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My take on the D3 characters:

The Barbarian- Fast and powerful but he just has no pizzazz. No flair. Painfully generic. Boring. I feel like I've played him in hundreds of other games. He was my least favorite in D2 and he'll be my least favorite in D3. It saddens me to think they excluded a character as cool as the Necromancer but kept the Barbarian. The most tedious character of all.

The Monk- He's like the barbarian, only he has style. I could see myself eventually being in the mood to play this character.

The Wizard- Cool. A unique take on the caster class, but there's a familiarity that turns me off a bit. Fun nonetheless.

Demon Hunter- Very fun. I tend to be drawn to sniper classes in any game.

Witch Doctor- Far and away the coolest character in D3. I love the mysticism of creepy old tribal jungle cultures. From Haitian voodoo to Caribbean headhunters, there's just a darkness about them that even a demon shouldn't mess with. I loved Peter Jackson's vision of creepy cannibals in his King Kong movie. It's characters and cultures like that of the witch doctor that I see cursing enemies 'Thinner' (Stephen King book) and establishing the dark magic in the plot of land in 'Pet Semetary.'

Lobbing jars of venomous spiders, Acid, flesh eating locusts, deadly snakes, and poisonous frogs? He makes use of the jungle's own killers!
Poisonous blowdarts?? Oh Hell yes!
Maraca rattling curses, Fear inducing hallucinogenics, and voodoo dolls? I certainly don't want that guy angry at me!
Not to mention raising the dead.
And all from a decrepit looking old man. In two words the Witch Doctor is: PURE. STYLISHNESS.

Archonate wrote:Witch Doctor is: PURE. STYLISHNESS.

Pfft. While I might make a female one, the male model looks like a meth head, complete with the shakes and all. The poison dart was painfully slow and boring. If I want ranged combat I'll go with the DH, which while also a tad boring, has that rapid fire special that just looks so cool. Also, when fighting demons, creatures created purely to cause destruction and death, you're going to throw a jar of frogs on them?

Maybe late game witch doctor is fun, but early game was...ugh, couldn't even finish the beta with him. I found the barbs rampant decapitation attacks much more satisfying than a puny blow dart shot.

Still, I plan to play them all, I just think doctor with be the last. Monk>Sorcerer>Barb>Demon Hunter>Doctor in that order.

It's only about 14 hours away now (22 for me, no midnight release), my body is ready.

My pick? I'm installing Diablo 2 from my battlenet account and playing that instead of diablo 3.

Some people don't have internet.

For reference, I'm on a temporary connection atm, using it's fast speeds to get my diablo 2 goodness.

After many a lets play video and brainstorming, im going Monk.

Monk for sure here as well.

It'sgoing to seem very support ish with some of the abilities it has, instead of a ton of Flashy things.

I fell in love with the monk as soon as I saw the seven sided strike.

Well I like the Barbarian. He is one character along with the monk who doesn't have to run away, and whoever says he doesn't have style is just dead wrong. Three and a half hours until my life as a hermit begins.

Looks like the D3 servers crashed, Blizz has learned nothing since the vanilla WoW launch or the stress test they did 3 weeks ago.

Like blizz ever does any launch competently.

%*#%@):#&^!!! Really, they knew this could happen, so why the feth not have enough servers on hand from the start? %*#%@):#&^!!!

They did the starcraft 2 launch pretty well, I don't remember having any problems logging into that when it launched.

Fixed yet?

I managed to play a few hours this morning.
I went with the Wizard afterall, even though I had been thinking of going with the Witch Doctor.

I like the rune system, it wasn't present in the F&F beta last year.

Tried a while last night, but hoping to get on when I get home today. Going for non-summoning, poison-focused WD.

Obligatory Blizzard nerd rage moment coming up..

Try to get online for two hours... nnnngghh.. servers.... its not like they can afford to make enough space, they have only been taking wow subs off me for 7 years... no no.. I bet they are skint...


NNggghh.... error....error...



BLLLLIIIZZZZAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Yeah been waiting for my CE to turn up rather than download, as I've done a fair few big downloads this month already and don't want BT flagging me for taking advantage regarding my unlimited deal.

Seems I am not missing much atm with all the issues.. at least at the worst.. my new WoW pet will see some use.

Odd i had zero issues getting online so far.

