Diablo III / Diablo II Battle.net Thread

[quote name='sendme']Around what level will I finish normal at? I wouldn't think it would be level 60 but I'm already at 24 in act 2.[/QUOTE]

the avg seems to be around 32, give or take a level. I finished it at 34 as the WD...but the majority of my gear had good + xp gear on it. (no pun intended)
 
[quote name='IRHari']Cool, what's ur tag bro? I gotta upgrade my pc then I'll get it but my bnet tag is Irhari.[/QUOTE]
I think you need to make a battle tag first before I can add you. It's usually associated with a #XXXX number. Let me know when you make it and I'll add ya.[quote name='TLPRIME']Loving the game, but Blizz really needs to do something to change the AH. The economy is pretty much totally fucked because of how dirt cheap items are on the AH. There is no point in combining gems before the last few tiers, because you can buy them for half the cost of the combine from the AH, and you get to keep the lower gems! There is no point leveling up blacksmithing for early levels, because you can buy optimal gear for less than the combine/gamb;e cost to craft it. People/idiots are selling crafting mats for less than what you can sell them to a vendor. lol

Prices on everything will rock bottom out due to no method of removing items from circulation. You just sell your old gear once you upgrade it.

The hardcore AH is fine, simply because character death does remove the items from circulation. Gems/items have good value there.

Plus just the fact that legendaries/set items are outshined by blues with +damage mods and Blizz says that's as intended is kind of mind boggling.[/QUOTE]Preach it. The bolded portion is exactly what I figured out real fast. Legendaries (now this might change at endgame) are a fucking joke. They're locked into specific stats, with the only variable being numbers so most of them are garbage. And yeah, rares on the AH move fast at anywhere from 5-50k depending on level. Unless your item is godly itemized with high stats in each category, it's not going to move even though you think it's worth that 150k. The market for high value just isn't there yet since the core base is still wiping in normal. Right now, the goal for most people is find good stats on a rare for dirt cheap, because you will replace it in a matter of hours. That's how the cycle works and if you don't play the game, you won't make any money.

What's fucking bullshit is you can't relist an item for two days so while I was still figuring stuff out, I couldn't put up more realistic pricing since I had already maxed out my 10 auction slots. This, more than anything else is what's driving the prices right now. If your shit doesn't sell, then you're sitting on capital that can't move. I've got the system down now that my shit sells within an hour of listing. I pull so many rares now that moving them at dirt cheap pays big money overall.
 
[quote name='Drizzt']I'm not too surprised that I'm getting bored of this game so quickly. It's either sleep inducing easy, or 1 shot player death on Normal. Not much middle ground. I enjoy a challenge, but the Diablo games have always felt like they provide a silly challenge of either level grinding to beat a boss/area solo, or calling in one or more of your overleveled friends to carry you through it. Once again, not much middle ground. Years of WoW have kind of turned me off of the whole pursuit for better gear as well.

It's not a bad game, but tonight I had more fun playing L4D2 than I did playing D3 earlier in the day, though dying to Belial and seeing that I had to re-do the first phase of his event didn't help much. I can see this game being one I don't feel like playing all the time, and that's fine. I guess I'm only slightly disappointed.[/QUOTE]
If you persist, the challenge finally starts to ramp up around A3 in nightmare. It's rather silly how quickly things turn as you approach level cap, because without proper gear you will die alot. Most of it has to do with cheap mob combinations or the fact that you can never see the arcane sentries that get dropped right in the middle of a pack of mobs. That and lag kills. I would never, ever play this shit on hardcore because I have died so many times to warping. Blizzard really fucked over that crowd with always online but we're the 1% so they don't give a shit about us.[quote name='SEH']Broke the 3000 DPS mark on my 54 Barb tonight. Got a ridiculous one-handed axe drop.[/QUOTE]I bought a 200 DPS level 48 sword last night that broke that benchmark for me (after self buff). You're using weapon master perk with sword MH right? 10% crit is nice but watch your DPS just explode if you swap for a sword. I find that with a frenzy build, you swing so fast the base damage is better especially for LL.[quote name='Gannikus']I have like 978 Int and about 800~ Vit on my level 44 Wiz, my stats for Damage is like 515...is this normal?[/QUOTE]Horribly low for 44. You want to be pushing 2k base at least. Get some damage rings/neck and get a weapon with high DPS. At least, without any knowledge of the class that would be my assumption.[quote name='CAGkrazy']Is it better to just clear normal as fast as possible and just explore the maps more in higher difficulties since drops are better? I tend to uncover the whole map 1st before moving on but it seems like a waste since I hardly get anything good. I'm at act 2 and almost level 20 with just a couple of rares.[/QUOTE]Eh, it's fun the first time through but not necessary. In nightmare I tend to skip as much trash as I can and if they keep following, just round them up and cleave them down. All the real gear is at 60 when you can't progress further, so don't spend too much on junk you'll replace in 2-4 levels.
 
