I played the D3 Beta today for the first time, I focused on a DH, and Wizard, I also had played a barb at lvl 9.
On Randomization:
For it being early on in the game, only the first 1/3-1/2 of Act 1 and it being on normal difficulty I was satisfied with the randomization in the map and the dungeons. I played for about 8 hours and came across about 7-8 random events that I had not witnessed in a previous run. On avg I got about 1 random event an hour, this is pretty damn good for Act 1 normal difficulty, not even the whole act!
Overall I found that the event randomization was spectacular, but however the level randomization was lack luster ( you can still figure out pathing in dungeons to speed things up, like how people get lost and spend like 30m in the crypts I have no idea) the RNG of the dungeon itself was meh, pretty linear. This is expected though, It got to the point where I could get to Leoric in about 4-5 minutes.
On Difficulty:
A joke, I mean cmon its act1, the first 1/3-1/2 of the act, if you die... you obviously have no ARPG hacknslash experience. I never even needed to pot once? Even on Leoric it is easy to telegraph his attacks, the only time I was even hit for any real damage was when I was on the barb, but you just zerg him down.
On combat:
Combat was fluid on the Wiz, fluid on the DH (apparently the DH changes havent gone live yet, and I had no resource problems and finished the beta in 1:15m, never died once, never used a pot once) so I dont understand how people ever had problems with the DH resource system... they were probly spamming shit nonstop thinking that's how you win, instead of you know... placing bola with tactical use, or nades/hungering arrow. Fire up d2, log on an amazon in act1, get multishot, get cold arrow, get w.e, try to spam that shit and see what happens? you get off 4-5 shots before having to either stop or spam mana pots.
Combat overall I found was very fluid on the Wiz DH and Barb had no problems, never found myself starved for resources
Death Animations:
Are fucking wicked. That is all.
On which class I thought was most powerful up to that point:
Wizard hands down, every time I engaged a pack of mobs I got a bonus for killing so many in a chain, or killing them all in one shot. This ended up being a SHIT ton of extra experience. I mean every fight I was getting atleast +50 bonus exp, add all those up over time, i was flying. I mean being able to 1 shot everything in the middle of the screen in 0.5 seconds is... broken? lol. It gives you such a high chain, and one shot bonus exp that by the end of the beta i was getting +150 exp per pack of mobs
My combo was Wave of Force (the one shot move) Arcane Orb, and Electrocute with Power Hungry Passive = destruction. No class matches the destructive speed of the wizard at that point in the game.
However, the barbarian is the fastest at skipping shit, and getting to Leoric in no time at all in the beta. I mean u can leap walls and get there in like 2.5 minutes if you know the pathing.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm done with the beta for now, and probably wont touch it unless they let us go further in the act. It feels more like a Demo than a Beta, and in my honest opinion the game is ready, why they're delaying it... they keep changing their mind about shit they can change with a content patch, or a major update lol. Hopefully we dont have another Duke Nukem Forever on our hands here.
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Wiz is super overpowerd, i can tell you that much, and havent even played d3 yet!
Well on avg I was cleaving for about 45 dmg on the barb
Arcane Orb was hitting for about 35 dmg.
The only problem is, at that point in the game, 35 is waaay more than you need to kill an group of non champions/super uniques.
That why wave of force was soooooo fucking OP, it only did like 25-28 dmg, but it did it to EVERYTHING around me, and that's enough to drop anything that is NOT a champion or super unique in 1 shot
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Or are you saying that your wave of force was critting for 100, cause I cant remember what mine crit for, still with those high crits u must of had a lot of attack
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Nice recap man, and also; You have access to D3 beta and dare whine about not being able to play BF3 beta!? Curse you. <3
It's only because once you get into the D3 beta, and I'm sure you're like salivating at the thought, just as I was, you realize in reality it's a demo lol. Spend about 2hrs on any of the classes and everything is just STUPID easy god mode. There is 0 challenge, there is 0 progression. For me, that's just not fun
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Nice recap man, and also; You have access to D3 beta and dare whine about not being able to play BF3 beta!? Curse you. <3
It's only because once you get into the D3 beta, and I'm sure you're like salivating at the thought, just as I was, you realize in reality it's a demo lol. Spend about 2hrs on any of the classes and everything is just STUPID easy god mode. There is 0 challenge, there is 0 progression. For me, that's just not fun
I guess that is what we all expect.. but playing it, is better then not playing at all!
