I'm pretty sure they tweaked the crafting and possibly drops too so that people will be forced to use the Mystic to try and create their perfect item. That's why I'm holding off on crafting until I hit level 70 and fully upgrade the artisans.
I'm glad you said something about the Hallowed Defenders recipe. I was told by a friend that I should get it (instead of the socketed and top-tiered Fist of Azturasq and socketed and top-tiered Echoing Fury with life steal). They also told me the biggest upgrade right now will be to craft some bracers (instead of upper tier Lacuni's I have on). While I value their input, it doesn't coincide with how I like to play (focusing on fast attacks and lots of active abilities on my monk).
From the 500 or so crafted items I've made after the changes, I haven't seen much upgrading. I've noticed a typical set scheme that follows with the "random properties", and it's not very random. Trifecta rolls can't possibly exist any more, for one. You can't really roll all of the useful stats that you actually want and are forced to have a secondary stat: health globes, pickup radius, a single resist, bonus experience, bonus gold, or damage to attackers. I've seen more loss in DPS, and massive gains in Toughness (primarily hits, and bloated Toughness from having All Resist instead of a single Resist because Toughness doesn't know how to calculate for One With Everything). Also, DPS never did, and still doesn't, know how to calculate for set bonuses lost in comparing items. I have managed to equip new shoulders, gloves, and chest piece (sadly had to remove my Tal Rasha's and lose some of my beloved attack speed).
I really don't want to be forced to have high hit points, and play with a giant buffer and lower DPS. I focus on having higher armor and resists and lower hits and balance the minimum amount of hits that are required to survive any fights. Managing my survivability has become second nature to me (one that I actually enjoy), and I feel like Blizzard assumes I can't figure it out for myself.
So who's getting RoS? I already pre-ordered mine. Can't wait try paladin out!
Damn, you had enough whites to make that many? Farming whites is annoying. They need to make it so that mobs drop more of them.
Haven't done much crafting yet, but have gotten several shite to d/e along with actual drops of the white craft item. Is it a contrained resource once you really get into crafting?
I am really wondering how this works. Say, if you reset and I invite you to my game, where we kill Diablo, do you get the reward? I would be very interested to try this out.
I was going to try this last night,but my buddy said after you reset you have to finish all quest before you can reset again. Good move by blizz. At least I got a leg for each of my 5 toons from Skeleton and diablo. Any other bosses drop legs?
I used the AH to get the white items. Around number 150, I got a great first weapon, 32k dps increase.
My Monk.
Only Diablo has the guaranteed legendary after a reset. I've gotten a legendary from Azmodan and the 2nd Act 4 boss also, so yes they do drop them occasionally.
Edit: not quite true...for level 1-59 characters, the 1st kill of the end-of-act bosses should also guarantee a legendary. Level 60 characters don't get this bonus, though, and I'm not sure if this bonus applies again after a quest reset.
I gave someone in the community and their wife a pile of legacy legendaries/sets last night. I did not ask for pics of wife though. Large oversight on my part. Sigh.
lol, I do that to. I bought some axes for like 20k a piece, they were all vendor purchased and I couldn't make commons with them. Silly me sold them back to the merchants. I should've put them back up for the next sucker.. lol.
Damn, you had enough whites to make that many? Farming whites is annoying. They need to make it so that mobs drop more of them.
I'm pretty sure they tweaked the crafting and possibly drops too so that people will be forced to use the Mystic to try and create their perfect item. That's why I'm holding off on crafting until I hit level 70 and fully upgrade the artisans.
Anyone here in the EU have the Defenders Hallow plan? Please PM me if you do.
It seems pretty clear that Blizzard doesn't want us having all of the stats that we want, and always be stuck with some useless stats.
I personally am expecting this to be a result of "only" being able to obtain level 60 gear in a game that's now (behind the scenes) built to support level 70 play. I think itemization budgeting has been altered in such a way that, no, you probably can't find a great CC/AD/AS piece currently because more "stats" are being allocated to dex/str/int and vit. I expect once you reach 70 it'll be less restricted.
In the meantime I think picking up some pieces with +ele damage or +skill damage is a worthwhile pursuit. I'm playing a cold wizard since I found a pretty good Azurewrath and just swapping out from a rare amulet with fat stats to one with slightly lesser stats but +13% cold skills damage felt pretty significant.
I almost had an awesome pair of bracers last night too lol. Found the legendary ones that reward you with XP for gold picked up and they rolled +20% cold, +6% crit, a bunch of vit and a bunch of main stat. But... the main stat was dex lol. Probably still worth using frankly, but damn. Something to test the mystic on at least.
I personally am expecting this to be a result of "only" being able to obtain level 60 gear in a game that's now (behind the scenes) built to support level 70 play. I think itemization budgeting has been altered in such a way that, no, you probably can't find a great CC/AD/AS piece currently because more "stats" are being allocated to dex/str/int and vit. I expect once you reach 70 it'll be less restricted.