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    posted a message on Anybody died in normal mode?
    I died on the way to the Skeleton King. Nightmare pack haunted me into running right into a wall, at which point they surrounded me.
    It was a totally legit death (not a stupid way to die like lag or a bug) and felt awesome!
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    posted a message on Joining Public Games
    Quote from Ascendo312

    The way it works is that players can only join your game when your are at a major checkpoint during the Act. For example, In Act 3 new players might join after you beat Grom or Siegebreaker.

    The game is basically broken into quest sections by the major bosses. Each act has about 3-4 major bosses. So this is when players are likely to join.
    If we decide we want more players in our game, is it possible to kill one of the bosses, finish off that quest and then wait a bit before continuing on? Would that give others a bigger window in joining our game?
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    posted a message on Joining Public Games
    I just want to bring this thread back from the shallow grave. I've definitely been noticing it after playing enough public games myself. It's definitely hard to get more than 2 players into a game.
    I think it might have to do with the order of all the pub games available on that quest and also the number of pub games created compared to how many people are joining them.

    For example, some guy and I managed to play through nearly all of act 1 nightmare alone, but then as soon as we hit act 2, someone else joined. Then way further down the track, the 4th joined. Now, since we just started the quest, it could be possible that we were first in the queue to have a new player join us, and also the system might work such that if you have say 100 games on a quest, and only 50 of those have 2 players, then rather than filling up the games with 2 players, new players will be joining the games with only 1 player in them. It makes more sense that way since if it didn't work that way, some games would take forever to even get a second player into them.

    I think the only problem is too many people are creating pub games as opposed to joining them.
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    posted a message on Repeatedly Removed From Game/Random Disconnects -- Blizzard or my ISP?
    I did near complete runs of the oasis quite a few times, then decided that maybe it's disconnecting me because I've explored everything in such a big open area? It's a stupid thought but I decided to go straight into a dungeon and I haven't disconnected since.
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    posted a message on While you guys are farming Hell...
    We've all died many times to Duriel.

    Food for thought.
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    posted a message on Need help understanding this DPS
    Thanks for all the help guys, but the math wasn't the problem. Well at least I hope it wasn't else I'd be putting math majors to shame :P
    I also tested each item by taking off my armors with +dmg on them, but the sword was still giving me an increased DPS.

    Quote from advanced
    Weapon mastery?
    This lol I totally forgot about the passive. This explains it all, and if I turn weapon mastery off I get a higher DPS on my axe rather than the sword as it should be.
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    posted a message on Need help understanding this DPS
    I see what you're saying, but my rebuttal with that claim about attack speed affecting higher DPS more greatly because of its bonus is kind of refuted by the fact that the axe has more damage than the sword.

    I'll take your advice and read more about it on the forums. Thanks :)
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    posted a message on Need help understanding this DPS
    So I'm using frenzy on my barb, and thought I found a weapon that was a good substitute for another as it would increase my DPS, but I was mistaken.

    So this was my prior build with the weapon I was planning to switch, I have a DPS on 106.61:




    I switched it with this weapon, and now my DPS has gone down to 94.76:




    And this was the weapon in my alternate hand:




    Now, I'm just downright confused as to why my DPS went down as opposed to going up. The DPS on the axe itself is higher than the sword. I'm guessing maybe it has something to do with the 15% bonus attack speed from dual wielding? Oh, and if I swap the axe and sword between my hands so that the axe is in my main hand, the DPS goes down as well. Could someone please explain to me what is going on here?
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    posted a message on Kinda wish gem drops weren't white
    Wait? They're white? Oh crap, that might explain why I totally forgot about gems and haven't found any yet.
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    posted a message on Witch Doctor Passives not working.
    Quote from Moar

    Fetish one definitely works, I usually always have one following me around. Haven't tried the other passive though.
    Quote from Whelps

    both works perfectly
    Quote from Crustache

    Just confirming that the dog one is working fine for me.
    Have you guys tested it in act 1 nightmare? The OP has already mentioned that it worked in act 4 normal.
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    posted a message on Servers Up: Lost Achievements?
    Quote from lorien1973

    I'm in act 2 and apparently I never killed the SK on normal difficulty. :(
    Hax?

    Am I just being unlucky with not being able to log in here or have the servers gone back down?
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    posted a message on Witch Doctor Passives not working.
    Sounds interesting. The chances of not spawning a fetish or dog after killing 85 monsters is less than 0.1%, so if you've killed anywhere near that many then you have a good case against it. Also, are you sure you couldn't just have missed them spawning and they died too quickly in the meantime?
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    posted a message on Diablo III - Race to the Finish Contest: First Inferno Diablo Kill
    I'm taking my time to listen to all the dialogue, observe all my items, destroy everything I can, search every last corner, and try out different combinations of skills - even the sub-optimal ones.

    I've played about 6 hours so far and I'm still in act 1, so... What are my chances of winning?

    edit: America/Canada only? As a fellow Aussie playing on the American servers, I'm outraged! There go my chances! :P
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    posted a message on Servers down AGAIN?
    Quote from troy

    Quote from Zoul

    1614 users are reading this topic.

    lmao

    this forum doesn't have errors trying to connect.
    I've noticed that it's a big plus to be a member of this forum, because whenever Diablo goes down, the battle net website usually goes down with it and so where else would I have to go to bitch about the servers failing again?
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