Diablo III

i am building a new computer this summer. i'm not opening this thread again until then. fuck yall.

I wonder if they made the game scalable enough to run on cheap machines....and, say, work laptops.

SC2 runs at lowered levels, at least.

I will say it makes my computer very hot. But it runs quite well, only one lock up in two days.

yeah, my computer (a two year old top o the line at the time dell) whines like a racecar but it looks gorgeous

In early Act IV now. My wizard has become a death machine, what with the Dark Phoenix button and all.

After having played the beta and being very underwhelmed, I'm quite happy with the final game.

Can't do anything at the moment until whenever those new MBPs come out. Until then, work proceeds...

Stayed up until about midnight, just got into Act 2

Nightmare is *significantly* harder, particularly with certain elites having certain power combinations. Still, nothing is as bad as Rakanishu.

Yet.

Act IV feels suitably epic. But I wanted Stephen O'Malley to have done the soundtrack.

damn u jerks are making me think of getting this tonight

I'm amazed (well, not really) how fast some of you are making it through.

I was playing a game with some guy last night who was into finding every possible thing and exploring entire levels, though. Come on, dude, the entrance to the next dungeon is over here!

hahaha, i'm kind of that dude. at least when i play solo. which is probably why i'm still only partly through Act I!

The game only drops good shit when you kill totally awesome monsters and bosses which seem to be near the goals even more so in this game. If you want a zillion broke-ass shields, knock yourself out :)

Hah, you _can_ get great stuff just knocking over barrels if you want - just not as quickly.

Meant nah there.

i have to destroy all the barrels (and piles of ashes and anything else that is there) because i must set a new record in most object destruction as often as possible.

god i'm such a sucka

to be fair, the other guy was also a wizard and was just standing in one spot and zapping all the walls as he entered a room, lol

do any of the spellcasters have a 'destroy all barrels' spell?

jockeying for a position at blizzard, huh?

oh, hey my gamertag thing is: ZZSS#1610

feel free to hit me up to play, someone. (i promise i won't go around breaking all the barrels. although, if you want to do that, i would probably be down)

The Lightning spell with the 'electrocute' glyph is reeeeal good for blowing up barrels. So's Disintegrate. Just stand and spray.

My gamertag, by the by is DocRoswell#1552 Feel free to hit me up. Wizard (want to say Sorceress) in Nightmare, baby demon hunter starting out. Who is also 3 levels below what the content was tuned for because I had friends drag me along to kill the Skeleton King at level 4 or 5. I'm doing a LOT of kiting to stay alive.

well i bought it, dicks. bnw#1298

Just finished Act I. This is CRACK.

In early Act IV now. My wizard has become a death machine, what with the Dark Phoenix button and all.

Dark Phoenix button???

Wizard ability - Archon. You get a death beam with no resource, area of effect explosion and area of effect force punch. 15 second effect, 2 minute cooldown. But... For every enemy you kill in the Archon form, you get a second of the effect back. Kill a big pack and you stay powered up for a long, long time. You can punk minibosses in Normal with just that and not much else.

wizards are cool

Aw man. So.obsszss. I'm a monk btw

Enjoying the fact that you can just hold down the right mouse button now and not click on every individual enemy.

Not really feeling Demon Hunter. May try monk next.

I'd be happier with monks if there was a Flying Guillotine attack...

I tried the DH and the monk. Neither was as viscerally satisfying as the barbarian.

wtf is the secret to killing giant Bilial

Depends what class you are. He's one of the few bosses I've only killed cooperatively.

But when you're a wizard it all comes down to shoot a lot and don't get hit. To kill Diablo, I had to give up my beloved Archon and go with mirror images so Diablo wouldn't eat my face off and I could put some death rays in him.

Other classes will find things to be completely different.

briefly stepping out of DIABLO III to mention how much fun it is, as a monk, to pull in everyone around you with the Cyclone Strike, and then do the secondary Lashing Tail Kick ability that blasts everyone away in all directions. feels like very violent breathing

quick question: what does "rooted" mean as a status effect? inability to move, I guess?

it means a daemon has hacked your boxen :(

yes, rooted is stuck in the ground. you can cast and do actions, just can't move. assuming wow rules hold.

so are weaps just stats/decorative if you are a caster? i played a little but as soon as i got my 2nd ability my weapon became useless?

i don't know, but i finally made it to Act II!

