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Posted 2012-May-14, 09:55

Diablo 3 goes live a midnight tonight and I find myself not caring...

L'sigh

Diablo and D2 ate enormous amounts of my 30s and now, I find myself consumed with ennui...
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Posted 2012-May-14, 10:10

Will be getting it, but not till I get my new machine at the end of the month. Will just eat into my MMO time.
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Posted 2012-May-30, 16:22

Anyone else playing? Send me a PM or add me, rogerclee#1982
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Posted 2012-May-30, 17:52

View Postrogerclee, on 2012-May-30, 16:22, said:

Anyone else playing? Send me a PM or add me, rogerclee#1982



Of course. I pre purchased it after waiting a decade, lol.

I already killed Diablo in first 4 days and i am in nightmare level. They say this time there is no "Cow level" I dont believe it, i am on it, i know i will find it :lol:

Roger my account name is TheTurk, Barbarian level 34 with the name "Tintorera" I will try to find you there

View Posthrothgar, on 2012-May-14, 09:55, said:

Diablo 3 goes live a midnight tonight and I find myself not caring...

L'sigh

Diablo and D2 ate enormous amounts of my 30s and now, I find myself consumed with ennui...


Same here :P
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Posted 2012-May-30, 18:24

View PostMrAce, on 2012-May-30, 17:52, said:

I already killed Diablo in first 4 days and i am in nightmare level. They say this time there is no "Cow level" I dont believe it, i am on it, i know i will find it :lol:


glgl

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I likely won't buy D3 any time soon. Maybe eventually, but only if Blizzard fixes some of the retarded things they did and balance the classes better. Of course the game has been out for only 2 weeks, so I expect a lot of changes both sooner and later, but from what I've seen so far the game doesn't meet my expectations and the problem with hacked accounts really needs to get solved.
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Posted 2012-May-30, 18:30

FWIW

There is a cow level (its called Whimsyshire)

I managed to down Diablo on normal my first day of playing.
I am now playing a hard core Witch Doctor and slowly moving towards Nightmare level...

I am quitting MathWorks tomorrow and my new gig doesn't start until June 24th...
Be interesting to see how much of the intervening time gets consumed by D3
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Posted 2012-May-30, 21:52

I loved hardcore in D2 but it seems much more difficult in D3. I'm going to try to make some headway into inferno before I start a HC character.
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Posted 2012-May-31, 01:54

Playing but on the euro server, lvl 51 monk just about ready to go after diablo on nightmare, 31 wizard struggling with diablo on normal.
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Posted 2012-May-31, 03:30

View PostCyberyeti, on 2012-May-31, 01:54, said:

Playing but on the euro server, lvl 51 monk just about ready to go after diablo on nightmare, 31 wizard struggling with diablo on normal.


My first character was a wizard.
I have found witch doctor much easier

Main advice regarding Diablo

be prepared fro a long fight
you will get hit
make sure that you have enough health to survive
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Posted 2012-May-31, 05:38

View Posthrothgar, on 2012-May-14, 09:55, said:

Diablo and D2 ate enormous amounts of my 30s and now, I find myself consumed with ennui...

I carefully avoided playing WoW for that reason, I can't play a bit each day, its full time or nothing.
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Posted 2012-May-31, 13:21

View Posthrothgar, on 2012-May-31, 03:30, said:

My first character was a wizard.
I have found witch doctor much easier

Main advice regarding Diablo

be prepared fro a long fight
you will get hit
make sure that you have enough health to survive

Monk seemed to be easy mode, I did all the bosses on normal and everything until Izual on NM first time. Izual took 2 goes, not tried diablo yet. The monk's trouble is molten when combined with another obnoxious ability on the mobs with 3 blues.

Wizard was much harder, 5 or 6 goes at Izual on normal before I got him and 2 or 3 at Diablo not getting close to killing him.

Am not being very serious at this as my main game (CoH) has just had a new release so I'm playing that, I'm also gathering the bits to get to the hidden level and about to spend all my gold on that.
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Posted 2012-May-31, 19:56

I have a question...

In D2 we had 2 realms where in one of them you could duel other players, but as far as i remember hacking was legal in of them. We dont have duels in D3, no ?
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Posted 2012-May-31, 22:09

View PostMrAce, on 2012-May-31, 19:56, said:

I have a question...

In D2 we had 2 realms where in one of them you could duel other players, but as far as i remember hacking was legal in of them. We dont have duels in D3, no ?


