So, I've just installed Diablo 3 from online - will pick up my copy in stores tomorrow afternoon after school, kinda pointless to play at 3AM anyway - there are more important things than playing games I have to do.
Anyway, I've checked the settings. The Physics setting kinda annoyed me. My computer is better than the recommended specs, but I like to lower some things anyway. But this is not the point and I'm not replying to people criticizing that if they do - I can do what I want, I'm an adult.
This is my processor
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
e7500 @ 2.93GHz
Diablo 3 recommended is 2.4GHz.
Either way, my question is what is the point of Physics? What do they do? Ok, particles are necessary, I know this. But physics? Stuff flying around, stuff being destroyed... falling chandeliers... I played the Beta at a friend's, I've seent the environmnet collapse. But what happens if I put the physics to low? Do I lose on some things? Do keeping them at max is necessary for some animations, events, or environnment things? Will keeping them at max reduce my FPS? In theory I should stay at 60.
They initially had the most legendary items be Bind on Equip. This for all the concerns expressed by you. After some time though, they decided to remove this, because the amount of items this really takes out of the economy is extremely limited. Thus, it's not very functional as an item sink, but very functional as a source of frustration.
imagine finding that awesome 2hander in inferno when farming with ur wizard >_<
extreme frustation, no fun, hence must not be part of this game.
Makes sence no?
Do you know the difference between bind on equip and bind on pickup? BoE would be no problem with your example.
Still unecessary.
This is not World of Warcraft and there is no need to be concerned about inflation or the economy. Sometimes you dump gear you used on one character to the other when it becomes useless on the first. In Diablo 2 dupes were the problem, in 3 they shouldn't really be. They are not in WoW, I assume they know how to prevent their creation.
Yeah, i heard of this problem with Lilith and Andariel, too. But I dont care too much about it.
When i was talking about Lilith I was thinking about your problem with: who trapped mephisto and ball in the soulstone. And my answer was maybe Lilith or Izual. I'm not sure if you noticed that.
I mean you wonder how they trapped Mephisto and Baal... you should as how they got Duriel and Andariel as well. I mean it's more or less the some problem right?
Yes, indeed. I added them later and edit my post that is above yours. Lilith and Izual... could be a possibility, but when? I thought Lilith vanished at some point before the games.
And Izual wandered the plains of despair as a demon in hell while we killed Mephisto, and was killed and vanished before we killed Diablo. As for Lilith? I think Adriah will shed some light in this in Act II.
Guess I strayed in my reasoning. I tried to adress, but I guess the shorter answer was that I believe those two were not in the position to bind the 4 evils from DII.
Perhaps the Black Soulstone falling from Heaven will simply fall somewhere no one can access, having all the evils bound unto itself unable to set themselves free. This would explain why he said they were vanquished forever and explain this quote of mine:
And About the Black Soulstone, Diablo was defeated, but his spirit was bound to the stone, which wasn't destroyed. Logically, he could return. This is incoherent with Diablo 2. The Black SS is a glorified SS, like the blue, red and yellow ones. Except better as it can bind alot of Demons and Angels within itself. What happens when you kill Diablo and do not destroy his Soulstone? Yup, more demons on your doorstep.
It is clear that Diablo has the 6 other evils inside him. It is clearly stated, with pictures, in the Making of Video.
Diablo has, through Leah and the Black Soulstone, absorbed, Mephisto, Baal, Andariel, Duriel, Azmodan, Belial.
The only reason this didn't reform Tathamet is that the 7 evils are the heads, and that Tathamet's body is the Burning Hells (c.f Book of Cain/Tathamet on Diablo wiki). So basically, an incomplete Tathamet. And also, Diablo tricked his brothers and absorbed them. Quite frankly, unless they planned this together, they're not gonna be happy if they return.
Diablo's essence survived in Leah from the sex with Adriah. Azmodan, Belial, we put them in the Soulstone ourselves.
So what about Mephisto and Baal? How did THEY get into the Soulstone? The only point they could have gotten in would be either when in DII we shattered their Soulstones (Diablo's and Mephisto's at one point, Baal's presumably later).
