I thought it was funny in Act 4 when he 'lost hope' and then before you fight Diablo, he's all - hopeful, again. Such a mood swing, not manly at all.
He lost hope because Auriel (the Archangel of Hope) was captured. Upon freeing her hope was restored to the heavens. It wasn't exactly a "mood swing"
Yeah, but he isn't part of the heavens anymore :o. The thing that pissed me off the most how they made all the souls of the evils magically appear in the black soulstone. They were just like oh Adria did that... wtf
Actually, Auriel's capture affected more than just the Heavens.
Look around the Keep area when you're on the quest to free her. It's pretty well-done. The entire town is filled with despair, and a married couple even commits suicide.
There were like 10+ threads on the front page of D3 General complaining about the lack of "skill permanence" every single day, even before the Beta was launched.
The other half of the threads were people complaining about the people who complained about the lack of "skill permanence".
It is absolutely obvious that NV was designed as a compromise between these groups. You can use the Internet Wayback Machine to view the forums back then if you don't believe me. It was the #1 complaint about D3 from D2 players in Beta and pre-Beta.
It is likely that the general sentiment against NV now (in this current day and age) is because the game now has a much bigger audience than just the Beta and pre-Beta followers.
Throwing around the word "exploit" to describe manually swapping your magic find gear is just stupid.
It's a completely obvious part of gameplay that has existed in D2 and D3. Whether or not it is a GOOD GAMEPLAY CONCEPT or whether it is FAIR IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS is entirely different, but it is never an exploit.
After I saw this, I hopped over to a hacking/botting site I know of - lots of people got banned for botting programs, but what is awesome is that they also got banned for scripting programs which they assumed that "Blizzard would never ban for".
That restores a lot of my confidence in their ability to detect and prevent botting.
I'll actually be able to duo Inferno with a friend now. It was just plain stupid that duoing was 10x harder than soloing because mobs 1-shot you instead of 3-shotting you.
This definition is actually copy-pasted from Liquidpedia (a StarCraft 2 wiki), but the definition is essentially the same in Diablo:
"Stutter Step is a technique where you order a unit to move right as its attack animation starts. This way it will deal damage but instantly start moving again, allowing you to keep up with fleeing units and attacking again."
Basically, you attack and then instantly move, then the second the animation for the attack ceases, you can attack again and move again. The result is that you will attack at essentially the same rate as somebody who is standing still except you will be moving.
Completely doctored stats. They take ALL chars into account for their stats. Given that probably 50-60% of all characters are mules, or under level 5, it's complete BS.
I'd estimate about 30-40% of all players are in Inferno. Probably more.
LOL. You have no perspective about any kind of gamer other than yourself (hardcore/skilled gamer) if you honestly believe what you just said.
Most of the people clear Normal and never continue. The other people probably couldn't make it through Nightmare.
You have to understand that most people are not you. We are the 1% (well probably more like top 5%) of gamers, and it wasn't hard to get here. It just happens because there are so many other gamers gaming for so many different reasons.
Blizzard may or may not be inflating their statistics but the real % in Inferno is not even half of what you suggested. Not even close.
Sure, if blinding yourself and feeling "elite" makes you all warm and fuzzy. Why don't they show the percentages of ACCOUNTS that have unlocked Inferno then?
No, the stats shown are chosen very carefully, in order to push a point.
It has nothing to do with feeling elite. I always feel like I'm a bad player (I'm hard on myself when I make mistakes), but way to pretend you know me.
I've played a LOT with causal and/or bad players over the years, and you just do not understand how vastly they outnumber us. There are metric crapton of WoW players with annual pass subs that are just going to clear Normal and level alts. Nearly all of my friends have just leveled multiple characters through Normal and haven't even started on Nightmare. One of my friends is playing with her entire family in 4-player coop and they're still in Act 1 Normal because she's still having to teach them the controls because they're slow learners. THAT is the general population.
You just don't have any perspective on the gaming population if you honestly believe anywhere near 40% of accounts have unlocked Inferno. That's just absurd.
I play more defensively than everyone else apparently, and I'm only on Act 2 (just after Magda) so it may change later, but:
Venom Hydra
Blizzard with Snowbound
Energy Armor with Prismatic Armor (can be changed to Force, but you should be getting more +all resists and this will be much better)
Diamond Skin with Crystal Shell
Teleport with Fracture (can be changed to Wormhole, but Fracture allows more Venom Hydra DPS time)
Mirror Images with Duplicates
Astral Presence, Evocation (personal preference - lots of things work here), and Illusionist
1. Use Blizzard often to slow mobs. If you are against Fast mobs, try to do this but don't bother if you are too slow or not in a good position at the time.
