Diablo III - Discussion Thread

jc36lect3r said:
Yes, am an Asian monk. So if I want the moolah I need to create a character in the US Server? Lame. Just started to get my hands dirty on the Gold Auction House. Even mediocre items fetch a very good price, crazy people out there.
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People have already made back the $60 spent on the game by auctioning off random mid-tier items for $2-3 each.
Plus Blizzard takes a 15% cut from each successful transaction.

You get a free game plus the promise of making extra profit from future sales.
While Blizzard gets your $60 AND the commission from item sales :lol:.
 
Hmm, maybe I will complete Normal in Asia and start a Wizard in the US server, take it all the way to Inferno. What pings do you get in US?
 
I finally started playing with my DH this past weekend. Reached almost to the end of Act 2. Really enjoying the game now. Spent almost all of the weekend just playing. Now, I just hope I am able to complete the game before I am hit by the next Blizzard banhammer, lol :) DH gameplay at this level seems to be only about using 2-3 skills mainly. My brother is playing a monk and the monk gameplay looks absolutely awesome. I am playing in the US servers and am getting around 300ms pings on my Airtel connection. I'm not noticing any lag with this ping. But, I did get disconnected once and had to redo a map.

Another aspect I really loved were the random events. Came across a timed dungeon too but couldnt finish it within time. :(
 
Yea, you can't even tell you are playing an online game with pings as high as 400ms. Above that, the discerning player might start noticing a slight lag but still nothing serious.

My next character is going to be a Monk too, it's poetry in motion watching those seven sided strikes.

@pretttt
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I have started Hell with my barbarian and nearing Act 1 End.

Sigh, some of the elites now are really annoying and really difficult to get through making progress very slow. Also, the difference between range and melee is kinda staggering now. Yesterday was playing with a DH at level 55 (my barb too is lvl 55). While my damage was near 4k with around 25k hp, this DH had like 37k damage!!! He was one shotting whole enemy groups with his split shot! Wtf is this????

Also, i noticed that rares are dropping much less now in Hell difficulty.

@ Saumil, you seem to be stuck on Act 3 nightmare now forever! Come on buddy, power up to the next difficulty as most of the items in nightmare are useless in Hell.
 
Alias said:
I have started Hell with my barbarian and nearing Act 1 End.

Sigh, some of the elites now are really annoying and really difficult to get through making progress very slow. Also, the difference between range and melee is kinda staggering now. Yesterday was playing with a DH at level 55 (my barb too is lvl 55). While my damage was near 4k with around 25k hp, this DH had like 37k damage!!! He was one shotting whole enemy groups with his split shot! Wtf is this????

Also, i noticed that rares are dropping much less now in Hell difficulty.

@ Saumil, you seem to be stuck on Act 3 nightmare now forever! Come on buddy, power up to the next difficulty as most of the items in nightmare are useless in Hell.
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The DH was probably decked out in high level gear bought from the AH or passed down from his other characters.
I agree it's not much fun playing in a group where one guy is steamrolling over everything.

Finished Nightmare tonight.
I play slow, that's how I am. Did I mention it took me 80 hours to finish Normal :p?
 
saumilsingh said:
pretttt
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PMed you.

Anyway, only one thing I dont like till now is the below par music. It just fails to create the atmosphere like in Diablo2. I think even Blizzard were not too happy with the music, because even after setting music volume to high and reducing all the other ambient sounds and effects to low, I still cannot notice the music while playing. Compared to the Torchlight 2 beta, where I loved the music so much, I used to simply roam around a cleared area so I could listen to it completely. It's amazing what a difference Matt Uelman can make.
 
Alias said:
I have started Hell with my barbarian and nearing Act 1 End.
Sigh, some of the elites now are really annoying and really difficult to get through making progress very slow. Also, the difference between range and melee is kinda staggering now. Yesterday was playing with a DH at level 55 (my barb too is lvl 55). While my damage was near 4k with around 25k hp, this DH had like 37k damage!!! He was one shotting whole enemy groups with his split shot! Wtf is this????
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Hey the damage you mentioned above is it Crit damage or your base (normal) damage??
Since i'm doing around 2-3k normal damage and 8-10K crit damage with my lvl51 Monk.
 
is there anyone willing to gimme a hand to start off a fresh char in normal mode (Americals server) from the start?? I think in tag team we can push faster and enter the higher modes of operations :p

If anyone is willing, PM me your battletag and also preffered time for play.
 
pretttt said:
PMed you.

Anyway, only one thing I dont like till now is the below par music. It just fails to create the atmosphere like in Diablo2. I think even Blizzard were not too happy with the music, because even after setting music volume to high and reducing all the other ambient sounds and effects to low, I still cannot notice the music while playing. Compared to the Torchlight 2 beta, where I loved the music so much, I used to simply roam around a cleared area so I could listen to it completely. It's amazing what a difference Matt Uelman can make.
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Yep Tristram isn't Tristram without the signature strums.
I remember playing Torchlight and it feeling exactly like D2 because of Matt Uelman's music.

Grim said:
Hey the damage you mentioned above is it Crit damage or your base (normal) damage??
Since i'm doing around 2-3k normal damage and 8-10K crit damage with my lvl51 Monk.
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If like me you don't use the AH then 2-3k is normal for a lvl-50 melee character. I am a lvl-51 Barbarian and deal around 1.5k damage (~2k with Battle Rage).
You can easily quadruple that by spending less than 10k gold but I don't wanna do that unless I am stonewalled and cannot progress.

rakesh_ic said:
is there anyone willing to gimme a hand to start off a fresh char in normal mode (Americals server) from the start?? I think in tag team we can push faster and enter the higher modes of operations :p

If anyone is willing, PM me your battletag and also preffered time for play.
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What times are you on? Me and another guy are planning to start new characters but we mostly play after 11PM.
PM me your BattleTag?
 
