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Diablo IV Beta |Mini OT| READ THE OP

What would you rate Diablo IV

  • 1 (Amazing)

    Votes: 116 37.3%
  • 2

    Votes: 111 35.7%
  • 3

    Votes: 62 19.9%
  • 4

    Votes: 12 3.9%
  • 5 (Dreadful)

    Votes: 10 3.2%

  • Total voters
    311

MirageMew2

Member
Account wide progression was really a great touch. Hadn’t made a second character last week but starting a Druid with more potions (among other unlocks) is already a great boon
 

badblue

Gold Member
5 minutes left in queue

Lets Go Cooking GIF by Masterchef
 

zomboden

Banned
Got to like level 10 on necro so far. Looks like the golem quest in the book of the dead is lv.25. I bet its in a zone we can't access. But the class feels good so far. Reminds me of running zombies in PoE. Got DC'd on Xbox and now I'm in a 20 min queue.
 
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Stafford

Member
I'm going crazy here, but eh....how do I switch to other weapons? I am a barbarian, he has two axes equipped but also a mac and sword but I can only seem to use the axes. How on earth do I switch to the others?
 

Aja

Neo Member
Good times. Sat in que from 43 to 23 minutes. Now it jumped up to 53.... Well well. Let's see what happens.....in a while.
 

Minsc

Gold Member
How many (non-seasonal) characters do you figure will be used on a normal account in the full game? 1 for each class? Or would you be better off with 3 or 4 from each class so you can have different specializations?
 

Kacho

Gold Member
I'm going crazy here, but eh....how do I switch to other weapons? I am a barbarian, he has two axes equipped but also a mac and sword but I can only seem to use the axes. How on earth do I switch to the others?
I don’t think it’s ever explained but I believe it depends on the core skill used.
 

AJUMP23

Parody of actual AJUMP23
I'm going crazy here, but eh....how do I switch to other weapons? I am a barbarian, he has two axes equipped but also a mac and sword but I can only seem to use the axes. How on earth do I switch to the others?
I don’t think you do. I just think depending on the attack is the weapon used. Just cleared the first area.
 
PC performance is worse than the first beta....wtf
Also necro feels more overpowered than sorcerer even....
I'll 100% agree with this, but I have a feeling they toned down the mobs due to people complaining about scaling though? I'll have to test out Barbarian again at low levels. Right now I hit lvl 6 on necro and its insane and I am on World Tier 2 and everything feels like I am cutting through paper.
 

Miyazaki’s Slave

Gold Member
Minion persistence is pretty nuts. I summoned 4 right when I spawned into the game and went through the entire "tutorial" mission with the same four minions. Seems like they recover to full health after each enemy encounter.
 
PC performance is worse than the first beta....wtf
Also necro feels more overpowered than sorcerer even....

I'll 100% agree with this, but I have a feeling they toned down the mobs due to people complaining about scaling though? I'll have to test out Barbarian again at low levels. Right now I hit lvl 6 on necro and its insane and I am on World Tier 2 and everything feels like I am cutting through paper.
Necro was and always will be overpowered, you could do hell without any gear in d2.
 

V1LÆM

Gold Member
Diablo isn't really a hard game until you get to nightmare difficulty or beyond though, I wouldn't try to read too much in to the class balance from the first 30 levels, right?
definitely not. we need to see how the end game is before really deciding what is best.

diablo 3 campaign (and i think <lvl 70) were the tutorial/warm up part of the game. once you're into paragon levels thats when things start to matter.
 
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Kacho

Gold Member
Diablo isn't really a hard game until you get to nightmare difficulty or beyond though, I wouldn't try to read too much in to the class balance from the first 30 levels, right?
Not hard. The Barb just feels weaker than the other classes around the same power level.
 

Ogbert

Member
Played necro for a bit.

Feels good. Absurdly overpowered, but always is until Torment 3 plus.

Don’t think I’ll play too much this weekend. D4 is just more of the same. No more, no less. Will wait for June.
 

Minsc

Gold Member
Necro mobs always disappointed me a little later on too, the bosses generally can instantly wipe the screen of all mobs with basically any attack they did from my memory. But that's kinda how it works, raise the mobs they die a few seconds, corpse explode or whatever and repeat. Different from walking around on the map for sure.
 

treemk

Banned
Diablo isn't really a hard game until you get to nightmare difficulty or beyond though, I wouldn't try to read too much in to the class balance from the first 30 levels, right?
Are you talking about Diablo 2? That's not really true, even Andarial will kill a lot of people who are playing the game for the first time. Of course when D2 gets hard it really just gets annoying because you can keep running back to your corpse and potion chugging to get through just about anything.
 

treemk

Banned
definitely not. we need to see how the end game is before really deciding what is best.

diablo 3 campaign (and i think <lvl 70) were the tutorial/warm up part of the game. once you're into paragon levels thats when things start to matter.
Current Diablo 3 doesn't get remotely difficult until higher greater rifts, this isn't a good thing. I don't know what it is about modern game designers that think the slightest hint of challenging the player should be avoided.
 

Antwix

Member
Just hit level 10 with necro. This is quickly becoming my favorite behind sorc. Corpse explosion is sick with 0 cooldown and 0 mana/essence so you just spam the hell out of it. Bone spear destroys mobs. Super fun, this class seems like a winner.
 

zomboden

Banned
Been disconnected 3 times in the mine main story quest and every single time I have to restart from the beginning. Hopefully they are getting some good testing data out of this cause it's been a poor experience so far. I expected it though.
 

sendit

Member
Just hit level 10 with necro. This is quickly becoming my favorite behind sorc. Corpse explosion is sick with 0 cooldown and 0 mana/essence so you just spam the hell out of it. Bone spear destroys mobs. Super fun, this class seems like a winner.
Same, from initial play. I can already tell Necro is going to be pretty op.
 

Sp3eD

0G M3mbeR
Hopefully they have the queues down to under an hour by 2 pm PST when I get off work, but if last week is anything to go by that didn’t happen until almost 7 pm.
 
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Stafford

Member
Just saw a clip of the game in SDR compared to HDR, jesus what a difference. It's so sad how (big) games nowadays still can have this trash HDR where the black levels are just grey. Sigh.
 

Krathoon

Member
I was just playing and the game kind of pissed me off. I was doing the Act I pilgrimage quest and there is a monster at the end of it that was pretty much impossible to beat at my level. Then, I did a dungeon and the boss was impossible to beat. So, I quit the dungeon.

I am trying to hit level 20 and the game starts pulling this shit. So, I have made it to 19 now. Not much of a way to go.

I will just find some random dungeons and finish it off.

Seriously, WTF?, game.
 
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