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[Cipherr]

I used to love the old chat logs in WoW

Server restart in 15 minutes.

(2ish minutes later)

Server restart in 30 seconds.

(seconds later)

5...
4...

and then you got booted.

I remember that one time on my server we got

"Server Restart in 15 minutes"

"Actually, its coming down now"

**World Server Down**

God I laughed so hard. I thought those things were automated, didnt realize they could send a server wide message like that. Too funny.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Wait until the weekend, the first weekend the game is out, everyone is off work, kids out of school. Yeah, won't be playing much I'm afraid.

 

[arimanius]

I'm back in!

edit* and now I'm back out lol. wtf

 

[Jaxter09]

Should be Cyclone Strike. Seems godlike for setting up AE death zones just like that :x

Cyclone Strike w/ increased AoE + Extended Blinding Flash + Sweeping Wind = God mode

 

[Lion Heart]

As soon as the servers go up I'm deleting all my characters except Barbarian. I can't keep toggling between them, its stressful. I haven't even eaten dinner yet, what am I Yoshi..

 

[Ashodin]

You damn Wizards, you're making me want to roll my twohanded melee wizard.

Fuck!

Here's the latest image of my melee demon hunter, I still need to take a pic of him at level 20 though.

 

[Shouta]

Monk is so good. You can group control with it really well either using the Lash kick or the Cyclone and you can even arrange for single targets. The DPS is really great too once you get the dex/weapon damage balance down.

 

[CaLe]

Alright, screw this, going back to The Secret World while the damn servers come back up. Before going down again.

 

[epmode]

317002, how I missed you.

 

[LowParry]

So Nightmare mode. Better to group or solo?

 

[owlbeak]

Why the fuck isn't the dye system consistent? Bought some cardinal (red) dye from the AH, applied it to chest piece, looks cool and is red. Applied it to helmet, looks ridiculous and neon orange. Both were white before that. Ugh.

>:[

 

[Sothpaw]

Oh it's on! Saving up that 100K now. Can you only buy it in act 2? So if I get to act 3 I can't get it again unless I start a new game/load up a game for Act 2? Also, was there an item like this in act 1 I missed? Will there be more in 3 and 4 ?

Sorry I don't know the details...they are listed on diabloincgamers though.

 

[Gotchaye]

archon is fucking amazing, but I really really want the teleport rune for it (which you get at somewhere around level 60 :-/).

Actually that's the second rune. I have it and I'm only 45. And it's amazing; almost completely negates the one weakness of Archon and can be used aggressively too.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

just fucking lol blizzard

 

[John]

Hey, for all the witch doctors in here, why the fuck is the spider queen rune so god damn awful? I switched back to my fire toads immediately, what a piece of crap. Was I just using it wrong?

maybe. unlike every other LMB you get you're not supposed to spam the spider queens; it's a temporary minion with an aoe dot surrounding it. spamming it doesn't make more of her.

 

[Duki]

Well....we did get a 5min warning... The problem with that is that there is no reliable way to find a save in less than 5 min... You need to be lucky and happen to be near a checkpoint or you will loose stuff and time.

thats not how diablo works lol

you dont need to do anything for your shit to save...

the only times people have lost items is because of weird server rollbacks or resyncs

 

[Fix The Scientist]

This is fun.

 

[Home]

317002, how I missed you.

I was so happy about getting back in too.

 

[Jeff_Chen]

I've got the day off work, just woke up ... error 37. we meet again, damn you.

Anyone got a link to the D3 official server status page? I can't find it

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/status

 

[Magnus]

But it's a multiplayer rpg that happens to allow you to play solo!

This should be the OT 3 title, because it's outrageously awful but as I'm finally beginning to accept, so very true.

 

[GhostRidah]

still no legendaries or set items im on nm act 2!

Good to hear, I found one of my first run of nm act 1.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

It was announced in game, there was a five minute warning that the servers were going down to push an update or something. Not that it isn't stupid that they wouldn't do that at like 3 in the morning when not as many people would be on, or put it on their site, message board, twitter, etc.

Fact: I didn't get a message in-game. I started playing 10 minutes before the server crash.

Fact 2: People who are just now trying to log in for the first time today, did not get any kind of warning that they wouldn't be able to play their single-player game upon returning home from work due to "login issues", that I suppose their tech guys are going to get around to fixing someday.

 

[Angry Puppy]

just let me play the game blizzard come on

 

[Measley]

Beat the Skeleton King just as the servers went down.

Thank god for Diamond Skin.

 

[TheExecutive]

Haven't been able to play at all. I am starting to get annoyed. I got like 10 minutes in and I saw the game hitches a lot. Was it the servers? I have PLENTY of horsepower. Anyone else get this?

 

[Takamura-San]

sorry ...

 

[arts&crafts]

I commented on this earlier, but throwing it out there again: Archon is freaking amazing.

I'm burning through Nightmare Act 3. It throws a bunch of little dudes at you with a bunch of medium dudes, and you build up time-in-form on the little dudes and tear through the groups of medium dudes. My Archon morph is lasting longer than my armor spell, and I eventually let it go intentionally in order to re-buff.

Although if I do get caught out of Archon, it can hurt. It's painful trying to hack through hordes of little dudes with AP-limited Arcane Orb. Some Elites are better handled in normal form, too - especially if they're fast and tough such that you want Diamond Skin (this is also the one buff that doesn't carry over when you Archon morph ).

