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Great job mate!

Do some more, I'm sure good Diablo fan art will never be unappreciated in these parts.

I find all the Pets pretty stupid, its rather frustrating.

They often seem to be completely baffled by just stairs, like a bunch of ******* retarded Daleks.

Its almost embarrassing in group play when 'my' characters stand around with their thumb up their ass while Elites are right there.

This is cool. I cant help but wonder why Blizzard D3 team never had these kind of discussions. The current affixes are more like entry level ideas. There is nothing exciting about them whatsoever.

I've said it before, D3 has felt like a demo/open beta since launch and still does. Most of my friends have stopped playing D3 and near as I can tell the only ones still playing are still passionate about Diablo and therefore spend just as much time talking about the changes needed as they do playing the game.

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I'm probably just mentally deficient, but I don't understand the draw of offline play.

Amongst other things, like being able to play if the internet is down (which happens if you live in Australia)...

... I would just love to be able to FUCKING PAUSE Diablo3 while I put the kids to bed, make some dinner or head to the shops for milk and bread. (yes I know you can go to the Menu but it only lasts for 15 minutes before its kicks you out).

Honestly, WTF Blizzard, why cant I pause a video game? Every time I want to play I have to allocate a strict 'Do Not Interrupt' against the wife and kids. There has never been a game that has pissed them off more.

I have a character for each class and play each one when I'm in the mood for different types of gameplay. My Monk for example is (mostly) completely unaffected by RD and he's great for getting into the thick of it. My Barbarian is the same.

My Wizard and DH however, are the polar opposite of this. I can dish out huge DPS, but the trade of is I have to be much more careful.

Making my ranged, DPS dealers (that are supposed to be fragile) more durable and akin to my melee fighters is counter intuitive and goes against the point of having different styles of classes.

It also hurts multi player, when you intentionally have a team of tank class getting into it, keeping the enemies busy while the damage dealer goes to work.

RD is one of the dumbest ideas in D3 IMHO.

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You are paragon level 49, and you played for 12 hours.

Conclusion: You have way, way, WAY more free time to play than the majority of the playerbase (not the majority of biased sample of people who post here, but the full playerbase). Of course you are finding a ton of legendaries - the game is now balanced around giving the casual players a shot at finding epic gear, as it should be.

This and then some. 12 HOURS IN ONE DAY! That is one half of the 24 hour rotation of the planet. If you weren't getting loads of drops with that kind of play time, then something would be horribly wrong. How many greens and golds would you have seen killing Mephisto for twelve hours with the kind of magic find you're seeing on a paragon 49?

... Yep... couldnt agree more.

Good work getting to Lvl 49 Prg... this will take me about a year.

12 hours play time in a day?... thats about what I get in a week.

No offence mate, but you obviously spend A LOT of your time playing D3 and some could argue too much.

What exactly are you pissy about anyways? You dont like getting loot? Does it piss you off that guys like me with a job and family might fine good loot as well? Are you worried you'll find everything too soon despite playing more in a day than some people get in a week?

Once I get to Lvl 49prg and after a week of farming you bet your ass I want some Legendary's.

2cents.

First up, I'll say I've used the AH for both buying and selling. I dont bother trying to sell anything anymore, since I quite simply cant be bothered. I'd rather just be playing the game than spend time price checking and keeping an eye on the AH.

I dont actually like the AH though becuase to me, its just thrown the balance and enjoyment of the game completely of the rails.

1 - Buying stuff isnt really rewarding. Its great to improve your character and win a bid, but finding an awesome item after taking down an Elite pack or Boss was kind of the point if playing Diablo (for me anyway). This leads to..

2 - Not using the AH, seems like an easy solution to the 'reward' feeling being lost from actually fiding gear in game, but honestly, I wouldnt be playing D3 anymore without the AH. If I relied on drops I would have to keep playing either Hell/Hell or A1 Inferno over, and over and over again until something decent droped and enabled my character to proceed further. D3 just isnt that entertaining and most stuff that drops is rubbish and theres not much else to do in D3. Blacksmithing anyone?

