Diablo III - Discussion Thread

Altair said:
Okay that's great. Sorry I just surfed the net and replied. My apologize. :)
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Heh, no need. I wasn't dissin' ya, just informing you.

On the subject of Diablo clones, Grim Dawn is the one I am liking most. From the makers of the fantastic Titan Quest, it's the one to look out for.
Path of Exile I don't fancy much and TL2 is too simplistic (hope I am wrong).
 
saumilsingh said:
On the subject of Diablo clones, Grim Dawn is the one I am liking most. From the makers of the fantastic Titan Quest, it's the one to look out for.
Path of Exile I don't fancy much and TL2 is too simplistic (hope I am wrong).
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You can check out TL2 right now as they have an open beta going on until Thursday. I'm playing it since saturday and must say both me an my brother are already addicted. Eventhough, it is beta, I havent encountered any bugs yet, but there are some class balancing issues. Only a few of the skills are unlocked currently. The class I had most fun with is the Embermage. Also, tried out the Engineer and Outlander classes. Engineer is really flexible and can get really op. Outlander, I thought was very slow. The difficulty level is challenging only in the highest level i.e. Elite. Normal is too easy, Veteran is just ok. BTW, the beta is multiplayer only. Thankfully, havent encountered any lags or disconnections yet.

BTW, I'm also waiting for Grim Dawn and PoE. I even contributed to the Grim Dawn kickstarter. That looks like a superb game.
 
pretttt said:
BTW, I'm also waiting for Grim Dawn and PoE. I even contributed to the Grim Dawn kickstarter. That looks like a superb game.
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POE is always-online as well. And if I have to live with that, I'd rather play something with the polish and pedigree of Diablo.
Grim Dawn is shaping up to be great though. TQ has a special place in my mind.

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Diablo 3 becomes the fastest selling PC game of all time with 3.5 million copies sold in the first 24 hours and 6.3 million copies in the first week.
These figures don't include the 1.2 million copies given to WOW annual pass subscribers.

4.7 million users were logged in on Day 1.

Diablo III sells 6.3 million LtD, 3.5 million in first 24 hours | VG247
 
Got a guest pass from a friend last week, tried to play with him over the weekend but Blizzard does not allow retail edition players to play with starter edition players :bomb:
 
krugur said:
Some good news .. atleast all of youcan check out the ping and gameplay before setting to buy or not. Diablo 3 gets "starter edition" free demo | GamesRadar
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Hi, has anyone tried this started edition yet? I checked from my existing Battle.net account, but couldnt find the option to download D3 Starter edition where they said it would be. Is this starter edition limited to only a few countries?

saumilsingh said:
POE is always-online as well. And if I have to live with that, I'd rather play something with the polish and pedigree of Diablo.
Grim Dawn is shaping up to be great though. TQ has a special place in my mind.
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Ohh damn, I did not know PoE was always-online! But still, it is F2P. Grim Dawn will be awesome though. I was actually playing TQ for the first time last week when I paused it to play T2 beta. Since the beta is getting over tonight, I'll be continuing with TQ from tomorrow.
 
pretttt said:
Hi, has anyone tried this started edition yet? I checked from my existing Battle.net account, but couldnt find the option to download D3 Starter edition where they said it would be. Is this starter edition limited to only a few countries?
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kreacher said:
Got a guest pass from a friend last week, tried to play with him over the weekend but Blizzard does not allow retail edition players to play with starter edition players
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Prettt I think this will answer your question.

Also, the latest patch seems to have reduced some 'uber-powerful' runes to more tamer shadows of their self. More on the same from Arstechnica.

Take the Monk class's Boon of Protection rune, which let a player's party absorb a good deal of damage for ten seconds. Community Manager Bashiok admits on the forums that this ability "was approximately ten times over its budget on the benefits it provided" and has now been "nerfed to the point of obsolescence until we can implement a new rune in its place in a future patch."We don't intend to take these quick and drastic measures often, but considering the severity of the issue, we felt it important to correct it swiftly," he continued.
Players on the forums have been quick to complain that the newly downgraded abilities will make it practically impossible to beat the game on the highest difficulties, where the enemies are downright ferocious. I can't comment on the substance of those complaints, as I'm still slowly working my way through Normal difficulty and finding it almost insultingly easy for my Demon Hunter.​
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ALPHA17 said:
Prettt I think this will answer your question.
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No, actually the reason I was not seeing that was because Blizzard have not opened the Starter edition to all players yet. For first 31 days, one can get the starter edition only through invite, after that anyone can get it. I just found that out after reading the original article krugur had linked.

Also, looks like the constant tinkering with the classes and class abilities like they do in WoW will be present in Diablo too.
 
pretttt said:
Ohh damn, I did not know PoE was always-online! But still, it is F2P. Grim Dawn will be awesome though. I was actually playing TQ for the first time last week when I paused it to play T2 beta. Since the beta is getting over tonight, I'll be continuing with TQ from tomorrow.
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I wouldn't worry about the always-online thing too much. While it's a real issue in traditional singleplayer games, in ARPGs the entire point is to play with a party.

Oh and I hope you're playing TQ with the Immortal Throne expansion pack installed. It improves the game a lot.
In this day and age when expansion packs are just another word for DLC, Immortal Throne was on the level of Blizzard's expansion packs (which at the risk of sounding fanboyish, are pretty much the industry standard for expansion packs).

pretttt said:
Also, looks like the constant tinkering with the classes and class abilities like they do in WoW will be present in Diablo too.
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Most definitely. Blizzard never stops fine tuning and balancing their games. They are pretty much unrivaled in game support with regular patches and tweaks to game balance even years after release. In fact, Diablo 2 gets patches to this very day and the servers for Diablo 1 are still up even after 15 years.

This is where your $60 goes, unlike COD games which cost the same and they still they try to charge you another $20 for a mappack :p.

The only other game company that provides this level of support is Valve with TF2.
 
saumilsingh said:
Oh and I hope you're playing TQ with the Immortal Throne expansion pack installed. It improves the game a lot.
In this day and age when expansion packs are just another word for DLC, Immortal Throne was on the level of Blizzard's expansion packs (which at the risk of sounding fanboyish, are pretty much the industry standard for expansion packs).
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Oh yeah, I am playing with the Expansion installed. I actually bought the game and the expansion a long time back in of the steam sales but never bothered to play it until now. My brother used to play it like crazy back then.
 
Gannu said:
That keeps me wondering, will the upcoming expansion for Starcraft II have this always-on online DRM? :(
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Doubt it. I think they even went ahead and removed all region restrictions in SC2. Rumors are they are adding a LAN option too.

Even though people like to think otherwise, the always-online DRM serves an actual purpose in D3 of keeping all your characters in sync and preventing hacked items at the same time.
SC2 has no such thing to worry about as the singleplayer in SC2 is a traditional closed sp campaign.

pretttt said:
Oh yeah, I am playing with the Expansion installed. I actually bought the game and the expansion a long time back in of the steam sales but never bothered to play it until now. My brother used to play it like crazy back then.
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What masteries did you pick?
Defense + Dream, thank me later :p.
 
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