[PC] NOBDYH GVIE S A SHIT ABOUT DIABLO IIII

D2 is gaining popularity again thanks to the D3 announcement. For those who've never played the game and want to, or those who've lost their CDs and CD keys, you can purchase them for $5 at G2buy.com. The site sells all sorts of farmed D2 goods and so seems a little suspect, but the CD Key aspect is totally legit. Website states that it takes anywhere from 15 minutes to 8 hours after you place your order, so it should be pretty quick.

Good deal if you considered buying the battle chest, but didn't want the extra stuff like the guides.

Totally not meant to be an advertisement or anything, so feel free to ignore if you've been playing for years, god.

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I gotta say, Peter Chung's designs actually look pretty cool when there are no human faces involved.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Just a heads up in case anyone wasn't aware, but people playing on the starter edition (through use of the codes) are only able to play with other starter edition people. You'd have to purchase the full game to play with everyone else.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I guess I should also mention I have two guest passes left, so just shoot me a message if you want to give the game a test run.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

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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.

FELIPE NO

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

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I think I may have worn myself out on Diablo. The game was reasonably fun up until Hell, but Inferno is just ridiculous. It's supposed to be super hard, but to me difficulty is something you can defeat with skill. There is just no amount of skill that will ever save you from crap like Arcane Enchanted Desecrator Jailer Vortex unless you have ridiculous gear. I realize loot is a huge factor in Diablo, but the gear dependency in this game is just bananas.

Plus Blizzard keeps nerfing all the really effective skills and failing to buff the ones that are complete trash. Herp.

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I've never played WoW :U

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Something else that bugs me is the level cap of 60. In D2 you could grind or farm away and still feel like you were getting something done because it took so long to hit 99. Now, it's just like... some gold? Maybe an okay item?

I went crazy earlier and spent half my fortune (which wasn't much, to be honest) on gear that actually left me weaker. Hurray, Auction House!

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Be advised that when you purchase a new stash tab, it only unlocks the first chunk of slots. You've still got to pay the 10k or whatever it is to unlock each additional row of slots. The third stash tab will set you back 200k.

Wonder why they limited it to 3 tabs? There's clearly room for more. Maybe it'll be an expansion thing.

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Behold the power of gold.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, I'm looking forward to 1.0.3 to hit. I imagine there are some nerfs or fixes to farming methods that they're not mentioning yet, but I'd be fine with that so long as Inferno becomes less dumb. Trying to group up past Act I is just terribly unfriendly.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

The only counter to Andariel's Visage is the fact that it looks atrocious and that legendary items can't be dyed.

Good find, anyway. The 3 legendaries I've found have all been butt. It figures I wouldn't have the luck to find anything good in Inferno.

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Owing to general frustration over how balls pushing through Inferno is, I've started mucking about with other classes. So far, I've got a DH just starting out in Hell and a Monk that's nearly done with Normal. I've also given Barb a brief whirl, though strangely I have no real interest in playing the Witch Doctor. The class felt really underwhelming in beta, but maybe things have changed since then. Oh well.

You guys heard about them crazy gold dupes and stealing going around lately?

EDIT: Whoops, I thought this post would merge with the one above. My bad.

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Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

That's a pretty big upgrade for me, that damage increase there is without Sharpshooter, so my base damage without Sharpshooter is up to 36k now.

That's a fat amount of dex, but the secondary sat is of no use to DH and there's a WD-only skill on there. Add the relatively low DPS to the mix and I think that was a pretty fair deal.

Did everyone post their battletags in here? I combed through the thread the other day adding folks but there are some of you that I appear to have missed.

Unless, you know, you don't want to be my D3 e-buddy

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I did a quick search on AH for DH 2Hand weapons with a 100k buyout, and the top results were mostly populated by weapons in the 9xx damage range. That's not LOW, but it's not that high given that there are still 1H weapons that will outdamage it. If you had found something that was like 1300-1600 DPS for that price, now that would have been the steal of all ages.

That RMAH. I strongly considered stripping my wiz and selling everything, but when I considered that my gear wasn't actually all that great and that I probably wouldn't get enough money to make me feel like a genius, I gave up on that. Curse my inability to find great stuff.

