Similar to my previous SWTOR and Battlefield 3 threads, this will be the thread that compiles all relevant information on Diablo 3, the next sequel in Blizzards Action-RPG franchise. This thread will also serve as a cornerstone for discussion (read: getting angry at RNG) without duplicate/numerous threads that are surely going to spring up.
Currently Khel is managing a Battle.net thread where you can find a majority of QGL/AusGamer users, which can be found here. Please don't post anything but your Battle.net tag, keeping discussion in this thread.
AusGamers is currently running a Diablo 3 competition which you can find over here. There are a number of prizes to be won, with a grand prize consisting of the country-wide sold-out Collector's Edition.
Csirac has pointed out that anyone currently with the English UK downloadable version before 10:00 AM CEST (9:00 AM GMT) on Saturday May 12 will need to download a new version which they can find here.
We became aware of an issue affecting the previously available German and EU English versions of the digital install downloader for Diablo III, which would not download all the necessary files. If you've pre-downloaded the digital version of the game in these languages before 10:00 AM CEST (9:00 AM GMT) on Saturday May 12, you must obtain the new downloaders to be able to install properly once the game is released on May 15. We apologize for the inconvenience, and ask that you please let friends and acquaintances know so they can begin downloading the working installer that's now available.
The best and most up-to-date information of Diablo 3 can be found on the official website, however an unofficial Diablo 3 wiki has been set up which includes large amounts of information on items, monsters, FAQ and more.
Hogfather has a Teamspeak server running for all AusGamer/QGL players wanting to show off their voices in multiplayer.
The AUS-1 teamspeak3 server will be available for AusGamers peeps to get some MP going on.
Blizzard released a "What is Diablo 3?" which is a great video for those not to sure what to expect -
Blizzard have a skill calculator available which a great way to crunch those numbers before making any hasty decisions, which you can find over here.
Currently the two cheapest places to grab a boxed copy of Diablo 3 is Big W or JB HiFi, both at $58 and $59 respectively.
All available download clients can be found in this Reddit thread.
Another trailer, this one gives a bit of insight into the battle between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells -
Current launch times are;
Australian Eastern Time 5.00pm
Australian Central Standard Time 4.30pm
Australian Western Standard Time 3.00pm
The ability to install the game will be allowed around 1am AEST.
Blizzard have stated that the Real Money Auction House will not be available upon launch, but will be activated one(1) week after release. The Gold Currency Auction House will be available on launch day however.
A character profile system similar to WoW will be available after launch as well, giving the ability to show others your progress and heroes.
A career tab that displays all of your heroes, how far you’ve progressed in the Diablo III campaign, how many foes you’ve slain, the names and playtimes of your fallen Hardcore heroes, and more.
A heroes tab that shows off your equipment (including dyes, socketed gems, all equipment bonuses, etc.), your attributes and skills, the skills and equipment of your Followers, and more.
You can check out more information on that over here.
Jay Wilson, lead director of Diablo 3 has also stated any mods similar to DarkD3 are not considered a cheat yet, and if they do deem it as a cheat they will announce.
And that is it. If any more news/info is released I'll update this post, otherwise say goodbye to your family, wives/husbands/girlfriends/boyfriends and enjoy the mouse clicking!
Yeah I want to use that darkd3 mod but he said a ban isn't likely. Still possible and I'm guessing if you get caught using it it'll depend on the GMs mood at the time what your punishment will be. I don't think i'm gonna risk it unless the game gets seriously cheery.
Witch Doc here first then will flip a coin as to wizard or demon hunter for second.
Wizard or Demon Hunter, tough choice. Barbarian later down the track.
The monk didn't excite me much during the beta, and the witch doctor even less so.
Barb because leap made the whole game better. Next would be demon hunter, because roll and sprint is second to leap.
Should we have gotten the GB version and not the US?
By default blizzard downloads the GB for aussies, but i manually changed mine to US after seeing that i might have to do something more than just let the downloader run.
I am really getting caught up in this Diablo 3 hype and wouldn't mind jumping on the bandwagon. A day 1 purchase is not really essential to me so I'd really like to play some of the previous games to get familiarised with the controls/lore etc. Should I just start with Diablo 2 or is Diablo worth playing? Word around the campfire is that it is pretty dated and annoying to play.
diablo is really dated and annoying to play. plus game mechanics have evolved so much i found it a little repedative. i don't know what it would be like for a first timer tho. you would probably enjoy D2 more.
Diablo has very repetitive gameplay but the atmosphere (especially for its time) is fantastic. It's not a very long game either so I would give it a go if I were you.
D2 is still playable, I was playing for a while late last year with a casting Druid before bf3 came out. Just get a $55 cdkey if you are unsure. At least you can't get caught up in the hype and get the game like I did with sc2 and find out it is basically pointless playing unless you are korean
I will be playing witch doc first up tomorrow night
d1 & d2 are only annoying to play now because of the low resolution. I think theres mods to remedy this.
Main reason D1 is unmatched atmosphere wise is the eeri music, and dark art style. Thats what really is missing from D3 IMO. Wish they kept to the roots of diablo.
Still remember that original trailer for diablo before it even came out. Knew it was gonna be awesome.
For the story? No. Everything you need to know can be read on the wikipedia page. or just below in my spoilers. D2 has much more going on so worth a shot , even more so if you can find the D2-high res patch which lets you play at like 1920x1080.
Spoiler: D1 has the warrior, rogue and wizard go into hell and kill diablo. After killing him, the warrior slams Diablo's soul shard into his head in an attempt to contain his evil so he won't get out again. Turns out this is what diablo wanted all along and this guy, whose name is Aiden by the way, turns into the dark wanderer you see in D2. While not shown, the rogue and wizard fall to corruption on their trip into hell and become mini bosses in D2 quests
D2 has much more story to it but again you could just read up on the wiki page, but if you havn't ever played it youtube the 5 (or is it 6?) cutscenes as they are awesome as hell and will tell you pretty much all the major points you need to know.
Arrrgh, don't do the stupid Whirlpool thing and put everything in single threads.
It's a lot better then having a forum cluttered with "hey lets play D3 now" x3 and "hey why doesn't X work in D3". I've only done it so far with two other AAA titles, being Battlefield 3 and SWTOR. BF3 worked well in that it nearly has 1000 posts so that's 1000 less posts in other threads.
Want to add this to the op? last edited by icewyrm at 20:47:39 14/May/12
Bit too spoiler sadly, don't want to ruin the entire first act. Thanks though!
Don't you think the angels must be getting a bit fed up with Diablo being constantly released in to Sanctuary by now? Next game they will just be like "fuck this" and let him do his thing.
Yeah that was pretty odd. I presume he bugged out a staff or something that lets him teleport everywhere, though what was weird is he had 1 health when defeating Diablo while using the Mana Shield.
Tons of bugs and tricks abused to get that time because speed demos archive is pretty damn strict about their runs being cheat free. Bugs and glitches sure. Watching a torchlight run from there done in 40 min right now
If anyone is up, you should be able to install the game now.
Took about 30 mins to install on my shitty 7200rpm HDD.
Requires 15.1gig of free hd space to being install but only uses 8gig.
Also it has kept my video and sound settings from beta, most likely it will have also kept my gameplay settings too.
You can also watch the intro class cinematic for every class (and each gender) before login
Yep, I just finished installing, took about 15-20 minutes. There's an unlock/decrypt of the files which takes a long time I suspect so the speed is probably CPU dependent.
w00t installing. I guess to backup the installer you just copy the Diablo-III-8370-enUS-Installer directory somewhere and keep that updated in case you even need to reinstall.
When it started installing it said ‘do you want to activate’, I clicked yes. Takes me to battle.net "activate Diablo 3" page.
It needs the game key to be entered. Does that come via email or do I pluck it from battle.net account mngmt somewhere?
Whoops, might have posted too soon.
Just got an email from Battle.net store confirming my pre-purchase and stating "The digital game(s) you purchased are now attached to your Battle.net account."
I wonder if that means I don't need to activate it?
Just got an email from Battle.net store confirming my pre-purchase and stating "The digital game(s) you purchased are now attached to your Battle.net account."
I wonder if that means I don't need to activate it?
That's right. You are right to go. Activating is for everyone else who didn't get a digital copy as they need to enter in a cd key as proof they bought the game.
I'm not gonna lie to you Creepy, whilst that was bound to happen at some stage (and probably on multiple occasions) today; find me a private organisation better equipped to deal with such an influx of traffic...
On the plus side, now the 'create your own sigils' website works.
Yes, you can install the software even if you've bought a CE. The key in your CE box is what will determine what goodies your account is entitled to. Not the client.exe/install media
Well, I started it at about 10:10am and it's saying I've got about another 3GB to go, claiming another hour. Even though it downloaded 4.5GB in 50 minutes.
Just got an email from Battle.net store confirming my pre-purchase and stating "The digital game(s) you purchased are now attached to your Battle.net account."
I wonder if that means I don't need to activate it?
The level of communication around this is non-existent. I read a couple of posts from today saying "just redownload it". Not really.
I said 'Activate Now' during the install, and if I look in Battle.Net account management, there's no such CD key or license, but it does say that Diablo is 'ACTIVATED'.
Therefore I'm hopeful that something as amateur as this won't stop the game from firing up come 5pm.
Took about 15 minutes TiT, has a little story while waiting as well which is cool.
Dranged, if you've bought a digital edition from Blizzard, your account is already activated and ready to go upon launch at 5:01pm AEST. As long as you have the client installed and ready you should be sweet :)
I would suggest that if you're installing from a box (or virtual box) tonight, you log into bnet as early as possible. The site will be getting hammered pretty hard with people activating their keys.
that's pretty nice of blizzard. so long as it doesn't take me too long to connect to the server tonight I'll maintain that warm fuzzy feeling. Else, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuu
Anyone who thinks that slamming a sharp rock in to their forehead will solve the worlds problems clearly has more mental issues than the devil possessing their body :p
Got it working. Info for anybody else who encounters the stuck at updating problem HERE
This one worked for me:
Fix #1
Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
Scroll down and find “Secondary Logon”
Right Click > Properties
Change it from ‘Disabled’ to ‘Automatic’
Run your Diablo 3 setup as administrator and it should quickly go through Updating Setup Files and bring you to an install screen. Congratulations, your game now (hopefully) works! If this solved your issue, spread it around.
Is it possible we're going to see the likes of: "The server is full, you have been placed in a queue"?last edited by casa at 12:48:08 15/May/12
EU forums are up in flames over the error 37 or something. A Blizzard rep did state earlier when EU just launched that servers were getting hit hard and that there was a queue.
Line at JB went all the way through five backs and forth, and then all the way to the back of the store. Maybe 3 in every 5 people were carrying Diablo 3 boxes so purchase.
