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No need to announce beta loudly because most of the people won't be getting in it'll be a waste of time on Blizzards part.
1000 beta keys being sent out @ last years blizzcon which is 1000 loyal Blizzard followers, that's alot of testers already.
1000 testers is absolutely nothing if you're looking at an infrastructure that more than likely needs to be able to support at least 1-2 million customers. We can safely assume based on Blizzards track record that the game will hit 1 million copies sold - so even if only 10% of the people who own the game are online at any given time (a reasonable number based on mmo statistics) you end up with a constant minimum server load of a 100.000 people. So let's say betatesters are a more zealous bunch and 50% of them are online at any given time - those 1000 keys would come up to about .5% of the minimum expected server load. Even if as a stress test Blizzard wants to reach 10% of this minimum server load assumption they will need at least 20x as many players - and keep in mind that these numbers are very conservative - imo the beta won't be a small scale thing either.
1000 people is more than you'll see in your daily life, think about it.
is definitely my first class choice because of the playstyle.
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Diablo and Diablo 2 were both hack n' slash but Diablo 3 is different as far as I know. It might not be all about strategy but thinking you can run into a group of monsters and just hack n' slash your way through them might be possible but sometimes you have to use certain "OH SH*T" skills to get rid of them and spamming those 2 minute CD skills as if they have no cooldown what would be the fun in using them if you continuously spam them, doesn't make them all high & mighty anymore now does it?
Also if they were no CD on those skills they would make your lower tier skills obsolete and you'll never want to use those skills again.
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There are traits, gems and runes that lower the cooldowns of skills.
and no, we'll have a total of 20 skills but only 7 will be usable at one time.
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Remember to go laser or don't buy a mouse at all lol.
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- Childish design and graphics, the characters felt cartoonish and bulky like the characters off the movie "The Incredibles".
- Loot was horrible when finding different loot that had nothing to do with my class, continuously.
- Having to put points into stats that are worth nothing to my class to wear a piece of gear that was made for the class I played.
- The skills felt bland, boring, and unskillful --- The skills trees were boring aswell and I just threw points in without thinking about it.
- Pet AI was horrible - My pet got stuck alot and there was no way to call it back to me to help me fight.
- Quests were boring and the storyline felt bland and didn't keep my attention long enough to read the whole story, so I just skipped through quest text and continued doing what I was told to do for the quests.
Overall the game didn't keep my attention long enough. I really hope I don't feel the same way about Diablo 3.I'm happy I got the $3 deal that happened with steam because a extra $12 would of went to a waste.
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You already have enough spells / skills to be used the higher tier skills are a added benefit for that BIG BANG.
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I'm wanting to try necro & druid but since they aren't involved somewhat on their play style in Diablo 3 I don't know if I want to take that risk.
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I highly doubt D3 will suck, if you think it sucks then maybe you lost interest in the game itself?
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This and also wait until the reason you want to use your new rig for comes out, so hopefully by the time that does you'll have great deals and the newer stuff comes out to buy during that time period.
Look into computer hardware, you got a while til' Diablo 3.
www.tomshardware.com helps alot when choosing.
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Hotkeys will be 1-7 I believe?
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Im going to stick with the sorceress because of the amount of different spells / skills available to her.
I know, what I meant by repetition is pressing 1 specific spell / skill over and over as a whole class.
Nice smart ass reply though.
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With a SSD when you click on a program, it pops it up literally a second or less after clicking it.
The only benefit to gaming is loading times for example going to a new zone in WoW or getting inside and out of doors in New Vegas, they load alot faster compared to a HDD.
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Ew... repetition ruins the fun for me. I'll pass.
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