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Soya said:
How do you get into a vault, hunt down gobies while doing bounties? And if you find one, just try to kill it as usual and it might open a portal or you gotta follow it and wait till it opens a portal?
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Just kill a goblin. Chance it'll spawn a portal along with its normal loot.
 
For those who don't know, the way the leg upgrade gems work is as follows:

1. You will find all the gems pretty quickly, there are 13/14 of them or so. You won't find the same one twice unless you move it to another chars inventory. If it's in your inventory or stash it won't drop again.

2. The boss of the goblin realm drops a gold find leg gem, he is the only one who does they don't drop from grifts.

3. In order to have a 100% chance to upgrade a gem a level, your grift level must be +10 levels over your current gem level.

4. You get 3 chances to upgrade a gem, picking upgrade removes your grift token.

5. Based on the 2 points above, a rough formula for what level you need is [gem level] + 3 + 10. So if you have a level 5 gem and you want to 100% upgrade it 3 times, you must be on grift 5 + 3 + 10 = 18.

6. For each level below +10, you lose 10% chance to upgrade. So if you have gem level 2 and grift level 10, you will only have 80% chance to upgrade ((10 - 2) * 10).

7. There is an exception to point 6. As long as your gem level is lower than your grift level you will never drop below 60% chance to upgrade.

8. Not 100% on this, but if your gem level is the same or above your grift level, you will have a very small chance to upgrade. for example gem level 31 and grift 30, will only give you 30% chance to upgrade. Each level above lowers the chance by 50%.

Therefore for efficiency of upgrades I recommend only going up to the level you need to get 3 * 100% upgrade chances, unless you want to challenge yourself or whatever, because higher levels don't help you upgrade faster.
 
RedvGreen said:
So is there a 'be-all-end-all' gem? Like a total no-brainer one that is better than the rest?
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The one that gives 30s of 20% increased damage after killing an elite (with the duration increasing by a second with each level) is pretty strong.

At level 25 it gains 15% elite damage as well. So that is good.
 
Rusty0611 said:
The one that gives 30s of 20% increased damage after killing an elite (with the duration increasing by a second with each level) is pretty strong.

At level 25 it gains 15% elite damage as well. So that is good.
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Yeah it's a pretty good direct replacement for the 15% elite dmg on a Unity for example, if you can get one that rolls the other stats right by default.

Only downside to that gem is that it only seems to trigger when you kill all of the elite mobs for a pack, so the rare elites and all of the minion ones too.
 
So my WD seems to be doing T1 with a few deaths here and there going a pet build. I've got 390k DPS, what difficulty should I be doing and is adventure the best way to get stuff? I've read what has been discussed since the patch but don't really understand it.
 
Rifts will be fast to gear up with on the highest torment difficulty you can manage efficiently. I am not sure if lower level grifts will yield good drops too but they did OK on the PTR often getting 1 or 2 leg items.

Use adventure mode to get rift keys, crafting materials, and maybe find a goblin rift or two, it's not the fastest way to gear though considering rifts get +100% leg drop chance.
 
Eulogy said:
Rifts will be fast to gear up with on the highest torment difficulty you can manage efficiently. I am not sure if lower level grifts will yield good drops too but they did OK on the PTR often getting 1 or 2 leg items.

Use adventure mode to get rift keys, crafting materials, and maybe find a goblin rift or two, it's not the fastest way to gear though considering rifts get +100% leg drop chance.
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Ok cool, thank you :)
 
By efficiently I would say you should be able to finish rifts in less than 15 minutes, closer to 10, if it's taking longer than that you either found a sucky rift (does happen) or you are not clearing efficiently and should consider lowering the difficulty a bit.

If you need help on what to gear or enchant or whatever you could post your profile here too, a lot of people play WD so may be able to help you improve your char :)
 
Eulogy said:
Yeah it's a pretty good direct replacement for the 15% elite dmg on a Unity for example, if you can get one that rolls the other stats right by default.

Only downside to that gem is that it only seems to trigger when you kill all of the elite mobs for a pack, so the rare elites and all of the minion ones too.
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Mine is level 15 at the mo (45 seconds). It's nearly always permanently up. Makes a massive difference. Some of the other ones are interesting though so will have a play with them once my gem is level 25.

