what Ardikus is trying to say is, it's going to end up the same thing as Diablo II. Most likely the last Act 4 waypoint will be popular, and doing runs of the last boss is what will be the outcome of this game. Why would someone go grinding mobs in Act II to have a chance at dropping rares, when theres a huge chance that killing the last boss in the game WILL drop it.
After people get strategies going, killing the last boss won't be too hard and will be farmed for items.
Yes this is very similar to what I'm trying to express in the first part of my post. There's one drawback to boss runs, however, which is that currently in the beta you have 100% chance to get a rare item on your first kill of Skeleton King, but every subsequent kill has a very low chance of dropping a rare.
As most of us already know, one of the main reasons for Inferno difficulty to be equally scaled in level and difficulty across all acts is to provide players incentive to play through all stages of the game to achieve loot. In Diablo 2, there were obvious ways that were more efficient to get good loot, namely Mephisto, Pindleskin, and Baal runs. It's not too far fetched to think that bosses are going to drop the best loot in the game, no matter what, because they're the hardest things to kill. Risk should equal reward, right? If this is the case, and once I get the waypoints to all good bosses in Inferno mode, why should I even bother playing through the other dungeons and areas in the game?
Two words: Loot Goblins (Loot Bandits?). I've noticed in a few streams and videos that these little buggers appear inside dungeons in what is a seemingly random fashion. Once you start hitting them, they spew gold all over the floor, and if you manage to kill it before it runs away (not very hard to do, at least in normal difficulty it seems) it will drop quite a lot of useful loot. In the few times I saw these things go down, they dropped ~2 blue items, page of training, scroll of companion, and a few other white items.
What's up to speculation is if these things have the potential to drop the best loot in Inferno difficulty, like bosses can. If they can drop rare items, that is at least salvageable loot for crafting materials, which I'm sure you're going to want a lot of.
after watching some of the streams i have to say barb looks weak. especially in the fight with king leoric (the stream with 2 other range characters). he simply run away half of the fight, search for health globes etc rather then smash and hit and actually help the party.
i wanted to play barb first but after seeing this i doubt i will...
I just think the guy playing him wasn't very good; he didn't even use his skills for the first 6 or 7 levels, and used single-target skills on big groups of mobs. King Leoric did hit him pretty hard though.
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Yes this is very similar to what I'm trying to express in the first part of my post. There's one drawback to boss runs, however, which is that currently in the beta you have 100% chance to get a rare item on your first kill of Skeleton King, but every subsequent kill has a very low chance of dropping a rare.
Exactly what came to my mind when I saw the Loot Goblins in the new beta videos
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Two words: Loot Goblins (Loot Bandits?). I've noticed in a few streams and videos that these little buggers appear inside dungeons in what is a seemingly random fashion. Once you start hitting them, they spew gold all over the floor, and if you manage to kill it before it runs away (not very hard to do, at least in normal difficulty it seems) it will drop quite a lot of useful loot. In the few times I saw these things go down, they dropped ~2 blue items, page of training, scroll of companion, and a few other white items.
What's up to speculation is if these things have the potential to drop the best loot in Inferno difficulty, like bosses can. If they can drop rare items, that is at least salvageable loot for crafting materials, which I'm sure you're going to want a lot of.
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Maybe Tal Rasha's for wizard.
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Is that the same issue, though?
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I just think the guy playing him wasn't very good; he didn't even use his skills for the first 6 or 7 levels, and used single-target skills on big groups of mobs. King Leoric did hit him pretty hard though.
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Yeah I noticed that as well, just doesn't look as epic as Ureh tho =(
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WOOT! No idea what "high" means, but I hope it's good.
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Stop smoking weed, lol!
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