it is ultra annoying that you cant swap a skill until its cooldown is finished. why can't i swap and then continue to wait for the cooldown to be over?

5/18/2012 3:25:23 PM

Not gonna respond to the art direction questions - it's gone on for three years, nothing more to be gained from discussion, we differ, that's the end of it.

5/18/2012 3:36:10 PM

^^ lazy programming?

5/18/2012 3:38:55 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I43GUnZN_s4

5/18/2012 3:45:11 PM

Uh....so, is it even possible to kill Belial's second stage?

5/18/2012 5:00:45 PM

be barbarian...stand still. attack with iron will up. dead belial. what class are you that is having so many problems? perhaps just underleveled?

5/18/2012 5:01:47 PM

Wizard. 22.

(by second stage I mean the third of the fight...Belial's second)

It's his attack where the entire ground becomes exploding poison.

[Edited on May 18, 2012 at 5:15 PM. Reason : ]

5/18/2012 5:09:02 PM

i knew what you meant. my buddy was witchdoctor and had problems hitting him while we were in 2player so i did most of the work. i guess it is just harder for some classes (later bosses were tougher for me). doesn't help you probably get 1 shot.

if you keep moving the poison shouldnt hit you.


[Edited on May 18, 2012 at 5:18 PM. Reason : get used to ground shit hitting you for act 3 :p]

5/18/2012 5:16:16 PM

I'm getting close sometimes but he can one-hit kill me with a hand swipe before there's even time to move. Just gotta keep goin till I get lucky enough.

5/18/2012 5:27:35 PM

Quote :

"if you keep moving the poison shouldnt hit you."

Incorrect. Also it appears to ignore diamond skin.

[Edited on May 18, 2012 at 5:36 PM. Reason : ]

5/18/2012 5:31:53 PM

sometimes easier said than done i guess. it never seemed to hit me on the far sides. though the wizard rapes groups of mobs like i cannot, so we'll call it even.

5/18/2012 5:36:54 PM

Seemed to me that you had to move in a way that was behind him as he turned? Not sure if that made sense but he was moving left to right and I was always trying to move the opposite way he was going. Died first time and doing that didn't have any issues, think I used one preventative potion.

5/18/2012 5:47:01 PM

Nothin's working. Probably spent 3000 repairing my gear so far.

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Goddamn. This ain't even fun. Normal difficulty is supposed to be the balanced and playable difficulty...

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Okay no seriously who else is playing wizard? You literally cannot take a single hit from any of his attacks whatsoever because they're all one hit kills. How did you do it?

[Edited on May 18, 2012 at 5:52 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on May 18, 2012 at 5:57 PM. Reason : ]

5/18/2012 5:47:45 PM

I am playuing Wizard, level 27 with like 2900 HP. Looks for items that make your Vitality and Intelligence very high. I pretty have been rolling through the game, for the most part, unfettered, or not getting stuck if you will.

What is your Btag, I will add you so that you can see my gear.

[Edited on May 18, 2012 at 6:30 PM. Reason : /]

5/18/2012 6:29:20 PM

Okay so I had to lame out and go buy a Vitality boosting sword from the auction house to artificially boost my HP.

That did the trick. I stopped counting after my 30th try.

For the rest of the week I will be hearing "SEE THE TRUE FORM OF THE LORD OF HEEEEELLLLLL"

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I just cannot get used to a sword being better than a wand for a wizard to be using. My damage also skyrocketed when I made the switch.

[Edited on May 18, 2012 at 6:39 PM. Reason : ]

5/18/2012 6:34:19 PM

my first move in nightmare was accidentally disenchanting my weapon

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5/18/2012 7:00:22 PM

^^ I am using a rare dagger and a rare hand axe (iirc) with my Wizard.

5/18/2012 7:16:24 PM

Auction house down for anyone else right now?

07:35 EST

5/18/2012 7:35:46 PM

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/status


Looks all bad for the auction house right now.

5/18/2012 8:38:15 PM

^^^Wait . . . can casters dual wield weapons??? I'm a Witchdoctor in hell using a 2 hnder.

5/18/2012 9:13:49 PM

Oh, sorry, I should calrify - I swap between them, and they are bsstert than any wand that I have found so far (+86 intelligence, and +40 Vitality for example).

5/18/2012 9:39:23 PM

Woot just crafted a Flawless Ruby. This is a big moment for me...

5/18/2012 9:39:49 PM

im leveling a witchdocotor. is it fun? should i continue? only lvl 9

5/18/2012 10:17:39 PM

i never die on my WD now

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5/18/2012 10:32:31 PM

Holy cow Azmodan is dead simple compared to Belial.

Continuing tradition from D2...Duriel was the worst (Act II boss harder than III)

5/18/2012 10:47:39 PM

belial is definitely the hardest for ranged

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5/18/2012 10:52:47 PM

Diablo was infinitely more difficult for me than belial and im a DH

5/18/2012 11:37:46 PM

the AH is always a gold mine when games first start ...


I got a 100 dps 1h mace for my monk ... 4-8 damage 74 dex 55 vit 1.5% chance to stun on hit 1.9% damage converted to life health globes give 115 hp with an open socket for 5k gold..

and I got a ring 5-12 damage 50int 114hp on globes and 9%mf with a socket for 4k

5/18/2012 11:57:00 PM

Huh. No ending cinematic after killing Diablo...

5/19/2012 12:15:19 AM

nightmare down

about to kill haedrig's wife hell style.

5/19/2012 12:39:49 AM

yea belial took me 2 tries...once i saw how the fight worked, i saw how useful spirit walk would be.

