Uploaded July 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Greater Rifts are a great new feature, but there are pros and cons. Monks are not so great, with devoted Monastics deeply worried about the class. Higher difficulty is the source of all rewards in RoS, putting huge pressure on the devs to balance the classes. Show features Xanth, Neinball, and Flux.
2:00 -- PTR testing. Greater Rifts, playing HC crazy since you can just re-copy your characters from the realms.
5:00 -- Greater Rifts are now the only thing worth playing? Bounties are only worth doing to get a RoRG and Rift Keys. Nephalem Rifts are only worth playing to get Greater Rift keys.
12:00 -- Seasons and Ladders. The shock players will receive with a new level 1 character and no twinks/paragon points/etc.
20:45 -- Class discussion. Monks! Nerfed and broken? diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/state-monk-additional-follower-future-op-class
What needs fixing with the class. Monks are especially screwed in GRifts, since their viable T6 build is tanking for others, but that doesn't work with the 15m timer. Is the Monk the first stage in Diablo III becoming WoW, filling the roll of a party tank/healer who can't actually kill things?
35:00 -- All rewards in Diablo 3 now come from higher difficulty level, which really puts pressure on the devs to make multiple builds for every class that are viable for T6+.
42:10 -- Demon Hunter issues; surviving nicely these days, but they can't kill fast enough on higher GRifts? (Odd change for a class that was in D3v always the total glass cannon.)
48:30 -- Cow Rift! Xanth wishes he'd seen it, but gloats over completing Greed's Domain.
50:00 -- Bonus off topic content, 4 minutes of World Cup jokes snipped from the start of the show.
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Greater Rifts are a great new feature, but there are pros and cons. Monks are not so great, with devoted Monastics deeply worried about the class. Higher difficulty is the source of all rewards in RoS, putting huge pressure on the devs to balance the classes. Show features Xanth, Neinball, and Flux.
2:00 -- PTR testing. Greater Rifts, playing HC crazy since you can just re-copy your characters from the realms.
5:00 -- Greater Rifts are now the only thing worth playing? Bounties are only worth doing to get a RoRG and Rift Keys. Nephalem Rifts are only worth playing to get Greater Rift keys.
12:00 -- Seasons and Ladders. The shock players will receive with a new level 1 character and no twinks/paragon points/etc.
20:45 -- Class discussion. Monks! Nerfed and broken? diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/state-monk-additional-follower-future-op-class
What needs fixing with the class. Monks are especially screwed in GRifts, since their viable T6 build is tanking for others, but that doesn't work with the 15m timer. Is the Monk the first stage in Diablo III becoming WoW, filling the roll of a party tank/healer who can't actually kill things?
35:00 -- All rewards in Diablo 3 now come from higher difficulty level, which really puts pressure on the devs to make multiple builds for every class that are viable for T6+.
42:10 -- Demon Hunter issues; surviving nicely these days, but they can't kill fast enough on higher GRifts? (Odd change for a class that was in D3v always the total glass cannon.)
48:30 -- Cow Rift! Xanth wishes he'd seen it, but gloats over completing Greed's Domain.
50:00 -- Bonus off topic content, 4 minutes of World Cup jokes snipped from the start of the show.
__________________________________
Links and a short description of every show can be seen in the Diablo 3 Podcast Episode Guide in Diablowiki.net.
* diablowiki.net/The_Diablo_Podcast_Episode_Guide
Find Diablo:IncGamers on
* diablo.incgamers.com
* Facebook: facebook.com/DiabloIncGamers
* Twitter: twitter.com/DiabloIncGamers
