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Topic: Diablo III Wild Speculation and Rumor Mongering Abounds (Read 870331 times)
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Prospero
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Just add Diablo 2 as a steam game, and then you can see who all is playing. It's durn handy.
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Fabricated
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Duriel was my least favorite boss out of all of them since he hits so fucking hard and it freezes you. He's cake if you're playing multiplayer (all of the bosses are really) but single player as most classes he's just incredibly shitty. Baal was annoying sometimes but way easier. One of my friends ran a druid with a ridiculous bear summon and he'd just let the bear tank it and resummon it the instant it got close to death (provided it did...which it usually didn't, even on hell).
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WayAbvPar
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Just add Diablo 2 as a steam game, and then you can see who all is playing. It's durn handy.
Ah, good idea. I haven't used Steam in approximately forever, but I will start. Ran my new barb up to 14th level thanks in great part to gimpyone's helpful rush through Act I. I am getting closer to getting my Horadric Cube. Daddy want! |
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Mosesandstick
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My fav. char was a zealot and fighting Duriel was the most boring thing imaginable. As long as my items were good enough I'd defeat him but otherwise it was tp heal tp heal.. *yawn*.
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Hoax
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Just add Diablo 2 as a steam game, and then you can see who all is playing. It's durn handy.
I wish I could get it on steam... boxes and cd's? They still have those? I haven't had d2 discs in forfuckingever. |
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Ironwood
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Hmmm. Just found the formula to upgrade Unique items.
Rockfleece Sharktooth armor ?
Nice.
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Bunk
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So now my teen level nec has a horde of nine followers that kill everything before I get on screen most of the time. If I do reach the mobs, it's tough to die when I'm hitting them with a 15% life drain unique scimitar.
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Azazel
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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.
Yeah, though a resolution tweak would be about the only thing that'd get me to play again. Well, for more than a nostalgia afternoon. 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.
Yeah, I didn't pick it up till I got the Battle Chest. But yeah, it looked ok to me. Then again, WoW still looks fine to me, so...  |
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Prospero
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Just add Diablo 2 as a steam game, and then you can see who all is playing. It's durn handy.
I wish I could get it on steam... boxes and cd's? They still have those? I haven't had d2 discs in forfuckingever. Amen. I'd pretty much re-buy every game I own on Steam if they would sell them there. I hate disks I do. |
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addryc
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Just add Diablo 2 as a steam game, and then you can see who all is playing. It's durn handy.
I wish I could get it on steam... boxes and cd's? They still have those? I haven't had d2 discs in forfuckingever. Amen. I'd pretty much re-buy every game I own on Steam if they would sell them there. I hate disks I do. If you have your original D2/LoD keys - you can sign up at: Blizzard Account, enter them in the 'Games' tab and it will give you the option to do a digital download of the game and expansion - voila - no need to ever carry CDs around with you again - and you have a 'wallet' of Game CD keys for use wherever you are :) |
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Azazel
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Is a Blizzard account seperate from a WoW account, or is it like Sony's Station accounts being the same as an EQ/2/SWG/etc account?
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lesion
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Looks different at least, and they don't let you put in WoW/BC keys.
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addryc
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Currently it seems like its only being used for the Blizzard Online Store and for the aforementioned Games wallet - but those alone are pretty neat!
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FatuousTwat
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Now I need to find my LOD case... I have the cd, no CD Key :(.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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WayAbvPar
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Someone drop by and twink me up plskthx. Will be on tonight. USWest/WAP/f13.
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WayAbvPar
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Goddamn it. I am starting to remember why I quit playing this game originally. Died in Tal Rasha's tomb. Have been back at least 10 times. Map has changed, and I can't find my body. I have died numerous times trying to find it. Had about 100k gold. Probably have 30k now from all the death taxes. BITTER.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Teleku
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.......?
How did the map change? It stays static the whole game I thought....
Never had a problem finding my corpse before...
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Brolan
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Goddamn it. I am starting to remember why I quit playing this game originally. Died in Tal Rasha's tomb. Have been back at least 10 times. Map has changed, and I can't find my body. I have died numerous times trying to find it. Had about 100k gold. Probably have 30k now from all the death taxes. BITTER.
It's that risk/reward ratio. Brad McQuaid would say you are actually having fun. |
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Ingmar
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How did the map change? It stays static the whole game I thought....
Never had a problem finding my corpse before...
