Who all is in for Diablo III at launch?

This build works for everything but bosses for me.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...TXV!bTe!aabZZb

All I do is switch to stuns for bosses, basically switch grenades and Impale to stun.

I had SteadyAim instead of SharpShooter until 50. Honestly this build feels way OP. You just shotgun blast stuff to the ground, use nades and bat to refill hatred, and then Impale single targets for max DPS.

This worked great all the way through nightmare. I really never had to change it at all except for stuns on bosses.

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Originally Posted by ImaNihilist

I switch it up constantly based on the enemies. I really don't see how people can play this game with a specific build. Maybe other classes are different, but with DH it totally depends on the number of enemies, if i can train them into a single line, and if I'm in a group.

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When ever I gain a new skill or rune I immediately select them to try them out. 5 min later, I nearly always default back to my original load out of explosion range bolas, double chakrams, extended slow mines, stun blackflip, and stun impale.

I honestly try to experiment but I have yet to find anything as effective with the load out I'm already happy with. I still try though, on the off chances that the new rune or skill might help.

My current build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...YdZW!aY!baaZaa

I crowd control by slowing things down and using bolas to blow up groups of them. I can shoot from afar with guided shot and also backflip out of the way to keep ranged. Stunned impale is perfect for larger Boss mobs which still get stunned.

I know everyone says to use crippleing wave for monk but I have had the best success with the basic fists of thunder and regenerating gear since it attacks so fast... I basically heal through brute force

My current build:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...giQ!ZcX!aZZaZa

Probably going to switch the Mantra of Healing's rune to the new thing that just went in last night.

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Originally Posted by kpxgq

I know everyone says to use crippleing wave for monk but I have had the best success with the basic fists of thunder and regenerating gear since it attacks so fast... I basically heal through brute force

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I haven't been reading what other people are saying about builds, but I can say that I like Crippling Wave because of the awesome AoE effectiveness.

I fail at killing Diablo on Nightmare. I can't even get past phase 2. I suck.

Nevermind. Quick trip to the AH with a focus on vitality and health regen and I beat him first time after that. Actually quite easy with the right gear. I just needed more of a buffer from getting tapped periodically.

I'm kinda annoyed. I think I should of played on America servers first, got my level 38 barb in Act 2 on NM in Europe and can't use him on NA servers, o well will level up my wizard.

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Originally Posted by ImaNihilist

I must suck a lot then, because I was getting destroyed as a 48 DH in Act III Nightmare last night.

I think what I need is resist gear. I just keep getting destroyed by the lobbed fireballs.

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I should have been more specific on the context - I did mean in a party. I haven't soloed the game with any character except wizard.

I wouldn't know anything about DH solo - mine is 45, but played exclusively in parties.

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Originally Posted by vertices

I fail at killing Diablo on Nightmare. I can't even get past phase 2. I suck.

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No, I suck! I can't even kill Diablo in Normal solo... :( I ended up going back a bit to beginning of Act IV just so I could level up... at what levels did you guys finish Normal?

My monk was Lvl. 31 when I encountered Diablo...

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Originally Posted by proxops-pete

No, I suck! I can't even kill Diablo in Normal solo... :( I ended up going back a bit to beginning of Act IV just so I could level up... at what levels did you guys finish Normal?

My monk was Lvl. 31 when I encountered Diablo...

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I think I was around level 34 when I killed Diablo.

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No, I suck! I can't even kill Diablo in Normal solo... I ended up going back a bit to beginning of Act IV just so I could level up... at what levels did you guys finish Normal?

My monk was Lvl. 31 when I encountered Diablo...

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What I do when this happens is I go back a few quests and lvl myself up maybe get 2-3 lvls and then go look at what gear I can improve on.

I got a little routine going on, I will play for a few hrs and start from like 0 gold collect like 80-100k and then upgrade my gear through AH. The AH is so flooded with crap it's pushing prices down I picked up a pretty sick sheild for what I would call a cheap price 35k

If your stuck, go to the AH and gear up.

A word of advice, set a max buy out price when searching. Right now, prices are all over the place with no real rhyme or reason. You can find INSANELY powerful items for cheap but if you don't cap the max buyout price, all you'll see are the expensive weapons.