Decided "I can wait a few days", fuck waiting in line that long on lunchbreak.
I've entered my key into my Battle.net account, and everything is showing up in there fine, but when I try to log in, it says "Error 12 - There is no Diablo III license attached to this account."
I know the servers aren't running yet, but from what I've read, that's not the error I should be seeing. Anybody else have this problem?
My installer from the dvd "Updating Setup Files" hung at 65% for 40minutes, I started downloading from the website using blizzard downloader and the "Updating Setup Files Screen" jumped straight to 95%. Now it's been sitting at 95% for about 30 minutes.
Just going back to just downloading it online at 4MB/s, seems like it's going to be faster - go figure :x
If anyone cares, the "Error 12" issue I mentioned earlier in the thread turned out to be because my installation defaulted to the Europe region, while my account is obviously Australia. Due to the staggered release, I was seeing the error because the game hasn't yet launched globally. In the game options, I changed my region to "The Americas" which is the default region for AU/NZ, and I'm now seeing the correct message when trying to log in.
Went to the Dicksmiths at Woolloongabba, but they have shut down. Sigh, now all the way to Carindale.
Big W at Carindale were sold out with in mins of opening earlier that morning, so headed around to JB. JB still had a fair amount of stock and I asked them to price match Big W.
The games department manager was called out but refused to price match Big W as they knew they were sold out. I asked if they would price match Dicksmiths and he made a few phone calls and hey presto, got my copy for $59.
Played a little bit of the beta but coukdnt stand all the clicking and the incredibly shit field of view so as far as i am concerned the game can burn. I really did feel like i had been taken baxk in time 15 years. I understand that this isnt an issue for you guys so i hope you all enjoy it a whole lot.
For those of you having issues with: "Error 12 - There is no Diablo III license attached to this account."
There is a sticky on the Diablo3 forum stating that you need to adjust your server location from the options menu in the Launcher. Make sure you set this to North America.
mine fucked out the first time too. had to cancel it and manually delete the incomplete file from the game folder. tried updating again and it worked fine.
Same this is crap, timing out trying to receive a hero list, what the point of skiving off work early to go home and play diablo 3 when I cant bloody log in.
Wish you could at least do something instead of have to wait for a connection, even if it was just create a character and run around in a simple dungeon.
Its probably the only time they're going to have this kind of load on their authentication servers, so it doesnt make sense to actually try and meet this kind of capacity, except perhaps for launch days.
Its probably the only time they're going to have this kind of load on their authentication servers, so it doesnt make sense to actually try and meet this kind of capacity, except perhaps for launch days.
dont defend them, they had to know this would happen and surely they should have had measures in place to deal with it.
Its probably the only time they're going to have this kind of load on their authentication servers, so it doesnt make sense to actually try and meet this kind of capacity, except perhaps for launch days.
funny how game companies get angry about retailers selling games pre-release, but its OK if a game company can't get the game 'live' by said date
Rad. Just back home from waiting in line at a midnight release (to get a CE). Looks like everyone else had the same idea. Sold out mere metres from the stall. Better luck in the morning. (looks like you can't get in anyway, so time for sleep)
All the sites have dropped for maintenance so they're probably sorting it as we speak.
for you whingers, they said in numerous forum posts that they expected this..
When you launch the game though, go to options, account management and chose your region there.
All the sites have dropped for maintenance so they're probably sorting it as we speak.
for you whingers, they said in numerous forum posts that they expected this..
at least they can go to bed and hopefully be able to play when they get up.
meanwhile we're sitting around being tortured like fuckwits until midnight and then give up.
Don't let that fool you, i've been at 54.6mb @ 2.96kb/s for the last 40 minutes of being home. This is why you don't preload and come home to install :(
Don't let that fool you, i've been at 54.6mb @ 2.96kb/s for the last 40 minutes of being home. This is why you don't preload and come home to install :(
if it helps i just installed and it took about 5 minutes
Must have got a different preload - my preload was 7.6gb and i installed when i got home, then after the 'install' it asked to download another 54.6mb..
Must have got a different preload - my preload was 7.6gb and i installed when i got home, then after the 'install' it asked to download another 54.6mb..
iam guessing mine was the same, i downloaded a ~8gb installer preload and then it downloaded/installed files tonight.
Welcome to Diablo III! The fight for Sanctuary has begun.
Please note that due to a high volume of traffic, login and character creation may be slower than normal. If you're unable to login to the game or create characters, please wait and try again. We've temporarily taken our Battle.net websites offline and launched more servers to accomodate for the traffic. We hope to resolve these issues as soon as possible and appreciate your patience.
Taken from the Diablo facebook page, looks like battle.net servers have gone down to assist D3 logins.
Welcome to Diablo III! The fight for Sanctuary has begun.
Please note that due to a high volume of traffic, login and character creation may be slower than normal. If you're unable to login to the game or create characters, please wait and try again. We've temporarily taken our Battle.net websites offline and launched more servers to accomodate for the traffic. We hope to resolve these issues as soon as possible and appreciate your patience.
Luckily Facebook know how to build scalable stuff so they can keep people updated there :)
Can't even log in because the server is too busy. This is bullshit. I'm never playing another Blizzard game again except for WoW, Diablo 3 and whatever that Titan one is. They've lost me as a customer.
According to facebook some koreans have killed diablo!!!!
Word is, they had him killed in under 2 hours of the Asian launch.
Also, last I heard (even less reliable), they were predicting to have all difficulties of the game beat within 8h44m of launch.
There was proof of the normal difficulty kill (screenshot), no idea if they have beaten the game on inferno yet.
Hmm. Got to the character screen, picked the wizard. Then got some error saying I couldn't join a party, whatever that means. Then the game just sat on the character screen and I couldn't do anything. Had to ctrl-alt-del out.
1) Region was set to Europe by default, had to change this to 'The Americas'
2) Had to flush out my DNS at the character creation screen due to an error code 30006.
Probs to Blizzard I solved all my issues via their Tech Support Forum with blue posts working hard
As I stated in a previous post I haven't seen any trailers or screen shots for this game and I am overwhelmed bloody beautiful and they really have done a really good job making Diablo III fun and enjoyable
Stick with it reload!, I got this way about the beta cruising about on my own, but as I didn't play much of D2 co-op (only dribs and drabs) hooking into the beta with a few mates really perked it up a bit (got the 'itch' cruisin around collecting lewt) it's good fun if you can arrange a group of mates (even if only 1-2) with some complimenting classes for a better run at the game.
Fade WTH man... VISTA!? this ISN'T Blizz's problem; they're just left to be 'social justice' to tell you to upgrade to Win 7 yo!
yeah playing in a group of 3 now. more fun with bigger groups of mobs.. shit exploding everywhere. barb is almost laughable how far he knocks bodies around.
lots of exploding corpses are good for a laugh. also now salvaging magics and smithing.. definitely gives the urge to to farm moar lewts.
act 1 is meant to be boringish I guess..
Yeah and my hard copy didn't arrive in the mail today. Hope they get their arses in to gear.
Lots of people are complaining about hard copies on facebook, hopefully you'll get it by tomorrow. I have digital and have no idea when my key will be sent, they say they get batches every 2 hours, so I hope by tomorrow morning or when I get home from work it will be sitting in my email box.
Yeah don't die, or you lose your character. That's pretty important. Once you get beyond the basic mode of easyplay - open up hardcore (death = gameover) or a harder mode and you'll realise there's a bit more to it. But from levels 1-15 don't expect any more than the same in WoW levels. :P
Love how the post spam in this thread died off after about 7pm :)
I got in about 7pm and have had no problems since. Have been doing co-op all night with groups of different people and my monk is now level 13. Very different to beta so I'm happy I bought it and decided to give it a crack - lots and lots of fun!
Saw your level Defi, bloody powering through. Just spent 4 and a half hours playing with 2 other mates, was great fun and some of the bosses had wicked mechanics. Going to complete normal mode first then go through hardcore with another guy making it a full group. Overall this is an excellent game and I can see myself spending many hours playing.
I made it to act 4 at level 28. The game gets sooo much better after the beta area. Also the game gets a lot harder from about act 3. I had to actually use defensive abilities and with some lucky rates got over 2k hp. Before this I was floating 900 and I would drop so fast I wasnt able to pot or use my invul. Good times.
The item hunt is def there and the story line is pretty cool.
I can't wai for nightmare onwards. I could imagine it getting really difficult in inferno.
Also the amount of abilities you unlock at each level just gets overwhelming. It got to a stage where I sighed that I dinged because it would require me looking at another 3 abilities to add to my other 50. Good and bad I guess.
made it to lvl 15 before i had to go for tv and dinner, then went to get back on and getting error 37 and error 75.. then if i get past that my toons dont load :(
Does anyone have any info of how co-op behaves if you join a friend who is further ahead than you in the quest line? Do you both stay at your own progress level but just share the world?
Does anyone have any info of how co-op behaves if you join a friend who is further ahead than you in the quest line? Do you both stay at your own progress level but just share the world?
If you join someone who is say in Act 2 on the first quest it will start you off there. Not sure if it increases your levels to match what is to be expected in the act/quest line, but you can also choose which act and quest you want to start at when you create a party.
lol servers down for a single player game. how lame.
Diablo 3 isn't a single player game. It is primarily multi-player. When you are playing alone you are doing just that, playing alone in a multi-player game.
On a side note, I'm expecting Ausgamers to give Diablo 3 a 10/10.
Uhm, no seriously, what does happen when you character is killed? I thought it was only in Hardcore mode that there were no respawns. Doesn't it do the same old respawn in town, get to your corpse to grab your gear thing when you're playing in standard mode?
When you die, you can be resurrected by a party memeber or you go back to your local portal stone thing and come back with a durability hit on your items. Not sure about XP and Gold.
edit: O you also get riducled by your party members for being made of weaksauce.
In Hardcore mode, you die gameover styles.
There is a section in your Diablo 3 profile that shows your highest level Hardcore character.
Normal mode is similar to MMO's, you die with the ability to be resurrected or failing that get sent to the closest town. Once there you get a durability hit which can be healed by the healer.
Hardcore mode = dead. You die that is it, character ends and it's all over.
Sorry to anyone I may have inadvertently ignored last night, the chat window is so tiny and stuff scrolls in it so quick, I'm sure I missed a few whispers =\
I'm finding the wizard to be great. Doing some big AOE damage already. I've also been equipping all +x% chance to find magic items. So imagine my delight this morning when I had a brief 10 min game of Diablo 3 before work and hit up my artisan to make a rare helmet and pumped out a nice little helmet for a wizard that has +5% chance to find magic stuff and has a socket hole. Yay.
