Diablo 3 - Talk shop, stroke e-peen, gear fap, etc

Might as well just combine the threads, @Korin

For me personally, after spending ~380 hours on Diablo III, it was time to contact Blizzard. I had them disable Diablo III from my Battle.net account, scramble the password and put in rubbish information for the email address. I have too much fun with Diablo III.

But hey, I had 75% of the D3 & RoS Achievements completed. Woo!

Korin clearly you prefer Wizard but just for the sake of trying it, you should check out Crusader. It's a fun class to play. A bit overpowered IMO, for example the first two skills are 380% and 760% weapon damage on hit, respectively. O_O If you play on Normal diff you can basically one-hit everything and three-to-five-hit all the champions/uniques. It's comical. I think it was like 10 hits to kill Act bosses.

 

@Korin Not playing anything at the moment. Trying to spend time being productive.

 

I know that feeling. I have a math exam tomorrow. Oh yeah, I love beeing productive -.-

 

Shortly before I shut down my account, my monk found the Legendary that increases Exploding Palm damage, in my case it was from 50% max life to 83% max life.

Death for all >

 

Ah here we go:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-fist-of-azturrasq

Holy shit, imagine if you got one that was the +100%. That's absolutely bonkers...

 

Easy now... Your're falling back to your old addictions.

 

Ahhh fair enough. Yeah, even the "only found on Legendaries"-type abillities, unless found on a lvl 70 drop, eventually become worthless/obsolete. Statistically, most of the Legendaries I've found that had unique abilities didn't make it to endgame, because eventually I found something that had such higher Dmg/Tough increases that it just didn't make sense to keep the other one.

That being said, I really like what Blizzard has done with them in Diablo III. It's always fun when items do things that nothing else in the game does. That's how unique items should have always worked, in my opinion Having stats or abilities or combinations of stats or level of stats that you'd never see on normal/rare items.

It bums me out that none of the 3+ item Sets have a full set bonus. That is really stupid and defeats the whole purpose. The very last item (full set) in 4/5/6 item sets never adds further bonus. I don't get it. Completionism should be rewarded!

Anyway using that item reminded me a lot of playing a low-level Barbarian using Cleave with Rupture: since it's 160% weapon damage and it "chains", I've had to kill mobs of 20 or more monsters with one hit. If you are playing on Normal difficulty and have decent gear, it's hilarious. You just run around making packs of monsters explode in a puff of blood-mist. Good times. I love Cleave and Exploding Palm. And Chain Lightning on Wizard, for the same reason. Are there any other such skills I'm forgetting? "Mob exploders".

 

I wanna know what Adria's true motives were. She starts talking to Leah like she wants to be a family again and truly does feel 'motherly love' for her, but then all of a sudden uses her to summon Diablo.

So was her "true allegiance" to Diablo and the Burning Hells? Or did she think she could use a transformed and powerful Leah to her own end to establish herself as some kind of Queen/Empress?

 

according to the game, if you follow the story line, yes D3 has one ... , then this decision was not sudden. And Adriah was as subtle like a hammer to the head. I didnt payed any attention to it, but she was not a very well written character. Not that D3 had many of those anyway.

 

I'm surprised anyone had time to notice whether the storyline was good or not. 100% of the people I played with online would speed through the game, completely ignoring anything even resembling story content. This was even true with, for example, people playing Act V their very first time after the expansion got released.

Was this the same with players in Diablo II? I wouldn't know as I never played that on Battle.net (i.e. Go through game as fast as possible, ignoring all story elements and focus only on kill/loot/progress/repeat.)

After completing 75% of total Achievements after RoS released, I can say for absolute certainty that for me, playing the game slower and actually experiencing all the story content is a more enjoyable game experience. As well as playing on Normal so that I can kill stuff really easily There's definitely some pleasure in powerleveling and achievements and all that, but I think playing the game normal in both senses, is a better plan.

 

I cant talk for other players, but I loved the story in Diablo 1 and 2. Particularly since the story never came in the way of gameplay.