"Festive buffs" - what does it mean?

At this point, it's starting to feel like we're pretty much beta testing some new "live modifiers" feature, masked as an event

Ravoc wrote: 2 years ago

At this point, it's starting to feel like we're pretty much beta testing some new "live modifiers" feature, masked as an event

I was thinking the exact same thing and this is most likely the case

No harm in this, really, I welcome this sort of beta testing.

Today's bonus is health regeneration.

We're clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel and the only hope is that all that scraping doesn't break the barrel.

These guys did not have 22 days worth of buffs planned.

Snakecharmed wrote: 2 years ago

These guys did not have 22 days worth of buffs planned.

I had the same thought when we got cheaper prices.

Funny I still see the same 50% physical damage buff message as yesterday. This is on Americas.

If we're going to be subject to this, then I would like to see something interesting. Draw some inspiration (but maybe with a little more restraint) from the Street Fighter II': Champion Edition bootleggers. Or at least try to pull off the more polished versions of the buffs like Capcom officially did with SF2 Turbo.

https://www.vg247.com/street-fighter-2- ... -spin-offs

I realize it's probably too much work for this crew, but at least it would put some spice into these decreasingly relevant three weeks of buffs.

Also, what would be more festive than actually making the game look the part? The previous gameplay buffs like double health should have come with 24-hour oskills. The

Throne of Destruction also looks more fun when there's a

Sanctuary Aura in the room.

I'm also a fan of screen spam (other than revives and unwanted loot), and there are few things more enjoyable with my spearazon than a nonstop torrent of

Poison Nova from fending flayers. Brand is the greatest runeword that nobody ever uses.

I could come up with more ideas, but I'm competing with increased health regeneration.

Hope they enable constricting ring drop on Christmas day...!

Snakecharmed wrote: 2 years ago

That being said, since I am trying to test something out, if they intend to stay on the gameplay buff track, they should try double run/walk speed next.

There we go. +100% move speed buff today. If anyone has been wanting to start new characters but dreads laboring through the first several acts, today would be the day because stamina shouldn't be as much of an issue.

TZ pub games should be more accessible as well, provided that the TZ isn't a labyrinth or door/barricade-heavy level.

Also time to see some running vs. teleporting racing competitions.

Going back to normal speeds after today will be difficult.

I actually dislike a high walk speed (high run speed is fine). Makes you misclick next to monsters more often, doing little dances with em...

Ravoc wrote: 2 years ago

At this point, it's starting to feel like we're pretty much beta testing some new "live modifiers" feature, masked as an event

If this is the case, I hope for more challenges rather than buffs...

Looks like infinite gambling is back!

I genuinely cannot physically facepalm as hard as I want to right now..

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

I genuinely cannot physically facepalm as hard as I want to right now..

They really want to drop trade prices on

Tiara's huh?

Seems at least they do not want to ban us for that XD

The biggest problem I have is feeling that I should take advantage but finding it extremely boring...

Necrarch wrote: 2 years ago

Seems at least they do not want to ban us for that XD

Just adding more folks to the list. Ban gets sent out as a proper Christmas gift.
(Genuinely would not even surprise me..would be a very Blizz thing to do)

Janet the Java wrote: 2 years ago

The biggest problem I have is feeling that I should take advantage but finding it extremely boring...

Solid reason to not exploit their incompetence. Some trav runs in between to refill the gold pool does make it a lot less monotonous.
(And barely takes any longer)

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Janet the Java wrote: 2 years ago

The biggest problem I have is feeling that I should take advantage but finding it extremely boring...

Solid reason to not exploit their incompetence. Some trav runs in between to refill the gold pool does make it a lot less monotonous.
(And barely takes any longer)

Even the gambling puts me to sleep, yet alone the infinite gold abuse. I've done about 30 mins of gambling and I can't take it any more, I'm not built for this kind of grind, I need to kill things