As a Wizard I'm not entirely sure how much damage my spells, etc are doing. For the weapons it's a case of looking at the damage bracket + bonuses and doing the math - can't see any specifics on the spells. Though I haven't played the game for very long. Any ideas?
parabol: You can turn on advanced tooltips that give more info about the damage spells do, I didn't realise this either till Math told me this morning.
Also, I think you can turn on damage numbers that come off your target so you can see exactly how much damage you're doing.
fucking loving the new skill system with all the runes and shit, only just got up to next bit after killing leoric - so keen to get back into it, stupid sleep needed for work
I really wish i'd been able to take part in the beta to check it out, i am keen to play this, however i only have a couple of year old macbook. while it is apparently just above the minimum specifications, i'm a bit wary of purchasing Diablo 3 only for it to not run smoothly enough to actually play. i don't care about high res or anything, i just mean smoothish on a low setting. my macbook runs starcraft II reasonably, would that be a close enough guide or not really? (cue jokes about macs etc, and realistically, if i wasn't leaving the country later in the year and need to save the cash i would buy a new computer)
I haven't needed to use elective mode, the way its setup seems to work pretty good. Maybe on the higher difficulties it'll be necessary
It's more so there being an option, and I've also switched around a few abilities on my Witch Doctor to fit my play style. Also I don't enjoy the Wizard, spells are awesome and explode things, but just feels clunky.
parabol: You can turn on advanced tooltips | I think you can turn on damage numbers that come off your target so you can see exactly how much damage you're doing.
funky I have the 2010 Macbook (pro) in the 13" i5 line, which is the entry level Macbook (pro) and it handles Diablo very well. I have shadows off but at native res it plays very well and without lagging.
Thanks dranged, but pretty sure mine is lower specced than that, it's not a Pro, and is a Core 2 Duo with the 9400M video card (iirc late 2009 model). from my investigations online it does not appear that buying it is worth it (i.e it can physically open/run the game, then gives like 10-15fps when playing).
My demonhunter is constantly wearing cloud white armour and the wings
oh so i just add the dye effect to any armour and i will keep the dye items, i wasn't sure if it was a one time deal the wording in game almost seems like it was a one use item
the damage your spells do are still a function of what weapons you have equipped so you wanna be carrying the highest dps poo poo you can that's not carrying your wand/voodoo doll/whatever. even if it's a 1h sword with +int, if it's high dps you want that shit
I got a 29 WD and had never used Soul Feast, or whatever that spell is because I thought it was crap. Holy fuck balls it's amazing though. Hit 5 people with it and it gives me 300 int and with my rune heals me for 260 per mob. Puts my damage up to 600% damage done. Got lucky with the last 3 yellows which all had mass int on them.
Sorry to anyone I may have inadvertently ignored last night, the chat window is so tiny and stuff scrolls in it so quick, I'm sure I missed a few whispers =\
I've been complaining in quiet to friends about that since beta. The fact is; in wow you could separate the useless crap out and have a seocnd window for chats or whatever you wanted, just keep adding either tabs or chat windows for your purposes.
Diablo3 loses everything if you play the game at all because every little NPC has giant dialogue text which scrolls your friends right out before you notice.
Oh nice, I didn't know the dyes were unlimited use, I had been saving them up figuring I'd use them on some epic piece of gear I got later.
Also, with regards to the damage on your weapon affecting the damage of your spells, what happens if you have a weapon that has like bonus fire damage or poison damage, does that get factored into your spells at all? Or is it just the base damage of the weapon.
I believe the extra magic damage gets added into the spell, the spell however dictates if it is cold/fire/whatever.
The possible exception is Spectral Blades, that may carry over the weapons attributes.
Other classes may have an exception or two.
Also Whilst DPS may affect the speed of your signature spell, I'm not sure how much effect it has on your big spells.
So as a Wizard it may be more beneficial to have a buff hard hitting slow weapon to get that bit extra out of the 250%+ damages from spells. Anyone know the details?
EDIT: O wait, it might be that all effects are carried over to all skills. So a Life stealing weapon gives your AOE blizzard lifestealing.. That would make for some interesting choices...
EDIT 2: OOO crap, it seems the consensus is that it simply adds to the base damage before calculating skill damage, with the skill setting the type of elemental damage if it has one.
Absolutely love the wd so far but its a bit of a pain trying to keep up with two other people when I can't stop rejigging my spells. Spirit Walk & Soul harvest I cant remove because its so good to be able to safely charge in to a big pack to get your 5 stacks and maybe a mass confuse/horrify. That leaves 4 slots.
Zombie dogs are totally useless as a full time pet, act2 on they die to the first big pack you run into after spawning them. The only viable use for them is with sacrifice but you have to basically dedicate your whole build to make sacrifice worth using. Gargantuan is the other 'full time' pet and its ok, at least it rarely dies. But you won't really miss it unless you are playing solo and need something to tank. Even trying to fill out just three slots is almost an impossible choice because everything is so damn good so no pets it is!
I guess you can't REALLY complain about having too many choices though...
Yeah down since 1.30ish. People dropped from my game and I could keep doing things for a while but then eventually shit the bed and ended up stuck on the character screen, had to abandon ship. Had been working beautifully since the server restart at 8.30 this morning apart from the occasional bit of lag. Act 3 is definitely a huge step up on the first two. Still very easy on normal mode but the sheer number of mobs and abilities they use dramatically increases. Should be epic on the harder difficulties.
My update as I guess I have time with the servers are down:
I have level 19 WD - Liking it but not loving it. I would like to be a full time summoner, but it really doesnt allow for that yet. Some spells are useless (Zombie Dogs) but some are really amazing (Spirit Walk). Elective mode is a must for WD
Level 21 Barb - Im in love. Running Cleave with exploding Corpse rune, Aoe Stun, Aoe Heal Damage move and WW or Smash as Secondary. Barb just can take on anything with dual life leach weapons, and crit passive. I dont stop for anything.
If servers weren't being so gay I would 10/10 but Im gunna have to say 9.8/10 so far. Loving the bulk rare spawns that are actually challenging.
The Americas region is the one being constantly affected by disconnects, just tried Asia and connected perfectly.
Yep gf has been getting discons all teh time from US, changed to asia and all good except lost all the character settings, so guess they havent replicated to other BN servers.
She had only just started the character so recreated and started again, all smooth sailing on asia server.
Zombie dogs with poison attack rune - They die easy but keeps mobs busy and off my butt
Gargantuan with Enrage rune - Turns him into a huge angry man. Might go back to cleave but he is only hitting like 30 damage anyway.
Soul Harvest with Siphon (heal per mob hit) rune - This thing is what makes WD a killer. 60 int per stack, and stacks 5 times. 30 sec on buff and only 15 sec cooldown.
Firebomb with 6-mob-bounce rune - That thing destroys mobs in groups even with the reduction. Just throw them randomly around and it does it's job
Locust Swarm with 2 mob jump rune - this thing is 2nd hardest hitting ability. It can clear an entire room before i've even discovered it on the map because the bounce range is fairly large.
Acid Cloud with 24 yard range rune - This is my big nuke spell. Hits mobs about 250ish and then the actual acid burn happens over 3 seconds for another 150ish.
I love my setup. Total AoE ability and pets to keep shit off me.
If you join someone who is say in Act 2 on the first quest it will start you off there. Not sure if it increases your levels to match what is to be expected in the act/quest line, but you can also choose which act and quest you want to start at when you create a party.
Ah cool, so out of curiosity how does it work with the completion of quests or do you get an easy way to finish an Act if you join at the end?
Locust Swarm with 2 mob jump rune - this thing is 2nd hardest hitting ability. It can clear an entire room before i've even discovered it on the map because the bounce range is fairly large.
The cast range on this is so damn frustrating, im never really sure if I've gotten it out or not... I love haunt so I want to like locust swarm. Are there any runes that increase the initial cast range?
edit: I think it would be better if soul harvest didn't exist. Right now you have no choice but to take it where id rather everything was balanced around not having it and getting the slot back.
So there's crafting in this? LOL, I didn't even know it would be that involved. So far all I've been picking up are weapons and armor so what do you use to craft stuff?
Also, god damn the wizard kicks some serious ass. I'm guessing they all do but I'm really having fun with my wizard atm. Also love how I can equip stuff like shields and bows.
Don't pick up anything except blues and up. The rest is junk and worth nothing. If you don't want to use it take it to the blacksmith (the anvil in town) and salvage for essence. Train your crafting with gold at the smith for higher level recipes and spend essence plus gold to roll on the attributes for that item. Also later you can craft higher level gems at jewellers in town. The same process is used for training to make higher level gems.
Absolutely love the wd so far but its a bit of a pain trying to keep up with two other people when I can't stop rejigging my spells. Spirit Walk & Soul harvest I cant remove because its so good to be able to safely charge in to a big pack to get your 5 stacks and maybe a mass confuse/horrify. That leaves 4 slots.
Zombie dogs are totally useless as a full time pet, act2 on they die to the first big pack you run into after spawning them. The only viable use for them is with sacrifice but you have to basically dedicate your whole build to make sacrifice worth using. Gargantuan is the other 'full time' pet and its ok, at least it rarely dies. But you won't really miss it unless you are playing solo and need something to tank. Even trying to fill out just three slots is almost an impossible choice because everything is so damn good so no pets it is!
I guess you can't REALLY complain about having too many choices though...
I've noticed even in Act 1 in the end dogs are dying instantly, though the DOT rune for them works well. Currently I'm level 13 and have slot 1 as my dogs, 2 is soul harvest, left is poison dart because it just works well and right click is undead grasp with rune.
I can't really afford to get rid of undead grasp as it just works so well for large groups which is what I'm fighting most of the time. Frogs are hilarious but don't serve a good purpose due to small range, so unless I'm right in the midst of them which sometimes I am, it just isn't viable to have.
Edit - Crusher, when you switch server regions your characters won't come over at all. No gold, items, characters or auctions will be transferred.
Eel rune Grasp was what I used until about 27, when I changed it out. The slowing is nice but I found I was using it more to do damage than slow so switched it out for a real dps skill.
Its in the higher difficulties that snares and escapes and other such defensive abilities will really come into their own, not quite as necessary in normal.
Though I still use frost nova and the force wave thing on my wizard atm cos they just rock. The time slowing bubble I don't find to be as good, but it'll probably get better once I have some runes for it.
I wonder if blizzard would say anything if they had been the target of a denial of service attack? I get the feeling they'd probably post it somewhere if that was the case, would be a good way to redirect any anger in the community.
Hell, maybe they should just post it somewhere even if it isn't true. Though by the sounds of it things have eased up now anyways.
So just killed diablo. Act 4 was pretty shit tbh, really short and repetitive. and no town area with new vendors, you just go back to act 3.
Did end up with this though
Nope in fact we were making a point to clear all the floors properly.
