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I'd just like to thank a user called Magnus (I believe) for suggesting I try joining General chat channel to avoid disconnect. Since launch I havent been able to play for more than 15 minutes at a time and was extremely frustrated. Joining the chat totally solved my problem!

I have no idea how or why this works, but thanks for the tip anyway man. I've been playing for over an hour straight with no problems. I could kiss you haha.
 
Bump cause it took me a while to type that out and stuff. Anyone else have some cool randomized events?

I haven't found any particularly interesting events but PSO2 does the same thing. I had some cool situations where I was fighting two bosses at the same time in that game.
 
I'd just like to thank a user called Magnus (I believe) for suggesting I try joining General chat channel to avoid disconnect. Since launch I havent been able to play for more than 15 minutes at a time and was extremely frustrated. Joining the chat totally solved my problem!

I have no idea how or why this works, but thanks for the tip anyway man. I've been playing for over an hour straight with no problems. I could kiss you haha.

It's like a secret cheat code for not getting booted. Works every damn time too ahahahah
 
It's not only the art, it's the tech as well. It just looks dated. And yeah, the WOW look is very noticable. Sure Blizz won't come out to say "we did this to appeal to WOW crowd" but I think that's just what it is. It's certainly not the diablo style we saw in 1 or 2...whatever, I don't think we need this discussion again.

WoW's influence on Diablo is very strong, and its not just in the art direction. A lot of D3's features borrow heavily from WoW, the most obvious being the auction house, but lots of smaller things too. Like when your armour gets damaged you see the same icon in the top right of the screen you see in WoW, the crafting (notice how so many people are calling it disenchanting?), chat panel is the same, etc. Diablo 3's parent, if a game could have a parent, is certainly WoW.

I am pleased D3 hasn't inherited WoWs addons though.
 
How do gems work? I don't seem to have noticed them so far up to level 15 wizard. I must be doing something wrong.

If a piece of equipment has an empty socket hole, you can put a gem in there to make it have +attribute the gem is. The better the gem, the better the stats and you can only take out the gem from a jeweller
 
If a piece of equipment has an empty socket hole, you can put a gem in there to make it have +attribute the gem is. The better the gem, the better the stats and you can only take out the gem from a jeweller

Do you find gems throught act 1 or not till act 2. I don't think I've found any gems so far and I'm level 15.
 
Bump cause it took me a while to type that out and stuff. Anyone else have some cool randomized events?

There's a great random event in act 1 that the goal is simply survive for 2mins an onslaught of normal enemies. They become progressively harder types of creeps but never get into the named green or blue ones. Its a lot of creeps in that room too. By the last 15 seconds there was no room to move for every 10 creeps I would kill another like 30 took there place.
 
Oh man if you're a barb try Weapon Throw with Ricochet rune (lvl 25 rune). It improves the skill so much. I'm using weap throw instead of leap now. Also just got Call of the Ancients and blew several loads when I first used it.
 
Sure on the technical side it's nothing amazing but I'm playing through Act 2 right now and some of the zones where I'm going through right now are fucking amazing looking. Once of the best stuff I've seen in ages.
 
I saw that today too! But the other 3 players didnt wanna go down into the dungeon. I wept.
That sucks. I can't believe people want to just rush to the objective when there's so many cool dungeons and possible events if you just explore the map.


There's a great random event in act 1 that the goal is simply survive for 2mins an onslaught of normal enemies. They become progressively harder types of creeps but never get into the named green or blue ones. Its a lot of creeps in that room too. By the last 15 seconds there was no room to move for every 10 creeps I would kill another like 30 took there place.
That sounds so cool, do you remember what area of act 1?
 
WoW's influence on Diablo is very strong, and its not just in the art direction. A lot of D3's features borrow heavily from WoW, the most obvious being the auction house, but lots of smaller things too. Like when your armour gets damaged you see the same icon in the top right of the screen you see in WoW, the crafting (notice how so many people are calling it disenchanting?), chat panel is the same, etc. Diablo 3's parent, if a game could have a parent, is certainly WoW.

I am pleased D3 hasn't inherited WoWs addons though.

This fact makes me immensely sad. There are so many tools I used to use in WoW that would love to have here.
 
There's a great random event in act 1 that the goal is simply survive for 2mins an onslaught of normal enemies. They become progressively harder types of creeps but never get into the named green or blue ones. Its a lot of creeps in that room too. By the last 15 seconds there was no room to move for every 10 creeps I would kill another like 30 took there place.