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[quote name='Gannikus']I have like 978 Int and about 800~ Vit on my level 44 Wiz, my stats for Damage is like 515...is this normal?[/QUOTE]

My lvl 47 Wizard is rocking about 3800 DMG, so pretty low.
 
[quote name='Jodou']I bought a 200 DPS level 48 sword last night that broke that benchmark for me (after self buff). You're using weapon master perk with sword MH right? 10% crit is nice but watch your DPS just explode if you swap for a sword. I find that with a frenzy build, you swing so fast the base damage is better especially for LL.Horribly low for 44.[/QUOTE]

For my passives I'm using Pound of Flesh, Weapons Master, and Brawler. Sitting at 3200 DPS right now, but in combat, it jumps to over 4k due to Brawler. I've been looking for a sword, but nothing good has dropped. Kinda tempted to hit up the AH to see if I can find one. That extra 15% sure would be nice.
 
For Wizard damage is increased with inteligence, so what I've done is equipped as much inteligence boosting gear as possible. Look for items with slots so you can add the topaz gems, to increase intelligence and thus your amount of damage.
 
I guess I'm not really understanding all the bitching about the AH. If the economy is out of whack and if it's too easy to buy rares that make you OP then why don't you just ignore it? I mean wtf is so hard about this...the AH isn't an integral part of the game, if you don't like how it is right now then just don't use it. I just mainly try to sell rares on it currently, I haven't bough a single item from it yet. The fun in Diablo games to me isn't to just buy my way to glory it's the thrill of finding all your own loot that you can either use or sell off on the AH if you want. But it is 2012 and pc gamers will find any little thing to moan and bitch about nowadays so I guess I shouldn't be shocked at this point.

If the balance is way off between legendary and rare items right now then I'm sure Blizzard will take a look at that and adjust as they see fit. Until then just don't use the AH if you don't like the economy of it.
 
Head's up:

Do not accept random party invites from people you do not know. Try not to even accept friend invites, to be safe. It seems there's some sort of exploit where a person will invite you to a party (perhaps from recently played), and somehow manages to gain control of your account without the need to log in/bypass authenticator/doesn't need password.

At least, that's what I gather from reading. This game just keeps screwing people over, doesn't it?
 
[quote name='Clak']I wish the auction house was accessible via the website. Wondering how some auctions went.[/QUOTE]

I wish a lot of things for the auction house. I wish I didn't have to leave my game to check it. I wish I could choose to not view items that don't have a buyout. I wish I could choose to not view socketed items that already have their sockets filled. I wish I could compare items on the AH.
 
[quote name='SEH']For my passives I'm using Pound of Flesh, Weapons Master, and Brawler. Sitting at 3200 DPS right now, but in combat, it jumps to over 4k due to Brawler. I've been looking for a sword, but nothing good has dropped. Kinda tempted to hit up the AH to see if I can find one. That extra 15% sure would be nice.[/QUOTE]
Just sort them by DPS and you'll see just how high the damage can go. It makes me wonder if something is broken with them considering when I look at maces or axes for an OH, their damage is lagging behind by a good 50 dps at times. That sword I picked up last night was only 25k to boot, with str and vit as stats on it.
 
