The Diablo 3 Thread for Advanced Tooltip and Elective Mode Lovers

Lost Salient

Okay I'm going to be honest, my game is in another window just waiting for me to switch back so I'm going to shamelessly copy Walt's old OP. It was a good OP. I liked it.

EVIL IS BACK OR SOMETHING



PLAN YOUR CHARACTER FOR SCIENCE

NEW THINGS TO PUNCH

THERE'S A GAME GUIDE FOR SISSIES

ALSO A LORE BOOK

I'm going to be honest, there are are tons of people who are better at this game and better at all games than I am. But this game is tons of fun and you have abilities that include SNAKE TO THE FACE and PUNCH A HEAD UNTIL IT BLOWS UP (this isn't a real ability name but it is something that can be done). If you don't enjoy throwing snakes in people's faces, or punching things until they blow up, frankly I just don't know what to do with you. Watch a cinematic intro or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9mUe5vHYzs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEAPxgMCEA8

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Again according to those more knowledgeable than myself, here are some

Noteworthy Fansites
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forums.d2jsp.org/

And here is how you
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PC
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Mac:
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Hey okay! Go play this game! I bet I forgot lots of important stuff because all of the stuff that is important I just stole from @Walt!

Lost Salient

Additionally, my monk just hit 25 and I can now make my old bell turn into a ghost bell that blows everyone up everywhere.

And that, my friends, is fantastic.

So if anyone wants to putz around in a basement of a castle with me somewhere in Act III let me know.

Walt

I just got meteor but I think it's like Wave of Light in that you really need to rune it for it to be good.

Otherwise it does 200% weapon damage and 60% over time for 60 AP, or I could just use Arcane Orb which does 228% runed for 35 AP. That's like twice the damage to cost! On the plus side as someone pointed out in the last thread you can aim it anywhere on the screen to maybe take out guys hiding behind their minions (Fallen Prophets).

Lost Salient

Yeah, I just got the Explosive Light rune for my Wave of Light and it deals 285% or some such "weapon damage as holy" to all nearby enemies on top of the other jazz.

It takes a wild rumpus of energy to use, on the downside, but in giant mobs regeneration isn't really a problem.

Noisymunk

Woo maintenance! I was hoping to play til 9.

godmode

5 AM Pacific and the servers are full. What the heck.

This is the thanks @Tonkka and I get for stopping evil and saving all of existence??

Edit: Oh, server maintenance. I guess what they're saying is I should stop being lazy and do my normal things.

Tonkka

Yeah what the fuck.

Noisymunk

godmode wrote: »

5 AM Pacific and the servers are full. What the heck.

This is the thanks @Tonkka and I get for stopping evil and saving all of existence??

They took the servers down for scheduled maintenance at 5 am PST. They'll be back up at 6 PST (hopefully).

JustTee

So! Thoughts post:

My Monk is level 31, has beaten Normal difficulty.

I cake walked through Act's 1 and 2, didn't really ever die, didn't really ever have to pot. Act 3 started, and I died I think 6-7 times within the first few minutes. I think this was because I had previously been playing in a group of 4, then went solo, so I was pretty horrifically under leveled for the content. I gained a level, and suddenly wasn't having so much trouble anymore.

Game-play wise, I think the monk has to have some of the least-satisfying animations of any class. Sure, some are cool. Most of your spirit builders rock, but the most effective abilities, I've found, are kind of underwhelming.

Sweeping wind, while cool when you have it at 3 stacks, really gets *lame* looking when its runed. It's definitely the most effective skill I've come across so far though.
Wave of light is awesome when it's a bell, but then you rune it to be way more effective, and the animation disappears...
7 Sided Strike...really underwhelming. I've only used it on bosses, and only then for the temporary invulnerability it grants.

I don't know. I enjoy playing the monk, but it took a while for it to get fun.

My Demon Hunter is level 15.

DH sucks pretty hard until you can start rune-ing things, but by level 12, probably is the most fun class.

Chakram are god damn AWESOME damage ninja stars of doom, plus Vault (with the level 10 passive that gives you 60% movement speed after vaulting), plus Bola's....good lord. Everything dies, nothing can hit you, and you run faster than anything except a D2 sorc with Tele.


My barb is level ~10.

I just have to say that Blizz really nailed the animations of the barb. From level 1, everything just *feels* more satisfying than the monk. Like, every move just radiates pure, unadulterated "HULK SMASH" in a way that makes you wonder why the monk seems so...off?

Plus, Whirlwind. I don't even care about anything else. Just give me whirlwind, so I can whirlwind all the things.




As far as the game itself - did not disappoint. Act 1 and 2 felt a tiny bit repetitive (really? Act 2 is a desert? With a lot of similar mob types?), but I feel like it was almost done as a purposeful thing, just so the absolute ridiculous awesomeness of Acts 3 and 4 stand out as like HOLY CRAP THIS IS FOR REAL GUYS type business.


