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Someone deleted my awesome constructive post, so I'll reiterate: QQ :whistling:

But I'll add that the old system of PvP was the result of someone saying "oops, we need PvP" and throwing in a quick crappy solution. If you want to physically fight off annoying people rather than simply not play with them, cool beans.

For everyone else (I don't pretend to speak for everyone but I SERIOUSLY doubt most people would disagree), we'd rather just not play with the jerk in the first place.

If you like the crappy old system so much, you can still play D2 :geek:

I don't know what you expect without your CD-key. You wouldn't be able to install LOD anyway without it.

If Brand hits every ability including his ult (with the max bounces(3), a ridiculous feat and which would pretty much require him hitting the stun, making it even more difficult) with 1000AP, he can deal ~4000 damage (calculated). That's the maximum insanely-unlikely scenario which is never going to happen, and burns your ult.

In contrast, Anivia's two-shot combo with her LB auto, and dropping her AOE for even just one hit, at 1000AP, is ~4200. This is going to happen all the time in games. This burns no long cooldowns (like 8 seconds on the longest one), is much easier to pull of, and can and will happen many times in a given game. Plus, after the first hit it's guaranteed.

Lich Bane is amazing on Anivia because she has one of the longest auto-attack ranges in the game, and nearly always fires one automatically during her normal spell rotation. It's a free 800-1k damage guaranteed hit.

Anivia's skillshot may be slower than most, but at medium range with it's wide path, a good Anivia will nearly always hit it. The blast radius is quite large. Plus, she fires into crowds during teamfights, and the stun is AOE. She can then choose a target and deal incredible burst damage, renewable in 8 seconds or less.

PLUS, she's got a wall and an infinite-duration AOE damage/slow along with her stun, making her great at crowd control. Brand has pretty much zero CC.

Anivia >>>>>>> Brand.

Goddamn raptor props for the gangster-ass WOT avatar. MATTTTTT.

On the topic at hand, I picked Desert and Forest, but I'm down for anything that looks cool. Definitely tend to prefer outdoor to indoor though.

QQ :whistling:

Anivia is very much a nuker, it's just that her nukes are difficult to execute because of the whole chilled->double deal. But skilled players can hit with both parts of the ice ball and then land the freezing wind deal pretty consistently, and that combo on a near-max or max build Anivia is ~2500 damage. I one shot (well two shot, one shot combo ) people with that a LOT.

On top of this, if you grab lich bane, the autoattack you can throw into this combo adds another ~900 damage, for a 3.4k burst. Even with 100MR that will kill many squishies.

Brand is not capable of a 3.4k rotation that I've seen lol.

And then on top of that Anivia's got her awesome slow DOT AOE and super cool wall :sleep: Such a great champ.

Edit: Also, you thought Lee Sin is OP? He seemed pretty weak to me, I was sad I bought him D: Not like Nocturne, the rape-ghost of the jungle <3

There's lots of them, but probably best is a couple years ago when me and some friends decided to play coop again with connect over IP for fun. We stumbled upon a way of duping runes toward the end of nightmare, so we spent a couple days just sitting there hours at a time combining and stockpiling runes, creating a "library" so we could dupe whatever we needed instantly for runeword items.

Then we went into hell mode and died a bunch anyways :whistling:

Still got a bunch of mules full of crap from that play through, can only use 'em in singleplayer or direct IP connect lol.

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Another thing I was thinking about, with Starcraft 2 one of the blues said beta was coming Summer 2009. The months went by and no new information was given out until right before Blizzcon when they said it was delayed because of Battle.net 2.0. A lot of people hated Blizzard for announcing a summer beta so early and then saying nothing about it for months until they finally found out it was delayed for a year. I think Blizzard has learned from this and will not say a thing about a possible D3 beta launch until they know for sure "it's in two weeks" or whatever.

Baskiok said "very specifically", but any planned dates they have are still tentative. They could change at any time if something comes up. Beta will probably not be announced until the date is set in stone, which can only happen right before beta.

