I'm a recent computer science graduate with a minor in mathematics. I've been involved in a few different upper level software engineering courses which usually involve creating a peice of software from the ground up the way the "big boys" do it in the real world.
It's not an easy process, and what the blue poster said is spot on the money. While their are a lot of "easy" fixes to the game, they are not easy to implement. A lot of different things have to be taken into consideration aside from the actual software engineering work that goes on behind the scenes. Just think about this:
Usually a peice of code needs to be put through unit testing and integration testing just to get an idea of where the software "doesn't perfom as intended". Then once the developers have an idea of where things went wrong, they need to develop a solution. That solution needs to be implemented, documented, tested and reviewed. There is a lot of paperwork and documentation that needs to go on for each step. At any point in the software new errors can be discovered, more previous errors can surface and so on.
It's a process that takes a lot of time and a lot of effort. Sure its easy to say that throwing in a ladder system and starting everyone fresh would fix everything, and its reasonable to think both things could help but those are not "easy" fixes.
As someone who studied to be a software engineer, I know that they aren't just pissing in the wind here. If you ask my opinion, blizzard made a real mess of diablo 3 and it seems like they are working towards making the game better... it's just not something that is going to happen over night.
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I've been waiting for the third episode for a long time now. Eager to see what advise he has in it?
Seems odd that TryHard put out the witchdoctor legendary guide first.
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It's not an easy process, and what the blue poster said is spot on the money. While their are a lot of "easy" fixes to the game, they are not easy to implement. A lot of different things have to be taken into consideration aside from the actual software engineering work that goes on behind the scenes. Just think about this:
Usually a peice of code needs to be put through unit testing and integration testing just to get an idea of where the software "doesn't perfom as intended". Then once the developers have an idea of where things went wrong, they need to develop a solution. That solution needs to be implemented, documented, tested and reviewed. There is a lot of paperwork and documentation that needs to go on for each step. At any point in the software new errors can be discovered, more previous errors can surface and so on.
It's a process that takes a lot of time and a lot of effort. Sure its easy to say that throwing in a ladder system and starting everyone fresh would fix everything, and its reasonable to think both things could help but those are not "easy" fixes.
As someone who studied to be a software engineer, I know that they aren't just pissing in the wind here. If you ask my opinion, blizzard made a real mess of diablo 3 and it seems like they are working towards making the game better... it's just not something that is going to happen over night.
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The one thing it does have in common with Diablo 2 is that its a rat race. It's an eternal grind. There is no end game, the plot is incredibly short and gets repititve much faster then Diablo 2 did.
I started as a Barb on launch day which was PAINFUL at best. DH & WIZ were so crazy OP that anyone who played those classes got crazy rich (or most anyone) and the rest either played the auction house like a pro, botted, or just plain suffered. I suffered on my Barbarian up to level 52 and then gave up. Decided to roll a DH (after they got nerf batted) and while it was pretty slow and painfull too it wasnt as bad as my experience with the barb.
Then I quit for a few months. Came back to my barb and finished him to level 60, regeared and took on the standard cookie cutter whirlwind build. I was able to do ALK runs on MP0 but I died every other run at least and that was making the runs slow and took away much of the profit.
So I started to think hard about the game and why I was playing it. I want this game to be fun for me. I've realized I do not want to farm for hundreds of hours (and I won't) as that is a chore. I also decided I wouldn't spend real money on the game. I was toying around with throwing $5 into gold because in all honesty $5 is nothing and the time it would take me to get 20M is worth WAY more then $5. But so far I haven't invested into gold.
I want to get each of the classes through inferno and one class to paragon level 100. At that point, at least for me, I will consider myself "done" with diablo 3 and probably only poke back in every once in a while.
So the journey for my witch doctor has started and I'm nearing level 30. My question is, how much gold will I need to invest (at level 60) to make him efficent at paragon leveling in MP0. By effiencent I mean able to do the run within 120 to 130% of the time it "should" take and not dying to every other elite pack.
I have 2M right now and will probably have between 3M to 4M when my doc hits level 60. Assume the following:
I need a complete gear set and I will not be hitting the auction house lottery.