Diablo III

[com_gwp]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

I can't log on, it claims that I don't have a D3 license.

Why does this happen everytime I want to game?

Beta is over, dude. Time to join the month-long wait for the game.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by com_gwp

Beta is over, dude. Time to join the month-long wait for the game.

What? I only played for 1 day! I spent the whole Saturday waiting to log on, and I am rewarded with this sht?

[Paranoid Android]

Yeah and they had a few hours maintenance at some point too D: <

Anyways, not going to order this game. I'll wait till a week after release for some reviews before considering.

[Jazzrat]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

What? I only played for 1 day! I spent the whole Saturday waiting to log on, and I am rewarded with this sht?

^-- Beta Stress Test success! Having pre-purchased prior to even trying the game, it's just an extra bonus for me. Atleast i know what class I ll be playing from the start.

[Duo Maxwell]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

What? I only played for 1 day! I spent the whole Saturday waiting to log on, and I am rewarded with this sht?

I'm pretty sure they announced the open beta is for stress test only, and open for 3 days.

[Paranoid Android]

Do you guys get a lot of out-of-sync-ness and lag when playing? Sometimes I'd punch and nothing happens. I can move around but I can't interact with anything. And there's also rubber banding once in a while.

[Jazzrat]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

Do you guys get a lot of out-of-sync-ness and lag when playing? Sometimes I'd punch and nothing happens. I can move around but I can't interact with anything. And there's also rubber banding once in a while.

During the first 2 days, quite often. The last day was pretty smooth considering i m connecting to US server from the middle east.

[Skane]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

Do you guys get a lot of out-of-sync-ness and lag when playing? Sometimes I'd punch and nothing happens. I can move around but I can't interact with anything. And there's also rubber banding once in a while.

Very seldom, which is admirable considering I am literally on the other end of the globe. Open Beta period aside, it has been very smooth.

Cheers.

[Newprimus]

Originally Posted by Clarste

Honestly, having to jump around and stuff just made me more bored of the DH. I felt weak because I had to do all this set-up just to do the most banal and boring of normal attacks. It's like, you really have to go through all that trouble just to shoot arrows at these guys?

Are you using basic attacks instead of all the hatred generators you have available, like bola shot?

[FlareKnight]

The funny thing is that I didn't even know about elective mode until I checked things out here . Now that will make customization pretty interesting. One of the times I'm glad to be in the closed beta so I can still try those things out.

[com_gwp]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

Do you guys get a lot of out-of-sync-ness and lag when playing? Sometimes I'd punch and nothing happens. I can move around but I can't interact with anything. And there's also rubber banding once in a while.

Only once, when I couldn't interact with anything. I had thought it was a bug. Otherwise most of my runs were pretty smooth, considering I was connecting from europe. It was pretty cool to be playing on american servers relatively lag-free.

[Newprimus]

Originally Posted by FlareKnight

The funny thing is that I didn't even know about elective mode until I checked things out here . Now that will make customization pretty interesting. One of the times I'm glad to be in the closed beta so I can still try those things out.

Yeah, taking a look at the options menu helps.

I dunno, I always open up options on any game I play so I can optimize whatnot so I knew there were advanced tooltips and elective mode right off the bat (also turned on damage numbers for normal attacks and etc).

[Clarste]

Originally Posted by Shinova

Are you using basic attacks instead of all the hatred generators you have available, like bola shot?

I never got bola shot because I only got to level 9. I was primarily using the piercing arrow whatever thing. The one that bounces around a lot for no reason. It felt very weak and unsatisfying. Of course the snaring shot was even weaker.

It's pretty much impossible to use normal attacks in this game unless you go out of your way to. There's no reason to either.

[Duo Maxwell]

Well, I know about elective mode when they changed the UI, and advance tooltip because I'm a Dota/LoL player . It's kinda bugging me when I don't know the number on my skills.

[Rising Dragon]

Someone mind explaining to me what "Elective Mode" is?

[Duo Maxwell]

It's an option that allows you to assign whatever skill you have to whichever hotkey that's available for you, instead of each hotkey for 1 skill category, and "if I want 2 from the same category, I have to give up on 1".

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

Someone mind explaining to me what "Elective Mode" is?

Elective Mode is an option where you can assign any ability to any of the skill hotkey you wish.

Normally, Signature attacks can only be assigned on Mouse 1, Secondary skills on Mouse 2, Defensive Active on num key 1, Offensive Active on num key 2 etc...

With Elective Mode, you can assign any skill regardless of type to any skill button. So you now, say have all your defensive skills on your number hotkeys, instead of having to swap out between defensive skills. It really improves upon the customization of your abilities, and compensates for having penalties when switching assigned abilities.

[Ak3mi]

Originally Posted by Paranoid Android

D1 and D2 definitely more terrifying than D3. It's the fogginess. They should have kept the absolute blackness and bold gorey details.

Yeah I thought about it some more and I defiently think its the fogginess.

After playing the beta defiently will be playing a witch doctor me thinks, lots of fun.

[Kunagisa]

I'm going be playing a melee wizard partner up mostly with a DH.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...fSg!aWg!ccbbcZ

I can pretty much finish the build before I get out of normal (around level 30), and I won't be using shield because the bonus armor wouldn't be that useful and is just mostly focus on keeping the entire map snared for melee and sticking a Slow Time for all the range attacks. Critical Mass is just to reduce the cooldown on Time Warp.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...fSg!abg!ccaZcZ

For boss fights, I will be probably using something like this, which I can still finish the build relatively early, and probably will put on a shield.

What do you guys think? My usual play style is not big numbers and is more focused on control, and the more annoying I can be the more fun I think the builds are.

[Newprimus]

Originally Posted by Ak3mi

Yeah I thought about it some more and I defiently think its the fogginess.

Well we were all much younger back then. I remember watching someone play diablo 1 back when it first came out and it looked TERRIFYING. And I wasn't even the person playing it. Fast forward to the second diablo and out was a blast to play but not scary in particular. Scariest part in that game was duriel, and for none of the usual reasons why someone might get scared of something. And now games can give me some of the creeps but terrify, not really. Scariest game I've played in recent memory would be the first dead space. Its like the first Alien movie in many ways.