You didn't play D2 did you? There is a need for the current setup, beyond just DRM. D2 was destroyed by cheating, absolutely destroyed. Hosting everything on Blizzard's servers greatly lessens those issues.
People just don't understand that, so they want to pitch a fit.
No, that's bullshit. If I want to cheat in a single player game, you goddamn let me. I don't give a shit if other people are cheating in their single player games - why should I?
That's simple: It's not a single player game. There is no single player mode. Only private password protected multiplayer lobbies.
Claiming that it's not a single player game is ludicrous. This is not Battlefield 3 where the only "solo play" option is versus bots.
It's not a single player game. You did not buy a single player game. You knew about this going into it. If you didn't want a multiplayer game, you shouldn't have bought a multiplayer game. Guess you didn't quite think through your purchasing decision, considering that all of this was known beforehand. Either that, or the game is still worth it to you, even knowing that it isn't exactly what you wanted... which is apparently a singleplayer game.
No, actually, I did not realize that even if my account authenticated I could be prevented from playing the game.
Can start single player sessions. Can play without others, without requiring bots. Can be considered single player game.
You didn't realize that, but it's been publicly known for what, well over a year now? Again, you didn't think through your purchasing decision. But calling a game that requires a server to host your game a singleplayer game is kinda silly. Stop trying to call a duck a chicken. And this is coming from a guy who is primarily going to play solo, but I knew what I was getting into beforehand, because I actually researched where my money went before spending it.
I define a single player game as a game you play by yourself
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
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Can start single player sessions. Can play without others, without requiring bots. Can be considered single player game.
That also describes say, WoW. But it's not a single player game.
You can not, actually, start a private session of WoW.
And you can't do that in D3. You can choose to play by yourself, just like in WoW though.
You can, actually, start a private session of Diablo 3.
It's very similar to playing by yourself in WoW though. You just ignore other players, but they're still there. The online components still exist, like the AH and stuff.
I'll say this, If serious hacking and duping becomes an issue with D3 like it did with D2, then yes, people will be more than justified to crucify Blizzard's online-only requirement when the only valid reason for doing it didn't work.
So I'm really really bored waiting for my test rig to cool down at work, so I did some math. If I'm doing this right, I calculate 34,125,000,000 possible skill combinations with the wizard without Elective Mode enabled. Even assuming a huge chunk of those are not viable or worthwhile, that is a lot of possibilities for building a character. Enable Elective Mode and that number goes beyond ludicrous. And people are complaining about a lack of customization in the game? Really?
-edit- That's assuming that you would always be using a rune on a skill. If non-runed skills are included I think the number goes up to almost 102 billion.
I think that assumes that location of skills on the hotbar matters. Which, for a build's sake, it doesn't. So I think your numbers are off.
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You didn't play D2 did you? There is a need for the current setup, beyond just DRM. D2 was destroyed by cheating, absolutely destroyed. Hosting everything on Blizzard's servers greatly lessens those issues.
People just don't understand that, so they want to pitch a fit.
No, that's bullshit. If I want to cheat in a single player game, you goddamn let me. I don't give a shit if other people are cheating in their single player games - why should I?
That's simple: It's not a single player game. There is no single player mode. Only private password protected multiplayer lobbies.
Claiming that it's not a single player game is ludicrous. This is not Battlefield 3 where the only "solo play" option is versus bots.
It's not a single player game. You did not buy a single player game. You knew about this going into it. If you didn't want a multiplayer game, you shouldn't have bought a multiplayer game. Guess you didn't quite think through your purchasing decision, considering that all of this was known beforehand. Either that, or the game is still worth it to you, even knowing that it isn't exactly what you wanted... which is apparently a singleplayer game.
No, actually, I did not realize that even if my account authenticated I could be prevented from playing the game.
Can start single player sessions. Can play without others, without requiring bots. Can be considered single player game.
You didn't realize that, but it's been publicly known for what, well over a year now? Again, you didn't think through your purchasing decision. But calling a game that requires a server to host your game a singleplayer game is kinda silly. Stop trying to call a duck a chicken. And this is coming from a guy who is primarily going to play solo, but I knew what I was getting into beforehand, because I actually researched where my money went before spending it.
I define a single player game as a game you play by yourself
And I define a single player game as a game you play where your character can't play with other characters.
No I don't.
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How do chat channels work in this? Can we seperate them from party/pm chat? Is there a PA room?
