Diablo III |OT2| Queues Rise. Servers Fall.

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It's shouldn't be expected no, but shit can happen, technology ain't perfect.

And yes, I would expect things like a tv, car, phone or any kind of technology to not be perfect and always work properly. Nothing is perfect after all.

The rage that some are expressing in here is quite funny, it's like they think that blizzard decided to purposfully annoy all of europe for shits and giggles.

do I make you sick? please say yess




Legendaries and Set items in Diablo 3 are horribly itemized, they don't have any special stats on them unlike in diablo 2. They have a few specific stats, and also some stats that are completely random. Bassically, they suck. Buy magic and rare items that are way better.
Some of them are a bit special, but yes especially pre-lvl 60 legendaries are very rarely anything great.
 
Hey so I installed the game from my disc to my gf's laptop and she made a battlenet account and we added the guest pass in there. The game says she doesn't have it activated so do we need to reinstall it from the battlenet starter edition link???
 
Latest Blizzard update:

We are slowly opening up the service to allow players to connect. This is part of our continued testing. There is a chance that this will result in the service becoming unavailable again at some point, and we will continue to update you as this testing progresses.
 
I am weirdly in love with the color of a Unique..even if a Rare is better, having a Unique (Legendary, whatever) drop that is usable for one of my characters are always something special. And even if highend rare can be potentially be better, I suppose that there are some interesting stats on some of the legendaries that are quite good for several builds.

Don't even know what colour a unique is! Been hoping to find one (too proud to buy it via AH, kind of defeats the point for me).
 
eurgh so pissed off about EU Battle net, what a joke, where's the redundancy? Yes I could play on the americas server but I don't want to waste time on characters on a server I wont normally use.

I can accept downtime is a fact of online life, I can even accept that D3 is online only (didn't really have to be but I bought it knowing this could happen) what really gets to me is how poorly prepared Blizzard are for inevitable server problems, they haven't got server status shown anywhere in game, there's one section for notices hidden off on the right hand side of the screen that provides no details at all.

I think people saying there was nothing Blizzard could have done to prevent this are a bit off, they could have prevented all of it, they made a cost-value judgement on their server situation (fair enough they are a company out to make money), and they made things worse with a piss poor set of systems to handle errors on the client side (this is what they really deserve shit for).


The LEAST they can do is come with with a decent compensation for those who spent their hard earned cash on their game and can't play in the spare free time they have. After tonight, it will again be another WEEK before I'll get some time to play the game. If the servers aren't down next weekend, that is.
 
We are slowly opening up the service to allow players to connect. This is part of our continued testing. There is a chance that this will result in the service becoming unavailable again at some point, and we will continue to update you as this testing progresses.

Grml.....
 
The LEAST they can do is come with with a decent compensation for those who spent their hard earned cash on their game and can't play in the spare free time they have. After tonight, it will again be another WEEK before I'll get some time to play the game. If the servers aren't down next weekend, that is.

I'm sure they'll reimburse your subscription for the time the game was unplayable.
 
Latest news from Blizz about european servers

"We are slowly opening up the service to allow players to connect. This is part of our continued testing. There is a chance that this will result in the service becoming unavailable again at some point, and we will continue to update you as this testing progresses."
 
Latest news from Blizz about european servers

"We are slowly opening up the service to allow players to connect. This is part of our continued testing. There is a chance that this will result in the service becoming unavailable again at some point, and we will continue to update you as this testing progresses."

I didn't know I was participating in $60 best test.
 
So because there hasn't been a SC2 expansion, Blizzard Ent aren't a subsidiary of Acitivision Blizzard?

They have independent management, but they are owned by Activision.

No they're not. Vivendi owns them both, or at least have a controling stake in the Acti-Bliz company. They control the board of Activision-Blizzard with 3-4 board positions, including the Chairmanship.
 
Latest news from Blizz about european servers

"We are slowly opening up the service to allow players to connect. This is part of our continued testing. There is a chance that this will result in the service becoming unavailable again at some point, and we will continue to update you as this testing progresses."

They really could have worded that better. "Testing" just makes you think of unfinished product/service.
 