You gotta remember that they were building Bnet2.0 at the time that this happened, which was the main reason for SC2's delay. They probably WERE ready to release the beta then, but Bnet was not, so they put it on hold. The SC2 beta was remarkably polished for this reason, they had basically 8 extra months of internal testing.

I didn't know this thread existed!

I play tons o' league, big on Nocturne, Anivia, Shen, Malphite, Malzahar, bunch of others.

Also on the Brand debate, I think the reason people think he's OP is that he's kinda new and people are already doing cool things with him. For my money I think it's just 'cause people tend to understand how to use strong AP carries like him so he's easy to pick up and use well early. In comparison Anivia (whom I <3) is capable of a much higher damage output but has been around long enough that people are used to her, and know her weaknesses.

League is quite well balanced IMO, there are no straight up garbage champions that aren't at least decent in practiced hands, and very few that are un-debatably more powerful than the rest.

Blizz does tend to announce things out of the blue if they feel like it (Artisans a month before last Blizzcon, when they could have easily just waited until Blizzcon to release the info), so announcing systems doesn't seem like too big a stretch.

I seriously doubt we won't at least hear an estimate as to when the beta is coming in the conference call regardless of when it comes out. They specifically said it would come up next time, and what else could they say about it?

My guess is the facebook likes will reveal something artsy, perhaps a new design for the Barbarian--since they mentioned they might change his lore away from being the same Barb from the last game.

If you can look at the environments in Diablo 3 and not be speechless, you are clearly blind. The outdoor environments look like masterwork paintings...

Maybe it's because I'm an artist, but I've never understood the complaints against the art style. Everything from the color pallets to the textures to the geometry is gorgeous. It's lower-poly than a lot of other games, but higher polygon count != better looking necessarily, it means potential for more detail.

Also, it's easy to knock Blizzard for choosing to optimize their games for lower end PCs, because apparently it's some kind of insult to the "hardcore" crowd* (oops, your two thousand dollar gaming comp isn't necessary :whistling: ), but without that consideration their games wouldn't be nearly as widespread. A lot of people can't afford that kind of PC.

*While I find this term silly, I too have a big fancy computer <3

I've been wondering what they would do for the Demon Hunter myself. I think it would be cool if it was a balance system as you say, where the more you use one type of ability the fast it's pool decreases, and only fills when you use abilities from the other pool (except outside of combat of course, where they would regenerate quickly). Seems demon-hunter-y.

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Blizzard has really talented artists working for them, who look at every detail when designing a creature or character to make sure it's sending the right message.

They also reiterate everything

Yes, but they don't tend to re-do cinematics :tongue:

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Leah I give as the reason for the femininity because she must be pretty damn important to show up in the Cinematic trailer in such a prominent role. In comparison, Tychus Findlay in Starcraft 2 was shown in the reveal trailer, and (without spoiling anything) he has a VERY important role in the finale.

That's a good point, though it doesn't say how she'll be involved in the story.

True fact.

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Spiritual? Lilith literally jumps into Serenthia's body, and when she's driven out she climbs out of her victom's mouth.

That's pretty hardcore.

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I personally don't think she's possessed or corrupted

Not yet :whistling:

Also, yeah, I think it would be an interesting choice, making the villain female, if only because it's so uncommon. I mean, technically it would still be Diablo, a big genderless evil dude--but it's sorta taken for granted that he will take on a masculine physical form when, logically, there's not real reason for him to

I hadn't seen your thread before Daemaro, but you make some excellent points, and all those soulstone fragments left unaccounted for may well make possession with physical manifestations possible.

Still circumstantial evidence, but I'll take what I can get :laugh:

Edit: Also, I was rereading your post about Nephalem potential Phrozen, and I thought I'd mention again there seems to be evidence that Leah is in some way gifted. We see in the trailer that she seems to have a vision about the future meteor impact. So while a typical Nephalem might only be powerful in comparison to a demon grunt, she might in fact be on a much higher level, like Bul Kathos or Rathma.

Even MORE ridiculously speculative, admittedly, but clearly she's no ordinary woman.