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Who cares how you define the word "singleplayer." Whatever catch-phrase you want to attach to Diablo 3, it's a game that requires a constant Internet connection. This was never a secret.
No, actually, I did not realize that even if my account authenticated I could be prevented from playing the game.
Why else would I be sitting here giggling like a retard at everyone having problems while I lurk in this thread instead of, yanno, actually playing this game? They announced the online only thing a looong time ago which forced this game from being a day 1 purchase for me into a "wait and see" sort of thing.
I'm kinda surprised there are people that weren't aware of it >.>
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I'll say this, If serious hacking and duping becomes an issue with D3 like it did with D2, then yes, people will be more than justified to crucify Blizzard's online-only requirement when the only valid reason for doing it didn't work.
That has to actually happen first though.
If this happens, I'll crucify Blizzard myself....but I remember D2, I remember how pointless entire chunks of it were because of the hacking and duping. I'll deal with one or two days of server issues, to play this for years without ever dealing with that again.
I'm owed a little bit more effort from the company I just bought a $60 game from.
No, you're not. You bought the game which works as advertised. That's always what you're owed. This is an always online game on an online server even if you're playing by yourself. The idle kick is for two reasons, so you won't get killed if the connection gets disconnected, and so you're not taking up server space just sitting there.
I'll say this, If serious hacking and duping becomes an issue with D3 like it did with D2, then yes, people will be more than justified to crucify Blizzard's online-only requirement when the only valid reason for doing it didn't work.
That has to actually happen first though.
If this happens, I'll crucify Blizzard myself....but I remember D2, I remember how pointless entire chunks of it were because of the hacking and duping. I'll deal with one or two days of server issues, to play this for years without ever dealing with that again.
D2 could have been worse. At least they eventually wiped a lot of that stuff out starting with 1.10.
It could have gotten to Diablo 1 Boba Fett trainer status.
So I'm really really bored waiting for my test rig to cool down at work, so I did some math. If I'm doing this right, I calculate 34,125,000,000 possible skill combinations with the wizard without Elective Mode enabled. Even assuming a huge chunk of those are not viable or worthwhile, that is a lot of possibilities for building a character. Enable Elective Mode and that number goes beyond ludicrous. And people are complaining about a lack of customization in the game? Really?
-edit- That's assuming that you would always be using a rune on a skill. If non-runed skills are included I think the number goes up to almost 102 billion.
I think that assumes that location of skills on the hotbar matters. Which, for a build's sake, it doesn't. So I think your numbers are off.
Well the location doesn't matter for skills IF you turn on Elective Mode, right? I didn't feel like trying to calculate that out since it's slightly more complicated than a 125 choose 6, since choosing 1 locks out 5 or 6 choices, so I calculated it based off of Elective Mode being OFF. Obviously with Elective Mode ON, the number gets even sillier. The point being, even with the more restrictive method of selecting skills, there are a crazy number of potential combinations. I'm really hoping it doesn't end up in a state where only a few builds are even plausible at high levels, like Diablo 2 did, because that would be such a waste of potential.
I'll say this, If serious hacking and duping becomes an issue with D3 like it did with D2, then yes, people will be more than justified to crucify Blizzard's online-only requirement when the only valid reason for doing it didn't work.
That has to actually happen first though.
If this happens, I'll crucify Blizzard myself....but I remember D2, I remember how pointless entire chunks of it were because of the hacking and duping. I'll deal with one or two days of server issues, to play this for years without ever dealing with that again.
D2 could have been worse. At least they eventually wiped a lot of that stuff out starting with 1.10.
It could have gotten to Diablo 1 Boba Fett trainer status.
You didn't play D2 did you? There is a need for the current setup, beyond just DRM. D2 was destroyed by cheating, absolutely destroyed. Hosting everything on Blizzard's servers greatly lessens those issues.
People just don't understand that, so they want to pitch a fit.
No, that's bullshit. If I want to cheat in a single player game, you goddamn let me. I don't give a shit if other people are cheating in their single player games - why should I?
That's simple: It's not a single player game. There is no single player mode. Only private password protected multiplayer lobbies.
Claiming that it's not a single player game is ludicrous. This is not Battlefield 3 where the only "solo play" option is versus bots.
It's not a single player game. You did not buy a single player game. You knew about this going into it. If you didn't want a multiplayer game, you shouldn't have bought a multiplayer game. Guess you didn't quite think through your purchasing decision, considering that all of this was known beforehand. Either that, or the game is still worth it to you, even knowing that it isn't exactly what you wanted... which is apparently a singleplayer game.
