No, because the other three guys do, unfortunately.
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No, because the other three guys do, unfortunately.
Wow, going through hell has become kind of fun. The amount of hold-your-breath type almost-boss fights we've had is crazy. I'm going through some of this with a friend now, and we've really figured out how to get through some of these insane elites. You really have to use your abilities strategically, and use the battlefield strategically and move around a lot. I really love it. It's too bad it can all fall apart with cruddy people in your party. That's not even to mention these things just get way too powerful with a larger party.
Still, I'm having fun, and we're not really having that hard of a time, so that's cool. It's monk and barbarian though, so it sucks not having range.
Still, I'm having fun, and we're not really having that hard of a time, so that's cool. It's monk and barbarian though, so it sucks not having range.
Doing the same. Have to agree.
Wizard skill selection is getting pretty complex. I've started eyeing my potion hotkey, wondering if I can afford to drop it for some other skill. I always find myself about one skill short of being satisfied with my choices.
At level 25 I have about 120 damage and am using these skills:
Magic Missile - Charged Blast
Hydra
Meteor
Frost Nova - Shatter
Diamond Armor - Crystal Shell
Teleport
Passives are Prodigy and Astral Presence.
The FN, Teleport, and Frost Nova are mostly for escape Vortex, Jailor, Waller, and when I come out of a dungeon after reloading a game.
Hydra acts as a scout and DPS. Magic Missile is solid, single-target DPS and arcane power regeneration, while Meteor is just nostalgic D2 fun. (Meteorb) Meteor works surprisingly well with Frost Nova and Diamond Armor though it means I'm giving up one more escape tool so I have to be careful when I use it. I'm finding snares to be the biggest problem since once my Teleport goes on CD, there's nothing keeping mobs from chasing me down.
Looking at either going melee or fire mage in the future as my skills increase. Would like to make something based around Spectral Blade, Enchant, and Familiar but we'll see. Still having lots of sweaty palm, run and gun fun. Playing in Japan usually means I can dodge all of that maintenance downtime you guys have to put up with. :3
Going to break it to you right now then, not even the best game designers in the world can foresee all the consequences of a skill / power / ability before launch. The expectation that they should just "get it right" on the first try is pretty absurd especially when you're looking at a game as complex as Diablo 3.
At level 25 I have about 120 damage and am using these skills:
Magic Missile - Charged Blast
Hydra
Meteor
Frost Nova - Shatter
Diamond Armor - Crystal Shell
Teleport
Passives are Prodigy and Astral Presence.
The FN, Teleport, and Frost Nova are mostly for escape Vortex, Jailor, Waller, and when I come out of a dungeon after reloading a game.
Hydra acts as a scout and DPS. Magic Missile is solid, single-target DPS and arcane power regeneration, while Meteor is just nostalgic D2 fun. (Meteorb) Meteor works surprisingly well with Frost Nova and Diamond Armor though it means I'm giving up one more escape tool so I have to be careful when I use it. I'm finding snares to be the biggest problem since once my Teleport goes on CD, there's nothing keeping mobs from chasing me down.
Looking at either going melee or fire mage in the future as my skills increase. Would like to make something based around Spectral Blade, Enchant, and Familiar but we'll see. Still having lots of sweaty palm, run and gun fun. Playing in Japan usually means I can dodge all of that maintenance downtime you guys have to put up with. :3
Going to break it to you right now then, not even the best game designers in the world can foresee all the consequences of a skill / power / ability before launch. The expectation that they should just "get it right" on the first try is pretty absurd especially when you're looking at a game as complex as Diablo 3.
Has anyone else been posting whimsyshire screens?
BTW if you guys can gripe to blizzard to have them make a level like this again much appreciated.
These were taken on my first run after we got the items to do so. If you want rares and money just walk in with the right gear and expect easy pickings each time.
BTW if you guys can gripe to blizzard to have them make a level like this again much appreciated.
These were taken on my first run after we got the items to do so. If you want rares and money just walk in with the right gear and expect easy pickings each time.