Pretty much 19 hours played. I'm sure you could do it much much quicker, spent a lot of time fucking around.
Nope in fact we were making a point to clear all the floors properly.
Pretty much 19 hours played. I'm sure you could do it much much quicker, spent a lot of time fucking around.
That is good then, in that it gives you roughly 19 hours of playtime, which probably translates to more for me as I dawdle and enjoy the scenery.
Is it possible to trade items without using the auction house?
Go into game, drop item on floor press G and click the item to let other person know you put it on floor.
But is there a formal way that is more secure than hoping they'll drop some gold back? I don't think so no.
Stupid skeleton king keeps fucking killing me. Is there any secret to killing him? I've even got that templar guy with me but he's no help.
When he starts spinning around, just walk away so he doesn't hit you? If you get low on HP kill the skeletons and pick up the health orbs? Attack him when he isn't spinning around? TBH i have killed him level 8 every time. You ding level 9 for completing the quest.
Somehow by fate I have obtained an i3 laptop with intel HD graphics 3000 (supported). I'm downloading the client now. Any other cd key sites besides ozsave.com?
You can play solo just fine yes. Actually if you play in a party you miss out on some of your followers chatter. They have some really funny things to say at times, like when you have Leah and the Scoundrel out and he constantly hits on her.
But is there a formal way that is more secure than hoping they'll drop some gold back? I don't think so no.
Right click on tthe player's portrait in the top left that you want to trade with and choose "Trade" from the menu for a proper secure trade interface.
I seem to be averaging about 6 hours per act so far, so it'll probably take me a bit more than 19 hours unless Act 3 and 4 are shorter than 1 and 2.
Stupid skeleton king keeps fucking killing me. Is there any secret to killing him? I've even got that templar guy with me but he's no help.
not setting out to be a prick even though I know this probably sounds like I am, but how on earth do you manage to play wow if you can't kill this boss lol
I just started playing with a guest pass. Somehow, after playing Skyrim, 20 hours of game play seems like nothing at all.
Thats just to complete Normal. Then theres Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno. And thats just with 1 characters, theres five different classes that all play really differently. And then theres Hardcore mode too if you're that way inclined!
The AH is already chock full of items. Kind of overwhelming how much shit is there.
Yeah, I was thinking that when looking through it last night. Its like when WoW launched all over again and people couldn't understand the basics of using the AH. There was like 50+ pages of rares for my level when I looked last night (probably a lot more but 50 is where I stopped checking) that didn't have buyout prices listed. And then the ones that do have buyout prices are usually set ludicrously high. Theres only like a small handful of reasonable, non-shit listings in amongst pages and pages and pages of crap.
Wish there was a way to filter the AH and just ignore listings that didn't have a buyout price.
You would think Blizzard would have the AH action streamlined to perfection by now. Surely they saw this coming, maybe they did and they also expect it to normalize over the next month.
Haha brilliant. How do you get there? I noticed one of the vendors in Act 2 sold an item that was called "Wirt's bell" or something like that for 100k gold, and the tooltip said if you ring it it takes you to a better place, was wondering if that was related.
Spoiler: Black Mushroom - This spawns in Cathedral Level 1, Act 1
Shinbone - Spawns randomly in the fireplace in Leoric's Manor, Act 1
Liquid Rainbow - Spawns in the Mysterious Cave in the Mysterious Chest in the Oasis, Act 2. Save the old man and he will open the chest.
Wirts Bell is sold by a merchants in the city, Act 2.
Gibbering Gemstone - A random drop from Chiltara in the Caverns of Frost, Act 3. It's in the Ballistae fight area. If you get Ice Caverns exit out try again. The mob is random.
The Plans drops randomly from Izual, Act 4.
I haven't got there yet, but this is how apparently
Black Mushroom - This spawns in Cathedral Level 1, Act 1
Shinbone - Spawns randomly in the fireplace in Leoric's Manor, Act 1
Liquid Rainbow - Spawns in the Mysterious Cave in the Mysterious Chest in the Oasis, Act 2. Save the old man and he will open the chest.
Wirts Bell is sold by a merchants in the city, Act 2.
Gibbering Gemstone - A random drop from Chiltara in the Caverns of Frost, Act 3. It's in the Ballistae fight area. If you get Ice Caverns exit out try again. The mob is random.
The Plans drops randomly from Izual, Act 4.
A fair bit of effort. Apparently once you go there you can go anytime, I wonder if 1 person makes the portal for a group, the entire group can go back without the items? I hope that is the case.
also I have a guest pass a regular here can have if they wanna pm me
it only let's you play up to the skeleton king though, not for a limited amount of time.
I love the game but god damn blizzard... just like wow you can't keep your servers stable for shit. They can't go 24 hours without needing to be brought down.
ahh so it has gone down for maintenance again. Annoying that it doesn't give you that message straight away. One time it gave you 15minutes warning in game that it was going down, but other times it just shits the bed and then doesn't come back. Gives you random 37 and other error messages for a while and THEN says it's down for maintenance, after you've wasted time trying to rejoin.
You start running into bosses that 1 shot you. Some are slow moving attacks but others just getting hit by their normal attack flat out kills you. This... would be hard as hardcore.
Yeah if I had a hardcore character I would approach new areas very very slowly and only after running the last multiple times. Really too much time spent farming lower level areas to make it seem fun for me. Or maybe the risk of death is what makes it exciting but then if you do, maxrage.
but the point is there is no finish.. it's all about the endgame loots
Yeah, but I don't care about that stuff. I'm gonna kill the end boss then I'll prolly never play this again. This isn't something that I'd keep playing. I prefer something like WoW where you have more stuff to do. I'm more than happy to just quietly play thru and move on.
12 month subscription and you get free D3, entry into the beta test for the next WoW expansion, and an ingame mount (for WoW). For anyone who plays WoW and would have had an active subscription for those 12 months anyway its essentially free D3, cos you're not paying any more than you otherwise would have.
Khel, I did a quick bit of reading and was comforted about the Belial fight, apparently plenty of people had trouble with that one. We did well to get on our second attempt.
Yeah, we aced it on the second attempt, only time I died on that second attempt was on the bit beforehand where all the serpent guards were chasing us around, cos I was trying to slot in diamond armor while fighting :(
Yer Khel, I saw you standing there with mobs attacking you and thought, 'Hehe he is specing Diamond armour'
I died a fair few times during the fight, I have NO vitality gear at all. Something I'm going to change. Dropping all my +magic find stuff and buffing up. I think I have about 45% extra chance of magic items or something silly like that.
I wish I could have Diamond Skin and Teleport at the same time. I'm loving teleport though.
Just found out that weapon effect such as lifesteal and whatnot do pass through a wizzzzzards spell.
Also an interesting note for you aspiring wizards. Whilst a fast hitting dagger allows quick use of your spells, for half the damage of a slow hitting staff which results in an even DPS. The AP costs are the same.
So your Big hitter uses the same amount of mana as a little hitting dagger. So for nukes a big slow weapon is more efficient use of mana. Something to think about anyway.
Just found out that weapon effect such as lifesteal and whatnot do pass through a wizzzzzards spell.
Also an interesting note for you aspiring wizards. Whilst a fast hitting dagger allows quick use of your spells, for half the damage of a slow hitting staff which results in an even DPS. The AP costs are the same.
So your Big hitter uses the same amount of mana as a little hitting dagger. So for nukes a big slow weapon is more efficient use of mana. Something to think about anyway.
The effects do pass through...if you actually wand lol but there is no point in using your wands attack since your primary costs no mana
geez you guys got far, fuck my work ><
well, if anyones on act 1with a new toon or still on it like my slow ass I'll be on after tea if your keen for a game :P
Just finished the game. Now to do it allllll again in nightmare difficulty. I find that concept to be fairly moronic and lazy tbh.
I found co-op to be fairly fun. And I actually employ more tactics in that than I do single-player.
Single players pretty much the same over and over. Either run in shooting elemental arrows through everything. Or lay a trap to keep them away and elemental arrow through everything. Vault with speed increase makes the game so much better, that or passive 15% movement speed.
The final boss was actually the only challenge in normal for me, I had to change some of my skills to be more target based but apart from that I never had to change my spells apart from when I got new ones.
Would really like an option to at least play offline. Even if it is just a dungeon that lets you try out all the class abilities, something like a training room.
also theyve now implemented queues. only it doesnt tell you what order you're in and you can't do anything else while you're in the queue.. no options, auction house etc. failtown
well it told me i was in a queue, only then i logout and try to get back in and says it's down for maintenance. were they going to just let me sit there forever!?! oh the humanity
you can't do anything else while you're in the queue.. no options, auction house etc. failtown
Thats nothing new, any game ever thats had queues works that way. I mean, if you're in a queue to log into the game, theres not much else you could really be doing, can't use the AH or look at your characters or whatever because you aren't logged in yet.
Not telling you what place you are in the queue is a bit lame though :(
Thats nothing new, any game ever thats had queues works that way. I mean, if you're in a queue to log into the game, theres not much else you could really be doing, can't use the AH or look at your characters or whatever because you aren't logged in yet.
The AH runs on a different server to the play server and the login server. If you're not trying to start a game, you can AH, but if you want to start a game, you lose access while 'queued'. So you just stop queueing and you can access AH.
It's clearly something they could change.
PS: That queue isn't to login, that queue is after login and trying to continue game.
because all your gear and stats are stored online. which is good because it means you can't hack it but annoying if your net is fucking out or blizzard are being shit as is the case lately.
For those who played WoW or other Blizzard server-based games - are there specific times that they most often bring down the servers? e.g.. should I be accepting that I can't play through any night due to highly likely maintenance that time?
which is good because it means you can't hack
Hacking is irrelevant for true single player - since by nature no-one can see you in-game to care about your stats ...
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I believe so parabol - i thought it was Wednesday but maybe that's changed? I forget, i haven't noticed it with SC2 so much anymore it's not often i'll play all night through the week, just between 5pm-10pm at most.
because all your gear and stats are stored online. which is good because it means you can't hack it but annoying if your net is fucking out or blizzard are being shit as is the case lately
That's not good enough....
TBH had i known it was online only I wouldn't of purchased it.
Whilst I love playing it co-op, I don't enjoy being told when I can play a game..
In saying all of that... I didn't research it or look into it, just figured.. DIABLO III FUCK YEAH.
yeah obviously if you never ever have any intention of playing with other people then it's irrelevant but you can play single player through the game but then decide oh I want to play with a friend and you can use the same character.
I'm not defending the decision, blizzard can suck me. I think they definitely should have included an offline mode. Or had open and closed battlenet like in previous diablo games.
Thats nothing new, any game ever thats had queues works that way. I mean, if you're in a queue to log into the game, theres not much else you could really be doing, can't use the AH or look at your characters or whatever because you aren't logged in yet.
