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[Molster]

Diablo III Inferno Booster Pack Giveaway
Starting this week we will be holding a giveaway once a week to our active forum members. There will be two winners (one EU and one US). Each winner will receive one Diablo III Inferno Item Booster Pack. These are meant to be quick fun giveaways to help out new characters. However you may get lucky and find something a little bit more powerful!

Important: The Contest thread can be found here. This news post is NOT the contest thread.

The Prize
Each Booster pack is for softcore and contains the following items:

• 20 random unidentified items (Between ilvl 61 and 63. There will always be at least one ilvl 63)
• 40 Inferno level Crafting mats (A mix of Iridescent Tears and Exquisite Essences)
• 30 Tomes of Secrets
• 4 Flawless Square Gems (one gem of each type)

How to Enter

• Be active in the community. (Have at least 5 quality posts in the last week)
• Post in the contest thread by Monday, July 23rd at 5:00 PM EDT. Include what region you are in (US or EU)
• DO NOT post more than once in the contest thread. Multiple posts or multiple accounts will have you disqualified
• If you want to discuss the giveaway, use this news post, not the contest thread.
• Winners will be announced in Monday night's news post and contacted via PM.

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General Guide for Wizards in Inferno
Morphos has posted a very detailed guide for Wizards in Inferno. He covers four different builds giving strategies, pros and cons, and variants for each build. He also lists some great tools for helping you gear along with a guide to gearing. Make sure to check his thread out. Clicking the builds below will take you to that builds section in his guide.
 

Archon Build

 

Arcane Orb Build

 

Critical Mass Build

 

Blizzard Kitting Build

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Character Profiles and D3 Web API Status Update on Monday
For those eagerly waiting for the Diablo III API, or for the characters profiles page, Straton has posted on the wow forums informing us that he will be posting the status of both on Monday.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

I'll post the status of profiles and the D3 web APIs on Monday. I've been out on vacation.

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MoP Opening Cinematic World Premiere

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Don’t miss the world premiere of the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria opening cinematic at gamescom 2012! The latest creation from Blizzard’s cinematics team will be shown in both English and German on giant screens at our booth in Halle 6.1 (B21).

The opening cinematic will debut at 14:00 on Thursday, August 16, the first fully public day of gamescom. This much-anticipated unveiling will be accompanied by a performance from MANAO - Drums of China – the all-female Chinese drumming group that opened and closed the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. A signing session with Blizzard developers will immediately follow the premiere.

Remember that from August 15-19, our booth will also be showcasing World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, and Diablo III, as well as our famous dance and costume contests, and many other activities.

Visit our Activities page for details, and be sure to check back here soon for more on what we have in store for you at gamescom!

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Hardcore - Average Character Lifespan of Only 6 Hours
Blizzard released an interesting statistic over on their facebook page saying the average character lifespan of a hardcore character was only 6 hours! With this in mind, how far have you made it in hardcore?

Originally Posted by Blizzard

Hardcore players represent! Did you know that Hardcore characters in Diablo III have an average lifespan of only 6 hours? (Source)

 

[Molster]

This is not the contest thread

(If you want to enter, the thread is found here)

[egg3rs]

the average hardcore character lasts 6 hours until they hit a lag spike mid fight and bite the dust

[DieHardBastionFan]

The poll options are poorly chosen. They overlap in Act II of every difficulty.

[Molster]

DieHardBastionFan, on 21 July 2012 - 01:37 AM, said:

The poll options are poorly chosen. They overlap in Act II of every difficulty.

It should say act 3.. hold up

edit: I don't know whats wrong, if you click "SHow results" it labels it correctly. Ill look into it


edit: it looks like only one part of it got updated. should be good now

Edited by Molster, 21 July 2012 - 01:40 AM.

[Miv]

D3 HC: I have about 80 hours played on my first and only hardcore char (too lazy to check the exact number), I've killed belial and could probably do A3 pretty easily if I tried, but I quit hardcore because it is too simple-- I feel like I'm playing softcore with more defense stats and no rmah.

