Diablo III

[Trevelyan]

The last fight of Act II was a lot of fun, I thought. A friend and I farmed it 6 or 7 times before moving on to Act III, which has also been a lot of fun... dinged 32 last night and I'm loving the monk. Anyone else playing one? Sweeping Wind + Cyclone Strike ftw

[Little Bobby Tables]

Yeah, I am playing a monk. Just got to act 3. The 7-point attack thing is really fantastic.

[floor punching mummy]

sounds like monk should be up next for me.

[MrTippet]

I was able to borrow a friends computer for the the week until my new one comes. Got up to level 10 Wizard last night.

[stick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43GUnZN_s4#!

[Pokaris]

Shit went down during a boss fight on me last night, was down again when I got up this morning. I've been doing a lot of single player and it is annoying as hell.

[Gretyl]

At the risk of ruining the economy for everyone, you can clear a 10-to-1 profit by abusing the town merchants + Auction House. Login/logout until they have a really high-statted item, then buy as much of it as you want. Turn around & post them all on the AH. This is especially profitable if you just crossed into the higher difficulty levels.

Lather, rinse & repeat.

[Santa]

At the risk of ruining the economy for everyone, you can clear a 10-to-1 profit by abusing the town merchants + Auction House. Login/logout until they have a really high-statted item, then buy as much of it as you want. Turn around & post them all on the AH. This is especially profitable if you just crossed into the higher difficulty levels.

Lather, rinse & repeat.

I find it better to buy/sell from the AH directly. The prices are better than vendor and items with proper stats are often massively underpriced.

I picked up a legendary bow this morning for a quick 100k profit.

[Uncle Sherm]

At the risk of ruining the economy for everyone, you can clear a 10-to-1 profit by abusing the town merchants + Auction House. Login/logout until they have a really high-statted item, then buy as much of it as you want. Turn around & post them all on the AH. This is especially profitable if you just crossed into the higher difficulty levels.

Lather, rinse & repeat.

Throw in a government bailout when it all comes crashing down and Video Games have reached a new level of realism.

[MrTippet]

Finally beat Diablo at about level 32 with my Wizard now.

[Gretyl]

Act IV is kinda short, but returning to a Nightmare Act I feels right as rain.

[Santa]

Hell mode: Get the rare packs close enough to the waypoint to chain wipe/rez but not so close that they instantly kill you when you port in. Bonus points if you can leave them in a kite-able area.

[MarkK]

fucking arcane lightning immune minions

[MarkK]

missing some commas there... the minions are immune... I hate to see what new tricks inferno pulls.

[Gretyl]

from secondhand streaming reports of a geared-up 60 barb playing inferno, common monsters can wipe the party

[Santa]

Yeah, I'm stockpiling gold and items for 60. Crazy shit.

[MarkK]

no confirmed blue posting but there was def some shenanigans during maintenance today...

quickening def was nerfed/fixed (only triggers on single target abilities)

people are claiming inferno is easier on melee, thinking maybe the 30% damage reduction wasn't being applied properly until today

wizards might or might not have their force armor nerfed... but really if they haven't yet... they should, you shouldn't be able to solo inferno with 5k hp...

[MarkK]

now they nerfed my boon of protection!?!

thinking I might reroll... monks weren't in a great place end-game as-is, and they completely just destroyed my build.

[Gretyl]

anyone have a cached version of the 1.0.2 patch notes?

forums are down and I want immediate satisfaction

[MarkK]

don't think they posted patch notes yet, we're still on 1.0.1.something... today's update was just for the launcher.

the hotfixes are posted at d3db or diablofans though

[Gretyl]

baww, already read hotfix notes

[Talenos]

Just got my first orange.

[Gretyl]

Slutty little pimp you, I'm still orangeless.

[MarkK]

I got a lvl 8 orange, and a lvl 30 orange...

not really worthwhile...

though my lvl 30 orange is like a lightsaber made of unicorn smiles, bright rainbow colors, shooting star wishes, and teddy bear giggles.

[MarcusAurelius]

omg, just got this to find out that i can't play for another 3 hours. fuck.

[Santa]

Most oranges/set pieces are pretty worthless.

Rings/Amulets can be awesome. Weapons are pretty terrible in general. Other gear is hit and miss. I'm using legendary pants/chest that increase run speed, normally only available on boots.

They designed a game with interesting and broad stats, only to reward stacking the primary stat as high as possible.

[Santa]

omg, just got this to find out that i can't play for another 3 hours. fuck.

Just FYI, the last difficulty in this game currently boils down to being a melee class and farming act 1 or being a twitch ranged class, stacking damage and kiting. I'm doing pretty well in Inferno act 3/4 as a demon hunter but a single hit from an enemy instantly kills me. It's pretty much instagib. I love instagib.

[Talenos]

They say they're working on the damage spikiness, but even on my Nightmare mode it takes maybe a couple extra seconds to kill the normal mob groups, but the elite guys are pretty much like fighting any of the act bosses on Normal.

[Santa]

I ran into a monk that survived for a while in an act 3 inferno game. It was adorable. He'd run in, stun, hit a few combos and then run away.