Not telling you what place you are in the queue is a bit lame though :(
Except Guild Wars 2. Actually being revolutionary and giving us overflow servers so you can play the game while waiting to get into the actual server.
That doesn't make sense, if they have the resources to run overflow servers, why not just run more normal servers so people don't have to queue in the first place
That doesn't make sense, if they have the resources to run overflow servers, why not just run more normal servers so people don't have to queue in the first place
Let's say you're WoW and you have 50 different servers, but each person's main is only on one. THey only want to play on their one server with their group of friends, or guild.
Their specific server they like is full, and they have to queue for an hour, but there's plenty of other servers, not full, they're not as popular due to various social reasons (bad guilds etc, maybe they're new and so on, good servers having many good raiding guilds etc and therefore more opportunity)
Would you want to be stuck on an empty server with bad guilds who can't raid just to avoid queues, or even just sitting around on an empty server, but with no chance until you queue up again of going back to your home server? Or would you like an overflow server just to help you pass the time until you got onto your main server with your position in line tracked so you can automatically join in with the people you like?
I think there is a major problem happening, no way would Blizzard allow their name to be tarnished because they failed to plan the massive launch they knew they would be getting, maybe for the first day, however 2 days later and stuff like this still happening.
Something went wrong. I just wish companies would be transparent about it, instead of wrapping stuff up as 'maintenance'
This is a 5am 2hr maintenance - hardly some sort of big bad cover up of a larger problem.
If you've ever played wow this is run of the mill and you wouldn't be surprised or upset - just accept it for what it is. Have a wank in the meantime or something. I'm going to catch up on game of thrones.
I was half way through act IV and super keen to finish it tonight.. guess tomorrow morning will be painful getting out of bed.
That doesn't make sense, if they have the resources to run overflow servers, why not just run more normal servers so people don't have to queue in the first place
Basically it means you don't have to start all over again fresh as a daisy, and still enjoy the game with your current character. As well as guilds being multi-server and the ability to swap servers for a small gold fee, Guild Wars 2 is definitely doing server management well. But anyway, too off-topic.
Servers are down for 2 hours now it seems, and sadly can't login to Asian or Europe ones.
Hehe poor toll, i get to play at work. My boss is lanning at his mates place, playing D3 and all i have to do is answer calls and solve problems, which i am fine to do (at his OK) while playing D3. :3
Seriously QQ I've got 200 other games I could play while Diablo is offline, I'm loving the fact it's all online I accidently powered off my computer last night while playing good thing it's online and put me back where I was.
On a more calmer note I'm loving the Barbarian smashing corpses allthe way to act 4
A group of us just finished normal mode last night. I must say I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a game so much with a group of people.
This just reminds me of how awesomely fun coop is. Gone is the frustration of crazy skills and cheese in Starcraft 2. Gone is the pain of painful characters and nooby randoms of DOTA. Instead it's replaced with arcane galaxy throwing, body bashing and giant frogs.
Last night I started using the wizzards lightning attack and fuck me dead it's powerful. I can stand on one side of the screen and attack creatures on the other side and they have no chance of getting me. I bit cheaty but god damn it's fun. Also, I only realized if you hold down the shift key you can stand still and shoot off spells without accidently walking into the mobs. I'm such a noob.
Despite the server issues, in the couple days since launch to 10pm last night I managed to log 23 hours game time and wrap up normal. That's enough time in the game cave for the kids to scream DADDYYYyyy and clutch my legs when I stumble out for refreshments.
If there was an offline single player mode I doubt I'd use it, even during server downtime. And that's no bullshit - during Americas maintenance we noticed that Asia was up and nobody started playing there (starting fresh with no blacksmith or gold or anything just wasn't very appealing). I'm kind of glad my DIablo III wasn't delayed for a single day to implement offline mode given that "Realms" play is solid this time, when available anyway.
It gets harder later rev with groups of Teleporting Elites, they screw your ranged up quite nicely.
I found out last night that at Level 24 I have only 900 HP's, I do about 180Damage for a normal hit with 1.5 hits per second. I'm thinking I may need 2 sets of items, one for group mode for mass AOE damage and a solo set for survivability.
The group I'm playing with has started up hardcore characters on the Asia servers for use during the downtime. Works well as they dont share blacksmith/gold with your normal mode characters.
Loving the demonhunter the twin chakram spam is just like playing a hammerdin again, hatred regen is high enough that I can just constantly cast without pause :)
Yeah, maybe its just cos I've been playing MMOs so I'm used to the concept, but I don't mind it being online at all, in fact I think I prefer it. It has its downsides, but it has some big advantages too and (imo) the advantages outweight the downsides.
Yeah, maybe its just cos I've been playing MMOs so I'm used to the concept, but I don't mind it being online at all, in fact I think I prefer it. It has its downsides, but it has some big advantages too and (imo) the advantages outweight the downsides.
Absolutely.
WHY ARE YOU TAUNTING ME SO ON MY "WORK AT HOME" DAY!@
Haha this is why I came to work, was going to 'work from home' but it soon became apparent that this was going to be diablo3 on monitor 1, outlook on monitor 2 :p
bah. So far I've had time to play a collective total of one hour of Diablo 3 last night. Evidently I've had to give up computer games for sex - who'd have thought? :/
Last night I started using the wizzards lightning attack and fuck me dead it's powerful. I can stand on one side of the screen and attack creatures on the other side and they have no chance of getting me. I bit cheaty but god damn it's fun. Also, I only realized if you hold down the shift key you can stand still and shoot off spells without accidently walking into the mobs. I'm such a noob.
After reading a post on reddit I changed up my stand still key from shift to the space bar. Feels better as my thumb rests on the space bar and I just press down to stand still.
Right click on tthe player's portrait in the top left that you want to trade with and choose "Trade" from the menu for a proper secure trade interface.
But obviously you can only do this in a game you're playing together like coop or something?
i finally realised in nightmare how to do more damage on my WD.. so i look up a vit/int/dps 2 hander and snapped up a ripper for 2500.. most of the similar ones were going for 100k.. the thing is how much of a change it was.. i could solo again even in groups of 2-3
went from a 30dps 1 hander to a 100 dps 2 hander.. sexy
also as a tip while your learning the classes and skills
choose options>gameplay> show advanced tooltips - which then shows the damage modifiers for your skill
also
options>gameplay>elective mode - to be able to customise your button loadout
Seems like it's going to be pretty easy mode until inferno. While it's nowhere near as fun the game is way too easy if you're soloing yet it seems like the drops are just as good. And the ah is now flooded with really good gear you can pickup for like 20k a piece. Smithing becomes completely pointless after normal, especially given how much it costs to train.
Halfway through act 3 on nightmare and doing 2.5k dps and 17k health on my barb is way op even with very cheap and available gear. Run into the occasional champ with freezing or chains that can hurt you a bit but the average mob has been one or two hit since starting pretty much. His earthquake ability is hilarious, 2000% of damage = instarape.
Seems like it's going to be pretty easy mode until inferno. While it's nowhere near as fun the game is way too easy if you're soloing yet it seems like the drops are just as good. And the ah is now flooded with really good gear you can pickup for like 20k a piece. Smithing becomes completely pointless after normal, especially given how much it costs to train.
Halfway through act 3 on nightmare and doing 2.5k dps and 17k health on my barb is way op even with very cheap and available gear. Run into the occasional champ with freezing or chains that can hurt you a bit but the average mob has been one or two hit since starting pretty much. His earthquake ability is hilarious, 2000% of damage = instarape.
Don't say something is easy until you've played the hardest difficulty. Even though hell isn't the hardest you will wipe 10 times every elite pack you find.
I guess you can argue hell is less hard more time consuming if you have a little bit of skill as the only reason you die is coz the mobs out gear you if you progress at a fastish rate.
Also inferno is pretty funny.
Wtf, how are people so far through? Do you not sleep?
Abut 6 hours every night with s full day of uni on Wednesday. Played 38 hours according to the profile.
My site has been dormant for a while but I have recently updated it with mostly latest skill info and I have fixed up a bunch of the forum software to allow people to post links to items and specs with fancy tooltips and whatnot.
I wish there was a way to make myself appear offline on battlenet or something. Not for anti-social reasons, but like last night for example I wanted to play solo for a bit, and when people asked to join my game and I had to tell them no I felt like an asshole =\
Maxed out my starter edition character to level 13 and put about 40,000 into blacksmithing so I could craft shoulder pads which don't seem to drop in starter edition. KEK
The server situation is a bit of a catch-22. I can usually connect to The Americas but at times the lag is horrendous. Whereas I have had a lot of trouble getting on to Asia.
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Played about an hour and a half or so and its looking pretty promising, although the lag is a serious killer for me. Sometimes, although rarely, it warps and/or doesn't attack. Very frustrating, but not frequent enough to be a serious issue.
Fuck me some of you guys are on high levels already...
yeah not sure if it's just because it's the weekend so loads more people are online or if they fucked something with the last update/restart but it is pretty unplayable atm. fun game but blizzard have managed to fuck up a hell of a lot with the launch.
Extremely unplayable at the moment, I venture into a pack of demons and get slaughtered because it turns into a waiting game for the latency to catch up. Still begs the question why EA can afford Oceanic servers yet Blizzard can't and probably won't.
the forums are filled with complaints about the latency issues too. there's even a post from blizzard asking people to do traces to try to find the issue. haha gg
I wish there was a way to make myself appear offline on battlenet or something. Not for anti-social reasons, but like last night for example I wanted to play solo for a bit, and when people asked to join my game and I had to tell them no I felt like an asshole =\
There is a solution to this under the social options, can't remember the exact wording but it basically turns of the ability for people to jump into your games.
God lag is horrible tonight, even my special proxy thing isn't doing a ms of difference. Finally finished Act 1 at 15hrs 2mins game play - fucks me how people can do that in half the time as I thought I was caining pretty hard through it.
There is a solution to this under the social options, can't remember the exact wording but it basically turns of the ability for people to jump into your games
Fuck me that is annoying when that happens. It should be turned off by default and a yes or no option to group. I was playing jut before and suddenly I have someone with me and I'm like what the fuck. I just wanna play by myself.
Anyway, almost finished it. It's getting pretty hairy towards the end up heaven. If I had not of bought armor off the AH I would have been fucked I think. Even now I don't think I'll be able to finish it without at least having someone else in the party with me. I guess we'll find out.
Also. How good are the cut scenes?? Fuck me dead they look gorgeous.
I was playing as a WD on The Americas and got stuck with lag and couldn't move. So I'm thinking ok, I'll just wait for a minute. Three minutes later and I was still fucking stuck, even though my ping was fine. Had to exit :[
Yay, servers are being brought down for "scheduled" maintenance. Least it's only 30 minutes, just annoying that I was enjoying my singleplayer game and get interrupted.
