Why if you plan to play a wizard would you want to bring up the potential issue that a wizard skill is OP? I too plan to play a wizard as my main I think, and I want them to be as powerful as possible, I say buff em even more haha.
Wow this is really impressive and it makes me excited to know one day all the areas of the game will be mapped out like this, probably also including drop rates, which will make farming pretty interesting. Good job!
That's a pretty cool concept build. You might want to scale back the healing a tiny bit in order to be able to do some damage hahaha. I didn't think the WD was capable doing so much healing.
Spent a few mins on newegg and whipped this up... http://i44.tinypic.com/34ec6ci.png
It's $547 for a better pc with everything except the case and a cd/dvd drive, and also a monitor.
I think with some more time spent shopping you could get it cheaper than this too.
You're already looking at spending over $800 and would have to completely change your build if you didn't use one of those 3 specific processors? How is that? I was under the impression you were planning to build a comp from scratch, and didn't have any of the parts yet.
I'm just always looking to secretly plant the seeds of destruction to bring about Intel's downfall, their pricing makes me rage, almost as bad as Apple's. Pretty much Baal's minion over here.
Hahaha Sexton we have the same background, well actually mine switches between all the good Diablo 3 desktops, but that one's my favorite one currently
Go with AMD processor over Intel, with Intel you're just paying for the brand. You can get a way better processor than the i3 for cheaper, I always go with AMD, right now I'm running the Phenom x4 965, and have a GTX 460 graphics, and can play anything on ultra, and only spent ~$800 on mine.
I built my comp from scratch last year, bought everything off www.newegg.com, its the way to go, you can check consumer ratings and compare parts really easily, also they have a huge selection.
Plus if you find what you want as part of package deals it can save you money, I bought all the parts for my computer in like 4 package deals and saved like $100 off the cost, also if there's a Costco near you you should check out their monitors, its where I bought mine, and where a lot of my friends got theirs, they have really good prices on monitors and tvs for some reason.
I think by taking more of a "We arn't going to make D3 pvp an E-sport or care about balancing it etc..." approach is Blizzard just saying don't get mad about how unbalanced certain aspect of pvp may be. But that doesn't mean that they are just completely neglecting D3's pvp, and haven't tried to balance it.
My prediction is that pvp at first will feel pretty balanced and casual when people first start getting into it, but then the more you play it the more you'll notice some slight imbalances. However if there is a really obvious imbalance (say Barbs just wreck every other class no problem) they can always tweak their power in a patch.
I will say though that I am a huge fan of pvp, and while I think D3's more fast-paced, just jump in and play a bunch of rounds pvp philosophy will be fun and still pretty good, I do wish pvp was getting more focus and more of an E-sport treatment. But then again I used to pvp all the time in D2 and already from what I've seen D3's pvp is waaaayyy better than D2's.
It seems you guys have misunderstood my point. Tzekelkan made a valuable point that made the title of this thread no longer valuable. I realize now that it's stupid to want to take out the word "rune" now that I know that it refers to an alphabet, not a stone. The title is no longer the argument, or even a suggestion. Please, get over the title and move on to the second, more important topic in this thread.
Let me be more direct with you guys:
Do you feel that using rune stone graphics for the different skills is tacky?
Does it seem odd to you that they are still using rune stone graphics when rune stones are no longer in the game?
Wouldn't it be much better for them to keep the rune letters and get rid of the rune stone graphics?
I feel they should keep the rune letter graphic and get rid of the stone-looking outline. Just keep the letters, tweak them a little to make them more sufficient on their own, and the game will be a hell of a lot less tacky feeling.
The old runes (crimson, obsidian, etc.) were really incredible, and moving from that to these crappy rune stone graphics is very disappointing and ruins the whole idea. The old runes didn't even look like stones, which still makes them perfect for the job (but I would still like to see just the rune letters implemented).
By the way, to all you idiots against people spouting their opinions on matters like this, saying that it would take up more time and postpone release:
If you haven't pre-ordered Diablo III, shut your mouth. I've pre-ordered it, and I want it to be done the best that it can be, without crappy, tacky graphics like the rune stones that are supposed to be symbolic of "rune skills." I paid my money, now I can criticize and suggest as many ideas that I want. I don't believe my real ideas (which it seems some have misunderstood) to be trivial at all.