*SPOILERS*

a dark wave of evil is covering the land, and i must stop it!

also i predict that tyrael is going to do it with leah before long

Weapons are very important for casters. Your spell damage factors off of your base weapon damage. Yes, that's counterintuitive, but that's how D3 works. If there's an axe with the right stats on it and good base damage, take that over the wand that "makes sense" for wizards because that's what they've always used.

hey mh, tried to accept friend request by clicking the green check and it vanished. too noob for friends, smh.

apparently my old 7900gt can run this? d/ling now. my battletag is BLIFIL#1821.

Playing a wizard, and nothing is more fun than Act III dungeons and just spraying my death ray in all directions and then picking up the loot. Like playing a Necro Summoner in D2, very easy on the mousing hand. I had to retool my skills to beat Belial... went from offensive/AOE skills over to defensive/single enemy targeting stuff. Got him in one try after I set up my skills properly. Then back to the death ray/wave of force for clearing rooms.

The writing in this is just pathetic though. Cliche after cliche, with overwraught, terrible dialog. I know, I know, video game writing, but I figured Blizzard would spend the money they clearly have getting good writers for this. Only Covetous Shen and the Scoundrel are any good at all.

The Scoundrel gets the best lines. Shen is pretty good, too. Think he's voiced by David Hong, or someone trying very hard to sound like him. There's a couple moments where the Templar gets some good lines in, but those are few and far between.

I've found on bosses, I have to shift wizard over to fire and forget skills like hydra and blizzard. Hydra is superior because it's cheap and will actively target. I still use disintegrate, but have to dance around a lot. The big arcane orb spell might be better for mobility, but will take a *lot* longer to burn things down. Some bosses are conducive to Archon, but oftentimes I have to add another defensive skill into the mix to make it, unless it's stand and shoot like Azmodan.

Yeah, in the credits James Hong is listed as the voice of Covetous Shen/David Lo Pan. I love that guy. Anyway, beat Diablo on normal this afternoon... took about 40 hours of play time. Meanwhile, in the same 40 hours, my friend has completed both normal and nightmare.

Beginning to suspect the auction house kind of ruins the must-keep-playing aspect of this game, since once you rack up some gold, it's trivial to go to the auction house and buy exactly what you want to create a godlike character. I'll wait until I spend some time in inferno mode though.

I hear the game changes a lot in Hell and Inferno, and in ways that make me likely not to play much past Nightmare.

My suspicion is that Blizzard believes the surtaxes on real money exchanges at the auction house will be the cash-engine behind DIABLO 3, given that there isn't a monthly subscription fee (or other lucrative services such as transfers and faction switches and renames). I also believe that people won't be spending a lot of real-world money to trick out their characters for D3, for a variety of reasons. But what it really boils down to is that D3 isn't designed as an MMO and won't engender the same kind of attachment to player characters. I could be wrong, but I don't think that I am.

And big ups for hiring Mr. Hong (also the Eye Doctor in BLADE RUNNER) instead of a soundalike.

Apparently there's an internal Blizzard book open on how many months it will take for the first person to finish Inferno Act V.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, April 18, 2012 6:11 PM (1 month ago)

The answer being .13 months, or 4 days.

can somebody send me a guest pass, or whatever they're calling a demo or starter version of the game?

I'm in, finally, and monking it up- up to Act 3 and level 25. I have a bunch of status effects stacked up so that basically everything I does heals me, and between that and the passive skill that converts Dexterity to bonus health have committed fully to the "shields are for pussies" route. I can never find fist weapons or staves with bonus Dex, though, so I'm stuck with daggers at the moment.

kingfish- check your email.

Oh man why did I install this

I can never find fist weapons or staves with bonus Dex, though, so I'm stuck with daggers at the moment.

craft your own! most of my best stuff is crafted, and salvaging extra loot and using your gold to level up the craftsman dude is way more fun than selling extra loot for 40 gold (or whatever) and buying mediocre equipment.

I plan to, but the very first craft able fist weapon requires level 29, which is kind of weird.