Thread: Diablo 3

So yeah, only 6 more days...I can't wait. It's all I can think about.

I played the open beta a couple weekends ago and it was fantastic. I will assume anyone who is interested here also played it.
What did you guys think? I really liked all the classes, which I was surprised at. Also the class I thought I would like the least, turned out to be the one I liked the most. The witch doctor. I will probably make a WD my main character.
What are you guys going to be playing as?

I'm also really looking forward to see what happens storywise, and how everything ends up going down...
For those who haven't played the previous Diablos, here's a video that sums up the story nicely.


Here's a really indepth lore video if you want to go all out.

Here's a video for general gameplay, for those who live under a rock.


It may look kinda tame playing solo but the real fun is playing as a party, then shit gets hectic.
Also, the multiple difficulty settings sound great fun. Different loot drops, item models, item stats obviously, and sounds like an actual challenge. Supposedly even the Blizzard testing team can't complete it on inferno.

I'm tempted to call in sick on Wednesday.

i've got it sitting dormant waiting on my computer for the goddamn arbitrary may 15th deadline (yeah, like they're putting it off to make major updates and not just because that's when they're delivering physical copies to stores).

i'm less excited about it than before. i'm far, far more excited about GW2. i'll play it quite a bit, but not quite as fanatically as others.

Originally Posted by Nick2.1

Stress Test Monday for GW2 11AM - 6PM PDT, should help with my D3 anticipation.

Yeah I came to this forums to post this

crappoo just buy it now. if the replay value is anything like d2 you'll get at least a few years (on and off) of fun out of it.

Also sycld there's nothing arbitrary about May 15th (happy bday nermy)

i'm going to be a troll wizard.

I probably won't play much of the GWII stress test. Oh well.

I'll probably go Demon Hunter or Wizard also.

The Witch Doctor is such a fucked class. I hope they fix it eventually.

Originally Posted by sycld

I probably won't play much of the GWII stress test. Oh well.

I'll probably go Demon Hunter or Wizard also.

The Witch Doctor is such a fucked class. I hope they fix it eventually.

?! How is WD fucked? What's to fix?

I played WD during beta and loved it. Definately rolling WD as my main.

Originally Posted by crapoo16

WD just doesn't look that fun =(. I know I should try it before I judge, but from the videos it didn't look like my kind of character. Rolling with the Wizard, probably then Monk, Demon Hunter, Barbarian, and then WD

I didn't think it was my kinda class either, but I was wrong lol.
It is awesome fun, imo it is the most fun class. Throwing pots of spiders about, pet dogs, throwing toads about....where's the lack of fun?

Well Necromancer didn't seem like that much fun in D2 until I rolled one and it was a good time.

To be fair the Demon Hunter really doesn't have much of a trap theme. Only caltrops and spike trap really act like traps, though it still says incorrectly that traps are a major theme of the class in the out-dated class overview on the official site. It's more about arrows, explosives, evasion, and a handful of tricks to round out the arsenal.

I knew there wasn't going to be offline play, but I was hoping there would at least be online play

Originally Posted by Nick2.1

I'm getting really good at typing my battlenet password.

And that's the game!

I spent all evening today playing...it's fantastic so far.
I am hoping the login troubles will go away relatively soon.

Just wondering, does anyone think it's possible for me to download the client off my friend's account? I mean I'm going to be using my own account once I buy the game anyways. I should be able to right? That way I don't have to wait and I can start downloading right away :P.

(Plus I wonder if I can download while he is playing)

Nevermind, Just realized there is a starter edition that I can use to get me started. (goes up to the beta). At this point I might as well buy it..