[quote name='cgarb84']I guess I'm not really understanding all the bitching about the AH. If the economy is out of whack and if it's too easy to buy rares that make you OP then why don't you just ignore it? I mean wtf is so hard about this...the AH isn't an integral part of the game, if you don't like how it is right now then just don't use it. I just mainly try to sell rares on it currently, I haven't bough a single item from it yet. The fun in Diablo games to me isn't to just buy my way to glory it's the thrill of finding all your own loot that you can either use or sell off on the AH if you want. But it is 2012 and pc gamers will find any little thing to moan and bitch about nowadays so I guess I shouldn't be shocked at this point.

If the balance is way off between legendary and rare items right now then I'm sure Blizzard will take a look at that and adjust as they see fit. Until then just don't use the AH if you don't like the economy of it.[/QUOTE]
The problem comes in when whatever you loot is not usable or has shit stats. I have yet to loot anything I could actually use; it has all come from the AH. Now you could be a purist and do it your way.

You'd also have to be an idiot though. ;)
[quote name='SEH']I wish I could choose to not view items that don't have a buyout.[/QUOTE]I actually figured this one out last night by accident. Set a maximum buyout and it will automatically dump all non-buyout items. You could set a real one, or just put 1 million if you want to see everything. It's such a fucking relief not having to page over 3-4 times when looking at rares.
 
Wow, the nephalem valor buff is really nice. When you kill a champ/elite, you get a mf boost and it stacks. I farm whimsyshire with a friend and get about 5 stacks of the buff then farm the acts.
 
[quote name='navalg1337']Wow, the nephalem valor buff is really nice. When you kill a champ/elite, you get a mf boost and it stacks. I farm whimsyshire with a friend and get about 5 stacks of the buff then farm the acts.[/QUOTE]
Nice. What kind of pisses me off is the bosses don't reset dropping rares for each difficulty the first time through. I mean, I like the challenge of killing them but once they're dead on normal mode you never get shit from them again. I guess they felt searching for randomly placed champs in each act was more fun than killing bosses. Pretty stupid design if you ask me.

Then again, I've never died to a boss yet but those cheap combination champs with arcane prison where you can't move and just die is far more challenging right?
 
[quote name='Jodou']Nice. What kind of pisses me off is the bosses don't reset dropping rares for each difficulty the first time through. I mean, I like the challenge of killing them but once they're dead on normal mode you never get shit from them again. I guess they felt searching for randomly placed champs in each act was more fun than killing bosses. Pretty stupid design if you ask me.

Then again, I've never died to a boss yet but those cheap combination champs with arcane prison where you can't move and just die is far more challenging right?[/QUOTE]

Its such bullshit. Beat Diablo on Hell? Enjoy your single blue drop. Bosses past normal are totally pointless.
 
[quote name='Jodou']Nice. What kind of pisses me off is the bosses don't reset dropping rares for each difficulty the first time through. I mean, I like the challenge of killing them but once they're dead on normal mode you never get shit from them again. I guess they felt searching for randomly placed champs in each act was more fun than killing bosses. Pretty stupid design if you ask me.

Then again, I've never died to a boss yet but those cheap combination champs with arcane prison where you can't move and just die is far more challenging right?[/QUOTE]

imagine my surprise when I revisited the end boss in Borderlands.

otherwise I really dont care, there's plenty of random encounters and chances to get loot. being able to farm bosses would just flood the market further as well. Rares would be considered uncommon.

as a WD, arcane prison doesn't affect me much...but plague bearers do. I think they just have very high poison resistances.
 
[quote name='slowdive21']^^^ Someone already has a bot for diablo 3 for 29.95. look at the comments section.[/QUOTE]

Ouch. I can't imagine that will last long.

Blizzard better be deadly serious about keeping the game hack/exploit-proof, if nothing else.
 