When did the Black Soulstone capture their souls?
I was wondering the same... this is wierd. I guess it will be hard to tell the story between the end of act 3 and the end of act 4. that's only 1 act to tell how he got all the other evil.... wait...wtf... I think I got it... Izual!
It's said that he will make an appearance in D3 and he betrayed the angels once before.
Who else is there? Lilith, Inarius, Malthael.
Did I miss someone who could do this?
I think Izual or maybe Lilith in the hopes that she will be like the queen while diablo is king.
Lilith is the daughter of Mephisto and not a Prime or Lesser Evil.
During his fight with Anu, it got haywire and they both died. Anu's spine become the crystal arch, birthplace of angels, and his body became Heaven.
3 of Tathamet's seven heads (the most powerful 3) became the Prime Evils Diablo, Mephisto and Baal. The Four weaker heads became Azmodan, Belial, Andariel and Duriel. Supposedly, the 4 Lesser are as strong as the 3 Primes.
Tathamet's body became the Burning hells, explaining why Diablo has not become Tathamet by absorbing only the other 6 great Evils. He would need to become one with Hell.
BUT HERE'S THE CATCH. It says Andariel came to life from the head of Tathamet.
It says Lilith is Andariel's mother... and daughter to Mephisto. And not a great Evil part of the 7.... I found a plothole.
Is Andariel born from Lilith, who was born from Mephisto, who was born from Tathamet, or was she born from directly from Tathamet? In one way, she couldn't be a great Evil, leaving us to wonder what happened to the 7th head. And then in the other case... since the Nephalem were also born from Lilith and Inarius (who are probably LONG gone and vanished) that makes us Andariel's long lost little brothers and sisters. Lol. And she loved Inarius, wants nothing with Diablo. Besides, you don't do your brother's daughter... that's your niece.
Either way, I believe it has probably been retconned in the book of Cain. Andariel was probably born before Lilith, as a lesser Evil like Azmodan and Belial, from Tathamet.
Watching more of the Making of, it MIGHT explained in the game. Still, discuss more
What interests me more is how and when we trapped Mephisto and Baal in the Black Soulstone.
As it is now, judging from cinematics:
Diablo: He was in Leah all along. He left some of his essence in Leah when conceiving her with Adriah. Makes sense, since the stones are corrupted and containing their essence, he left some in the child, leaking. A bit like the Ectonurite in Ben 10 (Ghostfreak). Their mind is contained in their DNA. As long as some is left, they can reform entirely. This is clearly stated.
Belial: Kill him in Act II, put him in the stone.
Azmodan: Kill him in Act 3, put him in the stone.
Mephisto and Baal, Duriel and Andariel: It is unknown when they were put into the stone and they couldn't be into Leah since they were trapped or in Hell at the moment of her conceiving.
And About the Black Soulstone, Diablo was defeated, but his spirit was bound to the stone, which wasn't destroyed. Logically, he could return. This is incoherent with Diablo 2. The Black SS is a glorified SS, like the blue, red and yellow ones. Except better as it can bind alot of Demons and Angels within itself. What happens when you kill Diablo and do not destroy his Soulstone? Yup, more demons on your doorstep.
Diablo is basically a single player game (like Diablo 2) and people seem to forget that. There is no soulbound in RPGs like Tales of serie or Final Fantasy or anything. Why would there be in Diablo? There is no need for sinks. This is NOT a MMORPG. And this is why I believe that some people tell others to "go back to WoW". This is not WoW, this is Diablo. Even in TF2 they removed Bound items (except the ones you get from X number of achievs with Y class) a while ago... now you can trade what you buy in the shop.
There is no need to worry about the economy since you can stay out of it entirely. Now in WoW, it's an integral part of the game which affects you if you do endgame stuff or even low level stuff as professions.
The rune change was probably made to reflect that. They couldn't allow mandatory stuff to be almost only found on RMAH and so hard to find.
It's a single player game at it's core (doesn't mean it's not designed with multi in mind, either) like Borderlands or Titan Quest or Diablo II or Tales of Vesperia or Final Fantasy.