If you're playing on b.net and have to go to a new game it changes, but I thought in that case the body ended up back in town? |
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WayAbvPar
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I ended up finding the spot to enter the tomb. I went in and got murdered by Duriel, and ended up back in town. At my feet was my corpse. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go back to fight Duriel again- every time I went into the Tomb, it was a new map, but with no spot for the Horadric Staff (which was also no longer in my possession). I finally ended up joining another game and helping them through Act II and killed Duriel that way (damn that is a tough fight, btw). Now I am in the beginning of Act III and going to bed.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Paelos
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No matter what they do, Duriel still sucks. WTF!  Cut that bitch's HP in half. |
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Ragnoros
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When asked about drops in a party. Currently - while in a party each player will see their own drops from each kill.
When asked about bound items. Diablo is a trading game, and we have no plans to change that. We don't have any inclination to make items bind to a character, or otherwise remove trading opportunities.
Will there be absolutely no items that will be bound to a character? It isn't possible to say with any certainty at this point, there might be.
From one of the Blue posters on the D3 Forums. Obviously subject to change, but something to spur MOAR DIABLO TALKINGS! Will probably be lurking around at the D3 forums over at Blizzard for the foreseeable future. They do nice FAQs every week or so for SC2 with luck they will for D3 in the near future. |
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« Last Edit: July 16, 2008, 01:33:20 AM by Ragnoros »
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FatuousTwat
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Goddamn it. I am starting to remember why I quit playing this game originally. Died in Tal Rasha's tomb. Have been back at least 10 times. Map has changed, and I can't find my body. I have died numerous times trying to find it. Had about 100k gold. Probably have 30k now from all the death taxes. BITTER.
Exit the game and come back... It will be right next to you when you start a new game? |
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eldaec
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When asked about bound items.
One day someone will explain to me what possible benefit the 'bound items' mechanic could ever bring to a game. And on the day that such an explanation includes even a single valid point, the skies will rain fire and the end of days will be upon us. |
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Teleku
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I thought the basic idea was to keep down item inflation? Since most mmo's don't have item destruction, eventually rare items become common as dirt because everybody just sales/pass's them on to other players when they get something better.
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WayAbvPar
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Between bound items and level restrictions on items, things have gone backwards since EQ1 imo. Old fashioned twinking was fun.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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WayAbvPar
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Also- I just realized that my sorc is 23rd level and I could have been using Teleport for several levels if I wasn't a n00b. Goddamn it.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Grand Design
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Between bound items and level restrictions on items, things have gone backwards since EQ1 imo. Old fashioned twinking was fun.
MMOs are bass-ackwards. I've stated it before, but I think that the stifling rulesets of current gen mmos are an over reaction to problems in EQ1. As a rule, in an online multiplayer game, you should not discourage player interaction. Player bound items, level restricted items, group only spellcasting, locked encounters, level restricted pvp, instances etc. are all ways of 'solving' problems, but they make a multiplayer platform almost pointless. By implementing such bone-headed ideas, the current gen are basically online single player games with chat rooms. I know I'm on the losing lost side of this debate, but the fact that mmo after mmo falls flat gives me hope that I'm not a masochist and an online game really should encourage teamwork and competition. Now back to your regularly scheduled Diablo thread. |
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Fabricated
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Between bound items and level restrictions on items, things have gone backwards since EQ1 imo. Old fashioned twinking was fun.
MMOs are bass-ackwards. I've stated it before, but I think that the stifling rulesets of current gen mmos are an over reaction to problems in EQ1. As a rule, in an online multiplayer game, you should not discourage player interaction. Player bound items, level restricted items, group only spellcasting, locked encounters, level restricted pvp, instances etc. are all ways of 'solving' problems, but they make a multiplayer platform almost pointless. By implementing such bone-headed ideas, the current gen are basically online single player games with chat rooms. I know I'm on the losing lost side of this debate, but the fact that mmo after mmo falls flat gives me hope that I'm not a masochist and an online game really should encourage teamwork and competition. Now back to your regularly scheduled Diablo thread. I don't see anything in there making multiplayer pointless or discouraging teamwork or competition. |
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Margalis
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Bound items work in an MMO to discourage people from monopolizing non-instanced mobs.
In a game like Diablo makes no sense.
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Grand Design
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I don't see anything in there making multiplayer pointless or discouraging teamwork or competition.
Do you see anything in there that decreases or nullifies a player's usefulness to other players in a multiplayer game? Semantics aside, that was my point. |
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lamaros
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Bound items work in an MMO to discourage people from monopolizing non-instanced mobs. There are games that have non instanced mobs that drop decent loot that is bound on pickup? What? Some examples please. |
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Margalis
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FFXI.
In some other thread people said that WOW had overland mobs that did that as well, I wouldn't know.
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