My wizard flat out melts faces now that I'm not longer using the level 1 wand! I dont think any other character could possibly be this powerful. I walk right into the middle of packs with diamond skin and arcane orb them once or twice and they're all dead. If they're not? I use my AOE knockback that also deals a crapload of damage. Insanely powerful.
Please do tell
I leaped into a pack of 4 of those with my barb..and quickly found myself at the nearest waypoint!
Those bees, a tree in act1 (wasn't paying attention) and some super unique that 2-shotted me are what's killed me so far
My 36 Wiz is now using a 2 handed maul (97dps, highest staff I've found was 59, and before that was using a 85dps crossbow). Kind of weird, but to tweak damage while levelling it helps immensely.
Yeah it's kindof sad actually. At first (lower levels) the wands + a focus or sometimes a staff would provide comparable DPS upgrades to other weapons, but by act 3 it seems the wands+focus/staffs are nowhere near comparable to the 2h weapons for DPS. The 2-h axe I picked up in Act 4 was a good 10 DPS higher than anything else I'd found.
Bloodthirst
Tough as Nails
Nerves of Steel
ill be home tomorrow evening and will give you one if you dont already have it by then
Carpal tunnel?
Uhh, no, those two terms are NOT interchangeable.
Always-connected DRM in this case means you have to put up with online bullshit even though you only want to run a single-player game on your computer.
We expect that kind of thing from EA but not Blizzard.
Diablo 3 is an online multiplayer game where you can choose to not allow people to play with you. How difficult is this to understand? It's not an offline single player game.
Which is what people are having a problem with. If you are going to design the game this way, make sure you're ready to "go live". The attitude of "we'll work the kinks out later" is lame.
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Having been working with the IT people, I can vouch for what gothamhunter said. It is impossible to 'go live' and be ready for everything when you are opening for something this grand of a scale. Unless you commit to overspending a drastic amount on budget to make sure everything runs smoothly, but then that ends up being a waste of money and Blizzard is also a business company. There has been much worse launches of other games, not being able to play for a couple of hours each day isn't anything major to bitch about.
Really? What AAA games have launched worse? I don't recall Steam going down when Skyrim or CoD came out. Or Origin when Battlefield 3 or Mass Effect 3 came out. I don't see why Blizzard gets a pass for never launching anything successfully, not even patches for WoW go smoothly. To me it seems like a badly incompetent management problem.
I did not have any login issues when TBC, WotLK and Cata were released. I play on a low pop server, yet can't recall any issues.
I honestly figured Blizzard would have been better prepared than they were for the release of D3.
Y'all don't forget about the stat increases from the weapons. Yes, an axe might have a little more DPS listed, but a wand might give ie: +15 intelligence. +1 Int = +1% spell damage. Gotta make sure y'all don't leave that out of your damage calculations, because axes and other melee types aren't likely to give Int bonuses, so some maybe limiting their damage by picking a 20 dps sword +8 Str over a 16 dps staff with +10 Int.
Really? What AAA games have launched worse? I don't recall Steam going down when Skyrim or CoD came out. Or Origin when Battlefield 3 or Mass Effect 3 came out. I don't see why Blizzard gets a pass for never launching anything successfully, not even patches for WoW go smoothly. To me it seems like a badly incompetent management problem.
I did not have any login issues when TBC, WotLK and Cata were released. I play on a low pop server, yet can't recall any issues.
I honestly figured Blizzard would have been better prepared than they were for the release of D3.