Diablo III

[Transient]

I would imagine Diamond Skin and Teleport are essential, in that case.

[U4EA]

I can't really do hardcore due to the latency. I probably won't even try regular inferno until later. Once I hit 60, I'll either finish hell or wait until I get bored [whichever comes first] and then switch to a different class.

I've read barbarians are pretty much forced to use a shield and become tanks to be even remotely useful in inferno groups.

[xer0s]

I can recall each of my deaths with vivid detail. Arcaneflamer, the melee wizard who was one shotted by a purple's giant hammer in act 2. VooDooMer, the witch doctor who taught me the importance of vitality as he was maimed by a single pestilence mob in act 3. Watching helplessly as two comrades were destroyed by Belial right before my very eyes. They will live on in the hall of fallen heroes.

That's beautiful.

[SoM]

you can also remember each time u sucked a cawk. plus the details

[fKd]

I can't play as the lag here in nz is beyond fucked... Thinking about getting a refund. Not that I wanna buy anything else from blizzard. Worst sp experience ever.

[Stoner]

buncha noobs in here....

[shaft]

[Stoner]

Better sell it before you die...

[Tsakali]

are the prices figured out by their system or you can charge whatever you want?

[shaft]

set your own price. i found that for 25k. pretty sure i can flip it for 50k ez..

[bitWISE]

My week of insanity is finally over. Made it into Act 4 Inferno with about 84 hours of playing time.

[Eraser]

Wrath of the boner king?

[Mogul]

Will you go ahead and complete Inferno or are you finished? I just cleared Hell about 30 minutes ago. I will be starting Inferno tomorrow.

[Eraser]

Those are different difficulty levels you talk about, right? Is there such a difference in the Diablo experience between the various difficulty levels? I've never seen people play each difficulty level of a game so religiously. Normally you just play at a suitable difficulty and that's that. The rest of the game is just that same thing, only harder.

[HomerJ]

My week of insanity is finally over. Made it into Act 4 Inferno with about 84 hours of playing time.

...posted on 5/20, the game has only been out since 5/15
hope you're using the toilet....

[U4EA]

Those are different difficulty levels you talk about, right? Is there such a difference in the Diablo experience between the various difficulty levels? I've never seen people play each difficulty level of a game so religiously. Normally you just play at a suitable difficulty and that's that. The rest of the game is just that same thing, only harder.

Yes, there are four difficulty levels and they get progressively much harder: Normal, Nightmare, Hell and Inferno. You can't play on the harder difficulties until you've played through the easier ones. To play Inferno, you have to have finished it already on Normal, Nightmare and Hell.

There are a number of reasons people keep playing the same content at higher difficulties, but I'd guess the primary one is loot. Inferno drops the best items and is the logical place to farm for gear for yourself or to sell.

Another reason is for the sheer challenge of it. Normal is trivial and you can easily bumble your way through it without much thought. Nightmare is a bit harder and you may find yourself dying a bit more. I haven't gotten to Hell yet, but I've read this is where it really starts getting challenging. Inferno is supposed to be pretty tough. They tweaked Inferno until the point where their internal test/QA teams thought it was manageable, then they doubled it.

You get different achievements for completing the zones and bosses on different difficulties. Inferno also has some super tricky achievements e.g. killing bosses within time limits. Some people would find it fun to accumulate achievement points.

What makes repeated playthroughs palatable is that maps [aside from some specific areas] are randomly generated [like all previous Diablo games and Torchlight]. So although you're going through the same zone, the map will be unique each time. Also, elite packs are randomly generated with multiple skills from a selection of various abilities and the various combinations of skills makes for an interesting and sometimes frustrating experience. There is this one type of mob that does a whirlwind type attack and I got an elite pack of 3 with the "fast" and "vampiric" modifiers. I'd wear them down a bit with stuns and cooldowns, then they'd rush me, whirlwind and heal back all my damage through the vampiric mod. They were very fast and it was difficult to kite them. Had to call it quits and restart from a checkpoint after 10 minutes of stalemate. Was good fun though.

[bitWISE]

Will you go ahead and complete Inferno or are you finished? I just cleared Hell about 30 minutes ago. I will be starting Inferno tomorrow.

Yes. We had just gotten into Act 4 of inferno around 12:30am and we had to go back to work today so that was just an end point for the week of grinding. I'll still be playing for probably hours a day, but I'll actually be sleeping and shit lol.

My week of insanity is finally over. Made it into Act 4 Inferno with about 84 hours of playing time.

...posted on 5/20, the game has only been out since 5/15
hope you're using the toilet....

Don't think there is a way to avoid that. I had purchased a lot of fruit, frozen food, beef jerky, nuts and soda. Mostly I just didn't sleep. The first couple days I only slept for the couple hours that the servers were down for us. After that I think I slept about four hours a night. It was stupid. But fun and I'd do it again.

[Ryoki]

jesus dude

[shaft]

Those are different difficulty levels you talk about, right? Is there such a difference in the Diablo experience between the various difficulty levels? I've never seen people play each difficulty level of a game so religiously. Normally you just play at a suitable difficulty and that's that. The rest of the game is just that same thing, only harder.

The areas are randomly generated as well as the enemies and loot. Max level is 60, you are around 30 by the end of normal run. As the difficulty levels progress you need to play differently and start worrying about specific resistances.

[U4EA]

Don't play public games with people you don't know, there's a Session ID spoof attack doing the rounds: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149539239

[mrd]

A session ID spoof? Really? Christ.

[DooMer]

That probably isn't real. Most peoples shit was probably compromised long ago through other means. Same email and pass for everything, etc.

[fKd]

yay got a refund, no questions asked. fuck you blizzard.

[Nightshade]

...fucking children...

Porking kids takes up your whole day, huh? Shocker.

I've not played any of the Diablo games, always seemed like the inventory/item management was too much of a chore and would detract from the gameplay. Is this the case? Would it be a complete exercise in frustration to try DIII?

[mrd]

...fucking children...

Porking kids takes up your whole day, huh? Shocker.

I've not played any of the Diablo games, always seemed like the inventory/item management was too much of a chore and would detract from the gameplay. Is this the case? Would it be a complete exercise in frustration to try DIII?

I would say if you've never tried D1/D2, D3 might be a bit strange but I don't think it'd be an exercise in frustration. You don't HAVE to play to be the best of the best. I'm sure tons of people have fun puttering along at their own pace. Normal/Nightmare should be fine for noobs, Hell and Inferno is where it pays (or rather, is essential) to put time into your stats/items/inventory/skills/etc.