Communities for low paragons?
My wife and I play D3 regularly together. In the past, when we wanted full games, we joined public games, but found it cumbersome to keep re-joining until we found a game that fit our playstyle.
So, a week or so ago, I started joining communities (Bounty split farming, Rift Runz, Reddit, a few others) and found some decent matches there. We are both pretty low plvl (150 for me, 86 for her) and run T1 rifts most of the time (T2 if we're feeling adventurous). We also LOVE split farming.
Recently, we keep running into issues with high paragon levels joining our games and pressuring us to close rifts right after the RG. I understand why people are focused on effeciency (especially high level players), but we love to play the game. We finish out our rifts as it's more time playing the game, rather than killing a boss, waiting the 30-45s for the new rift to open, then going back in again. We also get more exp this way.
The other frustration is that high-level paragons usually run us right through the rift, so most of the time we're playing catch-up and not really doing much other than picking up gold and loot that's dropped behind them.
We have an absurd number of tokens saved up, so we advertise in the communities that we're looking for low level paragons to rift with us - that we're happy to share extra loot and open up all the rifts for free. Without fail - we keep getting high plvls joining for the free rifts/shards and totally ruining the experience for us.
Are there any communities out there for new players or low plvl players that we can look for? We don't mind doing a little efficiency farming from time-to-time, but mostly we want to play the game and love helping out players newer than us when we can.
And - if anyone out there is looking to play with someone like us, feel free to add me on b.net (UncleAnt#1538). If you want to play with us - I'm a DH and she is a Wiz (I have a Barb alt and she has a DH alt), we are happy to share extra legendary drops we don't need and the rifts will always be free for you.
EDIT Since it seems like there isn't a community for this - I created one tonight. We're called "No Pressure Players" and it's open to the public!
EDIT 2 We play in NA, so that's where the community is. EU players - make your own! Diablo needs more good-natured communities that encourage gameplay over maximizing RNG rolls per minute :)
Posted Jun 12, 2014, 9:56 PM UTC · edited
I've always been a little curious about low-level rifting with a couple. My girlfriend doesn't have her own diablo game, but sometimes she plays on mine and that's pretty exciting. We usually play until we get off, and then do something else. Low-level rifting is something we've tried a couple of times. She doesn't like doing it that much, but she loves it when I do it and she loves to just watch. We've never talked about including another person or couple in this though, so I don't know how she will feel about the whole idea. Tomorrow is date night so I will try to ply her with wine and if the mood feels right I'll broach the subject. I'll report back here with what she says and maybe we can set something up! I think that maybe we should meet somewhere public first, like a game for "monster slaying" or even "brawling" ;) and just get to know each other in the party chat and stuff. If we all feel comfortable after showing each other our gears, we can move the party to something a little more private game and work up to low-level rifting together. I know you said you guys like to open, but we have some keys of our own stashed away so we can always take turns if that floats your boat. Sorry I feel like I'm rambling, let me tell you a little about ourselves. I am a lv70 barbarian with vanishing dye on my chest armor for the 'au naturale' look and feel. She is a wizard, very vanilla, and likes playing with hydras. Let me know if you're interested, I can send screenshots on request and would like to exchange them before meeting in the public game just to make sure we all like what we see. Looking forward to where this might go!
Get it man. Playing diablo with your significant other is one of few more refined pleasure in life, until you run wd/wiz combo and she's convinced that legendary dropped is waaaaaaay more useful to her than you.....
Relationship acquiesence suggests you should always be the Crusader :)
Good advice, then I can ironically say stuff like m'lady
I always play with my wife and its great. Lucky I'm a monk and she is a wizard so no loot problems lol
As a rule of thumb, just agree...
I feel like this comment is under appreciated by most of those who responded. Well done!
I was waiting for you, friend, comrade, brother. You make it all worth the effort.