They are just looking for more ways to delay the release. Dont look into this too much, no doubt in the next 2 weeks JW will come out and say "After much testing, we have decided to cut the boss/champion hunting system we have talked about in favor of a simpler system"
"after so much testing, we have decided to cut bosses out of the game completely in favor of a timely release. our new system replacing bosses coming in beta patch 3,301.B-DIK will automatically choose the path you walk and will walk you straight up to the rare mob pack. If you want to find your own path you can enable "hard mode" in the options
Personally I'm hoping for EXACTLY what your second idea is: killing more rare/champ packs increases your MF *for the boss in that area.* It gives us an incentive to still kill bosses, but playing through the WHOLE area is the "best" strategy.
I hope for this. I was seriously thinking have having a character slot that I would reroll just to kill all the bosses again to get the quest loot. After killing the last boss on inferno, move all the items out of character, delete, rinse and repeat.
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Saves me from rerolling all the time.
Bash said rares will drop the best stuff so saying killing rares to beyter boss drops seems off. In someway killing a boss will effect rares seems closer to what bash said
Decent ideas OP. In Diablo III i assume most boss fights are at the end of each level of course. So my opinion on what they might do is, after you defeat a boss on higher difficulties maybe as soon as the boss dies all the mobs in the zones you cleared re spawn at higher levels/ higher chance of spawning rare mobs. But i think killing a boss will cause rare packs to spawn or something similar. Maybe they will tie it to lore in some way like killing the commanding general causes the minions to break free from their orders "re-spawning new mobs in already cleared areas". So you force your way through a dungeon kill the boss and work your way out... idk though unless the developers are geniuses i can't really think how they can make rare pacts and bosses tied together in any innovative ways.
But i am certainly glad they are making farming more fun by making Bosses important farm targets and making rare packs important at the same time... very good idea. I was super bummed when Bashiok said Bosses won't even drop the best items. IMO bosses should be important lol and drop great shit; so glad he mentioned that little tidbid about having them tied together in someway
Oh i just thought of something after re-reading my post... Instead of re-spawning the whole zoned you cleared to get to the boss, maybe a bonus area unlocks after you kill a boss, and entering it has increased difficulty (mob levels +) with a much higher chance to spawn multiple rare mob packs! Sounds decent i guess and an extra reward for players. Also rewards people who can kill bosses faster because they can enter this "final level" quicker and farm it more.
Razer Naga- PROS: Great mouse favorite so far for LoL, MMO's, FPS (anything) i have a large hand and reaching the buttons is easy after a week or two of use, it became 2nd nature after about a month.
CONS: Cleaning it is rough... some of the stuff the comes out between the buttons/ clicker....But the real con would be sometimes drivers malfunction idk if its the laser or what. But it does happen a few times a month and is anoyying but generally not many issues just not perfect.
Death addler- great mouse can't remember if i had issues with it
PVP build for wizard, Easy hitting through useing Magic missle, hold shift down, shoot at nothing, and it will seek nearest target... hide and nuke with this.... if your full on arcane... shoot out those arcane orbs for massive damage, Familiar compliments magic missle well, and teleport, and wave of force will be used to keep enemys off of you. prodigy and arcane damoino work together to power up your 2 damage sources, and illsionist works well with teleport to keep you safe if teleport and wave of force aren't enough at first.
Jay said in a video interview he won't let the game be balanced around pvp at all. He said its a game centered around PVE and its balanced that way. He said he doesn't want to support Diablo 3 as an Esport and knows everyone will want to try and make it one, but they aren't going to let it effect PVE at all. So i doubt there will be much PVP balance from the way Jay said they have no plans to support pvp much. Only change he said they were thinking about adding to pvp is diminishing returns on stuns. But who knows... i for one would like to see Diablo 3's pvp be super balanced and competitive. Doubt they even have put time into balancing PVP... all their resources seem to be going into making systems more fun (rune change ect).
