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As I am undecided, what draws you to the monk?

$0 budget, just curious. Say I have $500 to spend on upgrades or a new machine, what should I do?

I have a 10 year old mid-atx case with a 750W psu. Current motherboard is an ASUS M2N-E SLI, 3 gigs of 240pin DDR2 800 ram (one stick worked just long enough to get itself out of warranty) and the CPU is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Windsor 3000. Monitor is fine, optical drive is fine, hard drives should be fine, OS has one more install on the three-seat license (7 Ultimate). Copy-paste of my GPU is: 2 x ASUS EN7300GT SILENT/HTD/512M GeForce 7300GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 SLI.

Given this setup and the theoretical budget, would you build a new box or just upgrade? Primary use is gaming, RTS/FPS and D3 (of course!) - it was rebuilt for WoW 3.0. Secondary use would be the rare video encoding, GIMPing photos, watching movies, office-style work.

ETA: I have built about 6 machines if you count rebuilds of this one (on my 4th mobo setup), so I am fully sold on your concept.

Welcome. Don't be afraid to read what is already here - I'm still trying to catch up!

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World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2 all have Voice chat options, I don't see any reason why there wont be voice chat functions in Diablo 3, although that doesnt mean you have to put up with high pitched little Swedish boys, you can just turn it off, like with World of Warcraft and Starcraft 2, the in-game voice systems are rarely used and people still opt for Ventrilo/Teamspeak/Skype

I agree. I can't see there NOT being a voice chat included - and that people will opt out of it. That being said, the few times I used the Blizzard voice chat in WoW (a year or so ago in a 5man), I had no complaints vs Vent/TS/Mumble.

Very nice. I never played D1 so I will especially be looking forward to part 2.

Thank you for posting this!

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

- Denis Waitley

This seem to be an appropriate philosophy.

I agree with Igy. They have a problem and a simple (and a little annoying) solution. I can't imagine how an "Oak Sage" for everyone would be balanced - especially if there is no indication that you have x buff.

I don't have much affection for the D2 druid but I enjoyed playing one in WoW. Since the lore is much more interesting in Diablo, I'm hoping the two influences could come together for a kick-ass druid.

Is the soundtrack usually something Blizzard has included in the Collector's Editions of WoW?

If that is the case, I would look for it in the shiny packaging, not before release. ....Although I could also see a Blizzcon favor.

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I should add that in order to socket a higher level rune into a skill you need to have a higher number of points invested in that skill.

I must have missed this piece of the puzzle - when did this get revealed?

Vanilla. Templar to go with my Wizard.

However, if the friend I expect to be playing alongside backs out, I might switch to Barb/Scoundrel.

I was expecting October for a beta release. I don't think anything from the past few days has changed my mind.

I fall into the "don't have facepage" non-liker category.