As for Blacksmith/Jeweler business - my BS is maxed for normal difficulty. So far, I've made myself shoulders on my first character (they were usable long before shoulders were actually dropping), assorted boots/belts, and a bunch of level 8/9/10 gear for my second characters.

Was it worth it? Probably not. I had it capped by the end of Act 2, though, so I just ended up capping the jeweler, and capping my first stash tab, by the time I finished with the monk.

Librarian's ghost

Noisymunk wrote: »

godmode wrote: »

5 AM Pacific and the servers are full. What the heck.

This is the thanks @Tonkka and I get for stopping evil and saving all of existence??

They took the servers down for scheduled maintenance at 5 am PST. They'll be back up at 6 PST (hopefully).

The blue post on the D3 forum says 7am.

Kochikens

Kormac is p hot

godmode

So if I understand correctly, the only way to do above normal difficulty on any character is to first beat normal on each character first?

That sounds tedious and unpleasant. I was hoping beating normal once unlocked higher difficulties for all.

Big Red Tie

got a 2h bow with 320 dps, chuckin out these arcane orbs like no tomorrow

also it was off a vendor. blacksmith sucks tia

Walt

godmode wrote: »

So if I understand correctly, the only way to do above normal difficulty on any character is to first beat normal on each character first?

That sounds tedious and unpleasant. I was hoping beating normal once unlocked higher difficulties for all.

Diablo difficulties are New Game+, not so much "easy medium hard impossible". So even if you could take a level 1 character into Nightmare, the level 31 zombies on the road to New Tristram would eviscerate you instantly and you would not be able to out-damage their life regeneration.

Lost Salient

I have not had as much fun with any class from level one as I have with my monk. Exploding Palm leaves mobs bloody piles of gore, and Wave of Light summons a huge bell which then wallops the shit out of people. And Seven-Sided Strike draws a star on the ground which you jump around leaving imprints of yourself behind. So... I guess I think all of those animations are sort of rad?

Also godmode, it's pretty easy to whip through the acts if you have some higher levels along with you for the ride, or a full party. I honestly did Act II this morning in like, an hour and a half? I think? And that was me with three equally-leveled characters (around level 20 or so), two other monks and a Demon Hunter.

natek

That system always seemed normal to me.
I just assume everyone played Diablo II all the time before

Atheraal

soloed nightmare act 2 and some of 3, leveled my traps based dh from 41 to 45

just got the big grenade passive, so might make a build around that. seems fitting for a

HELL BATTLEFIELD

man i love act 3

JustTee

Lost Salient wrote: »

I have not had as much fun with any class from level one as I have with my monk. Exploding Palm leaves mobs bloody piles of gore, and Wave of Light summons a huge bell which then wallops the shit out of people. And Seven-Sided Strike draws a star on the ground which you jump around leaving imprints of yourself behind. So... I guess I think all of those animations are sort of rad?

Exploding palm seems like a waste to me though. When it was a spirit builder in beta, I used it like, nonstop. But it's a slow, single target, low damage ability that tends to get me murdered if I try to cast it on a mob in a pack (which is where the side bonus would be most helpful, I think). It's satisfying when it works, but I haven't really found a use for it yet.

Wave of light, when it's a bell, is god damn awesome. However, when you rune it to do its massive amount of holy damage, you lose the bell (which was why the animation was so sick), and instead, just shoot some blue shit out of you and knock guys back.

Thing is, it is MASSIVELY more useful runed that way. Not only does it give a huge AoE nuke+knock back, it also heals you. Absolutely an awesome ability. But losing the bell part of the animation makes me sad.

7-sided-strike, when used in a pack, the animation just kinda disappears. If you actually have 7+ mobs to hit, you don't ever really see it. Especially in a party. You'll see whirlwind, ground smash from barb. You'll see disintigrate, arcane orb, and basically everything else from a wizard. You'll see Chakrams, multishot, bola shot, and other shit from the DH. But monk? Not too much.

In a party, about the only time people have been like "holy shit that's cool" when I did something was Wave of Light (as a bell). Meanwhile, just about every new ability/animation from other classes has been like "sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet".

Bedigunz

So I just played a little bit last night and my latency was approximately 346 but my game was lagging like a bitch. The demo was running fine and up to speed on the default video settings but this is unplayable. Is it the servers being hammered or do I need to turn my settings down?

Big Red Tie

also i got this http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-ancient-bonesaber-of-zumakalis

sligmasta

Really enjoying my melee aoe Wiz. Always have Storm Armor up, hit Explosive Blast, run into pack of mobs and hit Frost Nova, Diamond Skin if anything seems dicey, and throw arcane orbs till you have to regen some AP with spectral blade. Everything just explodes around me. Haven't had a none boss fight last more than 10 seconds.

