Post History for TheTias#1192

No, we don't need new gem recipes. They weren't needed to get to GR 150 and they aren't needed to get to T16 or to play at that level.

He's probably doing the S17 seasonal character leveling, where the challenge rift cache would help early on. The challenge rift was disabled because it isn't needed for testing and all unnecessary aspects of the game are turned off or disabled, such as the shop, in order to maintain performance levels for the PTR (it's one server, so every cycle counts).

Tuning is still in progress, that's what's happening right now. That and the patch code isn't finalized just yet. Also, the end of season 16 was extended to May 12th, as noted in the following link, so you won't see season 17 until at least a week, likely two, after that.https://us.battle.net/forums/en/d3/topic/20771057397#post-1

04/25/2019 03:21 AMPosted by MeteorbladeThat's the one where someone acts as if they're a god expecting adoration from people for anything they say or do and punishes anyone that disagrees.So the Blizzard CEO is Ra?Ra was sorta nuked. Technically, so was Apophis if you consider the explosion of the Ha'tak that ripped through his personal shield. Don't think Mr. Brack (president - there is no CEO currently) would care to be either of them. He might be Ba'al though. ;)

04/24/2019 12:22 PMPosted by DTMAceToo bad they can't simply rescale them, so we could have less overall levels to pick from. We don't need 20+ difficulty levels. lolAt this point I'd be loathe to have them rescale anything. Brings back memories of Monster Levels *shudder*. But they could at least ditch the scrolling screens of obnoxiousness and just use a pulldown menu like any sane developer would with that many difficulty levels. That way it'd all fit on one screen instead of four.

Auto-salvage ignores specially coded blue items like this and Rakanishu's Blade. Items like these require a manual one-off salvage to avoid just that. :)

Yes, it still drops. Only two mobs drop it though: Razormouth (Black Canyon Mines) and Moontooth Dreadshark (Caldeum City Sewers). Both are random spawns, and the drop itself is a very rare random drop.

04/24/2019 08:37 PMPosted by RaistlinROTFLMAOBelieve it or not, that's been asked for quite a bit since the item's inception. It used to be legendary instead of magic in terms of its item rarity (it's still equally rare, but now it's just a blue item like Rakanishu's Blade).Honestly, being able to transmute this in the cube to earn the pet isn't such a bad idea. This isn't exactly a common item after all.

04/24/2019 06:45 PMPosted by NevalistisIt was a bit overtuned for the first PTR patch. But hey, that's part of the purpose of PTR - to see where things land both by experienced players and our own internal tests (that are usually running concurrently), and make adjustments accordingly.We think we may have overshot it a little with the tuning in PTR patch 2, so we may adjust the value again before live. Most likely not to the value it was previously, but probably a little nudge upward of where it's at now.It's good to see tuning is still being considered. I know a lot of us tend to forget in th…

04/24/2019 01:20 PMPosted by MissCheetahOr maybe something that is not an ARPG even. I have been having fun with Staxel lately. It is kind of like Minecraft had a baby with Stardew Valley but without stamina and deadlines. Very open sandbox which I like.You know, that actually sounds like I might like it. Stardew Valley would have been 1000x better, especially on consoles where it takes a lot longer to set up a season's farm layout than on the PC version, if the following had been implemented:1) Allowance of being out past your "bedtime". They could have made it so days spent out without sleep…