Not yet. Blizzard's focus on D3 is primarily PvM instead of PvP.

They will eventually release an arena for duels, I believe both team and individual, but it won't be out for a while, and it won't be like it was in D2.

As far as the two realms, Blizzard has no intention of having ladder resets (the two realms in D2 were ladder and open), so everything will be open for now (and hopefully they keep hacking in check, but bots have allegedly already been developed for farming).

Of course, Blizzard may change their mind about ladder resets, which effectively wipe out everyone's gear and makes them start from scratch. Time will tell.

ETA: I think they announced patch 1.1 would include the PvP arena
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Posted 2012-June-01, 06:14

View Posthrothgar, on 2012-May-31, 03:30, said:

My first character was a wizard.
I have found witch doctor much easier

My witch doctor is only level 21 but I'm using a set of skills/runes that's very good when stuff is not dangerous (ie trash at normal diff) but will crash and burn later. Be interested to know what you use at higher level.
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Posted 2012-June-01, 08:46

I have a demon hunter and a monk at roughly levels 20 and 14 or so, and I just started a barbarian. Different play styles for each class, all interesting and (so far, anyway) fun.
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Posted 2012-June-01, 09:57

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My witch doctor is only level 21 but I'm using a set of skills/runes that's very good when stuff is not dangerous (ie trash at normal diff) but will crash and burn later. Be interested to know what you use at higher level.


My WD is L32, just killed Diablo on hardcore and am playing in Nightmare

Obviously, my main goal is to avoid dying, so I'm specced to avoid dying.
The Diablo kill took a long time...

Passive skills

Jungle fortitude: Increase life by 20%
Spirit Vessel: If you die, you get to come back with 10% health
Zombie handler: Increases number of zombie dogs to 4 and increases dogs / zombies health

Active skills

Poison dart: Splinters (Single target dps)
Summon zombie dogs: Life link (Zombie dogs absorb incoming damage)
Acid cloud: Acid rain
Soul Harvest: Life siphon
Spirit Walk: Jaunt
Summon gargantuan: Restless giant

For the Diablo fight I switched out Soul harvest for haunt

In general, for single target fights, I sit back and spew poison darts
With large numbers of mobs, I rush in, hit soul harvest, and then drop an acid cloud or two

I use spirit walk to avoid oh ***** situations and get away from wallers
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Posted 2012-June-01, 11:19

Thank you Jeremy.

I did not survive hardcore

I lost internet conn for about 10 seconds and it said i was slayed when i get my conn back. 2nd was when Skyler (my 2 years old ) basically distracted me and i was slayed by Skeleton King which is very easy to survive. I had an easy fight vs Diablo though and all other bosses. As Hroathgar i was careful not to die, i just leveled up 1 more than neccesarry b4 i got into it with the bosses.

Barbarian has this active skill of "earthquake" which takes long time to fill it once you use it. So i spare it always to the bosses and it seems like it takes the life of bosses pretty quick. Thats basically how i got Diablo taken care of. Of course i had to bash the Sh..t out of him too :P

Roger gave me some good tips, about "not crafting" and go to the auction house instead. That really worked well for me. I found a lot of items for cheap for Barbarian, a lot of Vitality and Strength (thats basically what barbarian needs) items.

If what Jeremy said becomes true and they make arenas for duel and clans, we may perhaps create our BBO D3 Clan :P

Out of topic : Anyone playing COD MW3 ?
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Posted 2012-June-01, 18:02

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Posted 2012-June-05, 16:50

My @$$ is being kicked badly in hell level as barbarian. Arcane beasts are tuff to deal with in close combat. I dunno wtf to do except than gold farming and buy decent stuff. I will have to give up on my shield too because seems like 1 handed weapons are weak and not doing enough damage.

Any hints ?
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Posted 2012-June-05, 17:05

View PostMrAce, on 2012-June-05, 16:50, said:

My @$$ is being kicked badly in hell level as barbarian. Arcane beasts are tuff to deal with in close combat. I dunno wtf to do except than gold farming and buy decent stuff. I will have to give up on my shield too because seems like 1 handed weapons are weak and not doing enough damage.

Any hints ?


Sorry...

I am still (slowly) working my way through nightmare (in the middle of act 3)
Playing hardcore encourages a very slow / conservative style of play.

I still nearly got destroyed by a boss pack with fast + illusionist + fire chains...
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