2. Venom Hydra whenever you can - he's full of win.
3. Mirror Images should be your first defensive CD to use - it is great versus Teleporter (teleports to the wrong mobs), Fast (gives you escape time), Frozen (breaks the snare), Jailer (breaks the snare), and many other types.
4. Diamond Skin should be your second option. If you get hit (I try to get hit once with it up), you will refresh your Mirror Images AND Teleport cooldown (this mechanic is the center of the build).
5. Teleport away, use Mirror Images if Teleport clones are not enough of a distraction before Diamond Skin is up.
The only thing you could ever die to is a bad move (happens to everyone), if you are in a superenclosed space and didn't clear out other mobs first, or if you hit an enrage timer (just wait and try it again and let the hydra stack better).
My stats: 40k HP, 6100 Armor, 300 resists, 15.5k damage
I find very little use in Life Steal (does it even work with Blizzard and Hydra?) and Life Regen (it seems hard to get enough where it would matter) at the moment. I think people just really are heavily going into this when they could just be not using Glass Cannon and other stuff and instead getting defensive skills.
I'm sorry, but it was only an example. I didn't want to flood it here, but if you search, you'll find pretty similar reports on these hackings... People with authenticators... Blizzard's replying tickets saying there was no evidence of the account being hacked... People with level 1 characters on the Recent Played list... Many of them.
A close friend of mine was hacked, after playing in a Public Game, and a level 1 character appeared in his Recent Played list (which he didn't play with before). He didn't have an authenticator, but he's very knowledgeable with computers and was never hacked before.
So, it's all just evidence... I just wish they would investigate further, as they said they will, but without ignoring these evidences.
Look at the Customer service forums and filter by blue post. They've been responding to almost every person who claims to be hacked by authenticator. The threads go like this: "WOW All these peepls gettin hacked, happesn to me too and I have an authenticator"
Blue: "You never have had an authenticator on that account"
Original poster never comes back
That happens over and over and over again. They've specifically investigated the ones claiming to have authenticators and found that none of them of had "true" authenticators (dial-in ones don't work worth shit). They have to investigate this seriously and they spent over 2-3 days before they even responded - obviously, they've been checking everything that was said and taking it very seriously.
The reason the level 1s are in the list is simple: when they hack your account, they give it to the level 1 because there is no mail system. That level 1 gives it to another and so on and so-forth. Your friend may know a lot about computers, but if he does he should know that safe computer practices are never enough if you don't constantly update flash and java (both types of flash) as new vulnerabilities pop up all the time. There have been several huge hacking waves in WoW where people claimed Blizzard was hacked but in reality Adobe Flash had a new vulnerability.
The Public session theory is even more silly. When that theory came out, there were tons of exceptions to that theory quickly uncovered, so the people supporting it said "Oh, they probably can hack private sessions too, so just don't make ANY GAMES". That's like me saying that people with left-hands play great basketball, then somebody with a right-hand proving they did too, and then me revising my statement to say "oh and right-handed people too".
The reason you find this "evidence" all over the internet is because people like you post it as evidence everywhere you go. Somebody could link this thread if we didn't try to refute your claims and say "look there's another guy saying he saw people with authenticators being hacked". Everyone is just repeating the same thing across different forums and then they point to the number of times they've repeated it as evidence that it is more true. It's ridiculous circular logic.
I want a single person to come forward as the bannerman for these supposed "authenticator hacks". I want him to post on the Battle.net forums and make a coherent post in modern English stating his circumstances. Is that so entirely unreasonable? I imagine if there were people who got hacked with an authenticator (that isn't Dial-In) and they were called liars (like I'm calling them now), they would at least make such a tiny effort like posting on the Battle.net forums.
I dunno, they allowed World of Warcraft to go nearly a year without major content patches towards the end of Cataclysm. If they do that for a subscription-based MMO....
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http://i.imgur.com/k6akJ.jpg
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Actually, Auriel's capture affected more than just the Heavens.
Look around the Keep area when you're on the quest to free her. It's pretty well-done. The entire town is filled with despair, and a married couple even commits suicide.
1
The other half of the threads were people complaining about the people who complained about the lack of "skill permanence".
It is absolutely obvious that NV was designed as a compromise between these groups. You can use the Internet Wayback Machine to view the forums back then if you don't believe me. It was the #1 complaint about D3 from D2 players in Beta and pre-Beta.
It is likely that the general sentiment against NV now (in this current day and age) is because the game now has a much bigger audience than just the Beta and pre-Beta followers.
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It's a completely obvious part of gameplay that has existed in D2 and D3. Whether or not it is a GOOD GAMEPLAY CONCEPT or whether it is FAIR IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS is entirely different, but it is never an exploit.
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That restores a lot of my confidence in their ability to detect and prevent botting.
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I'll actually be able to duo Inferno with a friend now. It was just plain stupid that duoing was 10x harder than soloing because mobs 1-shot you instead of 3-shotting you.
