I made this quickly to compare the dye jars from the D3 community site and the screen of the female wizard who seems to have been fully armor dyed. The only major discrepancy is at the top right. The armor looks to be dyed a medium brown, which isn't present on the community site. Also, the site features a light gray jar (not to be confused with pale/beige) entitled "winter" (or gray) which doesn't appear in the character screen. There's also a dye remover as well as invisible dye.
I think I've re-watched the rune effect Blizzcon video a dozen times now. The rune mechanic system is brilliant and, in my opinion, is going to be the "game-changer". I mentioned the wizard's Spectral Blade skill in a previous post:
I'm also liking the Wizard's spectral blade skill. It reminds me of this skill from an anime I saw a while back called Basilisk. It's pretty intense. Sort of a Romeo and Juliet story but with ninjas. Anyway, there's a ninja character named Yashamaru who can control these black wires; they move really fast and seem to cut through anything. I've posted a video link to a battle scene - there's violence and such so PG-13 & NSFW I suppose.
Check it out!
(it's in Japanese with French subtitles, désolé)
With that said, what do you imagine some of the rune effects to be? Increased slashes? More powerful slashes? A shield of spectral Blades (like the Assassin skill from D2), a sigular giant spectral blade?
The guard on te left is exactly what I was picturing for the fifth class.
Same here! I was actually really hoping that Blizzard would re-imagine the merc from Lut Gholein as the fifth class and I pictured something along the lines of a Persian Immortal.
The screenshot is great too. The armor on the barb at the bottom of the frame shows how the items in D3 are going to blow us all away. Awesome.
Pretty neat! I still say the Unburied should lose the loincloth. Any monster like this is hardly going to be concerned about its dignity. And that's even assuming it did have a wang.
Agreed. Would look more fierce without the cloth.
I agree with both of you, but who are we to deny demons some modesty, right?
Although, imagining the meeting of the D3 artists to discuss monsters' nether-regions - hilarious.
MacBooks are overpriced. But they are totally worth it. The build quality is just incredible. And a Unix OS is amazing. If you plan to play mainly blizzard or bioware games, then you should be fine with the Mac OSX.
I heard the latest intel HD 3000 graphics in the new 13" is pretty bad, while the refurbished ones still have nvidia cards. Should I go refurbished?
Alright, got it. Now let's say I run the games with windows on the Mac and wanted to upgrade my discrete card for a not too hefty price - any suggestions?
You can't usually upgrade laptop video cards. They are usually soldered directly to the motherboard, custom to that laptop. Unlike a desktop you can't just buy a "one-size-fits-all" video card and install it. This isn't always the case. There are some laptops that support upgrarding, but usually only the gaming-specific ones can. I could be wrong, but I don't think you can do any video card upgrading on a Mac laptop
I loved the idea of shapeshifting in D2, but didn't really enjoy playing it mainly because of how annoying I found the charge-up skills. But like I said, the idea was sweet. What I think an interesting variation of a shapeshifting skill could be is something along the line of a travel skill. We've seen how the wizard's teleport got revamped in D3 and how she can no longer move through walls or unopened doors, and now the witch doctor has spirit walk as a travel skill where he goes invisible for a short time between locations. What I was thinking was maybe the character could transform into a mass of birds or bats to get from point A to B or avoid monsters or traps. In this form the character could be invulnerable and maybe runed up do some form of damage. So if there's a druid-like class in one of the expansions, this idea could work. What do you guys think?
I don't know very much about MacBooks or Apple hardware in general. If you post the specific models you're looking at though I'll do my best to figure out if the specs are good enough for gaming.
Awesome, these are all the ones I'm looking at:
Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display
4GB (2 x 2GB) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
250GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm
8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory
Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core i5
15.4-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display (1440 x 900 pixel)
4GB (2 x 2GB) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
500GB Serial ATA @ 5400 rpm
8x double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory
New 2011 MacBook Pro. 13-inch: 2.3 GHz
2.3GHz dual-core
Intel Core i5
4GB 1333MHz
320GB 5400-rpm1
Intel HD Graphics 3000
New 2011 MacBook Pro. 15-inch: 2.0 GHz
2.0GHz quad-core
Intel Core i7
4GB 1333MHz
500GB 5400-rpm1
Intel HD Graphics 3000
AMD Radeon HD 6490M with 256MB GDDR5
Hmm I think most of these systems will run the game on low, but probably not more than 30 FPS so be prepared for some choppiness at times. As for the CPU, it's a bit of a hard call. Go for the ones with higher clock speed (more GHz) if you get a dual core. Quad core is likely the best, however.
