Diablo 3

[Fetrik]

Voodo bone eh? That's a new one... ;)

[Gusington]

It's currently being stimulated by Warlock, until Diablo III arrives.

[Tpek]

Found it automatically installed the game in the program files folder on the main system drive without being asked about it.
Stupid thing...  :o

[Bison]

It's currently being stimulated by Warlock, until Diablo III arrives.

There aren't warlocks in Diablo 3.  However, I will be rolling up a Witch Doctor at some point.  I really enjoyed playing the class during the open beta much more than I thought that I would.

[son_of_montfort]

I highly recommend that all players go to Options, Gameplay, and activate Elective Mode and Expanded (or Advanced) Tooltips. This will allow you to bind any of your skills to any button (rather than have them categorized according to button 1 = defensive, button 2 = X) and will give you the full information on each of your skills (i.e. does 110% of your weapon damage and costs 6 mana). These options make the game significantly deeper and more like Diablo 2.

[Kushan]

With the exception of a couple million people all trying to log on at 12:01 this morning, the servers have been really stable for me. Was finally able to log on around 1:30 and played till 3-3:30 with no issues. Woke up this morning around 7 PST and played another couple of hours.

I think blizzard tweaked the difficulty levels up since the beta. I was able to roll all through act I and kill the skeleton king like a knife through butter. Last night I died 3-4 times. I actually like the increase in difficulty (if there is one) on normal, except when my barbarian basically gets one shot by a dozen mobs.

[LongBlade]

Just tried logging in over the last few minutes and get a "connection interrupted" error #3003. Looking it up on their support it indicates that Blizzard is pulling their server offline to resolve "critical issues." http://us.battle.net/en/search?q=error%20code%203003&f=support

Huh. Who knew that when you sold a million copies of a game that you'd need to have server space for a million people?

[Bison]

Yeah I just got booted, but no worries here.  I'm kicking some serious undead and demon tail with my monk.  It should be up in the next 30-45 mins based off what was splashed on the login screen.

And for the skeptics, the world is not coming to an end.  Why just yesterday my entire internet service was out for 2 hours for unknown reasons. 

[LongBlade]

Yeah I just got booted, but no worries here.  I'm kicking some serious undead and demon tail with my monk.  It should be up in the next 30-45 mins based off what was splashed on the login screen.

And for the skeptics, the world is not coming to an end.  Why just yesterday my entire internet service was out for 2 hours for unknown reasons.

I, for one, am pleased to know that the world is not ending yet. I haven't ever played any of the Diablo games, and I will consider it gross incompetence on the part of Divine Justice if I can't play Diablo before the world ends. Possible actions include legal action and strongly worded letters, so you know I'm serious about this.

[bob48]

^Sounds like fun LB, a new thread where we all submit a 'Strongly Worded letter', along the lines of;

Dear (insert name of diety of choice here),

It has been brought to our attention that you have, without prior consultation, terminated all operations on that celestial body generally known as 'Earth' aka 'The World' ....blah, blah....

Prize for the winning entry being a pair of combat boots, dyed red........

[OJsDad]

Looks like a group of Koreans and a group of Chinese each completed the game in 7 hrs.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Diablo-Blizzard-PC-Gaming-7-hours-Korea,15649.html

[Bison]

Well I'm starting to become a kung fu master, but i've yet to get an epic/rare drop.  Lots of blue loot though.  I love me some loot.

[son_of_montfort]

Well I'm starting to become a kung fu master, but i've yet to get an epic/rare drop.  Lots of blue loot though.  I love me some loot.

I am playing a Witch Doctor... but I leveled a Monk up to level 5. Those monks are pretty epic! I don't think he does more damage per se than the WD, but it just FEELS better with all the kicks and punches!

I think the WD ramps up, however. I'm convinced that the walls of zombies and exploding frogs will be just as awesome in the long run.

Looks like a group of Koreans and a group of Chinese each completed the game in 7 hrs.

According to the strategy guide, the game isn't even a quarter over after you finished all the Acts. You don't even unlock all your awesome skills and runes in a Normal level difficulty play through. So you don't really complete the game until you beat it on all difficulties. 7 hours to beat normal is "meh."

[Bison]

I've heard that the hardest level is near impossible without a group.  Not sure if that is true, but it's seem like a possiblity.

[son_of_montfort]

I've heard that the hardest level is near impossible without a group.  Not sure if that is true, but it's seem like a possiblity.

That sounds legit, according to the way the strategy guide talks.

BTW, after a hard day of idiotic number crunching... I get greeted with the Error #3004. Boo hiss!