1
"Stutter Step is a technique where you order a unit to move right as its attack animation starts. This way it will deal damage but instantly start moving again, allowing you to keep up with fleeing units and attacking again."
Basically, you attack and then instantly move, then the second the animation for the attack ceases, you can attack again and move again. The result is that you will attack at essentially the same rate as somebody who is standing still except you will be moving.
1
It has nothing to do with feeling elite. I always feel like I'm a bad player (I'm hard on myself when I make mistakes), but way to pretend you know me.
I've played a LOT with causal and/or bad players over the years, and you just do not understand how vastly they outnumber us. There are metric crapton of WoW players with annual pass subs that are just going to clear Normal and level alts. Nearly all of my friends have just leveled multiple characters through Normal and haven't even started on Nightmare. One of my friends is playing with her entire family in 4-player coop and they're still in Act 1 Normal because she's still having to teach them the controls because they're slow learners. THAT is the general population.
You just don't have any perspective on the gaming population if you honestly believe anywhere near 40% of accounts have unlocked Inferno. That's just absurd.
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Venom Hydra
Blizzard with Snowbound
Energy Armor with Prismatic Armor (can be changed to Force, but you should be getting more +all resists and this will be much better)
Diamond Skin with Crystal Shell
Teleport with Fracture (can be changed to Wormhole, but Fracture allows more Venom Hydra DPS time)
Mirror Images with Duplicates
Astral Presence, Evocation (personal preference - lots of things work here), and Illusionist
1. Use Blizzard often to slow mobs. If you are against Fast mobs, try to do this but don't bother if you are too slow or not in a good position at the time.
2. Venom Hydra whenever you can - he's full of win.
3. Mirror Images should be your first defensive CD to use - it is great versus Teleporter (teleports to the wrong mobs), Fast (gives you escape time), Frozen (breaks the snare), Jailer (breaks the snare), and many other types.
4. Diamond Skin should be your second option. If you get hit (I try to get hit once with it up), you will refresh your Mirror Images AND Teleport cooldown (this mechanic is the center of the build).
5. Teleport away, use Mirror Images if Teleport clones are not enough of a distraction before Diamond Skin is up.
The only thing you could ever die to is a bad move (happens to everyone), if you are in a superenclosed space and didn't clear out other mobs first, or if you hit an enrage timer (just wait and try it again and let the hydra stack better).
My stats: 40k HP, 6100 Armor, 300 resists, 15.5k damage
I find very little use in Life Steal (does it even work with Blizzard and Hydra?) and Life Regen (it seems hard to get enough where it would matter) at the moment. I think people just really are heavily going into this when they could just be not using Glass Cannon and other stuff and instead getting defensive skills.
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Look at the Customer service forums and filter by blue post. They've been responding to almost every person who claims to be hacked by authenticator. The threads go like this: "WOW All these peepls gettin hacked, happesn to me too and I have an authenticator"
Blue: "You never have had an authenticator on that account"
Original poster never comes back
That happens over and over and over again. They've specifically investigated the ones claiming to have authenticators and found that none of them of had "true" authenticators (dial-in ones don't work worth shit). They have to investigate this seriously and they spent over 2-3 days before they even responded - obviously, they've been checking everything that was said and taking it very seriously.
The reason the level 1s are in the list is simple: when they hack your account, they give it to the level 1 because there is no mail system. That level 1 gives it to another and so on and so-forth. Your friend may know a lot about computers, but if he does he should know that safe computer practices are never enough if you don't constantly update flash and java (both types of flash) as new vulnerabilities pop up all the time. There have been several huge hacking waves in WoW where people claimed Blizzard was hacked but in reality Adobe Flash had a new vulnerability.
The Public session theory is even more silly. When that theory came out, there were tons of exceptions to that theory quickly uncovered, so the people supporting it said "Oh, they probably can hack private sessions too, so just don't make ANY GAMES". That's like me saying that people with left-hands play great basketball, then somebody with a right-hand proving they did too, and then me revising my statement to say "oh and right-handed people too".
The reason you find this "evidence" all over the internet is because people like you post it as evidence everywhere you go. Somebody could link this thread if we didn't try to refute your claims and say "look there's another guy saying he saw people with authenticators being hacked". Everyone is just repeating the same thing across different forums and then they point to the number of times they've repeated it as evidence that it is more true. It's ridiculous circular logic.
I want a single person to come forward as the bannerman for these supposed "authenticator hacks". I want him to post on the Battle.net forums and make a coherent post in modern English stating his circumstances. Is that so entirely unreasonable? I imagine if there were people who got hacked with an authenticator (that isn't Dial-In) and they were called liars (like I'm calling them now), they would at least make such a tiny effort like posting on the Battle.net forums.