Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
anyone playing nightmare (preferably hard) on ps3?
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Diablo III PS3/360 |OT| Bringing Hell to consoles
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TatteredHat
Member
Well, the console version is definitely the better version out there right now. I think I'll hold off until the PS4 version/expansion is released though, I'm still a bit sour over the way they handled the PC release.
dragonflys545
Member
I would triple dip if the PS4 version comes with the expansion.
So i got 60 yesterday, and first hell diablo kill I get skorn at 1450dmg and socket... 230 dps At paragon level 8, barbarian.
How is it that all resistance seems so unnecessary now. I feel that the loot has improved up until inferno, but then it's just downhill with legendaries beating all rare drops...
How is it that all resistance seems so unnecessary now. I feel that the loot has improved up until inferno, but then it's just downhill with legendaries beating all rare drops...
TatteredHat
Member
I'm hoping that that's what will end up happening.
So youre problem is that legendarys are better than rares.
Did I get that right?
Idont see how all resistance is unnecessary. Its basically the same as in the pc version.
Only difference would be that elites only have up to 3 affixes so they wont constantly spam plagued etc.
That's how it's supposed to be.
Or do you want to go back to the days when Legendaries were worse than Yellows?
There is still room for Yellows though, stuff like the crafted Archon Gloves/Shoulders would still be near best in slot. An end game character in this game basically looks like he has a bunch of Legendaries, some Set pieces and a few Rares. That's perfectly acceptable in my book.
TatteredHat
Member
It's not a very noticable difference, while i was co-op'ing at a friend's house we only used it for the first few acts. Eventually you'll find better helms (stat-wise) that also have a socket, you can just slot an %exp bonus gem in there and have the best of both worlds.
Sanctuary
Member
Does anyone else who extensively played the PC version have a problem with the perspective of the console version? For regular enemies (most anyway) and bosses, I think it's fine. But for champs/uniques/rares that have a ranged attack, the perspective is just entirely too close. Often you will aggro the enemy before you can see it and they start lobbing ranged attacks at you.
It wasn't nearly that bad at all on PC. What makes it the worst though is that as a ranged class, you literally have to shoot, run back, shoot, strafe, shoot run back and pray a projectile is not in flight because you can't actually see what that enemy is doing more often than not. It feels like you have only 2/3 of the viewing distance on the console version, if that.
Also, any Demon Hunters wanna chime in on here for me? About what kind of damage should they be doing at around level 40? I have a friend who shows up as 1400, and that just seems a bit off to me. A lot of his armor does not have sockets, but still. My Wizard was doing at least 4k at that level, and now at 51 I'm doing 8k.
On PC anyway, Living Bomb was the core damage dealer of one of the most popular Wizard builds at 60 where you basically Teleport, Frost Nova, Energy Twister and Living Bomb spam with Critical Mass. It's really not worth caring about until 60 though with gear that can support it. And yeah, Disintigrate is boss. The description doesn't tell you that it actually pierces multiple enemies. If it didn't, there's no real reason to use it over Ray of Frost. I'm currently using it with Chaos Nexus. I've tried the other runes, but CN just works the best for me, especially with life stealing. Many people pick the first rune over the others, but I'm not sure why. Chaos Nexus hits almost just as many in a straight line, but it can also shoot all around you at the same time, which is really awesome for taking out quick trash enemies as well as simply attacking from an angle and piercing that the first rune just can't match. Even at 44% weapon damage the extra beams rock.
It wasn't nearly that bad at all on PC. What makes it the worst though is that as a ranged class, you literally have to shoot, run back, shoot, strafe, shoot run back and pray a projectile is not in flight because you can't actually see what that enemy is doing more often than not. It feels like you have only 2/3 of the viewing distance on the console version, if that.
Also, any Demon Hunters wanna chime in on here for me? About what kind of damage should they be doing at around level 40? I have a friend who shows up as 1400, and that just seems a bit off to me. A lot of his armor does not have sockets, but still. My Wizard was doing at least 4k at that level, and now at 51 I'm doing 8k.
