Diablo III

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.

There's a lot of weird things in crafting, really.

And it's expensive.

Crafting is the reason why I'll never be able to buy a bank tab...

I've been throwing lots of gold into upgrading the crafting dude, but I've heard that the online auction house has enough stuff that you can basically decide exactly what you want and go check it out? Not sure, sounds good.

Oh. I haven't even checked out the online auction house!

/newb

witch doctor seems kind of boring so far. i may need to try another.

I haven't checked it either, Z S.

monk is awesome so far, btw

I am actually proud that I haven't been playing this much. Not that it's not great but that I've given priorities to work and women over diablo. This must be what puberty finally feels like.
I am sure I will regress shortly

if we weren't having guests this week I would be spending all my free time playing this

as it stands, I woke up this morning at 5:30, showered and dressed for work, then played until 8:00

oh yeah, for the first two days I stayed up til 430
i have since recovered as work has gotten crazy

lol

My Friday night was pretty much eaten by the game. I didn't even quit to order pizza, I just switched to windowed mode while in town and ordered food in a web browser

sponsorship opportunity for blizzard if you ask me; put online portals to pizza hut in town

If I'd wanted a larger chain's pizza, I probably would have ordered from my phone's web browser.

my psu crapped out as the client was downloading. back to d2 for me for a few weeks.

Russell Shirley 1979-2012

This is crack. Crack kills.

I'm not a doctor but if a 32 year old dies suddenly of heart failure it's probably only tangentially related to video games.

"He always had a good heart" apparently not bro

I feel like a dick for slagging on the guy whose friend died really young but the whole angle of Advancing Get Out of Your Damn Desk Chair Awareness seems absurd to me.

yooooo. any of you fine folx have one of those guest passes left that i can scrounge?

Stupidly, they don't give you any if you buy the digital edition, only in physical boxes. But the digital edition is the same cost. :(

I was just too lazy to go to the store. Sorry.

I have a couple, I'll look for em in the box when I get home.

weird, how hard could it be to drop a couple codes in a digi download?

mh if you are able to email one of them over at some point i would be super grateful. webmail or bobbyspirals at gmail dot com

I'm guessing they put them in physical copies to give retailers a little bonus so they'd stock it. My understanding is that in a month or so everyone will be able to play the Starter version and you won't need a guest pass.

The stupid thing about the guest pass is you can't play co-op, which is the most brilliant thing they've got going.

You can luckily upgrade the guest pass account to a full one, though. My friend was on his wife's guest pass and upgraded and now we can all play happily together.

I did the cheesy thing yesterday where you skip some quests and finish an act with someone who's already done so, powering through the end of the second-to-last one and ended up beating Diablo with another friend. So now I'm on the second time through and getting exp again!