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Quote from Kuupie

If you need stress relief because video game is causing you anxiety, instead of watching videos I would advice to take a look at your life as a whole.

I believe you are missing the point. I've been out of the loop long enough that I don't know what "drama" refers to in this case, but that doesn't matter - this video is a light-hearted reminder to step back and have a laugh at something fun and silly.

I love a good game of Bingo. So here we go!

Title: Blizzcon 2013 Bingo

Objective: Get five in a row. This can be modified or completely changed depending on what the group wants. I did my best to spread out easy squares and hard squares so the game lasts longer, and tried to vary things so it'd be interesting. I think you can tell where I began running out of ideas...

Bingo card (png) (psd)

Bingo card template (png) (psd) for any who want a blank version.

Quote from Johnnyxp64

my dreams was crushed!

the excuses are totally BS thought!

The game was built from the ground up to take full advantage of Battle.net,

bs1, no its not, and console version can prove that this game engine CAN run offline.

which provides a number of important benefits,

and many more disadvantages

including persistent server-side character saves,

sure thats fine, but we can do it 1 time per months as StarCraft II does without problems!

a seamless PC multiplayer experience,

thats the biggest BS off all! the game still uses the damn Asterix network and not client server 100%, and thats why a fast player gets fps issues and gameplay lag, when a Slow internet player joins the damn game!

cheat prevention,

yeah right! lets be realistic here, call it a damn online DRM ok?

and Real ID and BattleTag social features.

we don't care actually! because if you do a simple research you will see that a very very small percent of player meet strangers online and after a game they are "friends". most of the time they don't care, they dont chat, they dont make friends with strangers they just want to loot!
real LAN was helping making real FRIENDS! so Real ID etc are BS marketing, when in fact players are more isolated than before, and they don't want their REAL name to be exposed (by default) to strangers online!

screw the damn stupid antisocial Facebook row models.-

So, so much this. I wish I could up-vote your post more than one time. I think this .gif pretty much sums it up: http://i.imgur.com/g8r5wmN.gif.

I am still really very frustrated over how Blizzard treated D3 players on some many things, including the biggies - RAH and GMAH. Always-online does not make for a stronger multi-player experience - one player in the game with a degraded connection causes problems for the other players in the group. Always-online makes for a crap experience in solo play, too, when a family member hops on to my wi-fi or starts downloading a big file (for example, a WoW patch) when I'm connected via ethernet.

I also don't need the game saving my character to the server as often. The only real reason for the amount of "persistent server-side character saves" was for the players who used RAH and, especially, GMAH to buy gear for their characters. Imagine the b****-fest from those players when something happened to the characters they spent real dough on. But the RAH and GMAH are going away next year!

Which leads into the "full advantage of Battle.net" statement. Did anyone else think of the Steam-like game launcher which currently is in beta? Or how Blizzard stated and followed through on making B.net work with importing Facebook contacts? Or the recently tested tech for a World of Warcraft in-game store? "Full advantage" here means (and I don't think this an unreasonable conclusion considering other actions and words) leveraging the tech so they can make money. I'm not against a business making money, but when they are jack***** about how they make money then I take issue.

(As a related side-note, who on Earth does Blizzard think its fooling about cheat prevention? Cheating and duping and other shenanigans are still very prevalent in the game. Always-online has done little in protecting against cheating.)

What is disturbing to me is how sharing information about yourself and what you are doing and when you are doing it has become so much of a social norm that desiring something offline is somehow wrong and potentially deviant. I just want to play a game that isn't always reporting back to its masters. Games don't need that. When I wanted to play with friends - real friends and not the diluted version of the word - for D1, I held fun LAN parties. Blizzard helped make that fun happen then... why can't it do it now?

Dumping the auction houses is a start, but there is so much further to go before I would be willing to pick the game back up.

TL;DR Yes I am bitter.

Quote from Geniii

Nice Fanart! Does anyone know under which license this was released?

If it was released under any Creative Commons (CC) license, it would have shown the logo plus which license version on the page. Since it's not there, I assume the creator is retaining all publishing rights and control.

Quote from overneathe »

Irish choir Anúna has gotten in touch with Diablo 3 composer Russel Bowder and performed this incredible concert.

