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Diablo III |OT3| Turn On Elective Mode, Get an Authenticator
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Sort of. It's still completely shitting the bed right now though.
It's down again. Right before it went down, I noticed that a huge chunk of gold had gone missing from my stash. It looks like gold was taken for the stuff I missed out on, but no items ever delivered, and it never gave me the "your bid has been accepted" screen.
I'm talking...a lot of gold here lol.
It's been up and down like three times tonight. They never should have brought it back online.
I hope so. It never even acted like my bids had gone through. It just error messaged out every time.
haha, back up and STILL shitting the bed? I thought that was why they took it down in the first place! Oh Blizz, you so crazy. =/
Those should come back as bid failed refunds
Maybe its the extreme lack of sleep, but I don't follow.
Let's say you put up an item worth about 1 mil for a 1 mil buyout, and 100,000 starting bid (lol, it will go up from there of course! Or so you think).
Thanks to the AH's horrible code (I guess), your item disappears from the lists and no one can bid on it. Then, with two minutes left on it (and the minimum bid still at 100,000) it reappears on the auction house. Someone bids 101,000 (or whatever), and gets your million dollar item for 100,000.
If the auctions I saw before the AH died go through, there are going to be a lot of angry people come tomorrow, when they see their epic loot that sold for nothing.
CarbonatedFalcon
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It was pretty crappy in beta too, and hasn't improved much since then.
For current Auction House disappearing item and the like woes, see:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/u6uak/psa_auction_house_is_broken_items_not_showing_up/
For comments general drop rates/itemization in relation to the AH, see:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5150112701?page=2#33
Drop rates are balanced with the use of the AH in mind.
You may also be interested in reading Bashiok's other comments in that thread, which can be found easily here:
http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/224875-so-has-blizzard-given-up-or/
There will be a dev blog post on Monday that should be pretty illuminating for a variety of subjects.
Anyhow following Diablo 3 pre launch has been boring for me, the videos for each class did not entertain me but the initial unveiling did. So I have not followed Diablo 3 breadcrumbs or information as some of you folks have.
My review of the game:
First thing that caught me off guard is how amazing is looks graphically. I do wish the game had ambient occlusion options in the game. I know Nvidia users can force it through drivers but I am a petty ATI user, Love the cloth animation involved, the physics, character animations are all outstanding. This stuff really appeals to me.
World design and character design is above and beyond, I am not a Blizzard devotee, I bought star craft 2 but I was not feeling the art style as much as I am here.
Gameplay itself is excellent, sometimes I do warp once or twice back a few paces from lag which is off putting but it hardly happens.
But I need Gaf to weigh in on this
My only gripe is that I am act 1 and I am tearing everything apart with no real challenge. I am level 10 and I have just had the first story character death
. I would like to know if I should knock up the difficulty? Even the first boss was a chump
as I only had to use 2 minor potions whilst fighting him.
So my question is guys, do I bump up the difficulty as I am having such an easy time? Or should I wait until art 2 where I have things get real? I have been crafting magic items for my character and nearly everything that I am wearing has 3 magical properties. My magical property I am trying to push for is chance of finding more magical items I am overall at 25% chance of finding more magical items now.
Bottom line, game is meeting and beating my expectations. I am loving it! Now to convince my mates to buy it.
My review of the game:
First thing that caught me off guard is how amazing is looks graphically. I do wish the game had ambient occlusion options in the game. I know Nvidia users can force it through drivers but I am a petty ATI user, Love the cloth animation involved, the physics, character animations are all outstanding. This stuff really appeals to me.
World design and character design is above and beyond, I am not a Blizzard devotee, I bought star craft 2 but I was not feeling the art style as much as I am here.
Gameplay itself is excellent, sometimes I do warp once or twice back a few paces from lag which is off putting but it hardly happens.
But I need Gaf to weigh in on this
My only gripe is that I am act 1 and I am tearing everything apart with no real challenge. I am level 10 and I have just had the first story character death
poor old wizard dude!
skeleton king
So my question is guys, do I bump up the difficulty as I am having such an easy time? Or should I wait until art 2 where I have things get real? I have been crafting magic items for my character and nearly everything that I am wearing has 3 magical properties. My magical property I am trying to push for is chance of finding more magical items I am overall at 25% chance of finding more magical items now.
Bottom line, game is meeting and beating my expectations. I am loving it! Now to convince my mates to buy it.
You can't choose a higher difficulty until you completed normal.
More of a question I suppose to the monks, regarding armor, but obviously +Resistance to all is an important stat for your items in Inferno, but is the actual stat that you prefer dex or vitality? Obviously +dex is for damage, but do you just want to stack +vit to survive?
