Diablo 3 (From VoA Dev Thread)

[Speedz]

Originally Posted by Akkadius

I uninstalled. Gets too stupid to play in Inferno and I don't need the distraction anymore.

I have been struggling with the boredom and frustration myself since getting there. The increased repair costs make it easier to say hell with it...just what were they thinking?

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by Speedz

I have been struggling with the boredom and frustration myself since getting there. The increased repair costs make it easier to say hell with it...just what were they thinking?

Heh the only reason I even picked it up is because Trevius was like 'Oh look I have a guess pass! Do you want it?'. What else was I supposed to say, my vacation started the next day and it easily ate up my vacation time and then I played it maybe a day or two a week afterwards.

I must say it has a lot of potential despite a lot of things they screwed up about the design. They keep making it more irritating/annoying to play rather than difficult. I don't need to play something that is the equivalent of stabbing myself in the foot.

[chrsschb]

Originally Posted by Akkadius

They keep making it more irritating/annoying to play rather than difficult. I don't need to play something that is the equivalent of stabbing myself in the foot.

Agreed. That's pretty much all Inferno is. Completely geared my wiz for high vitality, armor, and resistances--still get facerolled.

[Speedz]

Well, said, I doubt I could have put it any better. But I am bored otherwise so I still torture myself and log in.

[trevius]

Yeah, there are definitely some valid complaints about D3, but overall the game is a big success in my mind. I shell out $60 for console games that I spend much less time playing before I shelf them lol. Also, compared to any other game in its genre, D3 wins by far. I would compare it to games like Torchlight or Dungeon Runners, which both (very heavily) used ideas from the Diablo series. Neither of those examples even compare to D3, even though I thought they were both enjoyable games.

As almost everyone can agree, Diablo 3 has great potential. The good thing is that it can reach that potential with minimal work from a development standpoint. They just need to find the right balance/tweaks for a few systems that need some work to make the game just right.

I switched mains from Wizard to Monk. The Wizard is fun, but just dies way too much and can't handle inferno well without zerging which is impossible with the new repair cost increase. I love the monk so far though. I built him to use the "One for All" skill which sets all of your resists to equal whatever your highest resist is. So, I bought a bunch of items with like 50-60 resist all and 40-50 resist cold and now he has 1000+ resist all which means he only takes about 20% damage from equal level mobs. He only has about 20k health right now, but can actually survive really well in inferno with his heals that land for 10kish. I am going to try to get his vitality, dexterity and DPS up, but it is costly lol. He has about 1500 Life on Hit which is pretty awesome considering the high resists.

Right now, my monk is stuck at Ghom in the Larder / Act3 Inferno. Many people have been complaining about the changes to that fight. It seems almost impossible to me the way it is now, and I imagine it will be hotfixed soon.

I don't imagine I will be playing D3 for too much longer, but I am sure I will go back to it again before too long. Now, I can't wait to see what the first expansion brings, because I am sure they intentionally held off on some really cool features to save for the first expansion. I have a feeling that the first expansion will make the game feel more complete, since it will bring the whole of their ideas for Diablo together instead of breaking them up into a release and first expansion. What I mean by that is that I am sure they had much more planned for Diablo and had to decide which to hold for the expansion and which to put into the release.

[Speedz]

I do agree it has potential, but any game that is first out needs tweaks usually. I don't fully give up on it yet. I wonder if they will time the expansion for around the release of GW2? That would make it rough on my pocketbook.

My focus lately has been to build a decent gold find gear setup. One that can survive and deal damage on my monk. I could probably be more effective once I am satisfied with my GF gear and focus on cheap high dex resist gear with sockets. I usually pick a cheap single resist type overall and stack that then use "one for all". Yea right cheap huh? lol

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