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Archonate wrote:

Necroshea wrote:when fighting demons, creatures created purely to cause destruction and death, you're going to throw a jar of frogs on them?

Oh hells balls I would. The magic behind making a toad deadly to a hellspawned demon is a style reminiscent of Riddick killing a prison tough with his tea cup. I guess not everybody is hip to the WD's methods. Personally, I love the way he works.

Funny story, after it was all said and done, WD became my main, and I don't even know why. I just feel no urge to stop playing her...the hell.

Necroshea wrote:Funny story, after it was all said and done, WD became my main, and I don't even know why. I just feel no urge to stop playing her...the hell.

That is kinda funny. And here I'm beginning to ponder the Monk... I guess at this stage of the game, nobody really KNOWS which class they like. Not until they've gotten several of them to lvl 20 or so.

OK OK, so after my little spout of bitching yesterday i can safely say they have sorted almost all the problems. played for pretty much 6 hours straight last night and i never got any problems (apart from a little bit of lag in a HUGE fight). My friend got randomly kicked from the game a couple of times, but it all worked out.

And yes, MP is MUCH better than solo, but soloing is still a hoot.

Looking forward to becoming a hermit for the next couple of weeks...

Can you repeat the acts any time? Would it be possible to do act 1 over and over and over again? Does it wipe everything each time?

You can reset your progress to any point up to, and including, the farthest point to which you have progressed.

Not only can you repeat act 1 over and over, you can repeat a specific part of act 1 over and over, if you want.

Nothin is really wiped it just sort of resets your place in the quest chain. Anytime you leave a game or change your place in the questline (which can only be done
by leaving the game), the maps are totally reset... so it will be full of monsters and randomly generated treasure like the first time you went through.



(Edits to clarify some things and also because I have horrible grammar)

Im really disapointed personally.. im up to level 25 but, its no better than the first one I got addicted to!

Its basically a button basher.. you use, what.. both mouse buttons and keys 1-4?

I wish you could use more skills.. but yeah, its decent and polished, but I definately expected better, I played for two hours then got bored and took the day off.. with Skyrim I was sat at my pc for ten hours.

Ashryu wrote:You can reset your progress to any point up to, and including, the farthest point to which you have progressed.

Not only can you repeat act 1 over and over, you can repeat a specific part of act 1 over and over, if you want.

Nothin is really wiped it just sort of resets your place in the quest chain. Anytime you leave a game or change your place in the questline (which can only be done
by leaving the game), the maps are totally reset... so it will be full of monsters and randomly generated treasure like the first time you went through.



(Edits to clarify some things and also because I have horrible grammar)

Thanks, that, makes me very happy

Matty, one of the selling points of this game is I can have fun just playing it for an hour rather than needing to settle in for three or more hours on a game like Skyrim. I mean, I do enjoy the odd binge of gaming but it's hard to find the time for it (and I don't even have kids yet!) much less for me and some friends to find that kind of time all together. I know it's odd to say, but the streamlined/shallow (you could call it either) gameplay is actually one of the reasons I decided to buy this one.

So after three hours of co-op last night, I can say that D3 is definitely a good deal more fun than solo ... as anyone could have guessed. In my co-op game, I'm playing the barbarian and he is really fun: smacking a zombie so hard that he flies twenty feet away just doesn't get old. Playing the barbarian, I have the urge to just zoom around the map smacking the gak out of monsters while repeating "NO. NO. NO. NO." He's like a steamroller. It would have been hilarious if Blizzard had programmed morale considerations into the enemy AI.

Ravenous Dead: Graaaaagh!
Barbarian: NO. *thwack*
Other Zombies: gak, man, we didn't sign up for this. Let's get outta here!

Manchu wrote:Matty, one of the selling points of this game is I can have fun just playing it for an hour rather than needing to settle in for three or more hours on a game like Skyrim. I mean, I do enjoy the odd binge of gaming but it's hard to find the time for it (and I don't even have kids yet!) much less for me and some friends to find that kind of time all together. I know it's odd to say, but the streamlined/shallow (you could call it either) gameplay is actually one of the reasons I decided to buy this one.

So after three hours of co-op last night, I can say that D3 is definitely a good deal more fun than solo ... as anyone could have guessed. In my co-op game, I'm playing the barbarian and he is really fun: smacking a zombie so hard that he flies twenty feet away just doesn't get old. Playing the barbarian, I have the urge to just zoom around the map smacking the gak out of monsters while repeating "NO. NO. NO. NO." He's like a steamroller. It would have been hilarious if Blizzard had programmed morale considerations into the enemy AI.

Ravenous Dead: Graaaaagh!
Barbarian: NO. *thwack*
Other Zombies: gak, man, we didn't sign up for this. Let's get outta here!

