With the servers down now I'm sitting at 11 hours 9 minutes of played time, and I'm on Crossing the Great Span of Prime Evil in the fourth Act. I've been trying to explore and kill as much stuff as I can, so I'd imagine this is REALLY slow. I figure I'll have Normal beat by the 12 hour mark.
I've died.. like 6 times, haha. It's all due to those stupid Fanatics or whatever that blow up on you and give your health a whooping. BARB MASTER RACE WHOOOO!
This 'ere'd be the build I came up with. I'll admit to having not much a clue as to what I'm doing, nor any of the math behind anything like some people, but I'll be damned if I don't explain my reasoning!
To start off with, I took a look at each ability and tried to make each one fit with the other.
My primary hatred-generator will be Grenades, which is subsequently buffed by both the Tinkerer rune and the Grenadier passive, bringing the Hatred Generation to 8 (if it stacks, anyway!). I have Bola Shot as a sort of filler generator so that there's a chance at getting some more Discipline if I need it, or something.
Cluster Arrow with the Loaded For Bear is what I'll use for bosses, and perhaps even loosely clumped up trash. Elemental Arrow will be for when I draw mobs into a line and am able to hit them all in a line, and for when I need a bit of a health boost, since it's runed with Nether Tentacles, which returns 3% of the damage as life to me.
I've got Preparation runed with Battle Scars for those times when I really need some health, as Battle Scars gives me back 60% of my life when I use Prep. Pretty nice for a 45 second CD, I suppose. Marked For Death, runed with Contagion, will be what I start fights out with, even on trash packs. When I kill the Marked target, that'll spread to the rest and make them take more damage. Neat, I guess.
I've got the Vengeance passive to increase my max Hatred, which also makes me gain 20 hatred and 2 discipline when I get healed by a health globe. Pretty good for when some are around, I'd imagine. I've also got Archery in there so that no matter what weapon I'm using I'll be buffed with it.
Like I said, I have no clue what I'm doing, but these looked good to me. I'll see how good it is when the game comes out, hah. This is for PvE, by the way. Although that much was probably obvious!
It would actually be really easy to translate a game like Diablo to console.
Let's take the Xbox as an example. There are plenty of buttons that could be used to map the skills onto! The left and right triggers could be like the left and right mouse buttons, and then there's the standard A B X Y buttons that can be mapped, which can take up the spaces for the four skills on the bar. Although, the A button will definitely be used for picking up items, talking to NPC's, and opening doors and such. Select can be used for the potion slot, then there's the shoulder buttons..
As per every game, the left analog stick could be used to move the character, and the right stick for the map. The D-pad buttons could be used for, say, the inventory, skills, talents, etc. When you really think about it, isn't it pretty easy to bring it over to consoles? Of course, I kinda feel like a game with such a long history on the PC (save the Diablo game for the Playstation, or whatever it was!) should stay on the PC, but with Diablo III on the console, it could potentially open up the game to a bunch of new players. Don't we want to spread the love?
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I've died.. like 6 times, haha. It's all due to those stupid Fanatics or whatever that blow up on you and give your health a whooping. BARB MASTER RACE WHOOOO!
Oh. My Barbarian is level 30, by the way.
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This 'ere'd be the build I came up with. I'll admit to having not much a clue as to what I'm doing, nor any of the math behind anything like some people, but I'll be damned if I don't explain my reasoning!
To start off with, I took a look at each ability and tried to make each one fit with the other.
My primary hatred-generator will be Grenades, which is subsequently buffed by both the Tinkerer rune and the Grenadier passive, bringing the Hatred Generation to 8 (if it stacks, anyway!). I have Bola Shot as a sort of filler generator so that there's a chance at getting some more Discipline if I need it, or something.
Cluster Arrow with the Loaded For Bear is what I'll use for bosses, and perhaps even loosely clumped up trash. Elemental Arrow will be for when I draw mobs into a line and am able to hit them all in a line, and for when I need a bit of a health boost, since it's runed with Nether Tentacles, which returns 3% of the damage as life to me.
I've got Preparation runed with Battle Scars for those times when I really need some health, as Battle Scars gives me back 60% of my life when I use Prep. Pretty nice for a 45 second CD, I suppose. Marked For Death, runed with Contagion, will be what I start fights out with, even on trash packs. When I kill the Marked target, that'll spread to the rest and make them take more damage. Neat, I guess.
I've got the Vengeance passive to increase my max Hatred, which also makes me gain 20 hatred and 2 discipline when I get healed by a health globe. Pretty good for when some are around, I'd imagine. I've also got Archery in there so that no matter what weapon I'm using I'll be buffed with it.
Like I said, I have no clue what I'm doing, but these looked good to me. I'll see how good it is when the game comes out, hah. This is for PvE, by the way. Although that much was probably obvious!
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Let's take the Xbox as an example. There are plenty of buttons that could be used to map the skills onto! The left and right triggers could be like the left and right mouse buttons, and then there's the standard A B X Y buttons that can be mapped, which can take up the spaces for the four skills on the bar. Although, the A button will definitely be used for picking up items, talking to NPC's, and opening doors and such. Select can be used for the potion slot, then there's the shoulder buttons..
As per every game, the left analog stick could be used to move the character, and the right stick for the map. The D-pad buttons could be used for, say, the inventory, skills, talents, etc. When you really think about it, isn't it pretty easy to bring it over to consoles? Of course, I kinda feel like a game with such a long history on the PC (save the Diablo game for the Playstation, or whatever it was!) should stay on the PC, but with Diablo III on the console, it could potentially open up the game to a bunch of new players. Don't we want to spread the love?