The only problem is with certain bosses I don't have enough sustained single target damage, have had to switch up the abilities a bit.

captaink

sligmasta wrote: »

Really enjoying my melee aoe Wiz. Always have Storm Armor up, hit Explosive Blast, run into pack of mobs and hit Frost Nova, Diamond Skin if anything seems dicey, and throw arcane orbs till you have to regen some AP with spectral blade. Everything just explodes around me. Haven't had a none boss fight last more than 10 seconds.

The only problem is with certain bosses I don't have enough sustained single target damage, have had to switch up the abilities a bit.

I had a build like that until Disintegrate. Now it is all Disintegrate, all the time.

Langly

Oh, so the plot I thought diablo would have from the poster that showed him was completely correct, that's hilarious.

Galy

captaink wrote: »

sligmasta wrote: »

Really enjoying my melee aoe Wiz. Always have Storm Armor up, hit Explosive Blast, run into pack of mobs and hit Frost Nova, Diamond Skin if anything seems dicey, and throw arcane orbs till you have to regen some AP with spectral blade. Everything just explodes around me. Haven't had a none boss fight last more than 10 seconds.

The only problem is with certain bosses I don't have enough sustained single target damage, have had to switch up the abilities a bit.

I had a build like that until Disintegrate. Now it is all Disintegrate, all the time.

Yup same here. Bread and butter.

Hunter

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godmode

Walt wrote: »

godmode wrote: »

So if I understand correctly, the only way to do above normal difficulty on any character is to first beat normal on each character first?

That sounds tedious and unpleasant. I was hoping beating normal once unlocked higher difficulties for all.

Diablo difficulties are New Game+, not so much "easy medium hard impossible". So even if you could take a level 1 character into Nightmare, the level 31 zombies on the road to New Tristram would eviscerate you instantly and you would not be able to out-damage their life regeneration.

Well, of course it makes sense in that light. But I was thinking about it more like "Alright, I unlocked Nightmare. Here is this new level one character and he is now facing these tougher level 1 packs of zombies"

Big Red Tie

i dropped disintegrate because standing still isn't a thing anymore

Naphtali

Big Red Tie wrote: »

also i got this http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-ancient-bonesaber-of-zumakalis

ahahaha yesss

I take back what I was saying about wizards not having good arcane power dumps, its probably just that my gear was just lacking in Act 1. I got a crazy rare sword off an early act 2 boss and made some ridiculous smoked spheres from the blacksmith with +44 int and my damage on paper nearly doubled. Now I'm destroying everything with minimal effort.

Jasconius

so blacksmith is pretty useless?

wasn't sure if I wanted to dump gold into it

Wren

I think I like the Monster Hunter two handed sword that looks almost exactly like a bone greatsword from Monster Hunter. not that its going to be any use for me if I ever found it, being a level 21 weapon

Fuga

act 4 cinematic
holy shit

That Dave Fella

Just beat Diablo on hardcore and my achievement is broken! I didn't get any of my achievements from act 4. This is getting a bit annoying now.

Flay

I haven't been following this game at all, but I'd like to give it a shot.

If anyone has a guest pass that they're desperate to get rid of, let me know.

rhylith

Jasconius wrote: »

so blacksmith is pretty useless?

wasn't sure if I wanted to dump gold into it

I'm not high level by any means but I've made a few useful items. It may become less useful later but right now it seems pretty good.

Rehab

Maaan I really need a new computer and like, some disposable income.

Typically I just pray or make sacrifice to Satan for things I would like (smiting enemies, bottle of rum please?) but I don't think that is going to fly here, for obvious reasons. Quite an annoying dilemma, to be sure.

Crimson King

so i played this game for this first time today

really the first time i've played any diablo anywhere

instantly hooked

KrunkMcGrunk

man, i didn't know there were people on this planet who hadn't played diablo or diablo 2. your lives have been lacking

CorporateLogo

I am clearly not a cool or attractive person, so my tag probably shouldn't be in that list

Chakram is nice but it has a hard time hitting smaller enemies unless they're bunched up in front of you

Bolo takes too long to go off and the radius is not large enough for crowd control

rhylith

I never actually played all the way through d2.

I won't make that mistake again here.

CorporateLogo

I played Diablo 2 and the expansion but I never got to Baal

Sara Lynn

rhylith wrote: »

I never actually played all the way through d2.

I won't make that mistake again here.

Me neither. I let a friend borrow my discs and I never got them back. I bought it off the website last year and got into Act 2, but I think I already fucked up my Amazon so I'm kind of annoyed. I want to kiss D3's skill system on the mouth.