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My preparation is a little different from yours, but neither is incorrect. The only thing I'm doing to prepare for RoS is getting sleep the night before so I can be up at 3am to kill demons until my eyes bleed.

This is unreal. People often complained that grouping sucked and there was no reason to ever do so, and now people are complaining that grouping shouldn't be as viable an option as running solo. People complained that the game sucked because there was no reason to ever socialize or go beyond playing with your follower. Now Blizzard has heard your cries and made grouping fun, fast, and efficient.

What more do you want?

You don't need to play 14 hours a day to make grouping worthwhile. I jump into agame with friends, play for an hour, go to bed. I get replaced as quickly as I jumped in and things carry on. Stop worrying about other people and play the game for your own enjoyment. I accept that I'll never catch up to Morikiopa, Modz, etc in Paragon levels or possibly even their gear levels because of their lifestyle/playstyle. Oh boo hoo, life goes on, but I'm still enjoying the time I have in-game.

I found 3 upgrades for my WD and 1 for my barb last night, and a legendary belt that was sort of a side-grade. What I like about loot 2.0 is that these drops make me ponder swapping out a build to try something else out. I'm a zombie bear whore for sure, but when you start getting +% to abilities on different pieces plus all the other cool stats, it's worth trying something new!

Overall, the gameplay feels different, but I greatly enjoy it. I appreciate the assets loading faster, so I'm not dying from my PC freezing up as it loads everything for the first time. I like the darker feel, paragon 2.0, and pretty much everything else that has been delivered to us. My least favorite thing about yesterday is the spectral hound vanity thing. It just seems out of place.

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Looking forward to all the new QQ threads that will appear, because we all need the entertainment from butthurt people.

All I know is that the D3 release was probably the most entertaining release ever.

You must not have played many games at launch, then. A jammed up login queue is far from the worst (or entertaining as you put it) to have happened at launch. Just curious why you created a thread asking about what people are excited about when you clearly have no intentions of buying RoS from another thread- regardless of what people say.

I choose to salute people who don't think that investing a lot of play time in a video game should result in a financial kickback, especially botters or former botters. Can't wait for RoS to come out, take care sad pandas.

I figured that I had a snowball's chance in hell of ever getting into the ESO beta, until you guys opened up the contest to everyone. After signing up, a key was generated to my surprise and now I'm downloading the patcher!

Between RoS and ESO coming out soon to consume all my free time, I'm so stoked to finally get into one of these betas, and it's all because of Curse! Thanks again!

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You are a moron if you have to spend more time in the AH than in the game.

Simple as that.

Yet you think that using the AH is a must to progress. You are obviously way smarter than us.

I'm really looking forward to farming other acts now with this new feature. Act 1 is my favorite, so I'll be so glad to ditch act 3 for a while and still have the same odds at the same gear.

When you say "highest Diablo player" do you mean the player with the most drugs currently in his system?

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I haven't come back. I quit after about a month and occasionally check for game changes but all in all it just doesn't feel like Diablo. A lot of people say "you don't remember Diablo 2 like it actually was" but Ive put more hours into D2 in the past couple months than in D3 and I can tell you that it is still a much more satisfying game to play right now. Once they fix the boring loot issue, bring in some real challenge instead of just ramping the numbers per difficulty, and add some sort of ladder to remove this beta-worthy clusterfuck of changes reflected back into the game - then.. and only then, will I come back. Until then though, there is plenty to do, and plenty of work for Jay's team.

I just recently bought another house and during the move, had no internet, cable tv, etc. for 2 or 3 days while patiently waiting for the hookup. I decided to play a little D2 thanks to offline mode of course. After cleansing the Den of Evil, I just had to turn the game off. Its value has run dry for me over the course of the last decade and it's just unbearable to play. (EDIT) It's so bad for me now that I even loaded up Skyrim to play instead of D2!

I'm truly intrigued by people who feel it is better than anything D3 offers, even after all these years. I'm totally ok with everyone having different opinions, but the graphics give me migraines, the combat of standing still swinging a weapon is dull and the majority of loots are god-awful (just like people say about D3.) What does D2 really have that makes you play it over D3?

yeah, the 3 day notice the game was going to be down for approx 8 hours at 3 AM PST today via blue post wasn't enough, the notice on the login screens wasn't enough. They need to update the server status screen as that is the most important way to tell people whats going on with the servers.

</removes tongue from cheek>

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1.0.4 Is simply amazing. It now allows me to play any barb build I like that isnt downright stupid and without getting WTF raped in the face. Im not stuck to either Sword and Board or Spin to win builds now.
Plus the paragon system just enforces playing the game. Now not only can I play any build I like but im also leveling while doing so and slowly gaining MF and GF. Have made over £100 since patch 1.0.4 and thats just casually playing and im at PLvl25 and loving it

LOL at thinking being paragon level 25 already is "playing casually."