I heard about this one, but have never seen it :(

This fact makes me immensely sad. There are so many tools I used to use in WoW that would love to have here.

I love it. :D No recount, gearscrore crap ruining the game and helping cultivate the inner asshole in random people online.
 
WoW's influence on Diablo is very strong, and its not just in the art direction. A lot of D3's features borrow heavily from WoW, the most obvious being the auction house, but lots of smaller things too. Like when your armour gets damaged you see the same icon in the top right of the screen you see in WoW, the crafting (notice how so many people are calling it disenchanting?), chat panel is the same, etc. Diablo 3's parent, if a game could have a parent, is certainly WoW.

I am pleased D3 hasn't inherited WoWs addons though.

Despite that, WoW's skill progression/trees are more "Diablo" than Diablo 3's.
 
There's a huge party downstairs and I'm here sitting playing Diablo 3. No regrets.
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Now I need somebody to bring me a beer. >.>
 
Send me an invite: ihaveabeard#1932

I think I should be able to join your NM game

Sent. Sorry for the delay (dog issues).

If anyone else wants to take on
Belial
in NM (on NA server), I'll be here. Just smashing up against this wall :P

Add: BulletSmurf (I forget the numbers, but I'm pretty sure I'm the only BulletSmurf)
 
WoW is an extremely polished and refined game, and as the overly easy content and iffy game structure that does so much damage to that title for me didn't make it over, I'm very pleased. If more games had half the interface and infrastructure WoW had the industry would be immensely better for it.

Watching the inferno videos and seeing that the encounter design seems more based around high end WoW style design and not mindless Diablo II style design is something that really thrilled me. Despite how much I sunk into it DII had a really meek end game, in all honestly.

Despite that, WoW's skill progression/trees are more "Diablo" than Diablo 3's.

You mean the old style ones, or the Pandaria ones? Because the Pandaria ones are far more akin to Diablo III instead of the older ones, which were based on II. For as much as I rag on WoW normally, I'll give it even more praise here, moving away from the cookie cutter, FAQ diving trees and to the current style is one of the best things thats happened to either game.

If I never have to cross reference 2 or 3 online forums to find optimal builds for my obscene amount of talent points again, it'll be too soon.
 
That sucks. I can't believe people want to just rush to the objective when there's so many cool dungeons and possible events if you just explore the map.



That sounds so cool, do you remember what area of act 1?

I ran into a similar event, but it wasn't exactly "inside" a room...

had the same "defend against the invaders" in the area where you have to collect the 2 keys to the drowned temple, to collect the 2nd sword shard. It was awesome, because totally unrelated to the quest lol.
 
That sucks. I can't believe people want to just rush to the objective when there's so many cool dungeons and possible events if you just explore the map.



That sounds so cool, do you remember what area of act 1?

I want to say it was the Cathedral, but I might be wrong. I unfortunately don't have the name event since I did while achievements were being wiped out


I ran into a similar event, but it wasn't exactly "inside" a room...

had the same "defend against the invaders" in the area where you have to collect the 2 keys to the drowned temple, to collect the 2nd sword shard. It was awesome, because totally unrelated to the quest lol.

I actually did that same event later. The first one I'm referring to has far more enemies spawn.
 
There's a great random event in act 1 that the goal is simply survive for 2mins an onslaught of normal enemies. They become progressively harder types of creeps but never get into the named green or blue ones. Its a lot of creeps in that room too. By the last 15 seconds there was no room to move for every 10 creeps I would kill another like 30 took there place.

Sounds like "Jar of Souls" event.. I did that one in the beta. It was in the crypt near the cathedral.
 
Even though i have major problems with this game cash ah and always online i caved like a bitch. Damn you gaf and your giant threads of hype and screen shots :-/
 
I'd just like to thank a user called Magnus (I believe) for suggesting I try joining General chat channel to avoid disconnect. Since launch I havent been able to play for more than 15 minutes at a time and was extremely frustrated. Joining the chat totally solved my problem!

I have no idea how or why this works, but thanks for the tip anyway man. I've been playing for over an hour straight with no problems. I could kiss you haha.

This is now an official fix.

http://bit.ly/KqU35p
 
I'd just like to thank a user called Magnus (I believe) for suggesting I try joining General chat channel to avoid disconnect. Since launch I havent been able to play for more than 15 minutes at a time and was extremely frustrated. Joining the chat totally solved my problem!

I have no idea how or why this works, but thanks for the tip anyway man. I've been playing for over an hour straight with no problems. I could kiss you haha.

