"Festive buffs" - what does it mean?

Bisu wrote: 2 years ago

15 minute cycle, what an idiotic idea, and they call this a holiday special

Well, it is special. A special kind of stupid that is.

I don't know, since I don't get a lot of time to play, at least with it changing so frequently I'm not faced with my 2 hours play time for the week being terrorized

Glacial Trail and

Far Oasis.

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Bisu wrote: 2 years ago

15 minute cycle, what an idiotic idea, and they call this a holiday special

Well, it is special. A special kind of stupid that is.

It all makes sense now. lol

Janet the Java wrote: 2 years ago

I don't know, since I don't get a lot of time to play, at least with it changing so frequently I'm not faced with my 2 hours play time for the week being terrorized

Glacial Trail and

Far Oasis.

I think for players that are soloing a lot, this is alright. It shuffles TZ more frequently so you won't get stuck with a bad map for a good hour.

But for folks that are trying hard to find 8 person games consistently to max XP gain, this is pretty bad. The constantly changing TZ makes it difficult for a group to stay, so people just disband naturally. If there's some general idea of promoting more playing-together time, well, this isn't doing it any favor.

Amd098 wrote: 2 years ago

imnotamessiah wrote: 2 years ago

Amd098 wrote: 2 years ago

today's buff is that the tz changes every 15 min

pls read with understanding, new buff makes tz to change every 15mins, its not today's - whole morning there was tz in cows only

buffs rotate at 11am pst, so yesterday's was cow. today at 11am pst, they did the tz rotating every 15min. tomorrow 11am pst they will have something else

no it wasnt at least for me, was whole day home. with cows.

imnotamessiah wrote: 2 years ago

Amd098 wrote: 2 years ago

imnotamessiah wrote: 2 years ago

pls read with understanding, new buff makes tz to change every 15mins, its not today's - whole morning there was tz in cows only

buffs rotate at 11am pst, so yesterday's was cow. today at 11am pst, they did the tz rotating every 15min. tomorrow 11am pst they will have something else

no it wasnt at least for me, was whole day home. with cows.

Sorry but I think you're just mistaken:

"From December 13, 11:00 a.m.–January 4, 11:00 a.m. PST the fabric of Sanctuary will be altered every 24 hours, revealing a new gameplay modifier via the in-game Message of the Day that will last for the next 24 hours."

11am PST Dec 13th - 11am PST Dec 14th =

Terror cows

11am PST Dec 14th - 11am PST Dec 15th = 15 min TZs

11am PST Dec 15th - 11am PST Dec 16th = ?

Current PST time is 2.30am so we won't know for another 8 hours or so.

imnotamessiah wrote: 2 years ago

Amd098 wrote: 2 years ago

imnotamessiah wrote: 2 years ago

pls read with understanding, new buff makes tz to change every 15mins, its not today's - whole morning there was tz in cows only

buffs rotate at 11am pst, so yesterday's was cow. today at 11am pst, they did the tz rotating every 15min. tomorrow 11am pst they will have something else

no it wasnt at least for me, was whole day home. with cows.

As stated by multiple folks before, the "new day" starts at 11am PST. Note the PST. If you're in a different timezone, it'll start at a different time for you. CET for example will switch at 8pm, meaning "yesterday's buff" will last throughout most of the actual "today" in that timezone simply because the switch is based on PST late morning. But it is still yesterday's buff.

omg buffs changed at 17 o'clock for me, was in asia server, i live in CET, i can read what you fiercely repeat i stated what time it was for me. that's all.

lol, ok then. Of course what actually happened is you told someone "to read with understanding" for stating that it's a daily change. Even if you are somehow on a different schedule to everyone else, it's still a daily change. 24 hours per buff, one change per day.

That's all.

ichigosakura wrote: 2 years ago

cows one was alright but this 15 mins thing is terrible.. barely get any runs in.

Yeah this is what's annoying me too.

Schnorki wrote: 2 years ago

Blubbalutsch wrote: 2 years ago

But maybe this 25% global bonus mf did it...

Where'd you get that from?

Not getting any bonus MF here, neither yesterday nor today.

Ur right, my fault, wasn't aware that my CoH gives 25% mf and mistook it for a a reprise of this 25% global mf event they had some time ago

15 min would be ok if the TZ cycle in order, zone by zone, act by act, so you could just walk into the next one naturally.

today is ... an additional 50 gold find.

im whelmed.

imnotamessiah wrote: 2 years ago

i find it difficult to believe you.

believe whatever u want, but after today playing. It seems I got all the luck within 10minutes and then nothing

Amd098 wrote: 2 years ago

today is ... an additional 50 gold find.

Get rich now

Was i the only one who noticed the 50% xp buff yesterday in the “terrible” 15 min tz rotation?

mockingbirdreal wrote: 2 years ago

Amd098 wrote: 2 years ago

today is ... an additional 50 gold find.

Get rich now

I seriously wonder how long it would take to make that worth while...

I think they meant to say 50% extra?
50 is just an insult

Amd098 wrote: 2 years ago

today is ... an additional 50 gold find.

im whelmed.

Actualy, i consider this a debuff for my travzerker as the urge to go to

Alkor and get rid of the Gold grows, wasting time. Chance to drop rune increased by x would be a thing.. maybe they do this on christmas eve, ruining d2r players quality time with the family

Blubbalutsch wrote: 2 years ago

maybe they do this on christmas eve, ruining d2r players quality time with the family

I have been wondering what family-destroying buff they will have for Christmas lol