Also, trading between your own characters, trading with people... there is no need for sinks in Diablo 3. In WoW they need to force grinding and cap progression somehow... in this case, it's like Tales of Vesperia or F. Who cares what other people do or get? I have a couple million galds, and it doesn't affect anyone.
The only thing that can be affected is price in RMAH. But even so, prices were set in DII with player to player trading anyway. And it wasn't that broken, especially if you played with friends or alone and didn't touch publics.
It is clear that Diablo has the 6 other evils inside him. It is clearly stated, with pictures, in the Making of Video.
Diablo has, through Leah and the Black Soulstone, absorbed, Mephisto, Baal, Andariel, Duriel, Azmodan, Belial.
The only reason this didn't reform Tathamet is that the 7 evils are the heads, and that Tathamet's body is the Burning Hells (c.f Book of Cain/Tathamet on Diablo wiki). So basically, an incomplete Tathamet. And also, Diablo tricked his brothers and absorbed them. Quite frankly, unless they planned this together, they're not gonna be happy if they return.
Diablo's essence survived in Leah from the sex with Adriah. Azmodan, Belial, we put them in the Soulstone ourselves.
So what about Mephisto and Baal? How did THEY get into the Soulstone? The only point they could have gotten in would be either when in DII we shattered their Soulstones (Diablo's and Mephisto's at one point, Baal's presumably later).
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So, I've just installed Diablo 3 from online - will pick up my copy in stores tomorrow afternoon after school, kinda pointless to play at 3AM anyway - there are more important things than playing games I have to do.
Anyway, I've checked the settings. The Physics setting kinda annoyed me. My computer is better than the recommended specs, but I like to lower some things anyway. But this is not the point and I'm not replying to people criticizing that if they do - I can do what I want, I'm an adult.
This is my processor
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
e7500 @ 2.93GHz
Diablo 3 recommended is 2.4GHz.
Either way, my question is what is the point of Physics? What do they do? Ok, particles are necessary, I know this. But physics? Stuff flying around, stuff being destroyed... falling chandeliers... I played the Beta at a friend's, I've seent the environmnet collapse. But what happens if I put the physics to low? Do I lose on some things? Do keeping them at max is necessary for some animations, events, or environnment things? Will keeping them at max reduce my FPS? In theory I should stay at 60.
Thank you for your help, kind gentlemens.
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Still unecessary.
This is not World of Warcraft and there is no need to be concerned about inflation or the economy. Sometimes you dump gear you used on one character to the other when it becomes useless on the first. In Diablo 2 dupes were the problem, in 3 they shouldn't really be. They are not in WoW, I assume they know how to prevent their creation.
Also single player game priorily.
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Yes, indeed. I added them later and edit my post that is above yours. Lilith and Izual... could be a possibility, but when? I thought Lilith vanished at some point before the games.
And Izual wandered the plains of despair as a demon in hell while we killed Mephisto, and was killed and vanished before we killed Diablo. As for Lilith? I think Adriah will shed some light in this in Act II.
Guess I strayed in my reasoning. I tried to adress, but I guess the shorter answer was that I believe those two were not in the position to bind the 4 evils from DII.
Perhaps the Black Soulstone falling from Heaven will simply fall somewhere no one can access, having all the evils bound unto itself unable to set themselves free. This would explain why he said they were vanquished forever and explain this quote of mine:
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Lilith is the daughter of Mephisto and not a Prime or Lesser Evil.
See...
According to the book of Cain and the transcripts here: http://www.diablowiki.com/Tathamet
Tathamet the dragon had seven heads.
During his fight with Anu, it got haywire and they both died. Anu's spine become the crystal arch, birthplace of angels, and his body became Heaven.
3 of Tathamet's seven heads (the most powerful 3) became the Prime Evils Diablo, Mephisto and Baal. The Four weaker heads became Azmodan, Belial, Andariel and Duriel. Supposedly, the 4 Lesser are as strong as the 3 Primes.
Tathamet's body became the Burning hells, explaining why Diablo has not become Tathamet by absorbing only the other 6 great Evils. He would need to become one with Hell.
