Quote :

"People have their heads way too far up the MMO playstyle's ass. This isn't an MMO, and it shouldn't at all try to emulate that playstle. Its a single player game with a coop mode that lets you add a couple friends. Noone gives a fuck about your gear or what your 'progress' is. The end game doesn't have to be varied or fresh or dynamic. You grind gear. And as much as people like to bitch and complain, this game has far more options for grinding than either of its predecessors."

if you look at it as a single player grind fest, fine. blizzard is known for making games that are at the top of their respective genre and this just falls a little short.

again, it has all the negatives of an MMO with none of the positives. I'm not saying it SHOULD be like an MMO (like some other people), but it certainly could take a step in their direction if it is going to have their negatives.

and YES, diablo has always been like that. the difference is that D2 had skills that took a while to level (1 pt per lvl) and capped out at 99. that took a helluva lot longer to get to than lvl 60 does in this game. it may not seem like much, but having the ability to slowly level over time and still have those levels give you (very minor) gains is something to look forward to. THAT was just another carrot to pursue.

that and again "we've played that before."

it isn't that d3 is a bad game. i played it for over 100 hours, but it just doesnt have the staying power. im content with my purchase and ill move on. i just think it could have been more. more players per game, more content, more leveling, etc.

[Edited on July 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM. Reason : looks like Bashiok agrees from the article i just read.]

7/5/2012 7:05:49 PM

im still confused as to why people give two shits what CMs from blizzard think or say.

They dont actually produce anything at that company. Their checks just say Blizzard; thats about it.

7/5/2012 7:26:00 PM

well i can see ur being reasonable. "RARRR IT SHOULDNT BE AN MMO, JUST A SINGLE PLAYER GAME WHERE YOU GRIND," and "WHO CARES WHAT BLIZZ REPS SAY."

i mean, i get ur points (to some very light degree), but u gotta work with us a bit here.

7/5/2012 10:32:19 PM

Just don't' forget that this is a game, kk.

7/5/2012 10:46:58 PM

I don't see where I typed in caps, or went 'raar'.

Why do I have to work with you (u, if you cant understand full words).

Its not like we make the game; its a discussion, not a goal oriented design meeting.

7/6/2012 1:24:58 AM

just got my demon hunter to level 60! Level 60 barb and level 60 DH now. Still can't really do much in act 1 of inferno. need lots of farming

7/6/2012 2:08:52 AM

depending on what you have/need i might have some gear.

I've been getting decent drops in act 2 farming, but it is stuff that isn't really good enough for AH but to nice to vendor so just been holding it.

Goes for anyone really, feel free to hit me up in game I might have an upgrade for early inferno I'd rather give to someone to use than vendor or put on the AH for 50k.

7/6/2012 2:19:19 AM

I've been selling unid items for the past two days in the trade channel. I made 4 mil in one night. I like this strategy, I just upgraded my already pimped out rings in just one day of farming. Who knows what I sold though, but that's the risk you take.

7/6/2012 8:22:07 AM

Wow. Props for taking advantage of the uneducated. Not being sarcastic, way to find a niche.

7/6/2012 8:38:51 AM

on the flip side of that, i bought an unid lv62 armor, boots, and gloves for 100k, and a lv63 helm and boots for 150k in the trade channel yesterday. while a couple were worthless, i can easily flip the good rolls for 200k+ each. system goes both ways

7/6/2012 9:32:28 AM

^ this

Also, I can wait forever to play the auction house for a rolled item, and watch a pretty sweet item not even get bid on, or I can go to the trade channel and have 4 offers, get the gold instantly, at no fee.

The trade channel is kinda baller actually. The AH is good for putting up items and letting them soak overnight for when I'm not in the trade channel.

[Edited on July 6, 2012 at 10:58 AM. Reason : -]

7/6/2012 10:52:10 AM

whats the value of a ilvl 63 unid 1h mace?

7/6/2012 11:12:54 AM

with a populated trade channel, your first bid should be at 100k within the first 10 sec of you linking, and then it depends but i would say you definitely should be able to get 150k for it. some people are crazy they'll bid up to like 300, 350k on an unID item =/

it is worth mentioning though you should probably temper your expectations for (melee) weapons. from what i've seen the unid (melee) weapons are generally selling for the least in the trade channel.

its something like (melee)weapons < bracers < boots/armor/gloves/shoulders < bows/wands < ammys/rings

[Edited on July 6, 2012 at 12:01 PM. Reason : melee]

[Edited on July 6, 2012 at 12:02 PM. Reason : .]

