Your brain sure is squeaky-clean. "MP is not the focus of D3". Do you know that 80's song that goes "tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies" ? I think it's by Fleetwood Mac.
Jay Wilson (and others, just Google it, you can easily find lots of blue posts) said that everything will be able to solo-able. There are some nice things when it comes to group play, but every single aspect about the game is designed such that it is possible to complete it in SP mode (even uber events). Therefore I don't see how I would be "lying" if I say that "MP is not the focus of D3". Read: focus. Just because a game supports co-op, doesn't mean it's the focus (i.e., main aspect) of the game. There are several classes/builds that work even better in SP than MP.
Actually the game's focus is MP, I don't see how bonus EXP, MF, and GF for playing with friends isn't a reason to play MP or be MP-centric. The only reason the game is beatable on Solo is because then it wouldn't be fair if you couldn't find people to play with. You'd be shit out of luck if you couldn't beat the game solo. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/9382478/#best This dev journal is all about how they can increase the MP experience, and yeah although it talks about how solo has its advantages and what not it is explicitly stating they want to improve the MP experience because that's what Diablo is about kicking the shit out of enemies with your friends. It's always been like that.
Wtf blizzard. They are really going to release an expansion to this unfinished disappointing game before fixing it in the first place? Not with me buddy. Everything's gonna be awesome and amazing again like blizzcon prior to release and we gonna get a soup of yesteryears pork knuckle because it tastes so good. Diablo is dead, bitches! Roll me further.
"I think that Diablo is such a unique Action RPG in terms of the sense that we let these players play these bad-ass heroes, they have these great skills, and they have all these awesome items. The combination of epic heroes and epic loot is, for me, at the heart of the Diablo experience."
Ive heard the exact same thing on the blizzcon before release, on the making of DVD and on several interviews before launch.
This Game is seriously going nowhere. In order to make Itemization meaningful they would have to drop focusing Mainstats. They would have to drop weapon damage related Abilitys. In short they would have to turn this game 180 degrees around. They will not do this. Instead we will get the same old in a new dress.
dont know what the weather got to do with it but i agree to what ruksak said. its unbearable to id all that junk. they announced an ID all function so my suggestion here would just be to mini-patch it in.
Yeah im pretty uneasy with going into ubers with my DH too... Especially since i havent done them in SC!
Im really afraid of EHP requirements, I have 170k dps unbuffed but only 53 k hp and 500@ res... What do you think?
i think raka will eat you in one hit if youre not careful. sk can be pretty confusing too with maghda. her locust in combination with random arcane spots and skeletton spawns is not to be underestimated. id first try it with a less squishy class f.e. barb/monk so you get a general idea of how to run them.
Its a really good game. The only thing i see coming is, that GGG does not have resources and staff to cope with bots/hacks. Read Blizzhackers or JSP / DB and you know whats ahead of this game.
the problem is BoA. I want to trade Keys, i want to trade machines and Rings. Wtf is wrong with Blizz making items in Diablo gmes Bind on Account? This is not WoW for Blizzards sake
gimme a break man. you knw what you signed up to clicking the hardcore box. one good thing about d3 is that hc is still the same. you die for whatever reason and youre bound to roll again from 0.
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Actually mp is a bandaid and nothing more.
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Ive heard the exact same thing on the blizzcon before release, on the making of DVD and on several interviews before launch.
This Game is seriously going nowhere. In order to make Itemization meaningful they would have to drop focusing Mainstats. They would have to drop weapon damage related Abilitys. In short they would have to turn this game 180 degrees around. They will not do this. Instead we will get the same old in a new dress.
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i think raka will eat you in one hit if youre not careful. sk can be pretty confusing too with maghda. her locust in combination with random arcane spots and skeletton spawns is not to be underestimated. id first try it with a less squishy class f.e. barb/monk so you get a general idea of how to run them.
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i laughed at the first half which quite makes sense if youve followed the discussion with jay pre relese
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