**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[stag3]

it takes them 10+ years to make a sequel anyways LOL

 

[Anubis]

i know it must be annoying for those in college or those without jobs but for those of us that work the 8 hour weekly downtime that happens while we are at work its a non issue

 

[spaceman]

what about 2nd and 3rd shift?
what about different time zones?
its bullshit is what it is

 

[slayer202]

it takes them 10+ years to make a sequel anyways LOL

And it's pretty obvious they knew that they couldn't charge a monthly fee for this clunker

 

[Anubis]

what about 2nd and 3rd shift?
what about different time zones?
its bullshit is what it is

1) minority
2) it does down at 3 AM PST the diff timezones dont really play into it also see above
3) whatever, its been going on for 5+ years, and it used to be much much worse

 

[spaceman]

well i never played wow so i dunno
this is a sp game or something
this marks at least half a dozen times i cant play when i want to and its wrong

 

[stag3]

yea why can't they do maintenance during the day then from 8am-4pm or something while most people are at work. i'd like to play early in the morning before heading to work....

 

[Anubis]

i imagin when they set it up the times they chose were when the fewest people were on

 

[gothamhunter]

8 hour outage?
i want my money back

It's maintenance and a patch. Every Tuesday. Every. Tuesday.

ikr, blizzard doesnt care
but this will be the last game i ever buy from them

wah

 

[DrunkenSano]

Guess people who think servers are broken have never played a Blizzard game in the past few years. Maintenance isn't anything new and hasn't been since early WoW days.

 

[Anubis]

in the early wow days the 8 hour maintenance sometimes was a 3 day maintenance
was quite funny TBH

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Found some great gear drops. Been selling in AH and have made close to 2 million so far. My DH is 30k life, 38k dps, and about 300 resists. I can take one or two hits in Act 1 inferno, but Act 2 has kicked my ass just from the start.

 

[darkxshade]

quit complaining, just play the single player campaign during maintenance

 

[Daverino]

10/10 troll post.

You sir, win a free internet.

 

[flexy]

yea why can't they do maintenance during the day then from 8am-4pm or something while most people are at work. i'd like to play early in the morning before heading to work....

During the day WHERE?

It makes sense to have maintenance at the wee hours when most people (in the states) don't play.

For us in EU, maintenance always happens at peak time when we want to play, but this doesn't really matter.

I mean, people need a day where they can have a shower, buy groceries etc...right?

On a serious side-note, it's so funny how people keep complaining about this for years...but this maintenance is simply essential, i assume they do backups and stuff...it's a billion dollar business and people should be glad their data, toons etc. are stored and backed up so they can be retrieved when they get hacked or something happens. Also..they usually will put in bigger server-side patches on Tuesday - it's a good thing as well if things are getting fixed.

Edit: I assume there will also be other things happening like database optimizations etc...which require the servers down. Ultimately, it's a good thing.

 

[flexy]

quit complaining, just play the single player campaign during maintenance

I realize you attempted sarcasm, but failed. Because, you can in fact make alts on another server...Europe servers and US servers have DIFFERENT maintenance times. My wife is playing on EU server when there is maintenance in the US

 

[gothamhunter]

I realize you attempted sarcasm, but failed. Because, you can in fact make alts on another server...Europe servers and US servers have DIFFERENT maintenance times. My wife is playing on EU server when there is maintenance in the US

This...I did not know. Interesante!

 

[Anubis]

I realize you attempted sarcasm, but failed. Because, you can in fact make alts on another server...Europe servers and US servers have DIFFERENT maintenance times. My wife is playing on EU server when there is maintenance in the US

you have to edit the config file to have it point you to the EU servers right? else you get the maint popup at login

 

[EDUSAN]

or you can just play another game 1 day per week

im playing alan wake on tuesdays

you have to edit the config file to have it point you to the EU servers right? else you get the maint popup at login

edit config? no.... In the login screen in the option part there is actually an option to change server

 

[Anubis]

really? huh i never noticed that

 

[GoStumpy]

you have to edit the config file to have it point you to the EU servers right? else you get the maint popup at login

Nope, just go to options, account info, and change from Americas to Europe

 

[digiram]

So I havn't played anything other that solo at all.. I have a guy with the name 'gxw' on my 'recently played' list. I'm betting he's got my stolen equipment. I wish Blizzard would get their heads out of their asses and try to trace/actually do some detective work on this stuff.

edit: he has 9 lvl 1 characters all with random letters for the usernames.

How is he on your recently played with list?

 

[Anubis]

How is he on your recently played with list?

because when someones accnt is comprimised they start a game and then have someone join, they then trade them all the crap from the comprimised acnt

 

[darkewaffle]

I swear all the people complaining about the gear and legendaries and such never played Diablo 2. Seriously, it is one and the same. Almost everything you find is pretty lousy and what's good is determined more by randomization than an item's actual rarity. If anything, I think it's actually a step forward that blue gear is now quite usable for higher difficulties. Rares and uniques still have higher "ceilings", you just see far fewer of them so you have to be quite lucky to get a great one. Eventually those legendary weapons you think are so useless will get dropped with +200-500 damage and IAS or +damage % or +200 stat and it'll be an absolute monster.

Far as difficulty is concerned, Inferno A1 is quite farmable (easy, in time at least). A2 is where the roadblock comes in, but I think for me personally (barbarian) it's just a matter of getting a better weapon and rounding up some more mitigation. In A1 currently I can farm with something like 110% base MF gear and still be quite tanky and breeze through the Halls of Agony -> Warden -> Butcher.

Also with regards to hacks, I still think it's the players. Suffice to say I deal with enough average computer users at work every day to not be even remotely surprised at the number of people it happens to. Just because you ran Malwarebytes doesn't mean you didn't catch something.

The one and only time my WoW account was ever compromised, I could never find a definite culprit. There was no evidence in any scan, and the only solution that ever worked was a complete reformat. I believe the source of the problem was a flash backdoor available at the time and I think it may actually have been a flash banner embedded in the WoWAce updater.

They're not always detectable (these aren't necessarily generic virii or keyloggers, sometimes they're built with a very specific purpose of simply nabbing your bnet info, D3 login, WoW login, etc and this means its going to behave differently and not be as easily identified) and there are cases where even if you don't click a link or don't click "Yes" on a program, it can still happen.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I know people are complaining about getting hacked, but it really is worth it to get the authenticator ... when you have a vastly popular game like this, it's bound to get targeted, a lot.

love the ios app, super easy to use.

are there build guides yet? My wiz is getting rocked in hell 8)

How are the set pieces? My bro gave me a belt for tal rasha's, pretty decent spec.