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There are plenty of improvements that could be made to the AH, and Blizzard has acknowledged some of them. Still, whether or not we'll actually see them is anyone's guess. The official line has probably something to do with technological limitations, or something...

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Datamined patch notes for 1.0.3

Of particular note is the fact that increased attack speed on weapons and other gear appears to be reduced by 50%.

To think that I was pleased to finally get my DPS over 40k.... well, back to Act I!

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Man, the IAS nerf dropped my Wiz DPS by around 25%. I now have as much DPS as I did previously while wearing some MF gear. ugh.

All I can really say about the latest patch is that at least Blizzard seems to poop on everybody equally.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

This is a pretty damn good guide for how to do a fairly quick runthrough of Act 1 for maximum Elite kills, etc.

Is it just me or was there no link to any guides in that post?

Nice find on the Stormshield there. If you ever decide to bail out of D3, that thing will get you some monies for sure.

I wish I had good luck in finding legendaries. I found one last night while playing a low level hardcore character and it made me mad because I knew it would be worthless right off the bat. Just superstition, but I feel like finding that has lowered my chances of finding anything good while playing on my Inferno chars.

I haven't found any set pieces, either. Didn't those things drop like crazy in D2?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by SailorDaravon

Oh sorry about that, here's the link: Konvict's Guide to Act 1 Inferno Farming - Forums - Diablo III

I make one or two small variations but overall it's pretty solid. you're basically replaying most of Act 1 starting from the end, but you're skipping most chunks that have little to no elites, especially in hindsight.

Oh, cool. I've done some runs before where I start from that quest, but I just run through areas pretty haphazardly. This will be nice to give me some direction.

Now all I need is MF gear that's not terrible. I have a pretty generic set of MF gear that gets me around 200 MF, but putting all of it on tanks my stats horribly and I haven't bothered with it since the change to chests. I still get a fair amount of rares from running around with just 5 NV stacks, but trying to do goblin runs without NV sucks a bit.

Also, hurrah! I sold some more junk for $5 ($4 after blizz takes its cut). If I can keep selling things like this at a rate of one per week, it'll only be 13 more weeks until I've made back the cost of the game! Woooooooo

Originally Posted by Donnie, you're out of your element

I wish I had good luck in finding GOOD legendaries. No joke, the last two I have personally found were absolute crap, one of them so bad I salvaged it just for the achievement. There are still plenty of blue/yellow items better than most legendaries, which kind of takes away from calling them legendary, but whatever.

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me that that achievement exists. At last, that crappy lowbie legendary xbow I found can be put to good use.

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Oh snaps and dang, I wasn't actually sure what the achievement was. I guess I'm not that interested in spending any money to buy a crappy legendary either. Oh well.

Originally Posted by dagget

So. Dumb Question. If I start to farm Act 1 Hell (at least up until Skeleton King for now) for gear to try and complete the rest of the act, what should my DPS be at? I'm at about 3k (2.5 if I equip MF stuff) Or should I just equip gold find and then build my stash back up?

3k DPS isn't enough to complete Act I? How much gold do you have right now? I don't exactly recall my progress through Hell, but I don't think I really had any problems going straight through it. The damage on weapons ramps up insanely with each new level, so DPS was never really an issue. I also had my account hijacked right when I hit 50, so this was going off a mostly fresh start too.

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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Are you guys as annoyed as I am with how the AH has completely made low-level gems worthless? I can buy the a perfect square gem (or whatever the one is that's sitting around 350 gold) for cheaper than I can do any sort of upgrading. Why even include the low level stuff when they're so far from even being necessary? 13 tiers of gems is a joke.

Low level gems have always been kind of useless, given that you can obtain all the way up to flawless square gems or something through loot. I think Blizz realized this and that's why they nuked the crafting costs for the bottom half tier of gems,

son of a bitch. I was in the middle of writing this when my sister emails to say her phone got stolen and now I've gotta try to keep tabs on it.

Ha ha! Now I have problems beyond shitty drops!

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