Who all is in for Diablo III at launch?

[taggart6]

My main is a Monk level 35 that I was playing with alongside 3 of my friends. We went through almost all of Normal together. A weekend of limited Diablo time later and all my friends are in their 50's in Hell and I'm still on Nightmare Act 1. XD

I've also got a level 7 Hardcore Demon Hunter.

Looking to run Wizard or Witch Doctor as my Hardcore avatar.

[monroeski]

I've never been big on hardcore characters in the first place and I am even less so with all the server issues/always on internet connection. I died twice just in act I due to server hiccups and I can't imagine spending all the time to get a character up to the higher difficulties and dieing due to some BS outside of my control.

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I've never been big on hardcore characters in the first place and I am even less so with all the server issues/always on internet connection. I died twice just in act I due to server hiccups and I can't imagine spending all the time to get a character up to the higher difficulties and dieing due to some BS outside of my control.

This is exactly why I won't run hardcore at all. Too many possible things outside of your own control that can cause a single death.

On another note, been having so much fun with my boys. My oldest sent his first ever in game tell to me. I was surprised that he even figured out how to do it. It was "do you have any more stuff for me?" lol. I screenshotted it and stuck it in Evernote. Very very cool.

The 3 of us are only in our mid 20s but it's a bit slower going with young kids. Running from my office to their PCs to tell them "ok sell all your junk and repair your gear!". Very fun and cool. My little Barbarians. I play a DH.

[Rush]

I also ran through the game on normal and nightmare with a group of friends and am down for some SF co-op.

main - 52 wizard
Alt - 32 demon hunter
Alt2 - 23 barbarian
Alt3 - 21 witch doctor

[Nik00117]

I'm in act 3 with a lvl 27 barb and need some help it's rough going. But it was rough going with my first time in Act 2 as well.

[Nik00117]

Ah my name is Nik00117#1541

Currently in Act 3 with my lvl 27 Barb

[Rush]

How are people liking their builds? I'm enjoying the hunter. I use bolas and vault as main for attack and positioning, with impale and vault for crowd control.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...ter#WZYd!a!aaa

Can't set my build at work (firewall), but I like both my wizard and demon hunter. DH uses mainly Chakram (dual with rune) for killing and vault for fast-travel/escape. I like Bola with the rune for enlarged radius when I'm out of hatred, good damage. I use Calltrops whenever I have to retreat a little from a tough crowd - draw them into it and take them out with Chakram. I also have rapid-fire on a skill slot for taking down bosses quickly.

Loving the wizard so far. I have wide-beam incinerate on left-click and extra damage meteor on right-click. Wave of force and frost nova on skill bar for crowd control. Bar is rounded out with teleport and archon. I find that with her high DPS, archon is pretty overpowered. It takes out unique mobs in the blink of an eye. Not that I mind.

What do you guys think about class rankings damage-wise? I haven't played Monk yet, but after co-oping with all classes through to the beginning of hell and seeing their strengths and weaknesses develop, my power ranking is:

1. demon hunter
2. wizard
3. barbarian
4. witch doctor
5. monk

Demon hunter is far and away the most powerful - my wizard is badass (6k+ DPS, 20k HP), but she can't stack up to the damage output and ability to survive of the DH. Barbarians are great tanks, but it seems melee damage suffers far more than ranged/magic damage as the game progresses. The monk started out great, but his damage output seems to seriously taper off early to midway through nightmare.

[ImaNihilist]

How are peopling playing? I have only a single main that I'm running through to get nightmare unlocked. I know many people running 4 characters with each for a specific group.

Just one character right now, a Demon Hunter. At some point I'll probably make a Monk and Wizard, maybe after Nightmare.

I played through the first two Acts mostly solo, pretty slow. When I got to Act III I started grouping more.

I find that I use very different skills depending on whether I'm in a group or not. When solo I try to chain enemies in a row and destroy them with a hose of damage. When playing in a group it's mostly AOE spamfest.