"Playing casually" is logging in for an hour or so after the wife and kids go to bed a few times a week. A friend of mine qualifies as such as "casual" player, and he just hit Paragon 2. I'm at level 9 and already play more than a good fraction of the players.

Don't define "casual" by the people that post here - there's too strong of a selection bias in effect.

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I've been playing normal mode most every day for an hour or two, I have not bothered with nightmare mode because the 3 or 4 times I've played it, I have not liked how the glowing mini-bosses you come across in each map are significantly more powerful than the regular enemies you fight.

One minute you are fighting at one pace, the next you are changing tactics entirely to compensate for the drastic change in difficulty, that's not fun to me, it's aggravating.

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So just to give nightmare mode another shot after the patch I just played through Leoric's crown with my Demon Hunter. The real test is when I get to the goat men, that seems to be where the mini-bosses start to get there teeth. But even crawling through the crypts the mini bosses required a massive number of shots and I found myself a few times lacking discipline or hatred and found the battles bordering on not being enjoyable.

I added some screen shots of the ones that chased me around until I shot them 150 fricken laughable times before they finally went down. Diablo 2 was never like that in nightmare mode, the mini-bosses were more difficult as they should be, but not to the point where you had to wail on them for a full minute before they went down. I just don't find that kind of game play to be enjoyable, it reminds me of 80's arcade games where you are just shooting for a high score.

Good god, where to even start with this sack of bologna. I truly can't tell whether you're just the biggest Diablo forum warrior ever (to be judged by your mass of posts but absolute zero ability to actually play the game), or if you're just a massive troll who enjoys fuming over stuff that even begins to excite the working areas of your brain when engaging in strenuous activity. That isn't even beginning to address the tangential nature of your posts regarding the original topic at hand.

If you don't play games to beat the hardest parts, why the fuck are you bitching about the hardest parts? You either care about them or you don't. Or you're a troll. That's my bet.

I'll just say this: Diablo 3 is being worked on by a group that is almost entirely different than the group who did D1 and D2. If anyone thinks this isn't a legitimate reason for changes in the overall attitude and ideology of where the Diablo franchise is headed, they should check into a mental institution immediately.

Dave Brevik may not be a loser, but he sure is an asshole. Only an asshole goes out of his way to make back-handed remarks about something heopenly admitted to understanding as different based on the change in personnel. If Jay Wilson made those same remarks about Dave Brevik's shit, and Dave Brevik called Jay Wilson a loser, would we be having this conversation? Nope - aren't double standards great? Personal ire and spite is fun! Weeee, I love the internet!

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I don't have time to rebuttal more posts, but what positive can you think of by this system?

The fact that most of the community LOVES it and it's rejuvenating players and bringing players back to the game?

The fact that if we put enough time in we can be free of MF on gear, therefore making it slightly easier to find ultra high-end gear (it's one less affix that MUST be on the piece).

The fact that I run around doing MF runs and every now and then I gain 3% MF, 3% GF and some stats? It's like a small bonus every now and then for doing stuff I was already planning on doing.

The fact that coupled with the class overhauls (people are now attempting to do what is FUN with their class instead of simply what is effective) and the legendary overhaul (people are now excited to see orange/green text), PLevels are just icing on the cake. People are having a lot of fun waiting for that loot explosion on a champion pack. Seeing their XP bar inch along only helps validate that for many people.

If you're hell bent on seeing the glass as half empty then you can never comprehend how it is half full at the same time.

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That xbow + that quiver... my mind is blown. I want them so bad... I hope I can afford something like that.

only chinese farmers can afford that

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In D2 80% of my gear on any 90+ char was TRADED, not found... I found other stuff... and traded that for what I needed for MY build...

I reckon more like 95% plus. Everyone was walking around in high level runewords... your chance of getting just one of those runes was slightly less than getting struck by lightning during an alien abduction while playing a random BG where the team works together.

D3 is a great game and was let down solely from a QA perspective. The balance team dropped the ball, IT team was substandard and general QA was missed swarms of bugs.

These are problems that can be solved through patches and hotfixes but take time. It is truly disappointing how poorly it was launched but it is salvagable and will only get better with every patch. I honestly cannot think of any other title in a similar genre that can claim to be better. Balance will be improved, bugs will be stamped out and a lot of the frustration experienced will slowly be drained out. 1.04 improves things a lot, future patches should do even more.

Financially, facts speak for themselves, the game was a financial success. The poor launch will could see some disciplinary action to those responsible but the many problems in D3 will fade in time as the polish starts to get applied in consecutive patches.