Simple Questions, Simple Answers - Page 30

On May 01 2012 16:16 Fugue wrote:


It can work that way - instead of having Armor rating you just have resistances to different damage types.

But then any piece of armor has to list what protection it provides from each damage type. When you have 5 damage types, that quickly becomes complicated, and as you start scaling things, it gets much harder to balance out. For example, if your high level armor provides a lot of resistance against one damage type, but very little against another, then as soon as you run into a mob enchanted with that damage type, the armor is useless.

What you wind up concluding is that high level armor really needs to provide a level of protection against all damage types, so that resistances aren't able to swing the difference so far in any direction that it becomes a gear check. Especially not if you're dealing with random spawns.

Barb and Monk get a native physical resistance bonus, so it isn't their armor that actually provides them with more protection to Wizards and Witch Doctors. You can wear the same armor, but the Barb will still have more survivability against physical attacks, and still be more vulnerable to elementals, which is the opposite for the Wizard/WD. Both classes have to augment their resistances in some way, they're just dealing with different deficiencies.

On May 01 2012 19:30 ocelotter wrote:


Barb and Monk have a native 30% DR against all damage types. Armor provides DR against all damage types as well (though separate from the native DR of the Barb and Monk). Intelligence provides resistance to all damage types, INCLUDING physical.

The only difference between the defensive bonuses of the three primary stats is each has its own set of diminishing returns (and dodge has an element of RNG, unlike the other two).

On May 01 2012 16:49 moltenlead wrote:
Out of interest, has anyone tried to run this game on a laptop? I'm probably going to be getting a laptop that can run this game maxed and wanted to know what to aim for.

On May 01 2012 20:14 Fugue wrote:


My apologies for the misinformation. You are correct. I didn't think that sounded right either, but I went on a hunt and found this: http://armadagaming.com/showthread.php?459-Armor-Resistances-and-Effective-Health

Makes sense due to stat points coming from gemmed gear, giving all players the option of increasing DR regardless of whether they're pumping strength or int.
Though this leaves me wondering how Dodge balances against DR. DR from Armor and Resistances are balanced, but while Monk and DH want to pump Dex for damage - do they want to use STR and INT to get DR up? Does a Barb want Dex for Dodge?

On May 02 2012 05:28 fiaro wrote:
Simple question:
If I buy D3 from store in Germany, probably the German version, will I be able to use the CD key to play the English version (download it from battle.net site)?

On May 02 2012 05:28 fiaro wrote:
Simple question:
If I buy D3 from store in Germany, probably the German version, will I be able to use the CD key to play the English version (download it from battle.net site)?

On May 01 2012 19:17 Derrida wrote:
Do you think the "singleplayer" aspect of the game will be/can be pirated like SC2 was pirated for it's campaign? (I'm truly broke)

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On May 02 2012 11:06 Klipsys wrote:
What's the secret 6th class going to be?

On May 03 2012 04:16 Mowr wrote:
So I have heard people (on the latest PCGamer podcast most recently) say that the game's controls feels like thay are adapted to a hand controller. Is it possible to use one? I would be happy if I could spare my wrists for SC2

On May 02 2012 05:45 R0YAL wrote:

Well it really comes down to how much DR scales back in Inferno. All DR scales based on your level compared to the mobs you are fighting and in Inferno all mobs are higher level than you which will bring down your DR. There is nothing stopping a barb from stacking dex for dodge but keep in mind that each point of dex only gets you .1% dodge.

Purely from speculation it probably won't be worth stacking dex on the Barbarian because there will most likely be other stats that are more beneficial. If you want dodge there are 3 abilities on the Barbarian with dodge affixes. Sprint with Rush rune gives 12%, War Cry with Veteran's Warning gives 15% (party buff), and Wrath of the Berserker gives 20% or 60% with the Striding Giant rune. Notice WotB with Striding Giant rune amounts the equivalent of 600 dex. That's quite a lot of stat point that can be allocated somewhere else.

I have no idea how dodge scales though, from what i've seen we should easily be able to achieve 1000 points into our primary stat by Hell mode but if that's true then it would give the Monk/DH 100% dodge which obviously is a problem. Does anyone know how this works? Since the system is multiplicative so the only way to achieve 100% dodge would be if it comes from a single source and I assume that Dexterity is a single source. Is dodge just scaled back in later difficulties but if you go back to Normal you are literally immortal?

On May 04 2012 06:59 slam wrote:
I played a good amount of beta on my friends account and one thing that I noticed was that each time you dropped SK for the first time on a new character you got a yellow item. After that one first yellow I farmed the SK a number of times but never got another yellow until I once again did it on a new character. My conclusion was that you get better items the first time you down a boss and after that first time the drops are not as high quality.

Is this confirmed?
With the full version of the game will this also be true?
To put into context, will my first time downing the final boss on inferno most likely give me the best drop and after that will I need to make another character to go through the game again to "reset" the loot?

On May 04 2012 06:59 slam wrote:
I played a good amount of beta on my friends account and one thing that I noticed was that each time you dropped SK for the first time on a new character you got a yellow item. After that one first yellow I farmed the SK a number of times but never got another yellow until I once again did it on a new character. My conclusion was that you get better items the first time you down a boss and after that first time the drops are not as high quality.

Is this confirmed?
With the full version of the game will this also be true?
To put into context, will my first time downing the final boss on inferno most likely give me the best drop and after that will I need to make another character to go through the game again to "reset" the loot?