this game plays like a condensed & guided version of wow

5/20/2012 11:44:59 AM

There should be a cinematic after Diablo.

Kinda annoyed for Wizard Magic Weapon and Familiar are almost mandatory. (And you don't get a buff icon) Both together raise my weapon damage something like 50%.

The +X-Y damage stat is weird. +3-6 damage = +50 int = +50 weapon damage for me, I think.

5/20/2012 12:32:58 PM

There is a cinematic after diablo

you can watch all of them from the main menu though.

5/20/2012 1:32:29 PM

^^ Never used either of them.

Magic Missle (split)
Arcane Orb (increase damage)

Frost Nova (reduce cooldown)
Force Wave (increase damage)
Diamond Skin (prism, reduce arcane costs)
Hydra or Blizzard, for boss or grinding

5/20/2012 2:15:17 PM

Yeah there is very clearly a cinematic after diablo. Though personally I think the act 2 and act 3 cinematics were better.

5/20/2012 2:25:32 PM

to me it doesnt really feel like a "game" until nightmare difficulty

5/20/2012 2:30:10 PM

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Lokken - Lokken#1551
adultswim - SteveBrule#1572
ActionPants - TheWiseTeen#1250
ssclark - lobsterzilla#1339
seedless - bumptown#1985
SmoothTalker - Velkrem#1287
stevedude - stevedude#1177
DamnStraight - Hysteria#1451
disco_stu - LuncheonLoaf#1968
Morphine Boy - Ronkkard#2778
tracer - Dayde#1133
ncsuallday - Spartan#1781
porcha - Porcha#1737
titans78 - FLuE#1374
BEU - BEU#1880
Shadowrunner - shadowrunner#1161
EmptyFriend - EmptyFriend#1781
JLCayton - RonMexico#1270
DM - Landry#1457
ncsu4good02 - wrathwalker#1882
Azaka - Azaka#1569
elise: Sparkles#1521

5/20/2012 2:45:39 PM

Lol and of course I kill Nightmare Belial on my very first try.

5/20/2012 2:45:59 PM

This chat system is a fucking joke. It won't even let me talk to half my friends list because it thinks they are offline.

5/20/2012 3:19:06 PM

is there an auction house mod?

5/20/2012 5:17:35 PM

Already put in 29 hours in since Friday??

I'm some have done worse but for me it's time to stop for the day.

5/20/2012 6:07:14 PM

Revenge+Amethyst gems in both weapons = near invincible

5/20/2012 6:15:57 PM

Word of advice: do not kill the diablo3 process if it looks like you're stuck logging into a Public Game. You will not be able to log back in and always get a 3006 error after "Loading Hero List".

Horay.

5/20/2012 8:45:40 PM

Just beat the game with the barbarian class, pretty easy on the normal setting, now I think I will try playing public games since I finished the story.

5/20/2012 9:07:34 PM

I always enjoy people with no perspective. We power leveled my friends DH to like level 55 or so and twink'd him out (~6k dps 16k hp etc) then he went back through nightmare and pissed and moaned about how easy the game is... I bet if he went through nightmare at level 30-34 like I did with 900hp and 1k damage it would have been a slightly different story

5/20/2012 9:13:48 PM

^ indeed

5/20/2012 9:45:32 PM

Finally got to play tonight. Had fun, beat the skeleton king. The game skips a bit on me, like I will have made it to the bottom of the stairs and then the game will skip and i will be back at top of the stairs.

5/20/2012 10:00:19 PM

Server lag, it can get shaky during prime time still.

5/20/2012 11:07:36 PM

yah the fact that 6-12 damage is worth like ... 115 dex is a bit frustrating. makes finding rings and ammys worth a darn is difficult.

5/20/2012 11:17:19 PM

bring on nightmare... beat diablo tonight, got a lvl 33 barb. got my first legendary item and it was a pretty badass quiver, gave it to my friend who was playing DH with me... too bad it wasn't a sword or something i could've used.

5/20/2012 11:28:07 PM

What is this legendary item you speak of?

5/20/2012 11:37:54 PM

i believe it was 'fletcher's pride'

5/20/2012 11:49:02 PM

Beat Nightmare tonight on the Barbarian, and I did it with gear I picked up rather than AH'ed, but it took me a while. Was level 51. The back half of Act 4 was surprisingly tough.

Started Hell and cleared to the SK. Some of those champion/unique mob packs are SCARY

Ran into a unique who's minions were invulnerable until you killed him. I think their tag was "Arcane Invulnerable Illusionist". After dying for the 10th or 11th time I just went around them.

5/20/2012 11:51:38 PM

SPOILER ALERT

5/21/2012 12:27:12 AM

meh monk is pretty unstoppable... even with only 20k hp at lev 50 in hell the only thing that has a chance of killing me are shielding mobs since you only generate spirit if you do damage

5/21/2012 1:00:16 AM

After playing this game for a few hours last night, I almost feel like it's necessary to apologize to all my friends who I teased for playing video games. It was a lot more fun than I thought and now I don't want to stop playing.

5/21/2012 6:20:50 AM

worst. video game teaser. ever.

5/21/2012 6:55:44 AM

5/21/2012 6:57:36 AM

turn that frown upsidedown, you're playing D3, that's pretty cool

5/21/2012 7:03:53 AM

im kind of disappointed that inferno diablo has already been beaten. i thought they "said" it was going to take MONTHS for anyone to clear.