I solo'd it with my barb. It's nothing more than a DPS check. All the attacks are easy to avoid. You just need to finish within 3 minutes.
When he starts jumping up and down use bound move to get to his side. If turns red do the same thing. Otherwise you can probably just tank his attacks.
The DPS minimum seems to be about ~11k. I had a smidge under that and I barely finished in time.
It's pretty much optional, but prices would surely go up when PvP hits.
There is kind of a huge gulf between a reasonable shot at balancing a game and Diablo 3. It's not about wanting everything perfect at launch. They don't need to hit the bullseye, but they missed the dart board completely.
No, because the game has only been out for a week so most people are still trying to keep the secret level secret.
Seriously. Link and spoiler tag that shit ffs
Woo-Fu
Banned
Doesn't seem that way to me.
Inferno can be a bit of a brick wall if you're not itemized properly, but then again it is inferno.
Perfect Cha0s
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Am I playing my Wizard incorrectly? He feels like a wet noodle compared to my meatgrinder Barbarian; not even a glass cannon - just glass. He hits for little and can't take damage. I haven't gone to the AH for gear, but I didn't do it for my Barb, either. =/
I'm just thinking about dropping my Wizard and going to a Witch Doctor... really not feeling Wizard.
I'm just thinking about dropping my Wizard and going to a Witch Doctor... really not feeling Wizard.
I would not do this. :/
No, and there is a pretty good reason why.
You're the first person on my list of sacrifices when I roll my witch doctor. Thanks for the spoilers.
Could you give us a little more information about your wizard? Like what level you are and / or skills you're using? You shouldn't have to hit the auction house to get through the game.
Blizzard themselves just said it. I'm speaking more to the viability of builds and the power balance between runes more than anything. When I see a bunch of Barbarian builds emerging that don't have Fury dumps and take no advantage of the main mechanic they are based around it is hard to not seriously ask what the development team was thinking.
I took them out quit whining it's not the end of the world.
Maybe? Wizard is pretty awesome.
This just happened to me on Inferno (act 2 spoilers)
http://imgur.com/UX30N
I want to cry. It would have worked, if the Templar wasn't a complete idiot. Run AWAY from me you douche. AWAY. Not towards.
http://imgur.com/UX30N
I want to cry. It would have worked, if the Templar wasn't a complete idiot. Run AWAY from me you douche. AWAY. Not towards.
Wizards can take damage build your guy around certain stats. I have a friend who has massive damage reduction 1/3 for everything and when he gets to 35% has even more applied. Mobs literally have to expand a crapload of effort to even get to the threshold of killing you.
Dreams-Visions
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This is bullshit.
Who's idea Blizzard was it to put permanently invulnerable blue groups in the game? I think I fought with the same group of 3 blues for 10 minutes, entering and exiting the fight to get blessing-healed. In that entire back and forth, their bubble shields never go down.
I mean really, Blizzard. Like I said, it's one thing for enemies to be tough. It's another for them to be cheap. It seems to me that the only way to deal with them is to not deal with them at all by restarting the chapter.
Who's idea Blizzard was it to put permanently invulnerable blue groups in the game? I think I fought with the same group of 3 blues for 10 minutes, entering and exiting the fight to get blessing-healed. In that entire back and forth, their bubble shields never go down.
I mean really, Blizzard. Like I said, it's one thing for enemies to be tough. It's another for them to be cheap. It seems to me that the only way to deal with them is to not deal with them at all by restarting the chapter.
Some people want to see something for themselves, news at 11.
Sure, but it's pretty big for people who like to remain spoiler-free because they're experiencing the game for the first time. You know, the game that a lot of us have waited 12 years or so to play and are trying to just get it fresh before we start running through it over and over.
In the OT and on a forum filled with similarly minded gamers, we kind of hope that people will respect that and take measures not to spoil stuff for others; especially since the game hasn't even been out a week. Not to mention that your post was just a big fat "Hey look!" If you don't want people to react negatively, try thinking about others before you throw stuff up. An extra 30 seconds of spoiler tags goes a long way.
