Diablo 3?!

[Sonicabid]

Barb day 1 again. This time, I won’t be dual-whielding Ali Baba’s while not knowing how to properly use the Whirlwind skill.

Yeah, I double posted. HONEY BUNCHES OF OATS WITH ALMONDS+BANANA ASSIST HER I COME!

[Noble_Cactus]

Blizzard time is like Valve Time * 10

The upside is that there are no taboo topics or phrases that can be used to delay Blizzard Time.

I think.

Anyway, May 15th yay

I never played TONS of D2, but I did have a Whirlwind Druid and dabbled a bit in WhirlyBarb and Necro. Look forward to playing Monk because Monk. And Witch Doctor, I suppose.

[Sleazoid]

It also gives you one less thing to grind for, and one less thing to set you apart from somebody else. Plus since they already said killing bosses isn’t really where the best loot is at… I’m not really sure what their plan for the game is

no lol

classic d3 will probably be about rerolling/crafting rares until you get a gg one like classic d2

When we last had details on uniques, they came with a 4 predetermined affixes and 2 randomly rolled ones.
Crafted rares come with 6 randomly rolled affixes.

A Jeweler’s Monarch of Deflecting is worth an arm and a leg in D2, and all it is is a magic shield with two specific and perfect affixes. Imagine how much people are going to grind/pay for a shield with six specific and perfect affixes?

I’d bet Blizzard is going to try to skew the game so that uniques are great - but not perfect. And you will want perfect gear.

Game’s going to be about doing cow runs for crafting mats rather than boss runs for rare drops. This levels the playing field for players not using map-hacks (since you’re now interested in killing anything and everyone, instead of just teleporting to the next floor so you can get to the boss) and somewhat hinders the efficiency of botters (bots are less capable of dealing with random).

[CLU_2]

May 15th…I’ll be working part-time soon, too. I have to build a PC or get new ram+video a card for my old PC since I just looked up the minimum requirements. I’ll probably just do the cheap route and buy some random 512MB video card and 1-2GB’s of ram. I’m gonna see how much the CE of D2 goes for on Ebay, I have the battle chest but I lost my expansion disc case. I lost my cd key with it, but I used a program that told me my D2 XP CD-key. Now in my battle chest their’s a little piece of paper with my D2 XP CD Key written on it.

Yeah you were playing at a time where Hammerdins were top tier because 1.10 patch was new and they were cheap to gear up. None of the other characters(tiers) got fleshed out yet, so back then, Hammerdins were king. Then people started exploring other builds and specs with various different characters and Hammerdins went from 3S Chun tier to Sean tier.

I had a geared out Fire-orb sorc with a nm act 2 merc geared with infinity, a p vamp gaze, and either a heavy nigma or fort, area dependent.

So broken.

[mr_punk]

Because since the runes unlock as you level up, the higher level runes tend to be better. Thus instead of having 8 viable tweaks to a bunch of moves, you get 1-2 viable combinations at the highest level. I think it’s going to stifle people too much. But who knows, maybe the higher tiers won’t actually be automatically stronger

they shouldn’t be. all runes are equivalent to what the rank 4 or 5 rune in the old system. however, the loss of rune ranks is a terrible. ex: magic missle will shoot 3 rather than 7 missles when runes had ranks. poison dart loses it’s machine gun effect. on a side note, in addition to removing the supporting passives for non-melee classes. they gave a 30% passive DR to barb and monk. it looks the developers are discouraging out of class builds.

[Soothsayer]

Because since the runes unlock as you level up, the higher level runes tend to be better. Thus instead of having 8 viable tweaks to a bunch of moves, you get 1-2 viable combinations at the highest level. I think it’s going to stifle people too much. But who knows, maybe the higher tiers won’t actually be automatically stronger

It also gives you one less thing to grind for, and one less thing to set you apart from somebody else. Plus since they already said killing bosses isn’t really where the best loot is at… I’m not really sure what their plan for the game is

Blizzard Entertainment.
World of Warcraft.
World Drops.

[specs]

Because since the runes unlock as you level up, the higher level runes tend to be better. Thus instead of having 8 viable tweaks to a bunch of moves, you get 1-2 viable combinations at the highest level. I think it’s going to stifle people too much. But who knows, maybe the higher tiers won’t actually be automatically stronger

It also gives you one less thing to grind for, and one less thing to set you apart from somebody else. Plus since they already said killing bosses isn’t really where the best loot is at… I’m not really sure what their plan for the game is

On the former, that’s more an issue with runes, not how they’re attained.

On the latter, one less thing to grind for is ALWAYS BETTER.

[odin]

You can never find the D2:CE.
Nobody will ever sell theirs.