They did in D2, when you kill some of the small demons (cant remember their names...i remember Carvers and Demonkin seing some of their upgrades...) the others all run away in fear...HILARIOUS to play against.

I just want to throw out that everyone really should play with elective mode on. Completely changes the game, but seems often overlooked. It lets you slot any skill you want into the 2 mouse buttons and 1-4 keys.

It's funny how people whined about lack of customization but there's actually quite a few builds out there.

By builds, do you mean "what key activates what skill"? When I think of builds, I think of "choosing this feature over that one."

Finished Nightmare today. My god Hell mode is a pain. Elites have like 100k+ health and 3 modifiers.

Oh btw, the secret level has been confirmed. Secret pony level.

You make me sad, Jos. I just barely beat Leoric last night :(

Manchu wrote:By builds, do you mean "what key activates what skill"? When I think of builds, I think of "choosing this feature over that one."

I understand builds to be the passives, active abilities, and their runes that you choose to slot. Doesn't really matter which key they go to. Sometimes equipment is also factored into a build. Also if I wasn't clear before: without elective mode each mouse button and the four keys have about 4-5 skills that can be assigned to each button, essentially there are 6 categories of skills (one per button) and you choose one skill from each category and assign them to your buttons. With elective mode on any skill can be bound to any button. For example, with the Wizard normally you can only have one skill from the signature spell category, which is bound to your left mouse button; with elective mode you can assign any amount of signature spells to any of the 6 buttons.

But don't you get all of the runes in a set progression? Or is there some choice between abilities?

I think it's designed so you get something every level up, whether it's a passive, new skill, or a rune and at the level cap you'll have unlocked everything. Eventually you're going to have more skills, runes, and passives than you have available slots so that's where builds come in.

Of course you can switch all this stuff out at anytime but there's a cooldown anytime you alter or switch a skill so switching stuff during battles isn't that easy (and some equipment probably synergizes with certain skills well enough that you don't want to switch anyway), but at the same time switching between battles is very simple.

I think this allows you to explore a class fully without rolling multiple characters which is great. There's a lot of flexibility and options but you're never locked into a choice or barred from other ones.

Got the Demon Hunter to lvl 9 so far, although my chronic altisis means I already have a Barbarian and Witch Doctor beginning their journeys as well.

Just enjoying the game, got my first yellow item, but can't for the life of me remember how you inspect them so you can use them. I suspect a npc will gain the ability as I continue to Lvl.

I think you just right click to identify items, at least that's what it was like in the beta IIRC.

Yep, just rightclick, you'll have a short channeling bar.

Getting near to level 53.

Ah sweet, the simplest solution and all that. Do'h.

On a side note, whats with the dyes, can we actually change gear colours?
Just wondering as two of my CE items where dyes, plus some weird angellic wings thing.

Yes you can.

Also, hell mode kicks my ass and then some. Exp is good though. I need better gear :(

Also for anyone interested in the secret level. You need to collect a bunch of items and then craft a staff, said staff can then be leveled up to increase difficulty.

The original craft is like 100k gold plus items, then 200k for nightmare, 500k hell, 1mil for inferno.

It is however, persistent and multy use, so It's not like Diablo 2 on that matter.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Ah sweet, the simplest solution and all that. Do'h.

On a side note, whats with the dyes, can we actually change gear colours?
Just wondering as two of my CE items where dyes, plus some weird angellic wings thing.

Yep, you can change the colors of your Helmet, Shoulders, Chest, Pants, and Boots.

I just want to say, Witch Doctor is everything I imagined it to be and more. Just straight amazing.

Anybody else playing the Witch Doctor think of the cover of Bat out of Hell when they use Firebats? Would make for an epic painting, a motorcycle erupting out of a witch doctors chest in mid cast.....

Hey lads I think ive bugged my game. :(

I got to the portal to heaven after that chicks mom goes a bit mental, and then I went to eat..

And when I got back, I cant find the "portal" to heaven anywhere, and there seems to be absolutely no way at all to get to the keep tower!

So where the hell is it?!

Even google availed me not, and Im stuck fast here! :S

Can I play D3 off line? Im getting 927 MS lag and its annoying -_-

No you cannot.

mattyrm wrote: Hey lads I think ive bugged my game. :(

I got to the portal to heaven after that chicks mom goes a bit mental, and then I went to eat..

And when I got back, I cant find the "portal" to heaven anywhere, and there seems to be absolutely no way at all to get to the keep tower!

So where the hell is it?!

Even google availed me not, and Im stuck fast here! :S

You can always restart through an earlier step of the quest and redo the last part I guess?

I also have to praise elective mode, as a DH it's simply a MUST as I use several abilities of the same type.

Its probably just a matter of time before someone cracks the game and gives it an offline mode.

Did they make it possible to trade items between toons on the same account?

Or do you still have to make an empty game and drop stuff on the ground?

Shared stash and gold pouch.


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