You are most welcome. I could kiss the random diablo forum poster that suggested it. It works. Who the fuck knows why. HOSANNA
 
What weapons and weapon combos should I be using as barbarian? A dagger's stats seems to be better than most things i have been getting by level 5 and it doesn't make sense to me.
 
Can't beat
Belial big demon phase
as a lvl 24 demon hunter... Seems like a tough matchup and the damn lag isnt helping either. Using elemental arrow since it does good amage per shot, but I cant seem to dodge his attacks even though they are telegraphed. This is a really bad difficulty spike.
 
WoW's influence on Diablo is very strong, and its not just in the art direction. A lot of D3's features borrow heavily from WoW, the most obvious being the auction house, but lots of smaller things too. Like when your armour gets damaged you see the same icon in the top right of the screen you see in WoW, the crafting (notice how so many people are calling it disenchanting?), chat panel is the same, etc. Diablo 3's parent, if a game could have a parent, is certainly WoW.

I am pleased D3 hasn't inherited WoWs addons though.

Many of wows tropes came from diablo in the first place.
 
Hey look, another server shutdown! Great piece of game you have there, Blizzard~ Keep at it, bros!
 
Can't beat
Belial big demon phase
as a lvl 24 demon hunter... Seems like a tough matchup and the damn lag isnt helping either. Using elemental arrow since it does good amage per shot, but I cant seem to dodge his attacks even though they are telegraphed. This is a really bad difficulty spike.

I think he is going to be a pain for DH on every difficulty. I am serious when I say he is ridiculous on NM. The two mages I was playing with carried me, and I was still dead when they finished him off. I am trying to stack vitality, even at the expense of DPS, but its getting absurd, DH are squishy as hell. I cannot even imagine whats going to happen to me in Act 1 of the next difficulty jump after I beat NM. I get wrecked as it is right now, and I have like 11k HP.
 
There's a great random event in act 1 that the goal is simply survive for 2mins an onslaught of normal enemies. They become progressively harder types of creeps but never get into the named green or blue ones. Its a lot of creeps in that room too. By the last 15 seconds there was no room to move for every 10 creeps I would kill another like 30 took there place.

This was great. I think I got a massacre streak of 80 or so because of that.
 
Holy hell you fine folks were not kidding about the auction house. It's like cheat mode. Went armed with with 30K, now I'm decked out in yellow and feel invincible at lvl 18.
 
Sent. Sorry for the delay (dog issues).

If anyone else wants to take on
Belial
in NM (on NA server), I'll be here. Just smashing up against this wall :P

Add: BulletSmurf (I forget the numbers, but I'm pretty sure I'm the only BulletSmurf)

Lol sorry about that, that didn't turn out well. At least you took off a third of his life!
 
I think he is going to be a pain for DH on every difficulty. I am serious when I say he is ridiculous on NM. The two mages I was playing with carried me, and I was still dead when they finished him off. I am trying to stack vitality, even at the expense of DPS, but its getting absurd, DH are squishy as hell. I cannot even imagine whats going to happen to me in Act 1 of the next difficulty jump after I beat NM. I get wrecked as it is right now, and I have like 11k HP.

Me and RS4- just tried to two man him in NM. It was a disaster. He hits like a truck and there's no room for evasion. I'm up to ten unsuccessful attempts now =/

Lol sorry about that, that didn't turn out well. At least you took off a third of his life!

I'm very close to installing that WASD script so I can actually evade. That, or paying someone on Inferno to just wreck him for me.
 
Holy shit the Act 2 boss hahaha

At first I was wondering why everybody was freaking out over it.... I did NOT expect that hahaha.
 
Belial at 300ms lag for single player game = wtf.

goddamn, I was having a lot of fun until now. I had some nice Vitality pieces that might helped in this fight but I salvaged them and with the cooldown on potions who knows if ti makes much difference anyways since it seems like I'm doing OK then I just instantly die. This seems stupidly hard for normal mode, cant imagine the later difficulties.
 
Me and RS4- just tried to two man him in NM. It was a disaster. He hits like a truck and there's no room for evasion. I'm up to ten unsuccessful attempts now =/



I'm very close to installing that WASD script so I can actually evade. That, or paying someone on Inferno to just wreck him for me.

I'm only lvl 27, but I guess I could stand there and heal you for the fight on my monk if you'd like.
 
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Leaving this here before I go to work

Ashodin, Melee Demon Hunter
Level 29, Near the End of Act 3

MAD DPS YO!

Holy shit, I didn't know Demon Hunters could be a melee class.

I may have to look into it once I finish my current game with the Barbarian.
 
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