[quote name='100xp']being able to farm bosses would just flood the market further as well.[/QUOTE]
Rares are already common as sin; I pull anywhere from 5-20 per act I clear. I've vendored close to 100 of them as I know they wouldn't sell on the AH for any amount with the junk stats they can have. Like a level 48 weapon and 5 strength on it. Their itemization is way too broad and should have had SOME requirements on them. Getting off track, but the point is boss drops shouldn't be less rewarding than some elite running around in act I. Each boss I solo feels like an accomplishment and then it's just overshadowed by the sad realization that my efforts go unrewarded.

And it's not like you can just teleport through walls doing Meph runs at 2 mins each. It can take some serious effort just getting to the boss on harder difficulties.
 
Bosses are easy so why should they be more rewarding? Everyone knows how to handle them, everyone knows how to get to them. You just create a Korean farm fest by making bosses spit out the best gear. The random nature of the elites is what is making the end-game fun.
 
[quote name='Mr Unoriginal']Anyone have an extra guest pass they aren't using? I'm very interested in the game but have no idea if I can run it. PLease PM if you can help.[/QUOTE]

www.canirunit.com

Select Diablo 3. Might have to install/update your java. Easier way of testing to see if you can play it rather than download 8GBs.
 
[quote name='sasukekun']www.canirunit.com

Select Diablo 3. Might have to install/update your java. Easier way of testing to see if you can play it rather than download 8GBs.[/QUOTE]

That website is constantly wrong. Recently it said I couldn't run warlock and I've been playing it all weekend.
 
Anyone else romping around Hell? I refuse to play public games until Blizzard sorts out the exploiting, and I have no BNet friends as I haven't played WoW in years, and don't own SC2.

Level 55 Monk, in mid Act 2 Hell. (just killed Maghda -- pretty much just soloing) - Not really having any trouble, but it would be nice to have company for my 4th consecutive time through they stupid quests. :p

I find the monk partners well with barbs. Honestly, I think that's the only thing I've ever gotten into games with. I can "tank" if you can DPS.
 
I really only plan on using the auction house if and this is a big IF a legendary item drops. If that happens I will just put it up for real cash. Depending on how much they go for that is. I would rather have the money than the gear. I'm sure I wont ever find one and I'm sure it will be even harder to sell for cash when if I do.
 
Going through now on Nightmare. I've been doing alright vs most of the mobs but the yellow guys rape me sometimes. I'm playing a monk and have the perk set where I gain health for every spirit spent, but I just cant keep up with some of them.

I want to try out the other classes but the monotony of playing the first act again and again makes me hesitant.
 
[quote name='nas6034']Anyone here find any legendary items? What act and difficulty?[/QUOTE]

I found a legendary weapon "WildWood" in Act II Nightmare. I sold it in the AH for 150g.
 
After another crazy work weekend, I finally am putting time in. At level 11 with a barbarian. Off tomorrow so I should hopefully finish my first playthrough
 
[quote name='Josh5890']After another crazy work weekend, I finally am putting time in. At level 11 with a barbarian. Off tomorrow so I should hopefully finish my first playthrough[/QUOTE]

I tried the Barbarian for a while today. That 'thwack' when you start smacking fools is one of the most satisfying sounds ever in a video game.
 
[quote name='nas6034']Anyone here find any legendary items? What act and difficulty?[/QUOTE]

I've found three so far. Crystal Fist (a low level fist weapon), Steady Strikers (low level bracers), and Spectrum, a rainbow sword I found in
Whimsyshire
. The others went for paltry amounts of gold in the current AH, but I'm definitely saving that last one for the real money one.
 
[quote name='Pookymeister']My lvl 47 Wizard is rocking about 3800 DMG, so pretty low.[/QUOTE]

I figured out it was just my weapon only, got around 2800 dps and didn't even spend that much at the AH :)

Inferno is pretty much impossible with Melee classes
 
I found a Legendary on normal. Went to the AH and there's about 1000 of the same item so apparently not so rare.

Also, fuck you Blizzard. Servers fucking suck every time I want to play before work.
 
