Official Diablo 3 Thread

[knight604]

Yeah the RNG is complete bullshit.

[unit]

Originally Posted by Traum

Is anyone getting bored of the game yet?

For me, I have sort of reached a point where the fun factor is taking a major nose dive. My main char -- a lvl 55 or 56 DH -- is getting stuck because I haven't been able to find any decent gear, and I'm too poor to afford level-appropriate gear on a frequent enough basis from the AH. With crappy gear, I'm too weak to solo in Hell, and even when I'm in party, I die all too frequently from 1-hit kills. So the whole thing just turns into a grind. But as we all know, grinding for gear is no fun in D3 because the drops are so crappy. I love the boss fights in D3, but a good chunk of fun is taken out of it b/c there is simply no reward from it. As a matter of fact, I am pretty sure I am losing money from boss fights b/c of my high gear repair costs.

Exploring with new chars is only gonna be fun for so long.

Blizzard really screwed up on this one.

the drops are crappy because you're in hell. get to inferno and the drops are a lot better.

[Ruff Ryd@s]

Originally Posted by Preemo

You would think using logic that legendaries would have amazing stats given the rarity of the items. Especially given the amount of hours played and the countless smashing of vases and overturning of corpses.

But no.

Blizzard. Your thought process is fucked up.

For me, I have sort of reached a point where the fun factor is taking a major nose dive. My main char -- a lvl 55 or 56 DH -- is getting stuck because I haven't been able to find any decent gear, and I'm too poor to afford level-appropriate gear on a frequent enough basis from the AH. With crappy gear, I'm too weak to solo in Hell, and even when I'm in party, I die all too frequently from 1-hit kills. So the whole thing just turns into a grind. But as we all know, grinding for gear is no fun in D3 because the drops are so crappy. I love the boss fights in D3, but a good chunk of fun is taken out of it b/c there is simply no reward from it. As a matter of fact, I am pretty sure I am losing money from boss fights b/c of my high gear repair costs.

blizzard's plan for this game is for players to grind endlessly, not for experience points, but for items. Inferno is purposely made almost impossible just so players need to farm for the best items possible before they can last more than 2 hits. Sets and legendaries are super rare just so they will be exclusive to only a very small % of palyers. We all know once RMAH comes out, everyone who has the best items (sets, high-end legendaries) will be putting it up for sale there, and not the regular gold AH.
The goal of blizzard is to make $$$ off of RMAH from d3 players.

Legendaries look like theyre not as good as rares, but combine multiple pieces of legendaries together and you will have bonuses like:
- 20% melee dmg reduced
- +15% dmg to elites
- 25% increased overall hp
- crit chance increased by 30%
- 300+ resist all

With those stats you can probably do inferno easier, but once RMAH comes out, dont expect to spend anything less than real money to get those items.

i guess you can say the bottom line is that blizzard wants players to get so pissed at farming for good items to be able to do inferno that theyre willing to just pay real moeny for items instead. Also when pvp comes out, it's gonna mean $$$ for blizzard as well.

[SiRV]

has ANYONE on here finished inferno yet?

[Mozo]

My gold farming method is to do Dank runs + Butchers wife quest in the early act 1 quest line "The legacy of Cain". I throw on +gold% items and get decent profit.

Another method I want to do but haven't got around to it yet was to do Nightmare Whimsyshire Runs, while wearing +gold% items.. Then when you clear it vendor all the blues and yellows for gold b/c they wont be upgrades.
Pretty sure nm will be easy with only wearing +gold% gear, but if not, do this in normal.

[bobola]

If anyone havnt figure out this, you can skip act..
I skipped to act 4 infernal to farm for some item...

lets say I want to get into act4 q3.. infernal

1. I "start game" in act4 q3 in hell mode, and leave the game
2. Join public game and you will be able to select act4 q3 in infernal. leave the game
3. Then when you press "resume game" you will be able to create infernal act4 q3 games in your own private game!

hint hint*tyrael tank like a boss

[3klipze]

lols from forums

I see my Blizzard theme song got buried pretty hard:

Now, this is the story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute to talk about D3
I'll tell you how Blizzard's constant updates ràped me

In west Philadelphia born and raised
Getting error 3003 is where I spend most of my days
Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool
And a broken auction house, make you look like a fool
When a couple of guys
Who were being used to make this rhyme
Startin making D3 servers crash all the time
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
She said 'Blizzard would fix their shït if they actually cared'

I pulled up to the house about nine or ten
And I yelled to the cabbie 'I bet the server's down again'
I looked to my kingdom
I was feeling like you
I got to sit at my throne, and wait for Guild Wars two.

[Tim Budong]

im runnin magdha runs today
each kill is 71k exp so hope its good.

gonna 60 myself today.
this is HELL difficulty and im level 57

[G]

^Server's still down for me... I did azmo runs from 57-60. Even without the exploit I think it's still worth it...