3 - Once you've made it too Inferno with your 1st character, you will likely have enough Gold to buy gear for every other character you decide to play up to 60 with ubber gear, effectiviely activating 'God Mode'. Again, you could argue to simply not use the AH, but I know its there. I know that almost EVERYTHING that drops is TOTAL RUBBISH compared to what I can find on the AH for a few Gold in a matter of minutes.

So with all that said, although the AH itself is cool, it has done way more harm than good to Diablo.

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Oh absolutely. Getting paragon 100 requires absolutely zero skill. It is purely a time sink (which is exactly what people asked for...)

300+ hours is more than most casual players even have on their account (I think I'm pretty close to it, and I play more than I should) at this point, so to say it's "too easy" is beyond ridiculous; it wasn't meant to be "hard" in the first place.

Yeh... Going by what that other guy said (Alkazier?? or something) that was 1st to get to 100; he played about 15-20 hours a day, 300 hundred hours adds up to about that in 14 days.

Personally, I think that's kinda overdoing it... to say the least.

To each his own for sure... but I mean, getting up at 6am, play solid, without stopping until 10pm at night, then repeat for 2 weeks?! That's crazy. Guy's either on holidays, or has no job, no girlfriend and very little to no other commitments.

With a wife, young family and full time job, I'll play about 2 hours a night on weekdays and about the same on the weekends depending on how many family/house duties I have to do.

I think 12 hours a week aint bad, and at that rate it will probably take me 9 months (maybe longer) to get to 100 Paragon. That's assuming I play 1 character and D3 that whole time. Theres a bunch of other games that I need to catch up on so meh... not in any rush... its a nice long term goal to have to get to 100. Playing other games it might takes years... which I think is cool. Gives me a reason to come back to it.

Personally, I wouldn't want to be at 100, then I've got nothing to do again but farm maybe for other characters maybe... I dunno.

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"shove all the responsibility over to someone else and then start whining".... what? Battle.net uptime is the responsibility of no one but the people at Blizzard.

Spot on. This logic of "You should have known it WOULDN'T have worked (as promised) and because you didn't its your fault" is just ludicrous.

So, as a consumer I'm an idiot for thinking that I would able to use a product once it is available for sale, as promised by the seller on the day it is released? Yeh... that make's a lot of sense.

Quote from beadon

Sounds like you need a divorce...

No. I don't need a divorce... perhaps from Blizzard, but from my wife? Are you drunk? Only someone without a demanding job, wife and kids would make such a moronic statement.

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If your time is so precious you should have did a bit of research into launch day problems that exist with every on-line game that's ever been launched.

Like I said... not my problem. Blizzard shouldn't have released it if it didn't work... simple. D3 is a product, like any other. Not for one second do I forgive the product not working due to issues that are integral to the product they are selling. Do you buy and car and expect it to not start for 24 hours? No, and D3 is no different.

Quote from Henno

Why are there so many retards?

Why is there so much intolerance? Or name calling simply because all points of view do not converge? Why don't you look in the mirror and then get back to me?

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Also casuals should stop whining, if u don't have the time u can't expect to be godly geared, in rl should ppl that study like 1hr a week be given a chance to get the same degree as someone that dedicates 1/3 of each day to his education(brilliant genius minds excluded) ? Should an amateur basketball player have the same contract, salary wise to someone that had dedicated all his life to train? Think not, so you will get more if u invest more.

This had me laughing. It's a game not a profession. If diablo is your profession there is a problem... I mean for real I play on average 1-2 hours a day and I'm stuck in T1-T2 I could use a little bit less randomization or a little bit of luck but that won't happen. and this game isn't even close to dead. Because you burned out on D3 too quickly doesn't mean it's burning out for everyone. the game is not dead PERIOD. go back to the hole in which you crawled from people the games fine, obviously bug fixing is in order but that doesn't mean the game is dead.

No wonder you are stuck on T1-T2 when you cant even enchant or gem your gear properly and your spec makes no sense. You are one of those persons who just wants everything without doing anything.

LOOOOL Please, Don't say things like that. generalizations are your worst friend, and you just made yourself look like a complete loser. Second if you have some of those 50+ hr/week to spare to play my wizard and gear him for me please go ahead and do it. I'd love to see your RNG just blow through mine, I mean apparently I suck so much Blizzard doesn't even care to give me good rolls. >.> Please get off your high horse you shmuck. I play this game at a NORMAL rate. I don't go out of my way to make time for a videogame. It's a hobby and a leisurely activity it isn't supposed to take a millennium to do good in. My build is fine and so are my items for now.