5/19/2012 1:24:59 AM

Diablo took me 2.
Azmodan took me 3.
Belial was 30+. And most memorable to be honest - epic surroundings.

5/19/2012 1:39:00 AM

I'm playing WD and I do enjoy it. I have some issues with some abilities because it seems like they are unecessarily delayed so that the animation can be as snazzy as possible (I'm looking at you, wall of corpses totem). I've just learned to avoid those abilities now.

Just finished Act 1 Hell. Final boss with 4 ppl was beast. I felt indestructible with the WD and using Spirit Walk at clutch moments. Well indestructible until the other range died. Took a good 5-6 tries.

[Edited on May 19, 2012 at 2:47 AM. Reason : ]

5/19/2012 2:47:39 AM

On my WD I rock

Gargantuan that enrages
Spirit walk
Soul harvest
Dire bats
Firebom / Leaping spiders
Lifelink dogs

Want to replace the dogs because they die and do little dmg but I think haunt or whatever the spirit move that jumps targets sucks.

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5/19/2012 3:28:18 AM

Just finished normal last night on my DH, I did Diablo with a group of 2 others that I had run with for a few quest that were really good, took us 3 tries and downed him. I had 1 shot Azmodan solo earlier and only took 2 tries for Belial solo. I can see twin chakrams getting nerfed in the future, probably a huge cost increase or something, it just mows through everything with hardly any downtime needed.

Question:

Can I go back and redo any quests in normal mode and still have everything unlocked to hop back and forth? The "All saved progress will be lost" message has me kinda worried that if I go back to say, the very first quest, I wont be able to then go foward to say killing diablo without doing everything over again.

5/19/2012 9:01:28 AM

pretty sure the All Progress will be lost message just pertains to your progress on a current quest -- i.e, if you had 1/3 objectives finished for some quest in Act II, but switched to a play a game in Act I, when you switched back to your Act II quest you'll have 0/3 objectives.

You'd still have all your levels and items, i just dont think the game will remember that you have objectives completed across multiple quests.

5/19/2012 12:25:09 PM

Just started act IV on my wizard. Lvl 31. Haven't died yet. Thanks AH! Azmodan died in like 7 seconds of Archon.

My loadout is
LM: Electrocute w/ 6 targets rune.
RM: Disintegrate w/ Chaos Vortex.
1: Blizzard
2: Diamond Skin w/ Prism
3: Archon
4: Magic Weapon w/ Electrify

Good times. For bosses or tough champ packs use archon. If that ain't up, then prism makes disintegrate essentially free for like 6 seconds and clean up w/ electrocute. Blizzard is purely crowd control. Practicing not getting hit in preparation of harder difficulties.

5/19/2012 1:14:12 PM

i spent over an hour on diablo on normal difficulty.

i had like 1200 health though

5/19/2012 2:21:25 PM

If you're having the problem of dying very quickly, especially in higher difficulty levels, think about stacking more vitality.

5/19/2012 3:42:03 PM

yeah people were dying in my group on NM and i kept lolling because i had twice as much health as everyone else. May not have been killing bosses in 7 seconds but i didn't have any repair bill, and i wasn't getting raped by the illusion dudes

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5/19/2012 3:52:00 PM

diablo took like less than 5 minutes, with me and 2 of my buddies..

barb (me), monk, and wizard

5/19/2012 5:43:18 PM

They've GOT to fix this 46 page maximum problem in the auction house.

5/19/2012 5:49:24 PM

What do you guys do with the items you pick up that you aren't going to use? Salvage or sell them? What about unique items that you aren't going to use?

5/19/2012 6:37:41 PM

salvage some, sell some

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5/19/2012 6:52:08 PM

I never auction blues. For a long time I was salvaging them, but I have had no need to craft anything so far, so I switched to selling and now I'm rich.

So, recommend you sell.

Yellows, if it doesn't seriously boost stats, then I sell it. otherwise, I auction house it for a buyout of like ~3000 gold. Someone out there looks at that and sees a bargain, I get way more than the shop would have paid.

5/19/2012 6:58:22 PM

Auction house is great for gems, way easier than trying to find/craft them.

5/20/2012 1:16:18 AM

Just beat normal at level 30 as a barb. Have nearly 5k hp, pretty much can't die to large groups of enemies due to Revenge, though I have come close vs some single enemies.

Definitely second the auction house. Its a great way to get gear for cheaper then crafting. Search for specifically what you want stat wise - like most of my gear has vitality. Also much better for gems, I just bought a few radiant gems for the price of what it cost me to level my jeweler up to level 2.

5/20/2012 1:20:22 AM

In Hell, my witch doctor uses the following:
Spirit Walk with Mana Regen rune
Mass Confusion (with big dude rune)
Zombie Charger (with running wild bears rune)
Fetish Army (with Army of Knives rune)
Poison Dart (with Splinters rune)
Grasp of the Dead (with Corpse Rain rune)

For Act boss fights, Switch Grasp for Haunt and Mass Confusion for Soul Harvest. Actually, I did that only for Act 1 boss. Act 2 boss (Belial) was a pushover even with the above setup.

5/20/2012 1:50:24 AM

Came home from my trip to bottombaby's house and my fiance had bought me Diablo III, loaded on the computer, and got me a new headset!


elise: Sparkles#1521

5/20/2012 11:27:41 AM

So I know nightmare's supposed to be harder than Normal but you're at least supposed to level/progress with it so that it's at least possible to complete. Should not be one-shot dying to every single unique monster even when I'm wearing the best possible gear for my class.

5/20/2012 11:34:35 AM