**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[BD2003]

I dunno how anyone can be incredulous about it crashing and burning. There's no version of reality where this wasn't going to happen. I'm impressed it stayed up as long as it did - I thought it would tank by 6pm EST, it lasted a solid 5 hours after that...although it was kinda shitty for the last two. I expect a solid week of this, bare minimum I expect poor performance during peak times.

Doesn't matter in the end, cause so far the game is pretty awesome. Love what they've done with the skills, great that I can constantly experiment and switch things up - there's no way to ruin a character or lock yourself into a single playstyle.

I wasn't liking the wizard either at first, but then I found out your spells power is determined by the weapon in your hand, so holding a sword somehow makes your ice beam more powerful. Seems silly to me, but makes some sense in game logic given how they've structured the skills.

I really like the witch doctor, but seems too much to handle for my solo play through. Monk just seems out of place.

Can't wait for them to get their shit straight - the timing is perfect, gonna be a great game for the summer.

 

[Beev]

I am LOVING the game so far. Granted, I should have taken today off instead of yesterday, but the game is great and I can't wait to get back to it.

 

[Anubis]

Whenever I enter a new zone and see the title of it I think of that scene from Futurama:

Leela: Uh, Professor, are we even allowed in the Forbidden Zone?
Prof. Farnsworth: Why, of course! It's just a name, like the Death Zone or the Zone of No Return. All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror.

Seriously, every zone is like "the cellar of horror", "the fields of despair" or "the cave of doom". It's so over the top it's becoming almost a parody of itself.

D2 wasent much different

 

[Grorlack]

Does anyone have an extra demo key by any chance? All my friends got the digital copy and I don't want to buy it until I know it'll run on my computer.

Thanks!

 

[darkewaffle]

Got a starter key from a friend last night, seems solid so far but after playing a half hour of Barbarian a lot of the effects seem over the top. Like my very first ability makes a comically loud noise and sends zombies flying across the screen on every swing and lops their head off all at once; it's not bad but it is annoying already.

Seems like some of the game got 'over polished'. Some of the UI frills feel more chintzy than anything else.

 

[gothamhunter]

So I just now killed the Skeleton King and have put in 3 hours and 15 minutes (didn't spoiler tag SK since I think everybody is aware at this point). I should say, though, that I'm OCD about breaking every barrel, busting every loose stone, and uncovering every single bit of the map. Even at the part where

Spoiler

you get to the cemetery and have 3 different entrances to get into the crypt (or whatever it was called), I got the SK's crown from the first one and still took the time to completely clear the other two even though there wasn't any sense.

This game is going to take me a while the first time through.

Actually, there is sense in it :

Spoiler

One of the other crypts will have a side quest in it. There are three different side quests to do in that section, so you should go back to it and try to get it to spawn the other side quests for you too. The one I did this time was releasing a woman's soul. Before that I did a different one I can't remember.

 

[Beev]

I'm totally OCD too. Even though it's negligible I always try to get whatever destruction bonuses I can. Highest is only 16 so far, though.

 

[crownjules]

Adding mine to the list

m0viestar#1379 - HybridSquirrel
MattOfWar#1881 - Nemesis13
Cuda#1366 - Cuda1447
pantlegz#1355 - Pantlegz
GothamHunter#1610 - gothamhunter
Merad#1742 - Merad
Fenixgoon#1961 - Fenixgoon
Evro#1739 - badb0y
Tweeter#1656 - GoStumpy
Dano44#1944 - CraKaJaX
Niz#1586 - Nizology
bucknut#1595 - KentState
bucwylde23#1265 - bucwylde23
StealthLSU#1658 - MikeyLSU
Laithan#1194 - Laithan
RobertMunch#1257 - Robert Munch

Killd1#1113 - crownjules

Just beat the Skeleton King for probably the 30th time (Beta) so I'm finally going to get to explore the content after him now.

 

[blurredvision]

Actually, there is sense in it :

Spoiler

One of the other crypts will have a side quest in it. There are three different side quests to do in that section, so you should go back to it and try to get it to spawn the other side quests for you too. The one I did this time was releasing a woman's soul. Before that I did a different one I can't remember.

Hmmmm, I guess I do remember getting a side quest there where I

Spoiler

opened some type of jar, which locked the room down and spawned a ton of skeletons. The goal was to survive for 1 minute.

On another note, anybody missing identity scrolls? I like the convenience of not having to use them anymore, but it was always fun to have a few items waiting for you to get back to town to see if they were worth anything. Kind of like playing the lottery.

 

[stag3]

and diablo 3 is beaten, haven't slept since release LOL.
a good 6 hours and i'll be ready to start nightmare....