You'd think at the very least they would have redundancy so they don't have to disconnect their entire customer base for hours at a time.
It's amazing how when Ubisoft did an always online for single player games they were pretty much attacked from all sides but when Blizzard do an even worse effort of it people come out in droves to defend it. Blizzard are the new Apple, create a polished turd that's overly restrictive, cost more than it's competitors and has less features and people will still defend it until they are blue in the face.
yeah i just found another video of him, the voice is a put on but i think the guy still has rage issues
right at the end of that video i posted just then he is jamming the soul stone from the collectors edition into his head and in the next video he is like `i cut myself a few times erarlier this week sticking the soul stone into my head` and has marks on his forehead
It's amazing how when Ubisoft did an always online for single player games they were pretty much attacked from all sides but when Blizzard do an even worse effort of it people come out in droves to defend it.
I think you're oversimplying the situation a bit. Ubisoft's thing was pure DRM that provided no benefits at all to the user, whereas Blizzard is more about offering a service (as is obvious from any interviews with them about Battlenet from the past few years), and piracy prevention is just one of the perks of the service. It does however provide a lot of advantages and benefits to the user, and yeah the D3 launch has been pretty shit so far, but if you can't see the benefits in the long term and can't see the disadvantages in the old way D2 did things, then you're just as blind as the fanboys who will rabidly defend them.
I think you're oversimplying the situation a bit. Ubisoft's thing was pure DRM that provided no benefits at all to the user, whereas Blizzard is more about offering a service (as is obvious from any interviews with them about Battlenet from the past few years), and piracy prevention is just one of the perks of the service. It does however provide a lot of advantages and benefits to the user, and yeah the D3 launch has been pretty shit so far, but if you can't see the benefits in the long term and can't see the disadvantages in the old way D2 did things, then you're just as blind as the fanboys who will rabidly defend them.
Yay and nay really. I can see the notion of protecting your service, and it was obviously inevitable when you want to ensure no one is duping/hacking like the days of D1 and D2, however what we have is some form of an abomination. I've paid $50 for a product that is being dictated by servers as to when I can and can not play, even if I intend to actually play solo. That isn't right, and should never be defended.
It strikes me that Blizzard were so comfortable to develop software that essentially stops me from enjoying my singleplayer game, a part that should obviously be offline. Could it be the inclusion of the Real Money Auction House that has caused this? They see such a large profit that they obviously want to protect that over enjoyment for fans?
Currently, I'm enjoying Diablo 3 a lot. It is a great game, and a joyful sequel to the long running series. However it has some serious flaws for a modern title, and as Gabe Newell said "make the service enjoyable, and the fans will spend their money". Why can I not play offline? Why not make it two separate occasions? Did they expect a backlash if they offered a offline service? Would people be angry if they couldn't transfer their offline characters to the online section? I know Diablo has always been about co-op, but what's the harm in giving a player more options?
Ok so I just had an interesting and bloody annoying issue. Wanted to play some coop with a mate and we couldn't add each other... turned out I was in Americas and he was in Europe for whatever reason. Neither of us had changed the server settings.
So I jumped on Europe server and bang, I lose my characters, gold etc etc. It appears each character is tied to the region rather than the battlenet account which is horrible. Long story short, we are now unable to play together with the characters we've been working on (me about 8 hours - him about 9) unless one of us starts again, which even if we do, the other will still have their gold etc.
This seems like a bunch of bs to me, why the hell can we not play together with our characters?! I'm concerned that if I try to play with some other mates I've been wanting to we'll run into a similar issue. I've looked around a bit and it appears there is no way to transfer a character from one region to another. This is bullshit, all they needed was a disclosure at the start saying something like "pick your server - you will only be able to add friends and play with characters from the same server" or similar. Just something to make me think about it and discuss it with my mates before sinking 10 hours into it.
All this other shit about connection issues and sp actually requiring online, while its bullshit I've actually been ok with it, but seriously fuck this shit. I had zero idea that characters would be locked to a region.
/rant
edit: I've since read it on various sites that this was the case since the behinning- I didn't followed this game all that much prerelease tbh. Still think its fucking bs to not tell people who aren't on their forums.
a) huge hit-box, making it hard to avoid damage
b) server latency issues (dying from latency is +rage, esp. if in hardcore)
c) items with non-character specs (i.e. wands with +str... WTF?)
d) the need to purchase a $50 strategy guide, so you can get the best of the game (initially thought you could only choose the spells they list in the 1,2,3,4 hotkey abilities... WTF blizzard?!)
I do like the lore in this game though, makes it like a book.
Why can I not play offline? Why not make it two separate occasions?
Because its a lot more work for little to no payoff? When the whole game is built from the ground up to be so heavily integrated with Battlenet and be played online, it wouldn't be a trivial task to just rip all that out and have an offline version. They have a huge list of features they could have put in the game, but since they only have limited resources, the priorities at the top of the list are the ones that get addressed (they've even said as much in a few of the D3 interviews). I'm not making any comment on whether this is "right" or "wrong" or "good" or "bad" but thats just how it works.
Blizzard these days see themselves as a service oriented company rather than a product oriented company. Everything is being integrated with Battlenet and the way they look at it, they're selling you a license to access the service, and a client to access it with, rather than just a standalone game.
The thing is, alllllllllll this was known 18 months ago, people have had a long time to decide they didn't like it and not buy the game. So I don't get where all the rage and "Fuck you for making me always play online" angst is coming from, you knew what you were getting yourself in for and you still bought it. And if you didn't know what you were getting yourself in for, well maybe you should have read some reviews before blindly going out and purchasing a game based on hype! Lesson learned for next time?
Personally I don't care, I don't think its great, and I don't think its the death of PC gaming, I just literally don't care. I've been playing MMOs for so long that I don't even think twice about a game that works this way, to me its par for course. Whether thats a good thing or a bad thing, I don't really know, but at least its prepared me to deal with the ups and downs of the online experience and not let it ruin my enjoyment of the game, so I guess thats a plus.
I gotta say, despite the few issues I've encountered (only really affected by the two hour down time earlier in the week) this is one of the smoothest 'first weeks' of a game I've encountered in recent history.
I wasn't spamming @ 5pm on Tuesday, and haven't racked up dozens of hours, but aside from the odd lag spike, the whole thing has been seamless.
yeah i am with Ivy_mike, havent had many issues apart from the odd lag spike
whingers are always doing to whinge
i think you are naive if you thought this was going to be completely smooth perfect launch, i have no doubt the blizzard guys did all they could before launch to make it smooth but in reality - _shit happens_ and the amount of server down time is a pain in the ass for your francis types but it shows they arent just sitting on their asses before doing anything like dice did with battlefield
just settle the fuck down in a couple of weeks you wont even remember any of the issues
Was one of the better examples of a poor launch that I could thinking of. BF3 was smooth by comparison to BF:BC2's launch on PC (the beta was more stable than the 'retail release' was for a NUMBER of months.)
The only time I haven't been able to play was Thursday night and last night I had to wait 20 minutes before servers were up (I cbf'd and went to bed). In the grand scheme of launches it's really not that bad, the total time I spent waiting for servers to come up is probably 1/20th of the queue time I had waiting to log in to Swiftsure.
D3 is not a single player game any more, it's pretty obvious from the "An internet connection is required to play this game" on the box through to numerous interviews and reviews of the game over the past few years mentioning this. Games franchises and companies change direction all the time and this is no different.
Maybe all the people complaining should band together, start up a Kickstarter project and build their own single player, mouse button destroying RPG!
I guess that is the nature of today's technology, that everyone is somehow connected. As I said though I am enjoying it immensely, just annoys me every now and then when I die to a pack of wasps while soloing because I lagged so much. Just how the cookie crumbles it seems.
The only time I haven't been able to play was Thursday night and last night I had to wait 20 minutes before servers were up (I cbf'd and went to bed). In the grand scheme of launches it's really not that bad, the total time I spent waiting for servers to come up is probably 1/20th of the queue time I had waiting to log in to Swiftsure.
You right it's not a bad launch. Far better than the WoW launch.
d) the need to purchase a $50 strategy guide, so you can get the best of the game (initially thought you could only choose the spells they list in the 1,2,3,4 hotkey abilities... WTF blizzard?!)
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Mate just curious, do you mean enabling elective mode for this or is there some trick to getting more of the spells to show in your toolbar?
cause I care you can't log in? I only care that you are rewarding a terrible company for terrible products and service.
Blizzard, a terrible company? You fail.
my main dislikes for this game so far are...
a) huge hit-box, making it hard to avoid damage
b) server latency issues (dying from latency is +rage, esp. if in hardcore)
c) items with non-character specs (i.e. wands with +str... WTF?)
d) the need to purchase a $50 strategy guide, so you can get the best of the game (initially thought you could only choose the spells they list in the 1,2,3,4 hotkey abilities... WTF blizzard?!)
A and B, fair enough, I've had no problems with it though.
c, I personally really like that weapon stats are not class specific. It allows me to run around currently with a kickass sword and shield for my wizzard, I really like that.
d. If you need the strat guide, your Google Fu is weak.
I agree with you Khel, you're dead on. The whole needing to be online hasn't bothered me at all and I see why it would be necessary for them to go down this path. It would be nice if the servers were closer to home though.
The only thing that has genuinely bothered me is the regional character bs (see my rant above). This aside the game is awesome fun, the attention to detail is stunning, the cutscenes are blowing my mind and its just a highly polished game overall and I'm not seeing any serious issues at all.
i just got a guest pass off a mate, downloaded the 7gb client, tried to add the key and it told me it couldn't be activated. is there something obvious that i'm not doing?
i just got a guest pass off a mate, downloaded the 7gb client, tried to add the key and it told me it couldn't be activated. is there something obvious that i'm not doing?
Every time I've entered a code on battlenet I've done it in the wrong place lol, I'd bet you've done the same.
also khel, it's still DRM no matter what spiel you put on it.
Yeah, it is still DRM, my point was more that Ubisoft's always-online thing is for no other reason but DRM and it gives absolutely no value to the game or the player, its just nothing but cons on the pros and cons list (well, from the gamers perspective anyway, I'm sure Ubisoft thinks its a pro). Whereas Blizzard is offering a whole service, and DRM is part of that sure, but it offers a lot more to the end user and adds a lot more value to the game from a gamer's perspective than just purely being a DRM solution.
I dunno, thats just my take on it, admitedly I do like Blizzard so I'm possibly biased but I'm not a rabid fanboy that will blindly praise them for everything they do. I just don't think they've really committed any grevious sins with what they've done with D3, its not like they sprang it on an ususpecting audience, they made it very clear that this is the direction they're going in now with the games.
act 3 nightmare is starting to get a little difficult on my barb, particularly when you enter a new area with 0 fury and get a named. earthquake isn't really as OP anymore.
