Been playing around with Demon Hunter. Level 30 now and on Act 3. Shit got brutal and fast... well fast. Haven't had much luck finding drops that I can use. Plenty of shit for witch doctors and barbarians and classes NOT ME. Nightmare mode is going to be interesting. Hopefully I can find some actual rares and legendaries that I can use. If not I suppose they'll get saved for whenever the Real Money Auction House gets up and running.. if ever.

Wizard didn't feel too spectacular until 19 when all your skill slots are unlocked, but I guess that's kind of true for any class. It was the class I liked the most during beta though, so I've stuck with it on release. For normal though, stuff like frost nova/wave of force/arcane orb/etc lasts a long while.

Oh, and my battletag is my username #1709.

OH SHIT NO ONE TELL M00

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Auction House continues to be hilarious. Just bumped my Level 22 DH from about 175 DPS to 250 and my armor from 430 to 530 for a total of about 8000 gold.

Dagger, what the hell. Hamburgers are clearly a fist weapon.

That is the best weapon so far.

Dag: I had to shed my magic finding gear because hell won't cut you slack. Went from 98% to 44%. But I more or less maintained that 98 throughout my nightmare run.

Of course the servers are going down for 8 hours right when I'm waking up on my day off. Great.

Anyone still have a demo code? Two of my coworkers keep telling me I need to get the game, but I'm worried I've burned myself out on the point & click games with how much time I spent on Diablo 2 to really enjoy 3.

Sending one your way right now.

Edit: Sent, I am officially out of codes now :P

I suppose I should give this game a try if anyone has any extra codes.

Also I am not surprised that Wizard is pretty horrible early level. The same fate was held over the Sorceress' head in D2. She didn't really get awesome until you got firewall/hydra/frozen orb and had the points in warmth to back up spamming said spells.

Patch notes (you can actually run the client and get the patch, but when you try to actually login you get kicked back to desktop to get the patch you already have, and the game crashes lol):

Monk players seem to be particularly unhappy; it seems like they have a hard time already on Inferno, apparently that nerf is pretty bad for them but I have no point of reference.

Pretty much. We're supposed to tank in some places but man. Most of the good parties I was in involved some kind of massed missile/arcane spam from afar. Takes the load off my back, I'd say. 59 monk and shit, Inferno will kick me in the ass so much.

Also this is pretty much my tactics when dealing with hordes:

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Servers are hilariously still down. They came up for about 2-3 hours (around 2:15pm EST) then have been back down since about 5:30pm EST. At this point I'm actually pretty pissed, we're two weeks out from launch and you've having 8 hour maintenance followed but unexpected emergency downtime? The fuck.

If you had played Diablo II online, you would understand that this is common.

If you'd played Diablo II, you'd know you could still play offline if you wanted.

I can't wait to see what problems arise when Blizzard decides to finally launch RMAH. There must be plenty of error codes that haven't been used yet.

They're probably trying to quell the "AMG I WAS HACKEDED!!11" shit first before bringing in the Real Money Auction House. Which I somehow knew that it wouldn't take long after the game launched for that to happen in the first place.

Authenticators are a pretty nice investment, but it also helps that if some people were not stupid and bought gold from gold sellers from 3rd party websites or too lazy to level and buy power leveling services, or heaven forbid not keep a clean PC or even being royally stupid and clicking on emails that say they can get free stuff if they enter their info including secret question answers and passwords.

But of course, that's all "Blizzard's Fault" I suppose amirite?

But Bliiiiiizzaaaaaard, I bought a *sniffle* weapon on your auction houuuuse and then my account was haaaaacked and the mean hackers gave all my stuff to packraaaaaat *cry* Can I *blow nose* have my $250 back, pleeeeeeeease?

Given that there are still widespread issues with people buying stuff on the AH and not actually getting it but having the money taken, or people are not getting the money for their items that sold I'd say the RMAH is going to be a total clusterfuck. Right now they're aiming for a 6/12 date which I doubt is going to happen. If that thing isn't on complete lockdown it's going to be bad; at this point with the game having been out you're not seeing news stories from outlets about people bitching for the game being down for most of a day, but when people start losing real money hoooo boy.

I should mention that I actually had my account hijacked about a week into the game launch. The funny bit is that it happened while I was actually online playing, so I got to watch myself get booted off and then have my password changed. I certainly never tried to purchase gold or anything and I only ever entered my login info through the battlenet site (which I reach by typing in the url), so that was kind of a trip. I keep a pretty clean computer and all, but I suppose the only answer has to be that I let something slip in somewhere... or something. Got control of my account within a couple minutes of being booted off, but that was enough to wipe my character clean. Anyway.

Authenticators are nice and all, but I dunno why they can't just pack one in with the game. Granted, there are mobile authenticators (which I use now), but I didn't know about them until after the fact. Blizzard should consider maybe heavily advertising authenticators on the patcher instead of the game itself. I mean, I figure you already own the game if you're seeing the patcher to begin with.

Sometimes all it takes is for them to get your email address and then brute force your account. They actually wanted to pack them in with Cataclysm, but there are people whining about them being "mandatory" and why should they be forced to use them when "stupid people" can't keep their PCs clean and all that jazz.

I wish they would pack them in with their games. Just bump the price up $10 and bam, authenticators. But I've had one since before Wrath when my sister's account got snaked. Didn't want to take the chance of mine being that way too.

Were you playing in a public game, Saka? Odds are what's been going on is a server exploit that's allowing hackers to duplicate your session ID in-game. A handful of people with authenticators have reported being hacked under such circumstances; authenticators wouldn't be able to prevent anything. So yes, this could be a security flaw that is Blizzard's fault.

[tin foil hat mode]Or maybe they're doing it themselves just to sell authenticators! Though I don't know how well that will play into their strategy of nerfing everything to the point where the RMAH is necessary, so Bobby Kotick can personally create and sell the best items.[/tin foil hat mode]

Wouldn't it put it past Blizzard doing that, actually. :P Well if there's a public server exploit, I'm not touching public games. I'll just join up with real ID/battletag friends.

With that exploit though, it makes sense now why Blizzard has it set about if you're hacked once with the RMAH, you're required to get an authenticator before you can use it again. If it happens again, its permanently disabled. Yeah, that's something they need to get fixed fast.

No, I hadn't played in any public games. One of the conspiracy theories I read involved something with achievements being publicly visible, and prior to getting hijacked I had just hit 50. But they're all just conspiracy theories for now, anyway.

Naturally, part of me wishes there was really a big exploit going on causing these hacks so that at least I could feel like getting hijacked wasn't entirely my fault. :U

Got to act II inferno this morning. Died twenty four times getting to the first waypoint. I killed maybe three hornets, and that was it. One hit takes off more than half my health! It's so much fun!!

I'm still in nightmare mode. Haven't even got the crown yet. I keep farming the area to see if I luck out and get some decent drops. Died to champions and elites a good 10 times already. Havin' a blast myself.