Also If you couldn't tell I'm doing a frost build with skills I like, Oh wait that's what I'm doing wrong I forgot my bad I'm supposed to do the "right" build... Fuck off with that shit, I suppose you're one of the ones who likes D2 skill trees more than D3 (see what I did there?) I can spec however I want and should be able to play at any level as long as there is cohesiveness, and some order, such as some buffs, some defense, and some offense. You shouldn't be kicked out of any difficulty because you weren't playing with X build. That's called cookie cutter builds and it is the worst thing that could happen to any RPG EVER. It forces everyone to be exactly the same without a single thing differentiating them.

I'm happy more people are able to enjoy the game. I'm unhappy that I will have to find something new to play sooner than I had anticipated. God I hope WoD is out before then.

I think this really points to the core of the issue with the game. For better or worse, it has the same issue WoW has had for a while: The game has a massive and diverse audience, to the point where nothing is going to please everyone.

There are people who have almost every waking hour to play games, and the only game they play is Diablo 3. There are people who have maybe an hour or two a night, and play many different games. Those are extremes, of course, and most people are somewhere in the middle.

In a game where loot is so central to progress and having fun, one game model can never please both sides of the spectrum. If it takes a week or more of continuous play to get an upgrade, the "casuals", not surprisingly, feel like they're not making any progress in the time they do get to play. They feel like yeah, all those awesome, game-changing set bonuses they've seen people show off are awesome, and look really fun to play with, but they've never seen a single piece.

On the other hand, if the system is tweaked so the "casuals" are actually seeing upgrades on a regular basis, the "no-lifers" get frustrated, again understandably. With the sheer amount of time they spend playing, they get everything they want fairly quickly, and feel like there's nothing for them to do.

There's never going to be a magic drop rate that pleases both ends of the spectrum, or even large chunks of the middle. I fall toward the latter end of the spectrum (less time to game, more games in waiting). I definitely like these changes. If I "beat" the game in a month, I've got plenty of other things to play until the next patch comes out. If things were on the other end of the spectrum, though, and I spent a few nights without getting any upgrades, I'd probably stop right there. I'm not "entitled" to upgrades, no, but getting new gear's what makes the game fun, and if I'm not having fun, I'll play something else. I can't speak for the other end of the spectrum, but from mine, these tweaks keep me playing longer.

Casual level 9000 in both of you. You do understand you both are the reason why games suck?

And neckbeards like you are the reason communities in games cannot have nice things.

Who the eff cares how others play thus single player game. You aren't interacting with tons of players like MMOs. Play the game how you want and don't give 2 craps how others play.

*shrug* I think the balance was already great. That feeling of "My next upgrade is just around the corner" was at the right level (for me). The fact there was some gear you actually had to farm was nice; anything that you could get from Kadala was already waaaay too accessible in my opinion.



This change literally just means that people will have all 5 characters geared in t6 lvl gear SO MUCH faster than is necessary. Now I'm not sure I will be even bothered to finish off the sets because gear farming has changed in RoS from "Go and kill monsters, open chests, smash urns, get loot!" to "Kill rift boss, buy loot in town" which for whatever reason; cheapens the experience (for me)



I'm happy more people are able to enjoy the game. I'm unhappy that I will have to find something new to play sooner than I had anticipated. God I hope WoD is out before then.

You guys are aware this isn't a competitive game right? Ok so there's this new exploit that lets people farm shards from lv 1 rifts, don't like it? Don't do it! You think gambling lets you get gear to easy, then don't do it! You think you shouldn't be able to get torment-only legs from gamble, then salvage every torment-only leg u get from gamble! It's that simple, this is a game with 0 competition play it how you want... don't claim something that you can completely ignore has ruined it for u.

Most players farm t5/t6?

Sorry. Not even close to true.

Quote from zabtak

Best patch ever - finnaly you can actualy reach so called "end-game" without playing 24/7 like some no-life'ers are doing...

this!!! i cant agree more

i'm pretty well geared and i think this patch is great. now we will be able to upgrade our currents sets by gambling which is great.