Just killed Diablo by myself. Died the first go but managed to get him on the second. Blew a shitload of health pots and swore enough to make a sailor blush. I don't care what anyone says but the normal mode for him was pretty challenging. Well for me it was.
I've found the wonders of the AH. Some insane items there. I set max buyout price of around 10,000 then sort by lowest first. I got a 46 dps, 60 dex 140 vit 1 handed demon hunter crossbow for 2000g. Really loving the game but wish to christ you could play it offline. I thought the always online thing was just to login, not that you could only play it like WoW. Not a fan of that.
In spite off all the server problems and lag I still have a lot of good things to say about this game.
It is really polished, I haven't noticed any bugs. The voice-acting, music and overall atmosphere is great. It runs really well on my six year old machine which is below minimum specs. Even with a room full of skeletons and spells going off it is still playable.
I only have the starter edition as my copy is still coming in the mail. Playing the same game over and over with all the different classes up until Leoric has still been a ton of fun.
The only thing that has genuinely bothered me is the regional character bs (see my rant above).
I think where they have really fucked up in on this because of this combination:
1. the default region is determined by the version you install (en-GB is Europe, en-US is Americas) instead of defaulting to your IP's location
2. For a number of people who bought online, battle.net was giving out the en-GB version which for Australians defaults to the wrong region
So now we have some Australians playing en-GB version, and some playing en-US version. Unless you knew ahead of time about this, Blizzard have divided the Australian player base.
I emailed everyone I knew would play D3 ahead of time and warned them to check its set to Americas before playing. Its a stupid problem to have; if you let us play on multiple regions how about just asking during initial login which region you want?
I emailed everyone I knew would play D3 ahead of time and warned them to check its set to Americas before playing. Its a stupid problem to have; if you let us play on multiple regions how about just asking during initial login which region you want?
Exactly my thoughts, see I had no idea about the regions going into it - i just wanted to play. If I was warned upon initial login all would've been good.
edit2; to give a real post, i think the biggest letdown to me is the music. Other than that it's ok, level 30+ starts to add more toughness (my level 46 barb can easily be killed if i lapse attention for a second with casters or blue mobs with lasers etc)
I watched the Behind the Scenes dvd the other night during maintenance, and I think the reason it took them so long is it sounds like the game went through many different iterations. Like it started att Blizzard North while Blizzard north was still around, then when it got up and running again witth a new team they pretty much started from scratch and went back to the drawing board for it, and then all through development it sounds like they built and rebuilt things they werren't happy with and then iterated over them again and again.
Jay Wilson even comments on how the way they work at Blizzard ends up making their games take a really long time to make, but they don't care because it means they end up with really high quality stuff. Like originally Leah was going to be a ranger you met in the forest who was killing demons because she had a grudge against them, then she became the daughter of the Dark Wanderer, and it went from there till she is the character she is now. And even once they had the character nailed down they went through heaps of iterations of what she'd actually look like, even to the point where the cinematics team had the intro cinematic made, and then they changed what Leah looked like, so the cinemattics team threw out what they had and built a completely different intro cinematic.
yeah i was going to say, i reckon most of why it has taken so long is that they keep changing their mind and changing things a lot - until they are happy with it
I'm enjoying the game immensely. I've played with other people almost exclusively with the exception of probably 15 levels with a Barb when everyone else was sleeping. Multiplayer with friends is the best way to play this game, hands down.
Does the game have a few issues? Sure, it's not perfect. Do those issues seriously detract from the game - no.
I've found the wonders of the AH. Some insane items there. I set max buyout price of around 10,000 then sort by lowest first. I got a 46 dps, 60 dex 140 vit 1 handed demon hunter crossbow for 2000g. Really loving the game but wish to christ you could play it offline. I thought the always online thing was just to login, not that you could only play it like WoW. Not a fan of that.
I only survived against Diablo himself after picking up a couple of bits of new gear from the AH. Then again I had to hit the AH a few times as I wasn't finding anything weapon wise that would help me. I think I had a level 12 weapon on me when I was level 26 as every other weapon I found was crap or a sword/dagger/hammer which isn't useful for a Demon Hunter.
Yeah, you don't get very good drops along the way. There's no way in hell (rofl) that I could have finished it without buying stuff off the AH. I was still in low lvl gear in my mid 20's because there's nothing better. Just glad I had an assload of gold and didn't waste it on crafting.
i love bashing those baskets full of sacrificial heads, i wish there was a room full of them.
Exploding head baskets should be in the towns.
Guess I'm lucky in that all my drops have been high magic level or yellow. I'm in Act 2 at the moment and the Oasis is beautiful. Absolutely stunning how good the art is. It seems the lag has died off, that or its dependent on when the Americans are awake. Getting 200ms now and only slightly warping in some very rare cases.
I see no value in the Gold AH at this moment, it's filled with junk or just every blue that a player hasn't salvaged. I've got 4 legendary items that I'll be auctioning on the RMAH, hopefully some hungry jacks change.
In general the loot system is a bit fucked. You are in say, act 3, and around Lv 25ish or more but finding drops for lv 15 - 18? I want drops that are actually current, not something that will be of use for another character who is 10 levels below me.
Yeah the 400ms ping times are killer when you are playing a monk that likes to teleport around the place and you rubberband back into a bunch of elites and get potatowned.
I just hope these are release issues that eventually will be fixed and I'll be playing on 200ms pings in future.
Yeah the 400ms ping times are killer when you are playing a monk that likes to teleport around the place and you rubberband back into a bunch of elites and get potatowned.
I just hope these are release issues that eventually will be fixed and I'll be playing on 200ms pings in future.
Let us hope for 30-40ms pings if Blizzard ever gives us local servers. That's what I don't get, if they give us local servers, their games will sell double easily. People will see that they can finally experience their games at the ping level that Americans and Europeans have been able to enjoy for years, and buy the game without hesitation.
That's what I don't get, if they give us local servers, their games will sell double easily
I disagree as I'm fairly sure latency never crossed the minds of >99% of people prior to playing the game for the first time, much less before purchase.
Even for the small number of people who did consider latency before buying, most would likely have bought it anyway.
The perfectionist in me is really making the Act's last longer. I must check every nook and cranny and ensure every body is not left unturned.
I disagree as I'm fairly sure latency never crossed the minds of >99% of people prior to playing the game for the first time, much less before purchase.
Even for the small number of people who did consider latency before buying, most would likely have bought it anyway.
That could be true, but many are now wanting local servers, and really it would only help them and not hinder.
Forever i'll be promoting that I want blizzard to have local servers. However, im not voting with my wallet so i keep proving them right.
It makes me sad, in the mornings and early afternoons i'm seeing above 600ms pings but in the evenings i see <200ms. My pings to american websites don't change though. Im thinking that their servers/networks slow down during the high population times which doubles or triples by the time it comes to our shores..
And yeah the arcane mobs are still mean.
Edit: Biggest annoyance, just to tack on, is the skill bar isn't locked in elective mode. This is a huge con as if you drag a skill off the bar, apart from it being not able to be selected, it actually totally removes it so putting it back causes the cooldown. It's killed me before and it just did then. Quick google says the best way is to disable elective mode and enable it again to change skill assignments. ohwell a clickable option like in every other blizzard game (starcraft, world of warcraft, etc) would have been expected but that'll do.
That could be true, but many are now wanting local servers, and really it would only help them and not hinder.
Only the people who have already purchased the game are "wanting local servers", as you need to experience the latency first-hand to have an idea whether it affects you and to what extent, as user reports on long-term server stability aren't really available (to help people decide whether to buy or not) in the first few days after launch - when I assume most of the sales occur.
Not much incentive this late for Blizzard to invest in Australian servers as:
1. The money has already been handed over from the customer, and
2. The problem doesn't affect most of their user-base
3. The problem isn't that crippling
4. Most users are raving about the game.
Not defending Blizzard, but just pointing out the reality of the situation from their perspective. Ideally I would like to have local servers too.
saint's monk does the opposite, pulls them all in so the meteors smash them
or maybe it was boba's barb, I don't know what abilities the other classes get past level 13
I dont agree, or at least not for level 20 to 30 gear. There are lots of rares with buyouts in the 1000-2000 gold range , its easily the most effective way to get the right gear atm. Its not true of ALL armor slots, but you can easily spend as little as 10000-15000 and get half a dozen rares that are appropriate for you at my current level.
TL;DR auction house is good value if you're <= 30, perhaps someone who is further in can comment on the higher levels.
I feel like rares drop so frequently that this is probably expected - and since they aren't soul bound even things that are useful at your level you can pass on when you level up more. With the ten item auction limit I've even started to just vend some of the crappier rares since I have such a big pile of mats already.
Not sure if Eorl knows how to use the AH filters properly? I'm 50 and check the AH a few times per game session and usually buy at least one thing. I manage to sell a lot of yellows, mostly those with a prime stat + vit.
Watching Method this morning via a stream (the guys who broke Inferno 4-man) this is pretty common, even at the top echelon of play :)
I haven't really checked the AH as extensively as I should be, but from what I saw at my level items were either useless junk or the prices were something like 10,000+ gold.
I haven't really checked the AH as extensively as I should be, but from what I saw at my level items were either useless junk or the prices were something like 10,000+ gold.
What level are you? 10k isn't a fortune. At 50 I've picked up over 500k, got the achieve for it.
Lots of people are using the AH to pimp their lower level chars at the moment, my 17 mage is wearing about 50-60k in AH items, so this sort of twinking will inflate the bottom end a little.
I found that playing with a group of friends helps heaps. There's more loot being dropped, and generally people are happy to pass stuff around if it's gear that would be great for another class.
I must say I've hardly used the AH, I'm concentrating more on upgrading my crafters which are the ultimate money sink. I also spent probably a bit too much on using them too which may have been better directed at the AH!
If only playing 4 player yeah, gearing isn't HARD but still there's times where it's just almost impossible to continue to be happy with your class until you realise weapons you have are like 30-40dps too slow for what you want.
I went from 4k crits to 8k crits from one AH 10k purchase on my barb.
Not sure if Eorl knows how to use the AH filters properly?
Quite possibly this, I start with my Max Buyout at 2000 and item level 25-30 when I'm currently 30, and tweak the max buyout up/down until I only have 1 page of items to look at
What level are you? 10k isn't a fortune. At 50 I've picked up over 500k, got the achieve for it.
Lots of people are using the AH to pimp their lower level chars at the moment, my 17 mage is wearing about 50-60k in AH items, so this sort of twinking will inflate the bottom end a little.