Then again that was from 2AM-6AM.

mattyrm wrote:Obligatory Blizzard nerd rage moment coming up..

Try to get online for two hours... nnnngghh.. servers.... its not like they can afford to make enough space, they have only been taking wow subs off me for 7 years... no no.. I bet they are skint...


NNggghh.... error....error...



BLLLLIIIZZZZAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

this. this. and more of this....

why cant i play this OFF. LINE. ??!!

15 minutes till American servers are ungakked.

Revenent Reiko wrote:why cant i play this OFF. LINE. ??!!

Because to many people think piracy is ok.

Ahtman wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:why cant i play this OFF. LINE. ??!!

Because too many people think piracy is ok.

Or because too many people think piracy isn't ok.

Corpsesarefun wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:why cant i play this OFF. LINE. ??!!

Because too many people think piracy is ok.

Or because too many people think piracy isn't ok.

They went draconian on the DRM because they were worried to few people wouldn't pirate?

I got to the skeleton king, beat him, then got hit with server problems. It's like the game comes out tomorrow, but today I only get to access the beta, which I've already played.

I did Barbarian, think I'll try a wizard as well. None of the other classes really appeal to me yet.

Has anyone had problems with lag on the cinematics? The game runs smoothly, except the cin's. I can't watch any of them they lag so much.

I've got a 1gb vid card, 4 gb of ram, and a 3ghz processor, so I doubt my system is to weak. Or is it?


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Ahtman wrote:

Corpsesarefun wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:why cant i play this OFF. LINE. ??!!

Because too many people think piracy is ok.

Or because too many people think piracy isn't ok.

They went draconian on the DRM because they were worried to few people wouldn't pirate?

No, he's saying that piracy IS ok.

So I got pressganged into getting this game by my coworkers ("Aw come ON! We want to see what a "Real Gamer" can do!), and I bought it, but I'm not sure I want to install it unto my computer.

My computer's Hard Drive is failing pretty hard core, and I've heard something about certain games being to where you can only download them once, this one of those games? I'm still going to be able to swap over to my new computer when I get it without any sort of monetory penalty, correct?

Slarg232 wrote:So I got pressganged into getting this game by my coworkers ("Aw come ON! We want to see what a "Real Gamer" can do!), and I bought it, but I'm not sure I want to install it unto my computer.

My computer's Hard Drive is failing pretty hard core, and I've heard something about certain games being to where you can only download them once, this one of those games? I'm still going to be able to swap over to my new computer when I get it without any sort of monetory penalty, correct?

I've already installed it (single copy) on two computers in my home.

Ahtman wrote:
They went draconian on the DRM because they were worried to few people wouldn't pirate?

Lost revenue from piracy is unquantifiable and I wouldn't be in the least surpirised if restrictive DRM actually increases piracy as well as decreasing sales (not always the same thing). Interestingly Blizzard themselves were against draconian DRM not that long ago http://www.videogamer.com/pc/starcraft_2/news/blizzard_drm_a_losing_battle.html . Lets not pretend here, a cracked version will be along soon which will alost certainly be more consumer friendly than the legitimate game, or in other words the pirated verson will actually besuperior .

This isn't really about DRM though, its about the real money auction house and attempts to cut down on duping so that they can keep prices reasonably high. This may or may not be sucessful, I suspect the latter.

There is no excuse for this disasterous launch, none. Blizzard should have been well aware of the demand and taken step to either ensure that they had sufficent server capacity or that there was a staggered release schedule (or better yet removed the preposterous requirement for an internet connection). They did neither and in the process have created yet another tedious internet meme and further eroded their dwindling credability.

Nah it doesn't have limited installs. That sort of practice has kind of phased out already.

Once you add the cdkey to your Battle.net account (assuming you have the box) you can download it anytime on any machine. If you bought it straight through Battle.net then it's already available to you.

Also I raged a bit this evening, couldn't play more than 3 hours with about 30 mins of login spamming all through. Hopefully tonight's "updates and fixes" will allow smooth playing tomorrow.

I still think Blizzard knew it would happen and didn't act accordingly.

I got over the need to be online to play but if they decided to go that route they should have been more prepared at launch. It isn't like the game was rushed out, or that they didn't expect a lot of people to attempt to log in today.

So, are we going to get together and play as a group, or just talk about the game?