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2012-05-07, 01:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, first TV trailer I saw was yesterday. Release date May 15(!!!!) I had no idea it was that close???
Well I know what I will be buying for my next salary.Blizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
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2012-05-08, 05:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, So I finally decided to break my "No D3 info" black-out, just because I"m going nuts waiting for next week to be here already. A few things really stood out from what I've read so far on the forums(btw, what's up with not being able to post? Do you have to be a beta tester to be able to post on the D3 general forums?).
#1: Gems! WOW! Fourteen Tiers of Gems, and Perfect is only #5(So I"m guessing the 4 before that are Chipped, Flawed, Normal, Flawless). It's going to take almost 20,000 Perfect gems just to make a "Radiant Star" gem, and from what I've read only up to Perfect Gems can be found. That's pretty damn awesome! Even better is you can use them in the meantime, as they will be removable which is great news.
#2: Enrage Timers! Sounds pretty interesting, will definitely make certain bosses have a bit more strategy then "stand as far back and peck away with weak skill while not getting hit", which I'm certainly glad to hear.
#3: RMHA and Mobile Phones. What in the world? This won't be affecting me, but even still, I'm not sure I understand the point of making it so you can't cash out on the RMHA without a cell phone that has a specific service provider that Blizzard deems acceptable. I'm surprised there isn't more of an uproar over that then what I've seen.
#4:(this one not game related) Wow, there sure are a lot of trolls over there on the D3 general forums >< And even more insufferable HardCore only elitists. LOL "If you're not playing HC, you're not playing right" & "You shouldn't even buy the game if you're only going to play softcore" is just a few of many retarded quotes I've come across.
#5: Inferno! Man, that difficulty is sounding better and better the more I read about it. It's going to be monstrously difficult, and from what I"ve read, several of the Devs have stated several times that even Hardcore players will die at least 3-5 times in Inferno before they figure out how to not die. I'm stoked for a real challenge, and not just being able to constantly pop in and out of games running the same set of creatures over and over to Magic Find, which leads me to my next point:
#6: Magic Finding and equipment: From what I've read, just about anything can be found in Inferno, but obviously the farther in you go, the higher chances you have of finding top notch equipment. It's going to be a conscious decision of whether or not you want to farm faster in Hell Difficulty, or whether you'd rather go slower in Inferno and hope for better drops over-all.
Over-all, some interesting things I've read over there. Kinda wish I hadn't now, because it's making the wait even harder to deal with now.
edit: Oh, and I have a question for those who have played the beta. How do you join games that your friends are in? I want to play strictly with my buddy when the game releases, but if you're matched to games that match what quest you on, what guarantee do you have of getting into the game your friend is in? Or will you be able to make private games that friends can join? How will that work?Last edited by Starwulf; 2012-05-08 at 05:51 PM.
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2012-05-08, 07:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Diablo III: Not Just a Vitality Race!
Actually, they drop up to tier 8, so you don't need quite that many!
The answer is very easily. If you have someone on your friends list, and they're in a game, you can simply join their game directly without any fuss. Doesn't matter what level they're at or what quest or anything at all, if they're on your list you can join. Only exception is if they specifically set the game to be invite-only. (There's three settings: Invite-only, friends-only, and open to all)5e Homebrew: Death Knight (Class), Kensai (Monk Subclass)Excellent avatar by Elder Tsofu.
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2012-05-09, 07:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-09, 08:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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There's been a fairly big uproar on the B.net forums but to me its just Blizzard protecting themselves. People get very heated where real money is concerned so Blizzard wants to ensure that people can be identified in cases of scams and the like. Plus less people taking money out of the system (via Paypal) is more money Blizzard gets to keep, so really its win-win for them.
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2012-05-09, 08:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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Or you join his game directly. Click your friend's name from the social tab, depending on his game settings you can join by pressing join, or you have to whisper him and he'll have to invite you. If he's in a public game, you just click his name, it will tell you if there is room for you to join, and you click join. It's all very seamless.
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2012-05-09, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-09, 09:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yes, European Players can play with US; Look up Global Play, however the one restriction is on the RMAH. Oh, and of course the usual issues associated with that related to more lag, but you're probably willing to deal with that.
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2012-05-09, 09:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-09, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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This is the only 'feature' I feel isn't very well designed. Enrage timers make sense for the MMO class of games, because there's a dedicated healer who's doing nothing but filling your health bar, and they want to make sure you're not just healing your way out of every fight. But healing is a LOT more scarce in D3, and enrage timers' only effect is to penalize tankier builds, as if killing stuff slower wasn't already a penalty.
