Diablo III

[Skane]

Originally Posted by aohige

Queue system is precisely to solve that exact problem.
You make people wait in line for the limited space, instead of "just spam and try over and over"

If you are in the queue, you are connected to the log-in server. Basically banging at the Diablo room door and screaming to be let in. What they are doing now is basically telling people to stay outside the building and let in x number of people every 40s through the main entrance to make a mad dash to the Diablo room and squeeze in through that door.

Cheers.

[aohige]

Originally Posted by Skane

If you are in the queue, you are connected to the log-in server. Basically banging at the Diablo room door and screaming to be let in. What they are doing now is basically telling people to stay outside the building and let in x number of people every 40s through the main entrance to make a mad dash to the Diablo room and squeeze in through that door.

Cheers.

A queue maintains a much, MUCH less data traffic compared to bursts of username/pass ping that rams the doorsteps of the server, you know that right?
Why do you think Blizzard implimented the queue system for WoW?

Basically, once queued, the only thing it needs to maintain is a "send update data (queue position variable) to xxx.ip.xxx every xx seconds".
Instead of resolving IP, login data, confirmation and authorization, authentication, etc, per every ping.

[Kyouka]

omgies i got in lvl 5

[Skane]

Originally Posted by aohige

A queue maintains a much, MUCH less data traffic compared to bursts of username/pass ping that rams the doorsteps of the server, you know that right?
Why do you think Blizzard implimented the queue system for WoW?

Well, that's the paraphrased explanation Blizzard gave on the official forums. I have no idea how their server architecture is set up, so don't ask me which one is more data, because I won't know.

Cheers.

[aohige]

Just got in. Lv2 monk now

Diligence paid off

[Skane]

Finally got my female Wizard rolling. Decided to keep the female characters as softcore characters, because I don't think I can take the pain of losing them permanently in hardcore. Male characters will be rolled as hardcore ones.

Since I am decidedly "squishy", I decided to throw my lot with the public matchmaking. So far so good. Lots of goodwill so far, with people giving away magic stuff they don't need to others(STR to Barbs, DEX to Monks/DHs, INT to WD/Wz).

Pretty breezy progress so far, but gold is in extremely short supply.

Cheers.

[Ak3mi]

Installing my copy, so happy it arrived today. Mostly everyone on J-TV is streaming Diablo 3

[Skane]

I guess I shouldn't have rushed. Had my first death when my Lvl-08 Wizard got trapped against a wall by a pack of champion trees. It wasn't pretty.

Found a rare ring with +10 DEX, +1-2 Damage, +5 VIT, +Life Leech, etc... and gave it to my partner DH. Currently Lvl-13 and my DPS is a paltry 55+. Broke from buying gear upgrades and upgrading/using the blacksmith.

Thinking of farming the lower levels first to build up my gold supply, or maybe just wing it and continue to progress in the game. At least until I complete Act-01. Really hard to get a full 4-man party. Most of my public games have been in pairs. Haven't seen a single Monk or Witch Doctor yet.

Cheers.

[risingstar3110]

Originally Posted by Skane

I guess I shouldn't have rushed. Had my first death when my Lvl-08 Wizard got trapped against a wall by a pack of champion trees. It wasn't pretty.

Found a rare ring with +10 DEX, +1-2 Damage, +5 VIT, +Life Leech, etc... and gave it to my partner DH. Currently Lvl-13 and my DPS is a paltry 55+. Broke from buying gear upgrades and upgrading/using the blacksmith.

Thinking of farming the lower levels first to build up my gold supply, or maybe just wing it and continue to progress in the game. At least until I complete Act-01. Really hard to get a full 4-man party. Most of my public games have been in pairs. Haven't seen a single Monk or Witch Doctor yet.

Cheers.

Any tip so far from the game? Other than "do not playing hardcore"?

Which difficulty level are you playing btw?

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Wizard is quite fun, only level 10 or something, but that Arcane Orb is quite cool. I love hte graphic... I just imagine I'm throwing galaxies at enemies, haha.

[Skane]

Originally Posted by risingstar3110

Any tip so far from the game? Other than "do not playing hardcore"?

Which difficulty level are you playing btw?

Given that I'm only Lvl-13, Normal Difficulty is the only one available to me at the moment. Forums are reporting that people are hitting a roadblock at Nightmare, so that's a promising outlook for Hell's and Inferno's difficulty longevity.

Tips? Well, if you have played Diablo 2 before, most of these should be familiar already.

1. Always have a finger ready on your Q button to quaff a potion. Unless you are hardcore grinding lower-level mobs, you will need to use it at some point.
2. Resist the temptation to tank mobs with your Wizard, Demon Hunter or Witch Doctor. Once you exit the Cathedral(tutorial area), the difficulty in terms of monster damage spikes noticeably. "Hey... you guys didn't hit so hard befo- OMG! OW!"
3. Don't stand in the fire(or poison).
4. Learn to kite.
5. Don't be stingy with your expenditure. Gear matters A LOT in this game. Your teammates will thank you when you stop slapping the monsters with your white noodle sticks.
6. Be generous. Short of conning the naive, gear found in Normal will not sell for much. Offer gear not relevant to your class to your teammates. This is a co-op game. Boosting them helps you in the long run.

Cheers.

[Xacual]

Apparently some Koreans are already into Hell difficulty. Pretty crazy pace so far.

[Skane]

Given what I saw some Koreans were capable of in the Beta... I'm not too surprised about that. Gaming is almost a religion to them.

Cheers.

[risingstar3110]

How do you move up the difficulty level? I means you only can select Normal at the start? Then can change difficulty level later?

Koreans eh? I heard it's normal for Starcraft players there to click 300-500 clicks a minute. So can expect that they are master at micro-management

[zarqu]

Originally Posted by risingstar3110

How do you move up the difficulty level

Game starts at Normal. Then you beat the game on Normal, then Nightmare, Hell and finally Inferno. Inferno is supposed to be the hard end game.

Enemies get tougher and loot gets better as you progress.

[Archon_Wing]

Originally Posted by Azuma Denton

So even we cannot play a single player mode here?? O.o
Wow as expected from the awaited 12-years resurrection...

Well, expected indeed on opening day. Lawl Blizzard.

[Ak3mi]

I just picked up a legendary at lvl 15 called Mojo and at lvl 14 I picked up a awesome unique. Both for witch doctor, having a awesome amount of fun with this game already. Still in act 1 aswell. On metacritic the score for the game is a 3.5 insanely low should be a 7.5 so far

[Jazzrat]

Got home and got in on the first try, they certainly improved a lot compare to the old WoW days. Soloing on my first playthrough for the story, group play tends to skip too many stuff. But do add me, I wonder if we ll ever get the option to make a channel, could start an animesuki channel if we could.

Jazzrat#1197 is my battletag.

[Xacual]

Originally Posted by Ak3mi

I just picked up a legendary at lvl 15 called Mojo and at lvl 14 I picked up a awesome unique. Both for witch doctor, having a awesome amount of fun with this game already. Still in act 1 aswell. On metacritic the score for the game is a 3.5 insanely low should be a 7.5 so far

Metacritic is a terrible site to use for reviews or scores. So many companies / website communities will spam good scores / bad scores there. Actually in general, review scores given by any site or anything are just terrible.

Trolls on /v/ have been spamming about the game since yesterday so I wouldn't be surprised if they hit it up.

[Ak3mi]

Yeah thats true. I just like going on metacritic usually the games I play have good scores.
@Jazz What region are you on? Or can I add you if you are in the USA and I am in the EU?
Could start a animesuki channel this thread does has a lot of activitiy.