Official Diablo 3 Discussion

This is the official discussion thread for all things Diablo 3 for the PC Games board. Chat about anything here. Swap gamer tags, discuss classes, talk about how much Blizzard ruined the franchise, or whatever other topic you can think of regarding Diablo 3 all here in this thread. Any other thread will be locked.

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After playing the beta I honestly don't think blizz ruined the franchise. Just can't wait until tommorow!

After playing the beta I honestly don't think blizz ruined the franchise. Just can't wait until tommorow!

HyperWarlock

After playing the beta I honestly don't think blizz ruined the franchise. Just can't wait until tommorow!

HyperWarlock

+1

Didn't play beta, or watch many videos, I blindly went into it with a large amount of faith/hope that blizzard could, and would deliver a wonderful gaming experience with Diablo III.

2 pre-orders. 1 CE, 1 normal. CE for my GF, so she can get the in-game exclusive goodies, cause she uses AMD gpus, which means no Ambient Occlusion for her. I have a GTX-570 so I get the AO... I feel it evens out a little bit more that way.

I didn't try the beta because I wanted to save the experiance for my first playthrough.

The changes they've made to the forumla seem to streamline what the community has already done. The removal of stats don't bother me at all as they only gave you the illusion of control over your character's development. If you didn't follow certain, cookie-cutter class builds, your character was going to be crap when you reached nightmare and hell difficulty.

They seemed to have solved this probably by eliminating the leftovers from the D&D style stats that used to be in every single RPG.

Will Diablo 3 be fully soloable? I have tried getting into the old Diablo games multiple times and kept running into monsters that had traits such as being completely immune to all physical or magical attacks, making one type of character viable by him/herself through the whole game. I tried finding a character editor so I could just make a perfect character so I could just breeze through and enjoy the story but the cheat market for Diablo is so ginormous that all the editors I came across were either malware or paid services to help you cheat in multiplayer.Kell_the_Gamer

I didn't try the beta because I wanted to save the experiance for my first playthrough.

The changes they've made to the forumla seem to streamline what the community has already done. The removal of stats don't bother me at all as they only gave you the illusion of control over your character's development. If you didn't follow certain, cookie-cutter class builds, your character was going to be crap when you reached nightmare and hell difficulty.

They seemed to have solved this probably by eliminating the leftovers from the D&D style stats that used to be in every single RPG.

Wasdie

Same here, this is pretty much how I feel about it.

[QUOTE="Kell_the_Gamer"]Will Diablo 3 be fully soloable? I have tried getting into the old Diablo games multiple times and kept running into monsters that had traits such as being completely immune to all physical or magical attacks, making one type of character viable by him/herself through the whole game. I tried finding a character editor so I could just make a perfect character so I could just breeze through and enjoy the story but the cheat market for Diablo is so ginormous that all the editors I came across were either malware or paid services to help you cheat in multiplayer.DanielDust

I watched the behind the scene.

I don't want to spoil anything but I am confident that this game will deliver after watching how they design dungeons, monsters, skill runes, and story-telling.

Of course, Blizzard once again set the bar for video-game CGI.

The level of details is just awe-inspiring.

Again, for those who care about the story, I will not spoil you.

Now, lets go back talking about the loots.

I am anxious to hear all the whining about how hard the game actually is once you get past the first bit.SKaREO

propably getting harder on Hell mode. not that normal would be super easy either.

I preorderd and this is going to be my first diablo. Any advice for a newb?JJ_Productions

Have fun.

Thank goodness a sticky is made, and I have to agree with what others said about the build system, actually...

Stats vs No Stats: As much as I love Attributes, I only love them when they are implemented right. Good attribute systems would be that in Fallout, Dungeons&Dragons and the likes, you know where your attributes are for most of the part static. I always thought that having attributes that scaled wildly not only ruined the core strengths of the system, but made it utterly silly. Stats in Diablo 2 felt like they were there for their own sake.

Skill System: While D3's system does not appeal as much to my inner min maxer like D2's Skill System. I personally feel the D3 system allows for more depth and possibly more viable builds. No longer does it seem to be as much about maxing your favorite Skill and its synergies and more about finding a set of 6 skills that work well together and to further customize them with runes.

Respeccing: I feel it is a welcome addition. As much as I miss the sense of permanency the previous system had, I do feel that rerolling your char because of one mistake is a bit unnecessary. I feel that the good outweighs the bad in this regard.

I hear some people whine about being unable to create a gimped char, but guess what you can still do that. Just pick skills and rune combos that synergize poorly and there you go, a garbage character.

