Quote from RookOyb
If they TRULY tested their content before releasing the game to the public, the pets not being viable for NM, Hell and Inferno would have easily been spotted.
Took them 3 months to figure out a solution to all these problems that could have been resolved by doing more testing in the beta rather than limiting us.
I agree, most of D3 felt heavily untested past the parts that the "beta" part of the test. Many of the issues that came up should have been easily spotted if anyone would have actually played the game, which I highly doubt anyone truly did.
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Blizzard is fine with AHK so long as it's just one ability tied to a button. Multiple abilities tied to one button is when they start to get irritated if a noticeable chunk of the community does it. (Thinking back to WoW with TBC and WotLK rotation macros. One button you can spam to do your entire job for you! Took them a couple years to kill that off.) In the end I imagine that they could really care less about what you're actually doing, but are more concerned with you causing issues with hardware and software with the psuedo spamming. Most hardware has some form of a debouncer either mechanically or in software that keeps actual spam pretty low regardless of how fast you actually push the button. AHK basically bypasses that and that very bypass can cause issues.
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I agree, most of D3 felt heavily untested past the parts that the "beta" part of the test. Many of the issues that came up should have been easily spotted if anyone would have actually played the game, which I highly doubt anyone truly did.
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There are very few unbiased sources on this matter. The most favorite movie on the matter, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was done by someone and parties who had everything to gain by causing panic and knee jerk reactions to the thought that if people didn't change their consumption then the world was going to burn.
One thing everyone can agree on is that over the past forty years the planet in most regions has warmed up to a centigrade or so higher than in the past. The cause for concern is over the fact that this trend coincides with increased fuel consumption across the globe. What pro-warmers fail to properly respect is that trends are not proper cause and effect and the planet has a known history of warming and cooling.
Quite plainly more data is needed and by the time we gather the relevant data it most likely won't matter.
Now as towards the decreasing consumption of fossil fuels, I'm all for that. Fossil fuels are in dwindling supply, and more efficient solar power would be nice. Although do not forget that solar power harnesses solar radiation that would otherwise heat the planet, so the amount of use needs to be carefully managed or we could screw with the planet even further by creating new pockets of cool that were previously warm (If we ever bumped solar cell efficiency to somewhere around 50%). Wind and ocean current turbines extract energy from those mediums and remove it from that system, meaning the regions they extract the energy from move slightly slower, put in too much and you could take a blustery wind and turn it into a stale breeze. Take that into account when at the coast, coastal breezes help moderate temperatures inland, without that ocean air moving inland, inland temperatures begin to roast.
But yeah, the entire point being, that no energy is free, if you remove it from a source, then that source has it taken away, take too much away and things can go wrong. For example, if you took $100 out of $1 billion, that really doesn't effect the $1 billion that much, it's still quite a large sum of money. Take $50,000 out and then it's a bit more noticable chunk taken away. Take away $1 million and that is even more noticeable and starts to seriously impact the overall value. Take away $20 million and that formerly $1 billion isn't close to $1 billion anymore, it's just $80 million (each subtraction is a separate event from an independent $1 billion pool).
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Those are realistic prices, it's a pretty trashy helm. The helm has basically MF and low Int, you might get 70 to 80k out of it, at best, but there are a lot better options out there. Sure it has a lot of MF potential on it, but it sacrifices everything else for that mf.
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I second the locusts. I started fooling around with a locust gold farming build last night. So far it's fleshing out nicely, and since I never really played with locust that much before I quickly became surprised by how amazing it is on clearing rooms. So try it out, locust swarm with pestilence. In the build I'm still tinkering around with I sometimes spirit walk up to mobs, then I'll harvest soul, locust swarm, and then run away, really, really fast. That combo works fairly well on avoiding any incoming damage. Sadly I have to use gruesome feast, honored guest and swallow your soul to keep my mana relatively stable.
But ya, locust swarm with pestilence, if Blizzard ever ups the range on it, or makes the targetting a little better (sometimes you'll cast it on something, be facing right towards it and it'll just flat out miss, and then you're down 200 mana) I'll be celebrating Christmas early. A friend once called locust swarm something akin to an aoe haunt, but not even haunt spammish build could get me this giddy.
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I have done programming, and I'm very intimately aware of the issues around building a system and then going back to it because a new feature needs to be added, and all of the fun late hours of debugging because for some odd reason class x is inheriting p from class q, because some idiot decided to spaghetti code b to a. The fact of the matter is though, having a secure and stable trading system established is not something that should have been foreign when they first started development on D3, as it was a custom already established in D2. All this tells me is that there was either very poor planning at the ground level of the game's design, or this particular corner was cut off completely to encourage AH use. Either scenario is troubling.
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From what I played today on my WD, without dying I had repair bills higher than I've had with several deaths, I can already say that they inflated repair costs insanely high. The loss of a lot of gold from destructables, OH AND ALSO DON'T FORGET, MF doesn't apply to chests anymore, is a huge let down. I'm also loving still only getting sub 60 rares in act 1 and act 2.
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Leah's soul is most likely stuck inside the Black Soulstone as well, so we may be able to save her too. There were rumors sparked by the "leaked release schedule" for the next handful of years for Blizzard products, that suggest that Blizzard wants to do two D3 expansions. Perhaps in the second xpack we fight Imperius? In the animation they released at the 100% community site thingy, it showed that Imperius has some inner demons of his own, as well as not being quite in synch with the rest of the Angerous Council.
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But ya, 5 NV even early on in Act 1 Inferno can give you ~900+ gold piles with no other GF equipped.
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People bash him because of his attitude. I bash Newton and Edison over being self-centered dicks, both of them interfered and physically destroyed anything that could upstage their fame (too bad we didn't get to see all of Hooke's or Tesla's work).
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How is there even a topic to begin with? The original post was a general insult to the player base. The title of the topic is a statement of fact. There is no topic to discuss.
So far in this entire thread, Choda has actually put out something useful and worth discussing.
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True story >:
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^This
Shop smart, not hard when it comes to the AH, you'll see tons of idiots trying to sell crap for hundreds of thousands or millions of gold, but you'll find some real keepers for tens of thousands, you just need to sift through all of the crap people put up, expecting to "make big".