On PC anyway, Living Bomb was the core damage dealer of one of the most popular Wizard builds at 60 where you basically Teleport, Frost Nova, Energy Twister and Living Bomb spam with Critical Mass. It's really not worth caring about until 60 though with gear that can support it. And yeah, Disintigrate is boss. The description doesn't tell you that it actually pierces multiple enemies. If it didn't, there's no real reason to use it over Ray of Frost. I'm currently using it with Chaos Nexus. I've tried the other runes, but CN just works the best for me, especially with life stealing. Many people pick the first rune over the others, but I'm not sure why. Chaos Nexus hits almost just as many in a straight line, but it can also shoot all around you at the same time, which is really awesome for taking out quick trash enemies as well as simply attacking from an angle and piercing that the first rune just can't match. Even at 44% weapon damage the extra beams rock.
I'm wondering how this is going to work on console. Nephalem Glory seems to be a different thing than Nephalem Valor, and it's also time-limited.. once you get to full 3 stacks, you'll have about thirty seconds to find and kill one of the wardens. I'm guessing they're probably changing how this works.
It'll take me forever to find out.. I'm so slow at these because I'm still exploring everything and enjoying all the little story bits instead of just rushing through as fast as I can.
Right now I'm playing the monk, like my main on PC (which also never hit 60). I was initially thinking that I'd go for a similar playstyle, using all the same skills and such as I did on PC, but I'm suddenly finding Dashing Strike to be ridiculously good for movement on the console (it was next to worthless on PC), so I might end up rearranging things a bit. But now I need to decide which of my PC skills I'm going to drop.. lol.
Sanctuary
Member
I'm on #26. Just got a higher level version of Wildwood (same weapon I used twelve levels earlier). Using that allowed me to use an off hand weapon too, and it raised my total DPS by 1200 over what it currently was at level 51. Crappy thing is that the attack speed on it drains me super quick, so I had to adjust my skills to be...not quite what I'd like.
UnluckyKate
Member
HOLY SHIT
It takes my DPS from 27.8k to 60.6k. I'm still in Act 2 Hell.
wtf what is this dps for a lvl 53 ?? and no level reduced ? 60k through Hell will be a cake walk for you
Sanctuary
Member
HOLY SHIT
It takes my DPS from 27.8k to 60.6k. I'm still in Act 2 Hell.
I just wish items like that would drop that you could trade to other people that don't share the same stat. Seems like every single legendary item that drops is catered to your primary stat. I like it, yet don't like it at the same time.
Why the hell would you want to trade a non-Dexterity cross bow? Or a better question is why would anyone even want a non-Dexterity bow?
And you can trade with same classes too. Or in most cases stuff like Wizard and WD gear match because they share core stat.
Impeccable
Member
I have played the PC version loads and I'm not having any problems with the perspective or it being more zoomed in.
I am having problems with exploding palm not always hitting enemies, which can be a real annoyance. 102k DPS, 5.5k armour and 50k HP, 350 AR, 6% LS... Master I is more than doable, a few problems with AOE enemies, but other than that my HP stays topped up nicely.
I am having problems with exploding palm not always hitting enemies, which can be a real annoyance. 102k DPS, 5.5k armour and 50k HP, 350 AR, 6% LS... Master I is more than doable, a few problems with AOE enemies, but other than that my HP stays topped up nicely.
I coop-ed the game all the way from bronze to niob with a buddy. Took me 203 hours and 113 levels with just my shadow warrior. he is beast though
.la1n
Member
Just snagged the bow of ravens at the tail end of act 2 nightmare. It's a nice bow. I may be pretty damn close to level 60 before I clear act IV of nightmare. I think I'm too OCD about hunting down every last enemy on the map.
Ricerocket
Member
HOLY SHIT
It takes my DPS from 27.8k to 60.6k. I'm still in Act 2 Hell.
