Diablo 3?!

CLU_2 · March 21, 2012, 1:57am

Pussies.

I smashed the door open with my plate-mail encrusted shoulder, and proceeded to laid the smack down… all the way down. Then I smashed the soul stone into my CANONICALLY CORRECT forehead, for flair.

spideyman · March 21, 2012, 2:07am

I was all about that LLD lv 9,18 or 30. I would mainly use a lv 30. I would use jsp to sell my gear. Bmana’s were the shit back in the day.

odin · March 21, 2012, 2:26am

All I know is that fast weapons really help the Monk as it helps him proc his combos faster.
Whether it’s Chain Lightning fists or Crippling Wave. GIMME DEM DAGGERS

Infernoman · March 21, 2012, 2:29am

damn looked at the specs…yeah I figured I needed to upgrade my PC…at least the Video card. anyone know what’s a good budget card to handle this game? I have an old Radeon HD 4650 which CAN run the game but not well…

PleaseDontLeave · March 21, 2012, 8:23am

I’m using a GTS430 which i bought for $40. Runs D3 pretty damn well on 1920x1080 on high… Also using a very outdated AMD dual core. The requirements are really low for his game.

CLU_2 · March 21, 2012, 5:25pm

My G73JW will eat it alive.

When a laptop will, well then…

odin · March 21, 2012, 8:52pm

Interesting.

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Blizzquote**

We’re working hard on balancing and testing Diablo III, and one of the major components is making sure that the end game experience is fun and exciting. We’d like to share a few of our goals for end game:

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[]We have an enormous number of skill build combinations, and we want a lot of those skill builds to be viable and interesting
[]While there are millions of skill builds available to players, we don’t want players swapping skills regularly to beat specific encounters as they come up
[]We don’t want repeatedly running specific three-minute chunks of the game to be the most efficient way to acquire gear for your character
[]While a three-minute run shouldn’t be the most efficient, we also don’t want you to feel like it’s a two-hour commitment every time you sit down to play
[*]Bosses should still feel worth killing
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Nephalem Valor is one of the major new systems in Diablo III and it kicks in at level 60. Keep in mind that this is still in testing and we’re still working out the details. Here’s how it currently works internally: Rare and Champion packs already have great loot on them. By killing a Rare or Champion pack, not only do you get their loot, but you’ll also receive a buff granting you increased magic find and gold find. However, if you change a skill, skill rune, passive, or leave the game, the buff disappears. As an extra reward, if you kill a boss while this buff is active, you’ll receive extra loot drops from that boss.

The exact amount of magic find and gold find provided by the buff is still being reviewed, as is the amount of extra loot you get from a boss while the buff is active. We’re also playing around with whether or not the buff stacks, what the duration should be, and whether or not it should persist through death. We want to make sure the buff is strong enough to make staying in your current game more rewarding than creating a new game. At the same time, if the buff is too strong, it risks making shorter play sessions feel not worthwhile.

We expect this system will encourage players to stick with a skill build of their choice, select an area of the game they enjoy, and sweep it for rare and champion packs on their way to a boss, finishing off a run with a boss that’ll be worth killing. If you wanted a shorter play session you could be done at that point, but if you have more time, the path of least resistance would ideally be to stay in the same game and make your way towards the next boss.

Looks like everyone will be looking for a rare or champion before rushing to kill a final boss haha
Loot runs will be interesting.

CLU_2 · March 21, 2012, 8:58pm

It is fucking retarded.

They ought to just go ahead and make boss runs the great loot potential that they were in D2, if with less chance, AND make rare mob packs have the same level of loot tables, albeit with the less chance than D2 qualifier as well.

That way, the bosses stay relevant, and mob packs are refreshing potential boss-caliber loot pinatas, as well.

odin · March 21, 2012, 9:18pm

They want to add an additional time sink instead of just running bosses. Now you will search for a rare mob beforehand.

CLU_2 · March 21, 2012, 10:48pm

Which is annoying first, dumb second.

They ought to just downgrade the drop chances, and then the time sink stays about the same, but with the added freedom of getting to choose what you want to hunt - bosses or level runs for rare packs.

CLU_2 · March 21, 2012, 10:50pm

I myself love running rare mob packs with low chances to drop everything.

It is why I practically lived in the Pits, post .09

Infernoman · March 22, 2012, 1:45am

in a way it makes some sense so this way as you head for the boss you have a mob along the way to take down and pick up possibly more loot. I suppose I’d have to see though if it’s worth the time when D3 drops.

SoVi3t · March 22, 2012, 2:48am

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*This scares me a little. While I understand, in the case of the buff from killing rare packs/mobs, how long is this buff going to last? Are boss fights going to be over that quickly? Why can’t you just make a bit more challenging boss fight, and reward me the same. Technically, I have no problem killing random mobs/adds. I hate people who do speed runs in groups. Going and killing other rare creatures isn’t always a hassle. *

I just hope that when D3 drops, it’s not a hassle to play, and require them to tweak the shit out of it in the first few weeks.

Sleazoid · March 22, 2012, 5:45am

you say d3’s system requirements are low now

when you kill shenk the overseer and your screen becomes full of fireballs and frozen orbs you may change your tune

Sonicabid · March 22, 2012, 5:49am

Getting level 99 pre-patch 1.10 was easy as hell. You get rushed from act 1-5 then you do Hell Cows for 2 days. Level 99. Now it’s fucking impossible, and I only found out recently that at level 98 the only XP you can get is from one enemy…Baal. The fuck?

I had a shitload of level 99’s pre 1.10 patch. Then when 1.10 hit and added synergies, all of my old level 99 characters turned to instant garbage because they were specced wrong(1.09 specs.) I deleted all of my old level 99 characters because they were useless and you couldn’t respec, but now years later, you can respec. Fuck!

TheBladeItself · March 22, 2012, 6:31am

Doesn’t matter.

Unless you were not playing ladder.

But why play, if not playing ladder?

Ken34 · March 22, 2012, 8:38am

yea i remember those days. i still have my 4 accounts full of loot. and yet out of all the botting and manual mfing ive only ever got 2 COAs…shit is so rare.

TheBladeItself · March 31, 2012, 5:25pm

45 days and ticking.

SoVi3t · March 31, 2012, 7:20pm

it sucks cuz i look at all the games on my back log, and the fact I am fucking around with SW:TOR, and I realize that when D3 drops, none of those will matter any more

FluffyM · March 31, 2012, 7:46pm

To me it sucks because despite owning pretty much every game on steam, I have nothing to play and am boring my ass off, waiting for this and GW2
Would give my left nut for fast-forward IRL