Diablo III

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by Skane

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Not sure about him, but Adria is still somewhere out there and I really, REALLY want to have some "words" with her; and by "words", I mean kicking her teeth in while Tyreal holds her down.

Cheers.

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There are a ton of options I think for the expansion. Personally I think Leah will be the central focus of it. The Besides the Scenes disc with the collectors kind of hinted that they wanted to do more with her character. Think the lack of resolution for her character was because they wanted to save her. With her mixed heritage could make it possible to outright revive her or simply make it a battle through hell to recover her soul. Either way this time I'd rather not let Diablo just ruin someone's body and not to anything for that person.

Have to think Adria is going to be involved in an expansion. The woman almost ends the world and then just waltzes off. We have got to track her down and beat the stuffing out of her. If Cain's killer got tracked down and killed the same will be done to Adria here.

Heck I almost think you could turn Imperius into a threat for an expansion. I mean he already voted to kill humanity once and now seeing how dangerous their powers can be could see him reviving that. Being shown up by mere mortals has to have him burning up anyways and could try arguing that humans are too dangerous and might turn their weapons towards heaven next.

No doubt we'll see some expansion, but any guess is as good as mine as to what the focus will be.

[Kyouka]

im getting quite mad at d3 my video/sound options are still not saving
i even re installed 3 times now
i did not have any of these issues on the open beta

[Waven]

Originally Posted by Wilfriback

Anyone else here thinks Malthael will play an antagonic role in the next game (expansion)?

Yes, I thought it was quite the broad hint. Was he the guy with dual-wielding sickles? Haven't read the sin war trilogy so I have no idea what he's like personality wise.

[Chaos2Frozen]

So a couple hours into the game, I find myself asking this question-

Why is it that I'm a Wizard, a range caster, yet I keep finding/putting myself in the middle of shit? Heck I'm actually comfortable agro-ing mobs for my followers

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

So a couple hours into the game, I find myself asking this question-

Why is it that I'm a Wizard, a range caster, yet I keep finding/putting myself in the middle of shit? Heck I'm actually comfortable agro-ing mobs for my followers

You're not the only one. The Wizard does have a whole lot of options for close-in AoE, including Frost Nova, Wave of WinForce and Explosive Blast. Along with Diamond Skin and all three Armor spells a melee Wizard is actually a very viable build. I sometimes teleport in a mob, then wreck all manner of elemental explosions on them for great killing

There are times in Hell difficulty where I've had to get close to actually take LESS damage from enemy mobs, like in the case of random Elites with Mortar

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

AHHH!!!
Died three times due to lag. My home connection really sucks. Nothing is worse than staring at certain death in the face, but unable to do anything.

[Ak3mi]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

AHHH!!!
Died three times due to lag. My home connection really sucks. Nothing is worse than staring at certain death in the face, but unable to do anything.

Thats going to become really frustrating later on in harder difficulties, I feel for you

The AH is a really nice to get quick gold been making a lot from just blue's. On 210k gold but thats all going to be spent on jewelcrafting

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by Ak3mi

Thats going to become really frustrating later on in harder difficulties, I feel for you

I think Blizzard realised that people like me who were forced to play online would complain. Which is why the penalty for dying is nearly non-existent. Blizzard had taken into account that lag deaths are going to happen.

You know, once upon a time game companies try to make multiplayer games as lag free as they can by keeping as much data locally as they could.

Blizzard instead intentionally lag the game, by making sure as much of the info is server side as possible. The lag cannot be reduced; it is put there directly because they don't want me to play a lag free offline game.

Do not be surprised if WoW II would be a web browser game. That is the ultimate destination of where we are heading; where everything is lagged to hell because Blizzard doesn't want you to have any part of your game on your computer hard drive at all.

[Azuma Denton]

Just finished the normal difficulty and heading to nightmare...

I must say my weakness is still the same as when playing D2...
Elemental Damage...