I raise you... my level 48 Dawn. (I gave away already)
One thing that is painful is when you have all the legendaries in your stash, and you make an alt that uses INT or STR rather than DEX, there is literally 0 legendaries that is usable pretty much to twink.
Even with that bow and up to 67k dps now, Master I on Hell is still a bitch and probably not quite worth it because while it's easy to get DPS upgrades (obviously), it's much harder to get similar crazy upgrades for your defense. It's easy to stack Vit (I have 54k HP) and I have 2k Armor, but with virtually no AR I'm still just getting 2 or 3-shotted by most Elites.
That level reduction makes it, pretty nuts.
At this point I wouldn't even want to speculate what potential endgame gear is for each class now, just because I don't think anyone has a complete picture of the possible stat rolls on all the Legendaries at 60 yet. Good times!
I raise you... my level 48 Dawn. (I gave away already)
That level reduction makes it, pretty nuts.
At this point I wouldn't even want to speculate what potential endgame gear is for each class now, just because I don't think anyone has a complete picture of the possible stat rolls on all the Legendaries at 60 yet. Good times!
I had to restart as my PS3 died. Still trying to get a deathless run.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
What does that do?
Ricerocket
Member
Does literally what it says it does
It's a roll on an item that lowers the level requirement to equip. The dawn I have has -12 level so it's normally a lvl 60 item but a 48 can wear.with my SW i died 3 times up to level 15 because i was an idiot.. then no deaths till the end. took me nearly 100 levels to get my survival bonus to 94%. Its getiing ridicoulusly slow once you hit 90% i think those last 4% took me 25 levels alone. I guess i have to play to the level cap to get it to 100%
Wind's Howling
Member
Keep going. Wizard is probably one of the most powerful classes you can effectively use at Inferno.
theytookourjobz
Junior Member
P-level 3 at 150k dps on my monk. Just had 4 legendaries (one of which being the second part of my Inna's set) in about a minute. Lol.
I don't think them missing the PS4 launch window was coincidental. I expect to see that version timed with the expansion. And yes, I will be triple-dipping as well. I just hope they find a way to make the saves compatible between PS3 and PS4.
Save them unless they're class specific and I know I won't need em. I do hold onto a few of the nicer class ones to pass on to randoms I play with, though.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
Diablo 3 has essentially rewritten my gaming schedule for the next year or so. I was initially planning on picking up a few current gen games (Blacklist, Arkham Origins, Kingdom Hearts 1.5) over the next few months and then snagging a PS4 with BF4 in November, but D3 has reignited my love of loot games and has created a burning desire within me to not only level up all the 5 classes in D3, but to go back to Borderlands 2 and finish leveling up all my characters there.
Man. Loot games are going to be the death of me.
Man. Loot games are going to be the death of me.
Yup. I think a big part of it as well is the fact that the console launch has essentially served as a ladder reset, which hasn't existed on the PC version.
theytookourjobz
Junior Member
Fuck it, on my way to buy the fuckin' game!
I was waiting for the PS4 version but now I'm done, going to Wal-Mart to pick that bad boy up for 360!
Pretty sure when someone gets to p100 and starts running Master V Legendaries will start appearing at a rate of one Legendary every 1-2 minutes.
I just wished they had scaled up the difficulties of the Masters to match ie.
Master I: MP6
Master II: MP8
Master III: MP10
Master IV: MP11
Master V: MP12
I just wished they had scaled up the difficulties of the Masters to match ie.
Master I: MP6
Master II: MP8
Master III: MP10
Master IV: MP11
Master V: MP12
Hnnnngggggggggggggggggggggg
everyday math
Banned
This game is a lot of fun. I'm using the Witch Doctor. Wish I did a higher difficulty tho. Runs great on my PS3 so far.
theytookourjobz
Junior Member
Well I'm dumb. Crafted my first infernal machine and forgot to get full stacks first. All blues lol.
AlimNassor
Banned
My SW is pretty beastly too. Running a full set of Didodorians tactical genius and 2 niob slotted +all skills swords.