I rolled a socket on my RoRG so have 490 int, 7% IAS, 4.5% crit and a socket. I was in the process of trying to get CHD on it before 2.1 but the socket works out as way more damage than 50% CHD now. My other one has 465 int, 7% IAS, 85 All Res and I rolled a nice round 50% CHD.

Ideally I'll get a good SoJ to complement it but doubt I'll be able to wing a socket onto that as well. Interested in getting an elemental damage/crit/CHD/socket amulet now but that might be difficult.
 
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Rusty0611 said:
Mine is level 15 at the mo (45 seconds). It's nearly always permanently up. Makes a massive difference. Some of the other ones are interesting though so will have a play with them once my gem is level 25.

I rolled a socket on my RoRG so have 490 int, 7% IAS, 4.5% crit and a socket. I was in the process of trying to get CHD on it before 2.1 but the socket works out as way more damage than 50% CHD now. My other one has 465 int, 7% IAS, 85 All Res and I rolled a nice round 50% CHD.
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As crusader need to stack CDR % though on top of the damage stats, fitting in the gems will prove tough considering I need approx 50% effective CDR to maintain almost permanent Akarats Champ (56% makes it permanent), much less than that can be a problem when you rely on Prophet rune to take hits.
 
What class are you? With my WD I'm using tall mans finger and a SoJ and they both have good CHD rolls so I don't see the point rolling a socket on them.

It's annoying to say the least, I thought some upgrades would have came with 2.1 but outside of greater rifts leg drops seem awful and it seems to do the higher greater rifts you're gonna need maxed out leg gems which means I need new rings to roll sockets on.
 
WD.

The gem I'm using (forgot the name) is ridiculous really. It's a ludicrous amount of damage. Will be even better once I've got it to level 25.

I think trading off CHD on one ring is the right choice.
 
I wish they would just let you use the Ramadans Gift with rings/amulets as well as weapons, they don't seem to drop like candy from what I've seen and it would take a while to get enough to apply to all of your fav rings and weapons.

I have rolled CDR % onto both my Unity and SOJ so rolling those off to get sockets will be a bit of a kick in the teeth. Probably the best stat to roll off for me would be strength as you gain some back from Finery, but getting the right other rolls is hard :D
 
Ayahuasca said:
What class are you? With my WD I'm using tall mans finger and a SoJ and they both have good CHD rolls so I don't see the point rolling a socket on them.

It's annoying to say the least, I thought some upgrades would have came with 2.1 but outside of greater rifts leg drops seem awful and it seems to do the higher greater rifts you're gonna need maxed out leg gems which means I need new rings to roll sockets on.
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I've had this exact same dilemma with my WD. Eventually caved in and dropped the CHD on my TMF for the gem that increases pet damage, and so far it does seem better. I knocked 5 minutes off my best time at Grfit 28. Just need a new SoJ with a socket now, because I've tried going without it and my Garg just doesn't destroy Champs as quickly.
 
Am I right in thinking that buffs from gems/gear is done as a multiplier?

i.e. 100% dmg increase to resource generators from Depth Diggers is x2, not +100%? and 25% increase to your primary skill dmg from a leg gem is 25% of your current overall value, not +25% to something that deals (e.g.) 490% already?

Deciding whether to ditch a +280 Primary Stat gem or not you see....

Really enjoyed playing last night, although switching between my Monk and WD at similar gear and stat levels is still like chalk and cheese, Monk squishes quite fast still.

First time I get a vault I reckon I'll be having a gem upgrading frenzy....
 
As weird as this sounds, does anyone find the moving timer bar on grifts adds a real sense of tension as you progress?

Nice to know about the imperial gems...
 
It annoys me if I've got Angels to contend with. Fighting a losing battle as you edge towards your greater rift limit. :D

Me and a friend did level 28 last night nice and comfortably. Level 29... was going well and then we got Zoltan as the rift guardian. He did A LOT of damage then my gear broke and just missed out killing him on time. If I had repaired prior to starting level 29 it would have been a kill quite comfortably. Annoying.

Think 29/30 is my limit at the mo. Going to try a 2H Jade build I think. I'm close to giving up on pet build. I just can't get a MoJ... probably looking north of 20k shards.
 
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