perfectnight
Banned
lol
I read that entire post and I have no idea what he's complaining about. I love Blizzard's fanbase!
Diablo 3 Beta [Beta withdrawal underway!]
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lol
I read that entire post and I have no idea what he's complaining about. I love Blizzard's fanbase!
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Yeah it's pretty bad, lol
I am totally fine with the 1.25 price.
It does not matter at the end of the day. If I want to buy an item with my Blizz money, I wont care whether my $20 will go to the seller or only 18.75 will go to him and 1.25 to Blizz. Good for them. And if I am selling, and I want 25$ for something, I wont care if I "get" 23.75 instead.
As both is ingame first, IRL only secondary. If I get money out of an item in D3, then it is not Blizz "getting" money from me, it is me getting money thanks to Blizzard. Hell yeah!
It does not matter at the end of the day. If I want to buy an item with my Blizz money, I wont care whether my $20 will go to the seller or only 18.75 will go to him and 1.25 to Blizz. Good for them. And if I am selling, and I want 25$ for something, I wont care if I "get" 23.75 instead.
As both is ingame first, IRL only secondary. If I get money out of an item in D3, then it is not Blizz "getting" money from me, it is me getting money thanks to Blizzard. Hell yeah!
Acidote
Member
Me neither, we were flagged at the same time. No EU betas have been handled.
When I was flagged it took ages. You're just gonna have to kind of let it surprise you >.<.
Just read a delightful thread about a player wanting items to auto pickup. Might as well throw in proximity auto attack while they are at it too!
smh
I try to stay away from the beta forums lest I want to be pissed off. Really only care about what the blues are posting.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Hoovering up whites and grays sounds like a great idea!
Yep, and every time you want to pick up a blue, you cant cause inventory is full
"We will be performing scheduled maintenance beginning on Tuesday[sic], February 18th, at 10:00 AM PST and we expect the service to be available again at approximately 6:00 PM PST. During this time the Battle.net servers and any online games will be unavailable for play."
When they say scheduled, is this regularly scheduled every week, or can we expect patch 13 later tonight?
When they say scheduled, is this regularly scheduled every week, or can we expect patch 13 later tonight?
Well, the day was off, its patch today
"We thought about revamping the calendar so that today was Tuesday, but have since changed our minds and the message now reads as follows:
We will be performing scheduled maintenance beginning on Saturday, February 18th, at 10:00 AM PST and we expect the service to be available again at approximately 6:00 PM PST. During this time the Battle.net servers and any online games will be unavailable for play."
"We thought about revamping the calendar so that today was Tuesday, but have since changed our minds and the message now reads as follows:
We will be performing scheduled maintenance beginning on Saturday, February 18th, at 10:00 AM PST and we expect the service to be available again at approximately 6:00 PM PST. During this time the Battle.net servers and any online games will be unavailable for play."
Well, the day was off, its patch today
"We thought about revamping the calendar so that today was Tuesday, but have since changed our minds and the message now reads as follows:
We will be performing scheduled maintenance beginning on Saturday, February 18th, at 10:00 AM PST and we expect the service to be available again at approximately 6:00 PM PST. During this time the Battle.net servers and any online games will be unavailable for play."
Just saw this on the login screen!
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Give it 30 more minutes and we'll get an announcement either way.
Diablofans has some interesting new stuff up.
http://www.diablofans.com/news/1093-beta-patch-13/
Edit: Holy shit what the fuck is going on with those runes!?
Double Edit: Give it another 2 hours and 15 minutes
Diablofans has some interesting new stuff up.
http://www.diablofans.com/news/1093-beta-patch-13/
Edit: Holy shit what the fuck is going on with those runes!?
Double Edit: Give it another 2 hours and 15 minutes
perfectnight
Banned
Shitstorm incoming...
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Radical skill changes incoming?
Patch 13 datamined info:
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/35217-patch-13-skill-category-changes/
I wonder if this is gonna be another reversal in philosophy like the whole town portal thing.
Patch 13 datamined info:
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/35217-patch-13-skill-category-changes/
I wonder if this is gonna be another reversal in philosophy like the whole town portal thing.
