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Diablo 3 Beta [Beta withdrawal underway!]
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Gaylord Sweetwood
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Take out health orbs and I'm pretty sure you would use potions at about the same rate you did D2 Act 1 Normal.
If D3 is easier than D2 (comparing early Act 1 Normal), then it is barely easier. It's way too soon to tell.
If D3 is easier than D2 (comparing early Act 1 Normal), then it is barely easier. It's way too soon to tell.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I guess I will follow your structure
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Witch Doctor
I'm not really expecting it to live up to the Druid, which was by far my favorite class when all was said and done in D2 (in spite of it often being treated as a terrible class). The two summoner classes in D2 were a lot of fun for me, and what I've seen of WD doesn't seem so fun. But that's why it's next for me.
CambriaRising
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Ctrl + R to show the fps in game. Anyway I just read the D3 mac technical forum and it seems the mac beta client have some problems... I hope the release client will be better for OSX.
Ye, Monk is very fun. I need to choose between monk and DH now for my first run...
How does the XP and loot system work in regards to people off screen/ not in the same area of the dungeon. If I am in town, and my party is clearing a dungeon, do I still get XP/loot drops? How far can I be from the party?
Also I am assuming it is a shared XP system?
Also I am assuming it is a shared XP system?
XP isn't shared - you get the same as if you'd play alone - the radius for it is quite limited (like 2 screens or so...)
Loot seems to be more lenient - like the whole dungeon lvl
In town you get nothing.
Shit, this game crashed on me again on my laptop with all settings high with Shadows on Medium. Playing it on a Alienware M11xR2 which gets good framerates but I hope Nvidia drops a patch when D3 comes out. But anyhoot, had a lot of fun with the beta, (Monk class, fuck yea!) and was gonna level up my character to max but I'll save that when the game comes out. Truth to be told, I played the first Diablo and skip D2 but do have it in my account along with the LoD. Don't know if I should hold off and not play D2 since D3 is coming so soon but I still have to finish up Mass Effect 3.
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So, hovers around 30fps, maybe dipping below a little more often than above. Had slowdown for the first time today while playing multi around the Pillars. Kinda weird, been through there a bunch of times and no problems.
Oh, and another thing to add to the Bad list:
- Deckard Cain doesn't say Stay a while, and Listen! Wtf.
Oh, and another thing to add to the Bad list:
- Deckard Cain doesn't say Stay a while, and Listen! Wtf.
Vigilant Walrus
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The game is fun. I felt very relaxed. Not immersed in the story. Graphics were meh. Don't understand why the graphics are so taxing. Voice acting was iffy.
But I like it. Wonderful pacing. Pacing so good. It didnt take long before my main goal was just beating my own kill records. Monk is a good class. Barb is slow.
But I like it. Wonderful pacing. Pacing so good. It didnt take long before my main goal was just beating my own kill records. Monk is a good class. Barb is slow.
Oh I'm sure he'll say it at some point. They can't leave that out!
Elective mode! You can put any skill on any button on the hotbar with it. Use it, love it.
I'm a day late in responding, but:
I'm not sure I explained my build clearly. If I was a DH for instance, I'd have hatred regenerating kit on, and a weapon that did a low enough amount of attacks per second so that I could, in theory, sit there like a turret and use Rapid Fire almost constantly without the need to wait on hatred regeneration. The theory being that the DPS is so much higher with the spenders than it is with the generators, that using a generator brings the total average DPS down over a longer period of time. This being true, why not use the highest DPS attack possible for as long as possible (hence the hatred regen kit).
In Inferno this would be moot, since nothing is going to sit there and allow you to be a turret, but I'm thinking it might do for normal and nightmare. If it doesn't, a new build is just a click away, so it's not as if there is any risk in doing so.
I'm not sure how I feel about the TP changes. I agree with your point but as I understand it Blizzard's stance is that TPing out of a boss fight and then jumping back in was lame, which I would agree with.
There's an option to turn on a floating text that tells you how much damage you're doing, if you haven't. If you have it on then yeah I agree it could use a bit of work to be more clear.
Hahaha, you can have it be less harsh than that. I just cost the most extreme option for the video (hardcore + sharpening). There are less drastic options.
LonelyIsland
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I just noticed magic crossbows can be dual wielded.
DAT DAMAGE.
DAT DAMAGE.
Castor Krieg
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Yesterday they managed to have everyone playing with no waiting time, I think there was about 230K users at once. Did not have any login troubles.
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Battletag: CastorKrieg#2275
Region: Germany, Europe
Class: Wizard
Outdoor Miner
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Servers down for anyone else? I get to the char screen but can't seem to enter a game.
Only a short time left for open beta, maybe the servers are flooded to capacity as everyone tries to get the last bit of play time they can. I'm not sure if they are server capping still, but it seemed like they were on and off.
fluffydelusions
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argh nearly everyone on my friends list was in the open beta now no one to coop with lol
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
It's been over a month, but I know some of you playing now are going through the same stuff many of us before Open were.
So here's my repost on the secret area that was bugged that you can no longer get to (was patch in a day).
So here's my repost on the secret area that was bugged that you can no longer get to (was patch in a day).
Well he's got nothing to tell you about the mysterious items you've found anymore.
Oh THAT I'm glad about. Fuck identifying items, such a pain in the ass.
Yeah, but only rares. I don't really see the point, but like TPs it's unlimited so I don't really care.
I don't really understand why there's so damn many bookshelves in the cathedral either. I get that it's kind of a throwback to D1, but it's just weird moving a bookshelf and getting money out.
