Have they added we levels or quests yet? I got so bored of running through the whole game/acts without any good items falling that I quit a long time ago. Would like to have a reason to play again though.

2/24/2013 10:55:02 AM

New Event: The Infernal Machine

Needs to be more of them though.

2/24/2013 11:50:13 AM

Increase game size to 8 players pls

2/24/2013 12:18:08 PM

Ubers are pretty fun. Farming keys is not so fun

2/24/2013 5:04:41 PM

Started up again for some god-forsaken reason.

On the plus the AH is completely flooded so the few million gold I had from 1.5 years ago is really going a long way. I'm actually able to play whatever spec I want in Inferno now.

7/19/2013 12:36:41 PM

Expansion announced: Reaper of Souls





New Class: Crusader
Loot 2.0 System - smart drops tailored to your class, legendaries with build-changing effects
"Loot Run" Option - completely randomized 20-30 minute dungeons
Mystic - item transmog and stat reroll
5th Act
Paragon System now account-wide with further customization offered and no cap

8/21/2013 9:02:25 AM

No one plays this shit

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

8/21/2013 9:08:38 AM

Very awesome. I really hope they use this as an opportunity to turn the game into what it should have been. D2:LOD did wonders for D2.

I started playing again recently and started up a barb. Pretty fun stuff. I'm glad they're making paragon account-wide as to not discourage people from making lots of alts.

Also "loot runs" seems to be the makeshift replacement for old school meph/baal runs.

[Edited on August 21, 2013 at 9:43 AM. Reason : .]

8/21/2013 9:40:13 AM

I was hoping they'd include some kind of offline system in a future expansion, have they announced an offline mode with this?

8/21/2013 10:23:56 AM

Def copping this.

8/21/2013 10:53:37 AM

Yeah I'm pretty psyched. Everything they've announced so far indicates that they're actually listening to the fans (a big departure from when Jay led the team). The Loot Runs is just one of the new "end-game" content options. They are rumors of some sort of challenges system as well.

8/21/2013 12:30:10 PM

There is no end game without ladders; The game will wither and die without that.

You're also stupid if you think Jay was stopping them from listening to the fans.

[Edited on August 21, 2013 at 1:09 PM. Reason : *]

8/21/2013 1:09:22 PM

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8/21/2013 1:49:24 PM

Offline mode is scrub mode.
Thus, it is console only. I am OK with this.

8/21/2013 8:13:51 PM

Console version out today. Looks good so far from what I have seen.

9/3/2013 10:26:26 AM

same screen co-op *drool*

9/3/2013 11:56:18 AM

I'd be curious to see what the sales numbers are like for console.

Most of the people who are d3 consumers would have bought the game by now for PC and have their mixed opinions on it. I can't see a large amount of folks who already have the PC pick up the console version.

9/3/2013 12:16:02 PM

I played a little D3 this weekend for the first time in a while. I forgot how fun and satisfying the combat was. It's a shame the endgame never panned out.

9/3/2013 12:50:39 PM

Got it for consol today, really like it, been waiting for a good game of this type since champions of norath

9/3/2013 8:20:03 PM

I've been hearing the console version is way better than PC. Any TWW weigh ins on that statement?

9/10/2013 9:41:56 AM

I don't know about WAY better considering it's the same game. From what I read the only things different are no AH, loot 1.5, and offline mode.

9/10/2013 10:54:32 AM

Its not way better, it just that the console version has features (stated above) that that are very desirable to the players of the PC version.


Both of these guys play PC and console versions.

http://www.twitch.tv/streamerhouse
http://www.twitch.tv/kingkongor

[Edited on September 10, 2013 at 11:50 AM. Reason : /]

9/10/2013 11:48:46 AM

AH going down forever.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/17/diablo-iii-auction-house-shutting-down-next-year

9/18/2013 8:16:31 AM

Huzzah!

9/18/2013 8:50:02 AM

One step closer to offline SP for PC.

9/18/2013 9:15:26 AM

This just comes to show that with enough QQ'ing, things can actually be changed in a Blizzard game.

I think the AH closing down is the game changer that diablo 3 needs. It will actually give players a reason to play the game rather than be an AH allstar.

Might this be a hint at an expansion release date?

9/18/2013 10:27:15 AM

Had to be done, an auction house is just fundamentally a bad fit for a loot game. Making it easier to trade items over D2 was a worthy cause, but it ultimately created more problems than it solved. I do find it funny that they are basically using the console version as a sand-boxed beta test for the PC version

[Edited on September 18, 2013 at 4:28 PM. Reason : :]

9/18/2013 4:28:02 PM

Closed Beta is underway for RoS. Did anyone get an initial invite?

12/16/2013 1:12:25 PM

Diablo 3 Patch 2.0.1 - Pre-Expansion patch launches today.

Here is the long list of patch notes:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/11883960/#PTRnotes

2/25/2014 12:33:07 PM

This game is so much better now, all the suck is gone.

3/1/2014 5:23:26 PM

It is.definitely.better now.


If the game launched the way it is now...... It'd be pretty massive

3/1/2014 5:25:41 PM

ww barb still viable?

3/1/2014 5:55:06 PM

nope

3/1/2014 5:58:05 PM

^4 so there's an offline patch?

3/1/2014 7:02:55 PM

barbs got pretty neutered

wizards and dh's are currently the bee's knees. Monk's and WD's are in a good spot, but barbs pmuch suck the D unless you enjoy throw barb.

