I got my first legendary today mid act 1 in nightmare. Dawn, the hand crossbow level 31 with 63.8 dps and a TON of DEX and VIT plus GF and MF and a socket ... put it on the ah cuz I'm a wizard and wizard loot doesn't drop for me.
My hydra has been ruined for arcane and I'm not level 37, it can almost solo small groups of nightmare mobs at the end of act 1. I would guess that it does quite a bit of damage to bosses too. Just killed the butcher and that hydra was doing work while i was busy running from chains and fire. The only time i replace is it on belial or azmodan or any bosses that don't move a lot, then i replace it with meteor.
Edit: with magic weapon ruined for 15% damage, I'm sitting at ~1000 DPS, arcane hydra hits for around the 300s and crits between 600-700. So it can take out a little group of 2000-2500 hp act1 nm mobs fairly easily.
i know you have reason to be suspicious BUT if you follow blizz's twitter feed you'll find that this is a SCHEDULED ROLLING RESTART that should take no more than 15 minutes...
Once a week (WoW Tuesdays comes to mind) is one thing. Every few hours is another.
keep in mind how long it took to get burning crusade going steady
This is ALL over the mac tech support forums on battle.net, It doesn't matter how good your mac is or what kind of hardware you're running, it's the way the Mac OSX is running the game. It's the same across the board, everyone is getting very very low fps even when running on the lowest possible setting.
I'm using the same model as you are and many people on the mac forums are using 2010 models but they still have the 9400M graphics card. My game was alright except for when i went outside, and Act 4 is completely unplayable.
You still have the game, and will continue to have the game. All they have to do is a little fixing that is expected with this kind of game, it's not a big deal.
i have no problems on my wizard with arcane hydra/ mirrors so I'm not all up in everyones business. When the server starts acting up then it gets hairy
I've had the same problems, and sometimes in outside areas it's like I'm moving in slow motion. It's frustrating trying to cast a defensive spell for 4 seconds and then die
ha yeah i'm at the end of act two and apparently i haven't completed 3 main quests from act 1
On a side note, ill happily wait for servers because my collectors edition JUST arrived
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Edit: with magic weapon ruined for 15% damage, I'm sitting at ~1000 DPS, arcane hydra hits for around the 300s and crits between 600-700. So it can take out a little group of 2000-2500 hp act1 nm mobs fairly easily.
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I'm using the same model as you are and many people on the mac forums are using 2010 models but they still have the 9400M graphics card. My game was alright except for when i went outside, and Act 4 is completely unplayable.
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On a side note, ill happily wait for servers because my collectors edition JUST arrived
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I got some nice rare boots that give +20 intellect and 8% movement speed also
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