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Nice post, thank you.

With some more measurements we could try to reverse engineer the formulas behind armor, precision and defense. If anyone feels like doing this I have some ideas on how to proceed.

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I'm sure when the game gets up and running there will more than likely be a 'Who's playing?' thread where people looking for players can advertise their game and/or look for one with likeminded people.
EG:
'Looking for 3 more for a casual Nightmare run through, on Act 3. Friendly chilled out ppl only :)'
'Looking for 1 more for FAST Inferno run through, starting Act 2. MUST be geared and skilled.'

etc etc

Quote from Procylon

I am wondering if there are skill groupings of the + damage modifiers. Obviously attack doesn't multiply itself, same for crit damage. So perhaps +all % damage also just adds to itself as well. And then weapon damage.

So: [{(Weapon*Skill Weapon %) * Attack} * % Skill Damage] * Crit Damage % = obliteration

Thus, Frenzy(120), Battle Rage(100), Bash(80), etc would all simply add together and not continually multiple off each other.

Throw Weapon with Red rune = 462% weapon damage.
Battle Rage with Red rune = 100% more damage.
Max Bash with Blue rune = 80% more damage.
Wrath of the Berzerker with Red run = 75% more damage.
Brawler passive = 30% more damage when around 8 dudes.
No Escape passive = 100% more damage with Throw Weapon.

+120% from Frenzy. Should be 462% weapon damage and 505% + all damage.

Thus with 500 attack and 500% crit damage:

[{(250*462%) * 500} * 505] * 500 = 145818

That is pretty serious on a crit. Or maybe not. Maybe Inferno Diablo has 5 million health.

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DiabloSin, if every class gets +100% damage mechanics it might be because the game is that hard. You can't really say those things are overpowered by themselves, it is when those skills are practically required because there is no other way to double your damage for instance.

And Mienta, Crimson Overpower and Alabaster Revenge, +47% crit chance. Revenge won't be up all that often, but probably often enough if you keep pressing the attack and let ranged mobs peck at you.

The crit damage has been overstated though. You are going to want a balance to get the highest possible dps.

I'm not saying it's overpowered, or wrong, i'm saying that calling for it to be changed or nerfed on the barb, when other classes get similar such skills, that is wrong. It's ridiculous that people are even calling for changes or saying something is overpowered based on speculation, we only see a small part of the game. So what if it's a good skill that most barbs will want to take? I can think of skills that are literally "must haves" for every class. At least it appears that they are must haves from what is revealed so far.

I agree with you in general, but in comparison the other classes that get similar abilities are on Cooldowns, targeted area effects(still on CD), etc.

And I don't believe anyone has called for a nerf exactly... just pointing out what appears to be what amounts to a near required skill for dps barbs. Albeit, point out a little too emphatically and with hyped up numbers...

Quote from Ardikus

One possible advantage I can see for Force and Sixen is to take a look at the quality of video, playthrough, and commentary of these other so-called "press media", take a few minutes to ROFL, and then step it up a notch and do some real professional work.

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Making a YouTube channel just for Diablo 3?

With the beta getting closer and closer I am imagining all the footage that you will be pumping out for us and I get giddy everytime I get an email from YouTube and your channel only to be saddened by another SC2 vid.

Whatcha think? Yes? No? Maybe?

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What the heck is new with that??? Wtf!
F&F Beta had been streamed on-line a more than a week back.

It's just that over the weekend a new set of invites went out in what appears to be a second wave of F&F. People are just impatient that it's still F&F only, especially after a lot of people believed Force that public invites would start last week. Everyone expected F&F to be a one shot thing and then public invites would go out soon after. A second wave of F&F means longer waiting for everyone else.

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Hey guys

Searched through the forums for a similar topic, but couldn't find one. Also don't have a bnet-account, so posting there isn't possible./rant off.

First off. The F&F- and Closed Beta is about a 1/3 of the first act and is mainly focussing (+/- 85% ?) on whether blizz's servers can withstand the strain of 1000's of people playing D3 online at the same time, and not with the testing of the game mechanics (except AH) and bugs (+/- 15% ?).

Blizz also stated that a big part of the game's mechanics & bugs were thoroughly tested via internal testing a month or so before F&F testing started. Even though the beta is just 1/3 of act 1, and the whole game has been through internal testing before, there were still a good number of bugs reported.

My question is: How will blizz handle the bugs in the rest of the game? Through internal testing at the same time as the closed beta or are they just gonna release a patch (when full game is released) when necessary?

Sorry again if this subject has been addressed.

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I feel having a loot display (outside voluntarily linking the item) sort of defeats the purpose of having personalized loot, let alone the RMAH. You know people are just going to whine about how you're being selfish because you want to sell it, rather than give it to them because "it's an upgrade for my alt". This can also lead to people blacklisting you, because you upset them.

If I get an item, I shouldn't be berated or influenced into making a choice whether to keep it or trade it. Personally, I think not showing the loot prevents a lot of unneeded drama and whining.

I don't see why this would happen. I would never give up something that is an upgrade for someone's alt since that doesn't even make sense to do. Plus they can't know its an upgrade to their alt to begin with, since the legendary won't be identified so you can't even see the stats on it when it drops.