MisterNugNug
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How the hell do you make the Tomes of Blacksmithing??? I've separated stacks of pages into 5, but whenever I right click them nothing happens. What gives? I'm missing something.
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O.DOGG
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Me and two others beat the game on Normal, and are currently going through it on Nightmare. The difficulty spike is considerable. I can't seem to find a working build for my Witch Doctor. I'm having so much fun, I'm getting worried that I'm ignoring other things in my life.
I think you can make them on a higher difficulty after you reach it. That's just a guess though. Can't seem to find a definitive answer to this one.
I think you can make them on a higher difficulty after you reach it. That's just a guess though. Can't seem to find a definitive answer to this one.
In general when you manage a quest goal you get one of them. The smaller checkpoints are when you reach a new area or a new dungeon level etc. Sometimes the checkpoints are very close, sometimes they take a long time. For example in Act 1 the earlier quests just need you to go talk to someone to hit the checkpoint, while in Act 2 you have one quest that requires you to do two small dungeons before you hit the quest update.
Make? Tomes drop on Hell.
I had to level up a HC monk to catch up with my group after dying stupidly the other night and I also found this to be true. I was leveling significantly faster solo (and by faster I mean by the time I reached the same point in the story my character was a higher level when solo'd then when grouped), but my loot was trash.
I don't know how experience is divided in game, but I would say empirically it's not even. I base on the fact that for some reason two out of 4 in that group seem to keep getting farther ahead even when we had played every moment together.
Barack Lesnar
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Wish I had some friends like that to consistently group with. I guess I'll wait till after finishing normal to try co-op because randoms will gogogo and rush through the dialogue.
They're exploring the possibility. Last we've heard moving with a controller works great but casting spells is awful.
YianGaruga
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I know a lot of people (me included) had the annoying problem with the beta stuttering all over the place.
Has that been fixed in the full release?
Has that been fixed in the full release?
Aoe damage isn't cutting it in nightmare for me. I'm finding taking down a single target is more beneficial than killing all at once. They have some much health, and so dangerous it's better to concentrate wittling them down one by one. That said, I have impale on penetration... so it does hit multiple... as well as hungering arrow.
From what I've experienced in nightmare.. i think my end game build will be
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/demon-hunter#aZgXYj!bXe!ccYZc
It's so vanilla.. but it works on paper.
TheMan
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that's a shame
Barack Lesnar
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So in Act 3 I was wandering around when you get out in the open and I noticed a dungeon all the way to the left in a corner. Turns out it was a massive 2 level dungeon that took like 20-30 mins that I found a legendary axe (burning axe of sankis) and a couple rares. The game rewards you so much for just exploring the map. Only bad thing about this is that since so many people are just gogogo constantly I wonder how many of these beautifully crafted dungeons are going to waste. Some of them are random yeah but many not. I can't stand the gogo mentality of today's gamers, such low attention spans and patience.
MisterNugNug
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I remember hearing that stacks of five pages can be made into Tomes. That's false then?
Forsaken82
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Nothing really stopping you from doing that, but the AH is also there. I mean, whats stopping you from saying "hey i have such and such to trade, looking to deal" right here and finding someone interested. The AH is just a feature added to simplify things and remove that extremely niche black market aspect of the game into a hassle free source (and pad ActiBlizz's pockets with 15% of the proceeds
)My least favorite parts of the game are any scenarios involving some story related event, if I had the option I would turn off all chatter the characters have while running around. The parts where I'm having the most fun are the ones with mindless slaughter and randomized levels.
Haha, got nearly one shotted by it aswell in Nightmare. It was actually harder than anything in that act. Almost there now on Hell. Will be fun, but I'll just monk it up np!
That's why the end portions of Act III are so badass,
just a non-stop crawl through shitloads of enemies among the best setpieces in the game.
I'm at the very end of act 4 on Nightmare, and I still have no idea what I'm doing wrong. My kit is pretty much up to date, I'm using a good set of skills that synergize well, etc. Still, all I can really do is kite. That's my whole build. Aggro a mob, cast smoke screen to gain some distance, and then rapidly drain my hatred using either Chakram (dual rune), or Elemental Arrow (Lightning Ball rune).