[quote name='Gannikus']Inferno is pretty much impossible with Melee classes[/QUOTE]
I'll put that to the test soon but Blizzard is notorious for fucking over melee classes on boss fights. If anything, we're likely there to soak damage for the ranged classes. Being forced into tanking is piss-poor design, though.

So glad I could farm for a few minutes this morning. My SP isn't disrupted at all by server maintenance, just the way it should be. Blizzard always makes the best choices.
 
[quote name='Pookymeister']Lvl 51 and Act IV Nightmare now - getting to point where i might need a 2nd (or 3rd/4th) person to help me out =][/QUOTE]

What class are you playing? I started hitting the solo wall at around the same point, but tweaking my skill setup a bit made all the difference.

I'm around the same point though (Level 52, Act I Hell), so feel free to hit me up, my battle.net tag is in the OP. ;)
 
Wizard. Really only have trouble with the blue/yellow dudes, I can handle as many minions that are thrown at me (especially if i have archon on)
 
[quote name='Pookymeister']Wizard. Really only have trouble with the blue/yellow dudes, I can handle as many minions that are thrown at me (especially if i have archon on)[/QUOTE]

that's kinda of the case with everyone...it's the champeens and elites that can give you problems. and @#$% arcane sentry.
 
Hoping someone can help me with a general registration /cd key issue..

Friend bought the game and registered the game but then found out his pc cant run the game.. (i know.. retarted)

Anyway.. he's trying to sell.. is it pretty much useless to buy assuming he gives me all the login info?
 
[quote name='100xp']and @#$% arcane sentry.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, Arcane Sentry sucks. Though if you're looking out for it, it's slow enough so that you can usually get out of the way. Unless you've got a wall around you of course.
 
[quote name='Pookymeister']Lvl 51 and Act IV Nightmare now - getting to point where i might need a 2nd (or 3rd/4th) person to help me out =][/QUOTE]
I just beat Diablo last night on Nightmare and I want to say it was tougher, but I had just twinked myself out and swapped a few abilities for single target focus. Oh and I'm still undefeated to bosses which makes me sad (perhaps Hell stands a chance). Diablo got close once, but only because of lag.

Latency BTW, is really becoming a problem. I have honestly (and I'd be the first to admit my own faults) died more to lag than any other mechanic in the game. This is simply unacceptable to me, even for week one woes. Later down the road I'm sure they'll have it sorted out but all this does is fuel the DRM fire that has been raging for a while now. But they'll continue to get away with it so long as we buy their games.

And nobody will convince us gamers to stop doing that anytime soon.[quote name='bvharris']Yeah, Arcane Sentry sucks. Though if you're looking out for it, it's slow enough so that you can usually get out of the way. Unless you've got a wall around you of course.[/QUOTE]Or it's hidden under the 25 mobs you're currently cleaving down. That's the only times I've died to them really, so I wish they'd make them pillars instead of just a tiny ass ball when it first gets dropped. I know it's not a raid awareness issue, because I can avoid the freezing orbs easy enough when there's so many one will stand out somewhere. With arcane sentry though, far too easy to miss in a pack of mobs.
 
Not only is the sessionID exploit out there but, by my count, there are at least two wallhack/botting apps floating around as well.

It is pretty much par for the course with any game and even MMOs but Blizzard needs to patch and banhammer ASAP and especially after the launch week server woes.

Any justification for having always-online single-player DRM is complete bullshit when something as simplistic as the sessionID exploit exists and still remains unpatched. Botting and wallhacks are inevitable but the sessionID exploit is completely inexcusable.
 
yeah, playing with 3 others and watching everyone die...after the spam cleared I realized the arcane sentries were not summoned by the wizard in the party. i was able to get the ress a friend achievement though because of it.
 
Here's some info on CE availability:

You can email GS customer service and they will contact the DM for the store to release the preorders.

--

Best Buy has a 7 day hold that has expired.

Best buy should get a 2nd wave of CEs in store by 6-1-12 according to a phone rep.
 
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