Poochop#1299

oh also my lamer tag is nermy#1335

so close nermy, so close...

i would have requested a tag change if that had happened

Originally Posted by Nermy2k

i would have requested a tag change if that had happened

really? not even sold it?
i bet some idiot would pay top dolla for that battletag.

edit: btw i've been too excited when i get home from work to add you guys so far this week.
i'll add you guys at the weekend.

edit2: btw WD is ridiculously op

I'll be getting this soon, but I recently sold my soul again and started playing WoW on a private server.... so maybe one day I'll end up getting diablo(But I grew up on Diablo, D2:lod, so it's guaranteed I'll be playing this)

I've tried Diablo 3, but I think I like Torchlight 2 more. Also, it's cheaper.

Originally Posted by Narcowski

I've tried Diablo 3, but I think I like Torchlight 2 more. Also, it's cheaper.

Are you saying you've played the TL2 beta? I want to get it, but I'm spending too much cash on games...


From what I've heard, there are major balance issues in harder difficulty levels, namely that melee classes lack the durability to survive. Anyone else confirm/deny this? I've only started playing now.

Originally Posted by sycld

Are you saying you've played the TL2 beta? I want to get it, but I'm spending too much cash on games...

From what I've heard, there are major balance issues in harder difficulty levels, namely that melee classes lack the durability to survive. Anyone else confirm/deny this? I've only started playing now.

Yeah, I got in the beta a couple weeks ago. I've played 100% Hardcore Elite, so I'm not sure what the balance is like on easier levels, to be honest, but I don't think ranged classes are explicitly better than melee. Overall, I think Embermage is strongest, Engineer is second, Berserker is third, and Outlander is the weakest in solo play. You definitely can't just go all-in with a melee character all the time, but you can't really do that with a ranged character either. Of course, you'll probably want to carry a ranged weapon with some sort of disable effect or knockback just in case you need to run away for a while, but the paperdoll has two weapon set slots for a reason....

I will say that I've had trouble keeping a Berserker alive, but I haven't played many. They do actually have ways of sustaining themselves though; a passive that gives 5% lifesteal on critical hits (+0.67% per skill level above 1st), and an invulnerable dash that heals a % of the character's max hp on hit. The lifesteal passive in particular is a big deal because having a full Charge bar means 100% crits for the class.

Engineer gets a summon which heals a flat amount of HP over time, scaling with skill and character level, to all allies (incl. pets) nearby every few seconds. This means that they don't have to spend nearly as much money on health potions as an Embermage does - there's pretty much no reason for the Engineer to even use them unless you're in a large fight, whereas an Embermage pretty much has to top off every time he/she gets hit. Even going 4 focus / 1 vit every level, my best Embermage so far was still in the health range to get 2 or 3-hit by Champion and Elite level enemies. Mordrox nearly one-shotted him, and he was level 14 at the time ("recommended level" for that dungeon is 7-10).

In spite of the squishiness, Embermages definitely feel the strongest to me. They have everything a class could ask for in terms of utility - a large AoE + short cooldown slow and DoT with a 50% (+1% per skill level over 1st) chance to stun each target for 3 seconds and a damage amplification effect, a short range 85% 3s stun / 90% interrupt with effectively no cooldown, a blink (bonus: it does damage), and a ton of other stuff.

Originally Posted by Narcowski

Yeah, I got in the beta a couple weeks ago. I've played 100% Hardcore Elite, so I'm not sure what the balance is like on easier levels, to be honest, but I don't think ranged classes are explicitly better than melee.

Oh I was talking about DIII.

But you're gonna have to shut up, or you're gonna make me blow $20 more bucks on TII

I kid. But... probably will buy it


Wow...Wizards are just.. powerful. I love the utility and control skills, which work so well with the extremely damaging but slightly difficult-to-place super high DPS skills.

The bane of my existence are the 30 s lag spikes, which make it completely out of the question to roll a hardcore character until Blizzard fixes them. Otherwise I'd get nowhere while I kept losing characters due to a random loss of control.

Ok, so Belial...

is hard.

Oh, and.... can someone explain this thread to me?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/top...5708292?page=1

What's the big problem with DIII itemization...?