BUT HERE'S THE CATCH. It says Andariel came to life from the head of Tathamet.
But if you look here:
http://www.diablowiki.net/Great_Evils
http://www.diablowiki.net/Lilith
It says Lilith is Andariel's mother... and daughter to Mephisto. And not a great Evil part of the 7.... I found a plothole.
Is Andariel born from Lilith, who was born from Mephisto, who was born from Tathamet, or was she born from directly from Tathamet? In one way, she couldn't be a great Evil, leaving us to wonder what happened to the 7th head. And then in the other case... since the Nephalem were also born from Lilith and Inarius (who are probably LONG gone and vanished) that makes us Andariel's long lost little brothers and sisters. Lol. And she loved Inarius, wants nothing with Diablo. Besides, you don't do your brother's daughter... that's your niece.
Either way, I believe it has probably been retconned in the book of Cain. Andariel was probably born before Lilith, as a lesser Evil like Azmodan and Belial, from Tathamet.
Watching more of the Making of, it MIGHT explained in the game. Still, discuss more
What interests me more is how and when we trapped Mephisto and Baal in the Black Soulstone.
As it is now, judging from cinematics:
Diablo: He was in Leah all along. He left some of his essence in Leah when conceiving her with Adriah. Makes sense, since the stones are corrupted and containing their essence, he left some in the child, leaking. A bit like the Ectonurite in Ben 10 (Ghostfreak). Their mind is contained in their DNA. As long as some is left, they can reform entirely. This is clearly stated.
Belial: Kill him in Act II, put him in the stone.
Azmodan: Kill him in Act 3, put him in the stone.
Mephisto and Baal, Duriel and Andariel: It is unknown when they were put into the stone and they couldn't be into Leah since they were trapped or in Hell at the moment of her conceiving.
And About the Black Soulstone, Diablo was defeated, but his spirit was bound to the stone, which wasn't destroyed. Logically, he could return. This is incoherent with Diablo 2. The Black SS is a glorified SS, like the blue, red and yellow ones. Except better as it can bind alot of Demons and Angels within itself. What happens when you kill Diablo and do not destroy his Soulstone? Yup, more demons on your doorstep.
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There is no need to worry about the economy since you can stay out of it entirely. Now in WoW, it's an integral part of the game which affects you if you do endgame stuff or even low level stuff as professions.
The rune change was probably made to reflect that. They couldn't allow mandatory stuff to be almost only found on RMAH and so hard to find.
It's a single player game at it's core (doesn't mean it's not designed with multi in mind, either) like Borderlands or Titan Quest or Diablo II or Tales of Vesperia or Final Fantasy.
Also, trading between your own characters, trading with people... there is no need for sinks in Diablo 3. In WoW they need to force grinding and cap progression somehow... in this case, it's like Tales of Vesperia or F. Who cares what other people do or get? I have a couple million galds, and it doesn't affect anyone.
The only thing that can be affected is price in RMAH. But even so, prices were set in DII with player to player trading anyway. And it wasn't that broken, especially if you played with friends or alone and didn't touch publics.
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It is clear that Diablo has the 6 other evils inside him. It is clearly stated, with pictures, in the Making of Video.
Diablo has, through Leah and the Black Soulstone, absorbed, Mephisto, Baal, Andariel, Duriel, Azmodan, Belial.
The only reason this didn't reform Tathamet is that the 7 evils are the heads, and that Tathamet's body is the Burning Hells (c.f Book of Cain/Tathamet on Diablo wiki). So basically, an incomplete Tathamet. And also, Diablo tricked his brothers and absorbed them. Quite frankly, unless they planned this together, they're not gonna be happy if they return.
Diablo's essence survived in Leah from the sex with Adriah. Azmodan, Belial, we put them in the Soulstone ourselves.
So what about Mephisto and Baal? How did THEY get into the Soulstone? The only point they could have gotten in would be either when in DII we shattered their Soulstones (Diablo's and Mephisto's at one point, Baal's presumably later).
When did the Black Soulstone capture their souls?