I think it's utter rubbish that a company with billions in their warchest and years of MMO/server experience could not get this launch right. They had to know an estimate for the number of presales.

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Originally Posted by Nik00117

What I do when this happens is I go back a few quests and lvl myself up maybe get 2-3 lvls and then go look at what gear I can improve on.

I got a little routine going on, I will play for a few hrs and start from like 0 gold collect like 80-100k and then upgrade my gear through AH. The AH is so flooded with crap it's pushing prices down I picked up a pretty sick sheild for what I would call a cheap price 35k

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As much as I didn't want to do it, I ended up doing this... already up to Lvl 32 now... hopefully at least 1 more lvl up by the time I meet the Mr. D himself... :D

*Possible spoiler alert*

The thing is I always managed to get him down to 1/3 or so (after I beat his alter ego in hell) but somehow mess up and die!! :mad:

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Originally Posted by dyne

I think it's utter rubbish that a company with billions in their warchest and years of MMO/server experience could not get this launch right. They had to know an estimate for the number of presales.

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It's very hard to simulate scale issues in a complex database. It's not as easy as "throwing more servers" at the problem. The DB bottlenecks and you're in trouble. You can throw another machine at the problem, but you've still got to replicate that DB and load it into memory somewhere. If you've architected a DB for a certain amount if I/O, and you exceed that, there isn't anything you can do on the fly to fix it, necessarily.

They launched the game globally at the same time. AFAIK, only the NA servers had serious issues. The rest of the world did okay. Really hard to say what the exact issue is without any inside knowledge, but I know there was some DB corruption issues early on in the NA launch.

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Originally Posted by ImaNihilist

It's very hard to simulate scale issues in a complex database. It's not as easy as "throwing more servers" at the problem. The DB bottlenecks and you're in trouble. You can throw another machine at the problem, but you've still got to replicate that DB and load it into memory somewhere. If you've architected a DB for a certain amount if I/O, and you exceed that, there isn't anything you can do on the fly to fix it, necessarily.

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I would argue that this is wrong. It is correct if you think about a typical database solution, but I would seriously hope that they aren't using a typical database solution. Instead they are probably using some kind of clustered solution built around things like memcached, etc. For a database of that scale, any kind of media other than RAM will not match your requirements for I/O. Not to mention that in a properly designed cluster solution, it is as easy as adding more servers to alleviate the bottleneck. Not only that, but as the load reduces, nodes can be removed from the cluster and reallocated or sold off. Going forward, any large scale data storage and delivery project really only will survive and be profitable if it is designed around sensible clustering technologies.

And this is from a guy who loves having purpose-built hardware lying around. :p

Im with everyone else here, kinda regret buying the game, yet at the same time its fun and addicting. I see beating it once and throwing on the shelf...definetely not years like D2.

Finally killed Diablo last night! Leveled up to 33 by the time I got to him. :D

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Originally Posted by proxops-pete

Finally killed Diablo last night! Leveled up to 33 by the time I got to him. :D

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Gratz!

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Originally Posted by proxops-pete

Finally killed Diablo last night! Leveled up to 33 by the time I got to him. :D

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Grats man. Now on to Nightmare! ;)

Not really relevant since week 1 but still funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43GU...ture=endscreen

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Originally Posted by Brahma

Not really relevant since week 1 but still funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43GU...ture=endscreen

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+1
That was amazing. Thanks for that.

Beat Diablo.

Wow I think I find my new combo...spam electric bolas and impale for stun. Throw up a bat to keep hatred high and use vault to clear AOe attacks. Rinse and repeat. Took down Diablo pretty quickly.

That said, Rakanoth was a pain in the ***. His one hit kill telelport was crazy. Found out all I had to do was literally run circles around him and dodge his fireball attack while I laid on stun damage.

So I'm finally getting around to going through more of inferno. Act 2 is beyond insane. I had to completely tweak the way I play my wizard just to survive more than a few minutes.

Almost at the end of the act now, but wow... probably 20-30 deaths. The worst thing in the world is damage reflecting champs - I kill myself in 1-2 casts of blizzard. :( What I wouldn't give for a self-healing skill from one of the other classes...