7/6/2012 11:59:54 AM

this is something that ive tried within the last hour. already up a couple hundred thousand gold.

thanks for the idea

7/6/2012 12:27:34 PM

If I buy unID weapons and it hits big I'd message the person that sold it non-stop linking the item just to piss them off.

7/6/2012 1:45:26 PM

the house always wins in the end at the casino

7/6/2012 1:57:19 PM

How do you sell outside the AH? Drop gold/item???

7/6/2012 3:14:54 PM

there is a trade function. works the same way wow does if you played that

7/6/2012 3:24:59 PM

I added a few people from the trade channel, because they will buy my i63 1h melee weapons for 300k as soon as I find them. My last round I found 2 rune swords, now approaching 8m...

I think this is the most efficient way to make gold, without botting, while there is a broken AH in place.

It would be slightly ironic if once I get filthy rich, I start buying unid items...

[Edited on July 6, 2012 at 3:35 PM. Reason : -]

7/6/2012 3:32:50 PM

so from the last couple hours i am up 2 mil from butcher runs and unid items

7/6/2012 5:18:22 PM

Won $700 playing poker in AC Tuesday. I figure I'll become a pro poker/D3 player.

Can't fail right?

7/6/2012 6:08:52 PM

I'll watch your stream.

7/6/2012 8:23:14 PM

I finally hit level 60 with my wizard and now I just want to sell items on the RMAH

Made a big $10 so far

7/9/2012 12:40:44 AM

I've refined my farming spec some thnx to stimwalt and I'm farming act 1 inferno in about 30 minutes or less. Roughly about 20 elite packs.

So far i've made about 2 mil this weekend doing about 4 or 5 runs. Which isn't great and half of it is because im too lazy to look stuff up before i sell it.

7/9/2012 6:32:56 AM

Glad it's working well for you. If you want to go a little faster, try this build that I use. It has several stacking damage increase modifiers, perfect for barbarians that have just enough vit and armor. I'm easily clearing Act 1 in record time and surviving Act 2... mostly.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WVRPki!cgb!ccZZca

It's pretty much the only build that allows me to Critically Hit for 100k+ DMG with a 1h 800+ DPS weapon in Inferno.

-Critically Hit for 100k+ DMG = 5 Stacks of Frenzy, Max Rage, Wrath Enabled, and Battle Rage Active. Beast.

-Base DPS is 22k+ DMG = 5 Stacks of Frenzy, Max Rage, Wrath Enabled, and Battle Rage Active.

-Base DPS w/ 3 Mobs in 8 Yards = 29k+ DMG

[Edited on July 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM. Reason : -]

7/9/2012 9:20:36 AM

Well Saturday I hit 60 with my hardcore barbarian

Sunday I lost my 55 hardcore demon hunter.

pwnt!

7/9/2012 10:00:55 AM

my only goal with the RMAH was to make enough to buy the starcraft 2 expansion.

7/9/2012 12:01:35 PM

Hardcore is made even more hardcore by the fact that the servers blizzard uses are so terrible.

I don't know how you guys do it. I could handle playing hardcore no problem and doing something dumb and dying. But to play hardcore and die because of lag, rubber banding, or the servers going down... I'd friggin lose it.

7/9/2012 4:46:08 PM

ROFL

Check out this Barb

http://www.twitch.tv/nl_kripp

7/9/2012 11:13:27 PM

lol..dude isn't helping the image of gamers but damn if he isn't decked out. his crit is out of control must be 50%+...

7/9/2012 11:19:25 PM

You realize he is part of Team No Life, right ... hahaha

I would think he might got 75% crit chance or more.

[Edited on July 9, 2012 at 11:44 PM. Reason : /]

7/9/2012 11:24:22 PM

Quote :

"Hardcore is made even more hardcore by the fact that the servers blizzard uses are so terrible. I don't know how you guys do it. I could handle playing hardcore no problem and doing something dumb and dying. But to play hardcore and die because of lag, rubber banding, or the servers going down... I'd friggin lose it."

I don't know if I posted this in here or not but...

I was playing hardcore with a friend in the spider caves in Act 1. He got DC'd right when a shitload of tiny spiders spawned and ran right for him. I jumped on him and went crazy with everything I had but I couldn't keep them from hitting him.

Right as his character disappeared, I got the message that he died and then I got an error saying that the game I was in couldn't be found and it kicked me out. We get back to the character select screen and everything looked fine for both of us. When he tried to get back into the game it kicked him out and his character was dead. Mine was still alive.