Genius right here. I too really miss the old runes as well and was actually pretty disappointed to see the new rune graphics, also earlier in this thread when people were talking about how to describe a runed skill I think by the time people got into hell (and definitely by inferno) you'd be able to say "poison dart with obsidian rune" and people would more often then not understand what what that implies, and those that didn't could inquire further or look it up. But it would be alot easier to do that with the runes being much more distinctly colored than the bland stone looking runes that are in effect now. Do the current runes even have names?
Additionally, there's not that many skills in the game and each only has 5 variations.... c'mon guys.... I played Diablo 2 for years and I eventually had like every unique's and runeword's effects memorized plus like most of each classes skills and all the runestones, level layouts etc.
I don't get why alot of you are qq'ing about 10 per region and concerned with replaying the game from the beginning several times over with the same class. By the time you finish normal you should be pretty familiar with all the skills and rune effects and so respecing into a new spec shouldn't be like a whole new thing to learn, also Diablo doesn't have complex rotations to master. Additionally, from playing Diablo 2 a ton back in the day I feel like alot of you have lost sight of the fact that Diablo's mostly about the endgame, and getting geared which will be pretty difficult to accomplish if you're making a bunch of new chars and leveling them all the time.
Simple, one character will be similar to druid, maybe half shifter.
Second, we don't have character with skills could be based at shield.
yeah these both seem really likely, I liked having both the werebear and werewolf in diablo 2, and it would be cool if they brought something similar to diablo 3, like one you could make slow swing speed but high damage/high crit and the other would be fast attack speed, also would do other "nature-y things" and the other could make use of weapons and items the other classes don't really use as their main weapons, as well as using shields, also having monk as the only class that can really heal seems kind of rough, although I know blizzard wanted each class to be mostly damage dealers and wanted to avoid having class roles
It'd be nice if they had a dps meter that was small and non invasive which only tracked you own character's dps, but not the parties, then people could use it to maximize there own builds and find the best way to do the most damage without ruining the "causual play with everyone/just have fun" thing D3 is going for.
I don't get why alot of you are qq'ing about 10 per region and concerned with replaying the game from the beginning several times over with the same class. By the time you finish normal you should be pretty familiar with all the skills and rune effects and so respecing into a new spec shouldn't be like a whole new thing to learn, also Diablo doesn't have complex rotations to master. Additionally, from playing Diablo 2 a ton back in the day I feel like alot of you have lost sight of the fact that Diablo's mostly about the endgame, and getting geared which will be pretty difficult to accomplish if you're making a bunch of new chars and leveling them all the time.
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http://i44.tinypic.com/34ec6ci.png
It's $547 for a better pc with everything except the case and a cd/dvd drive, and also a monitor.
I think with some more time spent shopping you could get it cheaper than this too.
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I'm just always looking to secretly plant the seeds of destruction to bring about Intel's downfall, their pricing makes me rage, almost as bad as Apple's. Pretty much Baal's minion over here.
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Intel i3: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16819115077
3.3 ghz Dual Core
AMD: http://www.newegg.co...N82E16819103924
3.6 ghz Quad Core - for $12 more
I mean.... AMD's looking pretty good.
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I built my comp from scratch last year, bought everything off www.newegg.com, its the way to go, you can check consumer ratings and compare parts really easily, also they have a huge selection.
Plus if you find what you want as part of package deals it can save you money, I bought all the parts for my computer in like 4 package deals and saved like $100 off the cost, also if there's a Costco near you you should check out their monitors, its where I bought mine, and where a lot of my friends got theirs, they have really good prices on monitors and tvs for some reason.
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My prediction is that pvp at first will feel pretty balanced and casual when people first start getting into it, but then the more you play it the more you'll notice some slight imbalances. However if there is a really obvious imbalance (say Barbs just wreck every other class no problem) they can always tweak their power in a patch.
I will say though that I am a huge fan of pvp, and while I think D3's more fast-paced, just jump in and play a bunch of rounds pvp philosophy will be fun and still pretty good, I do wish pvp was getting more focus and more of an E-sport treatment. But then again I used to pvp all the time in D2 and already from what I've seen D3's pvp is waaaayyy better than D2's.
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Additionally, there's not that many skills in the game and each only has 5 variations.... c'mon guys.... I played Diablo 2 for years and I eventually had like every unique's and runeword's effects memorized plus like most of each classes skills and all the runestones, level layouts etc.
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