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by **Psychotic** » Sat Jun 16, 12 1:31 pm

If you mean "Diablo 3 by North" as in Torchlight then I'm going to say "Diablo 3 by Blizzard" (discounting TL2 since it's not out yet), but if you mean "Diablo 3 by North" as in the Diablo MMO then it's a bit of a toss-up.

The whole MMO idea doesn't bother me when you take into consideration the fact that D3 currently has the same requirements of playing it as an MMO does.

by **James** » Sat Jun 16, 12 2:52 pm

Diablo MMO is pretty much Hellgate and the third Torchlight game in development.

by **James** » Wed Jun 20, 12 5:49 am

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6457499

Add me btw, use my personal email account for my RealID or Surprise#2397

by **Psychotic** » Wed Jun 20, 12 10:58 am

Saw a few changes, don't mind all of them but the IAS nerf is going to hurt a lot of melee out there.

James wrote:Add me btw, use my personal email account for my RealID or Surprise#2397

Would do (and have on the EU realm) but since I play on US realms it's not going to show you, unfortunately, which is something Blizzard should work on.

This is why I wish characters could live on all realms simultaneously, as I play primarily with a mate who lives in Australia, but have friends in the US and SEA regions, too.

by **James** » Thu Jun 21, 12 7:29 am

Well, they completely fucked up the balance of durability vs play time. Huge bills for everyone!

by **Psychotic** » Thu Jun 21, 12 11:06 am

Yeah, it's horrible. Even if you don't die often you still incur massive bills just because of normal wear and tear. Destroying pots and coffins? Only if you want to pay thousands later in repair bills!

This is a problem the CM's have admitted too, however.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/ ... ge=58#1154

Lylirra wrote:
so... i'm smashing pots and other smashables...and my gear is losing durability.... why is this happening? seems unnecessary.

We agree, and we're already looking into reducing the durability hit players take from normal wear-and-tear. This way, players who never die aren't getting hit with a giant repair fee every 3-4 hours.

by **James** » Wed Jun 27, 12 7:08 am

Hey did you know the flag taunt thing (G) actually has uses?, you can use it as a summoning point for banners in town instead of players spawning right on top of you.

by **Psychotic** » Wed Jun 27, 12 8:46 am

Huh. Overall though, I don't really use the banner much. I usually just forget about it, lol.

by **James** » Sun Aug 05, 12 6:45 pm

I tried playing melee demon hunter.

by **Professor Layton** » Sun Aug 05, 12 7:59 pm

pro

Does that mean you cant have any of those hatred increasing attacks, if any attacks at all in the first place?

by **James** » Sun Aug 05, 12 8:19 pm

ye. auto attack. think you're allowed grenades, but lol.

allowed to use shite like impale and chakrams.

by **Professor Layton** » Sun Aug 05, 12 9:15 pm

oh chakrams EZ

once you get the doubles, whenever that is

by **James** » Sun Aug 05, 12 9:37 pm

no quick regen tho m8. i used stun impale a lot at melee range.

try playing any non melee class with normal attacks, so weird.

by **James** » Mon Aug 06, 12 10:42 am

Sorry for double post.

The thing that comes apparent the most is that the normal attack animation is slower and doesn't have any crowd control abilities like Bash/Cleave and you don't have much utilities that deal AOE effects or healing.

It was fun, melee kiting rules and reminds me about Diablo 2.

by **James** » Tue Aug 07, 12 3:37 pm

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Surprise-2397/

Profiles are now online. Stalk my slow progress.x

by **Psychotic** » Wed Aug 08, 12 12:56 am

Eh, not as slow as me, though I don't play the game as much as I used to because I don't really care for it anymore.

Trying to slowly level a wizard.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/MrTastix-1610/

by **James** » Fri Aug 10, 12 4:31 pm

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6923456 ... -8_10_2012

by **Aidan** » Sat Aug 11, 12 1:33 am

The overhaul should be good.

by **Psychotic** » Wed Aug 15, 12 6:08 am

http://www.diablofans.com/news/1310-104 ... lue-posts/

I'm quite of fan of affixes that improve Weapon Throw's damage for Barbarians. The Ranged Barbarian spec is quite viable and I've found it quite enjoyable.

I also like how two-handers are being improved upon (I prefer dual-wielding in general but have a monk for that): 2H Whirly Barb sounds hilariously overkill to me.

I'm looking forward to 1.0.4 personally, if only for the legendary changes so far. Pity the changes aren't retroactive... I wanted to use my Skycutter. >.>

by **James** » Wed Aug 15, 12 8:51 am

Giving monster affixes to weapons? hahah awesome.

"This sword has a chance to summon a demon to fight with you -- with a twist. This demon has the Fire Chains affix"

LOL micro becoming more viable in D3 is awesome.

Fantastic news they're putting more affixes in, one of the truly worst things about Diablo 3 is the itemization. Hopefully they will make dungeon crawling similar to D2 with better randomised environments.

by **Professor Layton** » Wed Aug 15, 12 9:54 am

100% chance to cast level 60 meteor on death

by **Psychotic** » Wed Aug 15, 12 12:08 pm

I'm loving the idea of a Desecration-type affix alongside Double Whirlwind Barbs, eheh.

by **James** » Wed Aug 15, 12 12:29 pm

Whirlwind sprintnado firewalkers and whatever else.

by **Psychotic** » Wed Aug 15, 12 3:47 pm

HURRDY HERP.

by **James** » Wed Aug 15, 12 6:46 pm

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6923460/

MY GOD

WHAT ARE BLIZZARD DOING

WHY ARE THEY MAKING GOOD CHANGES

by **Psychotic** » Wed Aug 15, 12 8:20 pm

The changes are good but should've come months ago. There's no reason some of the games issues couldn't have been seen in internal play-testing (not including AH-related issues since there honestly isn't any other than opinion-based ones).

The most obvious problems for me are the really punishing affixes and the heavy biased nature towards ranged classes because of them. If they do internal testing like they claim how could they not have seen these?

Do play-testers find getting their asses kicked repeatedly by a bunch of fear-spamming, arcane enchanting, invulnerable minions fun or something? Are they all masochistic? Or do they honestly believe the idea of restarting a game just to avoid one boss is an awesome and entertaining procedure?

Cause I fucking don't.

The disparity between ranged and melee in terms of ranged kiting was never my biggest issue. My biggest frustration with the game is just some of the painful affix combinations you can get. Inferno has it's issues with the whole "GET FOUR DIFFICULTIES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!" but I could live with that. I couldn't live with being forced to restart a game just because of one Champion/Elite, though. It ruins the entire sense of immersion, progression and is just not fun at all.

too long; didn't read: Wah wah, QQ. Still going to play the game. 1.0.4 looks freakin' boss. Hoping monk updates are as fucking awesome as barbarian. Am extremely thankful they're buffing classes as opposed to nerfing them all to shite (because god knows everyone loves buffs).

by **James** » Wed Aug 15, 12 10:08 pm

You're 100% right to be upset. End game balancing was and is abysmal.

by **Psychotic** » Thu Aug 16, 12 7:29 am

Well, it's good that somebody else agrees, hah.

I don't believe in the numerous conspiracy theories that plague the official forums, I just believe something should have and could have been done sooner.

I still believe World of Warcraft has seriously spoiled Blizzard.

by **James** » Thu Aug 16, 12 9:35 am

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6939564 ... -8_15_2012 wizzurd

by **Psychotic** » Thu Aug 16, 12 10:16 am

I have to force myself to stop reading the comments section on sites like YouTube and Blizzard's sites. They're always just downright demoralizing.

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