Still going to sacrifice you with my witch doctor.
I was playing with it for a while and really liked the damage. It's a solid skill, but I wanted to concentrate more on Hydra and Meteor. I also like to stay as mobile as possible so the mounted cannon approach didn't really fit with me.
so just beat act 2 boss on NM. based on ppl saying how hard it was, i was expecting a fight. uhhh lol. i never got down past half health. hes one of the easiest bosses to dodge imo
i'm at 1003 damage, ~11k HP (12.5k for all intents and purposes; war cry is never down and i use the 10% health buff for now), and my skills consist of http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WVYTkP!Vbe!ZbZbbZ
i'm at 1003 damage, ~11k HP (12.5k for all intents and purposes; war cry is never down and i use the 10% health buff for now), and my skills consist of http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/barbarian#WVYTkP!Vbe!ZbZbbZ
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Alot harder for me...but I only had like 2.5-2.8k HP with buff lol. But I had like 3000 damage with other buffs.
spootime
Member
On one hand the skill was completely broken, but on the other hand its very telling that the only thing that we could contribute to inferno groups whatsoever was a bugged ability.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Also - not only Monks are getting changes. In the thread linked before about the Monk nerfs, Bashiok goes on further to explain that there were a multitude of hotfixes affecting every class. They explicitly called out the Monk one since they effectively made that rune useless until further notice, which is a bigger change than anything else that has been done.
So don't think you're getting picked on!
A full list of hotfixes is supposed to come out tomorrow.
Exteme hyperbole much?
So don't think you're getting picked on!
A full list of hotfixes is supposed to come out tomorrow.
Exteme hyperbole much?
Hehe this reminds me of SC2 nerfs and buffs. After each one, users from every race try to outwhine each other in how their race of choice just got made underpowered.
It was stupidly broken. But it was the ONLY thing keeping Monks alive in later Inferno acts. Without it, they're worthless solo and worthless in groups. They want Monks to dodge and be hard to hit. That's great. But when you DON'T dodge and DON'T have the BoH shield you're pretty much dead.
I'm just in awe of the ineptitude of Blizzard.
Wait until they get PVP in, and we'll be up for good laughs like this every day !
The more I play, the less I like the new skill system, it just falls down the same pitfalls as the skill trees, and basically limits you to one unique build that plays the same whatever you do with the only advantage of being able to respec on the go, sometimes making things much easier than they should be.
echoshifting
Banned
From the Boon of Protection hotfix thread:
Bashiok said:
Spec switching is actively discouraged at level sixty though, so the one thing the system is kind of good at is thrown out the window to keep the difficulty in check.
thankfully they haven't changed my shielding mechanic so, whew.
Needs to be done game is ez mode atm if you look for the right info or just brute force grind with AH it's just to simple to make broke setups.
You'd rather they'd not balance it?
I'm...I'm sorry. I'm not sure I read that correctly. Nerfs to DH?
Nerfs to the class that can only take one or two hits in Inferno? The class that pretty much has to stand way back and pray that the (now nerfed) monk holds the hordes off long enough for our AOE skills to do their magic?
I'd flip a table but I don't have any left.
Shouta
Member
Ugh, I come to the thread and see they're nerfing Boon of Protection, that's just dumb. There's some way worse shit in the game than that. The dodge rates aren't high enough for Monk and aside from the base -30% damage reduction, doesn't get natural resist, how are we supposed to keep up, especially when most of our healing is high spirit/low return.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
All the "I can't do shit in inferno 
" whining is kind of silly considering that, the whole point of inferno is it's supposed to be really, really hard. Plus, people haven't even begun to figure out what the best-of-the-best gear is, and inferno was probably balanced for that equipment in mind.
" whining is kind of silly considering that, the whole point of inferno is it's supposed to be really, really hard. Plus, people haven't even begun to figure out what the best-of-the-best gear is, and inferno was probably balanced for that equipment in mind.- Status