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Alright, I know it's supposed to be 2-3 frames, but this one wouldn't work without the 2 extra. This one is for fun:

I just hope this doesn't happen in 23 days...

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How do you guys get this advance patch information? Do they send an early patch out to fansites?

It's a little known secret is that the owners of various fan sites actually write the patch info. Blizzard just says, "Yes Master" and implements it. That's why tuning took 2 years. Fan site owners couldn't come to a census on 134% weapon damage and 136% weapon damage on various skills. Maddening!

Actually, this is only partially true. What we could never come to a census on was whether or not to keep Scrolls of Companion in the game. Took us this long to finally pull the plug on that one.

Nice bow.

Can't wait for this damn game to come out.

Ugh... You're crying because they're promoting their game by handing out an exclusive banner by participating in their program? Really?

I mean, give me a break. You have every opportunity to win, just like everyone else.

I've said this before and I stand by it [holds flame war shield in-hand] - I'm willing to wait a month or 2 longer for them to make the chat channels epic as they were in D2.

So is it basically the same text from here? http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/d3/

I don't even know what to do about this...





*Goes to consult the rulebook*

Hey folks, I found this cool trick where you can change your text and add built-in icons to your text in the D3 beta. Here's how:

For different colors, you can do standard colors such as

{c_red}This is my red text{/c}
{c_blue}This is my blue text{/c}
{c_green}This is my green text{/c}

You can also use hex:

{c:FF000000}This is my black text{/c}
{c:FFFF8C00}This is my orange text{/c}





You can also use the colors of the item types and other text:

{c_magic}text{/c_magic}
{c_inferior}text{/c_inferior}
{c_rare}text{/c_rare}
{c_epic}text{/c_epic}
{c_legendary}text{/c_legendary}
{c_questlog}text{/c_questlog}
{c_whisper}text{/c_whisper}
{c_bonus}text{/c_bonus}


There are also some icon you can display:

{icon:lmb}
{icon:rmb}
{icon:bullet}
{icon:audio}
{icon:platinum}
{icon:gold}




Additionally, you can chat with a different or smaller font size:

{f_alpha_tiny}This is smaller text{/f_alpha_tiny}

Oddly enough, I don't believe this topic has been addressed, and if it has, please let me know.

I've been doing some research about how dps works, and I think I have (sortof) figured it out. Most of this info is based on actual in-game numbers.

I'd like to start this off by saying damage is not DPS. This may seem obvious to most, but it's important to distinguish the two.

According to Jay Wilson, your damage is based on your weapon. Simple enough:


You can figure out your actual weapon DPS by

(W_lower+W_higher)*(W_speed_factor)/2

where W_lower is the lowest dmg your weapon can do, W_higher is the highest, and W_speed_factor is your weapon speed.

Or you can figure it out by simply looking at that giant number the game throws at you :). That settles damage and weapon DPS, but what about overall DPS? According to the game,




Interestingly, Blizzard has decided to include your crit factor and crit chance into your overall DPS. So I decided to try to figure out a formula for the whole thing, and this is what I've come up with:

(W_dps)+(W_dps * dmg_increase_factor) + (W_dps) * (crit_factor) * (crit_chance)

where W_dps is your weapon's dps, dmg_increase_factor is the factor by which your damage is increased (based on your primary attribute), crit_factor is your crit damage increase, and crit_chance is obviously your chance to crit.

My calculation isn't perfect unfortunately. It's about 0.2 off and I'm not exactly sure why. If anyone can figure it out, I'd love to know what I've got wrong.


As for equipping two weapons (duel wielding), there's a thread here on the matter and the formula is quite simple:

1.15*(W1_dps + W2_dps)/2

The output of this formula can be replaced by the W_dps in the previous formula. (Thanks chippydip and romique for the correction and clarification) The 15% increase is an incentive to use 2-handed weapons.

Sweet. Thanks for testing and sharing the results. Do you think it will be worth it to just go for teleport calamity and cast it in the beginning of a fight where you typically have full AP anyway? Maybe there's no need to go for meteor at all and just a high AP regen + AT / Disintegrate + Archon (arcane) based build? Since calamity stuns, you will basically have a higehr chance of the meteor actually hitting.