But wow. I can imagine the Wizard being an extremely fast Hell/Inferno farmer if this holds up. It's a consistent, sustainable 300% weapon damage to everything in front of you, plus extra tankiness on top of your armor spell. I can't wait to see if it synergizes with the passive that slows enemies that get hit with arcane damage.

Yep before archon I was like, "my wizard is so squishy waaaaah and I am so feeble" after level 30 and archon I am like, "wow wizard is op, onto inferno farming!"

THEY ARE BACK!!!!!

LIAR! I am getting server is busy error.

 

[TheContact]

I'm back in!

edit* and now I'm back out lol. wtf

psych!

 

[Jangocube]

Oh, this takes me back to the good old days of early WoW.

The memories....

 

[Magnus]

thats not how diablo works lol

you dont need to do anything for your shit to save...

the only times people have lost items is because of weird server rollbacks or resyncs

It's exactly how Diablo III's been working so far, in some respects. You leave the game by your hand or a disconnect, and you lose all your progress back to the last checkpoint, and your random maps are re-randomized. You retain xp, gold, items and whatnot, but the rest is wiped as far as I can tell.

Beat the Skeleton King just as the servers went down.

Thank god for Diamond Skin.

+1

Seriously. Fuck Frost Nova.

 

[Jeff_Chen]

I wonder what day this week we'll go without a restart. im betting saturday.



where in-game can I check my ping?

To the left of your arcane orb, a green vertical bar. Hover you rmouse on it to get the latency.

 

[Liferebooted]

woo im in

 

[Deleted member 17706]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/status

Interesting. Asia has no real money auction house? Do they plant to implement one someday? If not, I may just have to play on that realm.

 

[Felix Lighter]

Just got back in. They have got to get there act together here.

 

[Shouta]

Cyclone Strike w/ increased AoE + Extended Blinding Flash + Sweeping Wind = God mode

Cyclone, Crippling Wave, Breath of Heaven, Sweeping Wind, Seven-Sided Strike, Blinding Flash = Tank/Aoe control on Monk, it's pretty crazy.

 

[Raxus]

I fucking know right? Shit is so damn funny. We honestly don't have to dodge a damn thing, just cyclone and you're good to go. And with Serenity to boot? So good.

Serenity only gets 7 times more ridiculous as you level it too. Not to mention your default fist gets a teleport on it really early. I haven't even tried the last fist attack. I can't wait until my exploding palm gets the spirit regen effect to it.

 

[echoshifting]

Whats everyone using for their Witch Doctor?

I have:

Poison Dart- w/ splinter
Arm grabby things- 80% slow speed
Horrify- w/ Phobia
Soul Harvest- w/ Swallow your soul
Firebats- w/ Direbats

The right thing to be doing is mostly intelligence > mana > vitality right?


Didn't see a countdown either, friend had to let me know in game.

Here's what I'm using at level 25.

Nowhere near as efficient as my Dire Bat build, and I miss Spirit Walk something fierce, but damn it's fun. I should probably ditch Hex but he picks up Hedge Magic in half a level ;p

 

[nicoga3000]

How is XP handled? If my friend who is 5+ levels higher than me, does that screw up the XP share?

Repost because this thread moves WAY too quick.

 

[Lombax]

I now hate error 33 more than error 37

 

[zlatko]

Wait until the weekend, the first weekend the game is out, everyone is off work, kids out of school. Yeah, won't be playing much I'm afraid.

 

[blainethemono]

I got kicked out :x

Oh well I died an embarassing death anyway so no worries on my loot.

Spoiler

It was the insect that shoots out posionous flies that did me in :x

Those are the worst, died a bunch of times to those because I can't dodge that shit at all

 

[TheContact]

got in then got booted too lol

 

[Felix Lighter]

And knocked back off.

 

[tycoonheart]

Anyone interested in doing Act 3 (normal)? I'm not too far in.

 

[Paches]

Lol, logged in and immediately kicked

 

[dragonflys545]

Good to hear, I found one of my first run of nm act 1.

I found one on act 4 normal feels good xD A frostburn!

 

[LyleLanley]

Hey sweet, I can't play Diablo 3...

 

[Cipherr]

Theres no way my next class isnt a monk. The further in the game I get, the more I run into them using their new skills the more jealous I get.

 

[SDBurton]

So Nightmare mode. Better to group or solo?

Probably group. Just started not too long ago myself, I'll add you when I get back in if you want to group up.

 

[cametall]

Nightmare had some bad packs of champs..hell is a whole nother level of bullshit. I PITY anyone playing this game hardcore. I'm genuinely surprised at the challenge and love it though. Monks are also ridiculously good for parties. They turn shit groups into ones that just shrug off attacks and ignore mechanics.

I was doing Act II (I'm monk) with a Witch Doctor and a Barbarian. The WD is about 3 levels higher than me and the Barbarian 4 or 5.

Anyways I got split up from them because I was selling my items too slowly. They ran into a group of mobs that wreaked them hard, as in they survived for about 20 seconds. Right as the Barbarian died I walked into the group to help but ended up pulling the entire group with no teammates to help me. I stood and fought.

My monk whooped ass and killed every single enemy solo before my teammates could get back over to "save" me. My level 16 monk did what a level 18 WD and a level 19/20 Barb could not do together, solo.