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I hated act 2 and 3... desert and bloody jungle, ugh.

If I get the game I will be playing Witch Doctor or Barbarian, thats for sure.

I actually really liked Act 2 for awhile. Never liked Act 3 or 4, but mainly played through the game to get to Act 5.

Necroshea wrote:I'm pretty interested in how MF runs will go now. Since boss drop rates get nerfed after you kill them the first time, the best route is to just run through the act slaughtering everything.

Ofcourse, now that MF is averaged up between the players...hmmm

I also hope there's not another desert themed act. I HATED act 2 in d2

Act 2 was my favorite actually. Though I always felt it was too short so I always cleared out the false Tal Rasha tombs before bringing down Duriel just to get some more playtime in Act 2. And I also MF'ed in the Ancient Tunnels (level 85 dungeon in Lost City) rather than Pindle or Baal. The only act I really disliked was Act3, at least up until you reach Kurast.

Regarding boss drop rates, I'm sure people will find a way to abuse the system, they always do. For example Andariel in D2 always dropped as good as the first time kill as long as you instantly travelled to Act2 after defeating her.

BRING ON THE DESERT ACTS DIABLO 3!

Stvafel wrote:Andariel in D2 always dropped as good as the first time kill as long as you instantly travelled to Act2 after defeating her.

Where did you hear about this? The drop rate was always simply creature specific. Countess dropped runes, Andy dropped certain things, Baal dropped certain things, etc. etc.

Get in, kill her, get out. Rinse and repeat.

Necroshea wrote:

Stvafel wrote:Andariel in D2 always dropped as good as the first time kill as long as you instantly travelled to Act2 after defeating her.

Where did you hear about this? The drop rate was always simply creature specific. Countess dropped runes, Andy dropped certain things, Baal dropped certain things, etc. etc.

Get in, kill her, get out. Rinse and repeat.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post a link to other forums, but seeing as the other forum is dedicated to Diablo I'll post it. Essentially, talk to Warriv (or talk to him and go to Act2) to get the bugged drop rates.
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?449699-What-causes-Andariel-bug-drop-Test-results

Above is just one of the confirmed tests, you can find more with a little google-fu.

Also, it was not limited as you seem to think. It kind of involved and I dont have it in my head anymore but it was something like each item had an itemlevel equal to monster level. Each monster had a treasure class they could drop as well. So you had to combine mlvl+tc+minumum clvl (character level) to decide which boss can drop what. Out of the top of my head, my favorite area was mlvl 85+tc 85, that means it could drop everything (if I had high enough clvl) except Tyraels armor which was TC87 (only Baal was TC87).
^Maybe not a 100% correct but somehting along those lines.

EDIT: I just realised how much of a D2 nerd I was....

So it would appear based on the blizzcast that popped up on facebook none too long ago that the inferno difficulty will be totally beatable playing the game solo. What are your thoughts on this? Personally I don't like it. I like the idea of the hardest difficulty requiring something special from each of a group of players to make it through.

I think as long as everything scales with party size it's all good. So every amount of players, or player, should be able to complete it with the same amount of difficulty. Like you said the idea of each player should contribute for the group to succeed but only when there are other players to begin with.

I don't want to have to play with random chumps when I can go solo or with actual friends.

Necroshea wrote:So it would appear based on the blizzcast that popped up on facebook none too long ago that the inferno difficulty will be totally beatable playing the game solo. What are your thoughts on this? Personally I don't like it. I like the idea of the hardest difficulty requiring something special from each of a group of players to make it through.

Why? You could solo ubers in D2 too.

I imagine it scales and the chance for elite monsters and better loot popping up is much greater in groups as opposed to playing solo.

Meh, MF ratings are still in. I bet it won't be long before we'll see MF wizards.

Why would somone want MF wizards in D3 ?

So far you cant teleport or jump over any walls for it to be amazing for MF.

No teleport? I figured they would have it.

And I didn't say I want it, but I expect it to happen, especialy with the whole real money shizz.

Spyder68 wrote:So far you cant teleport

It was in the blizzcast. You can.

I love the Barbarian. Cleave with the Rupture rune is just too fun! Leaving clouds of flying undead body parts flying through the air is the most fun I've had in years. I can't wait to see what powers he gets at even higher levels. My life is nothing but holding my breath until the fifteenth.

As long as he still has Berserk I'm happy... I want to remake my Titan barb :3

I'm curious about the items of the game. I haven't seen much in the way of old stuff returning, but I imagine harlequins crest, arkaines valor, and a few of the other recurring items will return. What about set items? It was particularly fun to waltz about with full sigon, tal, or the necro set that turns your character model to a lich.

Messershmidts, eaglehorn.

What about Gotterdamerung, the helmet of fancyness?

Cranium basher? :3

Or hell, the grandfather.

Well, Bul-kathos and immortal kings sets are in the game, so that's good

Hey, if two people want to play together, are they forced to play with other people as well, or is it all Instanced?

P.S. I've held a copy of the actual game in my hands

Slarg232 wrote:Hey, if two people want to play together, are they forced to play with other people as well, or is it all Instanced?

You can set passwords and invite friends when you create games just like the first 2.

Anyone interested in making a dakka clan for diablo 3?

Maaaaaybe. Depends on what the purpose of it is.

Also, I'm really wondering how battle.net2 will work with Diablo 3. No chat rooms like with SC2? Cause that would suck monkey balls.

You suck worse, Soladrin, and whatever character you pick, you will be terrible.

Brainfart.

Necroshea wrote:

Spyder68 wrote:So far you cant teleport

It was in the blizzcast. You can.

I never said there Wasn't teleport, i said you cant tele over walls

But from the beta, and what i saw, you could not easily Teleport(or leap) over walls to skip entire rooms.


D2 you could spam leap and teleport to end boss extremly fast with ease.

Ah ok, my apologies. If they nerfed tele and leap I'll have a sad.

Well leap didn't need a nerf, it couldn't pass through cave walls and such.


Anyway, have real trouble deciding my first character now..

Barbarian or Witch Doctor... Though I will end up having both anyway but I need a main to start with...

Soladrin wrote:Well leap didn't need a nerf, it couldn't pass through cave walls and such.


Anyway, have real trouble deciding my first character now..

Barbarian or Witch Doctor... Though I will end up having both anyway but I need a main to start with...

Definitely Barb. My personal opinion of the rather boring WD notwithstanding, the Barbarian eventually gets ridiculously large armor, and that's always been a staple of good times. I'm trying not to look too much into what the armor sets look like until I get them, but I know the barb gets massive stuff. However, the monks...14th tier set? Looks like crap, as did his first helmet I saw in the game.

A tiara? Seriously?

I didn't play WD but I played with a few during the beta and they all seemed to have fun. Spiders everywhere! AAAAUUUGGGHHHH!