Diablo III General Discussion - Page 45

On May 11 2011 01:48 Torte de Lini wrote:


Haha, all "betas" have NDAs purely for protocol reasons, they're rarely enforced, especially when the beta is to the public (which usually just involves stress-testing their servers).

On May 11 2011 05:49 gosublade wrote:
The drops were non-existent in baalruns
Edit: Unless you mean actual baal in which case I fail.

On May 11 2011 10:14 Cofo wrote:
I'm hoping D3 beta will be like SC2, in that by the time it was getting close to release, pretty much everyone who wanted an invite had gotten one. It was essentially an open beta by the end.

On May 11 2011 10:33 bigjenk wrote:


That is how every beta blizz has run since wow came out has been. The last month or 2 of beta are basically pr+stress test and if you apply for it you will have it.

On May 11 2011 04:53 Bairemuth wrote:


Let's be real here. Most baal runs involved one hammerdin with enigma along with 7 leeches that stood around waiting for drops to pounce on.

On May 11 2011 12:41 iCanada wrote:


Well, I meant Chaos runs in Classic, but yeah. That is one of the reasons I didn't like the Xpac. There was little reason to not role a Hammerdin in the first place... best Damage, best health/shields (pump vit/holy shield), fast (charge+vigor anyone?), and with auras/smite they had arguably the best utility as well. The only two legitimate reasons besides "X class is badass" not to role one was Teleport, and Battle Orders/command/shout... LoD gave both those skills to every single class.

That, and I missed all the unique rare top of the line gear that would always show up. Having Uniques/Runewords give you the best possible gear really homogenized things I found, as compared to classic in which even those who had godly fucking good gear, all had different gear, with different colours and attributes. Much much cooler, imo.

That being said, LoD brought so much good to Diablo II that it was hard to be super annoyed with it.

On May 11 2011 13:41 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:
Depends on the level bracket really. There are some really overpowered low level skills if you're fighting with level 9s like assassin's Psychic Hammer. Not familiar with higher level PvP because I always thought it was just dodging things and getting lucky hitting people ^_^

On May 11 2011 10:40 Bunnypanda wrote:
We can also hope that since b.net 2.0 is now out and SC2 has "optimized" it already, it wont pose a big problem for d3 and mean a much shorter beta than sc2 had (albeit sc2 had a pretty short beta too).

On May 11 2011 15:27 bigjenk wrote:


I doubt it, it is blizzard. That being said with wow on the decline heavily outside of china i wonder if they feel pressure to release at all.

On May 11 2011 15:23 Barrin wrote:

Nah Hammerdins were still pretty overpowered (PvE). Or most of the rest of the classes are underpowered. Either way. Even after the change they are one of very few "best PvE'ers".

V/T's with amazing gear are better than hammerdins in PvP, but smiters are not better than hammerdin.

On May 11 2011 16:37 Empyrean wrote:


Oh Hammerdins were definitely the most powerful PvE build by far.

I always thought good smiters were favored over good Hammerdins? Good v/ts beat Hammerdins fairly easily, but I always assumed that smiters would eventually win in the desync war?

EDIT: To keep things on topic, I've been keeping up pretty heavily with diii.net and it's wiki page. I'm quite looking forward to playing the new classes (although the barb and sorc look kind of boring...no offense). I envision the Monk to play similarly to a melee assassin from D2. The witch doctor looks like somewhat necro-ish, although I'm kind of disappointed Blizzard says you can't really play straight up zookeeper and expect to do well (had an enigma/pride+might merc with a summoner that hit the second to last fcr bp. Tele/curses/stacked auras were quite good. It actually held its own very well both PvE and PvP). The Demon Hunter looks like a quasi-amazon, though I find its backstory a bit lacking.

That being said, I think I'm most looking forward to playing the Witch Doctor, then probably the Demon Hunter. I'm always averse to playing melee characters (closest I got was that summoner necro) >_>

On May 11 2011 15:43 Ryndika wrote:
I heard from Force's podcast that they probably won't allow you to name your custom games and they are on shit system like in sc2 where you have to log out for 10minutes to find right opponent and get angry pms OR people do this to you.
Imo it's worst thing in BNet 0.2
Anyone know how worried I should be?

On May 11 2011 17:14 alia wrote:

Hammerdins have the advantage over Smiters and V/Ts assuming equally skilled players.

Even moreso on west nl due to Nightmare difficulty for duels + Oak being allowed + Oak being physical immune.