Another friend of mine got to the end of Act 1 Inferno on his hardcore Monk and when zoning into the last hall of agony before the butcher, ran into a pack of elites with nightmarish, vortex, molten, plagued that were mobs that also had their own fear. He said as soon as he aggro'd the pack he ran back for the exit but he was feared constantly and then the only time he was in control of his character he would get vortexed back into the mobs and all the shit on the ground. He lost it right after spending all his hardcore gold gearing that character out.

Sad times for both of them.

7/9/2012 11:32:48 PM

I think if you are in a solo game you can pause by hitting ESC then unplug your ethernet to disconnect from game. Its a bit of BS, but sometimes that's how you have to play with Blizzard's servers.

7/10/2012 12:05:10 AM

so anyone know what specifically they are going to change about MF with this new patch? or any other changes theyre implementing? obv patch notes will come later today but was just curious

7/10/2012 8:53:26 AM

Diablofans says there is nothing about MF in this patch.

7/10/2012 9:29:04 AM

Quote :

"that were mobs that also had their own fear"

I don't know of any mob in the game that fears you unless its labeled nightmarish.

7/10/2012 9:40:39 AM

I wonder what this patch addresses and/or adds?

7/10/2012 10:26:29 AM

Patch notes are already posted. It is just minor bug fixes, no major changes.

7/10/2012 10:51:33 AM

Quote :

"I don't know of any mob in the game that fears you unless its labeled nightmarish."

Yeah I remembered that incorrectly. It was a pack with innate knockback, not fear, and he kept getting knocked away from the door.

7/10/2012 11:04:50 AM

yeah any mob that makes me lose control of my character is just infuriating.

Any damage should break the cc effect.

7/10/2012 11:05:39 AM

It would be nice if all items could have the reduce controlling effect property. Then you could try to stack that up to 50%+ and that would be more helpful at times than even resist. As it is now unless you just happen to have it on your helm by chance that 10-12% reduction doesn't help as you are typically dead anyway.

7/10/2012 11:27:58 AM

Found a Skull Grasp ring (legendary) that had pretty good stats on it and promptly sold it for 75mil, it sold within a few minutes so I might have been able to get more but I didnt want to be greedy, lol.

The random property on it was Vit, and all the other rolls were on the higher end (rolled Dex on it), there were only 2 like it on the AH, one for 50/100 the other for 200/300. It was pretty good for my build but decided to sell it and upgrade other gear.

Ive been using the Tanking DH build and I have to say it is awesome. I just run into anything and never die. Been using it to work my way through A2 since with my previous build I had hit a wall.

7/11/2012 9:37:15 AM

Nice find.

I think I might have found the worst inferno level legendary yesterday. It actually dropped off a white mob, and was ilvl 61. I had hopes it could be decent.

Ends up a belt with 100 strength and then 2 properties for a WD that were terrible.

So unless I can find a strength stacking WD it will be salvaged. I hate that legendaries are so worthless. I just don't get that... Seems like one of the easier things to get right.

7/11/2012 10:27:06 AM

look on the bright side. Unlike D2 there are no ethereal legendaries.

7/11/2012 10:31:39 AM

got a 2$ sale this morning wooo, nearing that 10$ plateau.....

i wish just once i could find an item worth selling for actual dolla-dolla-bills

7/11/2012 10:37:16 AM

sales have been slowing down for me. i just need a couple more dollars to get to the $39.99 that the starcraft 2 expansion will cost.

feels like market saturation of items on the RMAH coupled with the decline in the player base that has been making news lately.

7/11/2012 10:41:39 AM

Quote :

"Ive been using the Tanking DH build and I have to say it is awesome. I just run into anything and never die. Been using it to work my way through A2 since with my previous build I had hit a wall."

care to share some details of the build/gear?

7/11/2012 11:13:18 AM

Im following the threads here and its where I got the build, stats, strat etc.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5911503749

Basically get 2 1h xbows with LoH, load up on LoH, resists, dex, vit

Caltrops - Jagged Spikes
Grenades - Gas Grenades
Preparation - Battle Scars
Sentry - Guardian Turret
Chakram - Shuriken Cloud
Shadow Power - Gloom

Nightstalker / Cull The Weak / Custom Engineering

A few different ways to tweak the builds to how you want, but so far its a fun and different playstyle build so I like it.

7/11/2012 1:42:39 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/10/tech/gaming-gadgets/diablo-iii-player-reactions/index.html

Quote :

"Will players still be around for the changes? Some say they have gotten all the enjoyment they can and are moving on. Others say they continue to play, seeking greater rewards in what they can do already."

7/11/2012 2:24:45 PM

That was like 11 pm last night -> this morning.

7/11/2012 8:04:38 PM