No, actually, I did not realize that even if my account authenticated I could be prevented from playing the game.
Can start single player sessions. Can play without others, without requiring bots. Can be considered single player game.
You didn't realize that, but it's been publicly known for what, well over a year now? Again, you didn't think through your purchasing decision. But calling a game that requires a server to host your game a singleplayer game is kinda silly. Stop trying to call a duck a chicken. And this is coming from a guy who is primarily going to play solo, but I knew what I was getting into beforehand, because I actually researched where my money went before spending it.
No, I don't ever recall hearing anything about needing to do something other than "authenticate" with the "always on authentication". Well, guess what? I authenticated just fine and they still won't let me play.
Do you understand what a client/sever separation means and how that makes Diablo 3 fundamentally different than Mass Effect 3?
Actually, I'm mad at Blizzard for putting in a ludicrous idle threshold. There's no reason for that. None.
You know what recent game also has always-on authentication? Mass Effect 3. You know how many times I got kicked out for leaving the game paused for a few minuets? Zero.
I'm owed a little bit more effort from the company I just bought a $60 game from.
Someone has entitlement issues. They provided you a game that has great gameplay, infinite customization, endless replay value, the server infrastructure to do so, customer service that can't be beat, and all kinds of other stuff I could rattle off from being in team "Blizzard Defense Force" or whatever people said earlier. And you are complaining because you idled for twenty minutes and they kicked you off?
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Yeah I wish there was a way to play a character LOCAL ONLY meaning they, nor the items they have, will ever be able to go online- but at least you'd be able to play the goddamn thing.
They've been reasonably good about WoW. There were segments where positional hacks were quite frequent (specially in Warsong gulch and later in instances), but apart from that I don't know of any major hacks in the game. I'm not a fan of the online-only thing (at. all.), but I can see the sense in the decision. At least to a certain extent.
Positioning issues are bugs related to pathing and not external hacks. As far as I know there have been two major duping bugs exploited in the history of the game, and both were cleaned up very quickly (within hours to a day), with account bans across the board for those that knowingly abused it. To this day, I don't believe anyone has successfully gamed the system into forcing loot drops or duping items via an external program.
I'll say this, If serious hacking and duping becomes an issue with D3 like it did with D2, then yes, people will be more than justified to crucify Blizzard's online-only requirement when the only valid reason for doing it didn't work.
That has to actually happen first though.
If this happens, I'll crucify Blizzard myself....but I remember D2, I remember how pointless entire chunks of it were because of the hacking and duping. I'll deal with one or two days of server issues, to play this for years without ever dealing with that again.
D2 could have been worse. At least they eventually wiped a lot of that stuff out starting with 1.10.
It could have gotten to Diablo 1 Boba Fett trainer status.
Don't remind me.
I still have Vietnam style flashbacks to the constant bloodbaths in Tristram.
You didn't play D2 did you? There is a need for the current setup, beyond just DRM. D2 was destroyed by cheating, absolutely destroyed. Hosting everything on Blizzard's servers greatly lessens those issues.
People just don't understand that, so they want to pitch a fit.
No, that's bullshit. If I want to cheat in a single player game, you goddamn let me. I don't give a shit if other people are cheating in their single player games - why should I?
That's simple: It's not a single player game. There is no single player mode. Only private password protected multiplayer lobbies.
Claiming that it's not a single player game is ludicrous. This is not Battlefield 3 where the only "solo play" option is versus bots.
It's not a single player game. You did not buy a single player game. You knew about this going into it. If you didn't want a multiplayer game, you shouldn't have bought a multiplayer game. Guess you didn't quite think through your purchasing decision, considering that all of this was known beforehand. Either that, or the game is still worth it to you, even knowing that it isn't exactly what you wanted... which is apparently a singleplayer game.
No, actually, I did not realize that even if my account authenticated I could be prevented from playing the game.
Can start single player sessions. Can play without others, without requiring bots. Can be considered single player game.
You didn't realize that, but it's been publicly known for what, well over a year now? Again, you didn't think through your purchasing decision. But calling a game that requires a server to host your game a singleplayer game is kinda silly. Stop trying to call a duck a chicken. And this is coming from a guy who is primarily going to play solo, but I knew what I was getting into beforehand, because I actually researched where my money went before spending it.
No, I don't ever recall hearing anything about needing to do something other than "authenticate" with the "always on authentication". Well, guess what? I authenticated just fine and they still won't let me play.