And a question..
About weapon and armor crafting, can you get a rare item when the initial crafting (like journeyman slingshot) is not default rare?

[aohige]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

Which is why the penalty for dying is nearly non-existent.

Have you gotten to higher difficulties?
The repair bills are murderous!

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Azuma Denton

And a question..
About weapon and armor crafting, can you get a rare item when the initial crafting (like journeyman slingshot) is not default rare?

From my experience, nope. You can only craft rares from items that are labelled as such.

[Hooves]

Completed Act I in about 2 hours with a Witch Doctor I still have mixed opinions about actually dedicating myself to Diablo III. Just tried out the Guest Pass thanks to my siblings. What are your opinions about Diablo III so far? The game has been fun for that short bit of time. Just worried that there's something in the higher levels that aggravates people.

[Duo Maxwell]

How could you complete act 1 with guest pass? King Leoric, you meant? That's only 1/3 of the first act.

[Hooves]

Well, I was told it was until first act. Yeah it was King Leoric. Regardless, still tried out the free part I'll just beat it with the other 4 classes and see

[Newhope]

Pretty disappointing game, really can't see myself playing it for long.

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by Newhope

Pretty disappointing game to me, really can't see myself playing it for long.

Sorry to hear that. I can't get enough.

and fixed that for you.

[Newhope]

Loot is completely and utterly boring all the items are basically very minor variations in stats, I'am up to Hell act 3 and even with decent magic find nothing but blues and yellows really dull.

Each character has every skill=no attachment or item builds for certain skills just stack the primary stat of that class and vitality.

To me the game just feels like a gaint step backwards from Diablo 2 and nothing more than another FP2 MMO that'll force you to pay money if you want to be competitive.

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Newhope

Loot is completely and utterly boring all the items are basically very minor variations in stats, I'am up to Hell act 3 and even with decent magic find nothing but blues and yellows really dull.

Which is... just like Diablo II and LoD then, where the stat increases are incremental at best. It took me several complete playthroughs through LoD just to get my first Legendary item.

Each character has every skill=no attachment or item builds for certain skills just stacking the primary stat of that class.

Stacking on the primary stat might sound like a good idea, until you find that you leave yourself deficient in certain areas as you plow through the difficulties. Like in the case of my Wizard, I used to stack her with the items with the highest Int for maximum damage. Then I discovered that it made her a glass cannon that gets killed by mobs quite easily, and since I play solo mostly I had to balance my Int with Vit items to survive, sacrificing a bit of killing power for that extra survivability.

Also, why is freedom of choice in builds in an RPG a bad thing? It allows for lots of experimentation without worrying that your character is going to get gimped in higher levels due to putting points in the wrong tree.

To me the game just feels like a gaint step backwards from Diablo 2 and nothing more than another FP2 MMO that'll force you to pay money if you want to be competitive.

1. Diablo II is not F2P, since you need to pay for the initial cost of getting it.
2. "Competitive" is a term I don't think applies to a game that doesn't have PvP.

[Azuma Denton]

My only complaint is how the sub-boss/champion is much much much stronger than the real boss (at least until Leoric part in Nightmare)...

Each character has every skill=no attachment or item builds for certain skills just stacking the primary stat of that class.

Well, i kinda disagree...
As people already discuss it, there is a set of skill build for each situation... There is set skill for handling mobs, and there is set skills for handling boss...

And if you are playing with another same class, i believe you can combine the same slot of skill to create powerful combo, which can never be done if you play single-player mode...

So pretty much to explore...

My conclusion is D2 has its own merits, and D3 has its own merits...

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Azuma Denton

My only complaint is how the sub-boss/champion is much much much stronger than the real boss (at least until Leoric part in Nightmare)...

Now this much is absolutely true. Most of the champions are harder than bosses for the reason that they often come with their own mobs to cover for their deficiency and distract you. Whereas most Act Bosses are alone, and hence you can easy focus your attention and your attacks on it. I actually died to

Spoiler for boss:

Izual

More times than to Diablo himself