[Pimp_Willy]

On the former, that’s more an issue with runes, not how they’re attained.

On the latter, one less thing to grind for is ALWAYS BETTER.

Normally I would agree, but in this case it felt like runes was going to be the only way to differentiate yourself, and now that they’re all handed out to everyone as you level, even that is gone. Besides, in a game that is entirely driven by being a loot grind, then it’s not that bad to have something be a loot grind. Even if the runes were all given, but you grinded for rune enhancements or something, I think it’d be better.

they shouldn’t be. all runes are equivalent to what the rank 4 or 5 rune in the old system. however, the loss of rune ranks is a terrible. ex: magic missle will shoot 3 rather than 7 missles when runes had ranks. poison dart loses it’s machine gun effect. on a side note, in addition to removing the supporting passives for non-melee classes. they gave a 30% passive DR to barb and monk. it looks the developers are discouraging out of class builds.

Yeah loss of Rune Ranks does suck, that’s what gets me the most. There’s no increase in the rune strength, it’s all or nothing, which seems more limiting. I want to be level 60 flinging 11 magic missiles damn it

[CLU_2]

Y’all DO realize that they have implemented +skills modifiers into the modifiers pool, right?

Right?

[HeaT]

Y’all DO realize that they have implemented +skills modifiers into the modifiers pool, right?

Right?

am i thinking of someone else or wasnt it you that was hating on D3 and wasnt going to touch and blizzard this and blizzard sucks, korea, auction, somethingsomething, a couple of months ago? now your playing the beta and such? or was that someone else?

im outi

Roberth

[Pimp_Willy]

Y’all DO realize that they have implemented +skills modifiers into the modifiers pool, right?

Right?

I’m interested to see how it plays out, now that I’ve looked it up. But since theres no skill ranks, how can you have + to skills?

[CLU_2]

am i thinking of someone else or wasnt it you that was hating on D3 and wasnt going to touch and blizzard this and blizzard sucks, korea, auction, somethingsomething, a couple of months ago? now your playing the beta and such? or was that someone else?

im outi

Roberth

I never dissed Korea.

Not once.

I am not Beta testing their game for them for free.

I am cautiously practical about this being the only viable gaming option to release in next 8 months.

The loss of transparent skill ranks hurts my outlook, but the fact that they have reintroduced skill + gear is what has turned my downpour of pessimism into simply a soft Scottish day.

Online only is still balls.

As are auto-leveled attributes, but if they are engineered in such a way that gear and skills aug them and/or aug off of them, then… I’ll reserve judgement until I see reviews of the way it works in the final build upon release.

I am not buying it day one.

I shall wait and see.

[mr_punk]

Y’all DO realize that they have implemented +skills modifiers into the modifiers pool, right?

thanks, i did not know. however, i still think too much of the game has been shifted onto items. blizz said players will use runes not skill points for character building in D3. apparently, if you want to build a character using inferno quality runes. players are still dependent on RNG and RMAH, like they were when runes were items, which throws character building right out the window. ugh, i’m definitely going to wait and see what happens to this game and NG3.

[CLU_2]

thanks, i did not know. however, i still think too much of the game has been shifted onto items. blizz said players will use runes not skill points for character building in D3. apparently, if you want to build a character using inferno quality runes. players are still dependent on RNG and RMAH, like they were when runes were items, which throws character building right out the window. ugh, i’m definitely going to wait and see what happens to this game and NG3.

Rune quality used to = character power.

+Skill items now = character power.

This seems more in line with D2, especially in the latter days, when I was running around, hurling level 40 (20/20+skills) Fireballs bigger than I was, melting Meph in less time than it took to teleport across his moat.

[Lazyjosh2]

I wonder if they’ll bring the diablo 2 enigma armor back. Or maybe the cow level

[odin]

Well we aren’t gonna have an Enigma without sockets or real runes.

[Soothsayer]

I wonder if they’ll bring the diablo 2 enigma armor back. Or maybe the cow level

Secret Cow Level is a must. They’ll bring it back if they know what’s good for them.

[CLU_2]

Word on the street is that they’ll be giving us Friendship Is Magic and Rainbows, as a jibe at the mockery of the liberal usage of colours in the earliest demos.

[SoVi3t]

It also gives you one less thing to grind for, and one less thing to set you apart from somebody else. Plus since they already said killing bosses isn’t really where the best loot is at… I’m not really sure what their plan for the game is

thats how it was in D2 as well. Sure, Diablo himself dropped good stuff occasionally, but the quest itself took fucking forever lol. I remember when all I would do for equipment was Meph runs for low end good stuff, and Pindle runs for high end stuff. Anything else either took too long, or wasn’t practical.

Anywho, I used the Barb the other night. Damn, one hit killing everything was fun lol.