As far as the 'stand off a and peck' logic, I don't see that as being feasible. Taking the Skeleton King as an example: You're trapped in a room with him, he's highly mobile and hits hard. Yes, you can certainly shoot and scoot, and for some classes that's your ideal playstyle, but there's nowhere you can be where you're totally out of danger until he's dead.
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2012-05-09, 01:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Villains have countdowns for their doomsday devices, bosses in games work much the same.
As for enrage timers, lets remember back to Diablo 2 for a moment.
I recall being able to Town Portal away from bosses rather frequently. Or just run far enough away that they wouldn't bother me. Saunter my way back, plug away at them again, run away when needed. I personally witnessed a friend spend a solid half hour trying to solo kill Hell Baal.
Now sure, some easier fixes would work fine. The boss regens, you can't portal from the boss room, make boss rooms smaller.
I much prefer soft-enrage mechanics, where the boss gets harder and harder over time due to some mechanic (which may or may not be avoidable/managable but usually is in some fashion) and eventually just hits a point where you MIGHT be able to survive if you're clever about using defensive abilities/healing abilities/utility abilities, but survival chances are pretty bleak. You really feel heroic when you say that you managed to survive that 7th wave of Uberattack, or that you stacked a debuff into the stratosphere and still survived somehow.
And odds are we will see soft-enrage mechanics as well, not simply just hard enrage modes. Hard enrage is where, at a predetermined point in time or at a predetermined amount of health, the boss either just explodes and kills you, or Enrages and gets uberbuffed and kicks your face in.~~Courage is not the lack of fear~~
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2012-05-09, 02:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm pretty sure Blizzard said all the enrages are soft enrages not hard enrages. The example they gave was the Skeleton King would start spawning skeletons at a much faster rate.
And as a ranged class its almost trivially easy to avoid the skeleton king except for his teleport next to you and smack you maneuver. The room is HUGE. The idea is not to let someone play super safe dodge everything and kill the skeleton king extremely slowly (i.e., no risk). Apparently the mechanic is going to apply to some elites/champions too though I can't find the post that said that.
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2012-05-09, 02:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Okay, I have watched all the demo let's plays and I must say still my primare choice is female witchdoctor, close followed by female monk
(yes, I always play female characters if I can, as you all know already).
I sorta wished they would have dared to make the female monk bald though.Blizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
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2012-05-09, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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As for enrage timers, lets remember back to Diablo 2 for a moment.
I recall being able to Town Portal away from bosses rather frequently. Or just run far enough away that they wouldn't bother me. Saunter my way back, plug away at them again, run away when needed. I personally witnessed a friend spend a solid half hour trying to solo kill Hell Baal.
Now sure, some easier fixes would work fine. The boss regens, you can't portal from the boss room, make boss rooms smaller.
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2012-05-09, 02:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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No problem, I've been reading the D3 General forums for the last two days and I am continuously finding new things that I had no idea about. Btw, have you watched the Wrath video yet? It's pretty interesting, and is in anime form. I'm still trying to figure out if it's BEFORE all of the stuff we've witnessed over the last few games, or if it's after the events of D2.
I'm just surprised I've never heard about it until now, I would have figured this would have been major news on most forums I visit that have a D3 thread. You are right though, it's all about protecting Blizzard, but I'll admit it's also about protecting the consumer, since(as someone pointed out), if your cell-phone isn't tied to it, and someone steals all your cash out of your D3 account, you wouldn't know until the next time you log in, but if it's tied to your cell-phone, the moment it starts happening, you'll know, which makes it easier to perhaps stop it, and gives you more information to give Blizzard when you file a complaint.
That's very good to hear :) I was wondering how that was going to work, glad it's going to be fairly easy after-all.
Both of those are good points, but I think I still like the idea of the soft-enrage timers, where the boss uses his special abilities more often, maybe regens health a bit(or a bit faster), and hits harder. It definitely makes for having to use more strategy over-all in the fights.
Really can't wait to get in-game and start playing, going to be awesome!
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2012-05-09, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Prior. It's where Tyrial first suggests the use of the soulstones and imprisonment of the evils, though it's not directly stated as such in the film.
That's very good to hear :) I was wondering how that was going to work, glad it's going to be fairly easy after-all.
Both of those are good points, but I think I still like the idea of the soft-enrage timers, where the boss uses his special abilities more often, maybe regens health a bit(or a bit faster), and hits harder. It definitely makes for having to use more strategy over-all in the fights.
In that other MMO, Soft Enrage mechanics are my personal favorites, and I'm always curious how far and how hard one can push them before your downfall is completely and utterly assured. It tends to lead to some really interesting experimentation, like how far one could push stacking debuff X on boss Y before they would just utterly murder you.