[QUOTE="DanielDust"][QUOTE="Kell_the_Gamer"]Will Diablo 3 be fully soloable? I have tried getting into the old Diablo games multiple times and kept running into monsters that had traits such as being completely immune to all physical or magical attacks, making one type of character viable by him/herself through the whole game. I tried finding a character editor so I could just make a perfect character so I could just breeze through and enjoy the story but the cheat market for Diablo is so ginormous that all the editors I came across were either malware or paid services to help you cheat in multiplayer.Kell_the_Gamer

Will Diablo 3 be fully soloable? I have tried getting into the old Diablo games multiple times and kept running into monsters that had traits such as being completely immune to all physical or magical attacks, making one type of character viable by him/herself through the whole game. I tried finding a character editor so I could just make a perfect character so I could just breeze through and enjoy the story but the cheat market for Diablo is so ginormous that all the editors I came across were either malware or paid services to help you cheat in multiplayer.Kell_the_Gamer

D3 runs on very different system unlike D or D2 so cheating and cracking the game will be almost impossible, unless you make private server that will be supper buggy, so don't worry about hacks, with RMAH in play Blizzard will do everything to stop them. Also why play solo when multiplayer is a lot more fun? I can't imagine myself playing singleplayer in D2, I would die from boredom in few hours.

Just received my copy! :D

Just received my copy! :D

MonsieurX

Two packages delivered already today, neither was D3.Anxiously awaiting the actual arrival.

Just received my copy! :D

MonsieurX

GTFO!

no, really, that's awesome. can't wait to get my hands on mine tomorrow. not CE, though.

Will Diablo 3 be fully soloable?Kell_the_Gamer

During the Blizzcon 2011 Gameplay and Auction House panel (its on Youtube, look it up) they said that Inferno would be fully soloable. And if Inferno is soloable, then the rest of the game is too.

I've been following the game very closely for years now and I have to say I think the stuff they removed from the game was for good reason. Spamming one overpowered ability, potion spamming, and end-game content only available for cetain classes are D2 mistakes that couldn't be remade for D3. Don't get me wrong, D2 is easily my most play game ever, but to say that it did not have faults (glaring ones at times) is innaccurate.

[QUOTE="Kell_the_Gamer"]Will Diablo 3 be fully soloable? I have tried getting into the old Diablo games multiple times and kept running into monsters that had traits such as being completely immune to all physical or magical attacks, making one type of character viable by him/herself through the whole game. I tried finding a character editor so I could just make a perfect character so I could just breeze through and enjoy the story but the cheat market for Diablo is so ginormous that all the editors I came across were either malware or paid services to help you cheat in multiplayer.Haarhus

D3 runs on very different system unlike D or D2 so cheating and cracking the game will be almost impossible, unless you make private server that will be supper buggy, so don't worry about hacks, with RMAH in play Blizzard will do everything to stop them. Also why play solo when multiplayer is a lot more fun? I can't imagine myself playing singleplayer in D2, I would die from boredom in few hours.

I've been following the game very closely for years now and I have to say I think the stuff they removed from the game was for good reason. Spamming one overpowered ability, potion spamming, and end-game content only available for cetain classes are D2 mistakes that couldn't be remade for D3. Don't get me wrong, D2 is easily my most play game ever, but to say that it did not have faults (glaring ones at times) is innaccurate.

Cwagmire21

Well done Wasdie: I was going to mention I thought we needed a sticky for this game! I know nothing about it so I didn't feel confident myself. :P

Already pre-purchased fully and ready to go. Picking it up tomorrow morning. It's been long time coming, loved the beta and look forward to many years of fun co-op online fun.

I tried to pre-order on Best Buy but they were out... I never knew they could run out of pre-orders. I was really hoping to use my BB Gift card, but looks like I'll have to go else where. That, or maybe I'll check tomorrow. Unlikely they'll have some in stock since I passed by the store this morning and line was already long.... flipin_jackass

[QUOTE="flipin_jackass"]I tried to pre-order on Best Buy but they were out... I never knew they could run out of pre-orders. I was really hoping to use my BB Gift card, but looks like I'll have to go else where. That, or maybe I'll check tomorrow. Unlikely they'll have some in stock since I passed by the store this morning and line was already long.... Elann2008

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

[QUOTE="flipin_jackass"]I tried to pre-order on Best Buy but they were out... I never knew they could run out of pre-orders. I was really hoping to use my BB Gift card, but looks like I'll have to go else where. That, or maybe I'll check tomorrow. Unlikely they'll have some in stock since I passed by the store this morning and line was already long.... flipin_jackass

You guys could also try preordering the game on amazon. They promise shipping on release date for only a buck so i think its worth it. The downside is that yor not going to get it at midnight :/

[QUOTE="flipin_jackass"]

[QUOTE="Elann2008"] Bro. No offense, but fans have been waiting for this game for 10 years. The slight thought of a midnight launch would have them screaming and yelling on their way to any local store for midnight release. :P This game was going to sell out weeks before launch. Certain places still have them though.

Elann2008

Knowing my friends though, this 2-3 day delay mean they'd probably be at like lvl 20+ while I'm just installing. They can't go too far though, I called dibs on Monk and we agreed for me to be the designated healer. lol

I went to sleep after dinner tonight, just got up now and I'm installing the downloaded game content. I have a few bottles of Coke ready to go. I'm going for 48 hours non-stop with a few breaks to eat. I'm going to watch the latest episode of Game of Thrones while I wait for the server to go live.SKaREO

The single greatest design change from Diablo II is the inclusion of seperate loot for each character in a party. No fighting for drops. I can't accurately express the feeling of relief after finding this out.