And we are know how important my opinion is... Lol...

My biggest beef with Diablo three is a new health system in the old way you had health tubes or whatever you want to call them and you just hit your H key whenever your red globe got small it was easy and you knew but now there's like a delay or something for Health so you can't do that and it really puts you, especially fighting bosses, in some hairy situations.

Also I spent a lot of money upgrading my blacksmith to be able to build me something cool but he never builds me anything that is bigger or better than what already have.

I find all this cool stuff down in the dungeons and it it gives me better stats than what they can make me or what I can produce making myself kind of defeats the whole purpose.

By the way I did this whole post with my voice using that new dictation software cool huh, lol.

Hmm.. I've not noticed any delay in the health potions taking effect (using the "q" key) but there is a cool down between being able to take more than one potion.. I like this as previously to beat the bosses it was a case of just spamming the Q key.



Agreed, I just use the crafty abilities to make gems better to place in socketed items i have found.



I tried this and whilst it's cool dictating posts, i want it for use in iRacing and the like but I haven't got the patience to figure out how to build a profile.

I've not had any of your issues Magnum, but I have a few niggles with the 'always logged in' thing. Now originally Blizzard said we had to be logged on as they now have this auction house but you can't access it in game. So why be logged on?

When my son is on Xbox Live and I played Diablo 3 he immediately complained his game was lagging and was ok when I exited the game. Also, I had terrible rubber banding and slow down like you would get in an MMO.

Now, I don't want to get into conspiracies here but it does seem very odd that this is happening, like I am constantly sending and receiving data and I shouldn't be. Definitely something going on in the background.

EDIT: And as if to underline my point, the Battlenet servers are down so I can't play my game... That's really not on.

I can understand the cooldown time for health potion use, but it gets irritating to die while waiting 30 seconds to drink another one. maybe if they made the cooldown time only 10-15 seconds instead of 30? That would prevent you from being invincible if you had enough potions to spam your Q key for a slong as you needed. It would also give you more of a chance to walk away from a bad situation where you're completely surrounded by tough enemies and your CoOp partner is already dead...


Totally agree with Mace about the online only crap. Day 1 it took me over 2 hours just to play the game in singleplayer. I'm fine with publishers demanding us to activate a game online the first time we use it, but this "always online" BS needs to die. This game isn't World of Warcraft FFS. (for the record I haven't had any troubles since the first 2 hours of release day, but I know it will happen in the future. It's inevitable with this kind of thing)

People still play Diablo 2, after like what, 12 years? Seriously wonder what the odds of playing D3 12 years from now will be? Will there even still be a Blizzard or Battle.net in 12 years?

Thats what I mean, and liked about the first 2 Diablo's... spamming the health potions and hoping you have enough for the big battles. I don't like the new cool down system... but obviously, just me.

and BTW, played all weekend, thought for sure I would have connection issues, but none... in each time, first try... later in the night (last night) I did notice I would warp back a few steps once in a while, I always thought I was getting knocked back, but then when it happened 2 or 3 times with no monsters around, I realized it was that connected to the server crap... so I agree, pure BS to be connected like that for SP.

I'm liking the game, enjoy playing it... but with all these types of games I usually only play through it 2 or 3 times with different characters then move on... so that auction house and MP don't really appeal to me.

The cool down system for the health potions isn't helpful and it will likely get us all killed during a huge battle. Diablo III does give the player some of the dead enemies hearts though and they restore health as you pick them up. From a survival point of view, the old system in Diablo II was better. Occasionally I would die because we were swarmed with enemies and I couldn't spam health potions and mana fast enough during the fight. Then it's back trying to recover your good gear in your pajamas with a butter knife in your hand!

I remember the original Diablo. At first, the only way I could kill him was to fill up my bag with health potions and have maybe six mana potions on my Wizard.

I came close to dying once last night because of the health potion cooldown. It was on one of the boss mobs but I can't remember which. I ended up kiting the guy until the cool down expired and then hit a heal and killed him. For those of you who don't know what kiting is, it's running around and staying ahead of the mob, trying to stay just out reach of him.

I got through Act II last night, at least I am pretty sure I am at the end of it. I didn't do the final quest, but I did kill the guy I brought back to life. I got back to town and have to talk to Leah again. I figured it was a good stopping point for the evening. I am about 12-14 hours played so far. I am very much enjoying the game.

I knew about the always online element to the game and bought it anyway, so I really don't have room to #%&*$# about it.

It's really fun playing with friends. The mobs pop like pinatas when they die and loot sprays all over the place. It's great.

Can't wait to try it with 4 people at once. I imagine it's even more explosive.

I finished the game and now am on a harder difficulty level. I will now be able to upgrade my jeweler and blacksmith!

