Glory and approbation to Diablo 3 Thread (evil is back 05.15.12)

Beasteh

its been toned down a fair bit, she is no longer as 'screechy'

el_vicio

A propos, I assume Blizz switches to Battletag-only with the release of D3?

captaink

Goddamn that video makes it so hard to choose between Wizard and Barbarian.

RubberAC

Man my most fun in D2 was as necromancer
but in D3 barbarian and Monk are just streets ahead, for me

i had a BLAST playing as both
i am so excited

Kwoaru

none of those are pet classes so

witch doctor is the best

Radius

captaink wrote: »

Goddamn that video makes it so hard to choose between Wizard and Barbarian.

blah blah blah rebuilding a broken civilization blah blah unstoppable juggernaut

kicked out of the place that teaches magic for being too good at magic and turning into a starcraft unit, that's where it's at.

el_vicio

Radius wrote: »

kicked out of the place that teaches magic for being too good at magic and turning into a starcraft Protoss unit, that's where it's at.

Radius

I suppose you could make it more specific, yes.

el_vicio

It's important to note the superiority of the Firstborn.

Walt

Wizard summary:

(1) blow up entire demons
(2) being a starcraft unit

KalTorak

Shorty wrote: »

KalTorak wrote: »

Oh yeah I almost forgot; Amp damage is your main curse for mobs, but when you're fighting bosses it's all about Decrepify + some source of cold. Give your merc a cold weapon, use ice Skelly mages or a cold weapon yourself. Cold slowdown stacks with decrepify slowdown, so when you stack both on a boss they'll barely be able to move. Decrep also has a half-strength amp-damage effect, so it won't take forever for your skellies to wear down the boss.

it should be noted that Diablo doesn't need to be running around a bunch to wreck your face

this tactic is of most use against Duriel

True, but even if he doesn't have to move, him being double-slowed means his attack animations take around 4 seconds apiece.

Zek

chrishallett83 wrote: »

I hope Diablo 3 does loot better than Diablo 2, or at least steals the pet mechanic from Torchlight... No, I really don't want 5 pairs of level 1 cracked boots. But I need all the gold I can get!

Diablo 3 still has crappy white loot, but it is explicitly designed to be useless bullshit that you should never ever pick up. And I do mean never - even in Act 1 Normal each item is worth only a fraction of what you get from a single gold drop. When you take them to the vendor he just sighs and throws you a few coins to stop wasting his time. Blizzard straight out said that white items only still exist because loot explosions are cool. They've seen to it that it's crappy enough to deter even the most OCD of nerds.

Once you learn never to touch white items, your inventory will never be a problem again.

Noggin

KalTorak wrote: »

Shorty wrote: »

KalTorak wrote: »

Oh yeah I almost forgot; Amp damage is your main curse for mobs, but when you're fighting bosses it's all about Decrepify + some source of cold. Give your merc a cold weapon, use ice Skelly mages or a cold weapon yourself. Cold slowdown stacks with decrepify slowdown, so when you stack both on a boss they'll barely be able to move. Decrep also has a half-strength amp-damage effect, so it won't take forever for your skellies to wear down the boss.

it should be noted that Diablo doesn't need to be running around a bunch to wreck your face

this tactic is of most use against Duriel

True, but even if he doesn't have to move, him being double-slowed means his attack animations take around 4 seconds apiece.

Clay golem slows too.

So tempting to make one last skelemancer, but ugh maggot lair

darunia106

Zek wrote: »

chrishallett83 wrote: »

I hope Diablo 3 does loot better than Diablo 2, or at least steals the pet mechanic from Torchlight... No, I really don't want 5 pairs of level 1 cracked boots. But I need all the gold I can get!

Diablo 3 still has crappy white loot, but it is explicitly designed to be useless bullshit that you should never ever pick up. And I do mean never - even in Act 1 Normal each item is worth only a fraction of what you get from a single gold drop. When you take them to the vendor he just sighs and throws you a few coins to stop wasting his time. Blizzard straight out said that white items only still exist because loot explosions are cool. They've seen to it that it's crappy enough to deter even the most OCD of nerds.

Once you learn never to touch white items, your inventory will never be a problem again.

Only reason I ever pick them up is because I haven't found enough magic items to fill my inventory yet.

Beasteh

the witch doctor vid states that archon has unlimited mana

that has to be misleading flavor, right

BahamutZERO

UNLIMITED
COSMIC
POWERRRRR

Beasteh

itty bitty living space

ps. its phenomenal

Beasteh

BahamutZERO

FU beasteh I misquote what I want!!