3/1/2014 7:51:26 PM

What makes it better now? I haven't played it in years but don't have anything else to play so I would check it out again if the changes were significant.

3/1/2014 8:24:30 PM

So I've been dual-wielding 1-h crossbows as a DH up to 42. What would be the advantage of using just a 2-h bow?

3/1/2014 9:51:46 PM

^^I would just read the patch notes because there isn't a single aspect of the game that wasn't touched. Some very significant changes and many more minor ones that just make the game less of a chore to play. The biggest change is to itemization, it isn't complete ass anymore. You get steady upgrades without having to filter through mountains of junk loot.

3/1/2014 11:10:28 PM

^^ dual wielding 1 hander crossbows is good if they are about equal in quality versus if you had a sick bow/quiver combo.

i haven't tried my DH much since the patch hit because im totally in love with my wizard and how overpowered they are right now

[Edited on March 1, 2014 at 11:13 PM. Reason : .]

3/1/2014 11:13:10 PM

Interview PC Gamer did with the lead designers: http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/02/28/diablo-iii-interview-lead-designers-reflect-on-their-mistakes-look-ahead-to-reaper-of-souls/

Failure with the AH:

Quote :

" It did what it was intended to do in one way, which was to make trading a safe place to happen without trading scams and other ripoffs. However, it had a very bad unintended consequence of making trading the best way to get items in the game. The fact is that the most fun way for the vast majority of people is to kill monsters and take gears from their cold, dead claws. Trading became very easy. The auction house lowered the barrier of entry so much that it became the best way to get items, and ultimately players will do whatever is smartest. They will find the golden path and do what is most efficient. You should play the game to get gear to kill the monsters. You shouldn't get gear to kill monsters because you will get bored too quickly. It stole people's reward curve is essentially what it did; it made it very easy for them to do it. So trading isn't a bad way to get items, but if it negates playing the game, then we've made a huge mistake. And we did, which is why we're shutting down the auction house."

Randomization:

Quote :

"Martens: I think the randomness thing. We should have made everything random from the start. So the reason we didn't have random exterior zones was because we wanted the game to have more of that real RPG feel; that the world was real and had a sense of place. And like the loot problem, until Loot 2.0 was really dialing in, it was hard for us to figure out what to do with the auction house; it was the same with the randomness. Until the other aspects that made the game more RPG and more connected to the world were dialed in... you know, we've gotten better at storytelling since Diablo III; the world map that comes with Adventure Mode makes Sanctuary feel a lot more real just because you have a map of it, if nothing else, and that's a relatively simple solution to the problem. All of that made us comfortable with introducing randomized exterior zones as well. Paolilli: Yeah, and that's actually one of my favorite things that we've done. With the map you have that sense of place, whereas before I think the environments looked great, but you didn't really have that sense of how everything is connected. And I think the map and the ability to go anywhere and do anything helps."

3/2/2014 8:41:07 AM

cool, been wanting to play mage. might level one now.

3/2/2014 9:33:09 AM

I ask because I have yet to see a 2-h bow whose dps is significantly better (or even better at all) than the 1-h's that I have or have seen.

I do like the new scaling of drops now. Right out of the gate, I upgraded pretty much everything.

3/2/2014 9:40:12 AM

So the clans are basically just a private chat channel? Am I missing something there?

3/2/2014 2:10:16 PM

yeah basically. they provide no benefit outside of a chat channel and a pool of people to play with.

also builds can be made to work well with 1h xbows and 2h's ... not nec the same builds for both both there's def stuff that works. so it's not a detriment but you may choose different skills with a 1h as opposed to a 2h


and itemization has drastically improved... even little things have been implemented... like currently I'm running frozen orb on my Wiz ... harkening back to my diablo 2 days.

wizards have a passive called cold blooded that increases damage to chilled targets... the shoulders I just crafted came with an affix giving my attacks 4% chance to chill.

just neat little things like that.

3/2/2014 6:56:49 PM

I just ran through King Leoric with a wizard (never used one before) and I have to say I really like the changes they have made since the last time I played a couple years ago. With the combination of the changes and me never using a wizard before it feels like a pretty new game to me.

3/2/2014 10:14:45 PM

i like the changes a lot.
i'd like to see stuff that i can give my follower, or at the least get to a new character, but at this point i think farming paragon levels prior to the expansion will be what i want to do as the crusader looks like fun.

what build are people using for the wizard that makes them so much more powerful now?
i played my barb, monk, wizard, and s hunter and i liked my barb the most still and felt he was the strongest

3/3/2014 8:19:09 AM

plus you can be a true ranged barbarian now with weapon throw moving to the primary spot!

3/3/2014 9:18:07 AM

i was using frenzy with the axe throw, why is the weapon throw becoming the main attack now?

3/3/2014 9:20:34 AM

axe throw = rune, weapon throw = skills. They both still exist.

Weapon throw used to be a rage (or whatever that stupid yellow mana is called) user and was fairly worthless in my opinion. They changed it to be a primary attack (like frenzy or bash). now you can use it to generate rage and then cast ancient spear (also reworked) or something else to stay completely at range if you want.

the big downside is that it is annoying as hell to listen to the weapon throw noise constantly.

3/3/2014 9:49:59 AM

ah ok.
i didn't remember the axe throw being a rage ability, i don't much like staying at range, but i like that i can change my skills on the fly more without having to try and save up the 5 valor buffs each time.

i was just going into combat as usual though. barb has best gear currently and wizard still feels like too much utility and not enough damage.

3/3/2014 9:59:58 AM