Diablo III |OT2| Queues Rise. Servers Fall.
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That definitely didnt happen to me. I used my CE from the guest pass, logged in and continued on my level 13 char. Check the region.
I just finished my solo barbarian run trough Normal. 15 hours.
No. You must use new characters in new regions.
No. You must use new characters in new regions.
When Dual wielding your attacks alternate between the weapons (and their stats), but with a 15% increase to attack speed.
Alex
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I was a little concerned at first, because people kept saying streamlined like it was dumbed down, and Diablo II wasn't exactly some majorly deep game but all they really did was take out the clunk, small timesinks and FAQ diving that prevented you from actually tooling around in the game, the actual play is more interesting and nuanced than most of Diablo II even in normal mode.
I assume it's because of WoW-phobia, and it's one thing not to like WoW or MMO content, I don't play WoW anymore either (don't wanna raid and everything else is too easy) so that's very understandable for anyone. But the stuff WoW did for interface work, infrastructure and blinding polish over the years has been pretty incredible, and one of the reasons why every other MMO in it's wake fails. That's the stuff Blizzard does best, so I don't know why anyone would be bothered by it.
The instructions are on NVIDIA's site: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/ar...ii-with-advanced-ambient-occlusion-shadowing/ What they don't mention is that there's an even better Quality setting if you use NVIDIA Inspector.
I really started out not being impressed by this game. The inability to map abilities to function keys to quickly change them out for your mouse buttons, the lack of skill trees (really messed up that WoW has a more Diablo-like skill progression than Diablo 3...), etc. But I'll be damned if the game didn't eventually suck me in. I do feel however that: Skyrim is to Morrowind as Diablo 3 is to Diablo 2.
Loss of attributes, loss of customizability, etc. Some things I miss from Diablo 2. But this game is definitely fun.
Lots of lag on a single player game with a good computer though sucks. It won't matter if I have the top of the line RAM, CPU, and Video Card, it will still stutter depending on server load. And this is on my Japanese 80mb up and 80mb down connection on the Asia server...still laggy as shit.
Witch Doctor is an interesting class. I seem to have the most success tossing out a zerg swarm of spiders on a snare patch at level 11. At least in high enemy count environments. I like that most of the abilities base their damage off your equipped weapon. That finally evens the playing field for magic users. When magical damage isn't affected by your gear, it makes it harder to balance when new items drop, but basing magical damage on your equipped weapon allows a wizard to still be viable based on drops received. (Especially MMO's. New expansion with overpowered weapons and armor comes out and magic users usually get fucked because their improvements don't match up to the latest gear.)
Loss of attributes, loss of customizability, etc. Some things I miss from Diablo 2. But this game is definitely fun.
Lots of lag on a single player game with a good computer though sucks. It won't matter if I have the top of the line RAM, CPU, and Video Card, it will still stutter depending on server load. And this is on my Japanese 80mb up and 80mb down connection on the Asia server...still laggy as shit.
Witch Doctor is an interesting class. I seem to have the most success tossing out a zerg swarm of spiders on a snare patch at level 11. At least in high enemy count environments. I like that most of the abilities base their damage off your equipped weapon. That finally evens the playing field for magic users. When magical damage isn't affected by your gear, it makes it harder to balance when new items drop, but basing magical damage on your equipped weapon allows a wizard to still be viable based on drops received. (Especially MMO's. New expansion with overpowered weapons and armor comes out and magic users usually get fucked because their improvements don't match up to the latest gear.)
My physical copy finally arrived and I installed it on the Mac Mini I have here at work. Works great, though I have to use wifi via my mobile phone to connect as battle.net ports are blocked on work's network. The latency number seemed to jump around quite a lot, but I didn't notice any problems in playing it (I guess that might be because I'm in the EU region).
Empty Space
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So... uh yah if you get to act II and find a cellar with a guy named Fuad talking about blood and how hungry he is be ready for a really hard fight. He has insane HP regen.
UnblessedSoul
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Just at the beginning of act 3, so awesome love the story and settings level 25 at the moment
of course it is...
