There's an open stress test weekend this weekend for Path of Exile, everyone should go check it out. I played it for an hour or two, and had more fun then I had in the last hundred hours I played of Diablo 3.

Read on the D3 (lmao) forums that the skill tree mostly consists of stat bonuses (+10 int in multiple branches for example).

The Skill Tree is insane. There's a lot of the stat bonus stuff, but it's also partly so crazy because every class shares that same tree, you just start in different locations.

Also remember that is only for PASSIVE skills; you get active skills by equipping and leveling up gems which is a whole other thing (that actually is pretty interesting).

Skill tree looks inspired by FFX.

I have no friends since everyone got bored of this, if anyone wants to play with me please add zip2kx :) I'm 60 dh who can do inferno act1 pretty solid.

I'll bite but I'm just finishing up my barbarian who is now 54. After that, anything goes.

What is your tag?

I'll skip on the Wizard on this one. Time to put this game to rest.

But WAIT! They've added profiles! Now everyone can see how much time you've wasted on the game.

Like me! Sakabadger#1709 - Community - Diablo III

I still log on because I don't have anything else to put time into right now. Basically just waiting for Borderlands 2 to come out. I think I spend more time in the auction house than actually playing, since I'm kind of at that point with my demon hunter where any legitimate upgrade for any one item slot would cost pretty much all of my fifteen million gold. I think statwise, my character is probably ready for act 3 inferno, but I don't have the skill or patience to tackle that with her.

I did manage to sell a helm on the RMAH last week for $49.99 (net $41.xx), putting my RMAH total up to $106, which is more than I paid for the collector's edition of the game.

On a side note, I installed Diablo 2: LOD a couple of weeks ago and have been playing a necromancer on /players8. Cleared normal difficulty with no experience grinding, just playing the quests straight through, at level 45 with zero character deaths. I will most likely clear Nightmare with zero deaths as well.

Just saw this article on Blizzard's security breach for all those concerned:

Blizzard Hack: A Security Guide For Battle.net Users | PCWorld

1.04 preview notes here: 1.0.4 Systems Preview - Diablo III

I'm not gonna lie, I got a bit wet reading that. I might be back on board, rumored date is 8/20.

Yeah, I changed my password and email associated with battle.net after that Blizzard Security Breach. One of the big things that concern me is they got secret questions and answers. It was kind of funny to see that no one in China was affected at all. Rumors flying about that it was the gold sellers trying to hack into the database to get all the info from people's D3 accounts since it some were dealing with real money. Tin foil hats are ready for wear!

That whole removal of Invulnerable Minions makes me happy in the pants. So many times I'd get the combination of: Arcane Sentry, Illusionist, Invulnerable Minions and Waller(or Jailer) and end up having to just restart the fucking game.

I like how Blizzard didn't decide to notify people about the security breach via e-mail. You know, for all the people that have quit the game and might not hear about it except through way of mouth. Also kinda regretting buying the digital copy now. =\


Not sure if that line from the update strikes anyone else as a weird thing for the point of a game.

A lot of games boil down to the Skinner box mentality but Blizzard is one of the few companies to be so shamelessly explicit about it. But a lot of players seem to share this perspective. Get to max level, beat the campaign on top difficulty, then the real game (of farming loot for your e-peen) begins.

And this is something that seems to be specific to Diablo, I'm sure people farm in Diablo-likes like Torchlight or Titan Quest or whatever but it's not considered the entire point of the game.

To be fair I'm pretty sure Torchlight and Titan Quest are much considered the same way.

When you log into your Battle.net account, you can now change your secret question and answer as well as get a new mobile authenticator number (if you use the mobile one)

Holy Fuck: 1.0.4 Legendary Item Improvements - Diablo III

We don't even have full patch notes for 1.04, but it looks like they may have actually gone a long way in fixing this shit, I'll eat some crow on this one (I figured they would eventually get it, but not this quickly). There's also some detailed notes on Barbarian changes in 1.04, but none of this means anything to me: Patch 1.0.4 Preview: Barbarian - Diablo III

I imagine the prices of those legendaries will further skyrocket. 2k DPS weps for a hundred mil gold? As it can't get any more expensive.

Patch preview notes for I think all the classes are up. The philosophy seems to be that instead of nerfing anything, they buffed all of the currently unpopular skills. On the DH they upped the damage on Rain of Vengeance to 75% over 5 seconds to 715% over 5 seconds which is fucking hilarious.