Diablo III Wild Speculation and Rumor Mongering Abounds

[Grand Design]

Titan Quest is a great D2 clone with much shiner graphics.  Be ready for the deleted character bug - it should make backups of your save game that you can restore when (not if) it happens.  I make backup backups too, having lost a character.  I think most of the other bugs have been fixed by now. 

[Azazel]

Wahhhhhh the graphics aren't shiny. It is 10 fucking years old, and the graphics were dodgy then. It has always been about the gameplay, not the look.

I'm not having a waaahhh  

I played it at the time and it was great fun. It also looked fine to me at the time as opposed to the dodginess of which you speak. Now it just looks like old soiled arse. it's the truth. If it were prettier I could get past it, but it looks pretty crap to me now.
As it stands, I'll just stick with my fond memories and not fall over myself to whack off while giving it one more playthrough for the gipper.

You don't mind? Good for you. Have a cookie. Play through it and be happy. I don't give a fuck. I'm simply stating my own opinion on it as it stands now, 8 years after release.  



And yeah, Titan Quest is good enough for the moment, but then I'm playing WoW again, so not even much TQ.

[Moaner]

I've played a Barbarian to 27 since the announcement.  I've never played on Battle.net before so I'm having fun.  I'm looking forward to starting a hardcore character or 7. 

I played a shit ton of TQ last fall and it's definitely fun a couple times through.  My character is pretty much invincible at this point though and I've lost all interest in playing it again.

[Murgos]

If blizzard released a patch to support 1650x1080 I'd probably go buy a box (3rd time).  Otherwise, nah.

1650x1080 would probably horribly break the game because you'd be able to see to far and classes like sorceress would be uber-sniper.

[WayAbvPar]

Wahhhhhh the graphics aren't shiny. It is 10 fucking years old, and the graphics were dodgy then. It has always been about the gameplay, not the look.

I'm not having a waaahhh 

I played it at the time and it was great fun. It also looked fine to me at the time as opposed to the dodginess of which you speak. Now it just looks like old soiled arse. it's the truth. If it were prettier I could get past it, but it looks pretty crap to me now.
As it stands, I'll just stick with my fond memories and not fall over myself to whack off while giving it one more playthrough for the gipper.

You don't mind? Good for you. Have a cookie. Play through it and be happy. I don't give a fuck. I'm simply stating my own opinion on it as it stands now, 8 years after release. 



And yeah, Titan Quest is good enough for the moment, but then I'm playing WoW again, so not even much TQ.

I was more after Furiously since he left me high and dry last night.

[Ingmar]

Wahhhhhh the graphics aren't shiny. It is 10 fucking years old, and the graphics were dodgy then. It has always been about the gameplay, not the look.

I'm not having a waaahhh  

I played it at the time and it was great fun. It also looked fine to me at the time as opposed to the dodginess of which you speak. Now it just looks like old soiled arse. it's the truth. If it were prettier I could get past it, but it looks pretty crap to me now.
As it stands, I'll just stick with my fond memories and not fall over myself to whack off while giving it one more playthrough for the gipper.

You don't mind? Good for you. Have a cookie. Play through it and be happy. I don't give a fuck. I'm simply stating my own opinion on it as it stands now, 8 years after release.  



And yeah, Titan Quest is good enough for the moment, but then I'm playing WoW again, so not even much TQ.

At the time it came out it *was* kind of dodgy, but Blizzard is always behind the technology curve pretty far when it comes to graphics, mostly because their games take so long to finish that by the time they're done their engine is like 5 years old already. That isn't really a bad thing, it means for example that WoW would run on way more PCs at release than say Age of Conan. The big complaints I remember at the time of release with Diablo 2 were the 640x480 resolution (didn't go to 800x600 until the expansion) and the fact that it wasn't fully 3D.

[Sky]

3D is extremely over-rated for many genres.

[Furiously]

3D is extremely over-rated for many genres.

Totally.

[Ingmar]

3D is extremely over-rated for many genres.

Yeah, the game was obviously fine without it, but I do remember a lot of bitching initially - especially before it released, around the time of that battle.net stress test beta thing where you could only play barbarians and go as far as Blood Raven.

[Bunk]

Since it only does 800x600 and doesn't like scaling on my dual monitor setup, I've been playing it in windowed mode. (-w)

I'll keep an eye out for you WAP. I can't stop playing now, I just got a shiny new unique scimitar with 15% life drain!

[WayAbvPar]

Since it only does 800x600 and doesn't like scaling on my dual monitor setup, I've been playing it in windowed mode. (-w)

I'll keep an eye out for you WAP. I can't stop playing now, I just got a shiny new unique scimitar with 15% life drain!

I am about to log in and start up a WAP/f13 game- more the merrier! I may crank up the number of players with the /player x command so I get more drops.

[MrHat]

What?  You can play solo in an 8 player ghost game?

[Nija]

What?  You can play solo in an 8 player ghost game?

You can in TCP/IP but I don't think you can on B.net.

I'm starting up new on US West now. Acct name is Nijasan

[Ironwood]

57 Necro 38 Barb.

With a fuckload of Uniques going begging.

Good Ole Rockfleece.

[Brolan]

Tell me more about this /player command.  I assume it jacks up the difficulty factor as well?

[lesion]

On b.net games, when more people join the difficulty of monsters goes up along with drop quality. Since you can't do that in single-player you get the /players command to fake it. /moan

[WayAbvPar]

Yeah, I missed the part where you can't do it on bnet. No wonder I couldn't get it to work.