Also, if an item has +resistance to all, but also +physical resistance, for instance +10 to all resistances, +10 physical resistance, would the total physical resistance of that item be +20?
Also, if an item has +resistance to all, but also +physical resistance, for instance +10 to all resistances, +10 physical resistance, would the total physical resistance of that item be +20?
I got one thing. Still over 600k missing from my stash though.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
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Your character level carries through each difficulty.
I wouldn't call normal hard, nor nightmare, but hell gets fun.
I recommend playing with bros as this alleviates the boredom of the first two difficulties.
Price Check.
There's one for 100k in the AH right now. It goes up incrementally from there.
Anyone know what this could be worth?
There's one for 100k in the AH right now. It goes up incrementally from there.
toastyToast
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Whose idea was invulnerable?
Why?
Why?
Bomber Bob
Banned
Anyone know what this could be worth?
853 max
That # plus your super awesome avatar made me laugh.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
I haven't used a single dye yet, don't think I will either.
CarbonatedFalcon
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I suppose because it's a mechanic that requires some strategy to overcome (shielding/invulnerable minions).
Significantly reduced damage, say in about the 90% range, would probably work just as well or better, but it's harder to convey that to players. People may also end up deciding to just power through such a mechanic anyway, even if it's theoretically easier to just go along with the mechanic. (The group I was playing with at the time abused a reduced damage, but not invulnerable mechanic when working on Headed South in WoW within the first week or two of Cataclysm's launch, when it was pretty damn difficult otherwise.
toastyToast
Member
Might have been because I came across my first stupid combination just before
I think it was fast/waller/molten and the minions were invulnerable. Took about 4 deaths before I decided fuck it.
Worst of all the champ healed after each attempt. Truly fucking stupid
I think it was fast/waller/molten and the minions were invulnerable. Took about 4 deaths before I decided fuck it.
Worst of all the champ healed after each attempt. Truly fucking stupid
Audioboxer
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Armour is starting to look pretty swell for my Barb now. Some of the lower level stuff was pretty funny, in a bad way.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
The ones that say "increases attack speed" and not "attack speed increased" are. Or it's the other way around. One of those anyway.
Doesn't elective mode fix this?
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
Loving the game, on act 3 now, 1 quibble that does annoy me a bit ...
Minor issue, but one thats stuck out at me. Kinda like what they did with Tomb Raider Anniversary.
The butcher was a typical arena style boss fight 
Not the "oh shit ive just walked in on a mean mother fucker who wants to kill me", every boss has seemed like a grand arena fight rather than stumbling upon their lair.
Not the "oh shit ive just walked in on a mean mother fucker who wants to kill me", every boss has seemed like a grand arena fight rather than stumbling upon their lair.Minor issue, but one thats stuck out at me. Kinda like what they did with Tomb Raider Anniversary.
Ruthless_Barbarian
Member
I think most of my auctions went invisible =/ They all ended without bids, and the stuff was priced accordingly.
The weekend has been bad for AH business. Price per DPS on weapons has been dropping dramatically. A weapon that would have cost 250 a few days ago is 150 now. There is just too much volume. I'm glad I only bought the most incredibly under priced items, or I'd be underwater right now.
My only issue right now is that I've got like...20 things to peddle.
This is the only fun I'm still having with the game in Inferno
michaelius
Banned
Damage scalling at lvl 4x is pretty crazy.
At 44 i got a bow which gave me 3800 dps for like 1k gold, now i'm 47 and with another cheap (<20k ) bow i'm getting 5800 dps.
But when do you start getting tomes of jewelcrafting needed for higher level upgrades ?
I'm at act 3 nightmare and still only get pages...
At 44 i got a bow which gave me 3800 dps for like 1k gold, now i'm 47 and with another cheap (<20k ) bow i'm getting 5800 dps.
But when do you start getting tomes of jewelcrafting needed for higher level upgrades ?
I'm at act 3 nightmare and still only get pages...
ComputerMKII
Banned
Which helm should I equip? (Level 55 Demon Hunter, Act 2 Hell)
Phat Michael
Banned
theres a thread for it. I gave 2 away yesterday but not sure if they were both claimed or not....
Hell than Inferno, you can only upgrade one or two gems per difficulty..
But don't bother I lost 320k to craft a radiant square gem... I will never do that again !
I'd trade 44 dmg for 1927 vita and 12% extra gold.
Stay with the equipped, in other words IMO.
michaelius
Banned
Ouch that sux. I wanted to create as high as possible red gem and put it into helmet to speed up leveling of my secondary chars.
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