I did most of Act IV in a group, except for the very end. The pacing steps up a notch in Act III and then goes wild in Act IV. The whole forth act plays more like a single drawn out boss battle to be honest.

I didn't plan on playing through the whole game, but once you start in Act IV it's pretty hard to stop.

I'm DEFINITELY not going to be making a Hardcore character until the server issues are sorted. Even then, I'm not sure I'd risk that kind of time investment unless I had a guarantee. The second your ping goes past like 150ms you need to be automatically ported back to town and the game paused, at the very least. Either that or they need to give you 10 lives, or not actually delete your character (just lose all your gear/gold, but keep your level). My ping has bounced over 2000ms a few times. I've died a few times from purely lag related issues.

The more I think about it, the more disappointed I am in the writing and VO. It could have been really good. Tyrael should have been played by Avery Brooks (Sisko from DS9). Last time I'll comment about how bad it is. I swear.

[Rush]

Tyrael sounds like the All-State guy.

[ImaNihilist]

Can't set my build at work (firewall), but I like both my wizard and demon hunter. DH uses mainly Chakram (dual with rune) for killing and vault for fast-travel/escape. I like Bola with the rune for enlarged radius when I'm out of hatred, good damage. I use Calltrops whenever I have to retreat a little from a tough crowd - draw them into it and take them out with Chakram. I also have rapid-fire on a skill slot for taking down bosses quickly.

Loving the wizard so far. I have wide-beam incinerate on left-click and extra damage meteor on right-click. Wave of force and frost nova on skill bar for crowd control. Bar is rounded out with teleport and archon. I find that with her high DPS, archon is pretty overpowered. It takes out unique mobs in the blink of an eye. Not that I mind.

What do you guys think about class rankings damage-wise? I haven't played Monk yet, but after co-oping with all classes through to the beginning of hell and seeing their strengths and weaknesses develop, my power ranking is:

1. demon hunter
2. wizard
3. barbarian
4. witch doctor
5. monk

Demon hunter is far and away the most powerful - my wizard is badass (6k+ DPS, 20k HP), but she can't stack up to the damage output and ability to survive of the DH. Barbarians are great tanks, but it seems melee damage suffers far more than ranged/magic damage as the game progresses. The monk started out great, but his damage output seems to seriously taper off early to midway through nightmare.

I was in a 4 person DH group last night. All Dual Chakram. It was completely ridiculous. It lagged so hard to my machine that the screen would just flash for a few seconds then everything was dead.

[flutie98]

I was soloing act 2 nightmare last nite with my wizard, Im not sure how anyone does hardcore, I die constantly against elite mobs. My gear is pretty decent and my dps is quite nice, but those damn things wall me in an there is no escape, dead in under a second.

[Trunks]

I was soloing act 2 nightmare last nite with my wizard, Im not sure how anyone does hardcore, I die constantly against elite mobs. My gear is pretty decent and my dps is quite nice, but those damn things wall me in an there is no escape, dead in under a second.

Wizards are squishy. I can solo elite packs with my monk in nightmare. I made a wizard but didn't like how easy they died.

[taggart6]

The more I think about it, the more disappointed I am in the writing and VO. It could have been really good. Tyrael should have been played by Avery Brooks (Sisko from DS9). Last time I'll comment about how bad it is. I swear.

The VO and writing is horse ****. It's pretty sad. So much of it is forced and drivel.

A perfect example of this is the constant chattering of the followers. So goddamn annoying. Really, evil wears no disguises here? Wow, I honestly wasn't sure what with the hunkering festering body of death dripping blood and feces. But hey, thanks buddy. I really needed to hear that for the 20th time this session to confirm it.

[Kamakazie]

http://penny-arcade.com/comic

[linoleum]

"I am overburdened. I can't carry any more."

That's pretty much the only voice I remember from Diablo II, because I am a packrat. Is it still in III?