Buying the latest and greatest video cards is a terrible waste of money. The preformance you gain over a card like a 560ti is very minimal for the cost of the card.
if you're buying the computer to play diablo 3, dont waste your money on a super expensive card like a 680
if you're buying it because you like to waste money on the latest and greatest technology, then why are u asking if you should buy it or not?
But I disaggree on ladders. Many of us discussed why for a long time. If you rate people, you imply the game is a competitive, balanced, fair competition. When one or two classes and builds keep showing up at the top of the ladder, people will start complaining and there will be pressure to focus on perfecting PvP balance, which is a major undertaking.
If there was a ladder, the winners would largely be determined by how much luck teh player had on drops, or how much money they had to buy gear. The stats wouldn't really be meaningful.
I understand why people feel this way. I just find an arena system without a ladder or visual ranking kind of pointless.
Us "PvPers" aren't expecting BALANCE, we want more FREEDOM that was taken away from us (FREEDOM that we had in D2, and no not everyone's experience of PvP consisted of random public games). Since they took away the FREEDOM and tried to control PvP, they need to add certain FEATURES and OPTIONS and CUSTOMIZATION to make it right again. We want to be able to make custom PvP matches, even if that consists of battling it out in "blood moor" instead of a damn arena. The ability to fight as parties vs parties.
Right now pvp is limited to some bullshit 2v2 kill until your run out of lives crap, with no way to directly face another party (your friends) since in battle.net 2.0 social aspects have been removed from the game.
No more iron mans (and other classic fun games)
No more joining a random pub game clearing it out and having fun.
No more guild/friend/clan/random battles of 4v4 in a GM style setting.
No more challenging specific people to duels.
No more killing bots in public games (they will come in time).
Some things that could definitely be added to be an IMPROVEMENT over D2. (Very wishful thinking).
Obviously PvP games that consist of 6-12 people, we don't care if it is too chaotic and you can't tell who everyone is, but let it be an option, let us figure it out, let us make the choice if it is "too chaotic."
Statistics - Stuff like kills - damage, burst damage - most kills in a row stuff would be neat. Public/Private, people who are good can obviously show off, people who are bad just mind their own business, no harm done.
Edit, and for everyone who thinks we are trying to turn the damn game into an "ESPORT" you are full of shit whiners, pretty much every game on the market - even runescape - has better PvP than what is currently incorporated into D3, and don't deflect by telling us to "PLAY A DIFFERENT GAME" for something so fundamentally simple that needs to be in the game.
December, 2012 Headline:
"Blizzard fights angry PvPers by telling them to go play LoL."
I wanted to quote this post so that more people see it.
I basically agree with this person.
I am someone who enjoys the PvP aspects of games more so than the PvM aspect. This is the reason I play HoN and Dota 2. I love the Diablo series and I would say D2 is my favorite game of all time.
I am not asking for a game that is balanced as an eSport. I am asking for more freedom to play the game how I want to play it.
We want custom games
We want dueling
We want MUTUAL hostility
We want some kind of ranking or ladder for the arena system(we understand the game isn't balanced for PvP)
All of this stuff except the last was in Diablo 2. This stuff has been taken away from us and our ways of creating PvP content for ourselves is gone(ex: Iron man)
The arena system, while I think its an awesome addition to the game, pigeon holes us into a specific PvP style. Without proper tools we won't be able to play the game how WE want to play.
Random occurrences of PvP were always my favorite. Someone going hostile with you in a random game, you accept the challenge and smash it out with them.
What about the uneven matches. Going 3 on 1, 4 on 2, 3 on 2, etc... We can't do this.
This has been taken away and it makes me sad that this is the direction Blizzard is taking the game in.
I just hope I am wrong and that Blizzard is going to implement some of the things we want. Number 1 being custom games.
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http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/chinese-diablo-iii-servers-go-live-before-yours
Now as far as NA First to 60, I doubt you'll be able to do it with only about a month of planning left.
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Buying the latest and greatest video cards is a terrible waste of money. The preformance you gain over a card like a 560ti is very minimal for the cost of the card.
if you're buying the computer to play diablo 3, dont waste your money on a super expensive card like a 680
if you're buying it because you like to waste money on the latest and greatest technology, then why are u asking if you should buy it or not?
both cards are solid cards
also, google gpu benchmarks
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I understand why people feel this way. I just find an arena system without a ladder or visual ranking kind of pointless.
edit: lol my orignal post said "with a ladder"
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I wanted to quote this post so that more people see it.
I basically agree with this person.
I am someone who enjoys the PvP aspects of games more so than the PvM aspect. This is the reason I play HoN and Dota 2. I love the Diablo series and I would say D2 is my favorite game of all time.
I am not asking for a game that is balanced as an eSport. I am asking for more freedom to play the game how I want to play it.
We want custom games
We want dueling
We want MUTUAL hostility
We want some kind of ranking or ladder for the arena system(we understand the game isn't balanced for PvP)
All of this stuff except the last was in Diablo 2. This stuff has been taken away from us and our ways of creating PvP content for ourselves is gone(ex: Iron man)
The arena system, while I think its an awesome addition to the game, pigeon holes us into a specific PvP style. Without proper tools we won't be able to play the game how WE want to play.
Random occurrences of PvP were always my favorite. Someone going hostile with you in a random game, you accept the challenge and smash it out with them.
What about the uneven matches. Going 3 on 1, 4 on 2, 3 on 2, etc... We can't do this.
This has been taken away and it makes me sad that this is the direction Blizzard is taking the game in.
I just hope I am wrong and that Blizzard is going to implement some of the things we want. Number 1 being custom games.
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he knows people are going to post and tell him how much money he wasted...
just ignore this thread
also:
Why no crossfire?