Yay!


Also, don't forget to walk into Leah's room and her uncles room after each mission and read their updated diaries. Free XP!

I kind of agree with you Mag on the cooldown health potions. But, it does make the game more challenging so I guess that is a plus, eh?
I haven't run into the blacksmith problem thou, you must just be lucky and get all the good loot

I kinda miss having to recover your body thou,.....oh the memories..

actually I was surprised only to die 3 times, 2 were from just regular foes i got sloppy with.

Early Act 3 quest spoiler



Also there are accounts getting hacked. I saw it in this forum

http://www.graffe.com/forums/showthread.php?73475-Accounts-hacked-even-with-authenticators-present

So don't open your games to the public until they fix this. Also if you have an authenticator, go the battle.net website and set it so that asks for it every time you start it up.

I am not using an authenticator again. I had one as an app on my Galaxy S but I got rid of that phone but now I cannot play Starcraft 2! I have to jump through hoops and tell Blizzard information I can't remember so I have a game I can't play.

Had the same issue - authenticator installed on my phone, had it deleted by accident. Mailed Blizzard support with a picture of my ID, and they removed it from my account. Now i bought one of their authenticators, and is much better - at least i can't delete it again Btw. i had my WOW account hacked a year ago, there was not much on it /gold and stuff/, so no big deal, just had to jump through hoops with their support once again, but luckily everything went just fine.

I finally beat the game on normal last night. Took me three tries on Diablo, but I finally took him down. Total time played 33 1/2 hours. Part of me wants to start a new character but another part wants to keep playing my Barbie through Nightmare.

One thing I do love and hate about it at the same time is any other characters have access to the stash and all of the funds. If the Barbie just kept all his money and bank, then it would be easier for me to start a new character.

I have the authenticator app on my phone. I'm thinking about removing it and ordering the Authenticator gadget thingy.

I'm still trying to figure out how Diablo 3 quals as a "historical strategy game" . . .

I guess there is not an RPG/Fantasy forum so the the threads were started here in this forum?

Hmmmm....

Diablo is literally a real-time strategy. I think it is where the term "click-fest" originated.

I'm suprised not many complain about the persistant internet connection. Forget that. By buying Diablo 3 you make it more likely that future games will have this awful aspect! I say boycott this type of game, but I guess some people want to have their "click-fest."

You are going to screw it up for all of us!

Like I have always said, vote with your wallet because that is the only message that will get across. Personally, I don't care about the persistant internet connection so I bought the game anyway. I absolutely respect those of you who didn't buy the game and then complain about it. You did exactly what you should have done. The ones I laugh at are the ones who buy the game and then complain about the persistant internet connection. I say make an informed decision. If it's a deal breaker, then don't buy it. If you can live with it or don't care, then buy it.

As far as me buying the game and screwing it up for others, I don't feel that way at all. It's my hard earned cash I am spending, not yours.

I am still enjoying D3 and plan to keep enjoying it.

Here's a comment on another site that sums it up quite well:

And this is exactly why I hate Diablo 3. I didn’t care about it until now. I had no interest in playing it, and that’s fine. If six million other people want to waste their time clicking repeatedly, who am I to tell them not to? But now this game will affect the future of other games I do care about, because it’s a giant [Staff edit: Tone it down.] to consumers and six million people lined up to willingly [Staff edit: We mean it.]. Thanks a lot for pushing the future of gaming further down the drain Diablo fans.

http://www.nohighscores.com/2012/05/29/the-slippery-slope-of-diablos-drm/

MXXH... welcome to SimHQ, now read the agreement you agreed too when you signed up here.


1. Diablo 3 always connected issues are discussed in our DRM forum.

2. I don't like it, (always connected BS), but already played and enjoyed the game very much.

3. Sure I can speak with my wallet, but then I would never be able to play cool games. I hate Ubisoft and EA, but they make too many damn good games for me NOT to buy and play... I choose NOT to use gaming as some statement against the Establishment.


To each there own... don't like it, feel free to post your opinion... but it's not your right to judge others who play.

Diablo 3 is in this forum because we don't have an "offtopic gaming" forum, and RTS is the closest thing we DO have a forum for. Otherwise it would be in "Community Hall" where it would be quickly buried under all the other non-gaming posts there.

My Barbarian is getting pwned at level 54 to blue packs in Act I of Hell mode. Usually it's 3 deaths before I can finish them off. Most of my gear isn't that bad, so I am thinking it's probably my build and tactics. A few aren't so bad, but I gave up on one group of them last night after 4 deaths and I didn't kill even one of them.

Then some of those bastards get those immunity to physical damage bubbles for a short time. It always happens right when I hit the beserk button and blow my 2 minute cool down.