But if you use an axe that has huge damage with the changes that have been made your going to have to really look at what's better.
Having to look at what's better and make decisions sounds like the perfect place for the game to be, to me.
While leveling up, if you happen to find a rare 2 hander that's more damage than your wand+orb combo (or whatever), awesome, use it. Why is that a problem?
When it comes to really high end gear, I think it'll work out fine. Look at legendary level 60 2-handed swords, and they seem to have a DPS around 320ish... look at unique level 60 wands, and they're about 165ish DPS, many with over +100% damage to wizard spells on top of that. Hell, look at Ruinstroke- 156 DPS with up to 251% extra damage to wizard spells. And *then* add an orb with more +wizard damage...
Don't get me wrong I'm not bashing what blizzard is putting out there, I'm saying you can't just look at wands or "caster" items if they keep this for the release
What i think ppl are trying to get across to you sbkr87, is that- Yes, you CAN use some big 'ol ax as a wizard, but the way blizzard is making weapons, your wizard spells would just receive a bonus from the damage of the ax. Now if you use caster spells like wands and orbs, you can actually do MORE damage especially at high levels (see example below). So nothing is ruined at all and a wizard can draw his power from a multitude of items but would do best to stick with wizard weapons.
Heres a very watered down example: you have 3 items- a 2-h ax that does 200 damage, and a wand that does 150 damage, and an orb of UghJUgs. the wand and orb grant +35% damage to wizard spells each. Heres what happens for a spell that is based on 200% of weapon damage.
2-h ax = 200 *200% = 400 damage
just a wand = 150*200% = 300*1.35= 405 damage the 1.35 is the bonus damage
wand plus orb = 150*200% = 300*1.7 = 510 damage
as you can see even with a base damage well below an ax, a wizard can do much more damage due to bonuses with their class weapons.
This is why I could definitely see some kind of survivor mode being a perfect end-game competition (sort of like L4D survivor). Whether based on kills or time, massacring baddies is so much fun.
The infernal difficulty videos I've seen on youtube look pretty survival mode already if you ask me.
There are inferno difficulty videos on youtube? wow can you please post one? I cant find any
This is why I could definitely see some kind of survivor mode being a perfect end-game competition (sort of like L4D survivor). Whether based on kills or time, massacring baddies is so much fun.
he said you could go all out, so yes, they are 100% allowed.
The reason I ask is that caption contest sorta applies captions. Sooooo....
Dont mean to be rudely blunt, but the rule is there is no rule? so I can essentially put up a poorno? Sweet! Don't worry it will be good 'ol unresistable porrn. <_<
The problem blizzard has stated and people generally complain about: switching skills during combat to create a sort of full use of a characters skills- not what the devs wanted thats why they only gave us 6 skill slots.
A solution that wasn't on the polls "an unwary penalty": Character takes double (or triple) damage whenever their skill pane or inventory pane is open (maybe even extend the penalty to 5 seconds after pane closes).
Problem solved now characters don't have to go back to town to swap skills but they also won't want to swap skills during combat. All they have to do is move far away from any danger and swap.
As for boss fights, they may just want to lock the skill bar for that.
Pleaze stop these silly complaints about the items on the D3 site. For the luv of... theres even a disclaimer displayed on a mighty large banner now on every page... THESE items are NOT final.
Just look at the cool item pics, enjoy, and then go back to watching beta videos like im doing.
If your old vidcard was very old and below average and your new card is commonplace or above average then I would say:
Ethically, yes you should update your info.
Now if you want your chances of getting into the beta to be as high as possible I would not update the info.
They are in, thus why there on the item page, and its not like lvl 7 runes are going to drop freely... they only drop in inferno.. rarely. There will still be many uses for lvl 1-6 runes.
(Anything is a) Sign of the beta. Can't wait to see the AH in action though.
Id give up on "sign of the beta" and start saying "sign of Release." Beta- what we initially thought it would be - has already started, its just for F&F as it turns out.
Didnt a blue initially say that they would add the AH in after closed beta had started? Why do I feel like they are actually skipping closed beta and just using F&F testing
CORRECTION: Id like to state that from what I can remember horde mode was in Left 4 Dead Before it was in Gears of War. It was called SURVIVOR mode in l4d
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What i think ppl are trying to get across to you sbkr87, is that- Yes, you CAN use some big 'ol ax as a wizard, but the way blizzard is making weapons, your wizard spells would just receive a bonus from the damage of the ax. Now if you use caster spells like wands and orbs, you can actually do MORE damage especially at high levels (see example below). So nothing is ruined at all and a wizard can draw his power from a multitude of items but would do best to stick with wizard weapons.
Heres a very watered down example: you have 3 items- a 2-h ax that does 200 damage, and a wand that does 150 damage, and an orb of UghJUgs. the wand and orb grant +35% damage to wizard spells each. Heres what happens for a spell that is based on 200% of weapon damage.
2-h ax = 200 *200% = 400 damage
just a wand = 150*200% = 300*1.35= 405 damage the 1.35 is the bonus damage
wand plus orb = 150*200% = 300*1.7 = 510 damage
as you can see even with a base damage well below an ax, a wizard can do much more damage due to bonuses with their class weapons.
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big guns 2morow
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There are inferno difficulty videos on youtube? wow can you please post one? I cant find any
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The reason I ask is that caption contest sorta applies captions. Sooooo....
Dont mean to be rudely blunt, but the rule is there is no rule? so I can essentially put up a poorno? Sweet! Don't worry it will be good 'ol unresistable porrn. <_<
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A solution that wasn't on the polls "an unwary penalty": Character takes double (or triple) damage whenever their skill pane or inventory pane is open (maybe even extend the penalty to 5 seconds after pane closes).
Problem solved now characters don't have to go back to town to swap skills but they also won't want to swap skills during combat. All they have to do is move far away from any danger and swap.
As for boss fights, they may just want to lock the skill bar for that.
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Just look at the cool item pics, enjoy, and then go back to watching beta videos like im doing.
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Ethically, yes you should update your info.
Now if you want your chances of getting into the beta to be as high as possible I would not update the info.
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Id give up on "sign of the beta" and start saying "sign of Release." Beta- what we initially thought it would be - has already started, its just for F&F as it turns out.
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