What do you mean specifically?
I think there may be two important things that aren’t really present in the beta: 1) runes aren’t dropping in the beta, so no skill customization; 2) it’s too early in the game, so crafting doesn’t play much of a role.
I didn’t really know how the skill system worked until the beta, but I see now. You don’t have to commit to a build anymore. You can pick any of the skills unlocked at any time and swap the runes at any time.
One weird thing I only noticed since the beta started: your character now talks. lol, it’s probably old news for you guys, but it’s so weird coming from D1 and D2, I’m pretty sure I saw the monk doing some trash talk after he beat a mob of skeletons.
Your character talked in DII. Remember the ever so suggestive “I can’t put that there…” pouty voiced Amazon? There’s even trash talk after killing a boss. Go back and kill Blood Raven real quick. I guarantee your character says something about putting her to rest or something. Perhaps only the amazon says it, though. shrug
Or you could press the keys on the number pad to make them talk.
“DIE!”
“TIME TO DIE!”
“HELP MEEEE!”
My friend works there. It’s how he got me in.
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Seems like there’s a skill calculator online on the official website (stats for lvl 60 character and lvl 7 runes). Pretty cool to mess around with it.
Diablo generally was kinda meh until you got to Nightmare anyways. How long they sending out Beta invites? I am guessing that if I haven’t already received a Beta invite, then I am probably waiting for release to get this game?
Okay… So… I decided to play around with this… if these descriptions are accurate at all… you can turn a monk into a priest who can heal everyone for ridiculous amounts while standing in an impeneterable bubble while building spirit so you can keep casting… The WoWification of Diablo is complete… I can now play a Holy Priest in Diablo 3… At any rate, I still have high hopes…
I DO want to say though, after playing around with the Wizard… some of the runestones really make some of her spells MUCH more interesting…
I hope all classes have some sort of way to recover. I’d hate to have to need a specific roll to get anywhere “end game” like a specialized healing class.
Kinda hyped for the game, but pso2 looking so good too. Really torn here.
now with the calculator I can begin thinking up what I’d like to run…but until I begin to play it’s still theory stuff.
Banned from this thread.
Anyone on the friends and family receive an invite yet today?
Not yet for me, but I’m not 100% sure the guy even put my name in yet. It’s a friend who has a brother who works there, and his brother told him he couldn’t get him in yet. So bleh.
As for the builds, they all look fucking crazy but they’re based on level 60 and max level runes. The wizard warp one is interesting… if you get the top level rune it can make it so the cool down doesn’t go until 5 seconds after you teleport, meaning you can get either infinite or at least double/triple teleports before getting the cooldown. Also some of the teleport runes are good for PVP, like the one that resets the cooldown if you take a big hit.
They haven’t started the opt-in beta invites yet so everyone still has a chance
yeah it looks like every class has something that seems ridiculously imba once you factor in top end runes
of course i wouldn’t be surprised if these runes end up being as rare/valuable as ber runes
Are they even including classic runes + runewords?
no lol
classic d3 will probably be about rerolling/crafting rares until you get a gg one like classic d2
GAY.
I am so making an Archon build