Do you understand what a client/sever separation means and how that makes Diablo 3 fundamentally different than Mass Effect 3?
is that anything like the separation of church and state?
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Yeah I wish there was a way to play a character LOCAL ONLY meaning they, nor the items they have, will ever be able to go online- but at least you'd be able to play the goddamn thing.
This I agree with. I do wish they had a singleplayer mode for the game with no online component. But I completely understand why they don't. It's so people don't have to make a new character for online, since that was always a real bummer in D2.
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Thoughts regarding a possible new Secret Cow level. Minor spoilers for enemies encountered, and locations in Act 1.
I got a Lore recording saying how the little treasure imp guys are rumoured to teleport away to a secret treasure dimension. I didn't kill the next one I found and it did indeed teleport away. I couldn't follow it, though, and couldn't click on the portal. Later on in Act 1, in Leoric's Manor, I clicked on a fireplace and received Leoric's Shinbone, a 1 square item that looks like a skeleton foot. It's account bound and is no-trade (the first such item I've found). Anyone think that there's a connection ? I've just found the bone, but have yet to see another treasure imp...
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No, that's bullshit. If I want to cheat in a single player game, you goddamn let me. I don't give a shit if other people are cheating in their single player games - why should I?
The "Diablo is a single-player game" crew is hilarious.
The Blizzard Defense Force(tm) is hilarious. Just when I thought the thread was gonna stay civilized.
As for the online-only thing keeping the environment hack free: give it 6 months and we'll see if it's true. I have my doubts that it'll stop any and all attempts, but it'll certainly delay things and make it easier to respond to new breaches.
That's pretty much the point. There's no clear cut way to eliminate hacks completely, EVER. This allows them to do what you said, delay it and respond and eliminate much easier. I don't get how you can think it was meant to be some magic button to stop every malicious user.
Also just because someone sees the logic in a certain point, has a different opinion or agrees with the action Blizzard is taking, that doesn't make them the "Blizzard Defense Force" and, funny enough, you trying to label people who think differently than you as corporate drones makes the thread less civilized when you are the one acting like you're civilized for some reason.
I hate the label as much as you do, but really: watch what happens to anyone that dares say anyone negative about D3 in this thread. You talk about differing opinions, but anyone that has an issue with the way D3 is handling it's online requirement gets jumped on like this was a gamefaqs board. Except with better grammar and spelling.
Edit: oh shit, someone broke out 'entitlement'. God, love that buzzword.
One tip I have for you guys is get the +2-4 damage rings from the shop which are equipable at level 6 as soon as possible (you will probably have the gold for them around level 7-8 or so. I picked up two nice ones that had 6% magic find as the 2nd effect.
@Constrictor you want to start a new toon and make a run through Act 1 + tonight? I'm probably going to be on from about 7-11 PST, maybe a couple other LoLers can join us? My barb from this morning is level 10, but I'd like to start a Wiz or DH.
I have the mats and the gold, just need someone to craft it for me, is all.
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I'm hanging out in-game, in Tristram while doing some work on the laptop for the next little while.
@Imperfect I'd say @milk ducks can probably already craft that for you if you can get in touch with him. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to do it this evening after I level my smith up.
Yep. I took care of him. Blacksmith's almost Level 4, by the way! Coming along nicely.
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Oh man I am in love with this game. It actually gives me that Diablo 1 feeling more than Diablo 2 ever did.
My buddy and I played from lvl 1 to 10-11ish.
I have a Witch Doctor named Who and he chucks spider bombs, how is that not amazing?!
I didn't turn on Elective mode right away, but by lvl 3 I did. Jesus, so much better.
I do have a question though. I have noticed that my primary attack is actually an ability and not my weapon's attack. So does that mean I can pick weapons based primarily on their awesome stats and not so much on dmg?
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Yeah I wish there was a way to play a character LOCAL ONLY meaning they, nor the items they have, will ever be able to go online- but at least you'd be able to play the goddamn thing.
This I agree with. I do wish they had a singleplayer mode for the game with no online component. But I completely understand why they don't. It's so people don't have to make a new character for online, since that was always a real bummer in D2.
Not really. SP Diablo 2 was awesome because you could trainer the shit out of yourself for build testing purposes. Bypass the grind entirely and jump straight to max level with whatever gear you want and see how well you fared against whatever difficulty you wanted. Then when you go online you could take your time and do things properly.
Or just be a jerkass and play on Open Bnet where everyone was hacked to shit with white items.
