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Haha very true. My first experience with the Sandman was when my sister had a class at college about comics. (Goddamn liberal art majors..) Anyway, she brought back Season of Mists. I loved it and became interested in Gaiman. Any recommendation on what novel I should get next? As in a favorite?

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Boilermaker?.. Niceee.

Oh man, it's such a bitch. There's a Facebook group dedicated to it.."I Don't Need To Have Sex Cause Purdue Fucks Me Every Day"

I guess I'm definitely getting prepared though, as long as I change my habits come sophomore year.

Can't believe no one has suggested Jimi Hendrix yet.

Little Wing
Purple Haze
Voodoo Chile
Machine Gun
Foxy Lady
All Along the Watchtower (one of the best covers of Dylan's song)

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I'm at part 2 of 1984 right now. So far its an amazing book; it's kind of scary reading it and all the big brotherism in it in contrast to today's world and how this book was written so long ago.

So true. Animal Farm is a really good, fast read. Anthem by Ayn Rand is really good too.

Right now I'm reading short stories by Neil Gaiman and also H.P. Lovecraft.

I loved the "A Midsummer Night's Dream" recreation. That was awesome.

Great choice! Summoners own. This is AFAIK, the only class/build that can solo hell NAKED. That means NO GEAR. And that's pretty hardcore.

This is my version of the summoner. I don't care for mages, so it relies on the brute force of normal skeletons.

Skills:
20 Raise Skeleton
20 Skeleton Mastery
20 Corpse Explosion
1 in all curses
1 Clay or Fire Golem
1 Golem Mastery
1-5 in Summon Resist (No more)

That is your core. Beyond this point, it is kind of up to you.

Raise Skeleton: These guys are great tanks, and dish out lots of damage on their own.
Skeleton Mastery: Makes your skeletons stronger.
Corpse Explosion: Here's your crowd control, and your main killer in Hell. Trust me, max this bad boy. More points means greater range, and at level 20+, you're killing things as far as you can see. I mean that literally. You will see entire screen-fulls of enemies drop dead, instantly. It's actually kind of funny to watch.

Curses: Your general use curse will be Amp Damage. Yes, that is the first curse you get, but it is great. What it does is lower enemy physical resistance by 100%. It also breaks nearly all physical immunes you'll meet. If your enemy has 0% physical resistance, it drops that to -100%. Meaning your skellies damage is effectively doubled. If they have 50% physical resistance, it drops to -50%, which is actually triple the damage you would have done before Amp.

Against Bosses or fast unique packs, you'll use Decrepify. It slows them down, and drops their damage.

Dim Vision: Use this against enemies to effectively disable them. Works great against Souls.

Golems: A golem won't kill much for you, but it will make a decent tank (even though you won't really need another). A fire golem has the added benefit of drawing enemies to it and away from you/your skellies. Don't put more than 1 point in the golem, and only put a few in golem mastery if you find you like golems. +Skills should be good enough.

Summon Resist: This will help your skellies survive. More than a few points is pointless, because like many passive skills in D2, it suffers from terrible diminishing returns. Put a few points here and let +skill equipment do the rest.

Gear wise, use whatever you can find. Look for +skills and resists. This build is not gear-dependent at all.

Stat wise:
Strength: As low as you can keep it.
Dex: None. (Unless you like max block. In that case I would save points and put them in when you know what shield you'll be using.)
Vitality: Everything possible.
Energy: None.

Any other fans of him? I love The Sandman series of comics (only read a couple though). Stardust was really good. Right now I'm reading his collection of short stories, Smoke and Mirrors. Good stuff. If anyone could recommend a novel of his for me, I'd appreciate it.

Just thought of another one. CENTIPEDES. The big bastards with hundreds of spindlies and fangs that WILL KILL YOUR FAMILY. The ones that skirt along the floor lightning fast and only seem to come out at night. Tiny little demon-spawns, them. Ahhh..anyone else get those?

1. Meteorb: 20 Fireball, 20 Meteor, 20 Fire Mastery, 20 Frozen Orb. Get Cold Mastery up to at least lvl17 after +skills. For equipment, I highly, HIGHLY recommend Tal's set. It easily rivals/surpasses top end runewords and unique setups. I can PM you more comprehensive guides if you want.

2. WW Barb: I'm a big fan of polearms. The range is so awesome with WW. You're looking for high damage and high life/mana leech on your weapon. Pretty simple.

20 WW (obviously)
20 Shout
20 Battle Orders
20 in your chosen Weapon Mastery
~3-5 points in Natural Resists
Everything else in Iron Skin

3. I LOVE Zealots. They're really fun. Put 1 point in Smite and with the right set up you can handle Uber Trist just like full (20 pt) smiters.

I think I have some bookmarks for guides laying around. Let me know if you'd like to look at them.

What sends shivers down your spine just thinking about it?


The idea of someone slashing my achilles tendon as I get out of my car.

Open windows at night.

Standing in murky water.

Mirrors not working right. Like the wrong arm will move or my reflection smiles at me.

Darkness. Not so much anymore, but I used to get this unexplainable feeling of dread walking through darkness. It was never that bad, but I definitely quickened my pace. Walking into a lit room from the darkness always felt as if I had escaped something.

My mind in general scares me. If I try to (and I do on purpose sometimes) I can really scare the hell out of myself with my imagination.

Also, as a rule of thumb for me, all old abandoned buildings are haunted.

I'm a student at Purdue. Hobbies? Weight lifting, guitar, gaming. I work as a dietary aide at a retirement home.

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I don't know if anyone has given it any thought but it says the following on the very main page of the Diablo 3 site: "to defend the mortal world against the rising powers of the Burning Hells – and even the failing luminaries of the High Heavens itself."

Which seems to imply the threat will come from Heaven as well. Whether this is Tyreal or something else remains to be seen. There is also concept art on Tyreal which can be taken in several ways. Especially this one : http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/artwork/ss35-hires.jpg . The sketch on top looks like Tyreal doing battle with some other Angelic figure.

To me it's pretty clear that there will be strive between the forces of Heaven as well, but on which side Tyreal will be is something we can only guess at, I'm afraid.

Yeah, Tyrael had been admonished in heaven for his close involvement in mortal affairs. His destroying of the World Stone was probably the last straw. I'm excited to see where this goes.

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These are a couple key things, good post. Respecc'ing will be necessary since WoW pioneered it, or I will kill myself. Economy is also key. Gold>runes for trading.


BUT this is my NUMBER ONE:
-NO MORE LOOT THAT DROPS ON THE GROUND. I will admit that nostalgia crept over me when I heard it drop from a chest in the gameplay preview on D3.com (haven't played D2 since the duping began), but let's face it. It's bullshit to expect players to grind for gear only to have to be the first to pick it up to win it.
->I think the WoW need/greed system is one of the best ever gameplay additions to Blizzard's mmorpgs, and I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be used somehow in D3.

The loot system has been changed so that what you see on the ground is yours. No more rushing for boss pickups etc.

It could be a cool way to add to the atmosphere. Not a bad idea.

The hammerdin is probably the most powerful build pvm. Windy Druid is the druid build I see most often. WW Barb is still great. I don't know much about zons. I'm really fond of meteorb sorcs. If you need me to elaborate, I can.