In reference to the contest: Have these items being given away already been checked for stats? (I mean, it's a give away so even if they have been, people can't really complain, I'm mostly just curious)

[Molster]

Miv, on 21 July 2012 - 02:25 AM, said:

D3 HC: I have about 80 hours played on my first and only hardcore char (too lazy to check the exact number), I've killed belial and could probably do A3 pretty easily if I tried, but I quit hardcore because it is too simple-- I feel like I'm playing softcore with more defense stats and no rmah.

In reference to the contest: Have these items being given away already been checked for stats? (I mean, it's a give away so even if they have been, people can't really complain, I'm mostly just curious)

that would kill the point. they are 100% unidentified.

[Frozenkex]

flawless square gems? rly? ;]

[phuzi0n]

The contest is a cool idea and free loot is still freeloot, but IMO it's VERY little loot at all, like ~30 mins worth of farming for a geared person in a3. You might get lucky and hit the jackpot with the unid's but the crafting/gems are only worth about as much as 1 full repair. It would be nice if you bumped it up to ~100 mats, ~50 tomes, ~20 gems.

[Molster]

phuzi0n, on 21 July 2012 - 03:05 AM, said:

The contest is a cool idea and free loot is still freeloot, but IMO it's VERY little loot at all, like ~30 mins worth of farming for a geared person in a3. You might get lucky and hit the jackpot with the unid's but the crafting/gems are only worth about as much as 1 full repair. It would be nice if you bumped it up to ~100 mats, ~50 tomes, ~20 gems.

it may get bumped up as time goes on. We wanted to keep it at an avg amount for the time, as this is something that we have to farm every week for...well a long time. Increasing the limit later is much easier than reducing it =P

basically it's meant to just be a quick fun little thing to giveaway each week, giving someone the option to maybe get lucky.

Edited by Molster, 21 July 2012 - 03:12 AM.

[Sojourna]

Non-hardcore player here.

[Foozer]

As much as I'd like my hardcore cause of death to be lag, I'll hold off on that game mode for a bit.

[JunkaDK]

lol worst giveaway EVER! Inferno boost pack.. LMFAO )

[RSnooks]

Free items and people complain, is that really what this community has fallen to?

Back on topic, I've got a Hardcore Barbarian in Act 2 Nightmare... stopped playing him once the RMAH came out to try and make some profit.

[Aggressive]

10% of the answears are at act 3-4 inferno hardcore?
Yeah right....
I guess some of them missed it was the HC-question....not SC.

[Aggressive]

JunkaDK, on 21 July 2012 - 08:16 AM, said:

lol worst giveaway EVER! Inferno boost pack.. LMFAO )

At least it's items. But not a real inferno-boost, hehe.

[JunkaDK]

Aggressive, on 21 July 2012 - 09:46 AM, said:

JunkaDK, on 21 July 2012 - 08:16 AM, said:

lol worst giveaway EVER! Inferno boost pack.. LMFAO )

At least it's items. But not a real inferno-boost, hehe.

Exactly.. it could say free giveaway, but to call it inferno boost.. thats just wrong 4 flawless squares.. come on

Edited by JunkaDK, 21 July 2012 - 11:00 AM.

[BeRse]

Miv, on 21 July 2012 - 02:25 AM, said:

D3 HC: I have about 80 hours played on my first and only hardcore char (too lazy to check the exact number), I've killed belial and could probably do A3 pretty easily if I tried, but I quit hardcore because it is too simple-- I feel like I'm playing softcore with more defense stats and no rmah.

cool story bro ....

[Benegesserit]

egg3rs, on 21 July 2012 - 01:25 AM, said:

the average hardcore character lasts 6 hours until they hit a lag spike mid fight and bite the dust

amen

[Zircrom]

Oops delete this post.

Edited by Zircrom, 21 July 2012 - 08:56 PM.