Upcoming 1.2.3 Pets

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unsmith wrote:

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TheAnuhart wrote:

Now just tell the thread, with a straight face, that no build or player should be opening a box without the use of smoke mine.

It's what I would do. It always works as long as you have line of sight from the box to the mine, and always gets you out of trouble. Plus, when timed correctly, it lays down some Blind for added safety.

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TheAnuhart wrote:

Tell the thread why smoke mine will work when FA+LS wont.
Tell the thread why smoke mine will work when LW+FC+RD wont.
Tell the thread this while not appearing to be making excuses for broken game mechanics, bad design, malfunctioning skills, desync, over tuned damage and the continuous ignoring and aggravating thereof by GGG.

Explain just why this was justified, that smoke mine should have been used and why this character's Leap, Faster Attacks, Unwavering Stance shouldn't work.

And remember, a straight face.

Two things I noticed about that clip:

1) You didn't sync before opening the box. It's possible you were slightly out of sync when opening it. Which likely caused...

2) You got stuck on something and therefore didn't leap out, and the mass amounts of exploding spawn is what killed you. Unwavering Stance would not have come into play here, you weren't hit by an attack.

So you can rail about desync all you want, but you clearly know about Smoke Mine and it's usefulness here, but you choose not to use it. It would surely have worked here as it works in all other cases, but you chose to use a method prone to failure when desynced. Hell, you could have used a Quartz flask to make sure you didn't get stuck on a mob or something.

That was a completely preventable death had you taken the proper precautions. Everyone knows that desync exists, choosing to do things that can go bad when desynced is all on you. In hardcore, wouldn't you want to do everything possible to make sure you stay alive?

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Chameleon wrote:

As popular as pets are they would be exponentially more popular if they had an in game function such as looting currency or carried stuff for you like they do in Torchlight. :-)

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Kid_Galahad wrote:

Great, love it guys.

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C0Y0T3_SLY wrote:

So what's the over/under on the price of these bits of digital bling? $15? $20? I want to support the game, but there's just nothing 'micro' about these transactions anymore, and as a result I haven't put any money into the game since....maybe open beta? I'm building a lightning based character and thought hey, I'll check the lightning weapon effect....and it's $27? Seriously?