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First craft today, maybe 20th all in all, first amulet that was an improvement. Yay

We've also discussed adding other types of "socketables" with a wide variety of possible affixes that you can put in your socketed items instead of gems.


This needs to happen.

This is how you provide feedback, ladies and gentlemen. Great job, Edry.

In Day we trust!


I don't care if I'll regret saying that later on, but dammit this man's posts did more good to the game and the overall optimism of the community than anything else I've seen from Blizzard in the past six months.

Honestly, out of all the flaws that D3 suffers from, these three feel the least 'infuriating' to me. At most, I'd say it's annoying to identify rare items one by one, especially when it is nothing but a pointless chore 99.99% time.

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I think I've started to enjoy the game again because the new patch takes baby steps in the right direction. The fact is that I'm taking prolonged breaks to enjoy other games so the game feels fresher when I return. I don't mind that my main toon isn't paragon level 100 or whatever, like making love to my woman, I take it gently anyway.

It's like somehow you read my mind. xD
Best feature of this patch - MP in public games.

The game had so much going for it, and then, at some point, for no logical reason other than someone's greed the team chose to abandon the concept of bound set items/certain legendaries, and dug themselves into a hole with this 'everything random-one stat-everything sells' system that was nothing but a failure from day one.
They cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to fix this in the expansion and get the AH the hell away from being the focal point of D3 where it doesn't nor will ever belong. Deeper itemization, and lots of fun and quality loot/sets from level 1 up to end game, as it should have been all along.
This is an ARPG, played mostly solo, and adding this kind of MMO elements to it is not the wisest choice to make.
Before the game came out, I actually thought that the system will be way better than D2's occasional 'stack of bolts from hell Baal' and low level greens dropping at higher levels, but it may have actually been designed worse, in large part due to the auction house.

If anyone needs a key, just send me a message with your e-mail address. Cheers!

IMO the team pussied out of a lot of things during the development. Obviously, not all of those decisions were Jay's, but still, he was the game director, and I'm not sad at all that he is moving on.
D3 is most certainly not a bad game. But it's not nearly as awesome as it could have been. Hopefully someone with a little more balls will take over. All the best to Jay.

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Man, I was really excited for a second assuming they were going to let us jump through WP's across acts like D2... now I realize they probably just mean if you kill Azmodon with 5 stacks you could farm act 4 with the same 5 stacks.... which I can't see anyone bothering with regardless.

It's still better than nothing, I guess.

All in all, an OK patch. Nothing too special, but still a small step in the right direction. I'll reserve my judgement until the full list of changes is out, though. This could turn out to be much better and impactful than it seems to be now.

Everyone will be talking about Titan this year, hope that they actually announce it.

I've been playing the game since beta, have beaten Inferno on hardcore some time ago and I'm currently at paragon level 39 on my softcore barbarian. So I'm not playing it all the time, but I have been investing an hour or two on it each day. I voted 'It is a pretty good game' option, and I think it summarizes my experience in Diablo 3 pretty well. I am also very optimistic about the future, even though PvP has been delayed for too long. It would have made a much bigger impact if the patch was released before the end of 2012, but it seems they pushed it back to counter the PoE release.

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Also every MP level increases your run speed by 2%.

This would actually be great. The game just feels a lot more dynamic at high movement speed.

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It better bloody not, I want to see the Hobbit.

Thats out tomorrow, you still have time!

The Shitstorm apocalypse is due when Blizzard releases PVP. Soooo, we got a good half-year to live

it comes out 26th for Australia D:

I'm seeing it friday night. \o/ Poor Aussies, though xD


On topic, of course the world won't end next weekend. Everyone knows that the end date is actually february 17th 2247 at precisely 6:42 am, when 'shroomed-out-of-their-minds' Aztecs predicted the all powerful Sugar Lord of the Twelve Galaxies will return to breathe life into the gummy bears across Earth and wreak sweet, sweet revenge upon all of the human kind, for the horrible atrocities, we, in our ignorance and hunger, have done to his favorite children.