5/21/2012 8:32:11 AM

this was achieved by top-tier professional players with ton of people farming for equipment for them. i wouldn't be too concerned about inferno being easy to clear.

5/21/2012 8:36:22 AM

Yeah, they also never really cleared the content, they just corpse flopped through everything and beat their heads against the bosses until they downed them.

5/21/2012 9:04:36 AM

yeah they beat the easiest encounters in inferno and avoided the rest. Its not been cleared, its been cheesed.

5/21/2012 9:53:31 AM

oh i know itll take me a LONG time, but i vaguely remember bashiok or some other blizz rep commenting that NO ONE would get through inferno that quick.

I don't know why I really believed that what with back when I played WoW, brand new shit was cleared within a week on average.

5/21/2012 9:54:24 AM

Bashiok did append his claim that he allowed for there to be some kind of abuse tactic some may use to 'clear' it.

5/21/2012 9:59:48 AM

Who gives a shit how long it takes 'super l33t team of assholes exploiting every little tactic they can non stop 24/7' to beat content?

5/21/2012 10:03:05 AM

From my playing last night I feel like the game will last a fairly long time for me. I am all about completing my map, killing all the goons, and breaking all the stuff. And from the amount of times I replayed Diablo II LOD I am sonot worried about replay value.

5/21/2012 10:06:11 AM

Quote :

"From my playing last night I feel like the game will last a fairly long time for me. I am all about completing my map, killing all the goons, and breaking all the stuff."

haha me too! my bf was getting frustrated because I kept breaking barrels and picking up every item/gold coin.

5/21/2012 10:12:20 AM

every barrel, log, corpse, etc is another dice roll for that legendary. Its silly not to do it. They are like monsters that dont fight back but give the same loot.

[Edited on May 21, 2012 at 10:13 AM. Reason : *]

5/21/2012 10:13:24 AM

5/21/2012 10:39:12 AM

So many players are whining on the D3 forums about Inferno being too hard, and that it needs to be nerfed or their classes need buffs.

.... after 6 days.

5/21/2012 10:40:22 AM

Cleared through A1 in Nightmare...this game definitely has me hooked. I'm near damn unstoppable with my monk as long as I dont run into shielded mobs, or maybe those little laser shooting fuckers.

What I haven't seen yet is any kind of set piece or legendary, I think this game will have me firmly by the balls for at least as long as it takes to see one of those drop!

5/21/2012 10:50:14 AM

^^ if anything i hope its buffed

same with hell difficulty

5/21/2012 10:52:12 AM

Maybe I'm bad at the game. But Hell has been just the right kind of hard. At times its actually not very fun with some of the champion packs it rolls me.

Right now im 55, in Act 2 about to do the Zoltun Kulle line. Demon Hunter.

I have 3657 dps
25.3k hp

I use

Caltrops - Jagged Spikes
Vault - Rattling Roll (though I may switch this to Tumble or Trail of Cinders)
Spike Trap - Lightning Rod
Elemental Arrow - Lightning Bolts
Hungering Arrow - Spray of Teeth
Entangling Shot - Shock Collar (may switch this to Bounty Hunter)

Sharpshooter, Vengance, and Archery are my passives.

Super fast minions are a fucker and really make it un-fun at times. The Butcher took me a good bit of time to get down, but that was mostly just execution.

For bosses I generally swap out Entangling for marked for death and spike traps for impale with the stun rune.

Any glaring problems?

5/21/2012 11:17:30 AM

haven't played demon hunter enough. i'd say you're probably sitting about right.

its just slow trudging

5/21/2012 11:38:30 AM

wasnt there something about how switching your skills out messing with the quality of loot you get?

5/21/2012 11:58:52 AM

I use Magic Weapon....but i wish i had a better idea of the stat buffs.

Also...electrocute or whatever is ridiculous...at least on normal. I'd just stand back and the lightning auto jumps to everything on screen and fries it.

Also basically tanked Diablo in Archon mode. The right click just fucks shit up.

Basically been rolling with the following in single player

Electrocute
Arcane Orb

Frost Nova
Blizzard
Magic Weapon
Archon

This seems to go particularly well with the skill that increases damage to frozen or chilled enemies.

5/21/2012 12:17:27 PM

^if you havent, you can turn on adv. tooltips for specifics

5/21/2012 12:24:17 PM

magic weapon is 10% increase to damage

there is a rune that bumps that up to 15%

i've been rolling with:
electrocute w/ additional jumps
arcane orb w/ bonus dmg

familiar w/ 12% dmg boost
hydra (frost atm)
magic weapon w/ dmg boost
blizzard

I'm not sure if blizzard is better damage than meteor.
the wording for the damage over time is a bit weird.

Blizzard: dealing 210% weapon damage as Cold to all enemies in the area over 6 seconds.
Meteor: causing 200% weapon damage as Fire to all enemies it crashes into. The ground it hits is scorched with molten fire that deals 60% weapon damage as Fire over 3 seconds.

When they list the damage over seconds does that make blizzard out to be 210% weapon damage each second over 6 seconds? or 210% weapon damage if they stay in the blizzard for all 6 seconds?

5/21/2012 1:07:00 PM

The second one. 210%/6 each second for 6 seconds.

5/21/2012 1:09:08 PM