Truth, truth indeed, I've actually had people PM me and email me asking me for my account info so they can play? lol
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OP is good commentary... I feel that DH resource should remain the same as well... shit that requires resources should not be spammed 247... that's why they are called RESOURCES... replenish-able (deplete-able) sources of energy, which should be managed accordingly.
On Randomization:
For it being early on in the game, only the first 1/3-1/2 of Act 1 and it being on normal difficulty I was satisfied with the randomization in the map and the dungeons. I played for about 8 hours and came across about 7-8 random events that I had not witnessed in a previous run. On avg I got about 1 random event an hour, this is pretty damn good for Act 1 normal difficulty, not even the whole act!
Overall I found that the event randomization was spectacular, but however the level randomization was lack luster ( you can still figure out pathing in dungeons to speed things up, like how people get lost and spend like 30m in the crypts I have no idea) the RNG of the dungeon itself was meh, pretty linear. This is expected though, It got to the point where I could get to Leoric in about 4-5 minutes.
On Difficulty:
A joke, I mean cmon its act1, the first 1/3-1/2 of the act, if you die... you obviously have no ARPG hacknslash experience. I never even needed to pot once? Even on Leoric it is easy to telegraph his attacks, the only time I was even hit for any real damage was when I was on the barb, but you just zerg him down.
On combat:
Combat was fluid on the Wiz, fluid on the DH (apparently the DH changes havent gone live yet, and I had no resource problems and finished the beta in 1:15m, never died once, never used a pot once) so I dont understand how people ever had problems with the DH resource system... they were probly spamming shit nonstop thinking that's how you win, instead of you know... placing bola with tactical use, or nades/hungering arrow. Fire up d2, log on an amazon in act1, get multishot, get cold arrow, get w.e, try to spam that shit and see what happens? you get off 4-5 shots before having to either stop or spam mana pots.
Combat overall I found was very fluid on the Wiz DH and Barb had no problems, never found myself starved for resources
Death Animations:
Are fucking wicked. That is all.
On which class I thought was most powerful up to that point:
Wizard hands down, every time I engaged a pack of mobs I got a bonus for killing so many in a chain, or killing them all in one shot. This ended up being a SHIT ton of extra experience. I mean every fight I was getting atleast +50 bonus exp, add all those up over time, i was flying. I mean being able to 1 shot everything in the middle of the screen in 0.5 seconds is... broken? lol. It gives you such a high chain, and one shot bonus exp that by the end of the beta i was getting +150 exp per pack of mobs
My combo was Wave of Force (the one shot move) Arcane Orb, and Electrocute with Power Hungry Passive = destruction. No class matches the destructive speed of the wizard at that point in the game.
However, the barbarian is the fastest at skipping shit, and getting to Leoric in no time at all in the beta. I mean u can leap walls and get there in like 2.5 minutes if you know the pathing.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I'm done with the beta for now, and probably wont touch it unless they let us go further in the act. It feels more like a Demo than a Beta, and in my honest opinion the game is ready, why they're delaying it... they keep changing their mind about shit they can change with a content patch, or a major update lol. Hopefully we dont have another Duke Nukem Forever on our hands here.
for he to-day that sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother..."
Well on avg I was cleaving for about 45 dmg on the barb
Arcane Orb was hitting for about 35 dmg.
The only problem is, at that point in the game, 35 is waaay more than you need to kill an group of non champions/super uniques.
That why wave of force was soooooo fucking OP, it only did like 25-28 dmg, but it did it to EVERYTHING around me, and that's enough to drop anything that is NOT a champion or super unique in 1 shot
for he to-day that sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother..."
In the beta? rofl how? You would have to have like 100+ attack for that actually way more
for he to-day that sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother..."
for he to-day that sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother..."
Yeah it seems to be a stupid small number of people :S, I wont be playing the beta anymore so I hope someone else gets in soon
for he to-day that sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother..."
It's only because once you get into the D3 beta, and I'm sure you're like salivating at the thought, just as I was, you realize in reality it's a demo lol. Spend about 2hrs on any of the classes and everything is just STUPID easy god mode. There is 0 challenge, there is 0 progression. For me, that's just not fun
for he to-day that sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother..."
Truth, truth indeed, I've actually had people PM me and email me asking me for my account info so they can play? lol
for he to-day that sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother..."
ok... please dont derail threads, that has little to nothing to do with this? like at all...
for he to-day that sheds his blood with me
shall be my brother..."