Kind of pointless, but I guess it's better than instantly dying.

[Santa]

I ran into a monk that survived for a while in an act 3 inferno game. It was adorable. He'd run in, stun, hit a few combos and then run away.

Kind of pointless, but I guess it's better than instantly dying.

[Gretyl]

Same guy?

[Uncle Sherm]

http://strangetalk.net/viewtopic.php?p=2799692#p2799692

Your Diablo III discussion in the LTE can be found starting here for future reference.

[Talenos]

Diablo III has a free market system with prices determined by an active economy.


It's also on the gold standard!

[Uncle Sherm]

Meh. If Diablo III had a federal reserve system with fiat currency, and you could choose a character that existed to change that, I'd be interested in playing.

[Gretyl]

My libertarian activist is already L52. Join up!

[MarcusAurelius]

inflation is rampant cause they keep printing gold

[Santa]

Good thing the job creators are there to ravage all the goods that poor people could be using, grind them into powder and then forge them into coach purses.

[Gretyl]

thanks obama

[Talenos]

thanks obama

This is Obama's New Tristram.

[Gretyl]

old tristram was doing fine before the bailouts

[Santa]

Diablo -> Heaven
Liberal arts majors that can't get a job -> OWS

[MarkK]

just how many times do we have to rescue Deckard Cain?? Can't he fend for himself?

well... three I guess

[Talenos]

how many licks to the center of a Deckard Cain pop?

[Gretyl]

FPM was right

[Little Bobby Tables]

just hit level 45 with monk tonight. 7 sided strike, way of hundred fists, whatever the skill is that gives you a damage aura, and healing mantra + the rune that restores spirit over time are all pretty boss.

[MarcusAurelius]

that ability to generate spirit by normal attacks, then generate life from spirit attacks, is pretty sweet. do other classes have a similar capability to this?

[MrTippet]

As a level 56 Wizard I can say I don't have anything like that.

[MarcusAurelius]

as a lvl 23 monk, my standard approach for a group of monsters w/ champion or some ranged guy is to do dashing strike (like a teleport attack that usually roots them) into the middle of a group, cyclone (draws enemies closer in a radius and deals damage), then the roundhouse kick, that deals fire damage and a big knock back on everyone. the damage taken on the opening move is usually totally offset by using the spirit attacks. normal attacks on the split-up enemies then build back plenty of spirit. it's really fun.

[Santa]

that ability to generate spirit by normal attacks, then generate life from spirit attacks, is pretty sweet. do other classes have a similar capability to this?

I think the lifesteal is generally a lot higher for melee. Barbarians have similar functionality.

Getting hit/hitting gives them fury. Fury can be used on abilities that steal life.

[Santa]

I had a 1200 dps bow drop for me last night minutes after buying an 1170ish bow off the AH for a few million gold.

Good to be a demon hunter.

[MrTippet]

I guess signature spells can be made to give Wizards Arcane and Magic Weapon Rune can give life on attacks attacks but for casters it's too many lost skill slots for what you get out of it.

[MarcusAurelius]

The last fight of Act II was a lot of fun, I thought. A friend and I farmed it 6 or 7 times before moving on to Act III, which has also been a lot of fun... dinged 32 last night and I'm loving the monk. Anyone else playing one? Sweeping Wind + Cyclone Strike ftw

so i just did this on a lvl 25 monk... maybe it's an overpowered mid-game guy or i lucked out with some good gear, but i beat this last fight in about 45 seconds, never dropping below 75% health or using a potion.

... or i guess all classes are till inferno. whatevs.

[MarkK]

if you're lvl 25 on act 2 normal, you're super outleveled...

lvl 30 is the target for act 1 nightmare...

[MarcusAurelius]

if you're lvl 25 on act 2 normal, you're super outleveled...

lvl 30 is the target for act 1 nightmare...

heh, yeah somebody else told me that, i dunno how the hell that happened. i definitely haven't been intentionally attempting to farm anything or do anything but progress the main story.

[MrTippet]

Are you using + to exp gear?

[MarcusAurelius]

not intentionally, it's possible at lower levels i used some +exp gear but i don't recall. i've equipped some +exp monster kill stuff on me and sidekicks just for other stats though.

[MarcusAurelius]

i knew it! the voice of the templar is none other than lieutenant malcolm reed, of the third best trek series.

[Cody]

Do you rank TOS above DS9?

[MarcusAurelius]

absolutely.

[Cody]

Man DS9 was good. Maybe because I grew up on it, and never could get into TOS because it was too corny, but I'd put DS9 in second.

[MarcusAurelius]

ds9 is the virgin neckbeard trek.

[Cody]

Following your analogy, how would you describe TOS?

[MarcusAurelius]

old west swagger projected onto a space exploration backdrop

[Cody]

Is TOS like Have Gun Will Travel in space? I ain't ever actually watched TOS.

[MarcusAurelius]

i ain't ever actually watched Have Gun Will Travel, but yeah, probably like that. kirk has old west swagger and bangs hot alien babes. you know, zap brannigan, sans the caricature. it's like a fun shoot-em-up less-pretentious TNG.