Diablo III: Revival Thread - Preparing for "Reaper of Souls"

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Update on Current Salvage, Gems, Crafting Worth - 11/27/13

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IncGamers Comments

The most obvious change is the completely worthless nature of every Diablo 3 commodity in Reaper of Souls. All gems, plus Tomes of Secret, Demonic Essences, and everything else you get from salvaging is virtually worthless in RoS. If you want to bet that the game stays much the same at release as it is now, you should sell all of your gems and materials at once, while they still hold value. (Gold is useful in RoS, though much less all powerful than in D3.)

Gems are comically worthless; Marquise Gems, the highest level in Diablo 3 now are the new baseline drop in the end game of Reaper of Souls, with six more levels of gems added above Marquise: three qualities of Imperial and 3 of Royal. You regularly find Marquise and the lowest level of Imperial even on Normal difficulty, and while gems are likely to change in balancing (the costs to upgrade and unsocket now aren’t so much unbalanced as incomplete) it’s obvious that gem stats need to greatly increase given how much stat bonuses have. I liquidated my D3V gems the first day of the Reaper of Souls beta.

Crafting materials are useful in Reaper of Souls and there are hundreds of new blacksmith recipes, including dozens of new legendary item sets, and they drop regularly too; I’ve found 5 or 6 already (2 of them end game level, the others lower) after never finding a single one in my entire D3V play time. The problem for D3V mats is that those are not the top level materials in RoS. All the current D3V materials (including Brimstones and Tomes of Secret) are found from drops and/or salvage out of low and mid level items in Reaper of Souls, while the materials you need for end game crafting, Artisan training, etc, come chiefly from salvaging newly-found level 70 gear

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New Features:

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-One new character class: the Crusader
-A fifth act taking the story of Diablo III "from the legendary city of Westmarch to the unhallowed halls of the Pandemonium Fortress"
-A new artisan: the Mystic
-A new level cap of 70 (up from 60)
-Many new weapons and new pieces of armor
-New skills and runes for existing classes
-New passives and a fourth passive slot at level 70
-New monsters to defeat

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The Pre-Expansion Patch:

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-Nephalem Rifts, Nephalem Trials and Bounties
-Account wide Paragon levels
-Unlimited paragon leveling, with a bonus of +250 in each main stat (strength, dexterity, intelligence, and vitality)
-A new gem type: Diamond
-Class specific affix rolls on items
-Less frequent, but more useful item drops

We all mostly know what is going into this expansion already, really started this thread for those needing to prepare for RoS. Be it lvling a new toon or lvling up PL. I haven't played in 11months, so have a lot of catching up to do!

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