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Quote from Bul_Kathos

I saw someone say its 110% per 0.4 seconds but whether attack speed will let you fit in more attacks per second we will see.

Now I remember that was what the old tooltip used to say. I wonder why they took that part out. It might have gotten changed throughout the course of balancing.

So I was looking at the Skill Calculator for the thousandth time and Whirlwind specifically caught my eye. The skill states: "Deliver multiple attacks to everything in your path for 110% weapon damage." Now, the confusion relates mostly from the words "multiple attacks." Is this just word fluff that indicates that you hit every enemy in range? Or does it indicate that your attack speed is increased during the time to do more hits than you usually do. I'm really hoping that the second is true. Otherwise Cleave would do better AoE damage. Even with the Volcanic Eruption rune it does 143% weapon damage while Cleave with Broad Sweep does 156% weapon damage. I realize none of us have any clue as to how this works, even the skill video doesn't give a very good indicator because the damage of the shown player is obviously too high for the level/area he is in, but this thread is mostly speculation on how WW won't suck.

This thread should be a poll so I could vote "no."

America: "… it launches at 12:01 a.m. PDT on May 15"
Asia: "… it launches at 12:01 a.m. PDT on May 15"
Europe: 12:00 a.m. CEST May 15 = 3 p.m. PDT on May 14 -> "With our previous releases we do release them at local times, so for Europe it will be midnight on the 15th, which in theory means that it will be released a few hours before North America gets it. This might change in the future but it will then be updated on our webpage." (by Blizzard)

Taken from the Diablo 3 Countdown widget. However, I'm not sure of it's official source.

I always listen to dBu when I play fast paced games.

I don't think Weh would work very well, because saying a url would make you sound equally idiotic under our current system. However, Wul could be a good alternative.

I think it's exaggerated so you can actually see it. If it was a slight sway, you wouldn't notice it, especially in the heat of battle. I agree, it does look pretty disconcerting at first, but I didn't even see it until the third time I watched the video that Kickin_It posted.

Almost perfect timing for me. My last day of school is on May 11th and I'm quitting my job on the 10th in preparation for a move. The only pesky thing is that I'm walking to get my diploma on the 19th, and I can't skip because I've already purchased the robe. (Just kidding, walking is going to be awesome)

For the lazy wizard who only wants to use the mouse for attacks. This build is definitely meant to use a two handed weapon.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#UlQOjS!WTc!aYaZaZ

There are only new runes and passives past level 30.

Yes, they changed it around patch 15. Now you cast it and the explosion occurs around the caster after a certain delay. They also added a 6 second cooldown.

Quote from AlamarCurse

And then you'll post the paper here? : )

Maybe send out some PMs : )

-Alamar

I'll definitely post the finished product when I'm finished. It may be around mid April before I get the final copy submitted however.

Wow, thanks for all of the replies, I wasn't expecting so many by the time I got home. A lot of this stuff would be great in my paper. I have a ton of statistical and scientific information in my paper, but all of this personal information is going to be great to break all of that up and put it in perspective. I'm definitely going to use parts from all of your replies, especially those concerning the social and physical portion of the issue, the learning of English, technical skills, and observational skills, and the sociological evolution of nerds and video games in culture. Now I'm even more motivated to finish this paper.

Edit: It's also great to get input from people over in Europe. I have a couple of interviews with people where I live in the U.S., but it is insightful to hear from people in other parts of the world as well.

The paper is complete, thanks again to everyone who responded.

Here's a link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pvn-gKfUZRrP2r5SV0nFx1YO1qULy3usjNHoqRLzqLY/edit?pli=1

It's pretty amateur considering it's a highschool senior report, but it was a college course for English 102. I'd still give it a read if you have the free time.

Okay, so I'm required to write a term paper for my English class and I felt like it would be beneficial to have actual gamer input from a well advised and knowledgeable community.

The topic of the paper is the positive and negative effects of video games.

I would just like to ask you a very general question: Throughout your life do you believe that video games have had a positive or negative effect on your life overall?

This is a term paper, so fleshing out all of the positives and negatives as much as possible would be awesome. Also, adding any specific events where problems or "good things" occurred due to your playing video games would make the paper that much better.

If you don't feel like posting in the thread you can shoot me a PM.

Thank you in advance for contributing to my paper. I'll be checking in a couple times a day, and I'll mention if I added your story to my paper.

Quote from Wingless

Sounds more like it was balanced ratheer than nerfed?

True. I guess I just never use the word balance. Only nerf and buff. I mean, it's still really good, esp. for team play.