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Most of the play testers that are playing through nightmare/hell/inferno are people who have been playing for a long time, because they're Blizzard people who have been playing since (or before) the start of the internal alpha. They might not equate to absolute top-tier players from Diablo 2, but they're pretty experienced by this point.

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Someone asked Jay:
Was anyone in the internal test team able to beat D3 Inferno difficulty?

Jay Wilson:
no

So really... it seems that this is gonna get, really... REALLY... hard
those in the testing team are no noobs i tell ya :I

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Quote from Nastai

So Europe gets to play first, then where?

From reading comments it sounds like PST gets on first in the US, then Midwest, then EST?

Quote from Kiwimustang67

I really want to play the Barb on launch so therefore I have been following closely any changes or improvements to his skills. But I have noticed a constant pattern with every patch since at least 13 that he has been nerfed in way or another every time. In this latest patch weapon throw nerfed 20 %, what are they afraid of? that he mite survive Inferno.....oh no! can't have that lets weaken him some more. Demon Hunter in patch 16 got a good buff in a lot of ways which is fine even tho I thought she was starting to hold her own any way. All I am saying is give the Barb a break, soon there will not be any decent skill to go with because he will be too balanced and no skill will be efficient enough in tougher area's......your views?

Quote from Yelworc_Wumpscut

Hello, can you give us some more information. Level up fastest from 1 to what level? 13? 60? Obviously if it's 60, it's all guess-work.
If it's 13, then once again it's not an informed decision because most players finish the beta (kill SK) at level 6 or 7. To actually level up to 13, you have to do SK runs over and over to get 4500 exp per kill as most mobs reward little or no exp because the content is too low level. Just like WOW, you have to be within a certain level range to get exp from things you kill. Maybe what you should ask is what class kills SK the fastest. Or what class finishes beta the fastest.
Thanks!

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Sumsarr, I'm confused why you reiterated that the Barb/Monk 30% damage reduction affects all 6 damage types. I must have written something not clear in my first post to cause confusion on this well known documented truth. Please clarify so others don't make the same mistake or misread what I wrote. I will correct it.

Also just want to state again. INT also increases DR to all 6 damage types. (Yes I know there's 7 damage types in name, but Blizzard has already said that Holy is a shared damage type so there's really 6).

INT = STR = Defense = Armor = DR => all affect all 6 damage types in game. Only later will gear and Wizard's odd-ball Passive affect specifics damage types.

Anyways, let me state my opinion for the record. Wizard will never be a melee viable class if playing solo in Inferno. How do I know this.....because wizard doesn't have a skill that grants DR reduction to the enemy. Every class except wizard has one or two. And yes DH's passive that gives damage reduction (to the enemy) is crap-tastic. So to me, a melee Wizard will have to be played with Monk/WD/Barb, preferable all three for some serious DR debuffing.

Edit: Forgot to say one last thing. Sumsarr you cited the Dexterity as an example of how the exchange rate works, it takes progressively more and more dexterity to get the same benefits. The break points currently discovered occur at 100 and 500. So we know of three tiers already for dexterity. However, just like how World of Warcraft makes the exchange rate higher and higher as you level, we don't know how much DR% will be getting from 1,000 Int at level 60 vice level 40. Sure it'll still be the same 1,000 stat attributes, but no way will it be the same derived DR%.

Sorry for the confusion. The part about 30% DR wasn't only to you, but to all people who seem to think the DR is simply on physical damage.

My main point was, however, int is not as good as the DR.

- If that was the case, casters would be the best class in game by only stacking one stat. WD and Wiz would only stack Int and get damage as they got best defensive stats. Would be quite broken?
- Blizzard gave barb/monk 30% dr not because wiz got beefed up with int buff, but because they will be forced to take more dmg as they are melee. The int buff replaced life/orb which Blizzard found worse than dodge/DR from str/dex on barb/monk.
- We got the numbers. You get 0,1 all resistance per int. If you stack int as your one and only stat in beta you get about 10 all resistance.
- By the way, barb will have better synergy with resist than casters (50% bonus resist on shout compared to 40% on wiz armor).

I am guessing int gives a slight boost in all resistances as the casters will take some elemental dmg, some melee dmg and some range phys damage. They therefore need a slight boost to all stats.
Barb and Monk on the other hand received 30% DR because they will be taking a shitload of dmg. Aside from that, they also got strong physical reduction on their primary attributes in order to sustain enough surviveability to go toe to toe with mobs.

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I don't really understand Blizzard spell. Imho is worst spell mage got. 280% over 8 seconds mean 35% wd every second. It don't slow, so monsters can stay in it for 2-3 seconds max. And it is not staccable. Runed Meteor as Comet is far better.

Why you use Blizzard? Really, no arrogancy or polemic here, explain me your way of thinking cause I can't reach this xD

The way of thinking with blizzard is that you cast it and then you cast other spells while it continues to do damage. The biggest problem with the spell in my mind however, is keeping the enemies in the effect the entire time.

I think one problem this build will have is that it has 0 escape abilities. If you get surrounded what do you plan on doing? I believe the vortex ability (and likely more) will put you in a bad situation... how will this build survive?

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I'm pretty sure the damage reduction is multiplicative.

Quote from shadendemon

Strange that the Lucky prefix is no longer MF

Quote from DUNCAN99

Dude relax. By the way. They were making diablo 3 an action rpg still playing like a hack n slash but with mmo features. i'm quite sure it wouldn't be anything like WoW. More Diablo 2 LoD with more players. Actually sounds pretty darn awesome to me.

Quote from Adon

Itll be interesting to see what prices on items are. It is bad enough seeing how over priced items in the gold AH is. Can't wait to see some people try and get $50+ on garbage gear haha. Wish there was a way to see who is selling the items, so I can msg them and tell them how retarded they are.

Quote from JenesisX

How do you figure, sports fan? Am I to assume that the fact that these problems have occurred in pretty much all Blizzard releases doesn't bother you? It's like a new car coming out, and the spokesperson for the brand saying "Yeah, sorry folks, the first few batches came out with the brakes all wrong, just like our previous 10 models, but don't worry, we'll fix it eventually". It just defies all logic that this keeps happening release after release, and people still think it's 'normal' and 'natural'.

Yeah, the sheer number of people actually making excuses for them boggles the mind.

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that is so not true...blizzard only continued to have more and more people log in at once at launch when new expansions of WoW came out...MoP will probably be the first to not increase that number since they have been losing too many players in the past year (compared to the final year of all the other versions). diablo 3 will be no different with expansions or perhaps when they get PvP enabled (I know a few friend who didn't play D1 or D2 and was only interested in the PvP aspect).

costly? costly?! this is BLIZZARD they can and SHOULD put their money up front to make sure everything is smooth...even if somehow after a few weeks they decide they didn't need as many servers they can always repurpose them for something else...I work in IT infrastructure, I know it's not a big deal if you got lots of capital like those guys

WoW = MMO
Diablo 3 = Hack and slash story based... smaller amount of content.

And obviously you are not high up in the IT infrastructure org chart if you cannot comprehend over expenditure....

Diablo has MORE content since it's randomized

I can totally comprehend over expenditure but you certainly cannot...it's called a loss leader and you'll get more sales and better recommendations when your game works correctly...it's embarassing for a company this big to still fail after 10+ years of online games

What you do is get more servers to handle auth load then later repurpose them...there will always be use for assets