I don't really understand why there's so damn many bookshelves in the cathedral either. I get that it's kind of a throwback to D1, but it's just weird moving a bookshelf and getting money out.
Early in the beta, bookshelves used to yield "notes" which would upgrade the artisan's level (as opposed to spending gold currently). It's a shame they didn't keep that mechanic.
They kept it - for higher lvls - it starts at Blacksmith level 5 or 6 iirc
The official reason given was it adds another layer of surprise - like unwrapping a present.
Jay Wilson said:
I am already on there as MKAllDay but I would like to add that my region is United States and my favorite class is Monk.
I feel like there's a lot of weird decisions in D3, and this is definitely one of them.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Haha, I actually guessed this was the reason why. That does it, I'm applying to Blizzard.
Earlier in the beta, before they adjusted prices, you could craft about twenty of the same item every run without worry of money or resources. Glad they made it more meaningful!
It's more meaningful in that it'll be a windfall if you craft something that is high stat, but it's also kind of a bummer because there's no skill to it. It's not like you can level crafting up and have a higher chance to craft something worthwhile.
It's like a double surprise, the excitement of having it drop, and then the excitement of what it actually is.
Some psychological shit isn't it?
No. nononononono.
In Diablo 2 there was something about having a unique ring drop and then identifying it. It might not make sense for the beta part of the game, but little things like that do add to the enjoyment of the game.
I feel like it's kind of a misunderstanding of psychology, but sure.
Really can't say I ever felt anything but annoyance at having to identify anything: blue, orange, or gold.
You keep using that word 'skill', I do not think it means what you think it means.
Freakinchair
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Un-ID'd rares + uniques are also worth more than the average item it represents (uniques and rares in D2 had the same stats but the actual numbers were variable). People would trade off unidentified uniques in the case that the variable stats would be on the low end.
I fully realize that everything about what you're crafting is based on chance. What part of what I said is ambiguous? Also...when did I use the word skill before that post? O_O
You can train in crafting to give yourself the chance to craft higher level gear, but there's no guarantee that what you're crafting will be stat competitive with other items on the open market or that it will be useful for your character. That's what I meant when I said that you can't level crafting up.
If you meant "nononono" to my wanting skill to have something to do with it (like in an MMO) then I can understand that
Okay, but the process is very simple now, so the annoyance should be minimal.
Another good reason to keep unidentified items in the game is the market. Unidentified items are a pretty big part of the current Diablo 2 market.
I fully realize that everything about what you're crafting is based on chance. What part of what I said is ambiguous? Also...when did I use the word skill before that post? O_O
You can train in crafting to give yourself the chance to craft higher level gear, but there's no guarantee that what you're crafting will be stat competitive with other items on the open market or that it will be useful for your character. That's what I meant when I said that you can't level crafting up.
If you meant "nononono" to my wanting skill to have something to do with it (like in an MMO) then I can understand that
It sounded like you wanted to replace the random gambling aspect of crafting with just pure grinding up your crafting so that spending more and more time and materials on it will directly increase your chances of getting a better item. That isn't in any way or form a "skill", it's just having more time (and potentially money for buying crafting materials). It's like people saying that they are more skilled in a FPS because they've spent 100000 hours playing it but then get demolished by someone who only played an hour who actually has faster reflexes and precision.
And that sentence was just a meme from Princess Bride, not saying that you actually used the word 'skill' a lot.
I'm usually the guy pining for more RPG elements in games, and then being disappointed when they take RPG elements out.
I guess no one would have wanted to put points into crafting when they could put them in other things. Not that it matters now since points are automatically distributed for the player.
I spent a good while and a ton of gold just levelling the smith and crafting unusable gold times during the weekend open beta, just to see what I'm in for come release. I was hooked, crafting items for level 26 and above characters, so much good stuff to be found there. I like the pseudo-personal attachment that came from crafting items, compared to gambling.
sazzy
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No, nothing will carry over into the retail game.
As my inventory filled up with 16dps flamberge's that no one in their right mind would buy, my last thought was how attached I was to what was being created
Flamberge's only cost 1700 gold to create (700 to make, 1000 for the 9 subtle essences), so I can't imagine what I'll be feeling when the item I'm creating is tens or hundreds of thousands of gold per go and I get duds.Selling anything (other than Gold) in the auction house is going to be a crap shoot. For some reason the business/economics/finance/etc major (need to make that decision quick unless I want a standard BBA) in me wants to at least pay for the game while playing it, now that it's a possibility.
Edit: As a little experiment, I bought like 200 subtle essence and decided to make nothing but Flamberge's. Out of the 25 or so I made, I got roughly 80% 16dps junk (the lowest they can be is 16), maybe 15% stuff in the 18-18.9 range, and 5% in the 19-19.8 range. I didn't get a single one that topped 20 DPS. It seems like no one buys the ones that go below 19, so I essentially got 95% junk for my efforts. The 5% that wasn't junk may pay for the material costs or it may not. In any case, if you don't get really lucky and land on one with good stats, you may not pay back the material costs.
Buyer beware when the retail version hits and you'll be able to buy crafting supplies with real money. I advise thinking long and hard about the math before doing it. (This PSA isn't for anyone in particular).
I hope Blizzard keeps extensive data on auctions that have taken place and is willing to put that data out. It would be fascinating to see the price of gold (for instance) over time, and whether it fluctuated depending on the day of the week, hour, etc. It would also make it a lot easier for people to figure out how much their items are worth, compared to the system as it existed when I left Diablo II "Well, that's worth one...maybe one and a half Stones of Jordan"
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