Official Blizzard Quote:
Update: We're continuing to perform maintenance on the Diablo III test server and anticipate that it could take another hour to complete the necessary tasks. We anticipate that the game will be available again by approximately 5:00 p.m. PST, and appreciate your patience until it is.
Small Maintenance and Minor Hotfixes
Servers will be down from 10:00 am t o 2:00 PM PST for small maintenance and a minor hotfixes. Note that friends lists and achievements will be reset.
Official Blizzard Quote:
We will be performing a small maintenance on the Diablo III test server starting at approximately 10:00 a.m. PST. This maintenance will include a variety of minor hotfixes as well as a database storage update; as a result of these changes, please note that your Friends Lists, Achievements, and "Recent Players" will be wiped.
We anticipate that downtime will last for about 4 hours, until 2:00 p.m. PST. Thank you for your patience.
Edit: To clarify, I'm whining about my achievements Oo
not really an issue, its not gonna happen in Live, plus they can easily just check that if you already are max, it gives it, no biggy
I think you're overestimating how much gold you get in a single playthrough up to level 10, and there's more than just training blacksmith to spend gold on.
ya the jewler. which isnt as important. unless they really buff the gold costs of leveling up the blacksmith you can easily max him out in normal far far before you hit nightmare to get the pages to level it further
The first socketed items appear around level 20 in the BS's list, so let's assume you get your jeweler around mid act 2 or late act 1. That's a lot of cash hoarding in the mean time. So almost immediately upon getting the jeweler, you'll be able to max it to its potential in normal. So, you could (in theory) never need to use the lowest quality gems and start being to use the 3rd or 4th tier ones - which makes those initial tiers pointless. Of course, a lot depends on loot drops.
It's a real issue - albeit maybe insignificant.
Another issue with the beta is when you reach the skeleton king, you are at about level 8 or 9 (depending on thoroughness). So at 1/3 of 1/4 of the normal game, you are 1/3 through the leveling process? That doesn't seem quite right either. Levels must come really slowly after that.