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[Diablo 3] Diablo walks the Earth in 5 days. Single digits omg
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What about gamestop's midnight opening?
12:01am is an impossibility. I have the digital copy pre-downloaded. You cannot install until release date. You were probably just exaggerating on that statement though.
Considering the keys are inside the box, that wouldn't really be possible.
I guess Blizzard themselves might be able to do it; order from them directly, they ship you the box and email you a code, if you rescind the order at the last moment, they say fine and cancel the emailed code.
I have to say I LOVE the skill progression for the DH so far. entangling shot at 2 and caltrops at 3 is brilliant, it has you playing like a demon hunter: sticking to range, being evasive, dropping caltrops to snare, using the snare from entangling mixed in with major dps from the impale knife. I'm liking the playstyle. this is helped by the fact that I have no gear this patch and difficulty has been increased from when I last played. Kudos to Blizzard though for nailing the skill progression from 1-3. It really nails the character's playstyle/ethos. I might be converted to the DH.
Well... It'll be a fun holidays at least
rapid fire isnt doing a ton of damage yet. the starter 3 dps hand crossbow is NOT cutting it. I may swap it back out for impale
this game is actually legitimately tougher now: I have to kite and I don't one shot everything as I did before the difficulty buff. Makes it more engaging, but its a bit of a grind without the gear for it. I wonder if it'd be too tough for complete newbies to the genre.
Go to The Fence and buy two better 1h cross bows. If he doesnt have a good one the first time, just keep checking. I always see him with 16+ dps ones.
gave it a try but no 1hcrossbows on offer. not cutting it for level 6+. i switched out to a 2 handed short bow with 7.7 DPS. still crap, but better than 3+ DPS
its crazy that I have to shop for gear in act 1. this difficulty bump was no joke. id be fine if I could use melee weapons, but DH is so restricted in her weapon choices.
man the early DH has NOTHING in the way of AOE. Its sorta rough actually. After the entangling arrow/caltrops setup im just fiending for a nice juicy AOE nuke to drop on the snared mobs and I dont have one
blacksmith crafting moved to after you get the crown? booo! I need that crafting now!
do grenades or bola require a bow? if not I'm totally making an amazon at some point: DH with shield and javelin. or an assassin! melee DH! totally depends on specific gear/skill interactions though.
I just now noticed the knife sticking in the enemy when you use impale. neat!
man my hatred use waaaay outpaces my generation. guess thats good design
holy crap! nearly died killing chancellor aemon. tons of skellies and accidentally woke him before clearing them out. popped two potions, ran after 2 errant health globes, and kited him all the way back to the entrance of the level. finally popped him and dinged 7 right by the stairs. whew!
You sound like you're having entirely too much fun.
I'm not crazy right? They made this thing hard all of a sudden?
I'm running around like a madman grabbing health orbs trying to flee a teleporting sparkbat boss while picking off skeleton summoners with impale and somehow keeping the skeletal horde and unburied at my heels at bay with caltrops and entangling shot. its nutso! way more difficult (and way more fun) than I remembered.
god I need a good weapon so badly. (EDIT: 11.9 DPS shortbow of winter is the answer to my prayers, thank you treasure goblin)
maybe the DH is just weak early on without AOE?
anyone else try a DH first with no twinked gear or anything?
Or am I just bad?
also: this game needs a "run without attacking" button. whatever the inverse of shift is. playing a ranged character running through hordes to get health globes is gonna be hard without it.
I'm guessing DH is probably just weak early. I watched Force clear the beta solo with 3 party members sitting at spawn so the monsters all had a crap ton of HP. He was also on hardcore mode.
with what character? and no twinked gear?
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watching cold damage propagate down my entangling arrow chain warms the cockles of my heart
also, I suspect runed entangling arrow can serve as a poor man's AOE with its increase to 4 targets affected. still want an AOE hatred spender I guess bola at 11 or chakram at 12
will do, thanks!
got a decent bow from the treasure goblin and another good one (plus a quiver) from jondar (who was waaaay tougher than I remember, with tons of summons all of a sudden) so I'm ok for a bit.
tried to rush to leoric after a 5 min warning of an impending server shutdown. died in the skeleton spawning room. really feeling the lack of AOE there.
aaaand server shutdown just as I reached leoric.
Are you guys going to be playing single or multi-player for your first play through? At this point I'm not sure if my friends are going to be buying it day 1, so I'll probably be playing single player. People skipping dialogue or rushing through new areas is not something I want to deal with on a first run.
Though playing with a full group is pretty fun v.v
I have a feeling:
1. my drops sucked and
2. the DH is weak because she has no AOE before level 11 or so.
here's that video Trysten mentioned: solo clear of act 1 on hardcore with 3 other people in the game:
I imagine that'd be tougher on the DH because of the lack of AOE and stun (on the other hand you have shittons of slows, so you'd likely get the job done eventually)
I think I've come around on the DH. even though she was weak she was a lot of fun. I'll even accept this dual resource nonsense; when forced to use defensive abilities, the discipline/hatred split kinda makes sense
I may have to go back and play the other characters when servers are back up
PSN: SoulCrusherJared
Every skill does some percentage of weapon damage. If you turn on Advanced Tooltips in the options, it will tell you what it is.
Wonderful! Thank you!
PSN: SoulCrusherJared
I think I'm going to work on the 15th to give proper time for my CE to show up and then take off the 16th as my play day.
People won't have beaten the game thrice over and hit 60 yet......right?
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I always expect people to play 24/7 the second the game comes out to be the first to be max level, but I'm sure you won't be too far behind.
PSN: SoulCrusherJared
I have been on the sidelines of D3, casually observing at a distance, but I thought there was no "single/multi" mode; you're online all the time and friends can jump in and out as they please? And that characters are shared between the modes, so you don't need separate characters for each (a la D2)?
When they added the simplified tooltips, I can see why they defaulted to them being on. But I feel like it has caused more problems than it solved.
It seems like you can make games public or not. So if you don't make the game public you're in the game alone. It's not a single player character but you aren't forced to play with other people if you don't want to
PSN: SoulCrusherJared
My Battle.net account - [email protected] and STEAM (usually always on) Hell_Rell, im usually on at night on weekdays and whenever on weekends.
Here's what happens. You make your character, and you're shown a menu. From that menu you can start the game by either:
A) Start a game by yourself, which is private by default. There are options in the "ESC" menu that allow you to make it public for friends only or the general public.
B) Join a game from a list filtered by what quest and level the host is on.
Or C) quickplay which matchmakes you with someone of the same quest/level as your current character and joins their public game.
Arena isn't in beta so not sure how that's going to work.
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I thought Arena wasn't going to be available at release either right? I've only played a quick match, it worked well. I think you can port to other players by clicking on their sigil but I'm not 100% sure about it.
PSN: SoulCrusherJared
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ahh, nevermind, it just took a while.
Yeah Arena will be MIA on release, but I expect only like a month or so between release and PvP day. Still unsure why they won't let us test it in beta though.
Quickplay is alright, I got matched to level 4-5s as a 13 before though, and yeah your customized sigil is placed into one of the four corners of the waypoint in town. You can click on it and it teleports you to wherever the player is in that act.
Steam - Battle.net - Koopah089 - PSN/Xbox - 1639-6388-9968/KoopahTroopah - Switch
I believe what's happening is that some people were able to log into a starter edition of the game, even if they didn't have beta access. It looks like some sort of free trial. Battle.net went down for maintenance shortly after this happened to "resolve an issue." Chances are, it was a bug. I don't think Blizzard ever does fully open betas.