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Quote from redisk

I just confirmed with 2 accounts that you dc in combat if your not active now. Seems they stealth nerfed it.

Quote from Gerta

I would be very glad, if I wouldn't loose my NV-stacks just to check the AH (and resume my origin game after that).

Currently I'm "bound" to it for the whole evening (or at least 1-3 hours depending from which quest point you start) and have no way to gather my AH-earnings or put this new found VERY nice ring to the AH or to check the prices for something that someone wants to sell via the common chat.

Of course it would be ok to add an AH-NPC to every act if this is easier ...

Quote from Benegesserit

I'm tired of them nerfing everything and buffing nearly nothing. A lot of abilities aren't skipped because one is OP, but rather because a lot of the options are TERRIBLE. Nerf stuff only if you're also including buffs. Blizzard has done nothing but kick viable skills in the junk w/o providing buffs for the bad ones. It's extremely unfun. Blizzard doesn't plan on improving diversity until post-1.0.3. They've said it in the past a few times. So basically your builds are just going to get weaker until then. There's nothing to "try out". You should already know, understand, and comprehend the effectiveness of all of your skills. Being forced to pick the ones you didn't want to pick before doesn't make the game more interesting; except in the cases where some abilities were just plain stupid broken and forced you to use up a slot. Nether tentacles were not one of these cases since pretty much all other hatred abilities are horribly overcosted (compared to just using hated generators).

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Destructible stuff should still drop items imo. If Blizzard found the effort to item drop rate was too high they could have always nerfed the drop rate. Then if someone seriously is so bad they would rather spend 5x as more time farming destructables instead of mobs, just let them...it's not like it's efficient. Perhaps this was for hardcore mode, though, since being safer is infinitely more important there, farming barrels/jars might have previously been the best way to gear up (which is boring, obviously).

Quote from egg3rs

with the nerf to ias and nether tentacles, i honestly don't think my demon hunter is going to be worth playing anymore. GG blizz, were less than two months in and you have already killed my favorite class for me. Its just like wow all over again.

Quote from Phrayed

I'm glad they nerfed some of these abilities, as they were overpowered.

I think I need to say at this point though... part of the fun in Diablo 2 was being overpowered. Not in a cheesy way like this, but in a fun way. I didn't dupe or hack in Diablo 2, but when I farmed up a bunch of amazing gear I liked to be able to do the last act... not easily, but easier than it was before.

I also noticed that Blizzard said they wanted to make the game harder by making the combat system more difficult... that they wanted to get rid of 'one shots' and things like that. I think a lot of frustration from players (even from me and I REALLY love Diablo 3 so far) is that the difficulty isn't coming from the monsters being smart or interesting (even though it's like that for me in NM/Hell)... it's from just getting one/two shot and regardless of how well you play, you just instantly die.

I think it's a great idea to nerf the 'you can't be touched for damaged' skills. But at the same time, does it really feel like if you farm for a few months and get great gear that it's going to make a huge difference in Inferno? Even if you have the best gear possible it feels like instead of getting one shot, you might just get destroyed in 2 to 4 hits instead... and in that case, it's still going to be next to impossible to beat the game without dying all of the time.

But I feel like they kind of lied to me about the whole "We want to design a game where the difficulty doesn't just come from being one shot, like in Diablo 2."... because it's not really like that at all. When you play Hell with mediocre gear, that's what it feels like... like if you play well, you can overcome it. But in Inferno, it just feels like regardless of what you do, you are just going to get stomped.

That might just be me though and I completely agree that the game has only been out for a small amount of time so no one is likely geared very well yet... but I'd like to believe that if I farm enough that I might be able to get through Inferno without death. Right now though, it just doesn't feel like that at all.

I personally think a good solution might be to reduce the damage that monsters do in Inferno, but increase their life... so the fights are a bit longer and require skill as opposed to the fights just being 5-10 seconds because you get smashed instantly.

Quote from bozocv

I think this will be last BETA patcha that will introduce system changes. Thats the reason why they let so many people into beta at time point of a time.