Lastly, they can sometimes be a mark of progess as well. Lets say you're killing a boss for the second time. Last time you killed him, he managed to cast off 7 Ubernova's, and this time, he only got 6 before you offed him. Hey look, you did it faster and better, huzzah, improvement.~~Courage is not the lack of fear~~
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2012-05-10, 05:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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yeah there's even a walkthrough for it already lol
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2012-05-10, 06:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Walkthrough for the entire game? Or just the demo part? The demo walkthrough has been out since before the game was pushed to 2012.
Edit: Seriously though; last time I checked Blizzard said "summer 2012" which in my experience means August. Or September. or Christmas.
Oh well, NOT complaining!Last edited by Avilan the Grey; 2012-05-10 at 06:05 AM.
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2012-05-10, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-10, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Blizzard seems to have dropped the ball on pricing. If I pre-book it from their own site the price is almost a 125% of what I pay in stores. And that is in Sweden, which is quite expensive to shop in.
In other words, definitely not a pre-order for me.Blizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
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2012-05-10, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-10, 09:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Blizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
Shepard: "Wrex! Do we have mawsign?"
Wrex: "Shepard, we have mawsign the likes of which even Reapers have never seen!"
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2012-05-11, 05:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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I finally found my damn authenticator and was able to log in. My Battle.net name is polity4life#1340.
Pre-ordering this madness right now!Demonlobster.com because we both know that you know that I know that you like fun!
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2012-05-11, 05:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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I ordered it from Amazon uk yonks and yonks ago. Mainly because when I saw it open for pre-order there I knew damned well it wasn't going to actually come out at £22 quid, but Amazon have this policy that if something's on pre-order, you get it at the lowest price quoted.
I've more or less stopped pre-ordering stuff now (ME 3 was about the last), but given that I was fairly sure I'd got to try D3 anyway (our entire RPG group extensively played D2), I thought, for saving myself a tenner, what the hell... (Also Blizzard has earned themselves the sort of leeway reserved for Bioware prior DA2/ME2 had with me, with Starcraft II being so good. For the moment.)
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2012-05-11, 06:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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I don't mind pre-ordering if I actually get something for it. In this case, unlike in Bioware's games, the only two things I get are angel wings, a special banner and the ability to tint my armor? (all totally pointless; compare to the regular digital copy of ME3 that in Europe had one armor and three weapons included) And have to pay Battle Net price for the game? No thank you. I will pick it up in a store for a hundred kronor less on May 25th when my salary comes, thank you very much.
Edit: about difficulty levels: With the new skill system this might be more fun than in D1 and D2. I am one of those that never played past "Normal" with any character in D2; the reason was twofold:
1. Same character, stuck in one build... Doing it all over again = Boring.
2. It smashed my Suspension of Disbelief: My barb is dressed up in god know what heavy gear, and I find a simple leather armor that has more protection than my super cool looking armor?
At least with the new system I can use the same character, but reconfigure the skills.Last edited by Avilan the Grey; 2012-05-11 at 06:40 AM.
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2012-05-11, 10:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Also, higher difficulties, the enemies start getting whole new abilities, not just the same ones you see in lower difficulties.
It was great getting cursed, aura'd, lightning enchanted, all stacked on something back in D2, but you never really saw anything new past normal mode. The fact that bosses will most likely also bust out new stuff every difficulty? Awesome. New fresh stuff, all the time. Huzzah!
Don't get me wrong, I love challenge, but having some new Xfactor to deal with along with them hitting harder/faster and being tougher? That gets interesting in a hurry.~~Courage is not the lack of fear~~
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Ask your DM if Aboleth Mucus is right for you.
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2012-05-11, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-05-11, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh ye gods, I hated Lightning Enhanced... And I only dipped my toe into Nightmare.
(Both of the characters I actually finished the game with - Necromancer and Paladin - ended up not well specced for dealing with Nightmare. The former, I fell into the trap of sinking lots of points into Bone Spirit before I realised it was nowhere near as good as Bone Spear (as I only played single-player mode), and it cost so much mana I was forever running out... The latter was a thorns specialist whose modus operandi was "get hit by enemies who then die" which isn't a very viable tactic at the higher difficutly levels.)
While remenscing with one of my mates, he recalled that his paladin found the best way of dealing with them was with a charge move that had knockback, and if you had enough room he found the follow-up kept him clear of the lightning, as well as stun-locking the enemy.
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2012-05-11, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Blizzard Battletag: UnderDog#21677
Shepard: "Wrex! Do we have mawsign?"
Wrex: "Shepard, we have mawsign the likes of which even Reapers have never seen!"