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Seems like the frenzy barb is now viable in 2.3 using the depth digger pants (100%), rorg (used for undisputed champion slot) and the furnace (50% dmg to elites) as kanai passives.

Wearing IK gloves, helm, armor, pants, boots + the undisputed champion to unlock all frenzy runes. Also use focus/restraint. (100%)

Cold build using ice blink, azurewrath, utars, + simplicity strength and taeguk

I've not tried this out yet, what are your thoughts?

I originally built her character for her and she did quite well up till that point. I don't think that the spiders in and of them self was scaring her, i think it's just the fact that the spiders were actually chasing her which was freaking her out the most.

She about had a heart attack when she got to the spider queen and the queen started circling her... I about died laughing until she started crying than i had to turn the game off and take care of her

Magousta, you are correct. I'm sure blizzard has designed the new battle.net to be a multi datacenter platform.

When you log into battle.net via the diablo 3 game client you will be logging into the realm servers which are the closest to you (latency wise)

Blizzard does not own their own data centers, they lease data center space from AT&T in san francisco, virginia, colorado, dallas and Virginia which has multiple 10gigabit links between DC's that are mux'd via dwdm onto AT&T's fiber infrastructure.

As far as the game servers go and how the platform is build, It is quite possible d3 was built on a database engine similar to hbase which rides on top of a multi-datacenter distributed file system for speed and redundancy.

Diablo II had over 400 servers for just the USEast Realm. This was reduced over time. These servers include Game servers, DB servers, and realm controllers (servers that actually stored account/character info)

I'm sure with blizzard anticipating the biggest launch of the company to date, there will be several thousand servers as the majority of the game is completely dynamically database driven.

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Hope will be swallowed by Despair... no idea here.

As far as i can tell , Azmodan is also known as the Lord of Despair, and noted in the book of cain: "He is by far the most charismatic and seductive of all the Evils."

So what my guess here is , that he will seduce Auriel.

Nothing like a little demon on angel action...

Imperius is not a boss however Imperius is in the quest list when the d3 beta client was data mined. Its assumed that you must fight him before Diablo or perhaps you fight him as a precursor quest to diablo.

How do you add the spoiler tag to the content? I do not see any buttons in the editor

He does lose his angelic powers however from the leaked cinematics it appeaers he gains those powers back, I'm assuming with the help of the others.

I wonder if there is any reason as to why he looks alot like the paladin from the Diablo II commercial.

... And, at the End of Days. Wisdom shall be lost as Justice falls upon the world of men. Valor shall turn to wrath - and all Hope will be swallowed by Despair. Death at last, shall spread its wings over all as Fate lies shattered forever.

So lets examine this shall we;

Wisdom shall be lost. - Cain will die in Diablo III and Imperius makes battle decisions without consulting the council thus the Arch Angel of Malthael steps down and wisdom is lost among the Angiris Council.

Justice falls upon the world of men - Notice that Justice is capitalized in the middle of a sentence signifying a name, Arch Angels of Justice. Tyrael and Imperius battle it out in Diablo III and Tyrael loses his wings and fall upon the world of men from the high hevens. Aka - (The fallen star is Tyreal) Later in act 1 of the game you will rescue Tyreal.

Valor (The Arch Angel Imperius) shall turn to wrath - This states that he is clearly going aginst the collective decisions of the Angiris Council and battling the forces of hell in an unholy and unhonorable battle putting heaven at risk. At seen from the leaked screen shots heaven has become a battle field.

Hope (The Arch Angel Auriel) will be swallowed by Despair. This can be either a representation of a monster or a representation of the Plains of Despair where she could have been overcome in battle by evil.

Death at last, shall spread its wings over all as Fate lies shattered forever. - Death could be a reference of evil or perhaps a monster as Fate is a reference to the Arch Angel Itherael.

Clearly the propechy states that there will be chaos in heaven and it will tip the balance of war in hell's favor which is why in Diablo 3 you must save sanctuary and ultimately heaven as its been previously stated that mere motal can become stronger then angels and demons.

If you guy have any other ideas as to what the propechy means feel free to post.

The news has reached yahoo now...

http://news.yahoo.com/diablo-iii-no-more-delays-despite-blizzard-layoffs-201003456.html

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Looks like the stress test has unoffically begun.

Currently in the beta, players in public games is at: 1,123

Servers are laggy and i've desynced afew times but haven't had a complete freeze of the game yet.

1,123 public games at 4,492 players. This also does NOT include private games. The majority of all new beta players which just got invited will most likely be in private games at the moment trying out d3 for the first time on their own. I'm sure there are several thousand games going on right now which we cant tell.

Looks like the stress test has unoffically begun.

I have two accounts flagged with the beta that i'll never use. Is it legal to sell these accounts?

They did say "two" world premiers.