Those people posting character select screens, could you blank the act description, or just link the images? 
Also, does anyone know what the stars are for in the crafting list? Best items?
I don't think so at the moment, but they added the ability to sort it in WoW so maybe at some point.
If you're just going to play through once on Normal then it's debatable, but if you're going to go through all difficulties and/or try multiple characters there should be more than enough to justify it.
I have some lowbie rares I'm tempted to throw up there to see what's going on.Boo nobody is buying my low level bargains on the auction house.
Also, does anyone know what the stars are for in the crafting list? Best items?
blainethemono
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Just finished normal...either going to start nightmare now or play another character for a while first
aeroslash
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Wow! Nice! I didn't know that! And it looks much better. Do you know the performance hit on a 570?
I sure will download this this afternoon!
Yeah Inspector has a High Quality AO setting that the normal CP doesn't have. I haven't actually tried it since I imagine the frame hit would probably be a bit too much for my 460. Better cards should give it a shot.
Quality AO still looks super nice.
I imagine it could get dicier to use later on when mobs start hitting really hard, but so far I've found Soul Harvest to be dominant (I'm only at level 10). You can get seriously massive buffs to your intelligence which makes you unleash loads of damage. I like using the Grasp snare to slow enemies down, sort of get into the thick of them and use Soul Harvest, then back out and just own them with the darts as the Zombie Dogs further distract them.
For the passive I went with the one that boosts pet and character defense by 20%, though it looks like you can freely switch skills up there as well.
I'm not seeing it. Potential builds seem more varied to me, it's just that you're finally free to experiment without starting a new character. And I haven't heard a single good argument for keeping D2's manual stat management.
AppleSmack
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Hilarious caption for the OT 
So as a game this is much better than Diablo 2 but im sort of missing the community aspects in this Diablo. I used to love hanging out in user created trade and free stuff games and bartering for items, met a lot of people that way, that stuff kept me playing d2 for years. Dont know how long im gonna play this after I beat it. Great game though.
AppleSmack
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I'm pretty sure any character is capable of identifying rares if that is what you mean. There are no more scroll of identification. Simply right click on the item if you are high enough to use it.
toastyToast
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Act I took me 8 and half hours
going for the longest completion time record
going for the longest completion time record
Kiraly
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There are channels like General, Hardcore, Looking for group and Trade you can join (even in non-public games) and chat with others in your current server.
Looks's like Diablo III Paladin
I have it on my netbook also! I get 30 FPS though.
Fleet_of_Foot
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If I upgrade an artisan as I'm going through normal, does their "level" stay with them as I go on to nightmare?
I don't want to dump money into upgrading him if it's just going to reset when I start a new difficulty.
I don't want to dump money into upgrading him if it's just going to reset when I start a new difficulty.
OK, so is anyone else experiencing mild hitching while moving around? It's pretty subtle, I suppose, but it lacks the fluidity I would hope to find in a game like this. It manifests itself as small skips almost akin to HDD access (which shouldn't be the case as it's running on an SSD with 8gb of ram). i7-930 + GTX580 in there as well. Wouldn't expect any performance issues.
I also would LOVE gamepad support to show up at some point as I can't really enjoy the game in my theater setup as is. :\
I also would LOVE gamepad support to show up at some point as I can't really enjoy the game in my theater setup as is. :\
Just to add to AppleSmack that when you identify stuff it won't happen instantly. You'll have a progress bar above your character (just like when using the town portal).
First time I tried to right click on a yellow item in the beta I thought nothing happened and just clicked on something else that canceled the idenfitication.
I'm on an SSD also, but, are you speaking mostly of the microstutter?
It feels more like that to me.
LowParry
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Dude. Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.
US servers seem to be lagging like a bitch. Dat 800+ latency.
The_Darkest_Red
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I've been out of the thread for awhile, did you finish Nightmare yet?
Dude. Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.
US servers seem to be lagging like a bitch. Dat 800+ latency.
Maybe for you :/
I'm at 32ms.
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Curious about the rate of leveling. Does the average playing hit level 60 during the first playthrough, or does it take multiple playthroughs?
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