The king!

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His damage at level 26

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so is end game itemization really as fucked as everyone on Reddit seems to be saying?

Yes.

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Rares significantly better than any legendary get RNG'd into the game. Massive swathes of useless stats/stat combinations that no one would ever want get dropped. Level 55 blues getting dropped for me in inferno. Loot so far has been a massive lottery of useless shit. I think in the 51 hours that I've played I've picked up less than 5 items that I actually could put to use.

So basically you're relegated to farming gold so you can get another piece of gear off the AH since getting anything useful to drop is literally playing the lottery.
 
I'll have the game tommorow finally. I don't complain with all these server problems...

Anyway. Are there any essential option settings I should know? I know about elective mode but I'm more concerned about technical ones.
 
Yes.

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Rares significantly better than any legendary get RNG'd into the game. Massive swathes of useless stats/stat combinations that no one would ever want get dropped. Level 55 blues getting dropped for me in inferno. Loot so far has been a massive lottery of useless shit. I think in the 51 hours that I've played I've picked up less than 5 items that I actually could put to use.

So basically you're relegated to farming gold so you can get another piece of gear off the AH since getting anything useful to drop is literally playing the lottery.

Yeah I feel like this will be the case usually. The AH pretty much makes random drops not as much important as the hoarding of gold to pay for other people's random drops.
 
I'll have the game tommorow finally. I don't complain with all these server problems...

Anyway. Are there any essential option settings I should know? I know about elective mode but I'm more concerned about technical ones.
Get DarkD3 at http://darkd3.com/, I use the Lesser option and it's a massive improvement. Elective mode and advanced tool tips are a must, Blizzard really dropped the ball having them off by default (or even existing). It's a good idea to turn enemy health bars, player health bars and other in-game information on that is off by default. Also make sure that your region is correct in the options, or you might have to restart your character on your correct region.
 
Yes.

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Rares significantly better than any legendary get RNG'd into the game. Massive swathes of useless stats/stat combinations that no one would ever want get dropped. Level 55 blues getting dropped for me in inferno. Loot so far has been a massive lottery of useless shit. I think in the 51 hours that I've played I've picked up less than 5 items that I actually could put to use.

So basically you're relegated to farming gold so you can get another piece of gear off the AH since getting anything useful to drop is literally playing the lottery.
I've found plenty of great stuff in inferno and I'm not sure what that image is supposed to prove. RNGed items should always have higher potential and I'm sure there are some legendaries that have the potential to be extremely good.
 
Hey so I installed the game from my disc to my gf's laptop and she made a battlenet account and we added the guest pass in there. The game says she doesn't have it activated so do we need to reinstall it from the battlenet starter edition link???

anyone? :3
 
Well this is fucking great... :/

I have been playing on my Mac for the past 4 days with no problems, FPS was fine and everything. Now today I attempt to login and my FPS has dropped to like 5. I tweaked around with the settings every which way, nothing works...well going too 800x600 res seems to bring it up to a modest 20 fps.

Hell, I even bootcamped to my PC side and installed it there, same fucking issue.

So I dunno what the hell the problem is, but now I can't play.

This happen to anyone else?
 
Yes.

Rares significantly better than any legendary get RNG'd into the game. Massive swathes of useless stats/stat combinations that no one would ever want get dropped. Level 55 blues getting dropped for me in inferno. Loot so far has been a massive lottery of useless shit. I think in the 51 hours that I've played I've picked up less than 5 items that I actually could put to use.

So basically you're relegated to farming gold so you can get another piece of gear off the AH since getting anything useful to drop is literally playing the lottery.

That's how D2 was though. The only difference in D3 is uniques have random stats on them instead of just a varying range on stats, which makes the uniques a lot less appealing in D3. Also getting crappy loot should be happening, and I'm surprised it isn't more often. If I had a dollar for every time hell meph dropped a level 20 or lower item I'd be a billionaire. Hell, if I had a dollar for every time hell meph didn't even drop any loot I'd still have around 20 dollars. Thus far all of the loot in D3 has just been randomized things that are level appropriate for the content that it dropped from.
 
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