As in every other build the following text is based on a lot of speculations.
For actives I chose a combination of skills that should be able to do extreme amounts of damage in a short burst. Although relaying on a short burst of spells is not the best strategy, I hope that in Inferno and Hell such should work well.
Here is how I intended the build to combo:
Point is so spam as many Sacrifices as possible while Mass Confusion is active to do the most damage.
Choosing Passives wasn't hard: more damage, lower the mana costs, life regeneration, and shorten the cooldowns. Basic and very effective. Paying life instead of mana is costly but if you play it right I suppose it should be more rewarding than using just mana.
I want one of those crawling torso zombies to be named Wirt The Legless, a unique mob, then when I crush his skull it'll be for good this time.
This, dear god this
^^ +1
I didn't even like bothering with Wirt in D2 unless I needed a leg for the Cow Level. Also, how many times do you have to kill the same thing? Personally, I wish I could convince my character to slow down a little bit and dismember and burn every demon he kills so they don't come back. It seems that nothing that gets killed stays dead for very long.
Well at least now you can get the satifaction of throwing them off a cliff
I think it has to do more with Upload than Download...
which is my greater worry right now.
my average up rate is 0.27 Mbps
and here is system config:
Operating System:
Windows 2.6.0.6002 (Service Pack 2)
CPU Type:
Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Speed:
2.42 GHz
System Memory:
4 GB
Video Card Model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Video Card Memory:
2.72 GB
Video Card Driver:
nvd3dum.dll
Desktop Resolution:
1280x1024
Hard Disk Size:
465.76 GB
Hard Disk Free Space:
175.27 GB (38%)
Download Speed:
227.75 kB/s (1.9 mbps)
You're all set, unless you plan to play multiple games at the same time.
Also, I'd get a 16:10 or a 16:9 monitor (optional)
I don't think adding this option really improves the game. Doesn't effect gameplay at all because, as mentioned before, there's no point of reference. Units of measurement don't matter. This is the case on other Blizard games too. Starcraft expressed distance with no unit value either (i.e Siege Tank Siege Mode, Range = 10).
A lot of things don't affect the gameplay but they are there because the game looks cooler or more convenient.
At first, I thought this was a must. But after giving enough thought, yards and meters are close enough that it isn't much necessary. Also, it's hard to really know how far 10 meters is in game.I'm assuming once the game ships, any guide out there will have a comparison value, like from where your character is (the middle of the screen) to the edge there is about 60 yards.
My thought exactly.
I am a big fan of the Metric System and the standardization of measuring units (also the currencies), but at one point, I just began not to care... However, I would like to see the game have the option to change to metric!
Is there an option to change the measuring system to metric? I know that yard is about 0.9 meters, and that a foot is about 0.3 meters, but I sometimes find it hard to visualize those, as I am use to dealing with SI. I'm sure that many Europeans feel the same.
If there isn't such an option, could Blizzard put it in?
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Might want to ask that at dual-boxing.com forums, but from my experience network is not a problem at all with these type of games - you do need the cpu power to run 4x instances though, either on one or multiple machines.
Also, you will need 4x accounts.
Thanks, I will check out the forum but think it will be far too complex for me... i was thinking just 4 PCS in one room, big table, dominos menu I need to know what bandwidth I would need, I only have 1MB, but can get 5, 10 or 20 - I am guessing that 1 is out, 5 probably not enough but is 20 overkill?
Depends on the final release, but I'm guessing 5 would be fine for more than 4 accounts...
My reference would be LoL where, I can be downloading something at 100KB/s of my 128KB/s, and still have <100 lagg.
I think it has to do more with Upload than Download...
I do not really see more than one build per class at the moment due to being easy to switch to any skill (as seen on the recent F&F beta streaming videos). Yes runes will make an impact on the skills but the skill is still going to be close to the core skill.
I agree, the ability to change out skill selections has pretty much ended "builds" as we know them. You can have fun generating some monstrous number of combination possibilities anytime you have multiple variables that relate in a factorial sense. However, you could do the same thing for sandwich possibilities at Subway. It's easy to generate a system with quadrillions of combinations, it only becomes interesting to consider this number when you are forced to pick only ONE.
The difference is that in D2 we had to pick a sandwich and eat it, whereas in D3 we get a sandwich and then sit there and swap out toppings all day. I personally like to eat my sandwich, and think that being able to change skill selections is a horrible idea. For me, much of the end game involved specialty builds. I would build an mf character for a specific area, or try a non-traditional build that I felt may have some potential. These pursuits represented an investment of time, and a sense of finality when skill selections were made. Putting forth the effort to create these builds was rewarding because you would have specialty type characters that others did not have. I would have a Buffing barb, WW barb, Frenzy barb, Singing barb, Goldfind barb, etc, etc. With the current system we will just build one barb that can instantly morph into whatever we want at the time. That sucks!
If you had written this comment a few days ago, I would agree 100% with you on that. But if you take that Runestones bind to skills rather then not bind at all, you would risk loosing a powerful runed skill by changing the "build" you currently have. Although, I am a fan of the old system, I wouldn't be so fast to judge the new (now). I'd like to try it out and see how it feels.
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This is more fun, and I have the link in my sig, so, why repeat it...
Sacrifice is mainly for Mass Confusion. But you made me realize that I practically don't use Mana in this build, so I'll have to rethink some things.
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Bump
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Glad I was, glad I was
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EDIT:
New numbers are in!
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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#ZkjdPT!cUd!aZaaZZ
----- Active Skills and Runestones -------
----- Passive Skills -------
As in every other build the following text is based on a lot of speculations.
For actives I chose a combination of skills that should be able to do extreme amounts of damage in a short burst. Although relaying on a short burst of spells is not the best strategy, I hope that in Inferno and Hell such should work well.
Here is how I intended the build to combo:
Point is so spam as many Sacrifices as possible while Mass Confusion is active to do the most damage.
Choosing Passives wasn't hard: more damage, lower the mana costs, life regeneration, and shorten the cooldowns. Basic and very effective. Paying life instead of mana is costly but if you play it right I suppose it should be more rewarding than using just mana.
Older versions
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Or eating them, if that's your thing
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You're all set, unless you plan to play multiple games at the same time.
Also, I'd get a 16:10 or a 16:9 monitor (optional)
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A lot of things don't affect the gameplay but they are there because the game looks cooler or more convenient.
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My thought exactly.
I am a big fan of the Metric System and the standardization of measuring units (also the currencies), but at one point, I just began not to care... However, I would like to see the game have the option to change to metric!
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If there isn't such an option, could Blizzard put it in?
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Depends on the final release, but I'm guessing 5 would be fine for more than 4 accounts...
My reference would be LoL where, I can be downloading something at 100KB/s of my 128KB/s, and still have <100 lagg.
I think it has to do more with Upload than Download...
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If you had written this comment a few days ago, I would agree 100% with you on that. But if you take that Runestones bind to skills rather then not bind at all, you would risk loosing a powerful runed skill by changing the "build" you currently have. Although, I am a fan of the old system, I wouldn't be so fast to judge the new (now). I'd like to try it out and see how it feels.
Also, I love math
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They should use at least different colour on DH and WD, one can be Cyan and the other blue...
Yellow or Brown can be used for WD aside from Cyan...
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Wizard Orb
Wirt's Skull
Legendary Socket
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