Grim said:
Hey the damage you mentioned above is it Crit damage or your base (normal) damage??
Since i'm doing around 2-3k normal damage and 8-10K crit damage with my lvl51 Monk.
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That is normal damage.

rakesh_ic said:
is there anyone willing to gimme a hand to start off a fresh char in normal mode (Americals server) from the start?? I think in tag team we can push faster and enter the higher modes of operations :p

If anyone is willing, PM me your battletag and also preffered time for play.
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I can invite you like i did last time and you can power level but i dont understand wat u were doing then with a naked WD. Get at least some clothes on him! :p

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saumilsingh said:
The DH was probably decked out in high level gear bought from the AH or passed down from his other characters.
I agree it's not much fun playing in a group where one guy is steamrolling over everything.

Finished Nightmare tonight.
I play slow, that's how I am. Did I mention it took me 80 hours to finish Normal :p?
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Yeah, probably it was decked out I guess. Nway, me finished Act 3 on Hell. Only Act 4 remains. I switched out vitality on my lvl 59 barbarian so I went from 3.8k damage to 6k damage and above 8k with warcry.
The result? I keep dying more as enemies can now two hit me but I just breeze through the levels as i tear down huge packs in so little time with Frenzy and berserker.
 
Alias said:
That is normal damage.
I can invite you like i did last time and you can power level but i dont understand wat u were doing then with a naked WD. Get at least some clothes on him! :p
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Dude, I want to start from ACT 1 with lvl 1 chars.. u are pretty much lvled up and there is no fun playing with someone who breeze through whereas your champ dies on a single hit.. :(

regarding the clothless WD, I just chose that champ and had no idea about him before joining the game.. also, u guys were in a race to complete and I couldnt find time to wrap him up in silk :p
 
saumilsingh said:
If like me you don't use the AH then 2-3k is normal for a lvl-50 melee character. I am a lvl-51 Barbarian and deal around 1.5k damage (~2k with Battle Rage).
You can easily quadruple that by spending less than 10k gold but I don't wanna do that unless I am stonewalled and cannot progress.
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Dude tat dmg is after purchasing weapons from AH.. and btw never got items <10k in AH (had to wait for days to get those items and finally someone else outbids them :annoyed:)
What times are you on? Me and another guy are planning to start new characters but we mostly play after 11PM.
PM me your BattleTag?
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Hey i can join with my DH which is of lvl13-14(will join at that lvl so that fun doesn't get spoiled) and i play at 11PM everyday...
will PM my battle-tag tonight as i need authenticator to chk my tag suffix..
 
Alias said:
I switched out vitality on my lvl 59 barbarian so I went from 3.8k damage to 6k damage and above 8k with warcry.
The result? I keep dying more as enemies can now two hit me but I just breeze through the levels as i tear down huge packs in so little time with Frenzy and berserker.
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You really don't want to die now, 1.0.3 cranked up the repair costs stupidly high.

Grim said:
Dude tat dmg is after purchasing weapons from AH.. and btw never got items <10k in AH (had to wait for days to get those items and finally someone else outbids them :annoyed:)

Hey i can join with my DH which is of lvl13-14(will join at that lvl so that fun doesn't get spoiled) and i play at 11PM everyday...
will PM my battle-tag tonight as i need authenticator to chk my tag suffix..
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Are you stacking up on items that boost your primary attribute? Each point in your primary attribute multiplies your damage by 1%.
Strength for Barb, Dexterity for Monk/DH and Intelligence for Wiz/WD.

PM'ed you my BattleTag. Hope you like to take it somewhat slow and not just rush from point A to point B as we already know what's gonna happen next in the story.
I like to explore areas, finding tiny upgrades along the way to experience proper gear and difficulty progression for each class (even at the lower difficulties).

People have forgotten how to play Diablo with the emergence of the Auction House :(.
Gotta slow down and smell the corpses once in a while...
 
Well, patch 1.0.3 has changed all that now. No point in exploring all nooks as pots/vases/weapon racks no longer offer any rares. Playing as a barbarian has gotten exorbitant in repair fees especially if you die.

The gameplay focus now seems to be about engaging and killing elites especially in Hell Act 3/4 and Inferno all Acts.

On a side note, i finally hit lvl 60 yesterday with my barbarian. But dont feel like playing anymore as you lose more cash than you gain i guess when you do an inferno run and you dont get any more rares unless you stack your Nephalem Valour. Sigh..
 
I meant exploring for Elites. Pots and other destructibles never dropped anything other than gold in the first place. The only change here is that now they drop somewhat less gold.
Dead bodies and racks dropped a weapon always but now that's not guaranteed. Barely noticeable changes overall (unless you were a gold farmer).

It's the huge repair cost of lvl-53+ items that's the whopper.
 
Crap, the new update broke the Asian servers. Created another monk in the US servers.

Btw, did anyone watch the live stream of Kripparian where he pooped on Diablo in Nightmare with a Hardcore Barbarian? It was pretty good, he almost got chomped in the middle and 41k viewers thought that was it, but some good kiting, potions and a good Wizard saved the day :)

 
Haven't seen this one, but I saw the other Krip/Krippi video which was the world-first Hardcore Inferno kill. One was DH and the other was Barb, I think. And they did it just before servers went down for 1.0.3.

Finally into Act 3 now. Belial was a pita to kill, mainly because of the green pools he used to create. I think I died a at least 5-6 times with him. Really love the DH Chakram skill now, cant believe I wasnt using it till now.

Edit: wooohooo, made my first RMAH sale!! Just got a mail from Blizz. Too bad I couldnt attach paypal yet.
 
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