Blog post about the new skill and rune system changes:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4475014/Skill_and_Rune_Changes-2_15_2012
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4475014/Skill_and_Rune_Changes-2_15_2012
Yeaaaah, at this rate of fundamental balance changes they're not gonna meet Q2 2012. Itemization will need to be especially revamped to work with the new runes system.
edit: actually after reading through the blog post and thinking a bit more, this may actually make them MORE likely to meet the deadline because moving runes to the skill system may actually simplify itemization.
edit: actually after reading through the blog post and thinking a bit more, this may actually make them MORE likely to meet the deadline because moving runes to the skill system may actually simplify itemization.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Ah, read your post before the edit, disregard.
You're assuming that they won't discover flaws in this new system and decide to change it yet again. They've done this many times throughout even just the beta. They'll also need to ensure that the system is properly balanced and bug-free throughout the entire game across all difficulties, classes, builds, and levels.
Huh, this is a good point.
I read through the blog about the changes and they all sound really good to me. That skill window and hot bar being linked makes sense, and was a little awkward before. I hope they replace the runes with something else, in terms of them dropping in the world though. It was always cool in Diablo II when a gem or rune would drop as apposed to another piece of armor or what have you. The fact that the skill runes are integrated in a call of duty like leveling system is nice, and I like the fact that everyone will have access to the skill and rune combinations at max level and not have to find or trade for certain items.
Looks like the witch doctor was hit fairly hard.
Looks like the witch doctor was hit fairly hard.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I still wish there were some way to increase your rune power through item drops somehow - perhaps like a consumable scroll to bump it up one level, but then again, the market for such things would inevitably dry up unless there's a compelling reason for players to reroll characters.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Patch is available to download now.
That's what I was thinking too, we'll hear a release date soon perhaps as these changes are likely something you'd do when you're getting ready to start prepping for a release. Saw some datamine stuff on something about a trial version, too, which also leads me to believe we're getting closer. May or June maybe.
Such optimism and hopefulness. Blizzard will destroy your dreams.
I've read WOW patch notes for seven years. Just following my heart
Im_Special
Member
LOL at the new datamined stuff, but really did anyone have any doubt this wouldn't make it in?
The Horadric Hamburger - The Horadrim wandered far and wide to gather the finest ingredients for their feast. Only the lone traveler sent to the Moo Moo farm failed to return. Diablo had laid a trap for the Horadrim, the Hell Bovine, who struck the traveler down before he could gather the final ingredient: cheese.
Prism - This fantastical blade is the physical manifestation of unicorn smiles, bright rainbow colors, shooting star wishes, and teddy bear giggles.
Prism - This fantastical blade is the physical manifestation of unicorn smiles, bright rainbow colors, shooting star wishes, and teddy bear giggles.
Some interesting changes for D3. I was looking forward to collecting Runes though but I can understand their reasons for changing it. At low level, it would be fine but once you get high enough, juggling all those runes will be annoying.
Also nice to see the addition of the Chance to Hit procs coming in.
I wonder how far this will push the release date? Are we looking at Q2 or Q3 now?
Also nice to see the addition of the Chance to Hit procs coming in.
I wonder how far this will push the release date? Are we looking at Q2 or Q3 now?
LowParry
Member
Well at least the patch went up. Just a matter of waiting.
Lots of changes. To me, it looks like Q2 2012 is still looking good for D3 release. The rune system seems like it has been the biggest gameplay hurdle and is what probably pushed back the game from Q1 to Q2. The fact we're seeing it in beta now must mean it is in its more finalized state and everything else should be easier(maybe?) to implement. Whatever the case, I'm just glad there's more content added for us to play in the beta.
Time to repopulate that friends list once the servers go up.
Time to repopulate that friends list once the servers go up.
Well looking over the rune system article, I really think the changes sound good. I like the idea of being able to toy around with builds and rune abilities without having to waste an item I farmed a long time to get. As for the UI skill bar changes, it doesn't really affect me as I will be enabling the "Elective Mode".
I'm a little disappointed with a couple of the Demon Hunter changes, but can totally see why they were made. Reducing Vengeance hatred bonus from 50 to 25 makes it less of a go to and now Steady Aim's passive damage increase from 10% to 20% may actually make me pick it instead. Pathing improvement for Vault is something I'll just have to see for myself, because the fundamentals/mechanics just seem a bit broken for me.