I know you want a mac, but I want to take a moment and point out how ridiculously overpriced they are. If you are going to spend up to $1500 you could buy a windows-based gaming laptop that will be capable of running Diablo 3 on high graphics settings with very smooth frame-rates. You could run other modern games smoothly on high settings as well. Since the processor will be faster, any other stuff you do (Video editing, watching HD videos, ect) will run faster as well.
If you want a Mac just be aware that you're taking a significant hit in performance.
They are absolutely pricey. But I'm also looking to make a relatively long term investment. I have a 2007 Dell Inspiron 1520 and after 3.5 years, its literally falling apart on me (besides being good for very little beyond word processing). I know a lot of people with Macs far older than my Dell and they're still in great shape. The weight of the computer is actually a big factor since I travel a lot, and I'm constantly walking long distances in city streets - something I haven't been able to do with my current computer. Regardless, do you have any specific examples of PCs that you think could change my mind. I'd like to check them out.
Alright, got it. Now let's say I run the games with windows on the Mac and wanted to upgrade my discrete card for a not too hefty price - any suggestions?
TL;DR - Windows is good, but as someone who has used both OSX and Windows extensively for programming, Adobe CS, and gaming... I would choose OSX everytime. Laptops are built much more solid and UNIX based OS is hot. Buy the high end 13inch if you have the money. Desktops are a waist of space and between my girlfriend and myself we both went though 5 laptops. Be both have MacBook Pro's now and love it.
My background: software engineering student, gamer, enjoy working with adobe CS, been on windows most of my life, and i've built my own windows desktop.
When I see people dismiss OSX so easily, I laugh.
I ended up buying a decent Dell. 15inch screen. It was awesome, payed some decent games on medium graphics, which was fine for me. Right after I bought my laptop I was convinced that is was 10x better than a clunky desktop. But first problem I noticed was that carrying a 15 laptop was very tiring. Next thing that started happening (within 5 months) was that my battery was dieing fast. Unplug my laptop it would die in 10 minutes. Soon after the laptop started to get extremely hot. Eventually, I think it just fried itself and would no longer turn on. Dell replaced the battery issue but wouldn't replace the overheating because it was out of warranty. Even though soon after I found out that was a manufacture defect and a lot of the same model computers had the same issue.
Apple has converted me to a permanent customer.
Haha same thing happened to me. Graduated from high school and few years ago and bought my first Dell laptop. Super excited. Problem #1 Windows Vista. Problem #2 with textbooks and campus hikes, WAY too heavy. Problem #3 screen stopped staying up. Problem #4 battery is effed. Needs to be plugged in and if the cable comes lose the whole thing shuts down. Problem #5 it gets friggin' hot!
I'm lucky enough to be able to afford the 15" Macbook models, I just wish I knew more about the graphics in relation to playing Blizzard games because they're all I play at this point.
Thanks for the post.
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With that said, what do you imagine some of the rune effects to be? Increased slashes? More powerful slashes? A shield of spectral Blades (like the Assassin skill from D2), a sigular giant spectral blade?
Same here! I was actually really hoping that Blizzard would re-imagine the merc from Lut Gholein as the fifth class and I pictured something along the lines of a Persian Immortal.
The screenshot is great too. The armor on the barb at the bottom of the frame shows how the items in D3 are going to blow us all away. Awesome.
I agree with both of you, but who are we to deny demons some modesty, right?
Although, imagining the meeting of the D3 artists to discuss monsters' nether-regions - hilarious.
Do you think Morlu whips his hair back and forth?
I heard the latest intel HD 3000 graphics in the new 13" is pretty bad, while the refurbished ones still have nvidia cards. Should I go refurbished?
Thanks, good to know.
They are absolutely pricey. But I'm also looking to make a relatively long term investment. I have a 2007 Dell Inspiron 1520 and after 3.5 years, its literally falling apart on me (besides being good for very little beyond word processing). I know a lot of people with Macs far older than my Dell and they're still in great shape. The weight of the computer is actually a big factor since I travel a lot, and I'm constantly walking long distances in city streets - something I haven't been able to do with my current computer. Regardless, do you have any specific examples of PCs that you think could change my mind. I'd like to check them out.
Haha same thing happened to me. Graduated from high school and few years ago and bought my first Dell laptop. Super excited. Problem #1 Windows Vista. Problem #2 with textbooks and campus hikes, WAY too heavy. Problem #3 screen stopped staying up. Problem #4 battery is effed. Needs to be plugged in and if the cable comes lose the whole thing shuts down. Problem #5 it gets friggin' hot!
I'm lucky enough to be able to afford the 15" Macbook models, I just wish I knew more about the graphics in relation to playing Blizzard games because they're all I play at this point.
Thanks for the post.