TLDR; Jay wilson in an interview said PVP will not be balanced because they have no plans to balance around pvp, but make classes as cool as they can and not sacrifice one bit to pvp balance, cept diminishing returns on stuns.
Will be trying to stream when servers go up and willing to take suggestions on class and will try to do and show off anything people want in game. http://www.own3d.tv/live/64975/Dokuton
Graphics enhance whats already there, its kind of like an athlete; It doesn't matter how ugly the athlete is as long as he performs at the top of his game. But an athlete who can perform well and looks decent gets more attention but it does nothing for the team to have a better looking athlete all they care about is that he can play well. Performance is much more important to Diablo III than graphics and it will determine the success of the game. The graphics aren't bad and most be will appreciate them when there are 100 mobs on their screen and 3 other players casting tons of abilities and still keeping 30fps. If you are having such a terrible time waiting for D3 then i suggest you find something to hold you over till then.
I found a little gem called Project 1999 to hold me over till then. Its graphics are 12+ years old yet i'm having a blast, I've played every MMO out and played hardcore and this 12 year old game is keeping me more entertained than any current day mmo. I recommend you try it if you need time to pass, but the games not for pussies. Have fun waiting~
afkalmighty... You're that famous Vindictus player who plays every character at top skill level? same person? Anyways glad you'll be playing Diablo III i'm a fan of your screenshots!
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"after so much testing, we have decided to cut bosses out of the game completely in favor of a timely release. our new system replacing bosses coming in beta patch 3,301.B-DIK will automatically choose the path you walk and will walk you straight up to the rare mob pack. If you want to find your own path you can enable "hard mode" in the options
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Bash said rares will drop the best stuff so saying killing rares to beyter boss drops seems off. In someway killing a boss will effect rares seems closer to what bash said
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But i am certainly glad they are making farming more fun by making Bosses important farm targets and making rare packs important at the same time... very good idea. I was super bummed when Bashiok said Bosses won't even drop the best items. IMO bosses should be important lol and drop great shit; so glad he mentioned that little tidbid about having them tied together in someway
Oh i just thought of something after re-reading my post... Instead of re-spawning the whole zoned you cleared to get to the boss, maybe a bonus area unlocks after you kill a boss, and entering it has increased difficulty (mob levels +) with a much higher chance to spawn multiple rare mob packs! Sounds decent i guess and an extra reward for players. Also rewards people who can kill bosses faster because they can enter this "final level" quicker and farm it more.
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CONS: Cleaning it is rough... some of the stuff the comes out between the buttons/ clicker....But the real con would be sometimes drivers malfunction idk if its the laser or what. But it does happen a few times a month and is anoyying but generally not many issues just not perfect.
Death addler- great mouse can't remember if i had issues with it
Rat 7 or w/e ... laser was way to sensitive.
Think i might try a steelseries next though.
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PVP build for wizard, Easy hitting through useing Magic missle, hold shift down, shoot at nothing, and it will seek nearest target... hide and nuke with this.... if your full on arcane... shoot out those arcane orbs for massive damage, Familiar compliments magic missle well, and teleport, and wave of force will be used to keep enemys off of you. prodigy and arcane damoino work together to power up your 2 damage sources, and illsionist works well with teleport to keep you safe if teleport and wave of force aren't enough at first.
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TLDR; Jay wilson in an interview said PVP will not be balanced because they have no plans to balance around pvp, but make classes as cool as they can and not sacrifice one bit to pvp balance, cept diminishing returns on stuns.
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Diablo III® Beta
[DIII-1] (Beta)
Public Test Realm (PTR)!!!!!! got in thx for headup, got no email though
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I found a little gem called Project 1999 to hold me over till then. Its graphics are 12+ years old yet i'm having a blast, I've played every MMO out and played hardcore and this 12 year old game is keeping me more entertained than any current day mmo. I recommend you try it if you need time to pass, but the games not for pussies. Have fun waiting~
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