sigh... well now - it completely changes the game when you know how it works! What a joke...

haha, so what was the breakthrough exactly? Life leech ftw?

<3

Uh, how'd you even show that if the quest was completed? Doesn't it disappear? haha

It was Keterdar talking about autoattack and how it works - I'll have to see how 1h weapons work later, but for now they're pretty worthless (or the ones I have) SO! Now I'm attacking 5-8 times per round for 800-1000 damage a pop. My warrior is sitting with 26 life leech now and basically invincible.. especially when I enrage! Pretty sure I did 70k damage to that bad BAD red dragon in like 3 seconds.

It shows like that until you leave the zone. It's clear now.

Cool, good to know. Yeah there is a lot of game mechanics to dig into. Hell, I forget how some things work sometimes. Auto attack damage is calculated totally different from everything else. Skills get processed differently. High damage weapons hit hard with auto attack. This, of course, can be abused if you do it right.

Yay, Nalatos on NM has been defeated! (still no ok button on the end screen)

oh ya. forgot about that.

Dudebros. Are accounts perfect yet?

My quest bug is still present, but I haven't encountered many other problems in the last few days.

Can you describe this quest bug in detail?

I'm seeing weird notification updates from time to time. The variable (p in this instance) is sometimes n or another letter.

No, some guy actually named himself p.

For a handful of boss zones, the quest status upon entering the zone has all the trash mobs completed. Pulling something pulls the boss. When I re-log, the zone resets to the boss kill again. So far this is only in nightmare. This started when you updated while I was still playing, and I happened to clear all those bosses during that session.

fyi, i've looked to repro this bug and i can't. it may just be his quest/zone log.

this will be interesting.. burzina and braxxen on hell. haha

Hehe, I found them not as bad as normal, actually. I think my gear has scaled better at this point.

You're gunna beat me! I have to move this weekend so you'll pass me for sure.

yeah they were pretty easy. i farmed nightmare nalatos for a bit today and that gave me a few epic upgrades.. still using a meh weapon, but at least the armor upgrades are allowing me up do pretty decent on hell. about to take out the lich king!

doesn't seem like there's anywhere in-game that shows how many nevercrystals you have. i think the only way to spend nevercrystals after logging in to a character is by expanding bank slots, but still it would be nice to see your nevercrystal balance while doing that.

also (and it pains me to say this, because i use the feature a lot)........ it might be in your financial interest to make Reset Talents cost nevercrystals instead of money.

oh, another thing (and this thought literally just occurred to me, but i think its a good one)... a lot of games that i play use in-game currency that costs real life money. games like Clash of Clans, or this silly little phone game i play called My Singing Monsters. however, in all of them, you can still earn that in-game currency through in-game actions. i.e. in Clash of Clans you can use Gems to speed up lots of in-game actions. you can buy Gems with cash, but you can also slowly earn them by getting achievements and clearing in-game objects off of your town's lawn. i think that's a great model for free-to-play+microtransactions style games. feels less cheap and exploitative to the players, while still giving a solid revenue stream for the game owners.

you've got to be careful with the balance with a thing like that, though. if you make nevercrystals too easy to earn through gameplay you won't get as many people buying them. but if you make them too difficult to earn through gameplay it will get frustrating.

just a thought

Keterdar, were you able to beat Sentoth, Lord of Rapture? Think the best I've done so far is about 49% - his damage output is insanity! It's pretty much 100% melee.

edit: Oh man! 29%! lol.. this guy is pure insanity. Love it.

Yeah - that must have been a fluke run.. he casts some stuff on me like Static Field.. I have no idea what it does - tooltips man!

I'll give him a shot, I have just been trying to get insane combo ratings for fun and exp the last few days. I have not progressed very far in hell. Best combo rating so far was like 630k at 126% time bonus or something, on nightmare Nimgaul, but for some reason it doesn't show in my conquests tab =(

Btw, I am going to add a leaderboard for combo ratings soon.

Burzina was slightly nerfed!

I can't wait to do a let's play of my own game next month. I think I know less about the actual experience of playing than many of my players.