[Gerbs]

i did act 4 - 1 on hell 60k/ run every 40 seconds

[chin3se604]

cant even do hell with the equip i got =(.... and rather invest in items with req 60... that 15% deduction is a rip

if anyone got some solid gear post here before putting in AH =)

[Traum]

I completely agree with you that Blizzard built this game from the ground up to support the financial model that the RMAH will bring. I don't actually mind them adopting such a financial model, provided that the game can still be relatively enjoyable without succumbing to that model myself. But the gripe (or at least, my gripe) with the current D3 is that after NM, players are pretty much forced to adopt the RMAH if they want to proceed with the game. If you don't, the rest of the game just isn't fun anymore after you're done with NM.

And how long did it take me to finish NM? 1 week, tops, of some not-very-aggressive gaming? I even followed the entire story -- with all the dialogues from all the main NPCs (including my hirelings), cut scenes, and everything during the normal difficulty as well.

My goodness... Blizzard failed on so many levels in this game it isn't even funny... But the most ironic thing is, despite the RMAH financial model that Blizzard is shooting for, they have continued to be unable to deliver on it. The regular gold AH isn't even functioning well so far in the game. Ironic, indeed...

Originally Posted by Ruff Ryd@s

blizzard's plan for this game is for players to grind endlessly, not for experience points, but for items. Inferno is purposely made almost impossible just so players need to farm for the best items possible before they can last more than 2 hits. Sets and legendaries are super rare just so they will be exclusive to only a very small % of palyers. We all know once RMAH comes out, everyone who has the best items (sets, high-end legendaries) will be putting it up for sale there, and not the regular gold AH.
The goal of blizzard is to make $$$ off of RMAH from d3 players.

Legendaries look like theyre not as good as rares, but combine multiple pieces of legendaries together and you will have bonuses like:
- 20% melee dmg reduced
- +15% dmg to elites
- 25% increased overall hp
- crit chance increased by 30%
- 300+ resist all

With those stats you can probably do inferno easier, but once RMAH comes out, dont expect to spend anything less than real money to get those items.

i guess you can say the bottom line is that blizzard wants players to get so pissed at farming for good items to be able to do inferno that theyre willing to just pay real moeny for items instead. Also when pvp comes out, it's gonna mean $$$ for blizzard as well.

[unit]

anything find anything uber rare yet?

[Alby]

Originally Posted by bobola

If anyone havnt figure out this, you can skip act..
I skipped to act 4 infernal to farm for some item...

lets say I want to get into act4 q3.. infernal

1. I "start game" in act4 q3 in hell mode, and leave the game
2. Join public game and you will be able to select act4 q3 in infernal. leave the game
3. Then when you press "resume game" you will be able to create infernal act4 q3 games in your own private game!

hint hint*tyrael tank like a boss

do you have to do this all the time or will the WP be saved?

[Mike Oxbig]

Does anyone know what the max MF% is?

[PuYang]

Originally Posted by Alby

do you have to do this all the time or will the WP be saved?

as long as you dont change quests you will be able to keep doing this exploit. once you change quests, you'll lose it. (assuming you haven't actually gotten that far normally).

people often "buy wp". paying someone 20k etc to invite them to their game with the act 4 WP.

[strykn]

cant stop playing :@:@::!:@_!:@L)@($#K@F

[ShadowBun]

Originally Posted by Alby

do you have to do this all the time or will the WP be saved?

just tried this and it isnt working

[Mr.HappySilp]

Originally Posted by chin3se604

cant even do hell with the equip i got =(.... and rather invest in items with req 60... that 15% deduction is a rip

if anyone got some solid gear post here before putting in AH =)

I know lol at least make it so the gear we get from the current ACT WILL help in the next act @@

I am around lvl 55 and still in ATC 2 in hell and most gear drops (even rare) are for like lvl 45 to 48@@ All the gears I got came from the AH coz no way with lvl 48 gear I can contiune.....

[Culture_Vulture]

Originally Posted by Big Earl

Does anyone know what the max MF% is?

there is no real max mf%, the only limitations are given by gear, which will change as new items/item attributes/expansion(s) are released.
Not that it matters all that much anyways, mf% works as ''increased chance to drop'', so if an item has a 0.001% chance to drop, having even 300mf will only increase the drop rate by a minute amount. Plus, I am not too sure how it works exactly, but I believe it continues to have diminishing returns like in D2.

[Alby]

Originally Posted by ShadowBun

just tried this and it isnt working

it works, only assuming someone has started a public game in inferno with the act/quest you want to join.

[G]

MF splits for the # of players in the game. So if you have 40% and your playing with 3 others then it splits to 10% each I think..

[chin3se604]

anyone wanna do zk hell with me?

[Renxo]

100 hours played still no orange item lol

[Tim Budong]

Originally Posted by chin3se604

anyone wanna do zk hell with me?

im doing Act4-1
quick and easy to level
within 1 hr, i jumped almost 2 levels