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If you're going defensive and you don't really have a lot of DPS, get the LoH and forget the Life Steal, as with low DPS/tank your return on life steal will be super small.

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What act would you equate the difficulty and drops in Whimsyshire to?

I haven't visited the level yet. Matter of fact, i just finally got my Barb into Inferno last night, I am currently on the sword pieces quest. I am wondering if it would be more worth it to get better, more expensive gear, or an Inferno level Staff of Herding. I'm kind of to the point where, in order to upgrade my gear, i finally have to spend 300-500k+ gold per piece. Where a complete staff costs about 2 million.

Whimsey is ACT3/4 level loot/mobs

IIRC you need to kill diablo in inferno before you can make the staff

TBH i plan on getting the staff once i kill diablo on inferno (I'm too busy just farming act 1 for now to progress), because whimsey mobs>>>>>>>>act3 mobs, i can't stand 1/2 of the mob types act3 has, whereas whimsey is nothing fancy.

I will be pre-ordering the xpan as soon as it's announced tbh, I'm enjoying every one of my (so far) 200+ hours on this game, the only games i've played this much are online FPSs, MMOs, and Skyrim.

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Can someone please enlighten us non-beta players about the new modifications added to Diablo 3?

1. What are the basic stats? (Diablo2's equivalent strength, dexterity, vitality, energy)

2. How are these transmuted into the character's output? ( damage, attack precision + dodge, hp, mana)

3. Are the class resources stat independent and only skill/item dependend?(fury, spirit, hatred/disc, mana, arcane power )

4. Are runes auto-obtained on level-up or found in-game via loot?

5. Do we still have the 'GAMBLE' feature available at townsfolk ?

6. In multiplayer, is the aggro/threat mechanic inherited from WoW?

If someone is kind enough and has the time to quickly answer these it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

As much as I would advise you to go look at the Wiki, not everyone has that kind of time so i'll try to help out

1. Stats are Strength, Dexterity, Vitality, Intelligence

2. each character has a different damage stat, i'll try and do these all from memory:

Strength - Barbarian damage, +armor
Dexterity - Demon Hunter/Monk Damage, +dodge
Vitality - +Health
Intelligence - Witch Doctor/Wizard Damage, +0.1% all resistances

3. All the resources are stat-independent, but there are stats on items that will help with resource generation and such (I.E. +AP on crit, +spirit gen/second etc.)

4. Runes are automatically given on a level-up starting at level 6

5. AFAIK there isn't a gamble feature implemented, at least not currently in the beta. It's more or less replaced by the crafting system

6. I'm not sure about the aggro mechanic in the game, i think they just hit whatever is closest for the most part unless the AI is programed to target something else. Seems to work similar to how D2 worked

Quote from shootingbull

How to deal with reflect damage affix with high dps

"OK, listen the fcuk up!"
"You are going to dps very very slowly."
"And by slowly I mean fcuking slow"
...
"More dots, more dots"
....
"Watch the fcuking tail!"

K STOP DOTS!

Quote from Doez

Yep, still loving it. Not everyone is going to feel the same. You got your money's worth if you gave the game 200+ hours of your life.

This more or less. I'm still enjoying it quite a bit.

I didn't play D2 at launch as much as I played D3. It was only later in D2's life that me and my friends played it pretty hardcore. After a couple patches. At some point I'll stop playing D3 until they release a couple patches and then go back and play it pretty hardcore again. That's how the series works for me and my friends.

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Well no huge patches of content if ucan judge by the endgame we have atm the game is lacking and if i dont add content every 4-5 months this game will die out... srsly diablo 2 had better support than this.

It's funny that you should say this, because...

1. The Diablo 2 expansion was released exactly 1 year after Diablo 2.
2. Patch 1.10 (New Ladder system, start of Ladder season 1, World Event introduced) was released over 3 years after the original release.
3. Patch 1.11 (New Rune Words and Pandemonium Event introduced) was released over 5 years after the original release.

So, yeah, you want to talk about how poorly Diablo 3 is being supported? Because, last I checked, we're up to 1.0.3b right now, just a little over two months after the release. The nearest accurate comparison I can make is that Diablo 2's 1.0.6 patch was released almost 10 months after release. So, as far as support is going, we are getting regular patches, presumably at a higher rate than Diablo 2 had. You might want to do some research before you start talking about how well Diablo 2 was supported.

As long as we get an expansion or significant content within 1 year of release, we're on the same track as Diablo 2. If you started playing Diablo 2 after the expansion was released or, especially, after 1.10 or 1.11, you have absolutely no room to talk about content and support.

You will be able to farm act 1.

If you venture into act 2+ here are my predictions:

"Why am I always out of mana?"

"Why are my cast times so long?"

"What is up with all these cooldowns?"

"Why does direbats / toads / spiders / spirit barrage / bears have such erratic movement?"

To not sound too negative, act 1 can be very fun with WD. We have a lot of unique skills and it will feel different from your wizard.

This thread delivers.

One thing I've noticed is that while everyone is formulating all these statistics... I'm playing the game and getting gear

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Quote from Zero(pS)

Ewwww... Act 2 music... not good memories, more like Nightmares from those Beetles that I couldn't kill with my Paladin and Duriel, damn Duriel..

This. Oh God this. Anyone caught raving about how D2 was liquid awesomeness distilled from the sweat of Zeus' brow needs to be bludgeoned into submission with a granite statue of Duriel.

Eh, not Duriel. It needs to be a granite block inlaid with the map outline of Act 3. Inlaid with lead.

Wow. Just. Wow. With acerbic wit like that it's no wonder you got banned.

Also, doesn't the N52 auto switch profiles based on the .exe launched? I know Razer version of it can, and according to Wikipedia it can. So...you're too lazy to make a second profile that auto switches?

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Quote from Bleu42

If you have such a hateful attitude towards the game, why are you even playing it? If you really think it sucks, why don't you quit?

lame argument, hese complaining about binding
hardly a reason to quit the game.

so according to you anyone who has a gripe with a game should just quit? even if its something as trivial as binding?

No, the key binding thing is a legit issue. The hateful attitude goes WAY beyond that, to the point where I don't see why he's still playing either. Just the fact that he actually thought an optional entertainment forum could be as bad as living in North Korea shows his level of maturity. If his only complaint was the key binding thing, I'd agree with you. But it seems it's not.

oh btw, saw the title and I couldn't resist:



credit to kaoskadosk who posted this in other thread