I have recently faced the fact that Diablo 3 is the king of ARPGs. I like Grim Dawn pretty well. Other titles have their good points. But D3 is the undisputed champion of this genre. Because I am very busy at school these days, I tend to spend an hour or two grooming my wizard and other characters. If my wizard were real, she would look like this:
. . . only much scarier. She is presently so scary that I don’t see how I’m going to avoid taking her into Torment 8 much longer. Here is an update of her gear and stats:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/simmery-1600/hero/41726720
As always, I have to point out that the paper damage you see there does not reflect her real in-game power. The Firebird set alone is conferring stupendous damage not shown on the stat page. Also not factored into page damage is the tremendous bonus to fire damage she gets from various items.
If you click around on that stats page, you can see my other toons and how they’re coming along. I’m especially pleased by the crusader, who I frankly never thought would amount to anything. She has a ways to go before she can comfortably enter T7, but that shouldn’t take long. She’ll never be the monster my wiz is because she (the crusader) is really a support character and not a damage dealer. Still, she’s pretty good.
As you can see, I’m kinda sorta working on my demon hunter, too. He’s not as unappealing as I remember. I’m trying to collect more of the Marauder set, upon completion of which he may be able to enter T6. His paper damage is quite high, but the in-game reality is not that impressive. He’s certainly nowhere close to the wizard or barbarian.
More as things move along.
Wow, did Sim go out and find an image of a Japanese cosplay booth girl? Times are changing. D-:
I did an image search for an appropriate wiz picture and saw that. I thought it was interesting because she bears an uncanny resemblance to the game character.
I was hoping for more smoke and dangerous-looking magic swirly particle effects, but I had to settle for a girl in pajamas.
Also, she’s Chinese.
Racist.
Very kawaii Sim, you old dog
My demon hunter is looking a little better. He finally got all pieces of the Marauder set. Needs more ancient pieces, but this is okay as a starter kit. Also needs a better weapon and quiver. His jewelry is a joke. The Blackthorn amulet is serviceable for now, but he needs the Focus and Restraint rings asap.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/simmery-1600/hero/41726719
Much the same story for my alt wizard — needs decent weapon, orb, rings. The Delsere’s Magnum Opus set is an acquired taste. I have yet to acquire said taste. Too slow and iffy.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/simmery-1600/hero/57465722
Of course, every time I get all braggish about my wiz, I look at something like this and get put in my place:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/dolynick-1290/hero/2855811
So I did some things in Torment 8 with my wiz. She acquitted herself very well. I’m still a leetle bit short of where I want to be for optimal farming, but she works well enough.
In other news, ILA’s witch doctor is very powerful now. He’s just massacring everything. He’s still looking for the Focus/Restraint ring set. When he gets these, he’ll go from unstoppable to perpetrator of war crimes.
Some time in the last two weeks, a bunch of D3 botters were banned. I don’t care much about this, but apparently it’s a big deal. Funny video by D3 streamer Rhykker (report goes up to about 7:00 — amusing stuff about Gabynator et al. starts after that).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPMvSu5g-jg