It works fine, until I get to a boss like
Izual
Belilal
I open my games to the public and no one ever joins. I'm not sure if it's a port issue or what.
I don't suppose you're in NA and you'd want to just take him down for me, would you?
I'm not even joking. I'm so salty right now.
Barack Lesnar
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I'm actually enjoying the story and characters...I pick up all the journals and listen to all dialogue, etc. I also click on all allies when the blue star is over their head that signals new dialogue. It's not incredible or anything but it's decent for a video game. Pretty standard affair but thanks to it being Diablo it feels a little above that.
Also completely expected.
I am absolutely loving this game, but I realllllly wish the loot was vastly more dynamic. Where are the ability modifiers and quirky stats from D2? It would very much add some fun and rarity to the loot hunt if you could find items that were "20% Less Fury Cost for Whirlwind" or "Increases the Duration of Threatening Shout". I'm sure that might cause a balancing nightmare but it would make the loot a lot more interesting. Apologies if these come in later difficulty settings and I haven't seen them yet.
Yeah, weakest one for me. Act 3 on the other hand...AWESOME!
I am not sure what things are currently in D3 but other than class specific ones, some skill based ones would be nice.
Ok the AH in Europe seems to be fucked. Search doesn't bring up anything.
I totally agree. 3 is the best imo.
I totally agree. 3 is the best imo.
Uhh. Have you looked at what kinds of stuff the stats can modify? Press the Details button your char sheet.
Act 2 is definitely the worst thanks to
Kuhle (or however you spell it) and his endless dungeons of boredom.
Three is my favorite for sure.
Deadly Cyclone
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Trying to install to use the "trial" version code I got and I keep getting Error code: BLZPTS00002, and it cannot connect to download updates.
This happens when I run the installer for the game client.
Any ideas? Seems a handful of people are getting this...
This happens when I run the installer for the game client.
Any ideas? Seems a handful of people are getting this...
Depends what you're looking for. If no search, tab to the next thing and back to search again, it will be clickable.
I am starting nightmare tonight what do you all think of this Monk Build
-bakalhau-
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So... What's up with this game?
Correct me here if I'm wrong but... Everything I heard from Diablo 2 led me to believe there was quite a lot to the game content-wise. Max level content, ie, content for players after beating the main story. Basically, what I heard led me to believe there were a bunch of side quests, additional bosses and additional zones you could play in after beating the story. I'm not counting expansions here.
But from what everyone tells me, Diablo 3 is just... The story. Once you beat the last story boss, it's time to do everything again. So, there are no exclusive bosses to higher difficulty levels. No additional zones with high level mobs, no content at all that's actually original for all that new loot and whatever else.
Is this really how it is? Because the game is short as hell from what I've played, and I can't imagine myself replaying the same thing over and over 8, 9, 10 times. I sure could do it a bunch of times, provided there was actually something different for me for each difficulty level. Inferno is an everything-60 campaign, but it's just the main quest, again. Hardcore sounds incredible, but eh, again the same game, from start to finish. There are no side quests at all? I think I've seen one or two, but they're events. Not actual side quests that have you explore the world. I know bosses have more mechanics in higher difficulties but...
This bothers me so much because this game is so incredible. I hadn't played a Diablo game before, tried the beta with little interest, but the game is just so good on sound, graphics, the feel of the gameplay, the feeling of killing monster, the animations, everything.
Yet it feels so gimped on content... There's no endgame. Just the same game, but with different difficulties. And apparently, a rather short and linear game too. I played Titan Quest and I think 30 hours in and hadn't gotten to the end of it. It really felt huge, despite repetitive environments. Diablo feels short from everything I've played and asked my friends.
It's messed up, it still won't return results. I'm raging right now, I want to use it before continuing playing.
Correct me here if I'm wrong but... Everything I heard from Diablo 2 led me to believe there was quite a lot to the game content-wise. Max level content, ie, content for players after beating the main story. Basically, what I heard led me to believe there were a bunch of side quests, additional bosses and additional zones you could play in after beating the story. I'm not counting expansions here.
But from what everyone tells me, Diablo 3 is just... The story. Once you beat the last story boss, it's time to do everything again. So, there are no exclusive bosses to higher difficulty levels. No additional zones with high level mobs, no content at all that's actually original for all that new loot and whatever else.