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Quote from Polrayne

I am of the strong opinion (I can't prove it with direct Blue statements, so therefore I won't say it is a fact) that your characters/accounts are seeded with a luck rating upon creation. This lets the RNG system be a little more kind to some "lucky" folks and not so frequently kind to some "unlucky" folks.

However there are just bad streaks of luck. The timer is there to prevent one from going on too long, but it doesn't mean that after a bad streak you will have a good streak. It just means that you get a lego every two hour or so.

For instance - I have given Kadala thousands of shards and in return I have gotten one legendary item that soon transformed itself into a Forgotten Soul of Shame. Other folks have gambled 100 shards in front of me and walked away with 3 legos that were decent.

OP - I know you are frustrated. I don't get amazing drops all the time or very frequently at all. I have two set pieces because the other few I have encountered weren't even for my class. Oh I did get a Blackthorne that had really, really, really bad affix rolls. But its just the way it is.

When you start making theories like characters/accounts with a luck rating , think to yourself : why the hell would the game developer do this ever. There's your answer , they never did it. Notice how very often people who claim they always have bad luck often claim it's across multiple games. Most likely just ineficient farming or being very selective on what being lucky actually means.

Yes , I gambled 14.000 blood shards to try get a witching hour , no I didn't get it. But if I only single out this event than ofcourse I might seem unlucky , but just singling out one event means nothing. There's also the day where I found 3 amazing upgrades that I still use as of today. Try looking a bit more at the actual good drops and focus less on the times you had bad luck.

May I ask you the same question you asked me; why would a developer put a seed/luck rating mechanic into a game? I don't think you considered that for yourself before you responded to my statement. Let me answer your question - in a general sense and then you can tear apart my feelings as to how this general sense applies to the Diablo 3 system.

Seeding a luck rating is actually a part of a lot of games. I know (very personally) a couple of lead game designers who educated me years ago on this mechanic. Its there so that when a game is launched there are players that immediately begin to gain access to the content available. Find the right weapon at the right time, go into the next area of content right away. Get your character to the furthest end point of the content because you are lucky - then make a new class of character and start all over again. This equates to something they call "fun." When people have "fun" they tell their friends about it, they go online and rave about it. People believe other people and they go buy the game for themselves to have "fun."

For games that have an economy (like D3V did) this lets players immediately begin to find quality items (that have been designed on purpose to be of quality) quickly and begin to populate the trading system. Aside from profits that can be made by trading, this fast seeding of an economy also lets other plays (who aren't as lucky) see the items out there and it motivates them to continue to play. A low luck rating actually makes players invest their time longer and longer into the game. They will inevitably complain about the experience, but rest assured there are folks out there that will tell them "RNG is just RNG."

RNG is too random in many cases to be uniformly the same for everyone. And if you actually STOP and consider what I'm saying, you might see another side to this discussion. If it is truly random for everyone, then at some point everyone is going to have a bad streak. If too many players had a bad streak at once, they wouldn't have anything to trade or sell. They would complain on the internet and other people might believe them. The general public would stop liking the game and start to hate it.

And a final, general comparison to real world events that show you mechanics like a seed/luck rating is viable for video games; casinos. Ever hear the statement "the loosest slots around!" This means that by law the Casino has to pay out a certain percentage of their take to their patrons. If all the machines paid out at the same flat percentage then everyone has an equal chance of winning a jackpot or losing. So everyone could win at the same time (theoretically) or everyone could lose their ass at the same time. This would be bad for the Casino. So some machines have a higher pay out percentage and some are at the base. So when you are pumping in dollar after dollar and someone next to you sits down, pops in their first dollar and they win a jackpot and get all excited, the average player might think "my jackpot is just around the corner - better keep putting in these dollars!"

It exists. I just don't say it that way when referencing this game, because unless I can link to a quote from a Blue, people tend to get all wonky on these forums when you state a theory as a fact.

So after that analysis - do you Magier556 have any thoughts about what I've said that might be a little more diplomatic than your first post?

I just got my cindercloak and magefists from gambling