The composer's name is Russell Brower.

Quote from DarkWalker

I actually went to vote in that award just to be able to vote *against* Diablo 3.

while D3 is a good game, I don't think it deserves the top spot. Not by a long shot.

I did the exact same thing. No way in Sanctuary or any other world, real or imagined, does Diablo III deserve that honor. Ever. The whole game hasn't even shipped, technically, because PvP was advertised as part of Diablo III - and here we are, still waiting on that patch. It has taken months for the game to lose most of its "still in beta" experience.

So I voted Assassin's Creed: Revelations instead.

I can't speak for other classes since I only play Wizard. The problem with Wizard is not the damage that we have to mitigate through gear and abilities like Energy Armor and Diamond Skin; they are the symptom of something else, namely with resource regeneration and passives that should be desirable but have prohibitive downsides to them.

[If you want to read a write-up by Bishop120, go here. (And if you do read it, please bump it. Deserves to be seen by many more people.) Every word he wrote I can back up with my own experience.]

• The only way for Wizards to boost Arcane Power regen is via "Arcane Power on Critical Hit" (APoC).
• The only way to boost the effectiveness of APoC is to stack critical chance bonuses on gear.
• And now that you are going down that route, Critical Mass becomes an extremely attractive passive...
• and then so does Evocation...
• and since Cold Blooded doesn't have the downside that Glass Cannon does, that means Frost Nova is now part of your rotation...
• but since Frost Nova means getting kissy-kissy with monsters (mostly) you need survivability because Wizards do not get the 30% reduction which is base for Monks and Barbarians...
• soooo cue Energy Armor plus Prismatic Armor rune and Diamond Skin plus Crystal Shell rune.
• Now you need a resource spender that hits fast and multiple times in order to maximize the opportunities for critical hits, i.e. Explosive Blast runed with Chain Reaction and Energy Twister runed with Storm Chaser (originally Wicked Wind before the 50% nerf to proc; Storm Chaser appears to be unaffected).
• Profit, you now have the near-ubiquitous CM Wizard build.
http://us.battle.net...7/hero/18526052 ← that's me minus the good gear bit because I am poor.

Now, if you get to a certain point with your gear - and I am talking about hundreds of millions of gold total - you can swap around some skills and still efficiently farm in Inferno.

<_< If I didn't have to constantly fight my resource, I'd be much more willing to try different builds.

US. Thank you for the opportunity, DF!

Hmm. Like Zero(pS) said, the idea needs more fleshing out. The problem with BoP is that the serious farmers would not nearly sink as much of their gold into the Auction House but the non-BoP items they picked up would end flooding the AH even more.

My Wizard reached paragon level 2 before I stopped. I keep meaning to come back to the game to do some more... something, but then I end up doing other activities and forget about it. Not a good sign. :\

I got my very first legendary after the patch. I don't have a picture to show you, though. Those worthless Stone Gauntlets didn't even deserve a screen cap. (Note to self: only do happy dance after identifying the item...)

I was fine with the carrots. Chess pieces? Meh. But the gummi bears - now that is just wrong!

Quote from MrBlaine

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Right-click the username and report them for harassment. Then just move on; they aren't worth the time or emotion.

Quote from Bilge

I'm not sure why you're selling stuff in chat. If you put it in the AH, you get to play the game while selling it, rather than having to choose between the two. And as an added bonus, no 12 year olds with IQs in the 50-80 range will bother you.

The AH takes a 15% cut from every transaction. For 65 million gold pieces, that comes to 9,750,000 gold. Also, please don't compare the harassers to people with 50-80 IQ range - it's an insult to people with 50-80 IQ.

US region.
Thank you for doing these contests.

Quote from shaggy

I didn't post this right away, decided to give it a bit of observation time before mentioning it...

However, Waller monsters STILL put walls on top of the player, causing them to be stuck. I'm pretty sure the patch notes said this was fixed. Oh, and mobs that run away still run away a fuckton. One of those Blood Clan mage dudes kited me halfway around one of the Tower levels last night.

Yeah. Getting stuck in a wall when the elite is also a desecrator really stinks. The repair bills...