Is this really how it is? Because the game is short as hell from what I've played, and I can't imagine myself replaying the same thing over and over 8, 9, 10 times. I sure could do it a bunch of times, provided there was actually something different for me for each difficulty level. Inferno is an everything-60 campaign, but it's just the main quest, again. Hardcore sounds incredible, but eh, again the same game, from start to finish. There are no side quests at all? I think I've seen one or two, but they're events. Not actual side quests that have you explore the world. I know bosses have more mechanics in higher difficulties but...
This bothers me so much because this game is so incredible. I hadn't played a Diablo game before, tried the beta with little interest, but the game is just so good on sound, graphics, the feel of the gameplay, the feeling of killing monster, the animations, everything.
Yet it feels so gimped on content... There's no endgame. Just the same game, but with different difficulties. And apparently, a rather short and linear game too. I played Titan Quest and I think 30 hours in and hadn't gotten to the end of it. It really felt huge, despite repetitive environments. Diablo feels short from everything I've played and asked my friends.
It's messed up, it still won't return results. I'm raging right now, I want to use it before continuing playing.
Yeah the search is kinda borked. If you put on any details in your search it glitches out.
Well you heard wrong. D2 had even less stuff to do (until they patched in Uber monsters). D3 has random events you can hunt for, so those kinda are sidequests, I guess? But the main drive is killing monsters for lewts.
storybook77
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Why must there be
in every damn RPG-ish game I play.....WHY?!?! Although admittedly, the ones in this game don't seem to bother me nearly as much as in other games.
spiders
Yep, and I am starting to look for pretty specific stuff like elemental resistances, soooo....
You should ask Boken what he uses. I don't think it's like that build and he destroys stuff.
StormyTheRabbit
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This may be a dumb question...
But I currently have a 2H Bow-Staff thing equipped that does about 25.9 DPS. Now, I have a pair of iron fists that do 23.9 and 22.7 DPS respectively. Would using the fist weapons equal out to be more DPS than the 2H or not?
Like, basically what I'm asking is if dual wielding weapons DPS stacks or if there is some weird algorithm for how the combined DPS is determined.
But I currently have a 2H Bow-Staff thing equipped that does about 25.9 DPS. Now, I have a pair of iron fists that do 23.9 and 22.7 DPS respectively. Would using the fist weapons equal out to be more DPS than the 2H or not?
Like, basically what I'm asking is if dual wielding weapons DPS stacks or if there is some weird algorithm for how the combined DPS is determined.
There are a few unique events, but I don't think they're unique to the difficulty level. You may not see them until higher level difficulties though, so they'd be new to you.
Other than that, yeah, you've basically got the gist of it. If the quest for bigger and better loot isn't your thing, the game is going to get stale quick.
-bakalhau-
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Yeah I know there are events, they mean a quest for me, but it's always in the same spot where you already are. They feel like, well, events, not side quests. Diablo 2 had many more areas though, is this correct? The level cap was 100... Then again, it was randomly generated tiles from what I read...
I know the actual bragging rights are in 'hey, I beat Inferno'! And doing it with friends, etc... I just... Sort of expected more bragging rights in the form of super hard bosses, like Heroic-only bosses in some WoW raids. Speaking of WoW, I think that's what has spoiled me. Diablo 3 feels like it has so little content, and no endgame content at all.
no, you can resume.
You can also fire up the game and start playing about 25% of the way into the download.
Ya all the gear I see is like +INT/DEX/STR, +ATK Speed, +DMG, +Class Specific Resource. It's just the same stuff over and over while the numbers go up. I know this is how all RPGs essentially work, but I did like the specific class skill modifiers from D2. Maybe Bliz is saving that kind of gear for the expansion pack.
This is the current build I'm using for my Monk at lvl 33, anyone have any suggestions or tweaks?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUXijQ!bYX!aaZaZa
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUXijQ!bYX!aaZaZa
When you dual wield you get a 15% attack speed increase, and your alternate attacks between your main hand and off hand. Basically you would get tr average dps between the MH dps and OH dps.
From the looks of it, I would say your 2h will do more damage, but you should just equip both and see what your characters final dps is before deciding.
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