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Vickers - I've got an account-bound
Black Mushroom
that I've no idea what to do with. I've tried talking to Cain and whoever else about it, but it's just sitting there.
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@Axen, every ability in the game bases it's damage off of your equipped weapon. You will almost certainly want to value weapon DPS over it's other mods on an individual basis.
Obviously, a weapon with 20 dps and +50 Int is better on a mage than a weapon with 25 DPS and +25 STR, but weapon DPS does matter.
If you go into the options and turn on "Advanced Tooltips" (this really should be in the title along with Elective Mode, possibly even moreso than Elective Mode) you will see exactly how much % of weapon damage each skill does.
So who you're really mad at is yourself for not realizing it was announced over a year ago that this was a multi-player, always online game, with no true single-player component. It's been shouted from the hills, posted many times by Blizzard employees, is in every FAQ about the game that exists, even says it on the box...but you didn't know that, so you think you're owed a single-player game.
Actually, I'm mad at Blizzard for putting in a ludicrous idle threshold. There's no reason for that. None.
You know what recent game also has always-on authentication? Mass Effect 3. You know how many times I got kicked out for leaving the game paused for a few minuets? Zero.
I'm owed a little bit more effort from the company I just bought a $60 game from.
You didn't buy a game... You bought a license to access a game via the internet. I noticed that in was somewhere in the 3-4 EULA things you had to accept when logging in to the game for the first time.
No, that's bullshit. If I want to cheat in a single player game, you goddamn let me. I don't give a shit if other people are cheating in their single player games - why should I?
The "Diablo is a single-player game" crew is hilarious.
The Blizzard Defense Force(tm) is hilarious. Just when I thought the thread was gonna stay civilized.
As for the online-only thing keeping the environment hack free: give it 6 months and we'll see if it's true. I have my doubts that it'll stop any and all attempts, but it'll certainly delay things and make it easier to respond to new breaches.
That's pretty much the point. There's no clear cut way to eliminate hacks completely, EVER. This allows them to do what you said, delay it and respond and eliminate much easier. I don't get how you can think it was meant to be some magic button to stop every malicious user.
Also just because someone sees the logic in a certain point, has a different opinion or agrees with the action Blizzard is taking, that doesn't make them the "Blizzard Defense Force" and, funny enough, you trying to label people who think differently than you as corporate drones makes the thread less civilized when you are the one acting like you're civilized for some reason.
I hate the label as much as you do, but really: watch what happens to anyone that dares say anyone negative about D3 in this thread. You talk about differing opinions, but anyone that has an issue with the way D3 is handling it's online requirement gets jumped on like this was a gamefaqs board. Except with better grammar and spelling.
it's just a boring and kind of silly thing to complain about
yes, launch issues suck
yes, it would be nice if there were a local singleplayer
these are the perils of playing an online game at launch, which anybody who's been paying attention to like, any online game ever should probably be familiar with by now
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Oh man I am in love with this game. It actually gives me that Diablo 1 feeling more than Diablo 2 ever did.
My buddy and I played from lvl 1 to 10-11ish.
I have a Witch Doctor named Who and he chucks spider bombs, how is that not amazing?!
I didn't turn on Elective mode right away, but by lvl 3 I did. Jesus, so much better.
I do have a question though. I have noticed that my primary attack is actually an ability and not my weapon's attack. So does that mean I can pick weapons based primarily on their awesome stats and not so much on dmg?
If you turn on advanced tooltips you will see that all of your skills damage are based on your weapon's damage.
Oh man I am in love with this game. It actually gives me that Diablo 1 feeling more than Diablo 2 ever did.
My buddy and I played from lvl 1 to 10-11ish.
I have a Witch Doctor named Who and he chucks spider bombs, how is that not amazing?!
I didn't turn on Elective mode right away, but by lvl 3 I did. Jesus, so much better.
I do have a question though. I have noticed that my primary attack is actually an ability and not my weapon's attack. So does that mean I can pick weapons based primarily on their awesome stats and not so much on dmg?
weapon damage is baked into your abilities' damage, I believe
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That has to actually happen first though.
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I think that assumes that location of skills on the hotbar matters. Which, for a build's sake, it doesn't. So I think your numbers are off.
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And I define a single player game as a game you play where your character can't play with other characters.
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I'm kinda surprised there are people that weren't aware of it >.>
If this happens, I'll crucify Blizzard myself....but I remember D2, I remember how pointless entire chunks of it were because of the hacking and duping. I'll deal with one or two days of server issues, to play this for years without ever dealing with that again.