No Great Name

I don't like sharing my builds because they're too good and everyone would just play them and I don't wanna play with the same builds game after game 8-)

IpseDixit

Zek wrote: »

chrishallett83 wrote: »

I hope Diablo 3 does loot better than Diablo 2, or at least steals the pet mechanic from Torchlight... No, I really don't want 5 pairs of level 1 cracked boots. But I need all the gold I can get!

Diablo 3 still has crappy white loot, but it is explicitly designed to be useless bullshit that you should never ever pick up. And I do mean never - even in Act 1 Normal each item is worth only a fraction of what you get from a single gold drop. When you take them to the vendor he just sighs and throws you a few coins to stop wasting his time. Blizzard straight out said that white items only still exist because loot explosions are cool. They've seen to it that it's crappy enough to deter even the most OCD of nerds.

Once you learn never to touch white items, your inventory will never be a problem again.

To be fair in D2 I only ever picked up white loot for the first act

Exceptions being staves and wands cause those were always worth bank, and elite items if I was looking to use up my imbues

Big Red Tie

Beasteh wrote: »

the witch doctor vid states that archon has unlimited mana

that has to be misleading flavor, right

yeah but archon has a cool down right



also I'm not going to use it so it must suck

Zek

IpseDixit wrote: »

Zek wrote: »

chrishallett83 wrote: »

I hope Diablo 3 does loot better than Diablo 2, or at least steals the pet mechanic from Torchlight... No, I really don't want 5 pairs of level 1 cracked boots. But I need all the gold I can get!

Diablo 3 still has crappy white loot, but it is explicitly designed to be useless bullshit that you should never ever pick up. And I do mean never - even in Act 1 Normal each item is worth only a fraction of what you get from a single gold drop. When you take them to the vendor he just sighs and throws you a few coins to stop wasting his time. Blizzard straight out said that white items only still exist because loot explosions are cool. They've seen to it that it's crappy enough to deter even the most OCD of nerds.

Once you learn never to touch white items, your inventory will never be a problem again.

To be fair in D2 I only ever picked up white loot for the first act

Exceptions being staves and wands cause those were always worth bank, and elite items if I was looking to use up my imbues

Yeah in D2 you definitely had to keep an eye out for the +skill items that were sometimes worth a fortune. I think in D3 there's nothing like that, they're all garbage.

Kwoaru

Beasteh wrote: »

the witch doctor vid states that archon has unlimited mana

that has to be misleading flavor, right

the wizard video? and yeah it says unlimited arcane power, but the spell has a duration, a cooldown, and it may limit your offensive and defensive abilities

in the video I dont think she used anything but a beefy looking laser while in archon mode

Turambar

BahamutZERO wrote: »

FU beasteh I misquote what I want!!

Shh, just claim it was a double reference

Beasteh

i predict that treasure goblins are going to be the leading cause of hardcore deaths

Cilla Black

Kwoaru wrote: »

none of those are pet classes so

witch doctor is the best

Pets seem weak as shit in D3 though, or at least they were in the beta. All 3 dogs taking about 5 seconds to kill a middling powered enemy that you can down in less than a second yourself with firebats and soul siphon. Same goes for your companion.

No Great Name

Pets are just meat shields with the bonus of doing some damage

Cilla Black

Booooring

Beasteh

i remember when they nerfed the templar from doing enough damage to solo mobs by himself to plinking for 3-4 damage with a 15 dps weapon

No Great Name

Well, considering that most builds are about the balance between generators and spenders, the amount of direct damage skills you want to have in your build is low, since having 5 damage dealing attack type skills is silly, seeing as you can only cast one at a time.

So builds are padded with support skills, but in the witch doctors case your support skills can also be damage dealing meat shields. They might already make the WD one of the better offensive powerhouses with the right runes, but if their damage dealing was much higher it'd be ridiculous.

Cilla Black

Soul Siphon by itself as it currently stands (and it scales!) will already almost guarantee the WD be the most powerful AE offensive class in the game.

Beasteh

yeah that thing has to get nerfed

since right now people would be stupid not to include a 100%+ damage buff on a low cd in their builds

Walt

So no one internally at Blizzard has beaten Inferno. No one.

http://twitter.com/#!/Angryrobotics/status/197027154352013313

Challenge accepted.

Beasteh

i highly doubt thats true

Big Red Tie

Beasteh wrote: »

i highly doubt thats true

why
they made it, they can just make it harder than the hardest they've managed to beat

Cilla Black

Also keep in mind he said "internal test team"

that's not necessarily the same as the development team

Shorty

I bet it comes out and a bunch of people with far too much time on their hands manage to beat Inferno and make it look like a cakewalk

Beasteh

ok lets give blizzard the benefit of the doubt and say inferno is truly 'holy fucking shit i keep dying to fallen' hard

i'd give the most hardened poopsockers 2 months to crack it

Rolo

How long did it take people to beat the WoW bosses after that content got unlocked?