 

[CPA]

and diablo 3 is beaten, haven't slept since release LOL.
a good 6 hours and i'll be ready to start nightmare....

How long did it take you to beat the game?

 

[QuantumPion]

The people that beat it in ~6 hours were professional power gamers that had a team of people farming gear to give to them so they could advance more quickly.

 

[Aikouka]

I saw some people beat it last night through achievement notifications. On that note, achievement notifications might be a bad idea right now in Diablo 3... the curiosity to click on one could easily spoil the game!

 

[QuantumPion]

Hmmmm, I guess I do remember getting a side quest there where I

Spoiler

opened some type of jar, which locked the room down and spawned a ton of skeletons. The goal was to survive for 1 minute.

On another note, anybody missing identity scrolls? I like the convenience of not having to use them anymore, but it was always fun to have a few items waiting for you to get back to town to see if they were worth anything. Kind of like playing the lottery.

You know what is funny? I was in the beta and played through it at least a dozen times and I have still never gotten the jar of souls event. There was one time where someone in my party got it but started it without us, which made me mad.

 

[BD2003]

On another note, anybody missing identity scrolls? I like the convenience of not having to use them anymore, but it was always fun to have a few items waiting for you to get back to town to see if they were worth anything. Kind of like playing the lottery.

Nahhhh...I don't miss it at all. The lottery aspect is still there, its just happening as you play, and not forcing you to stop exploring and go do housekeeping. I don't miss stat points or skill points either. None of that stuff was any fun. It was just an artificial roadblock between you and the part of the game that's actually enjoyable.

Now, every level you get a new skill, or a new rune that significantly alters an old skill. It's WAY more deep than just pumping points into the same skills.

And now, loot is more important than ever. Which is the part of the game that's always been the most fun.

 

[HumblePie]

i donno whether this has been posted before, but there are some people out there who claim to have finished the game in 7 hours.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Diablo-Blizzard-PC-Gaming-7-hours-Korea,15649.html

WHat in God's name? 10 years of development and all you get is 7 hours of single player gameplay? Hmm...my copy is on the way and i hope Asia doesnt have any latency/lag issues like you guys do. And internet lag during single player is just criminal. Feel sad for people who might have upgraded their gpus for D3 to get fps lag free performance and live in an area where there is crappy internet quality. may God be with them.

I call bullshit. Not without cheating. There are dupe cheats, map hacks, and disconnect hacks in the game. People can use the map hack to know exactly where to run to. They just run straight through and use cheats on the bosses to beat them down. Even still, it takes more than 7 hours running straight through and basically only killing bosses. Even then you still need 4 people running through. Also there is a speed hack as well to run ridiculously fast.

If you do area clears and don't cheat it takes FAR longer to beat this game. I got about 9 hours of playing so far in and only into Act 2.

 

[Axon]

Yes, there is even an achievement for beating the single player aspect in 5 hours. But for most people, you will not get that during your first run. The difficulty ramps up substantially in Act II.

The game is very good as has more replay value than just one run through.

 

[Grorlack]

I hate to ask again but seeing as how there is more action on this board I was hoping someone had an extra starter code they could give me. I'm dying to play!

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I picked up a digital copy last night and had problems. First the Agent didn't work, kept hanging on updating setup files, then when it finally finished, downloading the game was sluggish. Finally when I was able to acutally launch the game, I couldn't log in. The "Breaking News" section said that the battle.net servers were offline for maintenance or something. It literally took me 4 hours to install the freakin game only to not be able to play it. Hopefully I can check it out tonight. Looking forward to it.

Clawhammer#1841

 

[nyker96]

this might be simple question but how do I repair an item? I can't seem to find this option in the blacksmith menu ?

 

[Pantlegz]

this might be simple question but how do I repair an item? I can't seem to find this option in the blacksmith menu ?

most vendors have a repair tab.

 

[crownjules]

this might be simple question but how do I repair an item? I can't seem to find this option in the blacksmith menu ?

You need to click on the repair tab of his window.

 

[VashHT]

Played a demon hunter and witch doctor a bit last night, both are a lot of fun. I was playing my witch doctor with some friends though and playing with people is a blast compared to solo. I didn't make it too far, got up to just past the SK on both and then the servers crapped out, hopefully they have most of the problems solved, but I bet this weekend they're going to end up down a lot.

 

[Farmer]

The quest direction indicator is quite shit. Many times I don't know where to go.

 

[Mem]

I'm playing as wizard and it seems ok so far at level 8,btw what are you guys using for sound channel settings in Options,the default was 32 but I bumped it up to 128 channels for my Asus Xonar DX sound card,not sure if its going to make any difference.