No, you're not. You bought the game which works as advertised. That's always what you're owed. This is an always online game on an online server even if you're playing by yourself. The idle kick is for two reasons, so you won't get killed if the connection gets disconnected, and so you're not taking up server space just sitting there.
D2 could have been worse. At least they eventually wiped a lot of that stuff out starting with 1.10.
It could have gotten to Diablo 1 Boba Fett trainer status.
Well the location doesn't matter for skills IF you turn on Elective Mode, right? I didn't feel like trying to calculate that out since it's slightly more complicated than a 125 choose 6, since choosing 1 locks out 5 or 6 choices, so I calculated it based off of Elective Mode being OFF. Obviously with Elective Mode ON, the number gets even sillier. The point being, even with the more restrictive method of selecting skills, there are a crazy number of potential combinations. I'm really hoping it doesn't end up in a state where only a few builds are even plausible at high levels, like Diablo 2 did, because that would be such a waste of potential.
Don't remind me.
Got a rare dagger with 40 dex and a shield with 30. Changed to the bomb and ninja star stuff. Its pretty damn spiffy.
I'm hoping other classes have options to play them much different than normal. Like melee sorc in D2, cool builds like that.
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Do you understand what a client/sever separation means and how that makes Diablo 3 fundamentally different than Mass Effect 3?
Someone has entitlement issues. They provided you a game that has great gameplay, infinite customization, endless replay value, the server infrastructure to do so, customer service that can't be beat, and all kinds of other stuff I could rattle off from being in team "Blizzard Defense Force" or whatever people said earlier. And you are complaining because you idled for twenty minutes and they kicked you off?
WAI
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Positioning issues are bugs related to pathing and not external hacks. As far as I know there have been two major duping bugs exploited in the history of the game, and both were cleaned up very quickly (within hours to a day), with account bans across the board for those that knowingly abused it. To this day, I don't believe anyone has successfully gamed the system into forcing loot drops or duping items via an external program.
I still have Vietnam style flashbacks to the constant bloodbaths in Tristram.
is that anything like the separation of church and state?
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This I agree with. I do wish they had a singleplayer mode for the game with no online component. But I completely understand why they don't. It's so people don't have to make a new character for online, since that was always a real bummer in D2.
Let's try not to shit ourselves with rage.
Blizzard has more in common with Games-Workshop than they want to think.
I hate the label as much as you do, but really: watch what happens to anyone that dares say anyone negative about D3 in this thread. You talk about differing opinions, but anyone that has an issue with the way D3 is handling it's online requirement gets jumped on like this was a gamefaqs board. Except with better grammar and spelling.
Edit: oh shit, someone broke out 'entitlement'. God, love that buzzword.
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Yep. I took care of him. Blacksmith's almost Level 4, by the way! Coming along nicely.
My buddy and I played from lvl 1 to 10-11ish.
I have a Witch Doctor named Who and he chucks spider bombs, how is that not amazing?!
I didn't turn on Elective mode right away, but by lvl 3 I did. Jesus, so much better.
I do have a question though. I have noticed that my primary attack is actually an ability and not my weapon's attack. So does that mean I can pick weapons based primarily on their awesome stats and not so much on dmg?
Not really. SP Diablo 2 was awesome because you could trainer the shit out of yourself for build testing purposes. Bypass the grind entirely and jump straight to max level with whatever gear you want and see how well you fared against whatever difficulty you wanted. Then when you go online you could take your time and do things properly.
Or just be a jerkass and play on Open Bnet where everyone was hacked to shit with white items.
Obviously, a weapon with 20 dps and +50 Int is better on a mage than a weapon with 25 DPS and +25 STR, but weapon DPS does matter.
If you go into the options and turn on "Advanced Tooltips" (this really should be in the title along with Elective Mode, possibly even moreso than Elective Mode) you will see exactly how much % of weapon damage each skill does.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
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You didn't buy a game... You bought a license to access a game via the internet. I noticed that in was somewhere in the 3-4 EULA things you had to accept when logging in to the game for the first time.
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it's just a boring and kind of silly thing to complain about
yes, launch issues suck
yes, it would be nice if there were a local singleplayer
these are the perils of playing an online game at launch, which anybody who's been paying attention to like, any online game ever should probably be familiar with by now
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
If you turn on advanced tooltips you will see that all of your skills damage are based on your weapon's damage.
weapon damage is baked into your abilities' damage, I believe
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat