spectre]

What is the best way to farm legendaries? Farm obols, helltides, whispers? I've also noticed pvp areas seem to have higher elite density so more stuff drops there too.

Yeah, elites spawn in pairs pretty reliably and in fixed locations in the PvP area, you can just leisurely cruise between those on horseback.
I usually just bloodmark myself and tour the baleful chest spawns as I go, gives you a few extra drop chances.
If you're looking for something more reliable (sometimes the game gets stingy all of the sudden and you won't see a legendary for a time), dumping 1000 obols usually results in 3-5.
For helltides, the regular chests have always been crappy for me, so I stopped bothering with them. The real deal seems to be the mystery chests (you can look this up on helltides.com)
which can drop a whole bunch of legendaries as well as an odd unique.

I don't think there's really one best way to farm, unless you want something really specific, boils down to doing whatever feels spicy so you don't burn out.
For what it's worth, about 3/4 of the uniques I have came from Nightmare Dungeons. Legion events on the other hand seem to be lousy, but I've only done a few of those.

Cosmetic items seem to drop from all kinds of different shit and it can be rather easy to overlook them on the ground,
I got one out of a baleful chest, one out of a treasure goblin, one came out of a random event, at least one as a nightmare dungeon reward. A few seem to be guaranteed from quests.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

For me the game is not playable atm. I am having this issue:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d...g-different-colored-artifacts-on-screen/51205
Installed D2R just for the sake of testing and realized it's much more fun and beautiful then D4.

 

[spectre]

Shame you got fucked over by a driver issue.

Well, D2R was one of the rare cases where blizzard simply fucking delivered what was wanted, needed and asked for. Even if they also kept a bunch of bugs in the process.
Mechanically wise, the only thing I really miss from D2 is skill damage being divorced from equipment stats and sockets being something you actually needed to consider
rather than the brainless - rubies go on armor unless you fortify, skulls go on bling. Hopefully they re-work this, and seems like they're testing the waters with the first season.

Greater mummies are also missed. They would really spice up the otherwise dull desert wildlife. But I guess just like the Death Knights, they did something right once
and just can't replicate it. And nope, the conehead penitent engine wannabes are not it.

Other than that, D2 would feel like a downgrade, as far as I am concerned. In particular, they really did excellent work when it comes to druid and necromancer gameplay.
otoh, Barbarians really got the shitty end of the stick with throwing weapons getting shafted.

I also don't miss speccing for magic find (it's a self-defeating mechanic if you think about it) and I particularly don't miss chugging millions of potions
(remember littering the floor with full rejuvens to prep for a fight?). I prefer resource gen to be something you need to figure out and overcome depending on the class
rather than a question of gold sink and inventory space.
I know this is old news, cause that's basically the system D3 came with, but in my mind, that game is just a vague, unpleasant memory that didn't really happen.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Learned my lesson from the serpentine aspect and now I'm extracting just about every legendary I come across lol. Before I was just salvaging most of them.

On a separate note it says that base run speed is 100% and it caps out at 125%. So I only need two items with 12.5% run speed to hit the cap or one item with 25%, right? I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything. Some of this game's systems are obtuse as fuck. I still don't understand a lot of them, mostly the new additions.

 

[abija]

There is less space for aspects than items and extracting costs gold. Don't extract until stash is full.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

You can stash aspects

 

[KIss My Ass]

I completed my first "event" in wt4. Not sure if it counts as an event, it was just a tree of whispers task. I was able to complete it but died about 3 times. There were two mobs each consisting of three elite enemies whom kicked my ass but I was able to beat them on second attempts. I'm definitely way underpowered, but with some patience and lucky drops I think I can get back to consistently kicking ass. It's gonna be rough though.

 

[abija]

You can stash aspects

They occupy same space but your inventory for aspects has 1 less row than for items. There is no point paying the gold to extract until you want to use that aspect (or fully ran out of stash space).

 

[Grampy_Bone]

I extract and stash them. Cleaner to sort through. Plus you can't use that tab for anything else so it clears space until you hit the stash.

 

[KIss My Ass]

This is what Diablo player legends are made out of. Extremely underleveled, outmatched, but still pull off the big W, just like Pat Mahomes in the final moments of championship games.

 

[RPK]

This is what Diablo player legends are made out of. Extremely underleveled, outmatched, but still pull off the big W, just like Pat Mahomes in the final moments of championship games.

Solo? Did you not see the 8 other people doing all the work while you ran around in circles spamming hydra?

 

[mediocrepoet]

This is what Diablo player legends are made out of. Extremely underleveled, outmatched, but still pull off the big W, just like Pat Mahomes in the final moments of championship games.

Solo? Did you not see the 8 other people doing all the work while you ran around in circles spamming hydra?

No see, all those other name plates you see even in the thumbnail are just his cheering section. You don't know, you don't even play the game. Shut up.

 

[KIss My Ass]

This is what Diablo player legends are made out of. Extremely underleveled, outmatched, but still pull off the big W, just like Pat Mahomes in the final moments of championship games.

Solo? Did you not see the 8 other people doing all the work while you ran around in circles spamming hydra?

This is a lie. I also casted flame shield, fire wall, and inferno. I don't think I shot any fireballs tho. That skill is becoming more and more of a burden. It's only useful when inferno is active because you have infinite mana. It's time for Blizzard to stop being cunts and give pyro sorc a major buff. She deserves it.

 

[Zeriel]

You can stash aspects

They occupy same space but your inventory for aspects has 1 less row than for items. There is no point paying the gold to extract until you want to use that aspect (or fully ran out of stash space).

You're misunderstanding. Once you have aspects in your aspect inventory, you can stash them in your normal stash.

They take the same amount of inventory space as their items though. I only extract aspects where the range is well-rolled.

 

[Zlaja]

On a separate note it says that base run speed is 100% and it caps out at 125%. So I only need two items with 12.5% run speed to hit the cap or one item with 25%, right?

My Barb has 146% and when I tried taking off an amulet that has 18% movement speed, I ran noticeably slower. I also tested it going back and forth from point A to B and counting the seconds, and I was indeed slower. So, either the base is higher than max 125%, or Barbs '12% extra movement speed' from a passive skill I have doesn't count towards max base and only bonuses from gear do.

 

[Zeriel]

On a separate note it says that base run speed is 100% and it caps out at 125%. So I only need two items with 12.5% run speed to hit the cap or one item with 25%, right?

My Barb has 146% and when I tried taking off an amulet that has 18% movement speed, I ran noticeably slower. I also tested it going back and forth from point A to B and counting the seconds, and I was indeed slower. So, either the base is higher than max 125%, or Barbs 12% extra from a passive skill I have doesn't count towards max base and only bonuses from gear do.

I don't think there is a cap. I've seen similar comments about attack speed being capped at 100% but I've seen it higher on my charsheet, unless it is capped in a different way that isn't shown in the numbers.

 

[abija]

You're misunderstanding. Once you have aspects in your aspect inventory, you can stash them in your normal stash.

They take the same amount of inventory space as their items though. I only extract aspects where the range is well-rolled.

No I'm not. Stashing aspects means throwing gold away for no reason. They don't even sort properly atm.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Why, it's not like you earn interest.

 

[Zeriel]

You're misunderstanding. Once you have aspects in your aspect inventory, you can stash them in your normal stash.

They take the same amount of inventory space as their items though. I only extract aspects where the range is well-rolled.

No I'm not. Stashing aspects means throwing gold away for no reason. They don't even sort properly atm.

??? What are you even talking about. Stashing things doesn't take gold. If you're comparing vendoring it to stashing it... that's a separate choice. You should only extract things that are desirable anyway. And you get so many yellows that drop for gold that saving all legendaries is not really going to make a difference.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Probably means that it's a waste of gold to extract an aspect you may or may not ever use. Which I guess is fair.

I find it easier to sort them with the icons showing what type they are anyway.

 

[abija]

??? What are you even talking about. Stashing things doesn't take gold. If you're comparing vendoring it to stashing it... that's a separate choice. You should only extract things that are desirable anyway. And you get so many yellows that drop for gold that saving all legendaries is not really going to make a difference.

The aspects I have saved on barb as items would have cost me over 50 mils to extract.

 

[Zeriel]

??? What are you even talking about. Stashing things doesn't take gold. If you're comparing vendoring it to stashing it... that's a separate choice. You should only extract things that are desirable anyway. And you get so many yellows that drop for gold that saving all legendaries is not really going to make a difference.

The aspects I have saved on barb as items would have cost me over 50 mils to extract.

Sounds like you save way more than I do. I only save ones I would be likely to use, and then only if they are on the upper range. Personally I've never found the extract cost to be high, but I also don't extract every legendary.

 

[KIss My Ass]

On a separate note it says that base run speed is 100% and it caps out at 125%. So I only need two items with 12.5% run speed to hit the cap or one item with 25%, right?

My Barb has 146% and when I tried taking off an amulet that has 18% movement speed, I ran noticeably slower. I also tested it going back and forth from point A to B and counting the seconds, and I was indeed slower. So, either the base is higher than max 125%, or Barbs '12% extra movement speed' from a passive skill I have doesn't count towards max base and only bonuses from gear do.

Everything I've read online is a complete lie then. Every place says this -

https://gamerant.com/diablo-4-what-... base Movement Speed,the base 100% move speed.

Only way you can supposedly go over 125 is buffs from shrines or affix like "move quicker for 4 seconds after killing elite or shit like that. Maybe it's showing you the total you have but not the percentage that is useless bloat.

 

[Zlaja]

On a separate note it says that base run speed is 100% and it caps out at 125%. So I only need two items with 12.5% run speed to hit the cap or one item with 25%, right?

My Barb has 146% and when I tried taking off an amulet that has 18% movement speed, I ran noticeably slower. I also tested it going back and forth from point A to B and counting the seconds, and I was indeed slower. So, either the base is higher than max 125%, or Barbs '12% extra movement speed' from a passive skill I have doesn't count towards max base and only bonuses from gear do.

Everything I've read online is a complete lie then. Every place says this -

https://gamerant.com/diablo-4-what-is-the-maximum-movement-speed-move-max-d4/#:~:text=The maximum base Movement Speed,the base 100% move speed.

Only way you can supposedly go over 125 is buffs from shrines or affix like "move quicker for 4 seconds after killing elite or shit like that. Maybe it's showing you the total you have but not the percentage that is useless bloat.

Here's some numbers for you (no temporary buffs):

From point A to B with only +12% passive = around 8 sec

From A to B with 12% passive and 15.8% boots = around 7 sec

From A to B with 12% passive, 15.8% boots and 18.8% amulet = around 6 sec

PS: I did it like 7-8 times for each one to be sure.