Level 27 so the items at my level are priced at really stupid amounts. Though I was able to place a lower price of 100,000 on one of my legendaries so win win for me.
I sell most of my gear on the auction house for a buyout of 1000 or less, same price as I buy most gear. I would rather turn shit over quickly for a small profit rather than wait for ages to make a slightly bigger one. If you set buyout low its the first item people see when they search. I haven't spent more than 3000G on any single item in the AH (except maybe some gems that were expensive when the game first released. 1 week on and prices have fallen dramatically)
I've had absoultly no reason to use the AH. My lvl 40 Wizzzzard does 1600 DPS, if I went to the AH I might be able to bump that up some more, but mobs die pretty quickly to my antics as it is.
don't think so. went to diablo3.com/guest and entered it in there under my battlenet account. just like it says on the damn thing
might be that guest accounts are currently suspended?
my cousin managed to activate one within the hour of the game going live, however i was not able to invite my brother because they had suspended it for the moment.
make sense.. they were having enough trouble with fully fledged customers.
I've had absoultly no reason to use the AH. My lvl 40 Wizzzzard does 1600 DPS, if I went to the AH I might be able to bump that up some more, but mobs die pretty quickly to my antics as it is.
Between 40-48 my DPS went from 1000 to 2200. Items dropped don't really keep up so well. You usually get rares or blues which are level 20~ with terribly useless stats, and when something drops which is your level it's 6 things are cold resist, magic find, gold and helth globe pickup range, +exp per kill, thorns damage. Just completely useless.
As you get higher the variations of items gets larger, bleeding effects, resistances, etc spin out of control to mean that the stat you use is a 1/15 chance of being on an item, and when it's on an item it's got a chance of being 1-100 points. And most of the time you need an item with both your primary stat and vitality, making the whole thing a 1/30 chance to have what you want, on the unlikely chance you get a item of near your current level which is of a quality above a white.
I dye all my gear invisible so that way i know how long it takes me to replace my gear. Every time i town i have a look before selling to see if an item is better or not, i've been clear for 6 hours of gameplay at this point. Thats in 6 hours i haven't changed any gear. I've levelled a bunch of times, but every piece of my gear is the same.
Just got disconnected as I was about to zone to a level 2 of a dungeon -_-
Also, gold sellers are appearing now, just got an invite from one with the message as their website spiel.
Out of curiosity, i earned more than 250k in gold in the last couple of days of playing, even if i AH i have plenty to totally replace my gear on my character with the gold in my stash. They'd have to be insanely low prices to have any meaning at all. Once i realised i had 400 of each of the basic crafting materials and 100 of each of the rare ones, plus 80~ blacksmithing pages, i stopped salvaging and just started selling my blues. Those i speak with in game don't seem to be struggling for cash. In WoW people would beg you for loans and just plain beg you for cash. In this though it seems pretty affluent.
edit: just as a thought, the other reason the AH kind of works is because of all the stuff that drops that is no good and i sell, i've got plenty of money to buy the stuff that i do want from the AH.
Yer I gave the AH a go and bought a weapon to bring that DPS from 1600 to 2450, all for 1000g lol
It started a slippery slope. It is a bit annoying when you look through and you think, 'WOW that item is excellent for that cost, buy' ... that item no longer on the AH.. Someone bought it in the 5 seconds it took for me to evaluate and clock buy. Happened twice :(
Skythra, it was $9 gets you 100k gold. However I'm just like you, getting so many ingredients from salvaging that I don't even bother any more, and can easily come out of just a dungeon with 10k+ in gold with a inventory full of magical.
Ah yeah i couldn't see anyone going for that kind of price.. although later i suppose it'll all change once the real money AH comes online. I wonder how long it'll be till there are thousands of chinese farming with 500% magic drop sets to find that one specifc item stat combination that everyone wants.
i am level 32 or something... and definitely short of cash at this point
tell me how i get some of this cash hehe
does it get easier or something the higher u get?
Easiest way is to find gear with sockets, and just put +gold find in them, or +magic find, which should increase your gold revenue. Go back to earlier dungeons that you can clear out easily and farm it a few times.
Dont hesitate on AH. If it looks good, or too good to be true buy it. If you hesitate it will sell. If you stuff up and its not what you need, 90% of the time you can resell at the same value.
I'm 42 and have 2500, It is getting harder to bump it up then what it once was.
Now I'm trying to stack myself with +Crit Damge/chance, damage and intelligence.
I have a 129 DPS dagger I bought from AH, with a Radiant Ruby attached. Turns out having raw damage +'s is better then the +40% crit damage. So I'm on the hunt for weapons that give a passive + 30%+ crit damage, +3%+ crit chance and a socket for my Radiant Ruby. My offhand also needs +damage on it otherwise I wont bother.
Protip, items with +Vit, +damage sell extremely quickly on AH for anything under 10,000.
Protip, items with +Vit, +damage sell extremely quickly on AH for anything under 10,000.
More generally, items with +Vit and +PrimaryStat sell well. So anything that has high int, str, dex (or awesome damage / crit / whataver the cool kids are stacking) will do well.
does crit %/crit damage do anything when like me as a witch doctor i only use ranged skills that have nothing to do with the damage of my weapin itself ie. firebomb as left click and acid rain as right click?
does crit %/crit damage do anything when like me as a witch doctor, i only use ranged skills that have nothing to do with the damage of my weapon itself ie. firebomb as left click and acid rain as right click?
Every spell is based off your weapon damage, including those spells.
I'm level 32 and sitting on 297dps and 1440 health. Getting one shot in Act IV on normal is not cool. Guess that's what I get for stacking dexterity and not strength or vitality as well.
Got my first legendary today which happened to be plans for an entire set (2 armor parts and 1 weapon) of blacksmithable items for Lv 21. SCORE! Better than a weapon I likely couldn't use imo. Though they do cost me like 150 blue and 50 yellows on top of like 8k to craft each part.
EDIT - Also eorl go to the auction house and put in you want items that are like lv 28 - 30 and have vit and dex on them. You can find some really high stat filled items there (i found one which had 140 vit and 60 dex for DH). If you are lucky there is a slot too so you can stick in a red gem to boost the damage. Set max buyout price to like 10,000 and sort lowest first. That's what I do when I want an upgrade.
EDIT 2 - Just incase you are wondering what the items are like, here are the stats. The chest is damn good because of the super high Vit for it's level.
I've been unable to sell anything in the AH. Even putting items up at ridiculously cheap prices (10% the value of other similar rare weapons or armour).
I'm 52 on my Barb now with approx:
- 4600 Damage (Legendary 1 Hand and Rare Shield)
- 23000 Hp (To Low - WTB MORE)
- 3200 Armor (I think its about 48% Dmg reduction)
- 7.5% Dmg to Life Steal (To Low (Note: Using 3% Passive aswell), I need to find some +Life per Hit Gear)
- +50 Physical Resist
I'm in Act 1 Hell now, and going pretty easy. Sure there has been Champs and Rares that have fucked me up with their Uber Combos, but still getting through it. Just slows me down.
We have a group of friends playing all around the same level with a Demon Hunter, 2 Bars, 1 Monk and a Wizard. Most of the time we can get a group of 4 together, and we destroy everything quickly. The Demon hunter has 6000 Dmg.......
I'm selling stuff pretty consistently on the AH, usually somewhere between 2k and 4k. I'd rather stuff sell quickly so I can list more stuff and make more money, than have all these overpriced auctions taking up my 10 slots.
Just sold all my legendaries for 15k each hit, so that was a delicious 75,000 gold profit. They went within a minute of putting them up on the AH, so people must be stalking it either for low costs to put up higher or genuinely wanted them. Was able to deck out my monk and jump from 297 dps to 480 dps with an increase of 3k health!
I'm selling stuff pretty consistently on the AH, usually somewhere between 2k and 4k. I'd rather stuff sell quickly so I can list more stuff and make more money, than have all these overpriced auctions taking up my 10 slots.
I'm doing the same. Low buyout, get the cash and list more stuff.
finally had the mysterious cave spawn for me which is also where I just got my first legendary item. shame it's some shitty pants with mismatched stats and are basically useless. swamp wanderers or something.
Blizzard, I love you and the games you make but go fuck yourself for being shitty cheap cunts and not giving australians our own servers so we don't have to deal with this crap anymore.
Yer I was OK with the online only thing. I was OK that I had to play on US servers. I was OK with the occasional maintenance that was 1-2 hrs long.
8 Hours during would could not be any more of a peak time for Australians, except for maybe Fri/Say is a real kick in the balls. I'll seriously reconsider my standing with Blizzard now, form buying their games sight unseen to possibly not purchasing until they dish out an AU server. It will be sad, because they make great games.
First two weeks were unplayable. First 3 months had a famous loot bug that if you looted a monster, chances are you would get stuck in loot animation which was hilarious. Also people flying in the air due to glitched flight points, skill trees being wiped constantly plus heaps more.
Though there really is no excuse for this. An 8 hour maintenance for a singleplayer game with co-op as a choice is just absurd no matter how you spin it.
Well every second Tuesday for WoW didn't really happen consistently, its usually always server shout-down, and the odd Tuesday it restarts, but that's like maybe been twice this year and its often way before 10 as well.
I get that this game needs some downtime, hopefully to improve stability and exploits, well anything really but I can't help but feel this is more to do with WoW needing its usual downtime and battle.net (Diablo) is just caught up in it all.
I play WoW and SWtor and now Diablo, and its crazy that for the most part they all go down the same time (cept swtor tonight ;p )
Nah, not in the launcher, in the game itself I have a "Breaking News" screen on the bottom right that gets updated with latestt news about maintenance and stuff.
We just killed Murozond in End Time with about 15 secs to spare. A little pissed off the servers for WoW went down at 6pm. Diablo servers I don't care about.
Do you have a US version Khel, apparently US players get the Breaking News but everywhere else doesn't matter in Blizzard Land.
Yeah, I installed the US client off the website. Thats pretty stupid if thats the case, but it would explain it, cos my brother installed his copy off the dvd when he bought it (which probably had a UK version on it).
Only US version are getting the login window which is odd, even though European is down as well. Tried logging into Asia servers because a friend could, but I can't seem to with my US client.
What a clusterfuck. I mean, I've got a lot of patience for this sort of thing generally, but these seem like some real rookie mistakes they're making, after running online games for 7+ years now they really should know better.
Turns out there is a method where people could steal your login session ID, and get into your account without needing a password so they could take your account, pillage it and leave you high and dry. Don't join any public games because of this, only play with friends.
Turns out there is a method where people could steal your login session ID, and get into your account without needing a password so they could take your account, pillage it and leave you high and dry. Don't join any public games because of this, only play with friends.
Session ID's, basically when you join a public game and everyone can see your session ID, which allows you to log into someone's account without a password or authenticator.
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