EPTBashiok @Bashiok
@SofaLion No, each region will have its own launch time. We'll be announcing them soon.
Diablo III General Discussion - Page 322
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Shockk
Germany2269 Posts
Bashiok @Bashiok @SofaLion No, each region will have its own launch time. We'll be announcing them soon. | ||
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rezoacken
Canada2719 Posts
On April 24 2012 02:20 -Archangel- wrote: Ok, but what is the advantage of dual wield then? It seems I would always be better with one weapon+shield?! Don't think some questions were correctly answered. Dual wield gives: -Average of both weapon (not exact average when there are bonus to speed/damage on the weapons) -+15% speed So basicly dual wielding a 15dps weapon is like having only one but with 15% more speed. 2 Handers get a higher damage per strike as a bonus. The trade is Speed (DW) vs Damage (2H) vs Protection (Shield). If a skill does x% weapon damage it means in fact it does x% of your total damage, like if your weapon does 10 damage and you have +100% because of intelect the weapon will do x% * 10 * 100 % (assuming no other bonus). | ||
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Caphe
Vietnam10817 Posts
On April 24 2012 03:36 kuresuti wrote: Bonuses from both weapons apply to skills at the same time? I know they don't for basic attacks. If you dual weild, one strike from each weapon is gonna apply the bonuses damage on the target. I don't know if they stacks or not, but most likely they will just overwrite each other. Eg: You dual well with 1 weapon that does bonus 5 holy, your off hand does a bonus of 10 fire. If you strike the target repeatly both will be apply but most likely they will just overwrite each other if the bonus is an overtime one. | ||
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DjRetro
Chile309 Posts
Sorry if this question has been answered already. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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DjRetro
Chile309 Posts
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Ruscour
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Pure-SC2
United Kingdom1440 Posts
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Caphe
Vietnam10817 Posts
On April 24 2012 18:19 Ruscour wrote: So when you kill the Skeleton King and it pops up you defeated the beta, that's it? It just leaves you there with nothing else to do? I found it quite weird. Maybe throw up a promo screen for buying it, or some credits or something. It just left me going "oh...I guess...well I guess this is done..." There is nothing weird with that, at least they congrats you lol. Blizzard has no need to promo cos they have just a few franchise and even my mom know about stuff like World of Warcraft lol. | ||
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Pure-SC2
United Kingdom1440 Posts
On April 24 2012 19:18 skyR wrote: One rune... Wow, thanks for that. Hmm, that makes it interesting. | ||
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HardlyNever
United States1258 Posts
On April 24 2012 04:21 solidbebe wrote: ^ Blergh I wish blizzard would clear obvious question like these up I think a lot of this information will have to be teased out of the game via experience, similar to what happened with WoW. While I was impressed with the amount of information given about the character in the "more details" tab in the inventory, there are still a lot of unanswered questions regarding the mechanics of the game systems(how exactly weapon damage is calculated, how spell damage is calculated from weapon damage (is it per hit, or overall dps?)etc). My sense is that because the weapon DPS is such a big and highlighted number, that is the number that spell damage is based off of. However, there are still a lot of things I don't know. It definitely feels like Blizzard is trying to throttle the amount of information the player is given at once, particularly for new players, so this kind of deeper understanding of mechanics probably won't come until later, and it may not come from Blizzard directly at all. | ||
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Heh_
Singapore2712 Posts
The second is the limited number of skills available. While there are 6 active slots which is more than sufficient, each slot has only 4 types of skills. Since you can't choose two skills from the same slot (hilarious to see a witch doctor spit out spiders AND toads), it would have been more interesting if there were 8 choices, with less runes for each choice. I hope this happens in a future expansion. | ||
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English
United States475 Posts