Bunk stopped by for a visit last night. His necro's posse was quite impressive, even though I spent half my mana shooting Ice Bolts at skellies and then realizing they were his 

Can anyone tell me how the hell to get past Black Marsh? I have done the Forgotten Tower quest, and got another quest (for the Horadric Malus), but I can't find any new zones to get to. I think I got the quest virally from Bunk, but now I am stuck. I spent 45 minutes running around all the other zones last night trying to find out if I missed something. The good news is I found one of my corpses I had forgotten to loot, so I got all my goodies back.

If you can't tell by now, I am a total and utter D2 n00b. Level 13 now though, and I finally found my first magic find trinket =)

Will very likely be on again tonight- same game, same pw.

[Merusk]

Damn you all for this thread.  I reinstalled the game, even though I hate it, and have played for an hour or two the last few nights.  No b.net, though. Since I couldn't get on USWest it seemed pointless to run around all by myself on USEast.

I'll echo the "drops seem to have increased" bit.  The last time I tried playing it was patch 1.10 (It's now 1.12) and I never saw a unique the whole fist Act (as far as I've ever made it.)  I already have seen about 10 between my barb and my amazon and I'm only level 7 on each.  I think they upped the gold and pots too, as I have lots already and I recall never having enough pots to stay alive or gold to buy pots.    The game is still killing my wrist, but the increased loot makes it a little more fun than it was before.

[WayAbvPar]

The game is still killing my wrist

Yeah, I never noticed that before, but my hand was like a claw for a few minutes after my 3 hour session* last night. Getting old sucks.



* D2, not masturbation.

[Ironwood]

Due to my masturbation habit, D2 is a breeze.

[Nija]

After the marsh there should be the monastary type area. Just circle the zone looking for exits along the boundaries. In this case I think it's a wall with a gate, usually to the UO north of the zone.

[WayAbvPar]

I will look again tonight. It sounds like Tamoe Highlands abuts Black Marsh in some way, but I swear I covered the whole zone last night. If I can't find it I might start up a new barb or pally for some melee fun.

[Ingmar]

If you are having wrist problems, just play a skeleton horde necromancer, it is more of a spectator sport.

[Ragnoros]

I will look again tonight. It sounds like Tamoe Highlands abuts Black Marsh in some way, but I swear I covered the whole zone last night. If I can't find it I might start up a new barb or pally for some melee fun.

You are correct, there is usually a dirt path leading from zone to zone. So just follow that, unless it goes to a dungeon.

[Ratman_tf]

I fucking hate Duriel. One boss in a very enclosed space who just runs up and splats you against the wall until you grind up to the point where you can beat his ass in.

Grrr. I always have to grind the false tombs to get powerful enough to beat him.

[Ingmar]

I fucking hate Duriel. One boss in a very enclosed space who just runs up and splats you against the wall until you grind up to the point where you can beat his ass in.

Grrr. I always have to grind the false tombs to get powerful enough to beat him.

Yeah. It wasn't obvious at the time (at least to me) but Duriel is really kind of a design misstep I think. Maybe that was obscured by the fact that at the time the game came out, he was more awful because you zoned in right on top of him and he could kill you while you were still loading up. Not such a problem with how fast it loads now though.

[schild]

Never once had a problem with Duriel.

[MrHat]

Hehe.  Duriel killed my hardcore sorcy once.

Man, I miss hardcore.

[K9]

I fucking hate Duriel. One boss in a very enclosed space who just runs up and splats you against the wall until you grind up to the point where you can beat his ass in.

Grrr. I always have to grind the false tombs to get powerful enough to beat him.

Yeah, he's a nightmare as a Sorceress. If you go back to kill him again though he's cake since you can kite him around Tyrael.

As it is, I've found Baal the easiest boss by far.

[Ratman_tf]

I fucking hate Duriel. One boss in a very enclosed space who just runs up and splats you against the wall until you grind up to the point where you can beat his ass in.

Grrr. I always have to grind the false tombs to get powerful enough to beat him.

Yeah. It wasn't obvious at the time (at least to me) but Duriel is really kind of a design misstep I think. Maybe that was obscured by the fact that at the time the game came out, he was more awful because you zoned in right on top of him and he could kill you while you were still loading up. Not such a problem with how fast it loads now though.

Shit I remember that! He used to clean all our (my multiplayer buddies) clocks before we could even see what was going on!

[Nonentity]

Fuck Baal on my undergeared Amazon on Nightmare. Or Normal.

Man, just fuck Baal period. His ice wave bullshit is ENORMOUS.

[MrHat]

Why aren't you guys playing hardcore.

I GAME THROUGH YOU.

[K9]

Um, what exactly does /players change in-game?

I tried it out on a new Necro and the game didn't seem to change at all. Skeleton horde seems comically OP too, I have 5 so far and I'm wondering if I would pick up teeth, or a curse just so that I have something to. Any tips?

[MrHat]

Are you playing single player?

[WayAbvPar]

If you are playing single player or non-ladder, /player x will boost Diablo's minions as if that many players are in the game. Tougher mobs, but more XP and lots more drops.

As soon as I bust from this HORSE tourney I will be firing up a game. Think I may start a barbarian.

USWest
WAP
f13

I will check here before I jump in game in case someone else has a session going before me.