Patch is downloaded and I'm just waiting for the servers to come up.
I'm a little disappointed with a couple of the Demon Hunter changes, but can totally see why they were made. Reducing Vengeance hatred bonus from 50 to 25 makes it less of a go to and now Steady Aim's passive damage increase from 10% to 20% may actually make me pick it instead. Pathing improvement for Vault is something I'll just have to see for myself, because the fundamentals/mechanics just seem a bit broken for me.
Patch is downloaded and I'm just waiting for the servers to come up.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Nevermind it worked after a restart! Good change for the rune system btw. It would have sucked to farm runes to affect core functionality like that, it should be unlocked for all. great move blizz
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Didn't the last patch make it easier, though, by drastically increasing player HP and eliminating the harder boss enchantments?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4079618921
Gah, delayed again until 11PM PST. Screw it, I'm going out to get drunk.
Someone help me understand these changes. As far as I know, they had 2 problems:
1. Not enough inventory space for people who wanted to collect all 7 ranks of all 5 types of runes for all skills (35x # of skills in the game).
Seems like somewhat of a problem, but why didn't they just stick with unattuned runes and instead have some kind of cost to slotting them and deslotting them? Then we have, at max, 35 runes for inventory again.
2. Nothing to do from level 30-60 when you level up.
Well, since leveling up allowed use of higher rank runes, and better items, I'm not sure that this was ever really true. Also, they had passives for this.
So, to solve these problems, they get rid of runes (which had awesome graphics) and give us something to pick while leveling (and replace them with crappy new rune/glyph graphics?) and remove one more type of loot (was really looking forward to finding these).
Not only this, but they removed ranks to skills. So this tells me there will probably be no +skill/rank affixes either. Diablo 2 had these and +skill affixes were always fun and sought after. So how exactly do we have any different of a system from WoW currently? Are the affixes currently in the game enough to allow for unique builds?
Seriously disappointed right now....
I guess the only difference I can think of is that the talent tree is a tree and not just open. But I can't see any other differences. Can someone honestly explain to me where the build diversity will come from now? Will it just be from items? No more build commitment at all?
1. Not enough inventory space for people who wanted to collect all 7 ranks of all 5 types of runes for all skills (35x # of skills in the game).
Seems like somewhat of a problem, but why didn't they just stick with unattuned runes and instead have some kind of cost to slotting them and deslotting them? Then we have, at max, 35 runes for inventory again.
2. Nothing to do from level 30-60 when you level up.
Well, since leveling up allowed use of higher rank runes, and better items, I'm not sure that this was ever really true. Also, they had passives for this.
So, to solve these problems, they get rid of runes (which had awesome graphics) and give us something to pick while leveling (and replace them with crappy new rune/glyph graphics?) and remove one more type of loot (was really looking forward to finding these).
Not only this, but they removed ranks to skills. So this tells me there will probably be no +skill/rank affixes either. Diablo 2 had these and +skill affixes were always fun and sought after. So how exactly do we have any different of a system from WoW currently? Are the affixes currently in the game enough to allow for unique builds?
Seriously disappointed right now....
I guess the only difference I can think of is that the talent tree is a tree and not just open. But I can't see any other differences. Can someone honestly explain to me where the build diversity will come from now? Will it just be from items? No more build commitment at all?
I don't see how the build diversity has changed at all unless your speaking about ranks for abilities/runes of which everyone would be seeking and acquiring the highest rank of both. Which would inevitably lead to the same amount of abilities with the same amount of runes/variations that will currently be in the game.
And World of Warcraft only lets you alter abilities through specific talents (many abilities cannot be altered regardless) whereas Diablo 3 is letting you choose a variant for each ability.
I can see losing the joy of searching for the runestones and giving you more purpose to the loot grind, but there are pros and cons to both paths. I think I prefer the one that is currently slated in patch 13 to be honest. And I like the new rune graphics. :/
And World of Warcraft only lets you alter abilities through specific talents (many abilities cannot be altered regardless) whereas Diablo 3 is letting you choose a variant for each ability.
I can see losing the joy of searching for the runestones and giving you more purpose to the loot grind, but there are pros and cons to both paths. I think I prefer the one that is currently slated in patch 13 to be honest. And I like the new rune graphics. :/
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