On April 25 2012 02:34 Heh_ wrote: There are two things that I don't really like about the game design. The first is stat allocation. While it is a good idea to customize the character based on gear, I don't like the fact that your base stats contribute ~10% to the overall stat pool in the endgame. It feels silly if someone created a witchdoctor that is tankier than a barbarian, solely based on items. Stat customization using gear should account for maybe 50% of your overall stats. The second is the limited number of skills available. While there are 6 active slots which is more than sufficient, each slot has only 4 types of skills. Since you can't choose two skills from the same slot (hilarious to see a witch doctor spit out spiders AND toads), it would have been more interesting if there were 8 choices, with less runes for each choice. I hope this happens in a future expansion. Elective mode | ||
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rezoacken
Canada2719 Posts
Be prepared for a lot of angry people concerning limited skill choices and casual tooltips and having to answer these questions 10times a day  There should be a prompt when you start the game asking you if you are an advanced player or not and if youi click yes the options get automatically turned on. | ||
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ffreakk
Singapore2155 Posts
On April 25 2012 02:34 Heh_ wrote: There are two things that I don't really like about the game design. The first is stat allocation. While it is a good idea to customize the character based on gear, I don't like the fact that your base stats contribute ~10% to the overall stat pool in the endgame. It feels silly if someone created a witchdoctor that is tankier than a barbarian, solely based on items. Stat customization using gear should account for maybe 50% of your overall stats. The second is the limited number of skills available. While there are 6 active slots which is more than sufficient, each slot has only 4 types of skills. Since you can't choose two skills from the same slot (hilarious to see a witch doctor spit out spiders AND toads), it would have been more interesting if there were 8 choices, with less runes for each choice. I hope this happens in a future expansion. As the previous guy said, there's the Elective Mode that basically means you can put any of your 24 active skills in any of the 6 skill slots (of course there are a few exceptions to this, but yea, only a few). And even in Diablo 2, I can make a Sorc/Nec that is tankier than your squishy Barb should you choose to go all dmg and no defense. In both cases, isn't the Barb naturally more tanky, but this can be off-set by gears and/or character customisation? Also, in Diablo 2's base stats also only a minute fraction of the total stat pool, no? The way i see it, those stats that you can allocate yourself back then, they come in the forms of Gems now. I'm not saying it's necessarily better, but it seems it is what they have in mind when they designed it. | ||
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Heh_
Singapore2712 Posts
The gems seem to contribute so much to the stat pool. Although in D2 there are items/rune words that contribute a ridiculous amount of stats, they seem minor compared to what D3 is poised to offer. I never played D2 (ridiculously) long enough to boost my stats way beyond the initial stat allocation. | ||
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ChuCky.Ca
Canada2497 Posts
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zJayy962
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On April 25 2012 04:07 Heh_ wrote: Didn't know about elective mode. Was wondering what the heck the previous poster was talking about. Yay now I can make my zoo witchdoctor! The gems seem to contribute so much to the stat pool. Although in D2 there are items/rune words that contribute a ridiculous amount of stats, they seem minor compared to what D3 is poised to offer. I never played D2 (ridiculously) long enough to boost my stats way beyond the initial stat allocation. Can anyone post a source of how gems contribute to stat pool? The gems that I see on the diablo 3 site don't show +stats =( | ||
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R0YAL
United States1768 Posts
On April 25 2012 08:38 zJayy962 wrote: Can anyone post a source of how gems contribute to stat pool? The gems that I see on the diablo 3 site don't show +stats =( Here are Rank 14 gems: Amethyst - http://diablonut.incgamers.com/item/radiant-star-amethyst2 Emerald - http://diablonut.incgamers.com/item/radiant-star-emerald Ruby - http://diablonut.incgamers.com/item/radiant-star-ruby2 Topaz - http://diablonut.incgamers.com/item/radiant-star-topaz2 Note that there are only three types of gear that can not be socketed. This can be checked by using the filter in the AH and looking for "Has Sockets." The three gear types consist of boots, gloves, and shoulders. And yes, rings and amulets can have sockets, which is pretty badass ^^ | ||
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