I'm in a similar boat, but I get cockblocked hard in Act 3 instead of Act 2, 3 seems to be the biggest sticking point. I don't see a single person talking about Act 4 difficulty since if you can get past Act 3 it's a non-issue, which is retarded. Honestly I have no interest in leveling other characters though, because I know I'm going to hit the same wall.

I have a goal of finishing act IV inferno. I suspect that once I hit that, I will drop the game hard. I may try leveling other characters, but hard-core is right out, so I feel I will lose interest pretty quick.

However, with a huge investment of cash, term and I seemed to make decent progress. We completed the catapults with only a few challenging areas.

I'd be interested in trying Ghom together. I bet we could take the bastard. Azmodan is really the only thing I'm actually worried about in Act III because he plays with the damage field thing way more than GHom does. Fuck that guy. Term, let's poop on his face.

Ghom literally rapes me in record time. The guy drops miasma like there's no tomorrow and I seriously went against him like a dozen times, to no effect. Maybe it'll be better together, why not!

Range is key. My strategy has literally been diamond shield to hit him and then run like a bitch until diamond shield respawns. We can do this. If you tank his heart-burn, I'll be all gastro-intestinal bypass on the mofo.

Worth a shot. My WD was the one having problems against him, with about 2k life a second (or some shit) shaved off when he stands looking pretty amidst the gas. Hopefully my Monk can tank that motherfucker.

I just don't think I can play this game anymore right now. It's just boring and/or frustrating every time I play now.

Word on the street is that Torchlight 2 isn't going to be until at least September (if not possibly later), so of course I just installed Diablo 2, and when I get paid this friday I'm getting access to the Path of Exile closed beta, which looks pretty rad and I've heard almost nothing but great things about. Outside of playing D2 for a few hours once about 5 years ago and a few weeks ago I've never played it, so it'll be interesting. It's actually kind of annoying trying to find specific information on the game, because the entire internet assumes you know everything about it. Only thing I'm not really a fan of is you can "fuck up" your character's build with stat/skill placement, which is one thing that's not a problem in Diablo 3. It looks like they've added a respec option in D2, but I think you have to do something to get more than one.

So yeah, I'll probably be fucking around with that and/or PoE until Borderlands 2 hits. If Torchlight 2 doesn't hit in August that ship has sailed for me, since it'll be nothing but Borderlands 2 and then Halo 4 for me until at least next year, especially since I'll need to try to squeeze in RE6, AC3, and a couple of other games in there as well :/. Godspeed gentlemen.

Respecs I think are every time you start new game+ in the first act, if memory serves correctly. I think you can only respec once per playthrough though.

And yeah, in D2 you have to stick to a certain build which means if you screw up along the way, you'll have to finish the current game and respec in the next difficulty.

But yeah, what only gets me going now if levelling up Barb and DH to 60. After that, I'm pretty much done. I assume at that time, Borderlands 2 hits and I'll be using my 360 once more.

Funny. As I mentioned to my brother earlier, the game comes out May. By mid-July, mostly everyone's interest has significantly waned. So much for waiting for a decade.

Hope to see you later, somewhere. Hopefully Guild Wars 2.

I might check out Guild Wars 2, but I never played 1, and it's release date has the same problem as Torchlight 2's for me, so it's kinda a bust. I will be all over Borderlands 2 on 360 though.

Yeah, I think I'm done too. I got to Ghom.

Nice that they finally added respeccing in D2. I remember getting to level 30 and only spending, like, 6 skill points because I wanted to pump as many level 30 skills as possible. The skills synergy system they added was also neat, though I had burned out on the game by that point.

To you guys who are quitting, I suggest selling everything you have on RMAH while you still can get some value out of it. If you decide in X months that you want to pick it back up, I can bet that you can re-outfit for a tenth of current prices.

Wizard - Game Guide - Diablo III

I think that's the build I was using on my wizard. I really liked Impactful Wave because wizards are so darned squishy and this would let me get out of pretty much any situation where I'm surrounded when combined with Diamond Skin.

I think I got up to level 53 or so before I lost interest in the character, and I was still doing pretty decent damage. I was able to hold my own in single player with no real problem, but I just didn't feel like grinding for exp, so I started a DH.

Got my monk to Act 3. I basically face tanked Kulle and Belial, then got brutalized by the first elite pack in act 3. I can't handle 47 simultaneous arcane sentries. Sadly, the only way I can upgrade my gear is by spending hundreds of millions of gold that I simply don't have, and I am not sure I am willing to run the same stretch of act 1 all day every day just to afford a good weapon.

What I've noticed in Act 3 is that they love their freeze-arcane sentry combo. My monk only can do until the catapults before he dies a billion times in succession.

Here's the Wizard build I use:

Wizard - Game Guide - Diablo III

It's pretty generic, but it works out allright as a kite-y kind of build. Spam blizzard everywhere, drop hydras everywhere, backtrack and shoot things with your signature spell. If you ever get caught, you can just teleport yourself to safety. Depending on your needs you could swap one of those skills for diamond skin.

If I had higher crit and an AP on Crit weapon/source, I'd swap out Blizzard for Arcane Orb.

Sweet, just sold my wizard's off hand source for $25, netting me $20. That ups my total RMAH proceeds to $65.

Yesterday I made a comeback to diablo and got schooled by a (i think) 12 year old who taught me how to play diablo( best quote? "please try to think a little while playing diablo"). Wish i could slap him but he gave me gear so.... I feel like a whore.

Was talking to a friend and apparently his roommate had been botting the game for a few weeks now. The game was making him roughly $10 an hour on autopilot. He's made over $1600 in the RMAH.

More power to him. I hope Blizzard sends him a W2.

I've made only like 50 bucks on RMAH. My regards to him as well.

That's the thing. Blizzard isn't actually providing anyone any income. They've washed their hands of that whole deal. Individuals are responsible for reporting and paying tax of their income on their own. I don't know if the third party payment provider (ie. paypal) is required to report cash distributions, but I think it might be. This would explain why you have to categorize the type of payment you are sending when you send it.

What I'm getting at is this dude could have potential tax liability that paypal will be reporting.

You guys hear about the glitch that made wizards invulnerable? I suppose it's patched out by now, but I logged on yesterday for the first time in weeks to mess around with it. Pretty fun! Unfortunately I managed to un-glitch myself fairly quickly and that was that.

I wish I had sold my gear when I stopped playing. It probably wouldn't have gained me much at all, but it would've been better than nothing.

The funny thing is: them Chinese found that exploit out a month earlier:

YouTube Video

Played with a party who used the exploit and finish Diablo on Inferno. That's pretty much my goal.

Now my DH is level 60 with a 90k DPS stat. I will finish Hell with her so I can unlock Inferno, finish Act 1 and finally focus on my Barb to 60 before giving this game a time to rest.

Or focus on getting a Wizard to 60 and just unlock Act 1 Inferno. However, too burned out at this point to start one from scratch. Maybe in a few months (or when the barb hits 60).