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Seems like 16:9 is the best to me. Or at least, that's what I would prefer.

Guess I'll just go with my 23" and see what kinda resolution I can run. I hope it's 2560 so Diablo 3 pretty


Thanks for the work Winged, I appreciate it!

So it's still a little unclear to me. What will be the max resolution with a 23" 16:9 monitor? What about a 23" 16:10?

As of right now I don't have an HD monitor, but a standard 19" DVI and I'm running 1440, so I'm assuming that the upgrade would bring me up to 2560?

I'm assuming that 2560 refers to the screen resolution. How would you know what you could run on the monitor before you buy it? Judging by Groanan's post, 16:9 = lower resolution, 16:10 = higher?

I'm currently looking at 23" monitor (because I don't really like huge monitors) 1920x1080 full HD monitors and I see some that are 16:9 and some that are 16:10.

Can anyone get into details for me? Thanks ;D

Nice lol.

I find it pretty amusing that he's blogging about a game that he plans on playing, once it's released, which has been in development since before he was born.

So I was thinking about this yesterday while watching some D3 videos from Blizzcon. There are 14 tiers/levels of gems in the game. That got me thinking about how many level 1 gems it would take to make 1 level 14 gem in D3 (assuming it takes 4 to create one gems of the next level when combining them like in Diablo 2 -- at least I think this is how it worked).

Anyways here's what I came up with...please correct me if I'm wrong here.


Gem level | Number of level 1 gems required

1 | 1
2 | 4
3 | 16
4 | 64
5 | 256
6 | 1,024
7 | 4,096
8 | 16,384
9 | 65,536
10 | 262,144
11 | 1,048,576
12 | 4,194,304
13 | 16,777,216
14 | 67,108,864


Can this really be right? My method was multiply the number of level 1 gems in the previous gem level by 4 to find out how many are needed. If this is right, that's a lot of gems! ;x


And since level 5 gems are the highest level dropped in game (according to the Blizzcon video I was watching), here's how many level 5 gems we need to get a level 14 gem (using the same method as above, which I admit, could very well be wrong).

Gem level | Number of level 5 gems required

5 | 1
6 | 4
7 | 16
8 | 64
9 | 256
10 | 1024
11 | 4096
12 | 16,384
13 | 65,536
14 | 262,144

So basically, if my math is right, most of us won't have a level 14 gem for a very, very long time. Good thing we are free to remove gems from items as we wish!

Yea, I understand that. But 25% chance to crit seems huge for passives alone. With high-end items added to this I'm sure that a Barbarian can achieve 50+% critical chance, which is pretty insane.

I must say that, as a future Wizard, I'm jealous ;x

Quote from Shoji

http://www.diablowiki.com/Barbarian#Passive_Skills

It's in the wiki; in order to get the stats you mention you must have the following passives:
- Ruthless - Increases critical strike chance by 5% and increases critical strike damage by 50%.
- Weak Spot - Increases critical strike damage by 100%.
- Frenzied Attack - When wielding two weapons, the Barbarian has 20% increased critical strike chance and 30% increased critical strike damage.

Exactly. I posted all of this in 2 threads prior to this but they were removed for some reason. Anyways, do you think this is overpowered? It seems like it's gonna be really beastly ;x

I noticed while researching the class that there is a way to achieve 25% critical chance and 180% damage without any item/stat bonuses!

Sorry for the lackluster post, I'm kind of tired. Will go more in depth about this at a later time.


If you are the moderator that has been deleting my previous posts regarding this topic, would you please be so kind as to message me about why the posts have been deleted? I'm not trying to break board rules, I'm simply trying to initiate some discussion about this interesting in-game possibility. From what I can tell, this is no different than any other posts on the boards. Anyways, please contact me. Thanks!

My current PC (according to battle.net) -- will it run D3? If not, what would you change? (It's old, I know...no trash talking!)

CPU TYPE:
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200
CPU SPEED:
2.73 GHz
SYSTEM MEMORY:
2 GB
VIDEO CARD MODEL:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
VIDEO CARD DRIVER:
nv4_disp.dll
DESKTOP RESOLUTION:
1440x900
HARD DISK SIZE:
465.75 GB


Here's what I'm hoping to build before D3 drops:

CPU
AMD HDE00ZFBGRBOX Phenom II 1100T Black Edition Six Core Processor - 3.30GHz, 6MB Cache, 2000MHz (4000 MT/s)

Motherboard:
ASUS Crosshair V Formula AMD 990FX ROG Motherboard - ATX, Socket AM3+, AMD 990FX Chipset, 2133MHz DDR3 (O.C.), SATA 6.0 Gb/s, RAID, 8-CH SupremeFX Audio, Gigabit LAN, USB 3.0, CrossFireX/SLI Ready (sorry, copy pasted the sale description out of laziness)

PSU: Cooler Master RSC00-80GAD3-US Silent Pro Gold 1200W Power Supply - ATX, Modular, 1200 Watt (or possibly just a 1000W)

Memory:
Corsair CMT8GX3M2A1866C9 Dominator GT Desktop Memory Kit - 8GB (2x 4GB), PC3-14900, DDR3-1866MHz

Video Card:
2x SLI'd GeForce GTX 570 Video Card - 1280MB

SSD: 120GB, hopefully

HDD: Western Digital 1TB (because I think 2TB is too much?)


Anything I left out? How do you think it will run D3? Any suggestions? Thanks~! ;D

So after looking through the class skills (specifically passives), I came across something interesting and unique about the Barbarian that none of the other classes can even come close to. As most of us know, our characters will eventually have 3 passive skills. What I came across, and what I fear is going to make the Barbarian's damage much higher than that of any other class, is a combination of these 3 passive skills:

Weak Spot - Increases critical strike damage by 100%

Ruthless - Increases critical strike chance by 5% and increases critical strike damage by 50%.

Frenzied Attacks - When wielding two weapons, the character has 20% increased critical strike chance and 30% increased critical strike damage.

If we add this all up we see that the barbarian (while wielding 2 weapons) has a base 25% critical strike chance, and an extra 180% damage on critical strikes without any bonus from stats and/or items!.

I plan on playing a Wizard to begin with, but if I start a second character it will be a Barbarian with this setup for sure. What are your thoughts on this?


Edit: Apparently the duplicate of this post was deleted from the general boards. My purpose of posting it there was to avoid people (mainly those who plan on rolling Barbarians) being one sided in their discussion of the topic. Now that the topic only exists here, I ask that you try not to be biased in your response. Thanks!

FYI: I posted this here instead of the Barbarian forums because I wanted to see what everyone thought, not just those people who plan on playing Barbarians. I will be re-posting this on the Barbarian forum as well.

So after looking through the class skills (specifically passives), I came across something interesting and unique about the Barbarian that none of the other classes can even come close to. As most of us know, our characters will eventually have 3 passive skills. What I came across, and what I fear is going to make the Barbarian's damage much higher than any other class, is a combination of these 3 passive skills:

Weak Spot - Increases critical strike damage by 100%

Ruthless - Increases critical strike chance by 5% and increases critical strike damage by 50%.

Frenzied Attacks - When wielding two weapons, the character has 20% increased critical strike chance and 30% increased critical strike damage.

If we add this all up we see that the barbarian (while wielding 2 weapons) has a base 25% critical strike chance, and an extra 180% damage on critical strikes without any bonus from stats and/or items!.

I plan on playing a Wizard to begin with, but if I start a second character it will be a Barbarian with this setup for sure. What are your thoughts on this?